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DECEMBER 12, 1925
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
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Denver Is Visited by Richmond—(Continued from page 129)
full of life and "pep," with sparkling eyes, vi-
vacious personality and possesses a lot of mag-
netism. Her time is well occupied, teaching a
girls' glee club music at the Denver University,
the Cecelia Chorus and considerable private
teaching. With all that, Mrs. Smith manages
to get time for recreation. She loves the out-
doors. I inquired about her Dad, Wilberforce
J. Whiteman, formerly supervisor of music in
schools in Denver and director of the Trinity
Church Choir of one hundred voices. She said,
"Daddy is taking it easier now, living on his
one hundred acre ranch, a short way out of
Denver. While Daddy is now in his sixties he
is around and active to the extreme. Life in
the outdoors is appealing to him and he is
happy looking after his ranch."
Chas. E. Wells Music Co.
At 1626 California street, the Chas. E. Wells
Music Co. occupies its own building, where
everything musical is handled—high-grade pi-
anos, Conn line of band instruments, etc. The
sheet music department, as well as the musical
instrument section, is managed by Hadley Bask-
erville, a real hustler in the music business. He
has music on his brain from morning till night.
The chances are, if his wife would let us in on
the secret, he probably talks music in his sleep.
Baskerville operates the largest sheet mu:;ic
jobbing plant in the Rocky Mountain States.
He issues a bulletin very often, with intelligent
listings of the best selling publications on the
market, both popular and standard. His de-
partment occupies a large space in the base-
ment of the building where the stock is effi-
c'entlv handled at the least expense. A perpet-
ual inventory is carried on every item in stock.
This can well be termed a modern jobbing plant.
"Bask" showed me his record for the last few
months and he gave me a list of the following
ten numbers which sold the best with him:
"Moonlight and Roses," "Yearning," "Colle-
giate," "Yes Sir, That's My Baby," "Don't Bring
Lulu," "Oh, How I Miss You To-night," "Let
Me Call You Sweetheart," "Susie," "Oh Kath-
arina" and "Ukulele Lady."
This company also publishes four books,
which it claims every music dealer should have
in stock. They are "DeHarport's Practical
Method for Tenor Banjo," "DeHarport's Practi-
cal Piano Method for Playing Popular Music,"
both of which retail at $1.50 and by the same
composer, a Ukulele Method and Chord Dia-
grams, which sells for 50c. The dealer receives
a liberal discount.
Denver's Auditorium
The Municipal auditorium, Denver's "Mira-
cle Building," as it is called, is really that for
no other building in the nation can be so quickly
transformed to such varied purposes as the Den-
ver Auditorium. It is one of the largest of its
kind in the United States, having a seating ca-
pacity of 12,000. Two thousand couples have
danced on its floor at one time. The stage is
large enough for a three-ring circus. The great
municipal pipe organ, which is a feature of this
auditorium, cost $80,000 to construct. It is one
of the largest in the world. During the Summer
months, a free organ recital is held daily be-
tween 12 and 1. Popular-priced concerts are
from 25 cents to $1 and some of the world's
greatest artists appear during the Winter sea-
son.
Joe Mann
Joe Mann maintains a dance orchestra in this
city and represents M. Witmark & Sons in Den-
ver and surrounding territory. He looks aftei
their standard publications as well as their Black
and White series of high-grade songs. Mann
needs no introduction to the trade in the Den-
ver locality. He has been doing some broad-
casting recently with his orchestra, which has
caused favorable comment.
Denver Music Co.
It was indeed a pleasure to be shown through
the new and attractive salesrooms and store in
the building occupied by the Denver Music Co.
Chas. S. Onderdonk, the vice-president of the
company, was my guide and incidentally told
me that he had been associated with the firm
for eighteen years. He later surprised me with
the news that he was about to offer his resig-
nation from the Denver Music Co., in order to
come East to New York, where he will be as-
sociated with Chickering & Sons at Chickering
Hall.
