Music Trade Review
Issue: 1908 Vol. 46 N. 20 - Page 47
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THE:
MREVIDVflEARS
MUSIC
TRADE
THAT we have received excellent account; of
the new Julian Edwards' opera "The Gay Musi-
cian." (M. Witmark & Sons.)
THAT the Great Eastern Publishing Co. are
concentrating all their efforts on pushing one of
the daintiest little novelty numbers of the sea-
son, "If I Build a Nest, Will You Share It With
Me?"
THAT a telephone message from the house of
Remick informs us that 15,000 copies of the
song "Are You Sincere?" were sold on Saturday
last.
THAT this proves conclusively the value of any
matter printed in these columns.
THAT if it took 25 years to compile the Music
Supplement issued with last Sunday's New York
World, how long would it take for a World
reporter to collect some really reliable infor-
mation?
THAT special emphasis was given in this lit-
erary joke to the fact that Victor Herbert, al-
though the possessor of "a foreign accent," is
Irish.
THAT our "Man On The Street," who has some
slight knowledge of both Mr. Herbert and Dublin,
CHANDLER TALKSJ)F CONDITIONS.
has never before heard the accent of the Irish
Returns from Extended Trip and Regrets Uni-
capital described as "foreign."
versal Price Cutting of Popular Music—Some
THAT unquestionably the most interesting as
Comments in This Connection.
well as the most veracious article in the whole
supplement was a zoological item headed "Awful
(.Special to The Review.)
Fate of the Kangaroo."
Chicago, 111., May 8, 1908.
THAT Maurice Shapiro has a most remarkable
H. F. Chandler, of the National Music Co., who
new issue list for this time of year.
recently returned from a trip, in which he not
THAT the Fred Fischer Music Pub. Co. has only visited the principal Southern cities, but
been incorporated with a capital of $500. The also took in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Cin-
directors included Jos. Lasky, William Breiten- cinnati and Indianapolis, found the music trade
bach, and Phillip Leichtentritt, none of whom throughout the countiy to be in a deplorable con-
belong to the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
dition owing to the price cutting of popular
THAT GUS Edwards' Summer Song has ar- music. "Never before in all my travels," re-
rived and is called "The Grand Old Sands."
marked Mr. Chandler to your correspondent,
THAT with Victor Herbert's "Algeria" (Charles "have I seen such chaotic conditions. Legitimate
K. Harris) and Leslie Stuart's "Havana" (Chap- music dealers throughout the country are seri-
pell & Co.), it looks as though the autumn crop ously talking of throwing music out of their
of musical plays will have some geographical stores entirely, while others have relegated it
value.
to some dark corner to look out for itself. In
THAT Jerome H. Remick should be cordially one town I interviewed a dealer who showed me
congratulated upon having secured the publica- a card from a New York publisher asking how
tion rights of Miss Clare Rummer's songs for a many copies of a certain 'hit' he could use at
lie. a copy wholesale, while his neighbor, a ten-
period of three years.
THAT Walter Jacobs, of Boston, announces that cent store, had his window filled with the same
his charming little waltz, "The Kiss of Spring," song at 10c. retail. Other dealers that I met
informed me that they were buying all the songs
is published for all instruments.
THAT Charles K. Harris will publish "A Stub- they needed from the 10c. stores thereby dis-
born Cinderella," the new Musical Comedy by pensing with both publisher and jobber."
Speaking of a possible remedy, Mr. Chandler's
Hough, Adams & Howard, shortly to be produced
views could hardly be called optimistic. "Song
in Milwaukee.
