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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
GET YOUR NICKEL READY, GENTS.
CHICAGO PUBLISHERS ON OUTING.
That's the Welcome Cry Which Greets the
Songwriter and Music Publisher These Hot
Summer Days at the New Automatic Restau-
rant—If You Want a Man You'll Find Him
There at His Luncheon Hour.
Together With Representatives Enjoy "Popu-
lar Publishers' Night" at Forest Park.
Have you noted the satisfied and complacent
expressions on the faces of the songwriters, music
publishers and their assistants, actors and aotor-
ines, waiting for something to drop in their hats
in the shape of a contract, and the vast 'host
of employed and unemployed who make their.
headquarters in the neighborhood of Long Acre
Square? Well, as the Toastie man says, "There's^
a reason."
To lunch at Child's, Coddington's, Mink's, Rigg§' f
or any of the numerous 'luncheries of like charafc-
ter in days past branded the diner, in the ey€s of
many, as being plebian and on the ragged edge,
and all reference to the benefit of light eating in
hot weather was considered in the light of stalling.
Not now, however, for the Automat Restaurant
has arrived—the place w 1 here you drop your, nick-
els in the slot and receive anything you (desire
from soup to nuts.
On one of the hot days this week the restau-
rant looked like a music publishers' convention.
There was Meyer Cohen, manager for Chas. K.
Harris (Charlie was busy, or he would have been
there, too), who, while putting away a chicken
sandwich and some iced tea, described his method
of selling candy at less than cost in the good old
days in San Francisco; Leo Edwards, who is now
on the Harris staff, and who, while masticating a
ham sandwich, looked about for a welcome and
sympathetic ear into which to pour the news re-
garding his latest song successes; Billy Gaston,
who is building up on beefsteak pie and milk until
such time as his royalty check is received, on
which occasion he has an important date at Shan-
ley's, and Al. Bryan, whom Gaston 'had taken
downtown in the, morning to have him measured
for some classy English togs, but who wouldn't
stand still and let the tailor get his proportions.
Edgar Selden, while declaiming upon the suc-
cess of his new ballad, "When I Carved Your
Name on the Tree," absent-mindedly carved his
initials in a strawberry shertcake and then bit them
off just to show that die writing'of the moving
finger can be obliterated, despite the claim of one
Omar Khayyam. William Penn refused to talk
business, and let the ice in his tea melt, but on his
way out stopped at the tables of various guests
to say howdy.
The new Automat also specializes in chickens
of the "broiler" variety, who commit cannibalism
while discussing what Savage, K. & E. or the
Shuberts had to say of their talents and when they
expected to be starred. One of the songwriters
has become so used to the new method of eating
that when he got on a payas-you-enter car on
Monday and dropped his nickel in the fare box,
he unconsciously reached for the conductor's
watch. Only a friendly cop saved him from the
booby hatch.
It's a wise tip to the ambitious. If you want a
song published, bring it to the Automat at lunch
time, blow a publisher to a piece of cake and
when he has his mouth full and is helpless, spring
the verse on him. A special policeman will pre-
vent violence. More publishers are joining the
music club at the Automat daily and soon they all
will he members.
COMPLETES NEW OPERA.
The Scandinavian composer, Prof. Christian
Sinding, who was much admired by Grieg and
Seidl, has completed an opera with the title of
"The Saved Mountain," The libretto is by Dora
Duriker.
MREVIEWflEARS
THAT shooting affrays on the Great White Way
are
becoming so common that some of the music
Chicago, 111., July 17, 1912.
Practically all the local music publfshers par- publishers are thinking of enclosing their offices
in armor plate and wearing coats of mail while on
ticipated in the "popular publishers' night," celer
bated at Forest Park this evening, an$ff&e man- the streets.
THAT one actor claims that the fact that the
agement in arranging for the entertairujpjit of the
prblishers also provided for thejr.va^l^sij>re-
dull season comes in the summer, when one can
sentativesj so tha^hone wasjtf^hifes. "Thfiraas J. leave the "Bennie" and the heavy winter clothes
Quigley, local manager for Witmirk & Sons, and with uncle for a consideration, shows that the
Frank Clark, of the Ted Synd&fCo., looked after
world is balanced properly, after all.
