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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
48
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
WITH THE BOSTON PUBLISHERS.
WAR AND THE PUBLISHING TRADE.
"THE GIRL FROM UTAH" COMING.
Jacobs Summer Business Very Large—Some
Recent Publications—Movements of Ditson
Force—Ditson Co. Issue Some Interesting
Numbers—What Other Houses Report.
European Conflict Will Have Little Effect Di-
rectly on Music Publishing Business in This
Country—Most All Local Branches of Euro-
pean Houses Do Their Printing on This Side.
Successful British Musical Comedy to Be Pro-
duced at the Knickerbocker Theater.
(Special to The Review.)
BOSTON, MASS., August 3.—Walter Jacobs, from
his commodious quarters in Bosworth street, re-
ports that his summer business has been quite un-
usual and a large demand for most of his publica-
tions keeps right on, even if it is mid-summer. Mr.
Jacobs does not deny that collections are slow, ex-
tremely slow, in some cases, and considerable lee-
way has to be allowed, but that his business has
been good cannot be denied, he says.
Two of the Jacobs publications to be immediate-
ly issued are "After Glow," a tone poem, by George
L. Cobb, who has been putting out some good
things for Jacobs lately; and "Yo Te Amo" (I
love you), by Walter L. Rolfe, composer of "The
Kiss of Spring" of which the Jacobs bo.use has sold
many hundreds of copies. Jacobs' No. 1 folio of
classics is a steady seller.
George W. Furness, of the Oliver Ditson Co., is
away on a brief business trip; Henry McLaren,
manager of the musical instrument department, is
away on his vacation "Down East," and Clarence
A. Woodman, who is one of the most active mem-
bers of the Boston Music Publishers' Association,
is taking a few days off at his farm down at
Marshfield.
The Oliver Ditson Co. has been putting out quite
a budget of songs and piano numbers. Among
the songs are "In Dreams," by A. Walter Kramer;
"Thoughts of You,'" and "Expectancy," by William
Stickles, and "Rose Immortal," by Louis Victor
Saar. Among the piano selections are three by
Adolf Frey, Valse in A flat, Mazurka in D, and
'Castique d'Amour;" "A Valse de Concert" is
by Arnaldo do Sartorio, and Eduard Schuett con-
tributes "By the Brook." One must not overlook
the August number of The Musician, which
contains many good things for the professional
a well as the beginner. Some of the contributors
are A. de Guichard, who writes of "The Bicen-
tary of Gluck;" C. H. Miller, Robert Wilkes,
Philip Gordon, Arthur Hartmann, L. A. Smith,
Helena Maguire, J. W. Beecker, Ray G. Edwards
and Marie Benedict.
C. W. Thompson is now well established in his
new quarters on 2B Park street, and he is well
equipped to meet demands. Mr. Thompson is pre-
paring to take a sea trip to Halifax and some of
the other points in the Nova Scotia Province, to-
ward the end of August, after wh"ich he will go for
a short time into the country.
The B. F. Wood Co. is getting its share of
trade during the summer months, and a group of
new compositions just issued by this house is
finding large sales. Bruce Metcalfe is represented
in the collection with three piano pieces, "Danse
Printahiere," a "Valse Caprice" and "Esmeralda,"
all of which are of a musicianly character; "Un-
der the Mistletoe" and "Airs and Graces" are by
Ruth Vincent and "Naming the Forget-Me-Not"
is the only song in the group, and is by Litta Lynn.
THE LATEST ENGLISH SONG SUCCESS
Orer a Quarter Million Copie* Sold in EngUnd and the Coloniei.
"little Grey Home in the West"
By HERMANN LOHR
Published In four keys: Bb (A to D), C, DbandEb.
Pric* 60 Cents
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., - NEW YORK
Canadian Branch i 347 Yong« St., TORONTO
Except, perhaps, indirectly, the war in Europe
will have little effect on the music publishing busi-
ness in this country, for it is not dependent upon
Europe for any of its supplies and but to a small
extent for a market. The branches of European
publishing houses in the United States will natur-
ally feel the war to some extent, but in the ma-
jority of cases they do most of their music print-
ing on this side and import very little music. Sev-
eral members of the trade have friends and rela-
tives either resident in or visitors to the various
countries involved in the trouble, and in several
cases the conditions are desperate.
