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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
56
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
"SOMEWHERE ELSE" PRODUCED.
POPULAR IN LONDON.
USING TWO FEIST SONGS.
New Avery Hopwood-Gustav Luders Fantastical
Operetta Well Received in Utica, N. Y .
American Plays and Especially American Music
Finding Much Favor at the Present Time.
I la Grannon Wins Success with Good Numbers
in New Single Act in Vaudeville.
According to a dispatch from A. H. Woods,
American theatrical enterprises, and especially
American music, is finding particular favor with
the theater-goer of London.
"This year London has been full of American
shows which have been making good,"
says Mr. Woods.
"The public is simply judging plays on
their merits. Take the latest revue,
'Hullo, Ragtime,' by Max Pemberton, at
the Hippodrome, in which Ethel Levey
has captured London. I went in a du-
bious frame of mind and came away en-
thusiastic. Save for the book it is all
American—American music, American
stars and American 'go.'
"As for the American music, it has
the 'double nelson' on the affections of
the London public. A year ago ragtime
was popular. Now it is simply a craze;
you cannot escape it wherever you go.
The patrons of fashionable restaurants
will not let the bands play anything else.
I find that there was one restaurant that
was not doing very well. The proprietor
engaged some American ragtime musi-
cians and now you have to reserve a
table at the place for days ahead."
According to those acquainted with the
tastes of the British, the craze for rag-
time in England, coming at a time when
Americans threaten to turn to something
else for amusement, means that ragtime,
as with most fads in England, will lie
long lived.
Ila Grannon, formerly a member of the "Piano-
phiends" company in vaudeville, is now presenting
a single act of her own in which she sings a num-
ber of popular songs. Among the most successful
songs in her repertoire are "Be Sure He's Irish"
The first performance on any stage of "Some-
where Else," a musical fantasy, the book and
lyrics by Avery Hopwood,- with music by Gustav
Luders, was made at the Majestic theater, Utica,
N.Y., on Wednesday afternoon before a large audi-
ence, and its success was emphatic. The piece was
produced by Henry W. Savage and is presented
by a large cast, including Elena Leska, a young
Roumanian prima donno, never before heard ex-
cepting in grand opera.
The piece deals with the fantastical adventures
of a company of mortals in the land of "Some-
where Else," and is extremely interesting. The
score is by Gustav Luders, the composer of "The
Burgomaster," "King Dodo," "The Prince of Pil-
sen" and other successes. There are twenty-two
musical numbers, and all were received with ap-
plause.
The leading numbers, "I Just Want Some One to
Love Me," "Somebody's Eyes," "If I Kissed You,"
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "A Man, His
Pipe and His Dog," are especially pleasing. Among
other numbers are "The Lay of an Egg," "Father,"
"The Song of the Rosebuds," "Look Out for the
Strange Young Man," "How Do You Do?" "It's
Distinctly Nice" and "Moving Pictures." M. Wit-
mark & Sons publish the music, waltzes, selection
and score.
SECURES TWO NEW PRODUCTIONS.
Chappell & Co., Ltd., Takes Over Both Per-
forming and Publishing Rights of "Filmzau-
ber" and "The Girl from Mexico."
Chappell & Co., the prominent music publishers
of London and New York, have acquired both the
performing and publishing rights for England and
America of the latest Berlin musical play success,
MUSIC OF OPERA^BY EX=MAYOR.
"Filmzauber," with music by Willy Bredschneider
Eugene E. Schmitz to Shine as Composer of
and Walter Kollo, and also of the operetta "The
"The Maid of the San Joaquin," a Story of
Girl from Mexico," a new production with music
Early Californian Mining Life.
by Albert Szirmai, and which has proven a big
success in Budapest.
A pretty little opera entitled "The Maid of the
S"an Joaquin" has recently been finished with the
object of depicting the early California mining life
MUSIC FOR CHILDREN'S PLAY.
in a manner more realistic and more tasteful than
Dainty Airs, Composed by Vivian Burnett, a
has been done in the "Girl of the Golden West."
Feature of "Racketty-Packetty House."
The music of this ambitious little work has been
composed by ex-Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of San
One of the features of the production of "Rack-
Francisco, and the libretto was written by Frank C.
etty-Packetty House," the new juvenile play by
Drew. Mr. Schmitz is a musician of much ex-
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, at the Children's
perience and natural efficiency. He had already
Theatre, are the dainty little airs running through
composed several shorter works o£ less ambitious
the piece and which were composed by Vivian Bur-
dimensions, but in this light opera he has concen-
nett, son of the author of the play and once fa-
trated all his energy and artistic aggressiveness.
mous as "Little Lord Fauntelroy." The music is
wonderfully in keeping with the character of the
OLD MINSTREL DEAD.
play and is heard chiefly when marking the move-
"Billy" Carter, Once Famous, Dies in Poverty
ments of the fairies.
in Brooklyn at 82.
DEATH OF JOSEPH HENIUS.
Joseph Henius, a composer and a member of the
Faculty of the Institute of Musical Arts, died last
week after a short illness at his home, 620 West
122d street. Mr. Henius was born in Bridgeport,
Conn., August 16, 1877. Among his best-known
compositions was 'Masies Music" and a sonata
which has been played by Albert Spalding.
Harold and Helen Ballou's
POST CARD SONGS
Have Caught the Hearts and Purses.
The ONLY novelty in printed music. Original,
catchy, complete with accompaniment and pleasing
sentiment. Samples, List and Prices at your call.
HAROLD AND HELEN BALLOU. Publishers.
Maritime Building,
Seattle, Washington.
They ginger up the music trade.
and "I'll Be Welcome in My Home Town," both
included among the Feist hits. "I'll Be Welcome
in My Home Town," which was recently pur-
chased by the Feist house, is being pushed strongly
by both the professional and sales departments and
their efforts rewarded with results. Meanwhile
"Billy, Billy, Bounce Your Baby Doll," is looking
up nicely.
SHORT HAIR AND PROSPERITY.
Prevalence of Union Wages Enables Musicians
to Have Locks Shorn.
You, no doubt, will have noticed that long hair
is becoming less and less the fashion among musi-
cians, says the Musical Review. There was a time
when everyone who wore long hair was classed
as a musician or artist. Now there must be a
reason for this gradual decline of the hair-grow-
ing contest, and we believe that the good times
have something to do with it. Since musicians get
union wages they can afford to have a hair-cut.
William Carter, once famous as "Billy" Carter,
the minstrel, is dead at 1902 Pacific street, Brook-
THAT MISSOURI^STATE SONG.
lyn, where he had lived in great poverty. He was
Missouri is still without a State song, although
once with Harrigan & Hart, and forty years ago
there is much to sing about. If the Governor
was one of the famous minstrels of the country.
will appoint a committee made up of folks who
He was eighty-two years old, and for the last few
can understand the Missouri language there are
months his aged wife had managed to make both
thousands of poets writing that language who will
ends meet, in a way, by scrubbing and taking in
compete for any prize which may be offered, says
washing.
the Linneus Bulletin.
Of late years Carter's resources gradually
dwindled away, and a few months ago all that he
COMPLETE MUSIC_FOR NEW PLAY.
had left of his prosperous days before the foot-
lights was used up, and since that time, ill and
J. Carl Briel has just completed the music for
poor, he had gradually grown weaker. Jerry J. "The Seventh Chord," rehearsals of which will
Cohan, father of George M. Cohen, who was a start at once. The production will be offered with
friend of Carter's in the old days, was notified of
a notable cast at an early date. The music will be
his death and arranged for the funeral.
published by Leo. Feist, Inc.