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The Music Trade Review
MAY 15, 1926
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Gene's business must be pretty good. While
I was at the store one of the fashionable tailors
delivered three brand new suits to him.
H. C. Hanson
H. C. Hanson's music house at 137 Powell
street always looks like a musicians' convention.
Our good friend Hanson is always so busy en-
tertaining his musician friends that he is a
pretty hard fellow to get hold of. He is ex-
tremely cordial, as is shown by his host of
friends, and his friendliness is a great asset to
his business.
Mr. Finley, the manager, gave me several mo-
ments of his time and told me a few facts about
the business, He said it was showing some
progress now, but that conditions for a while
were a little off. It is the headquarters of the
Buescher instruments and many other well-
known lines. In sheet music it handles prin-
cipally the popular hits and better type ballads,
as well as a selected line of teaching material.
Frank Sheridan
Just as I stepped off the elevator into the
lobby of the Hotel Clift Frank Sheridan ap-
peared on the scene. He was "busy as the
dickens," he said, rehearsing Wm. Anthony Mc-
Guire's merry thriller, "Twelve Miles Out." This
play, which was a huge success on Broadway,
was about to open with the Pacific Coast com-
pany at the Alcazar Theatre. Frank told me
he was originally slated for the star part with
the New York company, but on account of ill-
ness in the family he had to make a flying trip
across the Continent to his home at Carmel,
Cal. However, he was enthused about the play,
he was anxious to get in it if only for a few
weeks and then back to "Carmel by the Sea."
His John Franklin music catalog needs no
introduction to the trade. "Marcheta" has made
him independent. In fact, he retired some time
ago. Aside from that, the Sheridans are busy
cutting coupons from many other solid invest-
ments of real estate and other deals. His oc-
tavo catalog is probably one of the best on the
market and is for sale if a publisher convinced
of its true value will actually make what Sheri-
dan feels is a good offer.
Music Activities
It has been said that one of the hall-marks
of a true metropolis is its musical activities. In
this respect San Francisco is noteworthy. A
hasty reading of annals makes some people
gather the mistaken impression that San Fran-
cisco's musical history had its genesis when
miners threw gold nuggets at the feet of Ade-
lina Patti. But it has been pointed out by one
musical critic that the Franciscan padres were
chanting Gregorian measures in the Mission
Dolores when the battles of Lexington and Con-
cord were being fought, and that the Indians
were intoning hymns and staging miracle plays
for their sun god in California before the land-
ing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. San
Francisco not only discovered the gold in the
soprano of Luisa Tetrazzini at the old Tivoli
Opera House, but it has figured in the triumphs
of many luminaries of the musical and dramatic
yrid hy
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Music hy
FIELDS ad WHITING
With
Any JFEIST Son?
stage, from Lotta Crabtree and Tamagno to you golfed); RICHMOND Wedding Season's
Event (what, again?); RICHMOND Growing
Mary Garden and Galli-Curci.
Rapidly (Aren't you full grown as yet); RICH-
The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, con-
sisting of eighty-five musicians, is supported by MOND MURDERER Caught (I didn't know
public subscription and gives weekly concerts they could kill you); RICHMOND wins suit
(Were you wearing it?). Say, Who's this guy
throughout the Winter months. Each season
the city of San Francisco presents the Sym- RICHMOND?" I finally asked a cop. "RICH-
MOND is a suburb and not to be guyed," he
phony Orchestra in a series of evening popular
concerts in the huge Exposition Auditorium, said.
which seats 10,000 people. This is the only in-
From then on, Marvin continued to "spill the
stance of a municipality sponsoring music in chatter" and I'll say that he surely was in high
such form.
gear and spirits: "That cigar you handed me at
The city also maintains a municipal chorus the hotel was real Havana,-wasn't it? Thanks.
director, who trains a municipal chorus of 300 Havanother?"
voices for civic gatherings and in collaboration
I went over to see Rudy Seiger, genial or-
with the Symphony Orchestra in the production chestra director at the Fairmont Hotel here.
of the great masterpieces.
The hotel is located on top of Knob Hill, so
San Francisco is visited each year by all the I had to take a Powell street cable car. You get
first-class opera companies on tour. These the same sensation as going up in an elevator
companies never fail to receive a warm wel- excepting that elevators don't need to watch for
come and a keen appreciation. San Francisco automobiles at each crossing.
has a Music Teachers' Association, of which
Someone told me to give you this pun—only
Alvina Willson, 1048 Union street, is the presi- a music man's secret. "If Richmond is a brick,
dent and Augusto Gillespie the secretary. The is Sherman Clay?"
Sunday organ recitals at Civic Auditorium and
I visited practically all the local radio stations
the municipal band concerts at Golden Gate here and "Apron Strings" seems to be the
Park, the Presidio and various other parks all vogue. I even sang it on the radio. I wanted
go to show the great part music plays in the to slow up the numerous calls till my big orders
city beside the Golden Gate.
arrived. Now, You tell one.
Old-time Melodies
The Victor Co. has released two records of
"Jazz has received another indictment at the "Apron Strings," one a dance record by Jack
hands of Henry Ford." That was the headline
Chapman's Orchestra, the other vocal by the
in one of San Francisco's local papers while I
famous and charming Brox Sisters. It's the old
was there. The "Old Fiddlers' " contests en-
story: "One good turn deserves another," so
couraged by Henry Ford, the broadcasting of
"To the Victor belongs the Records."
the old-time dances from his studio as well as
After that Marvin fainted and I had to look
many other stations throughout the country, up one of the music dealers who had that
have all created a demand for the old-time "something" which would bring him to.
tunes. From the response it can easily be said
(Continued next week)
that the general public appreciates the good old
favorites, which recall bygone days. The ques-
tion is, is this a case of phenomenal occurrence,
or, rather, does it tend to prove that the old-
time tunes, so loved by our fathers and mothers,
still live and will continue with their quaint
Event, Announced Earlier This Year Than
charm long after the current jazz compositions
Usual, Will Close on December 31
have crumpled in the dust?
Official action declaring the dancing of the
The Century Music Publishing Co., publisher
Charleston a menace to the weak-kneed build-
of the Century Edition, which for the past sev-
ings, as well as weak-kneed humans, was taken
eral years has given prizes for unusual window
by Timothy A. Reardon, president of the Board
displays, has announced a new competition in
of Public Works, here. Other dances such as
which every dealer is invited to take part and
the waltz, fox-trot, polka, minuet, quadrille,
which will close December 31 of this year. The
etc., will be allowed.
contest of last season was particularly success-
Marvin Lee, the Globe Trotter, Finally
ful, and the Century Co. has planned this sea-
Catches Up With Me
son's competition at an earlier date than
The general sales manager for the Milton
heretofore so that everyone interested will have
Weil Music Co., of Chicago (publisher of
plenty of time to become a participant. The
"Worth Weil Songs") is none other than Mar-
same judges that awarded prizes last year will
vin Lee, known as the globe trotter. He never
again act in that capacity for the 1926 season.
misses. He knows all the trains, boats, air- There will be altogether five prizes, but in case
planes, street cars, stages, busses, jitneys and
of any tie in the decision of the judges each
gin rickeys. "Say, what were you doing over
winning participant will receive a like prize.
in Oakland yesterday?", was the way he
greeted me. "I read in last night's Oakland In-
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
quirer five articles, all captioned 'Richmond.' The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
RICHMOND Tennis League Starts (I thought free of charge to men who desire positions.
Century Announces Its
Annual Display Contest