Music Trade Review

Issue: 1917 Vol. 65 N. 18

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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ORDERS TWENTY THOUSAND COPIES OF NEW FEIST NUMBER
"WE SHOULD WORRY" OPENS
Kresge Store, Chicago, 111., Breaks Former Record for Large Orders by Placing Order for 20,000
Copies of "I Don't Want to Get Well"—Song Featured in Sheet Music Department
Witmark Publishing Score of New Musical
Comedy Adapted From Old Hoyt Success—
Music Composed by A. Baldwin Sloane
The Kresge five and ten-cent store on State
street in Chicago created a sensation a few
months ago by giving an order to Leo Feist,
Inc., for 15,000 copies of "Hawaiian Butterfly"
before it was published. Recently they broke
that record by ordering 20,000 copies of "I Don't
the same herewith show. The upper picture is
that of the department on the main floor which
extends along eighty feet of one side of the
store. The lower picture is of the basement
sheet music department and is larger than the
space many stores give to their entire depart-
"We Should Worry," another of the season's
new musical comedies, opened in Atlantic City
on Thursday of last week. The piece was pre-
sented by Elizabeth Marbury and Frederick Mc-
Kay, and is a three-act musical version of Hoyt's
famous "A Texas Steer." Among those who
saw the opening were Miss Marbury, Mr. Mc-
Kay, Lee Shubert and Jay Witmark, of M.
Witmark & Sons, who publish all the music of
Main Floor Sheet Music Department of S. S. Kresge Store in Chicago
Want to Get Well" a number of days before it nient of sheet music. As can be also seen, "I Don't
was published. Since that time the Kresge store Want to Get Well" is featured in both depart-
has sold thousands of copies of the number, and ments, and incidentally, a series of demonstra-
from the present outlook will sell many more tions of the song are taking place all the time.
copies than was involved in the initial order. In fact one need only to visit either department
How the Kresge Basement Sheet Music
sic Department Features Feist Hits
The Kresge store has one of the biggest sheet to find out just how 20,000 copies of a song are
music departments in the country. In fact, it sold in a short space of time.
has two big departments, as the photographs of
FEIST SONQ FEATURED IN "CHEER UP"
The Hit
of the
Century
CHARLES DILUNGHAM
FREDSTONE
A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY
ANNE CALDWELL t?
R.H.DURNSIDE
The Feist song success, "Where Do We Go
From Here," Boys," has been interpolated in
"Cheer 2" in the big Hippodrome production,
"Cheer Up," and is sung with great gusto by
the hundred or more hoboes who pile out of
the freight car in that scene and gather about
Nat Wills for a bit of harmony. "Where Do
We Go From Here, Boys," is featured as the
grand finale and the volume of sound emanating
from the throats of the "boes" when they reach
the final line, "Oh boy, oh joy, where do we
go from here," is wonderful to hear.
Girl! I've Mel
E. B. MARKS OUTJFOR MITCHEL
Edward B. Marks, of Jos. W. Stern & Co.,
music publishers, is developing into quite a
politician. He is taking an active part in the
campaign for the re-election of Mayor Mitchel
of New York. Mr. Marks is on the committee
which is interesting the music publishers and
dealers as well as the whole theatrical world in
Mitchel's candidacy.
Another Hit!
TO MUSIC DEALERS
"Over There"
WE ARE JOBBERS
OF MUSIC
"If I Catch the Guy Who Wrote
Poor Butterfly"
Popular, Classic, Music
Books and Studies
Follow the Girls Around
A. Baldwin Sloane
"We Should Worry." The consensus of opin-
ion of those who witnessed the opening was that
the piece was indubitably a success. To Henry
Blossom belongs the credit for a very inter-
esting book and some capital lyrics. The six-
teen musical numbers by A. Baldwin Sloane
comprise so many real hits it is difficult to de-
cide which should come first. Perhaps spe-
cial emphasis should be put on such numbers
as "I Am a Love Star Girl," "It's Not the Uni-
form That Makes the Man," "Good-bye, Dear
Heart," "We Should Worry, Uncle Sam" and
"A Cup of Tea." "We Should Worry" will
open in New York the middle of November.
Our pricea on all classes of music will average the
lowest. Located in the center of the country and
carrying the tremendous stock that we do we are
in a position to supply all your wants at a SAVING
TO YOU OF TIME, MONEY AND EXPRESS
CHARGES.
All orders shipped the day we get them.
GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER
McKINLEY MUSIC CO.
1501-1513 E. 55th Street
CHICAGO
By Geo. M. Cohan
Get In at this price.
7c per copy
HAVE YOU GOT THESE?
"Sometime"
18c per copy
"M-1-s-s-l-s-s-i-p-p-i"
18c per copy
"There's Only One Little Girl."
By Geo. M. Cohan
7c per copy
Wm. Jerome Publishing Corporation
Strand Theatre Building,
NEW YORK CITY
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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
THE REVIEW MEAR5
B A N G !
Century advertisement guns again turned
on the public. Shots count when fired
from such publications as:
SATURDAY EVENING POST
LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
COSMOPOLITAN
WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION
McCALL'S
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
MOTHER'S MAGAZINE
and others
10,000,000 readers are directed to you
for "Century Edition." This sort of
sales co-operation deserves your hearty
support.