^ne'eomfort of the entertainers.* 1 Every publisher
THAT, a certajn popular publisher one day this
wfas represented by a goodly array of songs and
week opened' art envelope to discover therein an
singers, and each; strove for the championship of
order for five hundred of his big numbers and aij
the meet. Unlikfe s i m ^ f affajrj,,, the event this
check to\covejr the cost.
';
evening was, not a" contest «in a\stfict sense of the
THAT
tfte
last
bulletin
issued
by
his
physician
word, but w"&s*a '.'free-for-ail son^p .event." \ ,;,.„
. \$as to th£ effect that he was regaining his reason
MAY NOT PRODUCE ^ U X J M B O U R Q . " slowly but surely.
THAT one song writer started to write a sonnet
Permonent Injunction Against the -.German in honor of the American victors at the Olympic^'
Theater Society Handed Down by U. S. Dtis- games, but could find no word to rhyme with'*
trict Court in Cincinnati.
Stockholm so quit.
'"
THE reports are to the effect that the present
Judge Hoflister, in the -United: States District trip of }i T. Rpach, manager of the music depart-
Court, in Cincinnatti, O., has made an order per- ment of Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, to the Pacific
manently enjoining the German Theatre Society,
Coast in the interests of the new and old "Most
Otto Ernest Schmidt and associates from fur-
Populer" folios, is the most successful he has yet
ther infringing on the play, "Der Graf von Lux- experienced.
emberg," and ordering the defendent to deliver to
THAT during the late morning and the afternoon •
Klaw & Erlanger the words, music, orchestral
hours a large crowd at the corner of 37th street,,'
score and stage directions of the piece.
and Broadway is entertained without charge by the '
The defendants were ordered to pay the costs.
many professionals practising in the Regal building '•
on the corner.
MUSICIANS WANT TO SEE.
THAT Edgar Bittner, Feist's sales manager, is so
Members of Chicago Orchestras Make Formal well pleased with the chief's office, which he occu-
Protest Against Playing in Pits—Claim That pies while the latter is in Europe, that he is think-
It Proves Confusing to Both the Singers and
ing of canceling his vacation plans to enjoy the
Musicians and That a Perfect Ensemble Is
environment to the utmost.
Impossible.
THAT Sam H. Speck says he is going to spend
(Special to The Review.)
his vacation in the greatest summer resort in the
Chicago, 111., July 15, 1912.
counry, "Little Old New York."
If the musicians in the theaters have their de-
THAT as the old New England homestead, the
mands acceded to the singers will not be able to cowboy country of the West, the Golden Gate, and
lay their poor performances to the fact that the testly Dixie, have received the attention of in- :
orchestras did not accompany them properly, for
numerable song writers, it is getting difficult for
the Federation of Musicians has decreed that in
the ambitious writer who is looking for something
musical shows and in vaudeville its members must
original to find a suitable setting for his ballads. .
have seats where they can hear and see the singers
THAT Victor Kremer, the former well-known •
The demand of the musicians that the hole un-
der the stage be taboo in musical shows was made nmsic publisher of Chicago, is now selling rtal
in a letter sent to-day to Sol Litt, president of the estate in San Diego, Cal., and is carrying along the
Theater Managers' Association. The change must business in his usual breezy manner.
be made by August 1, when the new contract be-
Not a Hit that w i l l die but a seller that w i l l live
tween the musicians and the theater managers goes
into effect.
Hid in the pit the players do not hear the singer
and the singer does not hear the music until it has
traveled out of its hole under the stage, filled the
theater and reverberated back onto the stage.
The result, say the musicians, is that the singer
is ahead of the orchestra, or the orchestra is ahead
of the singer, and that the proper ensemble can-
not be obtained.
The change in the position of the players is al-
most the only demand made on the theater man-
agers in the loop district.
(Special to The Review.),
I WILL LOVE YOU WHEN
THE SILVER THREADS ARE
FINING AMONG THE GOLD
SELDEN'S NEW BURLESQUES.
Edgar Seldon, who enjoys quite as much renown
as a playwright as he does as a song writer, has
just completed two new burlesque shows, which
will be produced over the Western burlesque wheel
next season. One of the shows represents some
new matter for the "Whirl of Mirth," which
achieved much success last season with a Selden
comedy. Bedini & Arthur, the prominent comedy
team, will be starred in the second show.
WOBDS BY X * B M [ ^
ROGER LEWIS
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