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THK MUSIC TRADE
48
REVIEW
FEBRUARY 13,
1926
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Here's the Proof Song
Writers Are Something
Mayor Walker and Ernest R. Ball, Writers of
"Will You Love Me in September" Hold a
Reunion in New York
There are many exceptions to the oft-repeat-
ed phrase "A song writer never amounts to any-
thing." One striking example of these exceptions
is the present mayor of New York City, Jimmie
Walker. iHe wrote lyrics for a number of years,
the best known of these and one that is still
popular, being "Will You Love Me in December
As You Do in May?" •
During the campaign for the mayoralty office
this song came in for an intense revival. Used
as a campaign song, the publishers, M. Witmark
& Sons, quickly found that there was a large
body of people who found unusual interest in
the old number, which made necessary the issu-
in the city Ernest Ball did not neglect to call
and congratulate his one-time collaborator, Jim-
mie Walker, on his elevation to the distin-
guished office he is now filling. The accompa-
nying picture shows the mayor and Ernest Ball
at the moment of their interesting re-union in
the mayor's office in New York City, which is
ample proof that often song writers do amount
to something.
Carl Fischer Brings
Out Skilton Numbers
New Compositions by Well-known Composer
Are Listed—Three New Harlin Songs An-
nounced
Among the new issues in the catalog of Carl
Fischer, Inc., to which particular attention is
appropriately directed are a series of numbers
by Charles Sanford Skilton, the well-known
"The Matinee Girl" Has
Premiere on Broadway]
New Musical Comedy With Score By Franl
Grey Offers Pleasing Entertainment—Mucl
of Its Music Should Prove Popular
There was given at the Forest Theatre, New!
York, last week the Metropolitan premiere of
the new musical comedy "The Matinee Girl,"
with book and lyrics by McElbert Moore andi
Bide Dudley, and music by Frank Grey.
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production is of the usual musical comedy type,
but with a chorus of unusual excellence that,
puts over most successfully those musical num-
bers that hint at dancing.
It is quite certain that several of the numbers!
that go to make up the score will be whistlec
here and yon about the country and prove
popular with dance orchestras, for Mr. Grey hasj
considered the tastes of Broadway and its en-
virons in his selection of themes. There are,
for instance, "Tne One You Love," "When My
Little Ship Comes In," "Like-A-Me, Like-A-
You," "Only One," "Waiting All the Time For
You," and a dozen more that follow the bent of
the fox-trot, the Charleston and the waltz. The
cast includes Olga Steck, James Hamilton,
Juliette Day, Gus Shy, Rose LaHarte and sev-
eral other principals known to Broadway, and
the show as a whole should please New York
and its visitors for some months in the present
season.
New McKinley Catalog
Now Being Distributed
Firm Reports an Exceptionally Large Demand
for the World-famous McKinley Music Series
From the Public
Mayor Jimmie Walker and Ernest R. Ball
ance of a new edition to satisfy an emphatic de- writer of Indian music. As this type of offering
mand. This revival of "Will You Love me in is increasing in popularity these Skilton com-
December As You Do in May" was not con- positions are important. They include a number
fined, however, to the metropolis, where it orig- of Indian dances and several sketches for the
inated, but the old melody and the appealing piano. Some of them are arranged for violin
lyric began to be programmed frequently in all and piano. There are songs for both high and
medium voice and works for string quartet,
sections of the country.
The man who wrote the music for "Will You small orchestra, full and grand orchestra.
Also included in these new lists are three
Love Me in December As You Do in May" is
also just as famous in another sphere as his col- songs by W. Frank Harlin, who recently jumped
laborator, for it was furnished by one of Amer- into international prominence through the pre-
ica's most popular writers of successful ballads, sentation by the Chicago Civic Opera Company
Ernest R. Ball, who continues to write success- of his American opera. The songs are "I Think,
Love," "April's Lady" and "The Face of My
fully each season in this direction.
Recently Ernie Ball and his singing artists ap- Beloved." Properly presented to singers dur-
peared in the New York Hippodrome and the ing the current season they should prove most
Keith-Albee Theatre in Brooklyn. They will inviting and induce numerous sales for the
play the entire Keith some time later. While music dealer.
CHICAGO, III., February 6.—The McKinley
Music Co., 1501-15 East Fifty-fifth street, re-
ports an exceptionally large demand for the
standard McKinley line, known as the World-
famous McKinley Music. The company re-
cently added fifty new numbers for the 1926
catalog, which is now ready and being dis-
tributed to the trade.
It has always been the aim of the publisher
to make all the piano, violin and vocal num-
bers meet every requirement, whether for study,
teaching, concert or general entertainment. In
this connection a special catalog of teaching
music, classified according to grades of piano
technic, was also recently worked out with the
aid of the editorial staff. In this series the
phrasing, pedaling, tone shading and metronome
marks have been marked on all the grades, giv-
ing abundance of material for study. A num-
ber of compositions in the easy grades are
printed in large notes. In fingering the first
and second grades, the editorial staff has kept
in mind the small hand of the average juvenile
beginner.