Music Trade Review

Issue: 1914 Vol. 58 N. 11

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
USERS ESTEEM IT
It is only after you
handle
"Century Edition"
that you learn to ap-
preciate t h e high
esteem in which it is
held by those who
use it!
Century Music Pub. Go.
231 -235 West 40th St., New York City
1 0 NEW 1914 SONG HITS
Please Leave Mama Dear.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
When the Whole World Has
Gone Back on You (Come
to Me).
Oh, Mister Railroad Man (Won't
You Take Me Back to Ala-
bam) ?
The Good Ship Mary Ann.
I Want to Go Back to Dixieland.
What D'ye Mean, You Lost Yer
Dog?
Daddy Did a Wonderful Thing.
Willie Had a Motor Boat (Putt-
putt, Putt-putt).
You're Never Too Old to Love.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
NEW YORK
68 Library Avenue
DETROIT, MICH.
fls Played by the Leading Orchestras
THANKSffiLOBSTER
( Merc/ du tiomard)
ONE OR TWO-STEP OR TANGO
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M REVIEW MEARS
THAT Gilbert & Sullivan's "H. M. S. Pinafore"
is to be given on a stupendous scale at the New
York Hippodrome and under modern conditions,
with an immense tank of real water as the setting.
THAT if some ambitious composer doesn't try to
BURKE and LORRAINE
write "improved" or "modern" music for the piece
we will have much to be thankful for.
THAT the Edgar Selden Music Co. is now get-
at the
ting settled rapidly in its commodious new quarters
at 1560 Broadway.
Fifth Avenue Theatre
THAT all the song writers who are song writers,
with very few exceptions, took part in the big con-
all this week
test in the Bronx on Thursday evening.
THAT, once having been shown the way, national
advertising campaigns by local publishers of popu-
featuring
lar music are becoming quite common these days.
n
THAT in most cases the advertisements should
ISLS D f AMOUR"
prove great trade boosters for the music depart-
ments of the ten-cent stores.
THAT having twenty or more publishers of pop-
ular music located in one building saves the profes-
sional a lot of walking for his supply of music.
THAT opinions' in the trade regarding the value
of the new American Society of Authors, Com- LEO. FEIST, Inc., - NEW YORK
posers and Publishers still remains about equally
divided.
THAT, in the meantime, the agents of the new
society are steadily adding recruits to the ranks.
THAT an old waltz number dug out of the dust
of the stock shelves and with "hesitation" added regarding the use of copyrighted music would react
to the title does not mean that it is really a hesi- against the interests of the smaller concerns and
tation waltz because the measure of the dance has that they have treated the publishers with great
something to do with the music.
fairness. They also claim that the composer often
suffers through assigning this royalty rights to the
publisher, so there you are.
THE BRITISH COPYRIGHT LAW
In view of the jcsuit of experiments in improv-
As Viewed by Chappell & Co., Ltd., the Prom-
ing
copyright protection in other countries, it
inent Music Publishers in a Letter to Lon-
would appear that the United States law, although
don Newspapers—Provisions of the Law So
not an ideal measure, is a pretty good law for all
Complex That It Is Costing Thousands of
interests.
Dollars to Secure Court Opinions Regarding
Its Various Phases.
Richard Strauss has completed the score of his
ballet. It is now being printed as his opus 63
LONDON, ENU., February 28.—An interesting let- under the title of "Eine Josephsiegende," by
ter from Chappell & Co., Ltd., one of the leading- Adolph Fiirstner in Paris. The duration of the
music publishing houses, appeared recently in the work will be about the same as that of "Salome."
The first performance is to be in Paris, by Rus-
London press, and (in part) reads as follows:
" * * * At the time of the passing of the sian dancers.
Copyright Act in 1911 we repeatedly urged upon
gramophone companies that it was to their own trade
OUR NEW CATALOGUE IS
interests to be able under the act to purchase from
JUST OFF THE PRESS
copyright owners a monopoly in their works. The
trade jealousies of the different gramophone com-
and describes at length—
panies compelled them to reject our recommenda-
7 High Class Popular Songs
4 Semi-Classic Concert Song*
tion. We believe that they already realize thei--
1 Folio of College Songs
error.
