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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
55
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Conducted by B. B. Wilson
BOSTON PUBLISHERS CONCERNED OVER BRITISH EMBARGO.
SEEKS INJUNCTION OVER SONG.
Oliver Ditson Co. to Hold Annual Dinner—Traveling Men Delayed by Western Floods—White-
Smith Co. Is Developing Export Trade—George W. Furness on the Coast.
James T. Powers, Claim.ng Prior Rights, Wants
Joseph Cawthorn Restrained from Using " I
Can Dance with Everybody but My Wife."
(Special to The Keview.J
BOSTON, MASS., February 28.—The English em-
bargo that goes into effect on March 1 and which
some of the music houses feel will considerably
embarrass them is causing some uneasiness at this
writing. One house in particular has been in com-
munication with governmental officials to find out
just where they are and to what extent publishers
are to be affected. Cable messages even have been
sent to London to see if exceptions cannot be
made in certain cases. Within a week of the
time for the embargo to go into effect it is not
known just what answer is to be given to the
requests.
News received in Boston tells of several travel-
ing men for music publishing houses having been
corraled by the floods in southern California.
When said travelers return home they will doubt-
less have some interesting stories to relate of the
situation on the Coast.
The annual dinner of the "Get Together Club"
of the Oliver Ditson Co. will be held at the Bos-
ton City Club Thursday, March 2, dinner to be
served at 6.30. Everybody is looking forward to
a pleasant evening, for the gatherings of this or-
ganization always are particularly enjoyable occa-
sions.
William Small, of the B. F. Wood Music Co.,
returned a few days ago from a long business
trip taken for his house. He got as far as Min-
neapolis and St. Paul, and took in St. Louis and
Kansas City. Business with the Wood house is
pretty good these days.
Michael Keane, of Boosey & Co., was a wel-
come visitor to Boston a few days ago. He cal'cd
on a number of the representative music publish-
ers and stores and, as usual, he was cordially
received everywhere.
At the establishment of the White-Smith Co. it
i-> learned that Leslie Hodgson is going to play
Cadman's Sonata in A major at Carnegie Hall,
New York, March 3. "Vesper Time" is the name
of an instrumental number by the late Carl Pflue-
ger which the White-Smith Co. has revived. The
piece is an arrangement of a sacred song, entitled
"How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me?" On the
cover is a beautiful picture in four colors, the
original of which is owned by the White-Smith
Co. The house is having a large call for its
"Three Songs from the West," by Cadman, the
words of which are by Charles Farwell Edson.
quite a little business is developing lately from
Guatemala, where the White-Smith Co. is getting
to be well known.
George W. Furness, of the Oliver Ditson Co., is
o.i the Coast and finding business good. The Dit-
son house is publishing a number of styles of
large cards suitable for advertising purposes,
which are to be distributed widely. Some music
lately off the presses are highly typical of the
exquisite work being done by the Ditson house,
whose sheet music is of the most artistic char-
acter. Some of these new pieces are: "Wondrous
Rose," by Eunice Waite Burnham ; "At Dawning T
Love You," by Cadman, while "Whispering Hope,''
by Alice Hawthorne, sung by Alma Gluck and
Louise Homer, is finding wide favor. The Mu-
sician for March lacks nothing in its contents of
choice literature and music. To the musi: lover
this magazine is getting to be indispensable.
HIGHER PRICE FOR "NAT'AN."
"P0M=P0M" WELL RECEIVED.
Kendis Music Publishing Co. Announces In-
crease—Other Pieces at Popular Price.
New Comic Opera, with Mitzi Hajos as Star,
Has Some Excellent Music.
Trouble over the authorship of the song "I Can
Dance with Everybody but My Wife," which is
sung by Joseph Cawthorn in the musical comedy
"Sybil," arose last week when James T. Powers,
the comedian, claiming prior rights, served Mr.
Cawthorn with papers in an injunction suit to re-
strain him from singing the song, on the ground
that it was copied after one of Mr. Powers' own
making.
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Mr. Powers does not assert that Mr. Cawthorn
ever heard his song or ever heard of it, and the
papers do not reveal the name of the song from
which "I Can Dance with Everybody but My
Wife" is alleged to have been taken. Mr. CaW-
thorn will contest the suit.