Century Music Pub. Co.
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
THAT we now have another prominent addi-
tion to the ranks of the "Boy composers."
THAT Ivor Novello, who wrote the war-time
song hit, "Keep the Home Fires Burning," is
only twenty years old.
THAT the Brown Bros., of saxophone fame,
are now featuring the Feist song "At the Dark-
town Strutters' Ball" in the musical comedy suc-
cess "Jack o' Lantern."
THAT Leo Feist, Inc., by the way, seems to
have the habit of buying page advertisements at
$5,000 each.
THAT the Liberty Loan campaign measures up
with the recent recruiting campaign in the op-
portunities offered song pluggers.
"THAT the National Conservation Commission,
since sugar is so scarce, has taken the Water-
son, Berlin & Snyder song "My Sweetie" as
their official song.
THAT another good title that could well be
adopted by the same organization is "We Don't
Get as Much as We Used to."
THAT Chas. K. Harris states "Break the News
to Mother" is a national song and will rank in
the class with "Dixie," "Star Spangled Banner,"
"America," etc.
ou
Cant Go
Wrong
With
eist So
20,000 Copies!
Some Order—Some Song
This is what the
telegram said:
" Send immediately 20,000 copies
your ne«v song 'I D O N ' T W A N T
TO GET WELL' which I think is
the greatest song ever written. Ship
5,000 by express, 15,000 by freight."
(Signed) S. S. KRESGE GO.
Chicago
SPECIAL PRICE TO DEALERS
7c
a copy if you attach this
Advt. to your order
THAT E. B. Marks, of Jos. W. Stern & Co., is
a very enthusiastic worker in the Mitchel ranks.
THAT Mr. Marks has succeeded in getting
LEO FEIST, INC., NO PARTY IN SUIT splendid
support from the other publishers for
Had No Connection With Case in Chicago In- his efforts.
volving "The Livery Stable Blues" vs. "The
THAT reports from Chicago are to the effect
Barnyard Blues"—Publish Latter Number
that the cabarets in that city appear to be
In reports from Chicago published in The doomed, owing to the pressure being put on
Review recently regarding the suit brought by them by liquor interests, police and reform so-
Max Hart and the Dixieland Jazz Band vs. Roger cieties.
THAT musical plays seem to hit the popular
Graham regarding the status of "The Livery
Stable Blues" and "The Barnyard Blues," it is fancv in New York this season.
stated that the suit had been brought by Leo
ENTERTAIN EDWARD T. LITTLE
Feist, Inc. This was an error. Leo Feist, Inc.,
published "The Barnyard Blues," but had no
Some of the members of the Greater New
part in the action, their whole interest in the
matter being as publishers and distributors. York Music Publishers' and Dealers' Associa-
They will continue to handle "The Barnyard tion entertained Edward P. Little, of Sherman.
Blues." The McKinley Music Co., Chicago, will Clay & Co., of San Francisco, at a week-end
continue to act as distributors for "The Livery outing at Massapequa Inn, Massapequa, L. I.,
last week. Among those who attended were
Stable Blues."
J. M. Priaulx and J. F. Gassmacher, of Chas.
H. Ditson & Co.; Michael Keane, Boosey & Co.;
TO PRODUCE '^THE STARQAZER"
Geo. H. Bliss, Q R S Music Co.; Maurice Abra-
"The Stargazer," a new musical production, ham, Abraham, Kalmar & Puck, Inc.; J. T.
with book by Cosmo Hamilton, music by Franz
Roach, Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc.; Mau-
Lehar, and lyrics by M. C. Woodward, will
rice Richmond, Enterprise Music Supply Co.,
shortly be presented by the Shuberts. The
and Felix Meyer, Karczag Publishing Co.,.Inc.
piece will open in New England, and will be-
gin its season at the Majestic Theatre, Boston,
on November 5.
McKinley's New Song Success
IsThis Book inYourWindow?
The most complete collection of National and
Patriotic Songa ever published—includes the
National Song of every Nation In the world
KIND
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LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
BUSINESS GOOD WITH B. F. WOOD CO.
New Prints Issued by Company Proving Suc-
cessful—New Series of Hurlstone Ballads
BOSTON, MASS., October 29.—The B. F. Wood
Music Co. reports that business throughout
the summer and thus far in the fall has proven
thoroughly satisfactory in every way, with a
bright outlook for the future. The company
has issued a number of new publications that
have proven successful, and which include a new
series of the popular Hurlstone ballads. J. M.
Skilton, formerly connected with the Theo. Pres-
ser Co., of Philadelphia, has joined the B. F.
Wood Co. staff as traveling salesman, and is
now on his first trip.
GET RIGHTS TOJJLIGHTY SONG
Chappell & Co. announce they have secured
the American rights for "Take Me Back to Dear
Old Blighty" from the Star Publishing Co.,
Ltd., London. The number has been quite a
success on the other side not only with the sol-
diers but with the entire English public. The
song is written and composed by A. J. Mills,
Fred Godfrey and Bennet Scott.
Joe Howard's Greatest Success
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