When you get yours
"Meanwhile, they compelled the Government to
USE IT
pass the act in such a mutilated form that, although
If you don't get one
it is not yet two years old, it is costing unhappy
Write for it.
copyright owners and others thousands of pounds
in the law courts in a desperate endeavor to dis-
ASSOCIATED SONG WRITERS,
cover what half its complicated clauses really do
mean. Truly a triumph of up-to-date legislation!'"
For' their part the talking machine people, on the
other hand, claim that the privilege of monopoly
THE TALK OF NEW YORK
(Special to The Review.)
CHAS. K. HARRIS* TWO BALLAD HITS
BUY YOUR WiJSIC FROM
BOSTON
Publishers
WALTER JACOBS
BOSTON, MASS.
Publisher of

"Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True,
And Some Others World Famous.
Piano 50
Orchestra (10 parts) 75
Frank K.RootS Co.
CHICAGO
NEWTORK
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.'S Bid HIT.
OLIVER
DITSON
AND
"Not TUI Then Will I Cease To Love You"
You can order them from your nearest
jobber, or direct from the Publisher
167 Tremont S t .
CLARENCE JONES.
"Don't You Wish You Were Back Home Again?"
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply Every Requirement of Mmic Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. GO.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, & ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Offices: 68-84 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
N e w York
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Mnslc 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 REVIEW
cided to include it in their popular catalog, which
means that it is to be sold at a price that alone
Sam Fox Publishing Co., Cleveland, O., An-
should cause it to develop into a tremendous sell-
nounces "Valse June" as Ready for the Mar-
ing factor. In addition to placing the number in
ket—First Composition by Lionel Baxter to
the popular list, the publishers also announce a lib-
Be Published Under New and Exclusive
eral introductory price to dealers. When the new
Contract—Offered at Popular Price.
waltz was first announced and before the market-
ing plan had been completed numerous dealers
The Sam Fox Publishing Co., of Cleveland, ()., placed advance orders for copies, and saw that
the most successful publishing house in the Middle orders in some cases were running up to several
West, recently made an important contract for the thousand copies each.
exclusive .publishing rights in the United States for
the works of Lionel Baxter, a composer with an
A NEW E. T. PAULL NUMBER.
enviable reputation both here and abroad, and in
this connection announces as ready for the market " E . T. Paull's Hesitation Waltz" to Be Placed
the first of Mr. Baxter's compositions to ibe pub-
on the Market at an Early Date—Is of an
lished under the new arangement. The new num-
Original and Interesting Character—"The
ber is "Valse June.' 1 the number with a beautiful
"Egyptian Glide" Proving Popular.
melody am! which should prove particularly popu-
The E. T. Paull Music Co., West Forty-second
street, New York, which recently put on the mar-
ket the "Egyptian Glide," announces that within
the. next two or three weeks the company will
have ready for the trade a new hesitation wait/
K. T. Paull and to be known as "E. T. Paull's
Hesitation Waltz." Those who have heard the
new number "in the rough," as it were, have been
enthusiastic regarding its excellent qualities, the
piece being made up of four distinct movements,
all of them full of harmony.
"The Egyptian Glide," by Alexander Maloof, a
clever and original tango, and with a two-step and
turkey trot arrangement by E. T. Paull, has found
much favor with orchestra leaders throughout tlu-
country, and the result is a demand of substantial
proportions from the trade.
PUBLISHES NEW WALTZ SUCCESS.
WHY
Regards to Broadway' and the other 'Life's a Very
Funny Proposition After All.' 'Moon, Moon, Moon'
of "The Gingerbread Man' and 'The Glow Worm,'
from 'The Girl Behind the Counter' would bear
repetition. 'Waltz Me Around Again, Willie,'
which 1 sang in 'His Honor, the Mayor,' has by no
means outlived its usefulness, while my 'Yip-I-
Addy' and 'Rings on Her Fingers' will never grow
old."
HYAMS & McINTYRE^ IN VAUDEVILLE.
John Hyams and Leila Mclntyre, that clever duo
of musical comedy artists, are once again in vaude-
ville. They made their rebut at the Palace Theater
recently, and immediately thereafter were booked
for the balance of the season in the principal
vaudeville theaters of the East. Among the num-
bers they are using are several that have become
famous through their rendition of same in the
NOT REVIVE THE OLD SONGS?
Blanche Ring Declares That Good Songs Are
Scarcer Than Pearls at the Present Time and
Suggests That Old Successes Be Revived Just
as Are Operas—Publishers Take Notice.
