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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
"THE RISE OF ROSIE O'REILLY" PROVES A BIG SUCCESS
New Musical Comedy by George M. Cohan Scores Immediately Upon Production in Boston—
Numbers in Score Receive Immediate Exploitation by Boston Music Dealers
Not being lightning, but certainly the next
tiling to it in speed, Geo. M. Cohan doesn't
mind striking more than once in the same place.
With a Song" and "Born and Bred in Brook-
lyn." The Telegram says the piece is "a howl-
ing success, and deservedly so. The music is
JUNE 16,
1923
and another, "A Ring to the Name of Rosie."
Rather an unusual record was achieved in
the way of window displays in Boston last week,
justified fully, however, by the success of
"Rosie O'Reilly." Each of the three principal
thoroughfares of the city had a solid window
display of the "Rosie O'Reilly" songs, repro-
ductions of which are here presented. The
three stores that thus paid tribute to the instant
success of the new Cohan show were Ditson's
on Trernont street, Chas. Homeyer on Boylston
street and Jordan Marsh on Washington street.
POPULARITY AFTER^TWELVE YEARS
"Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" in American
Catalog for That Period Before It Took Hold
There is quite an interesting history attached
to the musical success, "Parade of the Wooden
Soldiers." The average talking machine record
or sheet music dealer does not know that it is
some twelve years old. It was first secured
abroad in 1911 by Joseph W. Stern & Co., now
known as the Edward B. Marks Music Co. Its
success at the time was only moderate, although
it was recognized as a musical composition
above the ordinary. It established some favor
with bandmasters at that period, following
which it lay dormant until an opportunity pre-
sented itself to be used in Balieffs "Chauve
Souris" and his Russian company.
There it proved the outstanding musical fea-
ture and for a continuous period of over two
Window of the Jordan Marsh Co.
Once again, and for the fourth time in suc- full of pep as well as harmony." And so on,
cession, he has chosen Summer time, Boston all down the line. The Boston critics, in fact,
and the Tremont Theatre to produce a musical were hard put to it to find adjectives sufficiently
show that already has taken the Back Bay strong to describe the manifold excellencies all
City by storm and threatens to even completely around of "Rosie O'Reilly."
outdo the success there achieved last Summer
in the same theatre by "Little Nellie Kelly."
As with that hit, so with the new show, "The
Rise of Rasie O'Reilly," its book, lyrics and
music have all been written by Geo. M. Cohan
himself and he has personally produced it with
bis own clever company of comedians, singers
and dancers. "Little Nellie Kelly" ran for fif-
teen weeks in Boston last season and would
have stayed longer had not other bookings
rendered that impossible; but the piece is still
crowding the Liberty Theatre, New York,
where the run is in its ninth month, with no
signs of an end in sight. "The Rise of Rosie
O'Reilly" looks like equaling and exceeding the
record of her predecessor.
GwAGtts
In the first place, Mr. Cohan has leased the
iRtft/
Tremont Theatre for five months solid, so that
On Stale Here
t'oston won't have to bid a hurried and regret-
ful adieu to "Rosie" in the way it was obliged
to do with "Little Nellie Kelly."
The Boston Daily Globe says of the music that
"it is the kind that the general public most en-
joys. It is always alluringly tuneful, in its jazzy
dance rhythms as well as in its songs of senti-
mental and comic appeal. Had all the demands
Window of the Oliver Ditson Co.
for repetitions been granted last evening the
All the songs in "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly" years it not only added to its popularity, but
performance would not have ended until day-
light." The Herald describes the musical result and those in "Little Nellie Kelly" are published no attempt was made to find anything to take
its place. More than one musical critic has
as "Songs that have an irresistible swing to by M. Witmark & Sons. The complete list of
them." "As to the music, well, you are going titles being "When June Comes Along With said that "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"
did much to give the Russian company its phe-
nomenal run.
Of course, the modern orchestras have also
added to its popularity. The publisher took
great pains in the preparation of the melody.
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY
NEW DITSON TEACHING PIECES
A recent issue of teaching pieces released by
Oliver Ditson Co., of Boston, includes "Char-
mian," by Arthur Cleveland Morse; "Elves,"
by Gustav Lazarus; two short numbers by Ar-
thur Traves Granfield, and also by J. Frank
Russell. A Doerfel & Schmidt arrangement of
Schuman's "Album for the Young," Op. 68, is
included in this issue of piano pieces.
GREEN'S ORCHESTRA ON TOUR
to hear several
says the Boston
to be popular,"
alluring strains
Window of Chas. W. Homeyer & Co.
'O'Reilly' tunes this Summer," a Song," "Poor Old World," "Let's You and I
Traveler. "They are destined
Just Say Good-bye," "Love Dreams," "Keep a
and mentions particularly the Countin' Eight," "In the Slums," "I Never Met
of "When June Comes Along a Girl Like You," "Born and Bred in Brooklyn"
Jacques Green's Society Orchestra has just
finished its metropolitan tour over the B. F.
Keith vaudeville circuit and leaves for a twenty-
week engagement throughout the country.
Among the numbers it will play while on tour
arc "March of the Siamese," "Beside a Babbling
Brook" and "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers."