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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
REASON FOR HIGH COST OF LIVING.
RAGTIME AND ITS EFFECT.
Singing Develops the Appetite and Makes It
Cost Money to Be Blithesome and Gay—
Economical to Be a Songless Grouch.
One Writer Attempts to Describe the Origina-
tion of That Popular Form of Music and an
Ambitious Song Writer Gives a Graphic Illus-
tration of Its Effect.
Singing, it has been discovered, is a great appe-
tizer. No less an authority than Dr. Cyril Hors-
ford, of the Royal Hospital, London, declares that
this is true. Dr. Horsford has made a study of
singers, and also of the effects of singing upon
people who were not, until he began his experi-
ments, in the halbit of singing, and he is certain
that singing is a great aid in increasing the ap-
petite.
The famous old saying, "Laugh and grow fat,"
has a splendid running mate in "Sing and grow
hufigry."
There is the soundest of logic in Dr. Horsford's
claim that singing aids the appetite. One cannot
sing very long if he is despondent, melancholy,
blue or grouchy. Singing will drive away more
gloom in ten minutes than meditation could do in
ten days. Every physician will tell you that the
condition of the mind has a very great effect upon
the appetite.
No one enjoys a meal when all is gloomy and
silent, but let one have pleasant companions or
bright and cheerful conversation, and the food
tas,tes better, and.one eats more and feels better in
every way. Singing, then, makes the mind brighter
and tends to happiness. Happiness means a better
enjoyment of food. This is one of the reasons
why song will make you hungry.
Of course, there is a physical reason as well as a
mental reason. This is mainly in the deep breath-
ing. One cannot sing without taking deep breaths.
Deep breathing, as everyone knows, clears the
lungs and increases the circulation. The proper
increase of the circulation calls for more fuel for
the body. Food, of course, is the "fuel" nature calls
for.
To the layman the argument sounds logical.
When one is stone broke one doesn't care to sing,
and therefore does not develop an appetite \vhich
cannot be satisfied. Live restaurant keepers should
organize singing classes among their customers for
the purpose of increasing business, while the father
of the large family should bar singing as a matter
of economy. Yet we wonder ihow some profes-
sional singers manage to eat regularly.
A NEW SELDEN BALLAD.
"Just Say Again You Love Me" Proving Very
Popular with the Performers.
The new ballad "Just Say Again You Love Me,"
by: Edgar Selden and Emanuel Goldstein, and
which is published by the Edgar Selden Music
Publishing and Production Co., is proving a
strong, factor among the ballads of the day. Both
the lyric and the music are decidedly pleasing
and are attracting considerable attention. Among
those using the song is Orrin Ellsworth, who has
just started to fill bookings of fourteen weeks
over the Loew time in New York and vicinity.
Laddie Cliff's clever song, "Au Revoir, Mr.
Moore," is also published by the Selden Co.
NOW THE JEAN SCHWARTZ CO.
THEREVIEWMEAR5
THAT the song plugger who is a feature of a
stock company playing one-night stands on Long
Ragtime was invented about ten years ago by Island, is our idea of a fellow who has no easy
thing.
somebody who discovered that by taking an old
THAT "Dcr Rosenkavalier," the Strauss oper-
Italian aria and running it through a feed chop-
etta which is promised production in the United
per a very weird effect could be produced. Some
States sometime in the future, has caused some-
of these effects are so weird that people who are
what of a sensation in London, where it was
fond of classical music would just as soon listen
produced recently.
to a duet between an accordion and a bagpipe.
THAT the available supply of pianists gave out
Probably nobody has made more money out of
in
the Feist professional department on Monday
ragtime than a French acrobat named Debussy,
who gathered most of his material by attending and Phil Kornheiser had to go into hiding from
the crowd of impatient performers who were
negro cakewalks. Nobody pretends to understand
,
what Debussy is trying to say, as he writes mostly waiting for attention.
THAT pianists in the various professional depart-
for the black keys and breaks out in a new kind
of tempo every few minutes. No one but the ments are hired solely for the purpose of interest-
critics for the New York, Boston and Chicago ing performers in the songs of their respective
papers can listen to a programme of Debussy mu- houses.
