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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
BOSTON PUBLISHERS NOW PREPARING FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Excellent Fall Trade Reported by Music Publishers in Boston, and Prospects Are Very Bright
for a Fine Holiday Business—Ditson Brings Out Ten Christmas Carols—Other News
BOSTON, MASS., November 2.—The local music game at all. It is no longer a« question of
publishing business has had a very good fall how much more must we pay for paper, but
inus far, and with most of the houses there can we obtain paper at any price?" "See Dixie
wiomises to be a good winter. The publishers, First" is making "some move" as Jacobs puts
-w?iose places of business are in the Back Bay, it, and "Big Ben," referred to on previous oc-
received notices from Postmaster Murray to- casions, is likewise meeting with much favor,
ward the end of last month notifying them of Still another piece that bids fair to bring rich
the opening on November 1 of the new Back rewards to Jacobs is "A Chain of Daisies," now
Bay postoffice, which is nearly a mile farther in piano solo form. The history of this piece
out than the one just vacated. There had been is interesting. It is by A. J. Weidt, and was
much protest over the removal, but it came to put out first for mandolin and banjo.
It
naught. For these publishers it is going to quickly became so popular that it was prepared
mean a very long carry hereafter.
for orchestra, then for band, and finally for
When Banks M. Davison, of the White Smith the piano. It is simple and melodious and has
Publishing Co., was in New York recently, he "caught on" in great shape everywhere,
attended a luncheon given by Mr. Cadman, at
Charlie Thompson, of the well-known house
the Hotel Wolcott, at which the other guests of C. W. Thompson & Co., makes report of a
were the Princess Redfeather, Francis La very good October business, but not quite up
Flesche, of the ethnological department at to September, which was quite a banner month
Washington; Alice Fletcher, who was the for the house. Among the publications issued
woman who took down the first Indian recently by this house are "Brown Eyes," a
melodies, and Nelle Richmond Eberhardt.
song by Walter A. Buckley, Jr.; "Until You
The White Smith Co. is soon to put out Mrs. Went Away," by E. MacLean; "Undying Love,"
Ross's new song, "The Cusha Bird," the words by H. A. Delmore; "Thou Seem'st to Me a
of which are by Cecil Fanning.
Flower" and "A Vision," both by H. Heine for
When Charles H. Ditson, of the New York the words, and Edward Noyes the music;
house of Charles H. Ditson & Co., was over in "Thine for All Eternity," a sacred song, by
Boston a while ago he went over carefully the Charles B. Blount; three songs, by Charles A.
plans for the Oliver Ditson Co.'s new building Chase, "There W r ould I Be," "Shepherd With
farther up Tremont street. The contract for Thy Tenderest Love" and "Beneath the
the construction was awarded to the Whitney Skies."
Co., and the specifications call for the comple-
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tion of the building by June 15 of next year.
LIST OF BIG SELLING NUMBERS
Excavations already have been made prepara-
Sherman, Clay & Co. Have to Print Fast to
tory to starting in on the foundations.
Meet the Demand for Their Hits
An interesting product of the fall is the Dit-
son collection of ten Christmas carols and
hymns for community singing. The October
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., November 3.—Edward T.
number of The Musician has a cover picture Little, manager of the sheet music department
of Joseph Joachim, and the contents include of Sherman, Clay & Co., is having his troubles
good articles and much excellent music.
with the printers getting enough copies of the
Beginning yesterday Walter Jacobs has ad- latest song hits published by the company. The
vanced the price of orchestrations formerly new revised edition of "One, Two, Three, Four,"
selling at 15 cents net to 25 cents, which ad- the popular Hawaiian song, is a very big seller,
vance has become imperative because of the and two other Hawaiian songs, which are keep-
increased price of materials, especially paper. ing up their sales record are: "The Old
In announcing this advance Mr. Jacobs says: Plantation," and "My Waikikj Ukulele Girl."
"This is not made because of greed for more The first of these two is truly the Hawaiian
profit, but rather that we need make a little classic with the masses of the Islands, and it
profit in order to stay in the music publishing has an irresistible appeal to Americans also.
Following the production of the play, "Come
Out of the Kitchen" in New York this week,
Sherman, Clay & Co. have received large or-
ders for the song "Lil L,iza Jane," from East-
ern dealers. This piece must surely make a
hit in the East, as it has here. Mr. Little re-
ports that over a hundred thousand copies of
the book, Ukulele Method, have been sold.
