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JUNE 1,
1918
THE
MUSIC TRADE
49
REVIEW
"ROCK-A-BYE BABY" ON BROADWAY
Jerome Kern Provides Delightful Score for Mu-
sical Version of "Baby Mine"
Don't Wait
Until your customers learn to
know of "Century Edition" from
outside sources, and then expect
them to come to you and insist on
your supplying it!
Let every person who passes or
enters your shop know you carry
"Century Edition," and you will
notice a marked increase in your
general sales as "Century" is an
all-around stimulant!
Century Music Pub. Co.
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
SOME OF MEYER COHEN CO.'S LATEST
A new song published by the Meyer Cohen
Music Co. is entitled "Watch the Bee Go Get
the Hun." The number is a patriotic one of a
sort which has met with immediate response
wherever it (has been heard. The biggest num-
bers in the above company's catalog at the pres-
ent time are "I'd Love to Dance an Old-Fash-
ioned Waltz" and "There's a Vacant Chair in
Every Home To-night." The latter number
brought an order from Sears, Roebuck & Co,
to the publishers for an initial shipment of fif-
teen hundred copies.
COMPLIMENT FOR E. T-PAULL
When E. T. Paull, the well-known composer
of marches and march songs, sent out the sam-
ple copies to the trade of "Hurrah for the Lib-
erty Boys, Hurrah," he received a letter from
Smith & Heiby, of Bucyrus, O., in which they
stated "Your music, like the farmer's wheat, is
always good," a no mean compliment.
The
above song by Mr. Paull is having a good sale,
which is improving from week to week, and the
publisher looks for it to be one of the biggest
numbers he has issued in years.
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McKinley's New Song Success
The musical comedy "Rock-a-Bye Baby,"
which opened at the Astor Theatre on Friday
evening of last week, is a musical version of
"Baby Mine," by Margaret Mayo. The piece
as now presented has a book by Edgar Allan
Wolf with lyrics by Herbert Reynolds. The
music is the work of Jerome Kern, who it seems
never tires of writing the scores for successful
musical shows, and this his latest presentation
scored a success from the reports of the critics
who reviewed it. Indeed, one paper reported it
as one of the best scores Jerome Kern has writ-
ten for a season or more.
"Rock-a-Bye Baby" was produced at this time
as a summer show and as musical shows on the
whole have been among the most successful
ot the season it seems likely that the manage-
ment had the right idea. Among the song num-
bers that met special favor were "According to
Doctor Holt," "My Own Light Infantry" and
"There's No Better Use for Time Than Kiss-
ing," and the New York Times reports there
was not one tune out of the fifteen that was
not good to hear.
Among the stars appearing in the show were
Louise Dresser, Walter Jones, Edna Hibbard
and Dorothy Dickson, and the cast as a whole
was most capable. The costumes and scenery
were elaborate and will do their share in mak-
ing the show an attractive summer offering.
The consensus of opinion of those who witnessed
the opening is that it is the best production since
Kern's "Oh, Boy!" which is quite a compliment.
The score is published by the T. B. Hartps Co.
NEW BURKHARDT=HORWITZ NUMBERS
The Burkhardt-Horwitz Music Co., 146 West
Forty-fifth street, now have three numbers
which are having good sales. "Tiger Rose," a
number from the pen of Addison Burkhardt, is
the most successful of the trio, followed by
"Let's Bury the Hatchet in the Kaiser's Head,"
a novelty number which is well received, and a
new jazz song which is being featured by Sophie
Tucker entitled "Ghost of Uncle Sam." The
Enterprise Music Co. are the sole selling agents
oi the above firm's publications.
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LEO. FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
EARL CARROLL GETS COMMISSION
Weil-Known Song Writer and Composer Now
a First Lieutenant in Aviation Service
Earl Carroll, the well-known song writer and
composer, and author of "So Long Letty" and
other successful musical comedies, has been
commissioned as first lieutenant in the United
States Army Aviation Service. Mr. Carroll has
been in Texas for some time past, training for
his commission, and now has the distinction
of being a full-fledged pilot.
LESLIE SMITH AMONG WOUNDED
Among the New Yorkers mentioned in re-
cent despatches from over there was the name
of Leslie H. Smith, formerly advertising man-
ager of G. Schirmer, Inc.
Mr. Smith was
among those slightly wounded and gassed.
FEIST MEN IN THE SERVICE
ARONSON'S LATEST MARCH
Rudolph Aronson, composer of official cam-
paign songs for ex-President Roosevelt and ex-
President Taft, has just completed a catchy
war march entitled "We're In It, We'll Win It."
Among the members of the staff of Leo Feist,
Inc., who have recently joined the forces of
Uncle Sam are Bobby Crawford, of the Chi-
cago office, Harry Coe, of Cleveland, and Paul
Denish, of Providence.
AN EXQUISITE SONG
THE GREATEST POPULAR BALLAD THE
WAR HAS YET PRODUCED
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