Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 51 N. 15 - Page 50
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THE: MUSIC TRADE
50
'GIRL IN THE TRAIN" PLEASING.
REVIEW
FORCED TO MORTGAGE SONGS.
New Viennese Operetta Does Not Equal Its Composer Saved Family from Poverty, and
Two Famous Predecessors, However, and
Now His Widow Has Recovered Two Num-
Mistake Was Made in Comparing It to bers, Which She Places on the Market.
Them.
(Special to The Review.)
"The Girl in the Train," a recently imported
Viennese operetta, with libretto adapted by Harry
B. Smith, was presented at the Globe Theater last
Monday night with a fair degree of success. That
there was not more enthusiasm shown over the
production at the opening and the succeeding per-
formances this week seems to have been due to
some extent to overbold advance statements made
by the producers, whereby it was expected that
the piece would prove to be veritably another
"Merry Widow" or "Dollar Princess."
The public was easily led to believe that this
would be the case, for the original book is by
Victor Leon, librettist of "The Merry Widow,"
and the music by Leo Fall, composer of "The
Dollar Princess." The music, however, is gen-
erally regarded as below the plane of Dr. Fall's
famous work, although there are two or three
numbers of entrancing merit which will undoubt-
edly lead them through the usual channels of cafe
and restaurant orchestras, theater entr-actes, and
so on. One very merry air commences in Eng-
lish, "Eny-Meeny, Miny-Mo," and another, a duet
between the actress and the judge, is capital. Two
waltzes appeal strongly to the audience, but are
not likely to destroy memory of the waltzes from
"Merry Widow" and "Dollar Princess."
One of these waltz numbers in "The Girl in the
Train" is "That's Why Lots of People Marry,"
which has a pleasing lilt, but which is surpassed
by a swinging waltz, "You Must Be Mine," which
is almost inspirational in its rhythm-and feeling.
This number, like others in the piece, was not
sung so well as it deserved, and, furthermore, the
singers' voices were almost drowned by the or-
chestra. In fact, with abler voices the entire score
would have fared better. There seemed to be no
one on the stage who could do it justice. By itself,
finally, "The Girl in the Train" is a tuneful, pleas-
ing operetta. Its handicap lies in the fact that too
much was expected of it, and it had two remark-
able predecessors which the librettist and com-
poser thereof could hardly be expected to equal.
The distinctive musical numbers should have a
good vogue. The music is published by M. Wit-
mark & Sons.
London, Eng., Sept. 30, 1910.
Eight years after the tragic death of their com-
poser, two songs by Piccolomini, the author of the
much sung "Ora Pro Nobis," have just been pub-
lished by his widow at her own expense. A
melancholy interest attaches to them. Poverty
overshadowed the closing years of the musician's
life, and these two songs, together with four others,
had to be mortgaged to save the family from
starvation. Only recently has Mme. Piccolomini
been able to recover possession of these two com-
positions, and they have now been placed on the
market for the first time. One of these is called,
"Do You Remember, or Do You Forget?" and
the other, "Into Thy Hands O Lord." Both have
been sung for some time past by Arthur Aldridge,
the tenor, and have proved such popular successes
that in the case of the first-named Mme. Piccolo-
mini has been offered i300 for the copyright by a
publisher. She has decided, however, to keep it in
her own hands, believing that its success will be
quite as great as that of her husband's previously
published work.
"Mr. Piccolomini sold the rights of 'Ora Pro
Nobis' for £10," she says, "and in nine years the
publishers netted a profit of £27,000 from its sale.
That was twenty years ago. 'Whisper and I Shall
Hear' was another of my husband's compositions
which has brought a fortune to its owners. Yet
he himself obtained no more than £15 for it. For
'The Toilers' he received only a five-pound note,
and he did no better with 'The Last Milestone.'"
Mrs. Piccolomini is hoping that her son may one
day be as well known to the public as his father
was. Although only thirteen years of age, the boy
has just composed a song which is highly spoken
of, and is to be published shortly.
ELSIE JAMS REALLY A STAR NOW.
Brilliant Young Woman Playing Leading Role
in "The Slim Princess" Casts Aside Relics
of Childhood Days—It is a New Young
Woman Who Comes to the Stage This Year
in "The Slim Princess."
(Special to The Review.)
NOW
READY!
TWO GREAT NEW
COMPOSITIONS
By HARRY D. KERR
"YOUR LOVE IS MY GUIDING S T A R "
High class ballad outranked by none.
"PLAYIN' HONEYMOON"
A dainty, classic child song.
These songs are of the kind that never grow old.
Send for our standing order proposition and price
lists when you order the above pieces.
