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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
JULY 11,
1925
LINGER
LONGER IN
YOURARMS
A fascinating Rxfrot
Joy Cliff Friend
and Abel Baer
You
Can't
Go
Wrong
With
Any
X
FEIST' Song
Some New Ditson
Features Just Issued
lege Ditties," "Hank's Songs of the Sunny
South" and "Hank's Comic Camp Ditties"—all
Robbins-Engel publications.
"Flapper Wife" Wins
British Prince's Encore
The Ditson Chorus Book for High School and
Chorus Societies and "Silver Bells and Cockle
Shells" Included
Maggie Jones Records
Five Triangle Numbers
In Far-off Hong Kong, Prince George Dances
to Its Strains and, Like Oliver Twist, He
Wanted More
The Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass., has
just issued "The Ditson Chorus Book," for high
school and choral societies. The book is a spe-
cially selected list of copyrighted books com-
bining thoroughly singable choruses, varied in
character and mood, and grouped for the prac-
tical need of the classroom and choral groups.
The progress of music in the schools throughout
the country, community music activities and
the development of choral groups make this
latest addition to the Ditson catalog an impor-
tant one.
Those who have edited and compiled these
selections from the different catalogs are all
active workers in school music activities which
especially fitted them in the preparation of this
publication. They are George J. Abbott, direc-
tor of school music, Schenectady, N. Y.; Wil-
liam Breach, director of school music, Winston-
Salem, N. C, and James D. Price, associate
director of school music, Hartford, Conn.
The Oliver Ditson Co. has also issued an
operetta for girls' voices called "Silver Bells and
Cockle Shells," described as a Mother Goose
fantasy, the text of which is by Robert Y. Kerr
and the music by Elias Blum. The work should
have a particular appeal for girls as it is pat-
terned along the lines that appeal to youthful
minds. The settings and characters lend them-
selves readily to picturesque costuming and the
light, entertaining songs should also prove in-
viting.
Well-known Columbia Race Artist Makes Big
Success in Firm's Catalog With Triangle
Songs
"The Flapper Wife," the song issued in con-
junction with the serial story of the same name
running in several hundred newspapers in this
country as well as in many foreign cities, has
come in for popularity in Cuba, Australia and
other world centers. The latest report on the
foreign use of the story and song is in the
Hong Kong Telegraph, Hong Kong, China,
written by F. P. Franklin, manager of that pa-
per. Among other things, he says:
" 'The Flapper Wife' fox-trot has won the
seal of royal approval, for on May 28, at a pop-
ular seaside hotel nestling amid Oriental moun-
tains and overlooking a pretty little bay on the
Island of Hong Kong, His Royal Highnes9
Prince George, fourth son of King George and
Queen Mary, and brother of the Prince of
Wales, fell a victim to its haunting melody when
he danced to its strains and loudly joined in
the clamor for a double encore.
"Let us explain how it all happened. The N.
E. A. family has members in all parts of the
world—one out in far-away Hong Kong, Brit-
ain's easternmost colony, the Hong Kong Tel-
egraph, a bright fourteen-page evening newspa-
per. In common with all other N. E. A. sub-
scribers, the Telegraph was supplied with the
orchestral score of 'The Flapper Wife,' and,
anxious to set the whole colony humming its
refrain, it handed the music over to the Hong
Kong & Shanghai Hotels Co., which owns a
chain of hotels up and down the China Coast
and which has its own dance orchestras. 'The
Flapper Wife' was accordingly boomed by the
company as America's new big fox-trot hit. On
the second night of its presentation, it figured
prominently on the dance program at the Re-
pulse Bay Hotel, Hong Kong, and as luck
would have it, Prince George, who has been ap-
pointed to the British flagship on the China
Naval Station, happened to be in the colony on
that night, on his way from England to join his
ship in North China.
"Hearing of the dinner dance, the Prince ex-
pressed a wish to be present, and with a big
party of leading Hong Kong residents he mo-
tored out to the seaside hotel. Here he put in
the whole night tripping the light fantastic, re-
maining until the early hours of the morning.
His most enjoyable dance was that to the tune
of 'The Flapper Wife,' with which he expressed
his delight by loudly applauding for two repeti-
tions of the peppy fox-trot.
"Naturally, the Prince's approval of 'The
Flapper Wife' has boomed the melody out in
far-off Hong Kong, where everybody now hums
it and where it holds pride of place in dance
programs."
Selling Ukulele Books
in Far-off Hawaii
Robbins-Engel, Inc., Receives Large Orders for
Publications of This Type From Instrument's
Natal Country
That it is well to do in Rome as Romans do is an
old bromide. It was never better illustrated
than by the results Robbins-Engel, Inc., has
received from Hawaii on its ukulele books. For,
in the year that that firm has been developing
and exploiting its famous ukulele catalog, it has
sold more than 50,000 "uke" folios in no less a
place than Hawaii—home and natal place of the
ukulele, or "jumping flea," as they call it on the
much publicized beach of Waikiki. An order
for five thousand books, received recently from
the Hawaii Sales Co., Ltd., 1009 Nuuanu street,
Honolulu, included "Ukulele Ike's Comic
Songs for the Ukulele," Nos. 1 and 2, "W. C.
Handy's Famous Comic Blues," and the follow-
ing famous books by Hank Linet—"Hank's One
Hour Course in Ukulele Playing," "Hank's Col-
Maggie Jones, who was recently signed up by
the Columbia to make "race records" for them
exclusively, has developed into a "first seller."
Her records, "Undertaker's Blues" and "North
Bound Blues," which were just released, will
undoubtedly sell bigger than anything she has
ever made. Both numbers are published by
Triangle Music Pub. Co. and three other num-
bers she recently made belong to Triangle also.
They are, "Thunderstorm Blues," "You May Go,
But You'll Come Back Some Day," and "If I
Lose, Let Me Lose, Mama Don't Mind."
A Sheet Music Greed
The Adams Sheet Music Shop, 140 North
Main street, Lima, O., has a business creed
which, under the caption "Our Idea of Service,"
should be of interest to other retailers. The
outstanding features of its proposals are given
below:
"To furnish colleges, schools and private
teachers of piano, voice, violin, orchestral and
band instruments, with the best sheet music
and music books.
"To secure any piece of sheet music or music
book obtainable, not carried in stock, in the
shortest possible time by special order.
"To co-operate in all movements to advance
the cause of community music, especially in
bringing good music to the home, school and
church." The Adams Sheet Music Shop is one
of the best-known establishments in the State
of Ohio.
Sissle and Blake Featuring
Sissle and Blake, the well-known colored com-
posers and entertainers, are for the first time
in their career featuring a number which they
did not write themselves. It is "Broken, Busted
Blues," published by Tune-House, Inc.
Berlin Ukulele Songs
Irving Berlin, Inc., has found a wide demand
for its new songs for the ukulele entitled "Strum
It With Crumit." These popular ditties, ar-
ranged in simplified form for ukulele players, are
proving fast sellers wherever displayed. "Tid-
dle De Ukes," another ukulele publication car-
rying comic songs, published by the Berlin
Co., is also proving an active Summer offering.