. " I AIN'T GOT NOBODY MUCH"
AND NOBODY CARES FOR ME
"WHEN SHADOWS FALL"
"PARADISE BLUES"
O PRETTY PAPA! PRETTY PAPA!
"WHEN THE MOON SHINES DOWN
IN OLD ALASKA"
THEN I'LL ASK HER TO BE MINE
"DARLIN"'
" 0 THOSE BLUES"
LAZY BLUES, CRAZY BLUES
"You Are The Image of Mother"
THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU
"THE HOUR OF MEMORY"
HUMORESKE VOCAL
"SING ME THE ROSARY"
"ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT"
" I LOVE THE NAME OF DIXIE"
"TAMBOURINES AND ORANGES"
FOX TROT
"MOONLIGHT BLUES" WALTZ
"PUSSYFOOT"
FOX TROT
Q00D
'GO TO IT"
Melodies by John L. Golden Redeeming
Feature of New Musical Comedy
"Go to It," the new musical comedy which
opened recently at the Princess Theatre, is
a production that if it does prove popular
will owe most of that popularity to the attrac-
tiveness of the music. The piece is by John
L. Golden, John E. Hazzard and Anne Cald-
well, and is based on the old Hoyt comedy, "A
Milk White Flag."
The character of the music is best indi-
cated by the comment of one reviewer who
said: "If the piece stays with us long, nearly
every other number will be played at every
other dance and dinner till the roses bloom
again," which is considerable tribute to John
L. Golden's ability to produce catchy melodies.
The score of the piece includes "You're the
Girl," "Go to It," "Where's the Little Boy for
Me?" "When You're in Love You'll Know,"
"There's Something About You, Dear, That
Appeals to Me," "Love Me Just a Little Bit,"
and "Little by Little and Bit by Bit." T. B.
Harms and Francis Day & Hunter are the pub-
lishers.
HAWAIIAN
Music and Books
You will have calls for
On the Beach at Waikiki
She Sang Aloha to Me
Fair Hawaii
My Waikiki Ukulele Girl
Garden of Paradise
Kalima Waltz (Instrumental)
Drowsy Waters (Wailana)
Old Plantation (New revised edition)
One, Two, Three, Four
Aloha Oe Song Aloha Oe Waltzes
Bailey Ukulele Method (Only Self-Instructor
Published. Over 100,000 Sold)
Peterson Steel Guitar Method (Self Instructor)
Bailey Collection of Ukulele Solos
Published by the House of Hawaiian Hits
Sherman Jpay & Co.
SAN FRANCISCO
"MOST POPULAR" BOOKS COST MORE
Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., Announce In-
crease in Wholesale Prices to Become Effec-
tive on Nov. 15—Usual Discounts to Apply
Hinds, Haydcn & Eldredgc, Inc., are sending
out announcements of a rise in prices in the
books of the "Most Popular" series, the in-
crease to take effect November IS. This an-
nouncement follows closely the recent similar
notices sent out by several other publishers,
and is due to the increased cost of paper, ma-
terials and labor. J. T. Roach, manager of the
music department of Hinds, Hayden & El-
dredge, Inc., stated the discounts that pre-
vailed in quantity orders before the rise would
apply to the new prices.
TO PRODUCE "MELTING OF MOLLY"
Music of New Show, With Irene Franklin as
Star, Published by Leo Feist, Inc.
"The Melting of Molly," which will shortly
open in New York with Irene Franklin in the
leading role, has the following song numbers
which, as their titles suggest, are peculiarly
adapted to Miss Franklin's style: "Bread and
Jam," "Oh! Doctor," "Grandma, Dear Grand-
ma," and "Eat and the World Eats With You."
All the above song numbers used in the "Melt-
ing of Molly" are published by Leo Feist, Inc.,
New York.
'JEROME H.REMICK&CO.S"
^Sensational
"PRETTY BABY"
"JUST A WORD OF SYMPATHY"
"MAMMY'S LITTLE COAL BLACK
ROSE"
" O N THE OLD DOMINION L I N E "
" I N OLD BRAZIL"
"DOWN HONOLULU WAY"
"AND THEY CALLED IT
DIXIELAND"
"COME BACK TO ARIZONA"
" I F YOU EVER GET LONELY"
"MEMORIES"
JEROME H. REM1CK & CO.
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