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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
56
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
CALLS MEETING_OF JOBBERS.
Music Publishers Board of Trade to Seek to
Bring About Uniformity in the Methods of
the Various Jobbing Houses.
One of the most interesting announcements in
connection with the activities of the Music Pub-
lishers' Board of Trade since the organization of
that body is to the effect that the various repre-
sentative music jobbers of the country have been
called upon to attend a meeting of the board on
September 23, for the purpose of discussing ways
and means for improving trade business methods
in general. One of the matters to be discussed in
the meeting will be the regulation of list prices
and discounts as quoted by the jobbers, with a
view of making them uniform.
Long Way to Tipperary" has already won lasting
renown. "Rule Britannia" and "God Save the
King" may be all right for times of peace or for
audiences at home, but the fighting man demands
something lively and with a swing to it. The Brit-
ish soldier has found it in "Tipperary," the chorus
of which follows:
"It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go;
It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest gfrl I know.
Good-bye, Piccadilly; farewell, Leicester Square.
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there."
Jack Judge and Harry Williams wrote and com-
posed the song.
LUDWIG ENGLANDER DIES.
CHAPPELL QETS_BRITISH WAR SONG.
Noted Composer Passes Away in 64th Year—
Wrote 35 Comic Operas.
Secure Rights to "It's a Long, Long Way to
Tipperary," Which Is Being Sung by
Ludwig Englander, a noted comic opera com-
"Tommy Atkins" on the March and on the poser, died Sunday in his sixty-fourth year in his
Firing Line—Already Heard on Broadway. home at Far Rockaway. He was unmarried and
Chappell & Co., the prominent music publishers
of London, with branches in New York and
Toronto, have just completed a coup, as it were,
by securing the rights to the song "It's a Long,
Long Way to Tipperary," the song that came into
fame practically overnight when the British regi-
ments sent to the front in France adopted it as
their war song. "It's a- Long, Long Way to Tip-
perary" has been heard almost constantly when
the British troops were on the march or under
fire, and in point of popularity compares with our
own "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town
To-night" in the Cuba and Philippine campaigns
of the Spanish-American War.
There is nothing very martial about the number;
it's just a lively Irish ballad with a pleasing lilt
and calculated to drive away the cares of the
soldier. After sweeping Great Britain "It's a
Long, Long Way to Tipperary" began to be heard
of Broadway and has since won a full measure of
success on this side, being sung in several instances
to enthusiastic audiences by well-known vaudeville
artists.
Whatever the result of the war, "It's a Long,
came to this country from Austria in 1882.
Mr. Englander received his musical education
under Offenbach, and in all he wrote thirty-five
comic operas and operettas.
Some of his works were: "The Prince Consort,"
"1776," "The Twentieth Century Girl," "A Round of
Pleasure," "A Daughter of the Revolution,'" for
Miss Camille D'Arville; "The Caliph," for Jeffer-
son De Angelis; "Half a King," for Francis Wil-
son ; "The Little Corporal," "The Monks of Mala-
bar" and "The Rounders," for Thomas Q. Sea-
brooke; "In Gay Paree," for Miss Mabelle Gilman;
"The Casino Girl," for Miss Virginia Earle; "Sally
in Our Alley," for Miss Marie Cahill; "The Belle
of Bohemia," for Sam Bernard; "The Office-Boy,"
for Frank Daniels; "A Madcap Princess," for Miss
Lulu Glaser, and "The Two Roses," for Miss Fritzi
Scheff.
FEATURE "VALSE JUNE" IN DISPLAYS.
the
THE "BEST" IS ALWAYS THE "CHEAPEST
STILL 200% PROFIT!
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Publishers of the
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Announce the publication of new cata-
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SO NEW NUMBERS
comprising 29 Piano Solos, 11 Songs and
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McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
sentially obvious, vulgar and yet strong, for the
reason that it ends usually fortissimo. Like a
criminal novel, it is full of bangs and explosions
devised in order to shake up the overworked mind.
Often there is a strain of affected sentimentality
and what may be termed as the melodramatic ele-
ment. But I have found no genuine emotion in a
ragtime composition."
WORLD'S EISTEDDFOD CONTESTS.
More than two dozen cities will be represented
by great choral and other musical organizations in
the world's Eisteddfod contests during the last
week in July, 1915, at the Panama-Pacific Inter-
RAGTIMFANALYZED.
national Exposition in San Francisco. This af-
"I found that ragtime is music meant for the fords evidence that San Francisco will be the
Mecca for music lovers in 1915. All competitions
tired and materially bored mind," said a European
in the International Eisteddfod are open to the
music critic. "It shows the same stirring qualities
as a sensational newspaper story does. It is es- world; $25,000 will be distributed in prizes.
Prominent houses of Sherman, Clay & Co., San of attention given to their arrangement, as well
Francisco, and the Southern California Music Co., as the importance of the number featured.
T^vo Leading Music Houses of Pacific Coast Ar-
Los Angeles, two of the leading concerns on the
range Special Window Displays with Suc-
Pacific Coast. The present popularity of "Valse
cessful Sam Fox Co. Number.
June" in California, as marked by orders received,
indicates the success of the displays.
The energetic manner in which the various mu-
The Sherman, Clay & Co. display was especially
sic dealers of the country have featured the Sam commended by Karl Fuhrmann, the Pacific Coast
Fox Publishing Co.'s waltz success, "Valse June," representative of the Sam Fox Co., and was the
is indicated by reference to the accompanying illus- work of Jesse G. M. Glick, who is responsible for
trations of the displays of that number made by all the attractive displays of that concern. Special
scenery was used for the
display, and it was most
effective in every way.
The Southern California
Music Co. display was
arranged by J. J. Apffell,
manager of the sheet mu-
sic department of the con-
cern, who carried out the
idea of a ballroom in a
most satisfactory manner.
The trellis on the walls
and ceiling was covered
with roses and Japanese
lanterns, the colors har-
monizing with the title
page of the waltz, and the
effect, especially at night,
served to attract marked
attention.
Both displays were dis-
"Valse June" Window Display Made by-Southern California Music
tinctly original in character "Valse June" Window Display Made by Sher-
man, Clay & Co., San Francisco, Cal.
Co., Los Angeles, Cal.
and reflected the amount