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NOVEMBER 29, 1919
PUSHING "SILVERY COLORADO"
Artmusic, Inc., Carrying on Strong Campaign for
New Waltz Song—Other Prominent Successes
in Company's Catalog Also in Great Demand
"Silvery Colorado," a new vocal waltz by Allen
Flynn and Jack Egan, writer of "That's the- Kind
of a Baby for Me," has just been released by
Artmusic, Inc. Thousands of orchestrations of
this number have been placed in the hands of
orchestra leaders and a big drive, exploiting the
number, will be made in trade and professional
circles. Waltz successes are rare, but when they
really are successes, however, they generally are
tremendous. No waltz issued in recent years has
made its advent in musical circles under more
promising conditions. With this knowledge, and
the fact that the publishers are leaving nothing
undone to make their catalog one of the leaders
in the 30 cent field, "Silvery Colorado" should
shortly be heard from coast to coast.
With "Waters of Venice" and "Forever Is a
Long, Long Time," together with the new mu-
sical production produced by Sam Harris, of the
firm of Cohan & Harris, called "Honey Girl,"
which will shortly have its New York premier,
the Artmusic catalog is certainly showing much
activity. The music of "Honey Girl" is by Al-
bert von Tilzer, with lyrics by Neville Fleeson,
and it is understood that there are no less than
five song successes in this musical show.
THE MUSIC T R A D E
Golden Songs From the Golden West
PEGGY
An Irresistible Melody Fox-Trot by Neil Moret and Harry Williams, Already Recorded by the
Better Phonograph and Player-Roll Companies and Played Nightly by the Most Successful
Orchestras Throughout the Country.
Please Do Not Confuse Neil Moret's "Peggy" With Another Number of the Same Title.
"SOME NIGHT," Waltz With Words; "ROSE OF ROMANY," the Original
Gypsy Song; "SLOW AND EASY," an Indigo Fantasie.
BRANCH OFFICE
1 4 5 WEST 4 5 t h STREET.
NEW YORK
DANIELS & WILSON, Inc.
San Francisco
NEWS OF THE TRADE IN BOSTON
MINNEAPOLIS SHEET MUSIC TRADE
Oliver Ditson Co. to Publish Score of the Opera
"Cleopatra's Night"—Reports a Busy Season—
Walter Jacobs' Numerous Activities
Sheet Music Proving a Profitable Business—W. J.
Dyer & Bro. Publish Three Songs
Senti-
mental Ballads Most Popular at Present
BOSTON, MASS., November 24.—A very
beautiful
thing soon to be published by the Oliver Ditson
Co. is the score of the two-act opera, "Cleopatra's
Night," text by Alice L. Pollock, and music by
Henry Hadley, which is to be done this winter
by the Metropolitan Opera Company. It is to
STERN SONG IN "FIFTY-FIFTY, LTD." be put out by this publishing house in January
and music lovers, if they ever before questioned
Herbert Corthell, late star of the musical show the artistic perfection of the Ditson publications,
"Tumble In," an Arthur Hammerstein production, will harbor no doubts once they see this, for it
but who is now featured in "Fifty-Fifty, Ltd.," is one of the most beautiful publications—atten-
is singing the song published by Jos. W. Stern tion is especially called to the front cover—that
& Co., "The Argentines, the Portuguese and the the house ever has issued.
The Ditson Co. reports one of the biggest sea-
Greeks." Arthur Hammerstein is threatening to
bring suit against Jos. W. Stern & Co., claiming sons in all departments it ever has had, and 1919
he holds a half interest in the song from Corthell. is likely to go down in Ditson history as the
However, Jos. W. Stern & Co. state that Arthur banner year of its existence. One way in which
Swanstone and Carey Morgan are the authors the house keeps in touch with its clientele in the
and sole owners of the copyright. Stern has been wholesale end is through its "selling points for
fully authorized by the writers to publish the dealers" which is issued monthly. These "selling
number.
points" touch every phase of the business with
the trade. Ditson's Monthly Novelty List, pub-
PRINCE HEARS "WHITE HEATHER" lished in the interests of the dealer, teacher,
student and music lover, is another medium of
"White Heather," the Scotch song based on the close communication between the Ditson Co. and
picture taken from the Drury Lane Melodrama the trade. A list of new music was published
of the same name, was played for the Prince of in a recent issue of The Review and all the pieces
Wales during his visit to the Academy of Music, are finding a wide call from all quarters. A
New York, on Wednesday of last week. This cycle of songs, "Vignettes of Italy," text by
is one of the few Scotch songs of the popular Sara Teasdale, and music by Winttcr Watts, is
type on the market today, and is one of the one of the publications for which there is an
most successful numbers in the McKinley Music urgent call.
Co.'s catalog.
The Oliver Ditson Co.'s building suffered slight
damage from a fire on the morning of Novem-
ber 18. The fire started presumably from defec-
tive wiring in one of the offices, but the only
damage which the music house suffered was from
water.
A recent Boston caller from New York was
Thomas J. Don.lan, the representative of the Sam
Fox Publishing Co.
Walter Jacobs has been finding business very
"When You're Alone"
big lately. A feature that one notices in look-
ing over the Jacob's Orchestra Monthly is what
is headed "A Sad Tale Briefly Told," which in
Forever Is A Long,
short is that the subscription price of all four
of
the Jacobs' magazines must be advanced be-
Long Time"
ginning with the January issues. One of the
especially popular pieces of this house is "Peter
Gink," which, though not a new publication, is
Say It With Flowers"
meeting with more and more success all the time.
Five numbers under the heading "Love Scenes,"
by Charles Bendix, have lately been put out by
Jacobs in a new form and they are proving good
"Fan San"
sellers.
The next dinner of the Boston Music Publish-
ers' Association is scheduled for Tuesday, De-
cember 9, and President Crosby is busy mapping
ARTMUSIC, Inc.
NEW YORK
West 45th St.
out a good program.
Artmusic Gems
55
REVIEW
MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, November 24.—Mu-
sic houses in the twin cities which do not main-
tain sheet music departments are overlooking
a very tidy source of revenue. Once there was
a time when piano dealers considered it beneath
their commercial dignity to handle talking ma-
chines, but they are all doing it now. This is
not meant as an atempt to induce music dealers
to branch out into the sheet music, but truly it
is a profitable diversion in the twin cities. Almost
anything is saleable from the heaviest grand
opera to common jazz, but the ballads are the
favorites, particularly if there is some tribute to
Cupid anywhere in the words. Just now the
most numerous calls in this section are for "My
Isle of Golden Dreams," "Oh, What a Pal was
Mary!" " I Made the Whole World Just for
You," "Silken Veil" and "Waiting."
W. J. Dyer & Bro. have published three songs
which are taking extremely well and are being
sung through the Orpheum circuit by Grace Nel-
son. The songs, which are composed by Edwin
B. Abbott with words by Oakley Stout, both St.
Paul residents, bear the following titles: "Har-
bour Dreams," "Three Words, 'I Love You,'"
and "Love's Voice Divine."
Harold R. Skeath, head of the sheet music de-
partment at Dyer's has just published a ukulele
self-instructor which has been christened Kaha-
nomo and sells for seventy-five cents.
IN THE AFTERGLOW
THE SENSATIONAL SONG SUCCESS
OF THE YEAR
The Words by J. WILL CALLAHAN
The Music by FRANK H. GREY
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Copyrighted, 1919, by Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc.
HINDS, HAYDEN & ELDREDGE, Inc.
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NEW YORK CITY