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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
APRIL 2, 1921
WHYDONTYOU
THE BIG MELODY HIT FROM AFGAR"
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ALICE DELYSIA
PUBLISHED
LEO FEIST Inc.
FEIST BLOG. NEW YORK
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RICHARD POWERS IN NEW YORK
THE SOLDIER SHOW AND ITS NEW AUDIENCE
Sherman, Clay & Co. Representative Returns
From Visit to Headquarters
By CARL STEARNS CLANCY
The millions of American soldiers, especially
those who went overseas, will be interested to
learn that at last an organization has been ef-
fected to prepare for use in this country the
many remarkable "Soldier Shows," of which
they were players or very willing audience.
This organization, known as the A. E. F. Play
Library of New York, has come to the front in
the past month through the official endorsement
of the American Legion, to whom it especially
caters.
Jn the A. E. F. there were more than 15,000
soldier actors. There were nearly 700 soldier
shows playing after the armistice. The attend-
ance was phenomenal. In the month of March,
1919, in one section of France 10,158 shows had
an attendance of 7,350,000 men. These figures
confirm the many statements of soldier life,
especially after the armistice.
And now, in order to preserve these great
shows for the men who were responsible for
them, and to give these men the opportunity of
playing them here before a new audience from
time to time and to refreshen in their minds
the incidents of pathos and comedy with which
they are associated, the A. E. F. Play Library
of New York ; with the enthusiastic backing of
the American Legion, is now collecting and
publishing for disposal among the 5,000,000
Legionaires, as fast as can be secured, these
plays.
It is a slow work collecting these and the list
mentioned above will take months in prepara-
tion because many of the shows were produced
without any written lines. The national head-
quarters of the American Legion, alive to the
great service which this A. E. F Play Library
is rendering, issued, on March 4, 1*521, the fol-
lowing bulletin:
"Sittin' Pretty" is the A. E. F. Library's first
big musical comedy. The book and words are
by McElbert Moore, formerly staff playwright
of the Second Army, Toul, France, and who
wrote and collaborated in fifteen overseas shows >
and the music is by J. Fred Coots, composer of
"Cuban Love," "Up the Avenue," "One Moment.
Please!" etc.
The music, vocal score and orchestral num-
bers are published by Fred Fisher, Inc., 224 West
Forty-sixth street, New York. The vocal score,
attractively bound in Legion colors, national
blue on gold, contains twelve numbers in- ad-
dition to a war medley and an overture. The
numbers were arranged by Eugene Platzman.
They are exceptionally tuneful and many of
them are unique, interpreting the breezy, de-
scriptive and humorous lyrics written by Mr.
Moore with captivating melodies.
USING FOX NUMBER
"Lassie o' Mine" Being Used by George Mac-
Farlane With Much Success
George MacFarlane, the well-known tenor of
vaudeville and musical comedy fame, is now
playing on the Keith circuit and is singing, with
good success, the Sam Fox Publishing Co.'s
publication, "Lassie o' Mine."
"Lassie o' Mine" is from the pens of Fred G.
Bowles and Edward J. Walt. It is described
as a number with Scotch atmosphere carrying
a wide appeal.
Richard Powers, the New York representative
of Sherman, Clay & Co., of San Francisco, Cal.,
returned l a t e l a s t
week from the Pacific
Coast. Mr. Powers
had been away for
o v e r a two-month
period and prior to his
visit to the Coast ha
made a trade trip
through Southern and
M i d d l e West terri-
tory.
The Sherman, Clay
& Co. number, "Do
You Ever Think of
Me?" is an acknowl-
Richard Powers
edged national hit and the sales have reached a
very high total. The plans of the company for
the early Spring include a campaign on several
other numbers in the catalog.
CONFERRING ON ROYALTY CONTRACT
It is understood that the special committee
appointed by the new Song Writers' Protective
Association, composed of George W. Meyer,
Gene Buck and Joe McCarthy, is still nego-
tiating with the Music Publishers' Protective
Association relative to a mutual arrangement on
the question of a standard royalty contract be-
tween song writers and music publishers.
DAVE W0HLMAN WITH FORSTER
Jacob Wertham, father of Harry Wertham,
Dave Wohlman has been appointed manager
general Western manager of Jerome H. Remick of the New York professional offices of Forster,
& Co., died early "this month at the age of Music Publisher, Luc, located at 1552 Broad-
eighty-four.
way. Walter Donovan is also on the staff.
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Danced and played everywhere—everybody is talking about it.
(Song and Piano Solo)
Underneath The Dreamy Oriental Moon
The orchestras are all playing this one.
COlleen O'Mine An Irish Ballad—A good seller
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1015 Walnut Street
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Can Be Obtained Front Any Jobber or (he Pnblisher.