The Denver Music Co. has been in existence
for forty-one years. E. A. Cox is the presi-
dent. The policy of the house is high-grade
merchandise and a one-price system is main-
tained throughout. It features the American
"Piano Co. lines, the Ampico and Mason-Hamlin
and handles Vose, Ludwig, Schumann and other
high-grade products.
The model music department is in charge of
Miss Nell C. Frost. She didn't tell me how
long she had been with the concern, but she did
say "I've been here all the time." Miss Frost
is very proud of her musical trio in the depart-
ment, which consists of the Misses Irene Vine-
yard, Verona Donohue and Jewel Nugent. She
takes an active interest in her work but says
that should she be called to any other duty, her
tireless trio are capable of handling the depart-
ment. Miss Frost is a good musician, too.
Many of the professional musicians and teach-
ers come to her for consultation and advice
when arranging their programs and activities.
She also knows the language of the flowers,
since there is a fresh bouquet on her desk every
day.
Cleveland Davis
Cleveland Davis has been in the music game
in Denver for quite a few years. Formerly he
was associated with Robbins-Engel, Inc., but
he is now the local representative of Villa
Moret, a music publishing house in San Fran-
cisco. Davis makes his headquarters with the
Knight-Campbell Music Co. Through its
courtesy he has the use of one of its studios.
Here are a few of the Villa Moret tunes, which
are big hits in Denver: "Moonlight and Roses,"
"Funny," "Just a Little Drink," "Moon Dear,"
"You'll Find Me Waiting for You." Not only
is Cleveland satisfied with the results, but from
the telegrams and letters he receives from the
head office, it finds his work very effective, too.
Cleveland recently made a trip in his Cleve-
land car to California and back. With him he
had his wife and a lot of excess baggage, among
which was Harry Wilson, the Denver represen-
tative of Sherman, Clay & Co., a San Francisco
house. Harry was really excess baggage be-
cause he is excessive. If he is fat at thirty,
what will he be at forty? Harry Wilson has a
style all his own or perhaps he got it from a
Sears-Roebuck catalog. At any rate he wears
lace cuffs and highly polished shoes. The big
tunes in the Sherman-Clay catalog, according
to Harry, are "Close Your Eyes," "Croon a Lit-
tle Melody" and "Sad."
Another personage, Joe Flood, two hundred
pounds of harmony, is the third ace of the Co-
lumbia trio, the other two of which are Cleve-
land Davis and Harry Wilson. Mrs. Mildred
Davis, Cleveland's wife, is the accompanist. This
trio certainly helps to put many songs across in
town and if the Orpheum circuit gets wise to
them the Denver music trade is apt to miss this
big time act whose splendid work has been val-
uable both in the entertainment and commer-
cial fields.
I must tell you that Cleveland Davis is very
fond of animals. I just heard that he bought
one hundred Christmas "seals." Cleveland told
me a good one. While in a train, traveling West
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PUBLICATIONS of DISTINCTION
Library Songs
At
...."Dawn"
Fred R. Weaver—20c
....High
....Med.
....Low
. . . . " 1 Love You More Each Day"
A. H. Sovereign—20c
High
Med
Low
Concert Sonys
"Thoughts"
Henry lladley—22j4c
. . . . High
. . . . Low
. . . . " A Broken Song". . . Rudolph G. Kopp—22J/2C
. . . . High
. . . . Low
. . . . " T o Me Thou Art So Lovely"
Walter Goodell-22"4c
Sacred Songs
. . . . " H e Went Forth Rejoicing,"
A. H. Sovereign—20c
High
Med
Low
Piano Novelettes
. . . . " U i l a " (Vahe Francaise),
Rudolph <1. Kopp -20c
. . . . " N y m p h s and Kauns" (Intermezzo),
E. V. Dahhiuist—20c
(10% discount in hundred lots assorted)
NOTE: Library SOUKS published with Violin and
Cello obligato.
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