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APRIL 19, 1919
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
ACTORS OUTPLAY SONG WRITERS
Melody Sharps Lose Battle on Diamond at Field
Day of Actors' Fund
The only sad feature of the Field Day of the
Actors' Fund of America, held at the Polo
Grounds last Sunday, was the trimming by the
Actors' baseball team of the team made up of
song writers. The actors had with them Mike
Donlin, the ex-baseball player, and now a reg-
ular actor, to whom chief credit was given for
the victory. However, the Field Day brought
$15,000 into the coffers of the fund.
THREE=YEAR=OLD MUSIC CRITIC
Son of Octavius Roy Cohen Identifies 200 Pho-
nographic Selections of Operas
Octavius Roy Cohen, Jr., three-year-old son
of Octavius Roy Cohen, author and playwright,
of Birmingham, Ala., proved before a jury of
educators and musical critics that he knows 200
operas by heart. The baby in a formal test
identified and lisped the names of opera after
opera unerringly, as phonographic selections
chosen by the jury were played.
Nicholas Bauer, acting superintendent of New
Orleans public schools, headed the examining
body and pronounced the exhibition the most
phenomenal in his experience. The three-year-
old child capped his operatic test by identifying
a score of operatic selections, beginning with
flie "Peer Gynt Suite," when his father tapped
the rhythm of the music with a coin on a table.
TAKES SHIMMIE SONG TO PANAMA
Miss Hazel Graham has sailed for Panama
with a repertoire of new songs to enliven the
Canal Zone. Among these is a novelty song
from the catalog of M. Witmark & Sons, "I've
Got the Shimmie Blues." It is said Miss
Graham expects to start the slit mm re craze in
the Southern country, where the objections to
demonstrative dances will be very slight.
DEALERS—WE ARE THE PUBLISHERS
Of the Smashing, Sensational Song Successes
"WISHING-LAND"
By SPEGHT and GALLAHAN (Authors of ''SMILES")
AND
"A DIXIE LULLABY"
By HAROLD NEANDER
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THE MONARCH MUSIC CO., Inc., Reading, Pa.
NEW SONG WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
Plans Now Under Way for an Organization to
Care for the Sick and Disabled Members of
the Song Writing Profession
A new organization, composed exclusively of
song writers, is planned by K. Ray Goetz and
Irving Berlin. The idea was suggested to
Goetz following the entertainment and ball
given for the benefit of Dave Clark, an ex-com-
poser, who is now mentally unfit for business.
Clark's affair, while an artistic success from
every angle, netted a return of less than $200.
Goetz conferred with Berlin on the matter of
organizing the lyric and melody creators. The
latter became enthusiastic to such an extent he
suggested a complimentary dinner at his own
expense to be held shortly for the purpose of
discussing the proposed society. When and
where the affair is to be held will be announced
later. The organization will probably be known
as the Song Writers' Protective Association. It
will be regularly chartered with the principal
object to care for its sick or disabled members,
a sinking fund being raised through regulated
yearly dues and through entertainments given
semi-annually or quarterly.
JOE HOWARD TO PRODUCE AGAIN
SOME OF OUR SUCCESSES
Joe Howard is back again in the ranks of the
producers, this time with a new three-act mu-
sical comedy called "Spring Love," for which he
wrote the music. Jerome H. Remick & Co. are
the publishers of the score.
"YOU CAN HAVE IT, I DON'T WANT IT"
"LIBERTY BELL RING O N "
"E-YIP-Y0W YANKEE BOYS"
Welcome Uoiii<> A vain
" 0 LADY, QUIT ROLLING YOUR E Y E S "
" K E E P YOUR FACE TO THE SUNSHINE"
'THERE IS NO DEATH. THEY ALL SURVIVE"
" I N FLANDERS F I E L D "
" T H E TRENCH T R O T "
" A T THE SHIMME-SHA-WABBLERS' BALL"
"DALLAS BLUES" (Song and Piano)
"THERE'S AN ANGEL MISSING FROM
HEAVEN"
" 0 KIDDO"
"OLD GLORY GOES MARCHING ON"
"THERE'S A LITTLE BLUE STAR IN THE
WINDOW"
"MOONLIGHT BLUES WALTZ"
"SWEET HAWAIIAN MOONLIGHT VALSE"
Number
Proving Distinctly Popular
Dancers on Broadway
With
"Singapore," the song and fox-trot, published
by Gilbert & Friedland, Inc., is creating con-
siderable comment along Broadway as an ex-
ceptionally clever Oriental composition. The
demand for the number has been so good that
it is only recently that the publishers have
caught up with orders.
The number is being featured on the Victor,
Columbia, I'atlie and Emerson records, and it
lias also been marketed by a number of player
roll manufacturers. Among the leading orches-
tras and leaders who have programmed "Singa-
pore" are Will Marion Cook's New York Syn-
copated Orchestra; Karl Fuller's Orchestra;
Cafe De Paris; Ted Lewis, Bal Tabarin; Miano,
Churchill's; Krody, Hotel Pennsylvania; New-
ton, Terrace Garden; Barnard, McAlpin Hotel;
Baudistel, Robert Treat Hotel, Newark, N. J.;
Condon and Knecht, Waldorf; Dolin, Biltmore,
and Smolin at the Ritz-Carlton.
It is heard quite frequently in vaudeville, and
fI om present indications it appears to be about
the biggest hit the rising young firm of Gilbert
& Friedland, Inc., have ever issued.
EASTMAN IN TORONTO
Walter Kastman, of Chappell & Co., is spend-
ing some time in Toronto, Can. While there
he is making the Chappell store his headquarters.
How Many Masons Are
There in Your City ?
"SWEET HAWAIIAN MOONLIGHT "
Tell Her of My I.mp
"WHEN YOU HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS"
- "WHEN I MET YOU"
ORCHESTRAS USING "SINGAPORE'
Artmusic Gems
"Forever Is A Long,
Long Time"
"When the Evening
Bells Are Ringing"
"Oh! You Don't Know
What You're Missin'"
"Waters of Venice"
Every one will want a copy of the wonderful
new book recently published
Masonic Responses
for the Blue Lodge
Complete words and music for the three degrees
—unison arrangement with organ accompani-
ment and male quartet arrangement both in one
book.
(Instrumental)
Pocket Size—Cloth Binding—50c
"Floating Down the
Sleepy Lagoon"
Trade price on requemt
(Song version "Waters of Venice")
Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc.
ARTMUSIC, Inc.
Publishers
11-15 Union Square Weit, NEW YORK
" L E T ' S KEEP THE GLOW IN OLD GLORY "
145 West 45th St.
NEW YORK