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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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NOTHING BUT OPTIMISM IN CHICAGO'S "MUSIC ROW."
Various Publishers Have Much Excellent Material That Shows Great Promise — Some of the
News Picked Up by The Review Reporter Around Clark and Randolph Streets.
(Special to The Review.)
CHICAGO, I I I . , October 18.—With the reopen : ng
of the downtown theatres and the theatrical sea-
son generally and the return from the summery
shores of Michigan of a thousand or more of the
profession comes a big revival in the music pub-
lishing business. The professional offices around
Clark and Randolph streets are jammed with
singers of all degrees of reputation, from the
haughty "big time" artists to the lowly booster
whose picture only occasionally ornaments the
foyer of some neighborhood nickel show. All of
them are hopeful and most of them enthusiastic
over the prospects for a profitable season, and in
this they are not to be disappointed, say the man-
agers, as far as good material goes, for there have
been few years that have started off as well as they
start off this fall.
There are a few local pessimists who say that
the quiet conditions that prevail in a number of
industries is going to show its effect on the busi-
ness, but others hoot this down with the assertion
that the money that is being spent these days is
going for luxuries and quote automobiles and
talking machines as examples of this tendency.
These optimists say that the music publishers are
going to get a good share of whatever wild ex-
travagances the public plunges into and are making
their plans accordingly.
Just to find out for ourselves what was doing,
The Review reporter wandered over to Remick's,
figuring that if there was anything exciting doing
he'd find it there. Sure enough, there was a line
three deep before the counter which '^Shorty"
Stroubel and Charley Straight were trying to sat-
isfy, and the piano rooms were all crowded and
working as hard as they ever did. Speaking of
Charley, that gentleman has just added to the
Remxk list a new fox-trot, which he has named
"Let's Go." Into it Straight has put plenty of the
snap that has characterized his playing, and which
aided so much in popularizing American ragtime
in Europe. Straight was one of the first of the
American rag artists to descend upon the old world
and teach it the beauties of ragged syncopation.
Other big Remick hits that Manager Werthan's
men are working on are "On the Trail to Santa
Fe," "Honeymoon Bells," "It's Tulip Time in
Holland," "Everybody Rag with Me," "When I
Was a Dreamer," "I Want a Little Love from
You," "The Sweetest Girl in Monterey," "Dancing
the Jelly Roll," and "Circus Day in Dixie."
Over at Witmark's, in the Schiller building, we
were greeted on entering by a peal of melody that
anyone in the city Could name without an instant's
hesitation, for Ernie Ball's "Little Bit of Heaven"
is heard everywhere you go from Evanston to
Burnham. It is one of the few hits that is destined
for a long life, and we prophesy it will go down
in history. Another new number of Mr. Ball's is
"She's the Daughter of Mother Machree," which
ought to go big with "If It Takes a Thousand
Years." Mr. Ball is the author of the last named
and Witmarks are to be congratulated upon hav-
ing his stuff, as he is no less prolific than he is a
high-grade composer. T. J. Quigley, who handles
the Witmarks affairs in Chicago, is also receiving
a good call for Harry De Costa's "Little Gray
Mother."
Phil Kornheiser, professional manager for Leo
Feist, arrived in town recently to find that
the Feist offices are, as usual, well patronized,
and Rocco Vocco, the local manager, busy with
the handling of the long array of Feist hits. "Nor"
way" (Fischer and McCarthy) is gathering speed
all the time. "Come Back, Dixie," is in demand,
and "When You Wore a Tulip" is still going big.
Emma Carus, who is a favorite with Chicago
houses, scored this last week when she used Pian-
tadosi and Clark's newest, "When You're in Love
with 'Someone Who Is Not in Love with You."
"Beatrice Fairfax" is another Feist production
that is popular with local comedy singers.
The McKinley Music Co. is showing a great big
advance over last year, and visitors to the big
plant at Fifty-fifth street and Harper'avenue find an
augmented force working with the speed that in-
taken sufficient interest in the matter to arrange
particularly elaborate exhibits. A goodly assort-
Many Photographs of "Carry Me Back to Old ment of photographs of window displays of the
old but popular song have reached the Ditson head-
Virginny" Window Displays Received.
quarters to be placed in competition for the $25
The prize contest for the best and most interest- prize, among them being the photograph of the un-
ing widow displays for advertising "Carry Me usually attractive window prepared by Lyon &
Healy, Chicago, and which is illustrated herewith.
