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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
LEE ROBERTS WALTZ FOR SAM FOX READY FOR THE TURN OF THE TIDE.
Prominent Pianist and Composer Arranges for
the Publication of His "Mon Plaisir" Valse
by the Sam Fox Publishing Co., Cleveland-
Lee S. Roberts, who is well known throughout
the country as a musician and composer of ability,
and particularly through his efficient work with the
Melville Clark Piano Co. and the Q. R. S. Music
Roll Co., of Chicago, as musical authority and
demonstrator, has just made arrangements with
the Sam Fox Publishing Co., Cleveland, O., for
the publication of several of his numbers by that
progressive concern. Mr. Roberts has already
Lee S. Roberts.
written and published himself several numbers
which, although excellent, were not exploited in a
manner to bring them the maximum amount of
success. He is also widely known for the excel-
lent musicianly character of his hand-played music
rolls, a number of them of his own compositions.
The first of Mr. Roberts' compositions to be of-
fered through the Sam Fox Co. is "Mon Plaisir"
(My Pleasure), a waltz of much intrinsic merit
and which is presented in a manner that should add
much to its popularity, with printing and engrav-
ing of the best and a title page that is best described
by the word "stunning." The new waltz will be
featured strongly by the Fox Co. immediately after
the first of the year, and as a matter of fact the
preliminary edition has found a ready sale with
the trade even without general exploitation.
The Sam Fox Co. will also publish several other
compositions by Mr. Roberts during 1915, and has
great faith in the work of that composer.
Following the closing of "The Wars of the
World" at the New York Hippodrome, there is
now in preparation a new show of elaborate pro-
portions but still unnamed, which will ibe ready for
presentation toward the end of January. Manuel
Klein, musical director of the Hippodrome, is at
present working on the music for the new show,
which will be published by M. Witmark & Sons.
Improvement in General Conditions Serves to
Encourage Members of Sheet Music Trade
Regarding the Outlook for the Coming Year.
The name of Feldman is very much before the
Although there is no use denying that the year
just closed has been a most unsatisfactory one for public these days, as B. Feldman & Co., of London,
the majority of the members of the music trade,
the inherent courage of most of its members is evi-
denced in the plans that have been made and are
being made for the new year—plans that carry with
them the conviction that the bottom in trade has
been reached and that every future movement
must be for the better.
With very few exceptions the publishers have
made retrenchments in their business expenses,
and despite the low prices and the drop in sales
have been able to weather the period of depression
and prepare for better days.
As a matter of fact the general feeling in busi-
ness circles is steadily becoming more optimistic
and with better business as a basis. It follows that
when business is good and there is money to be
spent for something besides the necessities of life,
music is one of the first things considered. With
the improved conditions, the cutting down of un-
necessary expenses through the medium of asso-
ciation agreements and more economical and effi-
cient methods, and songs and instrumental num-
bers selected with particular care, there is every
reason for the members of the music trade to view
the new season and the new year with calmness, it
not with much hopefulness.
"LADY LUXURY^ PRESENTED.
New Musical Comedy Makes Excellent Impres-
.sion in New Y o r k — M u s i c by W i l l i a m
Schroeder, a New and Promising Composer.
"Lady Luxury," a new musical comedy with
book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young, who has
been responsible for several of Chauncey Olcott's
successful productions and other works, and music
by William Schroeder, a young composer who
makes his bow to New York audiences in the new
piece, was presented at the Casino Theater on Fri-
day evening of last week and was well received.
Mr. Schroeder's music has much charm and
youth and freshness in it. There are twenty-two
numbers, and it would be difficult to single out any
from the general excellence of all. One very ef-
fective effort, however, is the touch of dreaminess
in the scene where the uncle dozes before the fire
and the people of the family paintings come to life
and sing him the songs of their day, which are
cleverly arranged so that they progress into a mod-
ern ragtime ditty of subdued association. "Writ-
ten in the Book of Destiny" and "Longing for
You" are others which stand out. M. Witmark
& Sons publish the score.
NOT A POPULAR SONG—A CLASSIC I
It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary
Words by Jack Judge
Music by Harry Williams
Sung by JOHN McCORMACK
For the United States
CHAPPELL & CO., LTD.
41 East 34th Street,
New York.
THE PUBLISHER OF "TIPPERARY."
B. Feldman, Head of B. Feldman & Co., Who
Has Discovered a Musical Gold Mine as a Re-
sult of the War—Had Faith in the Number.
For All Other Countries
B. FELDMAN & CO.,
2 and 3 Arthur Street,
London, Eng.
Bert Feldman.
are ihe publishers and owners of the copyright of
"It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary," and, know-
ing that it will be of interest to our readers, we
are printing herewith a photo of Bert Feldman, the
head of the firm of Feldman & Co.
Of all the numerous songs that have acquired
vogue during war-time, surely "Tipperary" is the
most remarkable. In the first place, the words have
absolutely nothing whatever to do with war, and
McKINLEY SUCCESSES
SONG HITS
One Wonderful Night (You Told Me
You Loved Me)
Sue of the Cumberlands
The Frisco Cabaret (Rag Song)
In the Evening by the Moonlight in
Dear Old Tennessee.
Alice of Old Vincennes
I Long to Hear the Old Church Choir
Again
When You Sang "The Palms" to Me
Diane of the Green Van
Sing Me the Rosary
Hurrah for the Christmas Ship
DANCE SUCCESSES
Original Fox Trot (Klickman)
Daddy Long Legs Hesitation Waltz
Dream Waltz from "Tales of Hoffman"
One Wonderful Night, Hesitation Waltz
Hesitation Waltz (Klickman)
Publishers of the
"FAMOUS McKINLEY TEN CENT MUSIC"
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
Chicago
New York