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WINS SUCCESS AS SONGWRITER
PAYS TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN FOSTER
Sidney Holden Returns t o Home in Detroit
Afte r W inning Reco gni ti on in New York
Pitt&bu rgh Cham be r of C ot11ll1eree Takes Active
Pa rt in Ceremonies at Beard&tow n , Ky.
O ne of the newer so ngw rit e r s w ho is turni ng
o ut s ll ccess ful so ngs is S idney Ho lde n, who r e
cen tl y r e turned to hi s hom e in Det ro it. H ~
spent two yea rs in New York an d had unu sua l
success in writing comedy ideas for wel l-known
performers, includin g Eddie Cantor. He wa"
[or a t illl e, connect ed with Fred Fisher, Inc.,
a nd returns to Detroit to act as sa les manager
for the C hamberlain Co. , of that city.
Among the son gs he has written a nd which
were Ilublishe d are "If I Could Have in My
Arms \Vhat I H ave in ,VIy Mind," pub lis h ed by
Nat V incent, In c.; "W he n You Lose Yo ur H eart
to Some One," a ba ll ad with O llll a n, In c.;
" Deedle-Dee-Dee Detroit," issued by th e Cha lll
ber la in Co., and "Tell Me Why Yo u a nd r
Shou ld Be StranRers" and "Se nd Me a Diue
bird vVith Beautiful Blue Eycs" in the catalog
of Fred Fisher, Inc.
Du ring the eady Fa ll the house of Jack Mills,
Inc., wi ll issue "vValkin ' Up a nd Dow n Blues,"
and a numbe r of other songs will be i"sned
by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.
HlcAROSTIIWN , Ky., .lul y 10. /\ delegation fro m
t he Pittsb ur g h, 1'a., C ham her of Commerce par~
ti c ipated recently 111 th e formal d ed ica tion of a
S tate s hrin e at Federal Hill , to mark .t he o ld
Rowan h Ol11e, w here in 1852 Stephen Co llin s
Foster, a visitor during' his hon eYlll00 n, wro te
"Iv1y O ld Kentucky 'Hom e ." Scores of a uto
mobil es from a ll pa rts of Kentu cky and a spec ia l
train from Lou isv ille brought a host of Ke n
tuckians to ce le brate the occas ion. The Cham
ber of Commerce of Pitt sburgh had prepared
a bronze p late, recording the fact I hat Foste r
had w ritt e n the so ng at Fed eral Hill , and a lso
had e ntru s ted to it s de legat ion a full-l e ngt h oi l
portrait of t he co mposer, copied from an or igi
na l wh ic h hangs in the Foster Memoria l in
Piltsburgh, w hi c h was hi s bir t hpl ace. At the
hantl s of a spec ial commission by Governor
IvIorrow, the beautif ul old hou se has been re
stored . as n ea rly as was possibl e, to the appea r
ance it had wh e n Foster wrot e the song.
STRONG CAMPAIGN ON BALLAD
A lhert Tora, of New Or lea ns, is th e w rit e r
·E lvina." Acco rd in g to th e ly ri cs of th e so n g
il: lIli g ht be we ll wo rth whi le fo r tho se int e r
cqeel in girls to make a tri p to the Southern
Jack Mills, Inc., ys ing 1'l:>e.w~~
. __ .. _ ~, ..Tlrl That Men F orget"
Jack IvI ills, Inc., is carrying out some suc·
cessf ul adver tisin g plans on the bal lad, "Justa
G irl Tha t Men Forget." ,\mong the material
sent to the trade is a Jarge postcar d carrying
a themat ic of the chorus on the address side.
The reverse side of the ca rd gives a description
of the song, its several val ues, the extent of
the campaign in its beha lf, inc ludi n g mention
of a ser ies of testil1lonia l ~ from promi ne nt
clergymen a nd noted m en of affa ir s, as well as
ca llin g attention to th e sy ndicate s tori es On th e
numb er w hieh h ave appeared.
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opening lin es of which, "E lvina, clearly gi rli e,
yon I·ook like V ir gin Mary."
STAFFORD PUBLISHES NEW SONG
_ Lewis Freder ick S taffor d, Sy rac ll se, N. Y., is
the publi s he r of a new so n g ent it led "T he rc·s a
Bungalow That's Wai tin g·." The worcls are by
Joseph Sears and Earl Lisson and the mnsic by
:vir. Stafforcl. The la tt e r has cOlllposed sc ,·cra l
previou~
~l l ccc~ses.
" Chicago"
"The Thief"
"That Red Head Gal"
"No One Loves You
Any Better Th~n Your
M-A-Double M-Y"
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