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Issue: 1913 Vol. 57 N. 4

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Reason Known!
ORDERS FOR
CENTURY EDITION
are greater each week by
many thousands than ever
before.- Everybody knows
the reason.
Hows your
stock?
Century Music Pub. Go.
1178 Broadway
New York City
When it's Apple Blossom Time
In Normandy.
Sunshine and Roses.
You're a Great Big Blue Eyed
Baby.
You Can't Stop Me From Lov-
ing You.
How Could I Know That You
Loved Me?
The Perfume of the Flowers.
I'll Get You.
I'm on the Jury.
That Old Girl of Mine.
That Tango Tokio.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
NEW YORK
68 Library Avenue
DETROIT, MICH.
We are the publishers of the
European Success
Un Peu D'Amour
(A Little love, a little kiss)
Song Arrangement (French and
English Words)
Piano Solo Arrangement
Write for Terms
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., - NEW YORK
347 Yonge St., -
TORONTO
63
MREVIEWflEAR5
lii AT several bright singers connected with
local publishing houses are advocating the estab-
lishment of permanent cabarets in the Rit/.-Carlton
restaurants on the trans-Atlantic liners.
THAT the meat of the idea is the fact that it
would mean a few trips to Europe without ex-
pense for the lucky ones.
THAT the Manhattan Distributing Corporation,
Chicago, has been incorporated, with capital stock
of $2,500, for the purpose of buying and selling
sheet music among other things.
THAT following the lead of the theatrical folk
there is some talk of reviving some of the suc-
cessful ballads and rag numbers of a few years
ago.
THAT according to reports Nat Vincent has de-
signs on "That Railroad Rag" in the nature of a
revival.
THAT the recent motion picture convention held
at the Grand Central Palace, this city, proved a
strong attraction for the song pluggers as af-
fording them the opportunity for showing the
exhibitors what they can do in adding interest to a
film exhibition.
THAT an authority claims that the man who
pays $50 for a modern picture does more for
Aniercan art than the man who pays $500,000 for
an old master.
THAT on the same theory the man who pays a
dime for a copy of a ragtime number does more
than the fellow who hands over a couple of thou-
sand dollars for a score by Beethoven.
THAT the opening of the opera war will give
paragraphers a chance to discuss the soothing ef-
fects of music.
SOME REAL MUSICAL ABILITY.
How Musical Conductor for "The Girl from
Montmartre" Saved the Situation with His
Wonderful Memory and Cleverness When
the Music Was Lost on the Road.
An incident showing the need for ingenuity in
the career of a traveling conductor was experienced
by Josiah Zuro during the season just past, while
he was associated with Charles Frohman's produc-
tion of "The Girl from Montmartre."
After traveling from Toronto to Washington,
Mr. Zuro made the discovery, while at rehearsal
with the local orchestra on Monday morning, that
the music had been l?ft behind. The performance
had to go on that evening, however, and accord-
ingly Conductor Zuro had to get the music ready.
All morning and afternoon he wrote out the
music of the strings, woods and brasses from
memory, no copy of the music being available. In
the evening he put a piano in the orchestra pit and
played himself, besides acting as the conductor.
The task was not yet completed, however, and the
intermissions found him busily writing "parts."
On the next day the local papers spoke in com-
plimentary terms of th? work of the orchestra.
Mr. Zuro, who, after the close of the "Girl from
.Montmartre," conducted a season of grand opera
with the Zuro Opera Company in New York, will
spend the summer in New York coaching singers
in operatic roles.
MORE VIENNESE OPERETTAS.
"Dear Vienna" with Music by Robert Stolz—
Lehar Operetta Entitled "Alone at Last."
One rather caustic critic has remarked that they
turn out operettas in Vienna at about the same
rate as they manufacture carpet tacks in the United
States, but nevertheless the supply of such musical
productions still continues. One of the latest
Viennese pieces just announced, and which is said
to be in a fair way to be presented in America at
a later date, is "I)u Liebes Wien" (Dear Vienna),
with music, said to be excellent, by Robert Stolz.
Franz Lehar has written another operetta with
the title "Endlich Allein" (Alone at Last), which
is to make its debut on the fete day of the Kaiser,
on October 1 next. Mizzi Gunther will take care,
of the leading part.