The contest will close on November 1 and in all
respects has been most successful, especially in the
matter of stimulating the retail demand for copies
of the song featured.
INTEREST IN D1TS0N CONTEST.
FORTY YEARS OFMHUSIC SELLING.
Shattinger Piano & Music Co. Carries a Large
Stock of Sheet Music—Also Publishers.
(Special to The Review.)
ST. LOUIS, MO., October 18.—The fact that a
sheet music department in a piano store can be
made a paying factor is proven in the case of the
Shattinger Piano & Music Co., of 910 Olive street,
this city, which not only carries one of the largest
stocks of teachers' supplies and sheet music in the
city, but also lias an extensive catalog of its own
publications. The Shattinger Co. has been in the
music business here for about forty years and has
built up an extensive following in all things musical.
Among the recent additions to the company's staff
is Walter S^arck, well known in the local trade.
Window Display of Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
Back to Old Virginny," announced recently by the
Oliver Ditson Co., of Boston, has produced excel-
lent results, for a large number of dealers have
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MAKE YOUR MUSIC DEPARTMENT PAY
Here are numbers that sell at sight. Send
your order at once and watch your profits grow.
" LILLIAN WALKER WALTZ," Hesitation
"HONOLULU LOU," Big Novelty Hit
"SHE LIVES IN A MANSION OF SIGHS," Ballad
" I'M GOING BACK TO BUENOS AYRES," Novelty
"WISH I KNEW JUST WHAT YOU THINK OF M E "
"WALTZING WITH MY SUMMER G I R L "
"SWEETHEART OF MY DREAMS"
" IN THE SUMMERTIME " (Take a Trip lo the Seashore)
" ALL FOR YOU " and " OH YOU GIRLS "
"THAT ANGELL R A G "
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REGENT WALTZ "
"SNAPPY RAG"
6c. per copy delivered in any quantity if you
attach this ad. to your order.
THE REGENT MUSIC PUB. CO.
Lake Charles, L*a.
dicates that there is plenty of work to be done.
William McKinley, president of the company, who
always has a keen eye for tne selling points on
popular music, has, with the aid of Manager D. W.
Foster, brought out a long list of good numbers,
which are put up in an unusually attractive form.
All of the McKinley songs have cover pages that
are distinctively "classy" in appearance and very
attractive to the buyer. More than that, the Mc-
Kinley cover pages furnish the dealer who handles
the line with a chance to do same attractive win-
dow display work. Two new McKinley songs arc
"Only You," by Arthur J. Lamb and Clarence M.
Jones, and "Dear Old Ma," by Jack Frost and
Henry B, Sawyer.
"Araby," "Kentucky Home," "Blinky-Winky
Chinatown," ' 1 I've Been Floating Down the Old
Green River," "When I Leave the World Behind,"
and "Settle Down in a One-Horse Town" are all
from the Waterson, Berlin & Snyder list and are
going in great shape.
Allen McLean, manager of the Will Rossiter in-
terests, says that his company is enjoying a good
business with "You're the Dawn of a Perfect Day"
and "Loveland Days," both by W. R. Williams;
"The Irish Blues," by Ernie Erdman and J. B.
Walsh, and "My Ship o' 'Dreams," by F. M. Suttle
and Francis X. Bushman, the motion picture star.
TWO BEAUTIFUL PIANO SOLOS
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Regrets and Autumn Thoughts
Interesting to dealers handling the better class
of music.
Send for sample copies—ioc each.
Published by
W. A. QTJINCKE & CO.
23oy 2 S. Spring St.,
Sensational Song Hits
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"WHEN I WAS A D K E A M E P "
"THE SWEETEST GIRL IN MOINTEREY;
"UNDERNEATH THE S T A R S "
LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Two Sensational English Ballad
Successes
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"The Sunshine of Your Smile"
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