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Issue: 1910 Vol. 50 N. 21 - Page 123

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THE
MUSIC
TRADE
123
REVIEW
for more than one publisher being "stung" by ing. Tom Quigley, the local Shapiro manager,
one individual. I t is understood that a per- will not go to Atlantic City this year to take
Chicago Publishers Hold Second Meeting to manent organization would be very popular, charge of the store for the summer season, but
Discuss Professional Copy and Song Slide especially with the local trade, and everyone will summer right here in "Chi."
Evils—Reputable Singers Will Continue to seems to be lending his best efforts to its cause.
Joe Harris leaves for the headquarters office
Receive Usual Courtesies—Cypher Club
"Get Busy With Emily" was recently put on in New York next week, as there is something
Gives Last May Dance of the Season—Other at the Cort Theater. The police did get busy, brewing as to the coming operatic season and a
News of the Publishers.
and consequently the management of the theater number of new musical comedies bearing the
Harris insignia promises to be the next season's
are looking for something to take its place.
In the meantime the local Harris
"Miss Nobody from Starland" closed its Chi- offering.
(Special to The Review.)
cago engagement last week and Mable Hite, in forces are strenuously working on the new Chas.
Chicago, 111., May 14, 1910.
Another meeting of the Chicago sheet music "A Certain Party," has moved over to the K. Harris summer song, entitled "It's Always
publishers and the local representatives of East- Princess.
June When You're in Love," and their efforts
ern houses was held on Friday evening in the
"Madame Sherry" is making a big success at are said to be meeting with excellent success.
parlors of the Saratoga Hotel. The trade was the Colonial and promises to be here for some
Miss Blanche Mehaffe has in rehearsal Felix
out in full force and showed much enthusiasm. time.
Feist and Joe Nathan's great Spanish song, "My
This augurs well for a permanent organization
Listed among the month's best sellers with the Cavalier," and "I'm Awfully Glad I'm Irish."
for the eradication of the existing orchestration, local house of Goetting are two numbers dealing Miss Mehaffe is the soloist with Joe Weber's
professional copy, and song slide evils which with ex-President Roosevelt's return. They are "Prize Land of America."
have been growing worse and worse. The next entitled "Teddy Come Back" and "Our Teddy's
meeting will be held at the Saratoga Hotel next Home Coming March."
BURT BACK FROM BUSINESS TRIP.
Friday evening.
The Sucess Song Bureau has just issued its
It is understood that the organization, should first edition of "I'm Looking for a Man."
Sales Manager for Eastern Branch of J. H.
it materialize, will, on its inception, immediately
Dunbar & Freeman, a t the Majestic this
Remick & Co. Gives Cheering Account of
take steps looking to the elimination of *he week, are featuring "That Italian Rag," which
Improved
Conditions, Despite Tales of Woe
horde of "grafters" who have been infesting the has been a big number on the Feist catalog the
Heard by the Way.
sheet music district. This will be done by past few months.
checking the promiscuous handing out of pro-
The well-known Cypher Club in Chicago gave
P. H. Burt, sales manager for the New York
fessional copies, and, instead, charging for the its last May dance of the season Saturday, and
first copy which is, of course, the regular copy. it was voted by all who attended as a most house of Jerome H. Remick & Co., returned to
The same principle will be applied to orchestra- pleasurable affair. Through the courtesy of Ted this city recently after a business trip to several
tions. However, the recognized profession will S. Barron, local manager for M. Witmark & Eastern cities, lasting three weeks. The placing
be taken cars of as formerly, and a thorough Sons, several vaudeville acts volunteered their of large orders for the Remick publications in
the places visited was the satisfactory result of
means of separating the wheat from the chaff
services, among them being Lue Leever, singing
his trip, Mr. Burt says, although he ran across
will be devised.
"Just for a Girl," "Shakey Eyes" and "Tie Your
Regarding the song slides—a deposit will be Little Bull Outside," and Miss Catharine representatives of other publishers who had
required at the time the slides are given out. Andrews, who also sang two Witmark songs, en- only tales of woe to tell of their experiences. In-
If, at the end of a certain period the slides are titled "To the End of the World With You," and cidentally, the results attained by the Remick
sales manager serve as a specific illustration of
not returned a fine of seven cents a day or there- "In the Garden of My Heart."
the present situation in the music publishing
abouts will be charged. A list of the "grafters"
Some definite word regarding the disposition
field. This situation is one wherein various
will be kept, and new names will be appended
to be made of the La Salle Theater is expected
thereto from time to time whenever the occasion next week, when the case will come up before publishers have conflicting reports to make.
warrants. In this way there will be no reason the Appellate Court. The public is awaiting the Some are successful, and others are not, but the
verdict as to whether the house will pass to
Harry Askin or remain in control of Mort
Singer. It is now more than a year since the
disputed Askin lease was to have taken life.
Phil Schwartz, formerly with the Chicago
The following epigrammatic edi-
house of Remick, is now associated with the local
torial appeared in one of our
forces of Leo Feist in the Oneonta building.
The Orpheus Comedy Four end their season
great weeklies:
with their engagement at the American Music
Hall next week. The act has been running con-
tinuously for two years, this being the first in-
"The high cost of living is
termission.
They are featuring Remick's "Gray
coming down. Beethoven's
Bonnet" and Tell Taylor's "Some Day."
Sonatas, in excellent edition,
Asher B. Samuels, who for the past year or
now can be bought for ten
more has been enlisted in the Shapiro forces,
cents a copy."
after Monday next will associate himself with
Jules Von Tilzer and the York Music Co., who
have just opened up offices in the Oneonta Build-
By AL PIANTADOSI,
Creator of Italian Character Songs.
It referred of course to
MUSIC "GRAFTERS^TO BE CHECKED.
THAT
ITALIAN
RAG
EDITORIAL
CENTURY
EDI T I O N
CENTURY MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.
1 178 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
A Hit of Hits!
EVERY LITTLE
MOVEMENT"
By OTTO HAUERBACH a n d KARL HOSCHNA
A POSITIVE HIT!
A PROVED SELLER!
Orders poured in the very day after this
song was first sung at Hammerstein's
Victoria Theater.
GOING STRONGER EVERY DAY!
PUBLISHED BY
LEO. FEIST, NEW YORK
Writers of the Big Successes,
" T H E THREE T W I N S " and "BRIGHT EYES"
The
H E A D HAS HITS
(George W. Head, Jr.)
WORLD'S GREATEST BALLAD
"Without You The World
Don't Seem The Same"
An Endless Chain of Sales of This Song Will Start
From First Purchase.
Best Ballad Since the Time of Jenny Lind
THE HEAD MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.
U16 Broadway, Cor. 39th Street,
New York
reigning Musical Hit from
"MADAME SHERRY"
Now Playing at Colonial Theatre,
Chicago
Sung, Whistled and Hummed Everywhere
Greatly in Demand. Order Now
SONGS FOR EVERYBODY!
"PLAYTHINGS
THAT'S ALL"
By John W. Bratton.
" MOTHER"
By Cooper & Frederics.
" I N THE SAME OLD WAY"
By Nat D. Mann.
"WHEN YOU DREAM OF THE GIRL YOU LOVE"
By Leo Edwards.
M. WITMARK & SONS, Publishers
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
LONDON
PARIS
"GO ON, COOD-A-BYE "
By Brown & Murphy.
VICTOR KREMER COMPANY
108-1 10 Randolph Street, CHICAGO, ILL.
(Opposite Garrick Theatre)

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