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MARCH 24,
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OPENS NEW MUSIC DEPARTMENT
PRAISE FOR "IN ROSE TIME"
SONGS WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENTS
Louis Mack Opens Department in Portland
Branch of Wiley B. Allen Co.
Orchestras Finding It a Continuously Popular
Number With Their Audiences
This Type of Compositions Becoming Popular
in English Concert Halls—Its Advantages
POUTLANI), ORK., March 17.—Another step for-
ward was made by Louis Mack, sheet music
dealer, who has for the past year been located
at 124 Broadway. On account of his growing
business Mr. Mack has secured space in the
Wiley B. Allen store and has established an
extensive classical and popular music depart-
ment, which has been very attractively installed
and in keeping with the handsome fittings of
the establishment. Mr. Mack has now more
space than he has had for the ten years (hat
he has been in the sheet music business in
Portland. He will retain his Broadway store
and has placed Kathleen Benoit Campbell in
charge. Miss Campbell, who for years has been
in charge of the sheet music department of
Lipnian, Wolf & Co., is an accomplished pianist,
has an excellent voice, is very popular, has a
large following and thoroughly understands the
sheet music business.
CHICAGO, I I I . , March 17.—The Mid-West Music
House is receiving many unsolicited testimonials
heartily praising its late waltz ballad, "In Rose
Time." A telegram received from Smiling Billie
Corthay, manager of the California Movicland
Syncopators, of Bcloit, Wis., shows the type
of message this company is receiving: "I feel
that I would be doing you a grave injustice if
I did not tell you that your .sensational waltz,
'In Rose Time,' has proved a real success since
being placed on our program. I have given
this number a most severe test nightly for the
past five weeks before the most critical of audi-
ences. I certainly wish to recommend this num-
ber to all leaders."
Songs without accompaniment of any sort
arc becoming prominent among the latest fash-
ions of the concert room, says the London
Times. The type has obvious attractions for
composers and singers. Part of the attraction
is reaction from the fashion of writing songs
for full orchestra with a vocal background,
obbligato or even ad libitum, which reached its
climax a few years ago. When the voice be-
comes practically inaudible you may just as
well leave it out and call the work not a song,
but a symphonic poem for orchestra. But sym-
phonic poems are now old and jejune things
reminiscent of the nineteenth century. What,
then? The only alternative is to leave the
orchestra out and start again with the voice
alone. At first sight the idea has the pleasing
suggestion of a return to primeval conditions,
a sort of Lenten self-denial in refusing the lux-
uries of harmony and instrumental color. Felix
White, for example, who a few years ago pro-
duced a song called "Cyclops," in which the
singer strove painfully to make himself heard
above the clatter of the orchestra "kitchen,"
is now writing songs for a voice alone, which
Miss Marcia van Dresser dispenses to the highly
cultured audience of Mr. Goosens' concerts.
Nor is she the only one. One sees the attraction
this art must have for the singer.
SPECHT RECORDS IN DEMAND
l'aul Spccht's "Georgians," who arc making
"blue" and "jazz" records for the Columbia
Graphophone Co., are having unusual success
with their recording, according to all reports.
Some of their newest releases are "Nothing
But," from the Irving Berlin catalog; "Chicago,"
from the Fred Fisher, Inc., catalog; "Sister
Kate," from the Clarence Williams Music Co.
catalog, and "Way Down Yonder in New
Orleans."
The new firm recently organized under the
trade name, Dellon-Stanley, Inc., has been
changed to Harold Dellon, Inc. The new or-
ganization has opened offices in the Hilton
Building, 1591 Broadway, New York City.
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MUSIC MEN'S ASSOCIATION MEETS
The newly organized Association of Music
Men held a meeting on Tuesday evening, March
13, at the Old Heidelberg Cafe, New York City.
Practically the entire membership turned out
and several new names were added to the mem-
bership. A total of twenty-eight attended the
gathering. In addition, several new members
in Los Angeles territory were added to the
organization, which now gives it a national
scope. A detailed report of the activities of the
Association will appear in the March 31 issue
of this paper.
NEW BURKE AND HERSCHER SONG
Joe Burke and Lou Herschcr, writers of
"Wake Up, Little Girl, You're Just Dreaming,"
have written another song entitled "My Pal,"
which has been accepted for publication by Leo
Feist, Inc'. The number is said to be one of
the best songs this team has written.
FEATURES WILL ROSSITER NUMBERS
Ben Garetson, for several years manager of
Guyon's Paradise, Chicago, has opened a won-
derful new ballroom at Joliet, 111., called the
Alamo. Saturday eve, March 24, he will have
a Will Rossitcr night, featuring the Harmony
Girls singing "If Winter Comes" and "Trot
Along."