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THE
COWBOY BAN^COMING EAST
Musical
Aggregation Composed of Western
Cowboys Planning Eastern Tour
A "Cowboy Band" of Grangeville, Ida., is ap-
pearing in some of the larger centers of the
extreme West. This band, which has had much
success, will, it is understood, undertake a trip
to Eastern territory, including New York, in
the near future. It has already received several
offers to appear in vaudeville and some of the
friends of the organization seem to think it is
more than possible that it will be placed in a
musical show.
Warren Shorts, of Warren Shorts, Inc., one
of the largest distributors of orchestrations in
the East, if not in the country, is especially en-
thusiastic over the future of the above organi-
zation and has encouraged Red Harris, the man-
ager, to come East.
The band, in addition to its other activities,
has a vocal quartet and several soloists, as well
as vocalists, and in addition carries riders and
trick ropers, all of which add to its value as a
show attraction.
Recently Warren Shorts received an order for
the followings songs in vocal form to be used
by the band: "No One's Fool," "Ten Little Fin-
gers," "Which Hazel," "Say It With Liquor,"
"Alice Blue Gown," "Peggy O'Neil," "Down the
Trail That Leads to Home, Sweet Home," "Tuck
Me to Sleep," "Just A-Wearyin' for You," "One
Fleeting Hour," "A Perfect Day," "Leave Me
With a Smile" and "In the Old Town Hall."
The above demonstrates, among other things,
that with the present-day exploitation by pub-
lishers with their numerous branch offices and
hundreds of representatives, they easily put over
their songs on a national scale to the very re-
motest communities in a very short space of
time. Of course, often much assistance is lent
to the exploitation of such numbers by the aid
of the talking machine " record and the player
roll.
It was only a few years back when a number,
popular in the locality in which it was pub-
lished, took many months in order to achieve
the same result in the districts several hundred
miles away. A glance at the titles herein above
mentioned, all of which are most timely, with
the exception of the standard numbers, shows
that to-day, even in faraway Grangeville, Ida.,
songs of the moment are quickly recognized and
used.
"In Old California With You"
"Italy"
"The Trail to Long Ago"
" My Hawaiian Melody"
"Broken Hearted Blues"
"Tosli's Good-Bye Melody"
"There Is Only One Pal,
After AH"
"Main Street"
"Sleepy Hollow"
'It Must Be Some One Like You'
"Hawaiian Whispers"
"Stop TickliiT Me"
"You're to Blame"
"Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight"
"Weeping Willow Lane"
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
MARCH 11, 1922
PLANNING BIG OPERA CIRCUIT
SONG MAKES R1VERW0RLD FAMOUS
Entire Country to Be Covered by U. S. Grand
Opera Company—Directed by Andreas Dippel
Yet Total Length of This Popular Stream It
Only 200 Miles
Andreas Dippel, former general director of
the Clficago Grand Opera and Metropolitan
Opera companies, is now planning the forma-
tion of a United States Grand Opera "Company.
According to the outline of his plan, the United
States will be divided into live circuits, the first
to be known as the mid-Western, embracing
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit and
other cities. There are also to be Pacific, East-
ern, Western and Southern divisions formed in
succeeding years.
Under the present plans the company will have
its premiere in Pittsburgh, with bookings of the
Opera Company in other cities on the same basis
as that of a vaudeville circuit.
Of course, the plans are in their infancy, but
it is known that the opera stars are to be paid
by performance instead of by salary, with draw-
ing power as a basis. The same opera will not
be presented twice the same season in any city;
in fact, not until it has been given in all five
circuits, which means five years must elapse be-
fore its return.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Herewith is a story from "Feist News,"
a monthly house organ issued by Leo Feist, Inc., and is a
sample of the high standard material appearing in that pub-
lication, it being a "plug" incorporated in a story worth while
reading.]
Can you name the best-known river in the
world? Almost certainly you cannot. Guesses
on the point would probably be almost as vari-
ous as the number of important commercial
rivers on the globe. But they would all be
wrong.
Nor can the much chronicled Rooseveltian
River of Doubt or the Blue Danube of waltz
fame claim the honor.
The best known river in the world is ex-
actly 200 miles long. It has no commercial
value whatever and its esthetic qualities are
invisible to the naked eye.
Yet the Suwanee River, running in a zigzag,
go-as-you-please course through the states of
Georgia and Florida, is known to every race
and language. Of course, it's always misspelled.
Its second claim to distinction, in fact, is that
it is probably the most misspelled stream of
water in the world, bar not even the Yangtze or
the Mississippi.
FEATURING WITMARK HIT
Suwanee Misspelled
New Ballad Success Being Strongly Exploited
And by a singular chance the man who made
On the Coast
it famous also got it misspelled. He was
Stephen Foster, composer of "Old Folks at
"That's How I Believe In You," a new ballad Home," in which the Suwanee River ha^s been
success recently added to the catalog of M. Wit- immortalized. Foster needed a two syllable river
mark & Sons, evidently has hit popular fancy. for the rhythm of his song and a study of
Practically all of the Witmark branch offices, the map revealed Suwanee, only it had too many
from coast to coast, report the trade is finding syllables.
a growing sales for the song. A demonstration
"Easy," said he and cut out the "u" making
of its success was recently given in Los Angeles,
the "Swanee" spelling that has been sung every-
Cal., where, in a single week, no less than three
where the human race is found. F o r whatever
special full window displays were made of the
the language translation, "Swanee" remains the
number by dealers.
The stores were the
Southern California Music Co., Johnston's Music same.
Of course, some of those who sing the song
Store and Cooper's Melody Shop. At the Superba
never
bother to spell the river anyway. For
Theatre, that city, it has been featured for three
the savage tribes of Tibet and Timbuctoo are
successive weeks.
as fond of this American contribution as their
more civilized brothers.
Missionaries have
TAKES OVER NE\VWALTZ BALLAD
found the song seems to fill a savage need and
Joe Mittenthal, Inc., has taken over the new they use it extensively in their work.
New Walts
waltz ballad entitled "Venetian Nights," written
In
addition
to
its
primary service the Suwanee
by Stern, Marks and Haymond. John Steel,
well-known musical comedy and vaudeville star, River has served as the theme for scores of song
is singing the ballad "Tell Her at Twilight," also writers since Stephen Foster, including H. Pit-
man Clarke, whose "Swanee River Moon" is a
from the above catalog.
rippling waltz of the same simple sweetness
TWO SONGS
of the original "Swanee."
"There's a Little Lass in Scotland"
Though the new "Swanee River" is only three
and "My Nellie Lies Sleeping"
months old it has already been sung in England
Published by FLORA ULRICH
and throughout Continental Europe. And it
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"the best known river in the world."
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