"'It is harder to get a good song than it is to
match a rare pearl," says Blanche Ring, the clever
comedienne, who is credited with developing a
lar just at this time, owing to the fact that k is score or more songs into great popular hits.
speciall adapted to the hesitation or Boston.
"I've been fortunate in getung a half-dozen
"Valse June" is not starting off from the mark, good, rollicking numbers for my new piece, 'When
as owing to the success of the number abroad, the Claudia Smiles,' but I've seen a dozen musical
reputation of Mr. Baxter and the work of the Sam shows that wouldn't average one good song apiece.
i'ox Publishing Co., advance orders for the num- Why is it, then, that some manager does not try
ber on hand at the time of publication made neces- a revival of many of the songs that have set the
sary an initial edition of 100,000, with prospects nation whistling the last fifteen years?
that it must be repeated at a comparatively early
"Operatic revivals are popular at present. 'Pina-
date. "Valse June" has been a favorite selection fore,' 'The Bohemian Girl,' 'Patience,' 'The Pirates
with prominent authors throughout Europe an.l of Penzance,' 'Robin Hood' and 'Iolantbe' have all
also America for some time past, but despite the been resurrected and the audiences are enthusiastic
reputation of the number the publishers have de- over 'I'm Called Little Buttercup,' 'For I'm an Eng-
lishman,' T Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls,'
'Brown October Ale' and 'Oh, Promise Me!'
"If it is possible to revive these operas why
Ernest R. Ball has written many successes,
wouldn't
a musical comedy with a dozen song hits
but none that will achieve a greater popu-
from the past decade be a 'go'? The story would
larity than his latest
be new, the comedy would be new, the production
would be new and only the songs would be familiar.
"The field of songs to select from is almost limit-
less. 'Sweet Marie' certainly would bear reviving.
'Annie Rooney,' as sung by the late Theresa
Vaughn in '1492,' was popular a dozen or more
years ago. 'Navajo,' sung by Marie Cahill in
'Nancy Brown,' was the'forerunner of dozens of
LYRIC BY
Indian songs. 'Mary Jane's Top Note,' from 'The
Girl from Paris,' would not be a bad selection.
GEORGE GRAFF
'In the Good Old Summer Time' and 'Sweet Sat-
urday Night' came out about the same time and
ALREADY HUN-
DREDS OF THE
would prove as popular to-day as they were then.
BEST SING I NG
The former was one of my early successes.
ACTS ARE USING
" 'Dolly Gray' and 'Tommy Atkins' were song
IT
hits for a time. When it comes to selecting Irish
songs, there is my 'Bedelia,' 'Clancy,' which Frank
Lalor first sang in 'Comin' Through the Rye'; 'Har-
SLOGAN: STOCK UP
rigan,' written by George M. Cohan, for his play,
'Fifty Miles from Boston,' and 'Peggy Brady,'
from the 'Isle of Spice.'
Witmark Bldg., 144-146 West 37th St.
" 'I'm Sorry' was one of the hits of 'About
NEW YORK CITY
Town.' George M. Cohan had two distinct hits in
Chicafo
San Francisco
London
Paris
Mtlbonrne
'Little Johnnie Jones,' one of them being 'Give My
Another "BALL" Triumph
"WHILE THE RIVERS
OF LOVE FLOW ON"
M. WITMARK & SONS
"'Girl o,f My Dreams." and "When Love is Young;"
besides these, they are using a little novelty num-
ber, "Won't You Meet Me Out in Wichita?" writ-
ten especially for them by l-leta Jan Hnnvn, and
in all their experience they have never had any-
thing that has been more successful. M. Witmark
& Sons publish all their numbers.
URUGUAY'S POSTAL RULES.
Commercial Articles May Be Sent There Only
by Parcel Post.
Postmaster Edward M. Morgan issue a warning
this week to exporters to Uruguay with reference
to the postal regulations of that country. Many
complains have been received of the confiscation of
articles which have bet'ii sent by the ordinary post
to Uruguay.
The postmaster now points out that the dispatch
of commercial articles by any but parcel post to
Uruguay is prohibited, but any article may be sent
there >by parcel post su'bject only to the ordinary
customs duties.
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.
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"
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., - NEW YORK
347 Yonge St., - TORONTO

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