Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 50 N. 21 - Page 121
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VOL.
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L. N o . 21.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, May 21,1910
WILLIS=JENNINGS MERGER PLANS.
Final
Details Completed for Consolidation of
Cincinnati Music Publishing Firms.
will mark the resumption of special summer
entertainments by the Shuberts at their Casino
Theater.
NEW
BALLAD BY REED AND BALL.
(Special to The Review.)
Their Latest Work, Published by the Witmarks,
Cincinnati, May 18, 1910
Has the Prestige Due to Previous Successes
Details were completed this week for the con-
Written by Them.
solidation of the firms of W. H. Willis & Co. and
George B. Jennings Music Co., music publishers
Dave Reed and Ernest R. Ball, who established
and distributers, announcement of the plans for
which was made last week. It is stated that an enviable record with their two successes,
"Love Me and the World Is Mine" and "To the
Charles H. Willis, whose son was the founder of
W. H. Willis & Co., will be in charge of the End of the World with You," recently created a
wholesale department of the merged firms, and
ith Qma Switai bj the w«H-k<»otvn Tenor. PRANK COOS1B*.
Mr. Jennings will direct the management of the
retail business. Both men had a long and thor-
ough experience with the John Church Co. before
NOT"5AY GOOD-BYE.
entering business for themselves.
BALLAD
The firm resulting from the consolidation will
bo known as W. H. Willis & Co., with Charles H.
Willis as president and George B. Jennings, vice-
president. The location of the business will be
determined a few weeks hence, although it is ex-
pected to be in the present Willis quarters in the
John Church Co. building, the Willis lease run-
ning until next January.
fcfY fiEART HAS laRNEDTO |OVEYOU
WILL PUBLISH NEW COMIC OPERA.
Great interest was manifested in the recent an-
nouncement that the latest sensational comic
opera success, "Die Geschiedene Frau" ("The
Divorced Wife"), now playing in Berlin and
Vienna, is about to be produced in this country
by Charles B. Dillingham. The production has
been accorded a most enthusiastic reception
abroad and those who have seen it are confident
that its removal to these shores will give to
America a comic opera which promises to equal
anything of its kind ever sent over to us. Aside
from its excellent book, which has been pro-
nounced one of the best efforts of Victor Leon,
the opera ca.rries a musical setting by Leo Fall
which is said to equal in beauty that of "The
Dollar Princess," the score of which was also
written by this composer. The American pub-
lishing rights for "Die Geschiedene Frau" have
been secured by M. Witmark & Sons, who will
control the promotion of its uniformly delightful
numbers.
SUMMER REVIEWS NEARING OPENINGS.
"The Comic Supplement" the musical review
which Frederic Thompson plans to have occupy
the roof of the New Amsterdam Theater dur-
ing the summer, will be given its premiere at
the Apollo Theater, Atlantic City, oo May 30.
The date set for the New York opening is Mon-
day, June 6. The lyrics and music are by Harry
Williams and Edgar Van Alstyne, and the music
will be published by Jerome H. Remick & Co.
"Up and Down Broadway," the Shubert summer
review that is to follow "The Chocolate Soldier"
at the Casino Theater, is now in rehearsal. It
is the work of Jerome and Schwartz and Edgar
Smith and will also be published by Jerome H.
Remick & Co. The presentation of this piece
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
Georgia Ella Morgan, collaborated in the writing
of several musical plays and other entertainments
which were produced by amateur dramatic or-
ganizations of Baltimore, where, as in every other
locality in which Mr. Morrow lived, he was great-
ly liked and respected by all who knew him.
PUCCINI HAS COMPLETED NEW OPERA.
Puccini has finished his new opera, "The Girl
of the Golden West," founded on the Belasco
drama of the same name. He delivered the
manuscript a few days ago to Signor Gatti-
Casazza, of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
who is now in Italy and who met Puccini in
Rome, according to a despatch from that city.
The composer says that at the right moment
he will come to New York himself to direct the
first performance of the new opera. Puccini's
agent in America is George Maxwell, manager
of the New York offices of Boosey & Co., the
music publishers. This firm will have the
American publishing rights to the opera, as
agents in this country of the Italian publishers
who will bring out the work in Europe. Mr.
Maxwell is now in Europe, and will meet Puc-
cini before his return to New York.
F. E. BELCHER AT SUMMER RESORT.
DAVE I^EED
MUSK.
E>Y
ERNEST H. BAU.
t h i r d love song which, like the others, h a s been
brought o u t by M. W i t m a r k & Sons. T h e title
of this is "My H e a r t H a s Learned t o Love You,
Now Do Not Say Good-Bye," and t h e W i t m a r k s ,
basing their j u d g m e n t upon a long and intimate
knowledge of t h e music publishing business and
of t h e movements of t h e Reed-Ball songs, ex-
press great faith in the future of t h i s ballad.
