Music Trade Review
Issue: 1908 Vol. 47 N. 3 - Page 41
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VOL. XLVIII. No. 5. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bffl at I Madison Ave., New York, Jaly J8,1908.
WATT GETS TWO YEARS
In the Elmira Reformatory for Using the Mails
to Defraud—Engineered a Song Writing
Ccntest—How He Operated the Scheme.
A verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to
mercy, was returned in the United States Cir-
cuit Court, New York, last week, by a jury in
the trial of Eugene B. Watt, accused o:' using
the mails to defraud. Postoffice Inspector Peters,
for the prosecution, told of his investigation of
the $500 prize song contest advertised by the
J. A. Bartlett Music Co. Judge Hough consented
to the striking out of the conspiracy counts in
the indictment against Watt because of lack of
evidence to sustain them, and sentenced the
prisoner to two years in Elmira Reformatory.
AN INEXPENSIVE AND YET A MOST ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY.
No. 3.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$8.00 PER YEAR.
According to the evidence it, appeared that the
('efendant advertised an opportunity to "achieve
lame and fortune" in a song writing contest to
be held in this city, at which the most famous
composers and professional singers were to try
the pieces submitted, and chosen judges were to
select three of the best songs, from which one
was to be taken for the coveted $500 prize.
Many rhymesters nibbled at the bait and sent in
amounts ranging from $10 to $25. They still
await returns.
The defendant Watt's operations were con-
ducted under the various names of the Temple
Court Music Publishing Co., Broadway Harmony
Studios, Raymond A. Browne Music Co., and
J. A. Bartlett Music Publishing Co. Mr. Bart-
lett, who swore he was a bona fide music pub-
lisher, was a witness for the government, and
testified that the use of his name was unauthor-
ized, and that although he had entered into
some kind of a business deal with Watt, he had
withdrawn as soon as he learned the nature of
the latter's enterprise. Another witness, a
stenographer, testified that she had typewritten
more than seventy letters for Watt, all of which
were alike except the names of the persons t.;)
which they were addressed and the name of each
person's particular song.
NEW MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS
To be Produced the Coming Season by Chas.
Frohman at the Leading New York Theatres
—A Promising Roster.
In a recent letter from London, Charles Froh-
man, the well-known theatrical manager, out-
lined his "musical" plans for the forthcoming
theatrical season. Both Leslie Stuart and Paul
A. Rubens are under contract with him to supply
musical plays, both of which will, of course, be
published by Chappell & Co. "My first musical
production next season," says Mr. Frohman, "will
be 'Fluffy Ruffles' (T. B. Harms & Co.. New York).
My next musical play will be 'The Girls of Got-
tenberg' (Chappell & Co.), in which Miss Gertie
Millar will be the feature. This will be followed
by a musical play with a story from the French,
and which I expect to do in America and Eng-
land.
"After that comes 'The Dollar Princess.' The
adaptation of the book is being made for America
by George Grossmith, Jr. It will differ, as far as
the adaptation is concerned, from 'The Dollar
Princess' which George Edwardes will produce,
although, of course, the story and the music will
remain the same. I believe the locale of the last
act of the two plays will be entirely different
The two columns on either side are 7 in. square, to a plain wooden upright to which the music is one from the other.
" 'The Dollar Princess' has much humor that
the base being about 11 in. square. A strip of attached. The two units on either side of the
wood one-half in. thick by 2 in. wide is fastened center unit are made of strips of wood two in. arises from the situations. Its story is rare for
from one column to the other, at the top. A square with openings cut in at intervals in which America, because it is about Americans, and
short distance below it another strip similar to music shown horizontally is placed. A few touches on the American penchant for titles.
"This American story, all about America, is
the one on top is bent to form the arch. Crepe sprays of golden rod are used here and there as
paper cut in strips about one inch and a half shown, as the window was dedicated to the ex- written by two Germans, whose idea of Ameri-
wide is stretched from the top strip of wood to ploitation of Miss Mabel McKinley's "Golden cans is quaint. When I saw this play produced
the one below and twisted in spiral shape as Rod," published by Leo Feist, the well-known in Hamburg, the only thing American about it
shown in photo. The sheets of music are at- publisher, to whom The Review is indebted for —cast, production, scenes—was a roll-top Ameri-
tached to the strips as shown in the photo. The this series of photographs. Any flowers may be can desk. I venture to say that you will go wild
center unit is arranged on a piece of board cut used, however, with artistic effect. The window over this music—that there will be three num-
bers that will carry the town."
round about 12 in. in diameter. This is attached furnishes a valuable idea to dealers.
