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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CONDUCTED BY B. B. WILSON
NEW HEAD OF GET=TOGETHER CLUB
William Arms Fisher Elected President of Dit-
son Co. Organization—The Other Officers
for the Ensuing Year—Vote of Thanks Ex-
tended to the Entertainment Committee
BOSTON, July 9.—William Arms Fisher, musical
editor of the Oliver Ditson Co., was recently
elected president of the firm's Get-Together
Club. C. A. Woodman, who successfully pre-
sided over the organization's destinies for three
years, declined the renomination. Mr. Fisher
Resolved: That the Entertainment Commit-
tee of the Get-Together Club of the Oliver Dit-
son Co., to wit: John B. Hauswirth, James A.
Smith, Harry Haney, Geo. H. Shirley, John O.
Martin, Louis Wilmot, Walter Brice, are richly
entitled to the hearty thanks of every member
and guest of the Get-Together Club for their
zeal and efficiency in bringing to a successful
climax our Ladies' Day Outing on June 23,
1917, the most successful event in the annals
of the Get-Together Club.
It is further resolved, To spread these reso-
lutions upon the secretary's record as our per-
manent appreciation of said entertainment com-
mittee.
The club has formulated plans for a beef-
steak supper, which will be held in the near
future. At this feast the heads of departments
and important clerks will broil and serve the
steak.
Following are the other officers elected to
serve the ensuing year: Vice-president, George
H. Shirley; secretary, Henry O. Ladd; treas-
urer, William Reilly; directors, Messrs. Winkel-
man, Maclaren, Canavan, Oeffinger, Chapman,
Pulverman, Porcella, Rae, and Hermitage.
HAMMERSTEIN_SUES FRIML
Alleges Composer Did Not Furnish Score of
New Opera When Wanted
William Arms Fisher
was promoted from the office of vice-president
which he successfully held for three years. He
is widely and favorably known in the world of
music and will make an efficient president.
The club's outing on June 23 was the most
successful in its history, and the full meed of
praise goes to the efficient entertainment com-
mittee. This fact was recognized at the meet-
ing in the following resolutions, which were
unanimously passed:
Arthur Hammerstein has served Rudolph
Friml, the composer, with papers in a suit for
$25,000 for breach of contract in failing to de-
liver within the specified time the musical num-
bers and score for "Furs and Frills," the mu-
sical revue which Mr. Hammerstein had ar-
ranged to produce in September. Friml is one
of the most popular composers of light opera in
this country, among his successes being:
"You're in Love," "Katinka," "High Jinks,"
etc. The complaint states that Friml only gave
Hammerstein four or five songs when he should
have produced about twenty.
VON TILZER SONGS IN DEMAND
Meyer Cohen Reports Several Numbers As
Going Exceedingly Well
" I AIN'T GOT NOBODY MUCH"
AND NOBODY CARES FOR ME
"WHEN SHADOWS FALL"
"PARADISE BLUES"
O PRETTY PAPA! PRETTY PAPA I
"MY FOX TROT GIRL"
"DOWN THE SUNSET TRAIL TO
AVALON"
I'LL TRAVEL ON TO YOU
"DARLIN"'
"IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN IN
DREAMLAND"
YOU'VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE
"ON THE ROCKIN' ROSALEE"
"THE HOUR OF MEMORY"
HUMORESKE VOCAL
"SING ME THE ROSARY"
"TAMBOURINES AND ORANGES"
FOX TROT
"MOONLIGHT BLUES WALTZ"
"PUSSYFOOT"
FOX TROT
"MARY PICKFORD WALTZES"
Meyer Cohen, manager of the Harry Von
Tilzer Music Publishing Co., says despite the
fact that the season is supposed to be none too
prosperous the catalog of his company has been
quite lively. Among the numbers which will
be featured in the next few months will be,
"Just As Your Mother Was," "Says I to My-
self, Says I," and "Give Me the Right to Love
You," the latter having had a very exceptional
sale. The Harry Von Tilzer concern will have
one of the biggest fall campaigns in its history,
according to the plans now mapped out and
preparations to feature several hits are under
way.
