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THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
SOME PROMISES OF REFORMS ARE SLOW TO MATERIALIZE.
Big Gap Between What the Popular Publishers Declare They Are Going to Do or Would Like
to Do and What They Really Accomplish in Bringing About Better Conditions.
From the present reported activities of the local
popular music publishers and the promises made
by them and their representatives regarding things
that would happen after the first of the year, it
looks as though the "much-abused" music pub-
lisher, who has been held up by syndicate buyers
and artists at both ends of the game, is now on
the warpath and is prepared to give the profes-
sional reformers a few lessons in the gentle art
of cleaning things up.
Hardly a day goes by without its report of a
secret meeting of some of the leading publishers
at Claridge's, Wallick's or some other of the prom-
inent hostelries in the Times Square district—ru-
mors, but not direct statements or names of those
who attended. As was the case with the recent
"trust" rumor, there are plenty of those who will
admit lhat they are deeply interested in any plans
for raising the wholesale price of sheet music, de-
manding payments of performing rights from or-
chestra leaders, cutting out payments to singers,
and, in fact, anything that will tend to cut down
the expenses of the music publishing business
and increase the income of those interested in it.
All these reforms sound very promising in the
beginning or until some effort has been made to
bring the publishers together for the purpose of
carrying them out, then there appears the usual
group of stand-patters, or backsliders, as the case
may be, and the entire plan falls through. For
even the larger concerns to outline any definite
line of action looking toward the elimination of
the most prominent abuses of the trade does not
mean anything if there are half a dozen fairly
prominent concerns who refuse to enter into a
mutual agreement.
If half of the good business resolutions made
by the music publishers materialize, the benefit to
the trade at large will be invaluable, but there must
be concerted action, and it seems peculiar that busi-
ness men will work at cross purposes and against
their own best interests, either through motives of
jealousy, mistaken business shrewdness or ptain
cussedness. And yet the popular music publishers
do it and are content to wander along in the same
old way as a result.
BLANCHE RING'S NEW HIT.
Popular Comedienne's Singing of " W h y Is the
Ocean So Near the Shore?" One of the Real
Features of " W h e n Claudia Smiles."
The return to New York of Blanche Ring, the
popular musical comedy star, in her new vehicle,
"When Claudia Smiles,'' at the Thirty-ninth Street
Theater last week was an event that attracted much
attention in local theatricals, and Miss Ring was
heartily received by both press and public. One of
the real features of the new show was Miss Ring's
singing of the new and dainty little waltz song,
'"Why is the Ocean So Near the Shore?" which,
although thoroughly original in character never-
theless, had the effect of reminding her hearers of
the famous Blanche Ring success of other days.
Some of the notices of the new song in the news-
paper criticisms follow :
"As her final contribution to the joy of the eve-
ning in "When Claudia Smiles,' Blanche Ring.sings
a song entitled, 'Why is the Ocean So Near the
Shore.' It is not, as you may guess, an intellectual-
ly important feature of the entertainment, but it
has exactly the right 'Ring,' if we may be permitted
the privilege of saying so, and sends a typical
musical comedy audience away from the theater in
a pleasant mood."—The Evening Mail.
D1PPEL GETS OPERETTAS.
SELDEN MUSIC CO. TO MOVE.
''She sang more- songs in the second act, but she
Secures Entire Floor at 1560 Broadway to Take
Vienna Productions Obtained for Presentation
made her real hit with 'Why is the Ocean So
Care of Business.
Here Next Fall.
Near the Shore? 1 which came in the last.—New
York World.
A dispatch from Vienna says that Andreas Dip-
The Edgar Selden Music Co., for some time past
" 'When Claudia Smiles,' at the Thirty-ninth
pel has acquired two more operettas for production
located in the Astor Theater Building, moved this
Street Theater, you've simply got to smile, too.
week to new quarters at 1516 Broadway, on Long- in New York next fall.
And when she sings—Claudia being everybody's
One in "Die Fuhjahrsfeiter," the book of which
acre Square, where an entire floor is occupied.
favorite. Blanche Ring—you just have to sing
is by J. Schnitzer and the music by Paul Eisler
The company has a number of new publications
along with her. Miss Ring lias another of her
a professor at the Vienna Academy of Music.
to offer to the trade at an early date, including
famous comc-on-now-altogether-boys songs, which
The other is "Der Letzte Kuss,"' with the book
"Now Tango," "Mona Lisa" (standard hesitation
gets you surely after the third or fourth encore.
waltz), and "Omar," Intermezzo, the latter by Ed- by Wilhelm Otto and T. \Y. Frieser, and the music
It's called 'Why? Why? Why?' and whether or
by Dr. Ludwig Rochlitzer.
uard L'Rose.
not you are interested as to the reason for the
'ocean being so near the shore,' you find yourself
HAVILAND CO. TO MOVE.
$10,000 FOR CITY CONCERTS
' aiding Miss Ring in solving the problem."—The
The V. B. Haviland Music Publishing Co., for Kvening Journal.
Appropriated by Board of Education—To Be
"The song was one of those modern bits of
some years located at the corner of Thirty-seventh
Given in College and High School Auditoriums.
poetry which ring so true to the car of the lover of
street and Broadway, has leased a new suite of of-
fices at the Strand Theater Building, now being- literature. Its title is 'Why is the Ocean So Near
The impetus given by the World's series of
the Shore?' With the enthusiasm at such a high
completed at the northwest corner of Broadway
free concerts in the various school auditoriums
pitch, it was surprising that someone did not rise
and Forty-seventh street. The Haviland removal
two years ago is seen in the announcement that
is still further proof of the northward trend of the up in the audience and give the answer. 'When
the city has appropriated $10,000 for sixty free
Claudia Smiles,' was best when Claudia had the
music publishing trade.
concerts and recitals to be held in all the boroughs
audience singing 'Why is the Ocean So Near the
under the auspices of the Board of Education.
SAINT=SAENS A VIRTUOSO AT 78. Shore.'''—New York Herald.
Prof. Henry T. Fleck, of the Xormal College,
"Why is the Ocean So Near the Shore" is pub-'
who directed the World's concerts, will supervise
Despite his seventy-eight years, Saint-Saens re-
lislied bv M. Witmark & Sons.
the coming ones, as he did the city series last year.
cently appeared before a representative Berlin
The first concert will be given next Sunday after- audience and played with remarkable fluency, trans-
The Mozart Piano Store has been opened at 305
noon in the Normal College, Park avenue and Six- parent clearness and evenness of passages, while
South Wayne street, Dayton, Ohio.
his touch was elastic, his tone full, round and of a
ty-ninth street.
beautiful quality. Moreover, the ease and noncha-
The plan is to give ten concerts and recitals every
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lance with which he played astonished his hearers.
week for six weeks.
He exhibited an as-
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from the opera, "Henry
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leach me how to tango from "The Girl on the Film". This
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and cunte<|m nlly became very popular there la*l season The
Tunto was first popular in London owing to it's Introduction
son, "La Cloche"—
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into this production, and is now nightly danced by GroiMdrM-
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smith in the same production here
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