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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
FAILS TO SECURE BIG PRIZE.
TEN CENT STORES PROSPEROUS.
SELECT AMERICAN "PEACE" SONG.
Hilliard Booth, Now in Need, Was Awarded
Prize of $1,000 for Opera Libretto Two
Years Ago, but It Is Claimed Never Received
the Money—Now in Great Need.
Both Kresge and Woolworth Concerns Give
Some Impressive Sales Figures for February.
Work of George Graff, Jr., and Ernest R. Ball
Chosen to Open the Ang'o-American Exposi-
tion in London—An Honor to America.
According to recent disclosures the winning of a
$1,000 prize for an opera libretto does not neces-
sarily mean that the successful contestant is really
richer by $1,000 or even a part of that amount as
the result of his feat, for it appears that Hilliard
Booth, the young librettist, was awarded, but
never received, the $1,000 which the De Koven
Opera Co. offered for the best light opera two
years ago.
Walter Kingsley, who was formerly press agent
of the De Koven Opera Co.; Roy McCardell, one
of the dissappointed librettists who contributed
manuscripts to the competion; Channing Pollock,
who was to act as one of the judges, but who claims
he was never allowed to read a script, and others
involved in the affair are raising a fund to present
to Booth, who is at present dying of tuberculosis
in a camp at Mount Pisgah, N. C, and is in the
direst need.
Booth's book, "Jean Lafitte," it was formally
announced by Reginald De Koven, was winner of
the $1,000 prize offered by the De Koven Opera Co.
some time ago for the best libretto for an Ameri-
can opera. In spite of the fact that this an-
nouncement was made officially, it is alleged, Booth
never received a cent of prize money.
NEW McKINLEY CO. NUMBERS.
Two Ballads and Three Hesitation Waltzes
Among the Latest Offerings of the Prominent
Chicago
Publishers—Being
Featured
Strongly in Professional Circles.
(Special to The Review.)
CHICAGO, I I I . , March 16.—Several new numbers
of particular interest have just been issued by the
McKinley Music Co. in its Frank K. Root & Co.
edition of popular prints. One of these that holds
particular promise of developing into a great suc-
cess is "If I Could Only Call You Mine," a new
ballad by J. Will Callahan and E. Clinton Keithley,
which is being strongly featured. A clever Irish
ballad, "There's a Mother Back in Ireland Waits
for Me," with words by J. Will Callahan and
music by F. Henri Klickmann, should go far to
meet the demand for songs of that character.
The present dance craze is recognized by the
company to the extent that three new dance num-
bers have also just been issued, they being "Good-
Bye," valse hesitation, by F. Henri Klickmann,
and in which has been interpolated the principal
theme of Tosti's "Good-Bye;" "Dream Waltz"
from the "Tales of Hoffman," barcarolle, also ar-
ranged by Mr. Klickmann, and "One Wonderful
Night," hesitation waltz, by Clarence M. Jones.
TWO BEST BALLADS of the YEAR
The Kind That Last Forever.
ii
MY DREAM GIRL"
The song they are humming
from Coast to Coast.
"THERE'S NOTHING THAT
TIME CANNOT TELL"
With a wonderful lyric.
These ballads will be in every
home and the dealer must fill
the demand. Prepare for it by
Ordering These Two Numbers NOW at a
Special Introductory Price
Imperial Music Co., Inc.
145 West 45th Street
New York City
President Kresge, of the S. S. Kresge Co., is
quoted as saying that it is the intention of the com-
pany to pay 6 per cent, in dividends on the common
stock during the present year.
The February sales were $950,910, compared with
$788,267 in 1913, an increase of $162,643, or 20.63
per cent. Sales for the two months of 1914 were
$1,895,993, an increase of $362,903, or 23.67 per
cent, over the corresponding months of 1913.
The sales of the F. W. Woolworth Co. during
February were $4,243,371, as compared with $3,953,-
499 in the same month in 1913, an increase of $289,-
872, or 7.33 per cent. Sales for the two months
totaled $8,459,975, compared with $7,680,442 for
same period in 1913, an increase of $779,533, or
T0.14 per cent.
Details regarding the sale of music in the Kresge
and Woolworth stores, which is a big factor, would
probably prove very interesting reading were they
available.
REMICK NUMBERS GOING GOOD.