THAT when said pianists play over numbers re-
sic without winding up in a padded cell or calling
quested
in a purely perfunctory manner and then
teebly tor ice water.
fold their arms in token of rest, they're not giv-
Ragtime music is made in several different
styles of body, on one chassis, and is sold in car- ing the proper service.
load lots to department stores, which retail it at THAT Johann C. Schmid declares that "Auction
10 cents per copy to throbbing customers who Pinochle" is a great operetta, even if it is given
are passionately fond of music, says the "Leyhe- in German.
THAT changes in the names and organization
nola." No one who has ever heard the stately
steppings of a ragtime march, torn from the of publishing houses are coming so rapidly the
pardhed throat of a discouraged phonograph, will directories become useless before being issued.
THAT there still appears to be no reason why
confuse it with the knee action of the Kneisel
performers should not pay at least the actual cost
Quartet.
People stick up their noses at ragtime in pub- of professional copies of music if the music is
lic, but have to give up when it attacks them in worth bothering with at all.
THAT Charles K. Harris is dashing off special
the soles of their feet, where the musical faculty
articles for various papers these days at a tre-
is located in most of us.
Just to illustrate how ragtime gets one in the mendous rate and is telling some truths about
end the head of a manuscript department of a song composing and publishing.
THAT Abe Holzmann is still composing marches
local publishing 'house 'handed the following ef-
iusion to The Review, the title being "That just to keep his hand in and that his latest effort
in that direction is "The Whip" march, named
Fiendish Rag:"
after the successful melodrama.
A maiden long upon the stage
THAT J. H. Remick & Co. will, of course, be
Once called on an M, D.
the publishers of the new piece.
You're syncopated through and through,
The cause is plain, said 'he.
DISPOSAL OF MASSENET'S SCORES.
The rags you wear don't keep you warm;
Massenet left • all his manuscript opera scores
All your rags are sung.
to the library of the Paris Opera. Mme. Masse-
You get so much of Ragtime
net, who during the lifetime of the composer was
Your intellect is sprung.
guardian
of these scores, has asked Antoine Banes,
CHORUS.
who is in charge of the library, to come and ex-
Oh, if drugs would only cure syncopation,
amine them. The collection consists of twenty-
How very happy every one would be.
five scores, including "Ariane," <( Esclarmonde,"
The antidote would sell throughout creation,
"Sapho," "Herodiade," "Le Jongleur de Notre
J
Twould be a boon to all humanity;
Dame," etc. All that is lacking of 'his dramatic
Harmony has been chopped to little pieces,
w
orks are two youthful operas, which are sup-
Melody has got an awful jag;
Then set to words of neither rhyme nor reason, posed to have been burned in the Opera-Comique
fire of 1887.
"
The result is torn off and called "A Rag."
THEODORE R. LYONS,
Lansing, Mich.
MASCAGNFSJSEW OPERA.
It is reported that the principal number in Mas-
cagni's new opera, "Parisina," is a duet which
lasts twenty-five minutes. The score calls for a
chorus of 280. The first performance is to be
given at Milan.
The Jean Schwartz Co., Inc., has been incor-
The late Sir Frederick Gore-Ouseley, professor
porated with capital stock of $10,000 for the pur- of music at Oxford, was once going to call on a
pose of taking over the business of the Jerome & friend in London, and asked a fellow musician
Schwartz Publishing Co. The incorporators are the number of the house in which he lived in a
Jean Schwartz, Max Dreyfus and Louis Dreyfus. certain street. "I don't know his number," an-
swered the other, "but the note of his door
scraper is C-sharp. Sir Frederick went off, con-
If you desire a man for any department of
your service, either for your factory or for your tentedly kicking the door scrapers all down the
selling department, forward your advertisement street until he came to the right one, when he
rang the bell and went in.
to us and it will be inserted free of charge.
"Who is the luckiest guy in the world?"
"A deaf guy at grand opera."
Why doesn't some librettist write a musical
comedy and call it "The Straphanger?" • It will
play to standing room only, we predict.
Ain't Yo* Comin' Back To
Me, Ma Dinah Lee ?
The greatest Southern song written since
"Down Upon the Suwan^e River." A
quaint, pathetic song with beautiful har-
mony of real Southern character,, sweet
and melodious. The Southern song "hit,"
of the season. Get this qne quick.
METROPOLITAN MUSIC PUB. CO.
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