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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. "Wilson
THE GIRL FROM UTAH" A SUCCESS.
THE NEW EDITION OF OPERA MUSIC.
New Musical Play Wins London Favor with Its
Action of Authors of Moton Picture Scenarios
and Foreign Publishers Brings Up the Ex- Music and Will Be Brought to America Soon.
pressed Desires of the Music Publishers.
Plans of the Century Opera Co. to Sell Opera
Music Through Ten Cent and Department
Stores Does Not Worry Popular Publishers
. to Any Extent—Big Plans Made.
TO AMEND COPYRIGHT LAW.
Authors of moving picture scenarios and Ger-
man newspaper publishers are awaiting the next
session of Congress to urge amendments to the
present copyright law, the former with a view to
protecting themselves from the piracy of their
scenarios and the latter to secure protection for
their cartoons and other illustrations. The efforts
of the authors and the publishers in the direction
of having the copyright law amended, however,
has not lead the music publishers to plan a sim-
ilar step, despite the talk of the desirability of cer-
tain changes soon after the law was passed. The
general feeling among the publishers is that while
the law in some ways is not all that could be de
sired, it nevertheless answers the purpose very
well, and the publishers fear that to take any steps
to have the law amended in their favor would pro-
voke another expensive fight and that in the end
the law would not average up so well as it does at
the present time.
In the matter of mechanical reproduction, one
of the hard fought points when the law was under
consideration, it appears that the publishers have
become reconciled to the provisions of the law as
passed, and several have been free to remark that
a two-cent royalty is not so bad when the talking
machine records are made in 10,000 lots and music
rolls in proportion. Perhaps some of the charges
of cheating on the part of music roll and talking
machine companies have in some cases an element
of fact, but it is safe to say that the proportion of
loss in that direction equals an amount much
smaller than would be the cost of checking up and
proving such losses.
FORMS LYCEUM MUSIC CO.
The Lyceum Music Co., Chicago, has been in-
corporated with capital stock of $2,500 for the pur-
pose of publishing music books, etc. The incor-
porators are Thomas S. Hogan, Frank J. Hogan
and O. O. H. Weidner.
INCORPORATED.
The Tom Powell-Leason Music Publishing Co.,
^Springfield, O., has been incorporated with capital
stock of $10,000 by Gus Sun, Arthur Lonebrake,
Tom Powell and Ray Leason.
We Are the Publishers of the
Waltz Song Success
"Just Because
It's You"
From Ivan Caryll's New
Musical Comedy Success
"The Little Cafe"
"The Girl from Utah," a new musical play, with
book by James T. Tanner, lyrics by Adrian Ross,
Percy Greenbank and Paul A. Rubens, and music
by Sydney Jones and Paul A. Rubens, which was
produced in London recently under the manage-
ment of George Edwardes, has proven a great suc-
cess and it is expected that the production will be
seen in the United States at an early date. The
critics on the London papers were most enthusi-
astic regarding the music of the piece and without
exception predicted its success. The notice in the
Evening Standard, which was typical, stated as
follows:
"The Girl from Utah" will undoubtedly prove to
be the hit of this season, and "the" draw for many
seasons to come.
The music is quite a feather in the cap of home-
made goods. No foreign score heard for many sea-
sons can show a brighter array of lively, haunting
melodies, such fresh and rhythmic tunes as Messrs.
Paul Rubens and Sidney Jones have put together
in the Adelphi piece. Seventeen numbers stand to
the former's name, and one can only mention such
items as "When We Meet the Mormon" (quartet),
"Follow Me?" (duet), "Nothing at All, at All"
(Miss Leigh), "The Bottom of Brixton Hill" (Mr.
Payne), and "Call Right Here," in which song and
dance Miss Ina Claire leapt right to the top of her
most ambitious London hopes—to prove that Mr.
Rubens has never done better. Still, Mr. Jones'
credit stands higher than ever with the charming
numbers, "The Girl from Utah," "Kissing Time"
and some of the choruses.
Miss Phyllis Dare enhanced her reputation on
Saturday as singer and dancer beyond all bounds.
Several good things fall to her lot, including a duet
in the dark, "The Music of Love," with Alfred de
Manby, who, as Lord Amresham, sang and acted
effectively. The music of "The Girl from Utah" is
published by Chappell & Co., Ltd.
BIG PRIZE^FOR MUSIC.
$20,000 for Chief Choral Competition and $10,-
000 for Male Choir Contest Among Musical
Features Planned for Panama-Pacific Inter-
national Exposition.
Twenty thousand dollars will be offered for the
chief choral competition and $10,000 for the male
choir at the International Eisteddfod at the Pana-
ma-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Other
large prizes will be offered for competitions in
solos, recitations, musical and poetic compositions.
A half dozen male choirs will compete from Wales.
Many lands will send picked choirs to participate in
the song festivals.
If the plans of the Century Opera Company ma-
terialize, and it is stated that there is every pros-
pect that such will be the case, there is going to
be an interesting campaign on the part of the opera
people to put grand opera music, correc;ly arranged
in direct competition with popular music in the
ten-cent and department stores, and at the same
price as popular music. It is stated by those inter-
ested that over 2,500,000 copies of opera music have
already been distributed among 700 stores through-
out the country in preparation for the preliminary
campaign, and that the selling of the new edition
will be well under way before the holidays.
Several popular publishers, who have been fol-
lowing up the new scheme to a certain extent, are
wondering if the Century people will give demon-
strations in the department stores, send pluggers to
the cabarets and vaudeville theaters and do the
other accepted things in connection with the push-
ing of a new edition of music, even if it is opera.
Then too, there comes visions of the manner in
which the ten-cent stores handle other sorts of
standard and operatic music, and on the whole the
popular publishers are not worrying much about
the new competition. Opera music will still con-
tinue to have its devotees, and so will popular bal-
lads and ragtime.
"TWO LOTS j N T H E BRONX."
The Promising Title of a New Musical Comedy
in German, Written and Composed by Adolf
Philipp, of "Adele" Fame.
Those who have enjoyed seeing "Adele," and
hearing the music of that delightful musical comedy,
are promised a successor in the near future in
the form of a musical comedy of typical New York
life, both book and music by Adolf Philipp, the
capable German-American manager, author and pro-
ducer, and who was also responsible for "Adele."
The title of the new play, which will first be pro-
duced in German, is entitled " T ^ ; Lots in the
Bronx," a title alone which holds much promise.
Another Beautiful Ernest R. Ball Ballad
GOOD-BYE, MY LOVE,
GOOD-BYE
Lyric by
George Graff
Formerly in our
Standard (high-
price) catalog,
we have now
placed it in the
Popular catalog,
which makes it a 1 / \ cent
great number for your A w counter
Stock up—you'll need them
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St.,
347 Yonge St.,
NEW YORK
TORONTO
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Bldf., 144-146 W«st 37tk St.
NEW YORK CITY
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