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THE
USERS ESTEEM IT
It is only after you
handle
"Century Edition"
that you learn to ap-
preciate the high
esteem in which it is
held by those who
use it!
Century Music Pub. Go.
231 -235 West 40th St., New York City
FEATURING "AJTANGO DREAM."
"A Tango Dream," a clever and tuneful son^
by Elsa Maxwell, and the American publication
rights to which are held by Chappell & Co., is
being featured by Grace La Rue with muc'i sue
cess on her present vaudeville tour, and was one
of the numbers presented during her recent en-
gagement at the Palace Theater, New York.
KEPT OUT OFJAIL ANYHOW.
A well-known local song writer recently received
a letter from a boyhood friend in his old home
town enclosing a suggestion for a new number.
The friend stated that he was in prison, which
moved the local man to say: "Well, I may not be
the greatest song writer of the age, but I am out
of jail, anyhow, which is some satisfaction."
Charles I. Davis is opening a sheet music store
at 208 Fifth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
1 0 NEW 1914 SONG HITS
All Aboard for Dixieland.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
The Good Ship Mary Ann.
I Want to Go Back to Dixieland.
I'll Do It All Over Again.
Mary, You're a Little Bit Old-
Fashioned.
I'm in Love with the Mother of
My Best Girl.
I've Got Everything I Want but
You.
If the Sands of All the Seas Were
Peerless Pearls.
Back, Back, Back to Indiana.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
NEW YORK
68 Library Avenue
DETROIT, MICH.
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Mnsic Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
226 Weit 26th Street, New TorK City
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THAT in a possible war with Mexico we may
run short of supplies and ammunition, but, accord-
ing to latest developments, there will be no scarcity
of popular war songs.
THAT they're even bringing the old war songs of
1898 back to life to meet the emergency, and also
reviving their popularity.
THAT, if the difficulties are settled peaceably,
there's going to be a lo.t of dead stock to fill the
shelves.
THAT, despite the numerous newspaper reports
of the activities of post office inspectors in prose-
cuting and suppressing the fake "publishers" of the
efforts of amateur song writers, the remaining
concerns of shady character do not appear to suf-
fer from lack of "suckers."
THAT, not content with having an already won-
derful assortment of song successes, Leo Feist,
Inc., has gone into the market and bought a new
song for the catalog.
THAT the name of the new number is "You're
Here and I'm There," by Jerome D. Kern, and
was purchased from T. B. Harms and Francis,
Day & Hunter. It has been featured in several
prominent productions.
THAT we are waiting patiently for some song
writer to take advantage of the bromide "Safety
"First, as the title for a new popular-song. Why
the delay?
THAT the* sticking qualities of winter appear to
have discouraged song writers and publishers from
turning out- the usual array of summer songs.
THAT when the music publishers are called upo.n
to furnish orchestrations for "Futurist" orchestras
the real trouble will begin.
THAT "There She Go.es" and "Their Dancing
Honeymoon Around the World," by Al. Gerber
and Nat D. Ayer, are among the recent additions
to. the catalog of the Edgar Selden Music Co.
THE HAMMERSTE1N SYSTEM.
Some Rules for Success in Producing Musical
Comedies as Set Down by Arthur Hammer-
stein in Recent Interview.
Arthur Hammerstein, who has inherited many
of the gifts of his father, Oscar, as an impres-
sario and has put over a number of big successes
in the form of musical comedies and operettas,
claims, in a recent interview, to have a system for
insuring success, which he sets forth in a recent
interview as follo.ws:
"I have a system—the producer of a musical
comedy must be intimately associated with the
librettist and composer in the actual writing of
the piece.
"The first essential—is melody.
"The book must have just as many punches—
as drama.
"We have a substitute for every musical num-
ber in the score.
"Most composers will kill their own work if
you allow them to orchestrate as they wish.
"The profits are not nearly as big as the public
imagines—on a success.
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON
WALTER JACOBS
BOSTON, MASS.
Publisher of
'Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True,'
And Some Others World Famous.
DITSON
0LATI0N!
Miss Kitty Gordon
has introduced another hit
in
"Pretty Mrs. Smith"
It is called
"MAKE LOVE TO ME"
and is the only song in this
great musical oomedy selling
at the POPULAR PRICE! Wise
dealers will make a killing!
LEO. FEIST, Inc., - NEW YORK
"Grand opera—don't mention it—with the •ex-
ception of my father there is not a member of the
family who ever wants to hear grand opera men-
tioned again.
"I was always sympathetic with my father's
achievements until he lost money—then he became
The Prodigal Father.
"The greatest mistake the Metropolitan Opera
Company ever made was not to give Oscar Ham-
merstein the Century Theater and place him in
charge of popular opera there.
"Father is the greatest judge of a voice in the
world—he has never made a mistake—that is the
trouble.
"It would be a good thing for managers if there
were no. prima donnas."
PRIZES FOR WINDOW DISPLAYS.
Sam Fox Publishing Co. Announces Competi-
tion in Exploitation of "Valse June" by
Music Dealers—$100 in Prizes Offered.
The Sam Fox Publishing Co., of Cleveland, O.,
has announced an interesting competition for the
most attractively dressed windows in which the
company's latest success, "Valse June," is featured.
One hundred dollars is offered in prizes, divided
into four prizes as follows: First prize, $50; sec-
ond prize, $25 ; third prize, $15, and fourth prize,
$10- The competition will close on June 20, and
the prizes to be awarded from photographs of the
windows submitted on June 30.
"Valse June," for hesitation or Boston, to
which attention has already been called in The
Review, has proven a decided success throughout
the country, and is the work of Lionel Baxter, a
composer of note both here and abroad. The in-
itial edition of 100,000 was soon cleaned out, and
since that time the sales have been particularly
large. It is expected that the prize competition
will stimulate business, both, for the music dealer
and the publisher.
THE BALLAD SUCCESS OF AMERICA
i Bosworth St.,
OLIVER
ANOTHER INTE
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply Every Requirement of Music Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSK PUB. CO.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, ft ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Main Offices: «3-84 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses; New York and Chicago.
"Suppose I Met You
Face To Face"
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
SOLD WHEREVER MUSIC IS SOLD
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
MEYER COHEN, Marr.
N e w York