WHETHER OR NOT
the Weather Man weathers it
Hot it matters not to
CARTER DE HAVEN
and his cute and cunnin 1
lil 1 wife
FLORA PARKER DE HAVEN
who sing
"HONEY YOU WERE MADE FOR ME"
to crowded houses—nightly—
at Lew Fields' 44th Street
Roof Garden.
TABLOID TRUTHS
TICK (.iencratiuns—Then You'll
be Com-
pletely Forgotten!
LEO.
F E I S T , I n c . , - NEW YORK
THE FIRST OF "DIXIE LAND."
Frank Dumont Runs Across Original Bill Upon
Which Famous Song Was First Mentioned.
In a recent letter to the Clipper, Frank Dumont,
the prominent actor, says: "1 have found an old
bill in which 'Dixie Land' is announced for the
first time, April I'), IS')!). This is the earliest an-
nouncement 1 have ever found of 'Dixie.' It was
said by many that it was written in winter time
(18.*ii)), and inspired by the cold and ^lcet. This
is even mentioned in a life of Dan Eminett, pub-
lished in Columbus, ()., in which the writer says it
was produced in the winter of 1850."
GUTMANN TO WRITE MEMOIRS.
Prominent Vienese Concert Agent Promises to
Produce Interesting Volume of His Experi-
ences During His Active Life of Forty Years.
Albert Gutmann, the founder of the well-known
Viennese concert agency, who rejoices in the fol-
lowing titles (to which, by the way, more worth
is attached in this part of the world than in
America and England) Imperial Councillor, Court-
Music-Publisher, etc., is at the moment said to be
occupied in writing his "memoirs." The work,
which is to be named "Forty Years of Musical
Life in Vienna" (Vierzig Jahre Wiener Musik-
leben), will be published in German, French and
English in the cities of Vienna, Paris and London.
THE TALK OF NEW YORK
CHAS. K. HARRIS' TWO BALLAD HITS
"Don't You Wish You Were Back Home Again?"
AND
"Not Till Then Will I Cease To Love You"
You can order them from your nearest
jobber, or direct from the Publisher
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
N e w York
MKYER COHEN, Mgr.
ROBERT TELLER SONS & D0RNER
Music Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
226 West 26th Street, New York City
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THE MUSIC TRADE
64
REVIEW
GOOD LIBRETTOS RARE.
DRISLANE SONG FOR WITMARKS.
IT'S EASY WHEN YOU KNOW HOW.
The Securing of a Satisfactory Libretto One of
the Difficulties Facing the Producers of
Comic Operas—How Adaptations Suffer.
"Have a Heart" with Music by Harry Arm-
strong, a Novel and Clever Number.
Aspiring Composer Tells Just How He Wrote a
Grand Opera—Unpronounceable Names the
Chief Asset—And They Criticize Ragtime.
"Most people," says the musical critic of the
London Telegraph, "imagine that the writing of
a libretto suitable for a comic opera is a task
calling for no very great effort, let alone any ex-
ceptional order of talent. As a fact, they are
vastly mistaken. Every experienced producer of
plays in this country will tell you that it is ex-
traordinarily difficult to obtain a really serviceable
'book 'for that class of work. In recent years
some of the best specimens indubitably have come
from Vienna. Nevertheless most of them have
had to undergo considerable revision before they
were deemed likely to meet the requirements of
English audiences—to say nothing of the censor.
"Recently one 'heard of the success of a musical
play in Vienna, which was said to promise to rival
'The Merry Widow' in popularity. But a well-
known musician who has seen it informed the
present writer that the book would be simply im-
possible in this country for the reason indicated.
French authors, in many cases, have a happy knack
(jf turning out workmanlike librettos, but recent
years, so far as we know, have brought forth no
particularly brilliant specimens of the kind in Paris.
"Among English authors excellent work has
been accomplished by Captain Basil Hood, but of
late he seems to have confined himself to adapta-
tions. As a general rule the modern musical play
suffers either from having too little plot, in which
case it is voted 'thin,' or from having too much,
in which case, as often as not, the author and com-
poser get in each other's way, and through no fault
of the latter, some of his music is liable to be con-
sidered an intrusion."
USING A LIQUID MELODY.
The writer of lyrics hurried to the composer of
high-brow music.
"I want you to write a tune for me," he said.
