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DEATH OF NOTED LIBRETTIST.
J. Cheever Goodwin Wrote "Wang," "The
"Merry Monarch," "The Lion Tamer" and
Many Other Comic Opera Successes of Years
Past—Engaged in Work for Twenty Years.
J. Cheever Goodwin, author or adapter of more
than forty musical comedy librettos, died last week
at his home in this city.
Mr. Goodwin was one of the most prolific of
American librettists. He was born in Boston sixty
years ago, educated there and won an A. B. de-
gree at Harvard. He won athletic honors at col-
lege.
After graduation he worked for a year on the
Boston Traveler, and at the same time wrote one
of his best light operas, "Eyangeline." He gave
up his newspaper work when this opera was as-
sured of success and came to New York to engage
in libretto work. He was associated with E. E.
Rice in writing "Evangeline," and, for more than
twenty years he and that vigorous impresario
worked together.
In New York Mr. Goodwin's work was rapid and
so was his rise in his chosen profession. Among
the best known of his pieces are "Wang," in which
De Wolf Hopper starred and made a big hit; "Dr.
Syntax," also written for De Wolf Hopper, and
"Lost, Strayed or Stolen," which had an imme-
diate and immense success in London. Mr. Good-
win wrote several plays in which Francis Wilson
starred; among theme were "The Merry Mon-
arch," ' T h e Lion Tamer," and "The Monks of
Malabar."
MUSIC TO WELCOME NEW YEAR.
Plans for Quiet Celebration Should Offer Op-
portunity to Publishers.
Following the success of the "safe and sane"
Fourth of July movement in New York, plans are
now actively under way to substitute religious and
secular musical exercises for the present method
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of celebrating the coming in of the new year, in
which rowdyism plays such a prominent part. If
the musical idea is carried out it should prove a
great opportunity for progressive music publishers
to boost their latest hits along Broadway. Auto-
mobiles loaded with song boosters and stopping
at the various corners to entertain would surely
prove a novelty.
AS OTHERS^SEE US.
A Japanese Opinion of American Music That
Is Thoroughly Interesting—Getting Away
from European Influence.
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DEATH OF WILL CARLETON.
Will Carleton, widely known as the author
of many ballads of city and farm life, a number
of which were set to music, died at his home in
Brooklyn, N. Y., last week, aged sixty-seven. He
was a graduate of Hillsdale College, Michigan,
and engaged in newspaper work in many cities.
He was also widely known as a reader and lec-
turer.
EVEN GREAT MEN_MAKE MISTAKES.
Speaking of oddities in the news,' the Franz
Schubert Maennerchor has just framed at its home
ir the Bronx the following reply to a message of
congratulation it sent recently to the Governor-
What a Japanese musical authority thinks about
musical conditions in America is contained in an elect of New York, says the New York Sun:
interview with Moicha Yuwara, director of the "Franz Schubert, Esq., care of Maennerchor, Eb-
ling's Casino, Bronx, New York City.
Tokio Academy of Music, printed in Japan and re-
"My Dear Mr. Schubert (sic) :—Many thanks
produced in the New York Evening Post. "Music
in America in the future will make a marvelous for your kind telegram of congratulation and good
stride," predicts Mr. Yuwara. Then, in the some- wishes. I certainly appreciate all you say and all
what quaint terminology of the interviewer Mr. that you did. Believe me, as ever, very sincerely,
WILLIAM SULZER.
Yuwara touched upon America's inviting many your friend,
"Committee on Foreign Affairs, 62d Congress,
European musicians of fame in recent years. This
House of Representatives, United States—Official
he said, often makes New York a great center of
music. But of late America has made another Business, Free."
stride in the line, gradually declining to invite
Little Johnnie had been reading the newspaper.
European musicians at a considerable sum of re-
"Pa," he said, as he laid the paper aside, "where
muneration. Tha consequence is that the country
is
Dresden?"
is working heart and soul to train good and able
"Dresden?
Why, Dresden is in Germany, my
musicians out of its countrymen. The recent estab-
lishment of an academy of music in Boston is an sun," said Mr. Knowitall. "Why?"
"Oh, nothin'," said Johnnie, "only this paper
example of this steadily swelling tendency toward
must be edited by an iggeramius. He speaks of
self-improvements. So reviewing the condition of
music in the two civilized continents, he said it was Dresden China."—Harper's Weekly.
even envy-provoking on 'his part to see how the
Europeans and Americans are steadily working at
the cultivation of the art. For this reason European
or American musicians are regarded to be on the
same footing with or sometimes even superior to
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