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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 25, 1920
CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
UNUSUALLY BIG SEASON AHEAD FOR PRODUCTION MUSIC
LONG TRIP OF CAL1FORNIANS
Several New Shows for Which M. Witmark & Sons Publish the Music Have Their Premiers—
—Some of the Songs of Special Interest Featured in These Productions
Messrs. Marple and Orr, of Sherman, Clay &
Co/s Sales Staff, Visiting Eastern Points
M. Witmark & Sons report an unusually M. Franklin. Among the song numbers in this
busy season, particularly with their production show are "Dearie My Dearie," "My Easy Ridin'
music, and during one week five shows for the Man," "My New Kentucky Home," "Southern
music of which the Witmark house holds the Nights," "That Linger Longer Letty Look,"
publishing rights were given their premier per- and "Take a Little Tip from Me."
formances. Three of the shows were brand
At the same time was witnessed the opening
new, while two were hits from last season.
in New York of the "Greenwich Village Follies
Dr. Ansell Goetzl, well-known composer of of 1920," the music of which is from the pen
operettas, had a peculiar experience recently in of A. Baldwin Sloane. Its musical numbers are
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he went to attend the "I'll Be Your Valentine," "Come to Bohemia"
opening of the new musical comedy, "The Rose "Just Sweet Sixteen," "Tarn, Tarn, Tarn, Tarn,
Girl," of which he is the composer. On the Tarn."
same evening at an opposition house there was
Another road company of "Buddies," the fifth
being played Dr. Goetzl's 1919 success, "The this season, opened successfully at Asbury Park,
Royal Vagabond."
N. J. The music of this unusual success is by
"The Rose Girl," for which William Cary B. C. Hilliam. The numbers which were so
Duncan supplied the book, was incidentally the successful last year remain. They are "Please
initial offering of the Goetzl Theatrical Enter- Learn to Love," "Hullo! Home," "Fairy Tales,"
prises, Ltd. Among the numbers in this new and "Darling and I."
production are "Dear Little Rose Girl," "I Love
Another musical show included in the same
the Love That's New," "I'm a One Girl Boy," week's successes in which the house of Wit-
"Magnetism," "May and September," "When mark is interested was Lew Fields' "The Poor
That Somebody Comes" and "There Comes a Little Ritz Girl," now playing at the Central
Some Day."
Theatre, New York.
The foregoing by no means constitutes the en-
The musicalized version of Lillian Russell's
old success "Wildfire" was also among the re- tire list of productions for which the Witmark
cent productions. It had its opening in De- house will either publish the score or inter-
troit, and, according to all reports, proved to be polated numbers, for during the course of the
quite up to expectations. The book and most next few months they will be associated in the
of the lyrics are the work of John T. Wilson, production of a big variety of new musical
and the music and other lyrics are by Malvin plays.
In the old days it used to be "Go West, young
man, go West." Two young men from the sales
staff of Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco,
Cal., Herbert Marple and Harvey Orr, have
taken those instructions to heart in the reverse
form and have started East by automobile. They
are visiting the trade in the country through
which they pass and in the very near future, as
FLORIDA PUBLISHER IN NEW YORK
COMPOSER SUES FOR ROYALTIES
Alfred Goodman, musical director and com-
poser, has brought an action against Oliver
Morosco in the United States District Court,
New York, claiming that Morosco has failed to
pay him a total of $18,000 on accrued royalties
on "Linger Longer Letty," of which show
Goodman was the composer.
Robert J. Reed, of Dixon Publishing Co., Miami,
on a Visit to Gotham
Robert J. Reed, secretary and treasurer of the
Dixon Publishing Co., Inc., Miami, Fla., was a
recent visitor in New York and, in a chat with
The Review, declared that it is his company's
intention to make Miami a leading music pub-
lishing
center.
FEIST, INC., BUYS ANOTHER SONG
He remarked that the results obtained from the
Leo Feist, Inc., has just purchased a new company's initial efforts have been most grati-
song from the catalog of Ted Garton, the Bos- fying, and it is planned to give a large measure
ton publisher. It is a novelty number called of publicity to the numbers issued by this house.
"The Blacksmith Rag." The number is already Among the new issues are "Down in Miami on
Biscayne Bay," "Underneath the Royal Palm
popular with the orchestras.
Trees" (Down Beside the Ocean Blue), "Tell
Me You Are Coming Back To Me," "Emma
JOINS NICE & CO.'S STAFF
Lou" and a novelty number entitled "When
Ernest A. Lambert, who was formerly con- the Faddists Have Their Way," which is prov-
nected with Jos. W. Stern & Co., has joined ing quite popular in vaudeville circles through-
,out the country.
the professional staff of B. D. Nice & Co.
Marple and Orr Atop Blewett Pass
they were only recently in Kansas City, Mo.,
they will have reached New York. After all, it
is quite a unique trip and The Review knows
no other sheet music salesmen who have ever
proceeded overland through such Far Western
country in the interests of their firms' publica-
tions. According to reports, Sherman, Clay &
Co.'s song and instrumental success, "Whisper-
ing," has proved one of the biggest hits in the
territory visited. Herewith is a "snap" of Mr. Mar-
ple and Mr. Orr, taken at Blewett Pass, Wash.
Leo Feist, Inc., has released a new novelty
song by Al Wilson and Irving Bibo, entitled
'"I've Got the Sweetheart Blues."
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