I t seems possible, from present indications,
t h a t the new song m a y eventually equal t h e un-
usual successes of i t s two predecessors. At all
events, M. W i t m a r k & Sons feel reasonably sure
that such will be t h e case.
DEATH OF ARCHIE E. MORROW.
Archie E. Morrow, who for the last five years
was connected with M. Witmark & Sons, music
publishers, in various capacities, died at mid-
night last Sunday at his home in Suffern, N. Y.
He was born in Ohio and was about 40 years old.
He leaves a widow and four children. The cause
of death was tuberculosis.
Mr. Morrow was a prolific and versatile writer,
both of prose and verse, and excelled in dramatic
work, being the author of a number of sketches
and plays which the Witmarks have published.
At one time he was on the editorial staff of the
Baltimore "American," and he and his wife,
F. E. Belcher, general manager of the Eastern
business of Jerome H. Remick & Co., was in At-
lantic City tor a few days early in the week, one
of the objects of his visit to that summer resort
being to conclude arrangements for the opening
of the Remick "song shop" there at No. 1427
Boardwalk. It was stated at the Remick offices
that the music store would be opened the latter
part of this week, undoubtedly before to-day.
LEO. FEIST IN ATLANTIC CITY.
Leo. Feist, the music publisher, went to At-
lantic City last Sunday for a short vacation. He
expected to be away about ten days, and will
probably return to New York some time next
week. The affairs of his establishment will be
conducted in his absence by Felix F. Feist and
Edgar Bitner.
SPECK'S TRIBUTE TO KING EDWARD.
Sam H. Speck, who succeeded Joseph C. Breil
as head of the "library edition" department of
J. H. Remick & Co., has just completed a funeral
march, written in memory of King Edward. A
waltz, "Lily of the Nile," is a new Remick pub-
lication which has met with a good reception
from the trade.
SELDEN WRITING A SONG COMEDY.
Edgar Selden, general manager of Shapiro's,
is reported to be writing a song comedy, to be
produced next season.
The East Jordan Music Co. has been organized
by Martin Vickers and Harley Hammond to
transact a general music business in East
Jordan, Mich.
MUSIC TMDE
1
VOL.
^>-r—***A
L. N o . 21.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, May 21,1910
WILLIS=JENNINGS MERGER PLANS.
Final
Details Completed for Consolidation of
Cincinnati Music Publishing Firms.
will mark the resumption of special summer
entertainments by the Shuberts at their Casino
Theater.
NEW
BALLAD BY REED AND BALL.
(Special to The Review.)
Their Latest Work, Published by the Witmarks,
Cincinnati, May 18, 1910
Has the Prestige Due to Previous Successes
Details were completed this week for the con-
Written by Them.
solidation of the firms of W. H. Willis & Co. and
George B. Jennings Music Co., music publishers
Dave Reed and Ernest R. Ball, who established
and distributers, announcement of the plans for
which was made last week. It is stated that an enviable record with their two successes,
"Love Me and the World Is Mine" and "To the
Charles H. Willis, whose son was the founder of
W. H. Willis & Co., will be in charge of the End of the World with You," recently created a
wholesale department of the merged firms, and
ith Qma Switai bj the w«H-k<»otvn Tenor. PRANK COOS1B*.
Mr. Jennings will direct the management of the
retail business. Both men had a long and thor-
ough experience with the John Church Co. before
NOT"5AY GOOD-BYE.
entering business for themselves.
BALLAD
The firm resulting from the consolidation will
bo known as W. H. Willis & Co., with Charles H.
Willis as president and George B. Jennings, vice-
president. The location of the business will be
determined a few weeks hence, although it is ex-
pected to be in the present Willis quarters in the
John Church Co. building, the Willis lease run-
ning until next January.
fcfY fiEART HAS laRNEDTO |OVEYOU
WILL PUBLISH NEW COMIC OPERA.
Great interest was manifested in the recent an-
nouncement that the latest sensational comic
opera success, "Die Geschiedene Frau" ("The
Divorced Wife"), now playing in Berlin and
Vienna, is about to be produced in this country
by Charles B. Dillingham. The production has
been accorded a most enthusiastic reception
abroad and those who have seen it are confident
that its removal to these shores will give to
America a comic opera which promises to equal
anything of its kind ever sent over to us. Aside
from its excellent book, which has been pro-
nounced one of the best efforts of Victor Leon,
the opera ca.rries a musical setting by Leo Fall
which is said to equal in beauty that of "The
Dollar Princess," the score of which was also
written by this composer. The American pub-
lishing rights for "Die Geschiedene Frau" have
been secured by M. Witmark & Sons, who will
control the promotion of its uniformly delightful
numbers.