THAT the trial of the action brought by Her- hits are not as long lived as they were eight or
bert Hall Winslow against Joseph Weber, the ten or even five years ago," he remarked, and
there is a growing tendency on the part of "popu-
comedian, should make interesting reading if
lar" music publishers to still further reduce
all reports be true.
their prices to dealers, thus enabling them to
THAT Alfred Solman has just completed a high-
compete with the ten-cent stores. Department
class song, entit'ed "If I Had a Thousand Lives to
and ten-cent stores draw crowds of people, it is
Live, I'd Live Them All for You."
true, and will always be strong factors in the
THAT Maurice Shapiro should give a prize for
selling of popular music, but this need not deter
a ballad which does not mention roses in its
or frighten the legitimate dealer in the least,
title, in some form or other.
as all he requires is more efficient sales people,
better posted and more alive to the educating
THE TEACHER'S FAVORITE
of their customers to take a better class of music.
The dealer who canies a high class stock and
GRADED
understands his business, will not suffer because
some "popular" publishers are selling their music
EDITION
for whatever they can get. Music departments
U 5
U S
in ten-cent stores and department stores have
LEO FEIST, Feist Building, 134 W. 37th St., N. Y.
surely come to stay, but they cater only to the
class of people who want cheap music. Natur-
ally, therefoie, this class of store secures the
J
cheapest kind of help obtainable, a class who
E
generally speaking know nothing whatsoever of
From "THE DAIRYMAIDS"
R
the music business and are only capable of hand-
( W o r d s b y M . E. ROURKE)
O
"MARY McGES." "I'D LIKE TO MEET YOUR
ing out music as a butcher hands out meat or a
M
FATHER." "CHEER UP GIRLS," "I'VE A MILLION
grocer hands out tea. A change is shortly in
REASONS WHY I LOVE YOU." "NEVER MARRY
E
A GIRL WITH COLO COLD FEET."
order, mark my words."
BEC
PAT
OF*.
BBO
PAT. OFF.
SUCCESSFUL SONGS
D.
From "THE LITTLE CHERUB"
K
E
R
N
'8
"MEET ME AT TWILIGHT." (W.rdi by F. Clifford
Harris). "UNDER THE LINDEN TREE," (Words
by M. E. Ronrke).
From "THE MORALS OF MARCUS"
"EASTERN MOON." (Words by M. E. Rourke).
T .
R
0 . , U31-143C
Broadway
D . HARM*?
n / t n i n a f t w
N E W YORK
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
H I WEST l l t h ST1EET, NEW Y O U CITY
47
REVIEW
Alice Lloyd, the English comedienne, known
to fame as the sister of Marie, has signed a con-
tract with Florenz Ziegfeld whereby she is to
star this coming autumn in a new musical play
entitled "The Belle of Scotland," to be written
by J. J. McNally, with lyrics and music by
Geo. M. Cohan. If Miss Lloyd can acquire a
Scotch accent anyway as good as her natural
Cockney dialect, her starring venture is a fore-
ordained success. By the way, she has very
wisely reserved the right to interpolate a num-
ber of successful songs which Maurice Shapiro
has provided for her. The remainder of the
score will be published by Cohan & Harris.
The many friends of Herbert Ingraham, the
well-known song writer, will be glad to hear
that his improvement in health is so pronounced
that he can now do his composing at the piano.
He has rented a cottage at 32 Helen street, Sara-
nac Lake, N. Y., where he will of course be
glad to hear from his friends. His numerous
songs published by Shapiro are doing remark-
ably well.
7 T H E Name That
Stands At The
Top Of All Ten Cent
Sheet Music Editions Is
"CENTURY!"
Even the Greatest
Artists Admire it.
Century Music Publishing Co.
19 West 28th Street, New York
CONSERVATORY EDITION
EVEN if you'd like to think so, there
are no other editions of
Kphler,
Heller
and
Czerny
that are nearly so good as the jusi
published
Conservatory
Edition
of these standard works, and best of all,
they cost less than any other edition—
none nearly so good.
Conservatory
Publication
Society
Cor. BROADWAY and 28th ST., NEW YORK
CONSERVATORY EDITION
The Biggest Song Hit of to-day is
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
"I'M STARVING FOR
ONE SIGHT OF YOU"
Another "After the Ball"
Sold by your music jobber or direct from
CHAS. K. HARRIS,
THE:
MREVIDVflEARS
MUSIC
TRADE
THAT we have received excellent account; of
the new Julian Edwards' opera "The Gay Musi-
cian." (M. Witmark & Sons.)
