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MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
OlTOTlER 1, 1921-
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CONDUCTED BY V. D. WALSH
IRVING BERLIN'S LATEST REVUE A TREMENDOUS HIT
The "Music Box Revue," Which Opened Last Week at the Music Box Theatre in New York
City, Hailed Enthusiastically by Critics and Public Alike—Several Musical Hits
Irving Berlin's "Music Box Revue" opened on
Thursday evening of last week at the Music
Uox, the new Sam H. Harris and Irving Berlin
Theatre. No musical show has been received
in recent years with greater acclaim. The news-
paper descriptions of the show itself were en-
The numbers are all staged most effectively.
"In a Cozy Kitchenette Apartment" is sung by
Santley and Sawyer; "The Book of Poetry," by
Santley and the chorus, and "They Call It Danc-
ing" sees Sam Bernard at his best. "The Legend
of the Pearls" is sung in a gorgeous setting and
"F.verybody Step,", sung as a iinale of the lirsl
act, is one of the greatest jazz melodies ever
issued from the pen of Berlin.
It is conceded that New York never before
witnessed such a mammoth production. The au
dience could not find words to express its pleas
ure. Ten minutes before the close, when Berlin
himself arrived on the stage, the audience is de-
scribed as "absolutely going mad."
The principals of the show include William
Collier, Sam Bernard, Florence Moore, Irving
Berlin, Wilda Bennett, Joseph Santley, Ivy
Sawyer, Paul Frawley, Richard W. Keene, Emma
Haig, Hugh Cameron, Mile. Marguerite, Frank
Gill, Chester Hall, Rene Kiano, Rose Rolando,
Maurice Quinlivan.
SONGS THAT SELL
Irving Berlin's
Song Hit of the Hour
All By Myself
Cry Baby Blues
Birds of a Feather
My Mammy
Home Again Blues
I Wonder Where
My Sweet Sweet Daddy's Gone
Drowsy Head (Waltz)
—
Oh, My Sweet Hortense
THE LATEST DITSON PUBLICATIONS
Once in a Blue Moon
Five Valuable Music Volumes and a Number of
Separate Songs Included Among Recent Pub-
lications of the Oliver Ditson Co.
Irving Berlin
thusiastic and included such adjectives as "be-
wildering," "tremendous," "breath-taking," etc.
The New York Times, which is always con-
servative, states it opened to "a house of wide-
eyed, open-mouthed onlookers, who gave every
evidence of wondering if it would ever begin
tic pay, and before the close of the show every
one was cheering loudly." Some describe it as
an "hysterical outburst."
The show, undoubtedly, has four or five hits:
"Say It With Music," "In a Cozy Kitchenette
Apartment," "My Little Book of Poetry," "They
Call It Dancing," "Legend of the Pearls," "Be-
hind the Fan," "Everybody Step," "The School-
house Blues," "I'm a Dumb-Bell" and "At the
Court Around the Corner," are the songs.
Tn speaking of "Say It With Music,'' which
achieved some success prior to its release, the
Times says: "It is a real song and will become so
popular by February that you will have heard it
so often that you will gladly shoot at sunrise any
one who so much as hums it in your hearing."
Among the recent interesting books of music
issued by the Oliver Ditson Co., of Boston, arc
included a volume of Chopin studies embrac-
ing a wealth of material carefully edited by
Karl Klindworth, a volume of twenty-one favor-
ite pieces by Bach, edited by Sara Heinze and
Ebenezer Prout; a sonata in G minor for violin
and piano by Giuseppe T a r t i n i a n d edited by
Karl Rissland, three instruction sonatas by An-
ton Krause, edited by Karl Benker, and 260
studies on register and tonality for the modern
trumpet and cornet by Francis Mason Findlay.
The first four volumes mentioned are included
in the regular Ditson Edition.
Among the sheet music publications are in-
cluded : "As I Went Sailing By," words by Her-
bert J. Brandon and music by Chas. Hcuter;
"The Unknowing," by Frank St. Leger; several
sacred songs by Alfred Wooler, "To a Sleeping
Child," lyric by Gene Berchard and Ralph J.
DeGolia; "God's Garden," with text by J. W.
Shiels, music by Edwin H. Lenare, and written
and dedicated to John McCormack; several Rus-
sian songs by Rubinstein and a score or more
of other compositions of like merit.
You're Just the Type for a
Bungalow
When the Sun Goes Down
I've Got the J o y s
The New Sensational Hit
Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old
'Tucky Home
IRVING BERLIN, Inc.
1587 Broadway, New York
NAMED BRITISH SELLING AGENTS
W. A. Mason & Co., Ltd.. of London, Eng-
land, have been appointed the British selling
agents for The McDowell Publishing Co., of
Providence, R. 1. They will exploit two num-
bers from the above catalog, "Sweetie, Please
Tell Me," and "Ting Ting."
THE COUNTRY'S QUICKEST "BLUES" HIT
EVERYWHERE
IS HEARD THE
Ta Dc Da Da De Dum
Already obtainable for player-piano
Publishers J. W. JENKINS SONS MUSIC CO., Kansas City, Mo.
and any talking machine
Also Publishers of "12th Street Rag," "Sweet Love," "Ctlleen O'Mine"
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