"ROAD TO MANDALAY" PRODUCED.
New Operetta by Oresce Vessella Makes Good
Impression at Park Theatre.
There was produced at the Park Theatre on
Wednesday evening of this week the new opera,
"The Road to Mandalay," for which Oreste Ves-
sella, the noted bandmaster, supplied the music.
The enthusiasm at the New York opening almost
equaled that displayed at the premiere of the piece
;u Atlantic City, where Vessela's Band has been
a feature on the Steel Pier for years.
Tuneful melody of dignity and truly artistic
worth, and the old-fashioned East Indian setting
traditionally associated with comic opera, arc the
basis of the entertainment.
Of course, the bcjcwelcd potentates, tourists,
sailors, natives, dancing girls,, ladies of the harem,
navy officers and the inevitable American million-
aire and his pretty daughters are in the cast.
The leading numbers include: "Love That's
Never Been Told," "The Ocean of Dreams," "Im-
agination," "There's a Bright Day Dawning,"
"Heart of My Heart," "The Road to Mandalay,"
"The Firefly" and "See America First." M. Wit-
mark & Sons publish the score.
Henry W. Savage's newest comic opera offer-
ing, "Pom-Pom," with book by Anna Caldwcll,
who was responsible for "Chin-Chin," and musi.-
by Hugo Felix, was seen in New York for the first
time at the Cohan Theatre on Monday night.
Mitzi Hajos is the star of the piece and appears JOLSON HAS NEWJONGUE TWISTER.
for the greater part of the time as a most ac- "Which Switch Is the Switch for Mrs. Ip-
swich?" in Winter Garden Show—"Father's
ceptable boy, and as a pupil ajid consort of pick-
Wh skers" Sung in "The Road to Mandalay."
pockets in Paris, adds a dainty touch to a crook
play of a new kind.
Al Jolson has introduced another tongue twist-
The music of the piece adds materially to its
ing
song in "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.," at the Win-
charms. One of the daintiest numbers is "In the
Dark," sung by Miss Hajos in the finale of the ter Garden, which bears the diverting title "Which
first act. A particularly clever number is "The Switch Is the Switch for Mrs. Ipswich?" and bids
Statesville, N. C, has three new music stores, Army of Crooks." With each separate division fair to become a successor to the "Sister Susie"
the Leonard piano store, which was temporarily of- the under world presenting its own little song. song of a season or so ago. The rights for the
closed owing to the illness of J. S. Leonard, hav- The other good musical numbers are: "Pom- number in the United States are held by T. B.
Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, who will publish
ing reopened again, and W. W. Foushee and C. A. Pom." "Mon Desir." "Evelyn" and a comedy son»
Andrews have each started a music shop there by Tom McNaughton. "I'm Unlucky." T. B. it here.
The same house also publishes the song "Father's
Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter publish the score.
recently.
Whiskers," which has proven one of the hits of
the new comic opera, "The Road to Mandalay,"
which opened at the Park Theatre this week. The
piece is sung by Herbert Corthell.
The Kendis Music Publishing Co. announces
an increase in the price of its big ' song hit,
"Nat'an, for What Are You Waitin', Nat'an?"
which in future will be sold at fifteen cents per
copy in hundred lots and eighteen cents per copy
in smaller quantities. The popular price will still
prevail for the other numbers of the company's
catalog, including "We've Got Another Washing-
ton and Wilson Is His Name," "Every Little
Memory of You," "You're Just Like an Angel to
Me," "The Price a Woman Pays," "Eventide
Waltz" and "At Breakfast Time He Always Has
a Lily."
We Have An IRISH BALLAD HIT in the Song
There's A Rose
In Old Erin
That's Blooming For Me
CHICAGO
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
NEW YORK
"PEGGY" SONG FROM PHOTOPLAY.
Number Adapted from Incidental Music of
Film in Which Bi 1 lie Burke Is Starring.
"Peggy," a song adapted from the incidental mu-
sic of the photoplay, "Peggy," in which Billie
Burke is starring, has proven in great demand
wherever the photoplay has been presented. The
music is by Victor Schertzinger and the lyrics by
Thomas H. Ince, one of the heads of the Triangle
Film Corp., which produced the picture, and
Jerome H. Remick & Co. are acting as sales agents
for the piece.