THAT the Great Eastern Publishing Co. are
concentrating all their efforts on pushing one of
the daintiest little novelty numbers of the sea-
son, "If I Build a Nest, Will You Share It With
Me?"
THAT a telephone message from the house of
Remick informs us that 15,000 copies of the
song "Are You Sincere?" were sold on Saturday
last.
THAT this proves conclusively the value of any
matter printed in these columns.
THAT if it took 25 years to compile the Music
Supplement issued with last Sunday's New York
World, how long would it take for a World
reporter to collect some really reliable infor-
mation?
THAT special emphasis was given in this lit-
erary joke to the fact that Victor Herbert, al-
though the possessor of "a foreign accent," is
Irish.
THAT our "Man On The Street," who has some
slight knowledge of both Mr. Herbert and Dublin,
CHANDLER TALKSJ)F CONDITIONS.
has never before heard the accent of the Irish
Returns from Extended Trip and Regrets Uni-
capital described as "foreign."
versal Price Cutting of Popular Music—Some
THAT unquestionably the most interesting as
Comments in This Connection.
well as the most veracious article in the whole
supplement was a zoological item headed "Awful
(.Special to The Review.)
Fate of the Kangaroo."
Chicago, 111., May 8, 1908.
THAT Maurice Shapiro has a most remarkable
H. F. Chandler, of the National Music Co., who
new issue list for this time of year.
recently returned from a trip, in which he not
THAT the Fred Fischer Music Pub. Co. has only visited the principal Southern cities, but
been incorporated with a capital of $500. The also took in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Cin-
directors included Jos. Lasky, William Breiten- cinnati and Indianapolis, found the music trade
bach, and Phillip Leichtentritt, none of whom throughout the countiy to be in a deplorable con-
belong to the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
dition owing to the price cutting of popular
THAT GUS Edwards' Summer Song has ar- music. "Never before in all my travels," re-
rived and is called "The Grand Old Sands."
marked Mr. Chandler to your correspondent,
THAT with Victor Herbert's "Algeria" (Charles "have I seen such chaotic conditions. Legitimate
K. Harris) and Leslie Stuart's "Havana" (Chap- music dealers throughout the country are seri-
pell & Co.), it looks as though the autumn crop ously talking of throwing music out of their
of musical plays will have some geographical stores entirely, while others have relegated it
value.
to some dark corner to look out for itself. In
THAT Jerome H. Remick should be cordially one town I interviewed a dealer who showed me
congratulated upon having secured the publica- a card from a New York publisher asking how
tion rights of Miss Clare Rummer's songs for a many copies of a certain 'hit' he could use at
lie. a copy wholesale, while his neighbor, a ten-
period of three years.
THAT Walter Jacobs, of Boston, announces that cent store, had his window filled with the same
his charming little waltz, "The Kiss of Spring," song at 10c. retail. Other dealers that I met
informed me that they were buying all the songs
is published for all instruments.
THAT Charles K. Harris will publish "A Stub- they needed from the 10c. stores thereby dis-
born Cinderella," the new Musical Comedy by pensing with both publisher and jobber."
Speaking of a possible remedy, Mr. Chandler's
Hough, Adams & Howard, shortly to be produced
views could hardly be called optimistic. "Song
in Milwaukee.