NEW
"The Girl from Utah," the successful English
musical comedy by Paul A. Rubens and Sidney
Jones, the latter of "Geisha" fame, will be one of
the first new productions to be offered for the
approval of New Yorkers during the new season.
The new piece, with Joseph Cawthorne, Julia San-
HERBERT OPERETTA
Written for Hazel Dawn Will Be Produced in
The Fall.
Victor Herbert, at his summer home at Lake
Placid, N. Y., has about completed a new musical
number or operetta, called "The Debutante,"
which is written for Hazel Dawn, and which will
be produced by the London Theater Co., Inc., early
the coming season. Mr. Herbert, who was quite
seriously ill during his visit to England, is now
enjoying splendid health and was heard with his
orchestra at Chautauqua last week, and has a later
engagement of three weeks at Willow Grove, Pa.
FIRE LOSS FOR^PUBLISHERS.
(Special to The Review.)
CHICAGO I I I . , August 3.—The quarters of the
Harold Rossiter Music Co., at 221 West Madison
street, was damaged by fire on Friday of last week
to the extent of $10,000 or more, partly covered
by insurance.
Donald Brian.
derson and Donald Brian as stars, will be pro-
duced under the management of Charles Frohman
and will be shown at the Knickerbocker Theater.
The music of "The Girl from Utah" is said to be
especially interesting, the hit of the piece being
the waltz song, "The Music of Love." Chappell
& Co., Ltd., are the publishers.
SECURE THE McCORMACK PRIZE.
GIDEON FREED FROM HIS DEBTS.
A dispatch from Rome says that the Edith
Melville Gideon, the American song writer, was
McCormick prize of 20,000 francs for the best lyric
opera was awarded by the Parma Conservatoire to granted a discharge in bankruptcy in London,
Giovanni Pennacchio, bandmaster of the Seventy- Eng., last week. His indebtedness, amounting to
first infantry. Campanini will produce the new $12,000, is therefore no longer an incumbrance.
opera, which is called "Erica," at Parma in Sep-
The American Song Publishing Co., New York,
tember.
has leased quarters in the Columbia Theater build-
ing, 701-709 Seventh avenue.
MUSICAL CONDUCTORS' OFFICERS.
The following were elected as officers of the As-
sociated Musical Conductors of America: Presi-
dent, Oscar Radin; first vice-president, Paul
Schindler; second vice-president, Frank Darling;
secretary, Leon M. Polachek; treasurer, William
Korngood.
The board of trustees has Anton Heindl, Frank
Mandeville, John Lund, Alex Henderson, Gus
Salzer.
NEW
POLISH COMPOSER.
A new Polish composer named Ignaz Friedman is
being championed by a number of American
musicians as one of the coming men in music, if he
has not already arrived. It is said that Friedman's
piano pieces are the best of material for concert
pianists, and the wonder is that he has not found a
performing champion at the present time.
Earl Carroll, who recently left the Leo Feist
forces, is now with the Shapiro-Bernstein Co.,
where he will collaborate with Harry Carroll on
song numbers.
The Chicago Grand Opera Co. plans to make its
"English season" much more important than inti-
mated, and some fourteen operas are to be in-
cluded in the English repertory.
McKINLEY
SUCCESSES
SONG HITS
Alice of Old Vincennes
Diane of the Green Van
One Wonderful Night (You Told
Me You Loved Me), Song
Sing Me the Rosary
When You Sang "The Palms" to
Me
DANCE SUCCESSES
Hesitation Waltz, by Klickman
Thanks for the Lobster, Tango
Dream Waltz from "Tales of
Hoffman"
One Wonderful Night, Hesitation
Waltz
In Search of a Husband, Tango
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
NEW YORK
CHICAGO