"I? Sir, I am a musician. I never wrote a tune
in my life!"
"I know it, but you can. I want you to write
me a drinking song. I'll pay you money for it."
"Er—well—how shall I do it?"
"Why a drinking song ought to be easy. A
liquid melody, you know—and have stops in every
bar."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The first work under the Witmark banner by
Jack Drislane, who recently joined the song writing
staff of M. Witmark & Sons, is "Have a Heart,"
with lyrics based on the popular expression and
music of interesting character by Harry Arm-
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strong, composer of "Sweet Adeline," "Slip Your
Cilad Rags on and Come With Me" and a number
of other popular song successes which have won
quite a vogue with singers and the general public.
""Have a Heart" is novel and clever, full of
original humor and, being possessed of a pleasing-
melody, has found much favor with singers prom-
inent in the vaudeville field. Harry Armstrong,
the composer, who is a member of the successful
vaudeville team of Armstrong & Clark, is featur-
ing the new number in that act.
"What do you think? I've written a grand
opera. It looked easy, but it wasn't; just the same
I stuck to the job, and it's a wonderful little piece
of artistry—believe me.
"You see, Gwynth, get on to these names—aren't
they grandoprey right from the overture on—
Gwynth loves Hertl, but old Brchq, her father, is
the King, and he wants her to marry Yglw.
That's the reason that Strth—she's her sister—
comes on in the first act and sings:
" 'Where red beams on the hills so fair the dawn.'
"How's that? I tell you I had to work to get
that line. I was prompted to write the blessed
thing:
" 'Where the dawn beams red on the fair hills/
but just in lime I remembered that this was grand
opera.
"But then that isn't a sixteenth note compared
with what Tholsprwx sings in Act 2.
"You see, the scene is a cave, and all you get
is the light from the forge. This is his big line:
"'Cling! Clang! Of the armorer on the anvil
resonates the hammer!'
"Great, don't you think? I've studied these
librettos till I know just the sort of stuff that sets
'em .crazy.
"But the real hit will be where Jktphrew has the
soprano solo in Act, the Next:
"'Why me hast forsaken thou?'
"Can you beat it? And the music is just as
good. There are two extra washboilers and a
compressed air riveter in the orchestra, and four
members of the Stonebreakers' Union No. 48 are
going to beat the drums.
"In the last act Squirthyl kills Gwynth, and
Hertl kills her, and Strth takes poison and Brchq
kills Hertl. Tholsprwx and Yglw and a couple of
others are dead already, so the only person left on
the stage is Jktphrew. She grabs hold of Brchq
and jumps into the furnace with him as the curtain
goes down.
"Then the holder of the lucky seat number is
allowed to kill the leader of the orchestra.
"It's going to be a winner. If it isn ? t, I'll eat
every darn volume of Richard Wagner's auto-
biography !"
"JULIEN" FOR THE METROPOLITAN.
If you are a salesman, tuner or traveler, and
desire a position, forward your wants in an ad-
vertisement to The Review in space not'to ex-
ceed four lines and it will be inserted free of
charge and replies sent to you.
Gustave Charpentier's new opera, "Julien," has
been purchased for production at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House, New York. The composer has
accepted an invitation to be present at the first
performance next February.
Another Ballad by Ernest R. Ball
I'll Change The Shadows
To Sunshine
Don't fail to order these Songs
My Dixie Rose
Who shall Wear them
Lyric by
George Graff, Jr.
You or I, Love?
Writers of "Till
the Sands of the
D e s e r t Grow
Cold," "Goodbye,
My Love, Good-
bye," " H e r e ' s
Love and Suc-
cess to You," "Lt't Us Have Peace," "Call-
ing of the Sea," "When Irish Eyes Are
Smiling," "Lost Melody," "Where Is the
Love of Yesterday?" etc.
The demand for this beautiful song is
growing steadily.
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Bldg., 144-146 West 37th St.
NEW YORK CITY
Chicago
San Francucs
London
Pari*
Melbourne
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BOSTON
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BOSTON. MASS.
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"Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Com* True "
And Some Others World Famous.
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DITSON
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
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My Old Girl
My Caroline
Only one Story the
Roses Tell
'Mid the Purple Tint-
ed Hills of Tennessee
You Can't Repay the
Debt You Owe your Mother
NEW YORK
Meet Me in the Twilight
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