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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JUNE 22, 1918
POPULAR PIANTADOSI NUMBER BEING FEATURED STRONGLY
NEW GUITAR AND UKULELE FOLIO
Herewith is shown a photograph of the win- song, and it is becoming one of the best-known
dow of the F. W. Woolworth store, State and of popular songs in that section of the country.
M a d i s o n streets,
C h i c a g o , 111., in
which a fine display-
is given to the Al
Piaiitadosi & C o . ,
Inc., song "Belgium.
Dry ; Y o u r . Tears."
The display attracted
a great deal of at-
tention and was one
of the biggest song
plugs put over by
the above publishers
during the past sea-
son. Among those
seen in the picture
a r e Scotty Middle-
ton, one of the big-
gest buyers of sheet
music in the city of
C h i c a g o ; Frank
Clark, of the Water-
son, Berlin & Snyder
staff, a n d George
Piaiitadosi, of t h e
Chicago branch of
Al Piaiitadosi & Co.,
Inc. T h e Chicago
s a l e s of "Belgium,
Dry Y o u r Tears"
have been q u i t e
large d u r i n g the
p a s t few months,
Display of "Belgium, Dry Yours Tears" in Woolworth Store in Chicago
due no doubt to the publicity the branch at Window displays are always means of making
that city has given the number. The, Western sales and the Woolworth store is at an especial-
vaudeville acts have also taken kindly to the ly advantageous corner for such publicity.
New Volume, Edited and Compiled by Frank L.
Littig, Published by W. A. Quincke & Co.
A REAL WAR-TIME SONG WRITER
The Songs of the Front by Lieutenant Gitz Rice
Among the Best That Have Been Offered by
Active Participants in the Big War
One of the most promising song writers de-
veloped by the war has been Lieutenant Gitz
Rice, who, before entering the Canadian service,
was a photographer in Canada and interested in
amateur theatricals. Lieutenant Rice was an
able amateur entertainer, and found that his
talents played a great part in keeping his com-
rades cheerful during the voyage across and in
the line at the front. It was in the battle of
Neuve Chapelle, however, in March of 1915 that
Rice first started writing songs of the trenches.
In relating his experience he said in part:
"One thing worth noting was a song I wrote
called 'Are We Going to Be Here for the Win-
ter?' I personally wrote and told my brothers
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Arrigo Boito, Author of "Mefistofele," Dies in
His Seventy-sixth Year in Italy
"KEEP THE HOME-
FIRES BURNING"
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
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NOTED COMPOSER PASSES AWAY
Senator Arrigo Boito, the musical composer
and poet, died suddenly on June 10, according
to advices from Milan, Italy. His most noted
work was the opera "Mefistofele."
Arrigo Boito was born in Padua, Italy, Feb-
ruary 24, 1842, of Italian and Polish parentage.
He got his musical education at the Milan Con-
servatory and with Alberto Ma'zucato. At an
early age his genius was recognized and he re-
ceived an award from the Italian Government
which enabled him to go abroad to study for
not to bother about volunteering, because we two years.
He served under Garibaldi in the war of 1866
would be in Berlin by the fall. And this was
the spring of 1915. In those early days, as I and had been Inspector General of Public In-
went through the Ypres, Festubert, Givenchy, struction in the conservatories of Italy since 1892.
Arras and Somme battles, the lads in France Other libretti of his are Ponchielli's "Gioconda,"
were fighting a twenty-to-one battle, and still Verdi's "Otello" and "FalstafT," Faccio's "Am-
the Germans never got through. So you can lctto" and Coronado's "Un Tramonto."
easily imagine that I'm not afraid of their get-
ting through now.
The Song of the Moment
"But to get back to the songs. I shall never
forget, in one town, stealing a piano out of an
old house that was being shelled. The piano
would have been destroyed anyhow. We got
a wagon, put the piano on the wagon, and
drove down a road where thousands of infantry
(Till the Boys Come Home)
boys were lined along the sides. I couldn't
keep my fingers from the keys, and started to
play as we went along. There were shouts,
cheers and singing, and one English soldier came
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"However, that night we had volunteers sing-
TWO BIG SUCCESSES
ing around our piano. We started at 8 o'clock,
and I was still at the piano at 4 o'clock in the
morning. It was while we had this piano that
By GEOFFREY O'HARA
The camp *ong farorite
T wrote 'I Want to Go Home' and 'Keep Your
Head Down, Fritzie Boy,' and in the lonely still-
ness of the nights to follow I got the idea for
'Dear Old Pal o' Mine.' It was the inspiration
and atmosphere of the whole thing that made
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A new book entitled "Combination Steel Gui-
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by W. A. Quincke & Co., music publishers of
Los Angeles, Cal. The folio is edited and com-
piled by Frank L. Littig, whose methods for
the ukulele, tenor banjo and steel guitar have
become immensely popular with teachers every-
where. The new folio has been published to
meet the popular demand, and it contains new
standard and popular numbers for steel guitar,
for ukulele and guitar accompaniment and also
tor ukulele and steel guitar solos, and songs
with ukulele accompaniment. There are twenty
pages of music and the folio is gotten up in very
attractive form. This new folio is the latest
addition to the Littig collection of books.
Quincke & Co. have just taken over all the
stock and the entire business formerly con-
ducted by Mr. Littig himself.
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