FEATURING HAWAIIAN NUMBER
Kalmar, Puck & Abrahams Co., Inc., are
working enthusiastically on their song "When
Those Sweet Hawaiian Babies Roll Their Eyes"
and report that the song is proving very popu-
lar. Max Stark, manager of the company, states
the whole organization is behind the song and
is going to put it over.
"THE AMERICANJT1PPERARY'"
The New York Evening Telegram on Tues-
day, July 12, under the caption "Here is Ameri-
can Soldier's 'Tipperary,'" reproduced "Good-
bye Broadway, Hello France," the big patriotic
number from the catalog of Leo Feist, Inc. The
reproduction was almost the actual size of a
regular sheet of music.
TO PRODUCE AMERICAN OPERA
Prominent Composers and Musicians Organize
New Corporation to Produce Native Works
of Merit—Several Millionaires Sa'd to Be In-
terested Financially in the Plan
Announcement has just been made that a
concerted movement is planned by American
composers, dramatists and leaders of national,
civic and musical organizations for the produc-
tion of American opera and other native music
in the English tongue. The policy of the or-
ganization will be to produce throughout this
country operatic works by American composers
and dramatists only, acted and sung by an
American company with an all American chorus,
orchestra and ballet. Reginald de Koven, the
composer, who is chairman of the national com-
mittee of organization, said, concerning the new
organization: "Of all the great music loving
and music supporting nations of the earth,
America alone, until now, has made no material
effort for the encouragement of her native and
natural musical genius. We have spent millions
to hear foreign singers and have declined to
hear our own. American music can never be
fully developed by the employment of foreign
artists who perform foreign works. Italy,
with not more than one-third of the population
of the United States, possesses sixty-three pro-
ducing opera houses. The music of Germany,
France and Russia has been made familiar to
the world by its endorsement at home. This
organization is planned for the purpose of as-
suring American composers and singers of an
opportunity to present their work and their art
before the American public. The American
people will be permitted to enjoy music in their
native tongue and to aid in its development."
It is stated that J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto
H. Kahn and Clarence H. Mackay have each
subscribed $5,000 towards the movement. The
organization was recently incorporated under
the name of the American National Grand Opera
Corp., with a capitalization of $500,000, among
the incorporators being Reginald de Koven,
Chas. W. Cadman, Percy MacKaye, Lee Shu-
bert, John Philip Sousa, Ola B. Campbell,
Arthur Farwell and several others.
It js
planned to start the season in October, and the
repertory thus far includes "The Canterbury
Pilgrims," by Reginald de Koven and Percy
MacKaye, and three other new operas, one of
which is by Converse and MacKaye.
JEROME H.REMICK&CO:S\
^Sensational Son^ H i t s /
"FOR YOU A ROSE"
"IT'S TIME FOR EVERY BOY TO BE A
SOLDIER"
"SINBAD WAS IN BAD"
"SOMEWHERE ON BROADWAY"
"IF YOU EVER GET LONELY"
"SHE'S DIXIE ALL THE TIME"
"WHERE THE BLACK EYED SUSANS
GROW"
"ALONG THE WAY TO WAIKIKI"
"THERE'S EGYPT IN YOUR DREAMY
EYES"
"I CAN HEAR THE UKULELES CALLING
ME"
"THE BOMBA SHAY"
"AIN'T YOU COMING BACK TO
DIXIELAND"
•THE SWEETEST GIRL IN TENNESSEE"
"YOU'RE A GREAT BIG LONESOME
BABY"
INSTRUMENTAL
POZZO—FOX-TROT
WHISPERING HEARTS—WALTZ
TIDDLE-DE-WINKS-FOX-TROT
SANS TOI-WALTZ
JEROME H. REM1CK & CO.