VOL. XLVIII. No. 5. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bffl at I Madison Ave., New York, Jaly J8,1908.
WATT GETS TWO YEARS
In the Elmira Reformatory for Using the Mails
to Defraud—Engineered a Song Writing
Ccntest—How He Operated the Scheme.
A verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to
mercy, was returned in the United States Cir-
cuit Court, New York, last week, by a jury in
the trial of Eugene B. Watt, accused o:' using
the mails to defraud. Postoffice Inspector Peters,
for the prosecution, told of his investigation of
the $500 prize song contest advertised by the
J. A. Bartlett Music Co. Judge Hough consented
to the striking out of the conspiracy counts in
the indictment against Watt because of lack of
evidence to sustain them, and sentenced the
prisoner to two years in Elmira Reformatory.
AN INEXPENSIVE AND YET A MOST ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY.
No. 3.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$8.00 PER YEAR.
According to the evidence it, appeared that the
('efendant advertised an opportunity to "achieve
lame and fortune" in a song writing contest to
be held in this city, at which the most famous
composers and professional singers were to try
the pieces submitted, and chosen judges were to
select three of the best songs, from which one
was to be taken for the coveted $500 prize.
Many rhymesters nibbled at the bait and sent in
amounts ranging from $10 to $25. They still
await returns.
The defendant Watt's operations were con-
ducted under the various names of the Temple
Court Music Publishing Co., Broadway Harmony
Studios, Raymond A. Browne Music Co., and
J. A. Bartlett Music Publishing Co. Mr. Bart-
lett, who swore he was a bona fide music pub-
lisher, was a witness for the government, and
testified that the use of his name was unauthor-
ized, and that although he had entered into
some kind of a business deal with Watt, he had
withdrawn as soon as he learned the nature of
the latter's enterprise. Another witness, a
stenographer, testified that she had typewritten
more than seventy letters for Watt, all of which
were alike except the names of the persons t.;)
which they were addressed and the name of each
person's particular song.
NEW MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS
To be Produced the Coming Season by Chas.
Frohman at the Leading New York Theatres
—A Promising Roster.
In a recent letter from London, Charles Froh-
man, the well-known theatrical manager, out-
lined his "musical" plans for the forthcoming
theatrical season. Both Leslie Stuart and Paul
A. Rubens are under contract with him to supply
musical plays, both of which will, of course, be
published by Chappell & Co. "My first musical
production next season," says Mr. Frohman, "will
be 'Fluffy Ruffles' (T. B. Harms & Co.. New York).
My next musical play will be 'The Girls of Got-
tenberg' (Chappell & Co.), in which Miss Gertie
Millar will be the feature. This will be followed
by a musical play with a story from the French,
and which I expect to do in America and Eng-
land.
"After that comes 'The Dollar Princess.' The
adaptation of the book is being made for America
by George Grossmith, Jr. It will differ, as far as
the adaptation is concerned, from 'The Dollar
Princess' which George Edwardes will produce,
although, of course, the story and the music will
remain the same. I believe the locale of the last
act of the two plays will be entirely different
The two columns on either side are 7 in. square, to a plain wooden upright to which the music is one from the other.
" 'The Dollar Princess' has much humor that
the base being about 11 in. square. A strip of attached. The two units on either side of the
wood one-half in. thick by 2 in. wide is fastened center unit are made of strips of wood two in. arises from the situations. Its story is rare for
from one column to the other, at the top. A square with openings cut in at intervals in which America, because it is about Americans, and
short distance below it another strip similar to music shown horizontally is placed. A few touches on the American penchant for titles.
"This American story, all about America, is
the one on top is bent to form the arch. Crepe sprays of golden rod are used here and there as
paper cut in strips about one inch and a half shown, as the window was dedicated to the ex- written by two Germans, whose idea of Ameri-
wide is stretched from the top strip of wood to ploitation of Miss Mabel McKinley's "Golden cans is quaint. When I saw this play produced
the one below and twisted in spiral shape as Rod," published by Leo Feist, the well-known in Hamburg, the only thing American about it
shown in photo. The sheets of music are at- publisher, to whom The Review is indebted for —cast, production, scenes—was a roll-top Ameri-
tached to the strips as shown in the photo. The this series of photographs. Any flowers may be can desk. I venture to say that you will go wild
center unit is arranged on a piece of board cut used, however, with artistic effect. The window over this music—that there will be three num-
bers that will carry the town."
round about 12 in. in diameter. This is attached furnishes a valuable idea to dealers.
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