THAT the trial of the action brought by Her- hits are not as long lived as they were eight or
bert Hall Winslow against Joseph Weber, the ten or even five years ago," he remarked, and
there is a growing tendency on the part of "popu-
comedian, should make interesting reading if
lar" music publishers to still further reduce
all reports be true.
their prices to dealers, thus enabling them to
THAT Alfred Solman has just completed a high-
compete with the ten-cent stores. Department
class song, entit'ed "If I Had a Thousand Lives to
and ten-cent stores draw crowds of people, it is
Live, I'd Live Them All for You."
true, and will always be strong factors in the
THAT Maurice Shapiro should give a prize for
selling of popular music, but this need not deter
a ballad which does not mention roses in its
or frighten the legitimate dealer in the least,
title, in some form or other.
as all he requires is more efficient sales people,
better posted and more alive to the educating
THE TEACHER'S FAVORITE
of their customers to take a better class of music.
The dealer who canies a high class stock and
GRADED
understands his business, will not suffer because
some "popular" publishers are selling their music
EDITION
for whatever they can get. Music departments
U 5
U S
in ten-cent stores and department stores have
LEO FEIST, Feist Building, 134 W. 37th St., N. Y.
surely come to stay, but they cater only to the
class of people who want cheap music. Natur-
ally, therefoie, this class of store secures the
J
cheapest kind of help obtainable, a class who
E
generally speaking know nothing whatsoever of
From "THE DAIRYMAIDS"
R
the music business and are only capable of hand-
( W o r d s b y M . E. ROURKE)
O
"MARY McGES." "I'D LIKE TO MEET YOUR
ing out music as a butcher hands out meat or a
M
FATHER." "CHEER UP GIRLS," "I'VE A MILLION
grocer hands out tea. A change is shortly in
REASONS WHY I LOVE YOU." "NEVER MARRY
E
A GIRL WITH COLO COLD FEET."
order, mark my words."
BEC
PAT
OF*.
BBO
PAT. OFF.
SUCCESSFUL SONGS
D.
From "THE LITTLE CHERUB"
K
E
R
N
'8
"MEET ME AT TWILIGHT." (W.rdi by F. Clifford
Harris). "UNDER THE LINDEN TREE," (Words
by M. E. Ronrke).
From "THE MORALS OF MARCUS"
"EASTERN MOON." (Words by M. E. Rourke).
T .
R
0 . , U31-143C
Broadway
D . HARM*?
n / t n i n a f t w
N E W YORK
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
H I WEST l l t h ST1EET, NEW Y O U CITY
47
REVIEW
Alice Lloyd, the English comedienne, known
to fame as the sister of Marie, has signed a con-
tract with Florenz Ziegfeld whereby she is to
star this coming autumn in a new musical play
entitled "The Belle of Scotland," to be written
by J. J. McNally, with lyrics and music by
Geo. M. Cohan. If Miss Lloyd can acquire a
Scotch accent anyway as good as her natural
Cockney dialect, her starring venture is a fore-
ordained success. By the way, she has very
wisely reserved the right to interpolate a num-
ber of successful songs which Maurice Shapiro
has provided for her. The remainder of the
score will be published by Cohan & Harris.
The many friends of Herbert Ingraham, the
well-known song writer, will be glad to hear
that his improvement in health is so pronounced
that he can now do his composing at the piano.
He has rented a cottage at 32 Helen street, Sara-
nac Lake, N. Y., where he will of course be
glad to hear from his friends. His numerous
songs published by Shapiro are doing remark-
ably well.
7 T H E Name That
Stands At The
Top Of All Ten Cent
Sheet Music Editions Is
"CENTURY!"
Even the Greatest
Artists Admire it.
Century Music Publishing Co.
19 West 28th Street, New York
CONSERVATORY EDITION
EVEN if you'd like to think so, there
are no other editions of
Kphler,
Heller
and
Czerny
that are nearly so good as the jusi
published
Conservatory
Edition
of these standard works, and best of all,
they cost less than any other edition—
none nearly so good.
Conservatory
Publication
Society
Cor. BROADWAY and 28th ST., NEW YORK
CONSERVATORY EDITION
The Biggest Song Hit of to-day is
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
"I'M STARVING FOR
ONE SIGHT OF YOU"
Another "After the Ball"
Sold by your music jobber or direct from
CHAS. K. HARRIS,
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