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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
DECEMBER
15, 1923
'is/able Melody from
TheMusi
"Lillle
TO CELEBRATE FIRST BIRTHDAY
NEW ZIEGFELD PRODUCTION OPENS
FIVE WRITERS WROTE THIS ONE
Clarke & Leslie Songs, Inc., Com pleting First
. Year With Success
Premiere in Detroit a Striki ng Success-"Kid
Boots" Will Op en in Ne w York New Year's
Eve-Many Good Numbe rs
Schubert wrote hi s fa mous "Se renade" a ll b y
himself; imagine what five mod ern music men,
heads to ge th er, can do . That's how Irving and
Jack K aufman, Frank W illiams, Fra nk Hu g hes
and George B. :.vlcConne ll rea soned, with th e
result tha t th'is quin tet o·f qua lified song-smiths
tu rne d out "Mickey Donohue," a cut e and whim
sical little Irish wal tz song th a t, judgin g f rom
wha t folks in the know see m t o think, is a
" natura l. " This tune will b e wide ly exploited
by the Mills forces .
Clarke & L eslie Songs, In c., 1591 Broadway,
New York City, wi ll, ea rly nex t year, celebrate
its first birth day. This firm, whic h featu res the
work of Grant Clar ke and Edgar Les lie, has
made rapid st rides in its compara tive ly short
life. Whi le it is true th a t th e firm has pub lished
several successes bearing t he name of th e above
wri ters , it by no means has confined its ca tal og
exclusive ly t o th ose writers for, as a ma tt er o f
fact, th ere a re several othe r contributors of
wo rks of current popu lar ity.
Probably the hi g h mark of thi s firm 's career
is the publication of "Dirty H a nd s, Dirty Face,"
a n appealin g ba llad which has bee n pro g ramme d
by vau devi llians everyw h ere and has bee n ex
t ensivel y featur ed by such performers as A I
J o lso n, Nora Bayes, Marion H a rri s, Be ll e Baker,
Avon Comedy Four and o thers .
The firm 's novelty song, "Maggie!" (Corne
Right Upstairs) a lso deve loped into an active
iss ue a nd prese nt indi cations are that it is to
corne in for some larger popularity. This son g,
to ge ther with a new comedy entitl ed "So This
Is Venice," w ill be th e feature of this type of
number with the firm for the next severa l
m onths.
Sidney C. Caine, ge nera l manage r o f Clarke
& Leslie Songs, In c., is well pleased with the
r esults ob tained by his organiza tion.
NEW HALYCON NUMBER ISSUED
The Hal cyon Publishi ng Co., Indi ana poli s,
announces the release of "One Who Ca res for
Me," a "moth er song," with lvrics by the la te
Hubbard T. Smith and music by Roy L. Burtch,
an Indianapolis compose r. H e rman Darewski
Music P ublish ing Co., London, wil l have charge
of th e European distribution.
DETROIT, MICH ., December 6.-The new F lormz
Ziegfeld mus ica l shc,w, "Kid Boots," in which
.Eddie Cantor and Mary E aton are starre d,
ope ned Tuesday and the local press predicts a
bi gge r future for it than the famo us "Sally"
s how. Th e settings are more gorgeous t han
anything the producer has eve r brought to De
troit . The principa ls include J o byna Howland,
Harland Dixon, Marie Callahan, Beth Beri,
H arry Fender an d Ethlynd Te r ry with the
famou s George Olson's Orchestra from Port
land, Ore., as an added attraction . The book is
by Wi ll iam Ant hon y McGuire and Otto Har
bach; lyrics by J oseph McCarthy and m usic by
Ha rry Tierney. The show will playa week in
Cincinnat i, 0., followed by a split week in Day
ton an d Indianapolis, a week in Pittsburgh, and
.i,; sc h eduled for opening in N ew York on New
Yea r's Eve at the Earl Carro ll Th ea t re.
The principal son g hits are "Som e One Loves
You After All," po pularly k nown as "The Rain
Song," "On the Old Lake Trail" and "Whe n
Your Heart's in th e Game ."
Edga r F . Bitner, general man age r, and Theo
dore Mo rse, of Leo Feis t, Inc., publi sher of th e
music, we re amo ng the New Yorkers who came
to D et roit for the opening.
"Mom-Ma"
ley ou Wanted Someone to
Play With, I Wanted Some
one to Love"
"Steamboat Sal"
"Happy and Go-Lucky in
My Old Kentucky Home"
"Little Town in the Ould
County Down"
RELEASES "MUTT & JEFF" SONG
The new Bud F isher "M ut and Jeff" song
has been r elease d by Jack Mills, Inc. The full
title of th e song is "Mutt Wro te th e Music an d
Jeff Wro te the Words" (And They Ca ll It the
F unny Sheet Blues).
REMICK'S BEST SELLERS
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
CAMPAIGN ON "LA ROSITA"
The Sam Fox Pub lishing Co., of New York
and Clevel an d, 0., s tarted a profess iona l cam
paign o n "La Rosi ta," which sp rang into p romi
nence as the musi cal theme for t he Mar y Pick
ford pho t oplay of the same name, and a lso a
new novelty blues number, entitled "Hurd y
Gurdy Blues. "
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