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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. 'Wilson
FAKE SONG BOOSTERS ABROAD.
SUCCESS OF "CONFESSION D'AMOUR"
UPHOLDS HAMMERSTEIN OPERA BAN.
Well Dressed Men Visit Bronx Homes to
Demonstrate and Sell New Popular Songs,
Size Up the Apartments and Then Return
with a Jimmy—Warning Sent Out.
New Hesitation Waltz by Isidore Witmark
Being Played by Leading Orchestras.
Appellate Division of Supreme Court Unani-
mously
Sustains
Injunction
Preventing
Hammerstein from Giving Opera Until 1920.
The housewives of the Bronx have been warned
against allowing two slick young men who claim
to represent a music publisher to enter their
homes. This is another scheme that has been
adopted by flat thieves to "size-up" the various
apartments with a view to robbing them at some
future time.
These two young men are swarthy individuals,
well dressed, and one of them is a captivating
piano player and singer. The other chap is a
smooth talker, and he tells the intended victim
that they represent a large music publishing bu-
reau. They ask permission to play and sing some
of the latest songs, for which they charge ten
cents a copy, if the purchaser will guarantee to
take one copy each week to be sent by mail.
After going through the preliminary motions of
signing a contract and collecting the initial ten
cents, these slick gentlemen leave the home only
to return in a few days to "jimmy" open the door
leading to the apartment. The police are now look-
ing for the new style crooks.
Isidore Witmark's new hesitation waltz, entitled
"Confession d'Amour" (Love's Confession), is
being played by orchestras all over the country, and
is especially popular in New York's restaurant
ballrooms, the dansants, or wherever the gentle
NEW McKINLEY PUBLICATIONS.
Chicago House Issues Several New Numbers,
Some of Which Have Already Won Success.
(Special to The Review.)
CHICAGO, I I I . , April 20.—The aggressive Chicago
publishers, the McKinley Music Co., have another
big success in their new ballad, "Alice of Old Vin-
cennes," by Thompson and Keithley. Mr. Keithley
wrote "Garland of Old Fashioned Roses" and
"Just Like the Rose You Gave." This new ballad
has a fine lyric and a most catchy melody and is
starting very well.
The McKinley company also has ready a fine
song by Callahan and Klickman called "Diane of
the Green Van." The title page is a reproduction
of the cover of the novel by the same title that
is now a "best seller." The lyric follows the
story of the book, touching on the romantic trip
from Connecticut to the Everglades, and the music
is as melodious as in "Sing Me the Rosary," Mr.
Klickman's big success.
The McKinley company reports continued big
sales on "Hesitation Waltz," by Klickman;
"Thanks for the Lobster," "Tango," "Dream
Waltz," introducing Barcarolle from "Tales of
Hoffman"; "One Wonderful Night" (hesitation
waltz), "Sing Me the Rosary" and "Just Like the
Rose You Gave."
BLANCHE RINQJN BOSTON.
Blanche Ring, in "When Claudia Smiles,"
opened in Boston last week after short seasons
in New York and other cities, and was very well
received. Miss Ring, as usual, made a distinct hit
with her singing of "If They'd Only Bring Old
Ireland Over Here," published by the James Ken-
dis Music Co., New York.
THE LATEST ENGLISH SONG SUCCESS
Over a Quarter Million Copies Sold in England and the Colonie*.
"Little Grey Home in the West"
By HERMANN LOHR
Published in four keys: Bb(Ato D), C, DbandEb.
Price 60 Cents
CHAPPELL & CO., L t d .
41 East 34th St., . NEW YORK
Canadian Branch: 347 Yonge St., TORONTO
art of fitting the "poetry of motion" to music is
practiced. The reason is not far to seek, because
Mr. Witmark—always a composer o.f skill, espe-
cially in waltz rhythms—has made a special study
of the "hesitation," and in this number has hit it
off to perfection. Musically analyzed, the composi-
tion opens with a brief but dainty andante and
swings at once into a waltz rhythm. The second
mo.vement is marcato, combining the correct
rhythm of the hesitation while building up to the
"trio," in which the melody is given full and free
expression, emphasized by the characteristic "re-
tards" of the "hesitation."
The Appellate Division has affirmed the judg-
ment of the lower court in the case of the Metro-
politan Opera Co. against Oscar Hammerstein and
his son, Arthur. The opera company had applied
to the Supreme Court for an injunction restrain-
ing the Hammersteins, father and son, from pro-
ducing opera in the new opera house in Lexing-
ton avenue, built last summer and fall, and the
action, brought before Justice Pendleton in the
Supreme Court, was decided in favor of grant-
ing the injunction, the decision being handed
down early last December.
From this decision the Hammersteins appealed
to the Appellate Division, and the verdict above
referred to came from this body. The justices
of the Appellate Division were unanimous in de-
ciding to uphold the judgment of the Supreme
Court. No opinion accompanied the decision.
As the matter now stands Oscar and Arthur
Hammerstein are enjoined permanently from pro-
ducing opera in New York and Boston until April,
1920, which the Metropolitan Co.'s complaint held
was the date up to which they had contracted to
stay out of the field in consideration of the pur-
chase of Hammerstein's opera house in Philadel-
phia for $1,200,000 by the Metropolitan company
in 1910.
The Appellate Division has it in its power to
make the decision final, but the impresario and
his son say their attorneys have started an appeal.
REMICK BUYS^NOTHER SONG.
Jerome II. Remick & Co. have again been doing
a little buying as a means of adding to the com-
pany's catalog. Last week the company purchased
from O. E. Story, the Boston publisher, the new
ballad, "The Rose of the Mountain Trail," at a
price said to be in four figures. Mose Gumble,
the Remick professional manager, expects big
things of the new number.
A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM.
ANOTHER "LONESOME PINE"!
"For Thee, America," by Alexander Maloof,
Officially Adopted for Use in the New York
Public Schools—A High Compliment.
A Wonderful Ballad
One of those who have succeeded in a large
measure in achieving his object of creating a gen-
uine and new national anthem is Alexander Malo.of,
who has many compositions of the standard and
popular order to his credit. Mr. Maloof's "For
Thee, America,'" the interesting words of which
were supplied by Elizabeth Serber Freid, has not
alone been endorsed by many of the foremost
musical authorities of the country, but has the
distinction of being officially adopted for the public
schools of New York.
That the new national anthem has been accepted
in New York schools, where a cosmopolitan popu-
lation makes it essential that the first impressions
of the children regarding the country, its music
and its ideals be of the proper sort, would in-
dicate that Mr. Maloof's composition stands in a
fair way to reach the goal for which it was in-
tended.
Alice of Old
Vincennes
(I LOVE YOU)
By KEITHLEY and THOMPSON
Alice Of Old Vincennes
(Hove you)
E. CLINTON KEITHLEV
PEROSI PRAISESJPOPE'S CHANT.
A dispatch from Rome says that Pope Pius, a
good musician, lately enriched the Church music
with a chant in four parts written entirely by him-
self. The composition is characterized by deep
religious fervor and is in the form of an appeal
to his patron saint, Joseph. The chant was sung
for the first time in the Pope's private chapel in
the Vatican.
CHICAGO
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
NEW YOR<