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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JUNE 16, 1923
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AMATEUR ENTERTAINMENT MATERIAL
M. Witmark & Sons Develop Special Depart-
ment Devoted to This Material
The development of the special department
devoted to minstrel material and school and
amateur entertainments generally will receive
added impetus now that M. Witmark & Sons
are established in their splendid and convenient
new home at Broadway, Seventh avenue and
Fifty-first street. For many years this branch
of an active publishing business has proved an
invaluable help to thousands who have had the
problems of entertaining to solve and the field
will be covered in its entirety from now on by
the enterprising Witmark house. Special and
helpfully arranged catalogs are issued featuring
a most attractive assortment of material cover-
ing practically every branch of entertainment
as well as every grade. The minstrel material
available is rich in variety, from the specially
arranged series of opening and closing minstrel
choruses and overtures—the only thing of their
kind on the market and unique in their detail
and effectiveness—down to specialties for after-
pieces and no end of popular songs and ballads
for the circle. Flays and musical sketches for
eve,ry occasion, graduation specialties and, in-
deed, everything for the amateur stage, the
school and the home entertainment are avail-
able from this source. An unusual feature, too,
is the series of brilliant operettas, written and
composed by Arthur A. Penn specially for
presentation by amateurs. This series has
proved immensely popular and every year hun-
dreds of performances of one or the other of
the series take place all over this country and
Canada. The series includes such successes as
"The Lass of Limerick Town," "Captain Gross-
bones," "Mam'zelle Taps," "Yokohama Maid"
and the latest addition of all, "The China Shop,"
a sparkling Chinese comic opera. All these
entertainments are in two acts, with witty lines
and clever plots, and a flow of melodious music
that has made them the most talked-of operas
ever produced by music conservatories, private
organizations or high schools. In addition,
there are numerous short musical sketches to
choose from, to say nothing of an almost
boundless selection of
female or mixed voice
copy of each of these
the possession of every
good things for male,
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catalogs should be in
live dealer.
POPULAR NUMBERS IN PORTLAND
Feist, Jack Mills and Charles K. Harris Num-
bers in Heavy Demand
PORTLAND, OKI:., June 7.—F. K. Austen, who has
established three sheet music departments in
the city, has just received a large consignment
of new songs, which, he says, are meeting the
approval of the music buyers. He says it is
very hard to discriminate and pick out the best
sellers when so many are going good, but
among those for which there are a big demand
may be found "The Little Church Around the
Corner," by Charles K. Harris; the new Feist
number "You've Got to See Mamma Every
Night"; "Farewell Blues" and "Mad," published
by Jack Mills; and the Feist number "Runnin'
Wild," while there is no diminution of the de-
mand for "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean."
HARMS PUBLISHES "DEW DROP INN"
A new musical show recently opened at the
Astor Theatre, New York City. It is a Shubert
production, called "Dew Drop Inn," in which
James Barton is starred. The book is by Wal-
ter De Leon and Edward Delaney Dunn; lyrics
by Cyrus Wood and music by Rudolph Friml
and Alfred Goodman. The following songs of
the show are published by Harms, Inc., "Good-
bye, Lady" and "We Two," the latter, from all
indications, being the hit of the show.
MUSICAL ART COMMENCEMENT
The Institute of Musical Art recently held its
annual commencement concert and award of
prizes at Aeolian Hall, New York. Five post-
graduates receiving artist's diplomas were Lil-
lian Gustafson, soprano, and Alton Jones,
Sonoma Talley, Wellington Lee and Jennie
Seidinan, pianists. The $1,000 Morris Loeb
prize for an added year's study here or abroad
was likewise given to Miss Gustafson.
NEW LEO FEIST, INC., ISSUES
Among the new issues from the catalog of
Leo Feist, Inc., which undoubtedly will be heard
frequently during the Summer months, is
"Memory Isles," a waltz song by Gus Kahn
and Abe Olman; a novelty described as a barn-
yard jazz-boree, entitled "The Duck's Quack,"
by Hannibal Maguire, is already quite popular
with orchestras; "Blue Hoosier Blues," de-
scribed as a real homesick blues song, by Cliff
Friend, Jack Meskill and Abel Baer, is in de-
mand by vaudeville singers everywhere. Other
songs which will be active during the Summer
months are "Rose of Brazil," "Dustin' the
Keys," "Snakes' Hips" and "Don't We Carry
On?"
MOTHER SONGSJN DEMAND
PORTLAND, OKF.., June 7.—Louis Mack, sheet
music dealer, who has his sheet music depart-
ment in the Wiley B. Allen store, says that the
national celebration of Mother's Day, May 13,
created a big demand for songs for mother.
The prominent numbers called for consisted of
the Chappell-Harms "Mother o' Mine," by
Toms; Ricordi's "Little Mother of Mine," by
Burleigh; Boosey's "Mother My Own," by Cald-
well and Witmark's "Mother Machree," all of
which are selling well.
CARL FISCHER CURRENT ORGAN
The Carl Fischer music house issues from
time to time a little publication known as Carl
Fischer New Music Bulletin, carrying timely
news items of noted artists and late publica-
tions. Space is arranged on the cover of this
four-page publication for the dealer's imprint,
which the Fischer house inserts by special
arrangement.
TWO NEW FEIST NUMBERS
Leo Feist, Inc., will shortly release two new
songs by Harry Pease and Edward G. Nielson.
They are "When the Moon Shines on the Cow
Shed" and "I Don't Care Whose Mamma You
Were" (But You're My Sweet Mamma Now.)
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j 100 Assorted Songs - I4Kc
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