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VOL. X L VII. No. 1 4 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at \ Madison Ave-, New York, October 3,1908.
WITH THE CHICAGO PUBLISHERS.
Various Musical Productions Meet With Suc-
cess to the Joy of the Music Publishers—
Some New Song Slides—W. K. Miller's Fine
Catch—Songs That Are in Demand.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., Sept. 26, 1908.
The theatrical season is now on in full swing
and as a general rule the public are taking kindly
to the productions thus far presented, the regular
shows doing very well while the musical produc-
tions are fairly reaping a harvest.
"A Stubborn Cinderella" (Harris) at the New
Princess Theatre, is still drawing to capacity
houses. "The Top o' th' World" (Witmark) winds
up a very prosperous Chicago engagement this
week at the Studebaker, and its successor, the
"Prima Donna" (Witmark) with Fritzi Scheff,
will appear at the theatre the week of October 5.
"A Girl at the Helm" (Harris) is firmly settling
itself for a good long run, and from all present
indications "A Broken Idol" (Remick) will con-
tinue indefinitely as the attraction of the Whit-
ney. "A Yankee Prince," and the Cohan & Har-
ris Minstrels (Cohan & Harris) are playing to
crowded houses, the latter attraction leaving the
Auditorium this week to make room for another
Cohan production, "Fifty Miles From Boston."
Otis Colburn, professional man for the Thomp-
son Music Company, returned this week from an
eastern trip, which included New York, Boston,
Providence, and Montreal. Mr. Colburn says
that the East is beginning to show results of re-
turning prosperity.
Favorable comment anent the special publish-
ers number of The Review is heard on every side,
and the Chicago publishers are finding it a val-
uable advertising medium.
Harry Rodgers, representing the York Music
Co., is exploiting the company's productions at
the Sherman House this week.
Song slides for "Daylight Hurts My Byes"
(Star) will be out this week, and that popular
number will soon be very much in evidence at
the theatres here. It is being featured by Tell
Taylor, manager of the Star Music Publishers,
now with Rogers Bros., and by "The Three
Leightons," who played Cleveland, O., last week.
H. F. Chandler, of the National Music Co., re-
turned to-day from an eastern trip.
Webb Rockefeller Miller, of the Miller Music
Company, brought back with him on his return
from Delevan, Wis., a fine pickerel, weighing ten
and one-half pounds. The evidence shatters any
false conclusions doubters may have arrived at
concerning the veracity of the weight of the
catch, as The Review man was much in evidence
when Mr. Miller returned, and he can add that
the flsK was certainly a beauty.
B. D. Stonecipher is in receipt of many letters
from professional people asking where her songs,
"My Lolla Loo" and "Some Old Sweet Dream of
You," could be purchased. Users of the slides for
these songs speak very enthusiastically about
them.
Otis Harlan, in "A Broken Idol" (Remick), is
making a hit with the Whitney audiences in his
song, "Big Night To-Night." "Love Makes the
World Go Round" is a catchy tune, and is one
that is remembered almost unconsciously, while
"China Doll" is also to be numbered with the
best sellers. The airship scene in the last act
by Alice Yorke is a hit with the crowds, and is
a fitting climax for this papular production.
Song slides of "Morning Cy," the popular barn
dance (Victor Kremer), are out and are said to
be very funny and in great demand.
Joe Harris, western manager of Chas. K. Har-
ris, says that the music score of Algeria, now in
the East, is having a good sale in this market.
"Always Me," from the pen of Chas. K., has
made its appearance, as has also "I've Got a
Tremblin' Case on You," by Terry Sherman, both
of which are to be had at the Harris western
office.
The latest success by Bob White, of the Modern
Music Publishers, is the new song, "Kiss Me,
Dearie," which is rapidly edging its way into Hit-
land. Professional people are using it with suc-
cess, while it is the feature of many bills at
the moving picture and vaudeville shows around
town. It was on at the Orpheum, last week, with
slides, and judging from the applause, it certainly
made good.
THE AMERICAN MUSIC SOCIETY
Has Been Formed to Encourage the American
Composer, With Arthur Farwell as Presi-
dent and Walter Damrosch, Musical Director.