MILLER MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.,
515 So. Hermitage Avenue, Chicago.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 3, 1910.
It is Miss Elsie Janis now, if you please. No
more little Elsie or even just plain Elsie, for the
brilliant young lady is sedate and twenty and the
relics of childhood days have been cast aside.
"The Slim Princess," published by Chappell & Co.,
is the first play in which Miss Janis has ever worn
her hair "done up," and considerable dignity at-
VICTOR KRENER
Real Live Sellers
FOUR BIG SELLERS BY WM. MARX
"NIGHT AND DAY"
44
Don't Forget That We Were Playmates"
" When The Evening Turns To Gray "
44
Where The Brazos River Flows "
44
A Peaceful Country Home"
3 Keys. Brauen and Lloyd.
"THE ANGLE WORM WIGGLE"
Mule Engraver* ni Prliten
HMD MANUICKIFT AND IDEA OP TITLE
ESTIMATE
III WOT urn m m ,
ww YMI a n
Harry Williams, of the well-known song-writing
team of Williams & Van Alstyne, whose songs
are published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., was
taken seriously ill with ptomaine poisoning in
Philadelphia late last week, in which city he was
playing a vaudeville engagement with Jean
Schwartz, of Jerome & Schwartz, an "act" having
been arranged between the two a few weeks ago.
Mr. Williams suffered considerably for a few
days, but is now well on the road to recovery.
He was expected to return to New York late this
week. He attributes the attack to a dish of crab
meat which he ate one night at dinner. A few
hours after indulging in this dangerous dish he
was seized with the violent and characteristic
pains of this severe affliction.
He and Mr.
Schwartz were to have played in Pittsburg this
week, but the date was cancelled. Mr. Schwartz
returned to New York last Mondav.
Jeromehremicksellers.
Talk is cheap. We could utilize all this space
to tell you that all the songs we mention in our
advertisement are
Surehltsbut
we want your confidence and we want you jusl:
to believe us when we say that if you buy more
than your usual allowance of the following songs
Youwillnotgetstuckfor
we are going to make them sell better than the
old time and proverbial hot cake.
Werefertothesefive
'Oh You Dream"
'Shame Upon You Nancy"
' Honolulu Rag"
' Sugar Moon " and
'Silver Bell"
Order from your Jobber or direct from us either
New York or Detroit.
Yours truly
Jerome II. Remick 5 (o.
1 31 Wast 41 st Street, New York
6 8 Farrar Street, Detroit
"SHE'S A PATIENT OF MINE"
S O M E OF
by Chris Smith.
Big hit from Jumping Jupiter.
HAVILAND'S HITS!
11
DON'T FORGET ME DEARIE"
J. B. Walsh and Al W. Brown.
"ANY OLD TIME OR Ml
ROBERT TELLER SONS ft DORNER
HARRY WILLIAMS POISONED BY FOOD.
by I. Maynard Schwartz and Harry S. Lorch,
an over night hit.
WM. MARX, Music Publisher
251 Ida Ave., Wichita, Kan.
Sample copies free to Dealers interested
taches itself to this momentous transition. She is
no longer the romping youngster, running about
through "The Vanderbilt Cup," nor the tomboyish
schoolgirl of "The Hoyden," nor even the half-
grown-up girl we knew last season in "The Fair
Co-Ed." She is really Miss Janis, and quite up-
holds the dignity surrounding a self-made star
of "The Slim Princess" magnitude.
It is a new young woman who comes to us this
year, with the recommendation of her name in
electric lights above the Studebaker entrance, a
mature and serious-minded young woman whose
memories of the days long ago, when she was the
"Little Elsie" of vaudeville fame, are quite dim
and hazy. Do not imagine that in personality the
fair Elsie is less popular than ever, for no star
ever held the affections of a company of stage
players with firmer grip than she. But the romp-
ing days and the games of baseball with the boys,
the decidedly ingenuous jokes on prim uplifters of
the stage—all are forgotten by the contemplative
and interesting Miss Janis, who no longer insists
upon putting tacks in the orchestra leader's chair,
as in the boisterous days of old.
OLD PLACE"
same writers
"AFTER THE ROUND U P "
great cowboy song.
MAIN OFFICE
6773 S.CLARKS It will pay you to subscribe for
CHICAGO
our new issues.
"Somebody Else, It's Always Somebody
Else."
"Cupid's I. 0. U."
"You'll Come Back."
"That Chinatown Rag/'
Our New Issue proposition will be of interest to you—
write us for it and our special bulletin of big hits.
THE F. B. HAVILAND PUBLISHING CO.
126 West 37th Street. New York.
THE: MUSIC TRADE
50
'GIRL IN THE TRAIN" PLEASING.
REVIEW
FORCED TO MORTGAGE SONGS.