(Special to The Review.)
CHICAGO, I I I . , March 16.—Several numbers re-
cently brought out by Jerome H. Remick & Co.
have taken Chicago and the Middle West by
storm, and the Monroe street offices of the com-
pany are cro.wded with professional people who
are familiarizing themselves with the hits and
keeping their eyes open for new ones.
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is featured by
Muriel Francis at the Majestic; Al Jolson is
bringing the house down at the Auditorium with
"The Good Ship Mary Ann," and Loose Brothers,
who are favorites here, are achieving popularity
by the use of "I Want to Go Back to Dixie Land,"
"I'm in Love with the Mother of My Best Girl"
and "Rebecca of Sunnvbrook Farm."
International honors have come to the American
composer and lyricist by the recognition just
awarded two young Americans whose "Peace" song
has been selected as a feature of the opening cere-
rronies of the great Peace Centennial celebration
to be held in London, England, next May. From
among the many compositions considered by the
committee the song "Let Us Have Peace," written
by George Graff, Jr., with music composed by
Ernest R. Ball, has been selected as acceptable for
its appropriate sentiment and effective melody.
The composition will accordingly be rendered at
the introductory exercises in celebration of the 100
years of peace between the United States and
Great Britain at the opening of the Anglo-Ameri-
can Exposition.
This elaborate musical plea for universal
peace will be voiced by a chorus of more than
4,000, supported by a massed military band com-
posed of the famous British Grenadier 'Guards
Band, bands of the Royal Horse Guards, Irish
Guards, Scots Guards, First Life Guards, First
Gordon Highlanders, the Royal Marine and other
well-known military bands, to the number of 500
musicians.
Messrs. Graff and Ball have heretofore achieved
popularity the world over as the writers of many
standard ballads and sacred songs, which include
such well-known numbers as "In the Garden of My
Heart," "Love Me, and the World Is Mine,"
"Mother Machree," "Till the Sands of the Desert
Grow Cold," "To Have, To Hold, To Love," and
others, and this international recognition of the
merits of their music is a matter of pride to them
and their many friends..
M. Witmark & Sons, the publishers of the song,
are preparing to issue a special edition, commemo-
rative of the occasion.
FOR BEST "AMERICAN FLAG" CHORUS
For the best "American Flag" male chorus with
solo and organ or piano accompaniment or both
a prize of $100 in gold and an engraved certificate
of honor are offered in connection with the third
annual prize competition for "the advancement of
music in America," instituted by the Sinfonia
Fraternity of America Phi Mu Alpha, according
to an announcement just issued from the New
England Conservatory of Music.
The Beautiful Novelty Song Sensation
of the Year
"IN THE CANDLE-
LIGHT"
By Fleta Jan Brown
NEW BALLADS PLEASING.
The Imperial Music Co., New York, is meeting
with great success with its two latest ballad num-
bers, "My Dream Girl" and "There Is Nothing
that Time Cannot Tell." Both numbers have
charming melodies and are being used with excel-
lent effect by many prominent performers.
li\Tl\e(ai\dle-Li|U
FEATURES "MOTHER MACHREE."
One of the strong features of the appearance of
John McCormack, the celebrated Irish tenor, in
concert at the New York Hippodrome last Sunday,
was his singing of the immensely popular ballad
by Ernest R. Ball, "Mother Machree." The beauti-
ful song was sung as an encorce and proved the
hit of the program. Mr. McCormack has just
added "Who Knows," another Ball ballad, to his
repertoire.
The Peerless Music Printing Co., Cleveland,
with a capitalization of $6,000, has been chartered
by Samuel Epstein, Theresa, Ethel and Sadie Ep-
stein and Ludwig Garde.
According to the French composer, Ravel, who
has lately taken to writing criticisms, modern com-
posers owe their defects as well as their merits
to Liszt, whom he admires greatly." It is tq Liszt's
defects, he writes, that "Wagter owes his turges-
cence; Strauss, his churlish enthusiasms; Franck,
the ponderousness of his ideality; the Russians
their, at times, tinsel picturesqueness; the modern
French, the simperings of their grace, But," he
adds, "it is to him that all those dissimilar com-
posers owe the best of their qualities."
Already being
used by hun-
dreds of well
known vaude-
ville acts, which
is sure to cre-
ate a demand
for you.
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