SUMMER REVIEWS NEARING OPENINGS.
"The Comic Supplement" the musical review
which Frederic Thompson plans to have occupy
the roof of the New Amsterdam Theater dur-
ing the summer, will be given its premiere at
the Apollo Theater, Atlantic City, oo May 30.
The date set for the New York opening is Mon-
day, June 6. The lyrics and music are by Harry
Williams and Edgar Van Alstyne, and the music
will be published by Jerome H. Remick & Co.
"Up and Down Broadway," the Shubert summer
review that is to follow "The Chocolate Soldier"
at the Casino Theater, is now in rehearsal. It
is the work of Jerome and Schwartz and Edgar
Smith and will also be published by Jerome H.
Remick & Co. The presentation of this piece
SINGLE COPIES. 10 CENTS.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
Georgia Ella Morgan, collaborated in the writing
of several musical plays and other entertainments
which were produced by amateur dramatic or-
ganizations of Baltimore, where, as in every other
locality in which Mr. Morrow lived, he was great-
ly liked and respected by all who knew him.
PUCCINI HAS COMPLETED NEW OPERA.
Puccini has finished his new opera, "The Girl
of the Golden West," founded on the Belasco
drama of the same name. He delivered the
manuscript a few days ago to Signor Gatti-
Casazza, of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
who is now in Italy and who met Puccini in
Rome, according to a despatch from that city.
The composer says that at the right moment
he will come to New York himself to direct the
first performance of the new opera. Puccini's
agent in America is George Maxwell, manager
of the New York offices of Boosey & Co., the
music publishers. This firm will have the
American publishing rights to the opera, as
agents in this country of the Italian publishers
who will bring out the work in Europe. Mr.
Maxwell is now in Europe, and will meet Puc-
cini before his return to New York.
F. E. BELCHER AT SUMMER RESORT.
DAVE I^EED
MUSK.
E>Y
ERNEST H. BAU.
t h i r d love song which, like the others, h a s been
brought o u t by M. W i t m a r k & Sons. T h e title
of this is "My H e a r t H a s Learned t o Love You,
Now Do Not Say Good-Bye," and t h e W i t m a r k s ,
basing their j u d g m e n t upon a long and intimate
knowledge of t h e music publishing business and
of t h e movements of t h e Reed-Ball songs, ex-
press great faith in the future of t h i s ballad.
I t seems possible, from present indications,
t h a t the new song m a y eventually equal t h e un-
usual successes of i t s two predecessors. At all
events, M. W i t m a r k & Sons feel reasonably sure
that such will be t h e case.
DEATH OF ARCHIE E. MORROW.
Archie E. Morrow, who for the last five years
was connected with M. Witmark & Sons, music
publishers, in various capacities, died at mid-
night last Sunday at his home in Suffern, N. Y.
He was born in Ohio and was about 40 years old.
He leaves a widow and four children. The cause
of death was tuberculosis.
Mr. Morrow was a prolific and versatile writer,
both of prose and verse, and excelled in dramatic
work, being the author of a number of sketches
and plays which the Witmarks have published.
At one time he was on the editorial staff of the
Baltimore "American," and he and his wife,
F. E. Belcher, general manager of the Eastern
business of Jerome H. Remick & Co., was in At-
lantic City tor a few days early in the week, one
of the objects of his visit to that summer resort
being to conclude arrangements for the opening
of the Remick "song shop" there at No. 1427
Boardwalk. It was stated at the Remick offices
that the music store would be opened the latter
part of this week, undoubtedly before to-day.
LEO. FEIST IN ATLANTIC CITY.
Leo. Feist, the music publisher, went to At-
lantic City last Sunday for a short vacation. He
expected to be away about ten days, and will
probably return to New York some time next
week. The affairs of his establishment will be
conducted in his absence by Felix F. Feist and
Edgar Bitner.
SPECK'S TRIBUTE TO KING EDWARD.
Sam H. Speck, who succeeded Joseph C. Breil
as head of the "library edition" department of
J. H. Remick & Co., has just completed a funeral
march, written in memory of King Edward. A
waltz, "Lily of the Nile," is a new Remick pub-
lication which has met with a good reception
from the trade.
SELDEN WRITING A SONG COMEDY.
Edgar Selden, general manager of Shapiro's,
is reported to be writing a song comedy, to be
produced next season.
The East Jordan Music Co. has been organized
by Martin Vickers and Harley Hammond to
transact a general music business in East
Jordan, Mich.
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