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THE
MUSIC TRADE
Remarkable Waltz Song Success.
REVIEW
DECEMBER 27, 1919
On All Records and Rolls
W66PING WILLOW I>AN€
Chicago
McKINLEY MUSIC COMPANY
New York
Victor November Record
Emerson December Record
"Oh, boy—I'll never forget those piano
pounders and listening to phonograph record
New York Publisher's Numbers Figure in Many Evening Journal Humorist Has Some Interest- holders right there in the flesh singing to me
Broadway Shows This Season—Catalog Con-
ing Comments to Make Regarding What She about 'pillows 'neath the willows on that Swan-
tains Song Hits From Eight Productions
Saw in District Where Song Hits Are Made nee shore.' I don't mind tellin' the world, I felt
"just like the rose' that had thorned itself into
Fay King, the Evening Journal humorist, has the party!
Rarely indeed has even Broadway witnessed
such substantial musical successes as those discovered "Tin Pan Alley" and has been duly
"Songs are the greatest thing in the world—•
which this season has yielded, two of them, at impressed thereby. In one of the recent ar- ain't they? Every note is like a little magic
least, enjoying uninterrupted runs from last sea- ticles she commented as follows upon what wand that beans you on your memory, and a
son, and the music of all those under notice be- she found in the district where the song hits song can take you back to some place or some
ing published by M. Witmark & Sons. Four of the day are turned out:
one like nothing else in the world can!
big successes on Broadway and a number of
"The thrills I got behind the scenes in Stage-
"Music is a meal to me!
lesser productions, all equally important and land have nothing on the 'thrills' I got behind
"There's that stuff they sing about air castles
successful in their way, make the present count the songs in Singland. I've heard it called Tin —that's a light lunch! Then there's that stuff
of the Witmark achievements in this field. The Pan alley down there, but to a tenderfoot—or about love—that's a square meal! And there's
shows in question are "A Royal Vagabond," the should I say 'tender ear'—like me it is a glorious that back home and missing you idea—that hits
"Cohanized Comic Opera," which has been run- Sing Sing where I'd like to be sentenced for you on the heart like too much plum pudding!
ning for many months at the Cohan & Harris life!
Grand opera arias are banquets, and to me all
Theatre, with music by Anselm Goetzl and
"Talk about your jingle and jazz, your sob banquets are pretty much alike—there's too
Geo. M. Cohan. This remarkable success bids and sigh stuff, you ought to hear those birds much and too many of 'em. But the swingy
fair to eclipse the brilliant record made in New down at the music publishers!
tunes, with the funny words and the jazz stuff
York by even "The Merry Widow." At the "The place looks a lot like the fitting floor of —they're like a high ball after a long session
Nora Bayes Theatre, "The Greenwich Village a smart gown shop. In all the little rooms are with near-beer."
Follies" delights with its music by A. Baldwin artistes being 'measured' for songs, and the guy
Sloane and its magnificent stage pictures. "Bud- that writes 'em is right on the job to make any
ZEZ CONFREY MADE MANAGER
dies," Geo. V. Hobart's American counterpart alterations and help the 'star' to put his 'style'
of "The Better Ole," is packing them in at the over.
G. Schirmer, Inc., have appointed Zez Con-
Selwyn Theatre. In this post-war comedy, the
"And, believe me, when it comes to taking a frey as manager of the Chicago office which they
musical numbers are written and composed by stitch in 'time' those hounds can gather in scales recently opened. The office will cater to vaude-
that clever writer, B. C. Hilliam. Finally, there and runs that make a heavy heart ballad listen ville singers.
is "The Magic Melody," at the Shubert Theatre, like the latest 'sin-copation!'
to which Sigmund Romberg has furnished a
"There I was hiding behind a big rubber plant
CASEY TO OPEN OFFICE
score of remarkable beauty, outshining even so that my obvious curiosity would mingle with
his previous successes, "Maytime" and "The the foliage and be unnoticed. I watched the
James Casey, of the Echo Music Co., Seattle,
Blue Paradise." Besides these musical comedy various vaudeville favorites I've seen strolling Wash., will shortly open up a New York office.
hits, this house publishes the musical numbers around, and gazed at them openly.
He has associated with him in his company
in the Belasco production, "The Son-Daughter,"
Harold Weeks, the well-known writer.
as well as individual song successes in "Wed-
ding Bells," the Selwyn comedy hit at the Harris
TWO BALLADS FEATURED EVERYWHERE
Theatre, and numbers by Anselm Goetzl in Corn-
stock & Gest's spectacle "Aphrodite," at the
New Century Theatre. When one adds also
BY IRVING BERLIN
HARLING. 3 Key*
those numbers from the new revue recently
Biggest instantaneous hit in the history of
produced by "Elsie Janis and Her Gang," it
the Music Business
will be seen that the total number of Broadway
FEATURED IN EIGHT
STICKLES
successes in which M. Witmark & Sons are
3 Keys
interested is eight.
NEW YORK PRODUCTIONS
WITMARK OPERATIC SUCCESSES
FAY KING IN "SINGLAND"
"YOU'D BESURPRISED"
"ASHES OF DREAMS"
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