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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
ARMY DEPLETES STAFFS OFJBOSTON MUSIC PUBLISHERS
Latest Draft Call Takes Many Men From Local Houses—Committee to Arrange Public Concerts—
McCormack Featuring White-Smith Number—Ditson Outing Coming—Other Items of Interest
BOSTON, MASS., July 1.—Practically all of the
music publishers have felt the effects of the
war through the loss of men who have entered
service. With the latest draft more young 1 men
are saying good-bye to their employers. Still
another thing that has been the means of men
forsaking the business is the lure of higher
wages at other employments, and this, too, has
helped to weaken the personnel of some of the
houses, with the natural consequence that they,
along with many other departments of business,
are feeling the strain.
There having been a complaint from various
sources that music played at municipal con-
certs during the season has not been up to
the standard, Mayor Peters has appointed a
committee of five representative men to arrange
and conduct the summer concerts this season.
This committee consists of Professor Archibald
T. Davison, of Harvard's department of music;
Professor John A. O'Shea, director of music
in the public schools; Wallace Goodrich, of the
New England Conservatory of Music; William
A. Leahy and Harry R. Wellman.
At the annual meeting of the Harvard Dental
Association, held at the Boston City Club a
few evenings ago, a feature of the occasion was
the singing of the alumni chorus of twenty
voices under the leadership of Dr. James A.
Reilly, of the music publishing house of Me-
Laughlin & Reilly. The occasion was an un-
usually pleasant one.
Walter Jacobs had an ©specially interesting
business trip West but did not get as far as
Kansas City, as he had expected. He was one
of the interested visitors to the New York pub-
lishers' convention in New York, and since
then he has been on several short trips.
The local house of the White-Smith Co. lately
learned from Los Angeles of a beautiful com-
pliment paid by Mine. Schumann-Heink to Mrs.
Gertrude Ross, the composer, whose pieces are
published by the White-Smith Co. After the
great singer had finished "Down in the Desert"
at a concert in that California city she called
for the composer and upon Mrs. Ross reluc-
tantly arising in the audience she quickly made
the announcement that "she (Mrs. Ross) has
given me one of the greatest successes of my
career." Naturally the audience heartily ap-
plauded such an unusual announcement.
The White-Smith Co. is the publisher of a
new song which John McCormack lately used
for the first time at a concert in Lynn. It is
entitled "Our God, Our Country, and Our
Flag," and it was composed by Edward Mac-
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hngh, of Boston. It created a great impression,
and Mr. McCormack feels he has something of
unusual worth in the song.
The employes of the Oliver Ditson Co., who
have been looking forward eagerly to the mid-
summer outing of the Get-Together Club, which
has had no session during the winter, enjoyed a
bay trip last Saturday similar to some most en-
joyable ones of previous seasons.
Following the New York convention quite a
group of music publishers took a run over to
Boston to greet old friends. Among these have
been Reginald Nathan, of Nicholson Co., of
Sydney, Australia; T. F. Delaney, of Lyon &
Healy, of Chicago; Robert L. White, of Cleve-
land, whom the music publishers remember
pleasantly from last summer when he was in
town; Arnold Robinson, of the J. L. Hudson
Co.. of Detroit, Mich.; R. G. Volkwein, of Volk-
TO SING "LA MARSEILLAISE"
American Soldiers to Sing It in Original Tongue
to Inspire French Fighters
When John Alden Carpenter, the well-known
composer, in a recent address in Evansville, Ind.,
told his audience about the teaching of the
"Marseillaise" in French to the soldiers in all
the cantonments the statement was greeted with
prolonged applause.
Everybody seemed to feel that this was a most
touching tribute to our ally, a bond of poetry
and sentiment that would effectually strengthen
all other bonds.
Mr. Carpenter, however, explained that, while
this was one reason for the instruction, it was
neither the only one nor the most important.
A distinct military purpose, he asserted, was
in the minds of the song leaders when they
taught the boys to sing "La Marseillaise" in
the original tongue, and with emotion, sincer-
ity and dash. That purpose was to increase the
fighting powers of the French soldiers when our
boys fought beside them.
Thus American
troops would not only aid the allies' cause by
their numbers and fighting ability, but by in-
fusing the French with enthusiasm and self-
confidence, would add materially to the effec-
tiveness of the veteran army.
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McKINLEV MUSIC CO.
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CHICAGO
JULY 6, 1918
wein Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa.; H. A. Becker,
of the H. A. Becker Music House, also of Pitts-
burgh; J. N. Barrett, of Buffalo, N. Y., and
Louis Eaton, who conducts the violin depart-
ment of Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly.
B. F. Wood, of the B. F. Wood Music Co.,
is at his farm at Sherborn, having gone out a
little later than usual this season. The house
has put out a few new publications which are
destined to be popular.
Charlie Thompson, of C. W. Thompson & Co.,
is in the public eye just now because of a little
poodle which has been able to do its "bit" for
Uncle Sam. The poodle belongs to Mrs. Thomp-
son, and a while ago his mistress had his silken
wool sheared. A friend of the family carded
and spun it, and another friend knitted the soft
yarn into a pair of socks. The picture of the
dog, whose name is Buttons, together with the
socks, has been in one of the Boston newspapers.
This same picture has been put on a postal with
a couple of verses and with the story. Mr.
Thompson is selling them in an envelope for
two cents for the benefit of the Red Cross.
In other words, said Mr. Carpenter, the French
national anthem sung in French by American
boys will show the genuineness of our friend-
ship, and the completeness with which we have
taken up her cause will thus be valuable in
sustaining morale.
IN A GERMAN PRISON CAMP
Private Joseph Roach, brother of J. T. Roach,
manager of the music department of Hinds,
Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., who was reported
missing after the battle of Seicheprey, has now
been located in a German prison camp in Lim-
burgiahn, Germany. Private Roach's home was
in Ridgefield, Conn., and he was a member of
the 102d U. S. Tnfantry (the Old Serslleld Blues)
of New Haven.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
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