The American Music Society has recently been
formed to encourage the American composer.
Arthur Farwell is president, and the musical di-
rector is Walter Damrosch. The executive com-
mittee includes George W. Chadwick, Fiank
Damrosch, Charles Martin Loeffler and John
Beach. David Bispham is one of the vice-presi-
dents, who are, like the members of the executive
committee, scattered over the United States.
The society is to be divided into centers, situ-
ated in every important city. The heads of these
centers will be the members of the executive
committee and the vice-presidents of the whole
organization. The officers of the New York asso-
ciation are: David Bispham, president; Ru-
dolph Schirmer, vice-president; Thomas Tryon,
secretary, and Spencer Trask, treasurer. The
board of musical directors of the New York
center are Walter Damrosch, F. X. Arens,
Raphael Joseffy, David Bispham, Kurt Schindler
and David Mannes.
The aim of the American Music Society, so a
circular recently to hand announces, is "to ad-
vance the interests of American music by study
and the performance of the works of American
composers." Its method of propaganda will be
to organize concerts at which obscure American
composers may have a hearing, as well as to do
everything possible to have American music rep-
resented on concert programs and to organize
concerts when that may be necessary merely for
the purpose of having American music per-
formed.
Membership in the national organization costs
$2 a year. Five dollars will be the cost of mem-
bership in one of the centers.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
CURTAIL RETAIL INTERESTS.
Helf & Hager Dispose of Their Broadway Store
to George Krey—Interview With Mr. Hager
Who Is Non-Committal as to the Future
Policy of the Remaining Helf & Hager Retail
Stores.
The retail music store, 1389 Broadway, orig-
inally operated by the American Music Stores,
and later taken over by the Helf & Hager Co.,
passed into the hands of George Krey (well
known in connection with the retailing of music)
on Monday last. The transfer was not entirely
unexpected by those conversant with the situa-
tion, as for some considerable time it has been
rumored that the wholesale interests of Helf &
Hager were assuming such proportions that it
was virtually impossible for the two remaining
members of the firm to give the necessary atten-
tion to their retail stores.
When seen by our "Man on the Street," Fred
Hager frankly admitted that he was utterly weary
of the multitudinous detail which the retail
stores, up to lately controlled by his firm, had cast
upon his shoulders. "While we found the retail-
ing of music a paying proposition," Mr. Hager
said, "it was daily becoming more apparent that
our publishing interests were being neglected.
However unwise it may be, to have all our eggs
in one basket, it is certainly wisdom to have all
our brains centered on one issue. We still
control retail stores in Pittsburg and Baltimore,
and as yet we have made no disposition of them.
What we will do in the future is, of course, a
matter for the future to decide. I am perfectly
satisfied with the deal which we made with Mr.
Krey, who knows the retail end of the business
backwards, and who will beyond doubt carry on
the Broadway store with as much, or more, suc-
cess than we ourselves met with. As the small
worries of life go far to make its discomforts, so
the comparatively small and subsidiary interests
in business make work tiresome. In the future,
both Mr. Helf and myself will give more atten-
tion to the wholesale end of the music game,
where we belong, and believe me, just now we
can find plenty to do."
FISKE O'HARA'S NEW SONGS.
On Monday night at the Majestic Theater,
Brooklyn, Fiske O'Hara, the well known Irish
tenor, appeared for the second season in the play
"Dion O'Dare," which is the joint work of Chas.
E. Blaney, and a newspaperman who is said to
hail from Newark. Although "Dion O'Dare" is
not strictly a musical play it contains some really
good songs which are the joint work of Mr.
O'Dare himself and Frank Hersom. These in-
clude "A Sprig of Shamrock," "My Little Irish
Rose," and "Nora McNamara," all three of which
are published by Maurice Shapiro, the New York
music publisher.
EUGENE ASCHERBERG'S ESTATE.
The late Eugene Ascherberg, the well-known
music publisher and piano manufacturer of Lon-
don, Eng., left an estate valued at $204,530. The
deceased died intestate.