New Viennese Operetta Does Not Equal Its Composer Saved Family from Poverty, and
Two Famous Predecessors, However, and
Now His Widow Has Recovered Two Num-
Mistake Was Made in Comparing It to bers, Which She Places on the Market.
Them.
(Special to The Review.)
"The Girl in the Train," a recently imported
Viennese operetta, with libretto adapted by Harry
B. Smith, was presented at the Globe Theater last
Monday night with a fair degree of success. That
there was not more enthusiasm shown over the
production at the opening and the succeeding per-
formances this week seems to have been due to
some extent to overbold advance statements made
by the producers, whereby it was expected that
the piece would prove to be veritably another
"Merry Widow" or "Dollar Princess."
The public was easily led to believe that this
would be the case, for the original book is by
Victor Leon, librettist of "The Merry Widow,"
and the music by Leo Fall, composer of "The
Dollar Princess." The music, however, is gen-
erally regarded as below the plane of Dr. Fall's
famous work, although there are two or three
numbers of entrancing merit which will undoubt-
edly lead them through the usual channels of cafe
and restaurant orchestras, theater entr-actes, and
so on. One very merry air commences in Eng-
lish, "Eny-Meeny, Miny-Mo," and another, a duet
between the actress and the judge, is capital. Two
waltzes appeal strongly to the audience, but are
not likely to destroy memory of the waltzes from
"Merry Widow" and "Dollar Princess."
One of these waltz numbers in "The Girl in the
Train" is "That's Why Lots of People Marry,"
which has a pleasing lilt, but which is surpassed
by a swinging waltz, "You Must Be Mine," which
is almost inspirational in its rhythm-and feeling.
This number, like others in the piece, was not
sung so well as it deserved, and, furthermore, the
singers' voices were almost drowned by the or-
chestra. In fact, with abler voices the entire score
would have fared better. There seemed to be no
one on the stage who could do it justice. By itself,
finally, "The Girl in the Train" is a tuneful, pleas-
ing operetta. Its handicap lies in the fact that too
much was expected of it, and it had two remark-
able predecessors which the librettist and com-
poser thereof could hardly be expected to equal.
The distinctive musical numbers should have a
good vogue. The music is published by M. Wit-
mark & Sons.
London, Eng., Sept. 30, 1910.
Eight years after the tragic death of their com-
poser, two songs by Piccolomini, the author of the
much sung "Ora Pro Nobis," have just been pub-
lished by his widow at her own expense. A
melancholy interest attaches to them. Poverty
overshadowed the closing years of the musician's
life, and these two songs, together with four others,
had to be mortgaged to save the family from
starvation. Only recently has Mme. Piccolomini
been able to recover possession of these two com-
positions, and they have now been placed on the
market for the first time. One of these is called,
"Do You Remember, or Do You Forget?" and
the other, "Into Thy Hands O Lord." Both have
been sung for some time past by Arthur Aldridge,
the tenor, and have proved such popular successes
that in the case of the first-named Mme. Piccolo-
mini has been offered i300 for the copyright by a
publisher. She has decided, however, to keep it in
her own hands, believing that its success will be
quite as great as that of her husband's previously
published work.
"Mr. Piccolomini sold the rights of 'Ora Pro
Nobis' for £10," she says, "and in nine years the
publishers netted a profit of £27,000 from its sale.
That was twenty years ago. 'Whisper and I Shall
Hear' was another of my husband's compositions
which has brought a fortune to its owners. Yet
he himself obtained no more than £15 for it. For
'The Toilers' he received only a five-pound note,
and he did no better with 'The Last Milestone.'"
Mrs. Piccolomini is hoping that her son may one
day be as well known to the public as his father
was. Although only thirteen years of age, the boy
has just composed a song which is highly spoken
of, and is to be published shortly.
ELSIE JAMS REALLY A STAR NOW.
Brilliant Young Woman Playing Leading Role
in "The Slim Princess" Casts Aside Relics
of Childhood Days—It is a New Young
Woman Who Comes to the Stage This Year
in "The Slim Princess."
(Special to The Review.)
NOW
READY!
TWO GREAT NEW
COMPOSITIONS
By HARRY D. KERR
"YOUR LOVE IS MY GUIDING S T A R "
High class ballad outranked by none.
"PLAYIN' HONEYMOON"
A dainty, classic child song.
These songs are of the kind that never grow old.
Send for our standing order proposition and price
lists when you order the above pieces.
MILLER MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.,
515 So. Hermitage Avenue, Chicago.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 3, 1910.
It is Miss Elsie Janis now, if you please. No
more little Elsie or even just plain Elsie, for the
brilliant young lady is sedate and twenty and the
relics of childhood days have been cast aside.
"The Slim Princess," published by Chappell & Co.,
is the first play in which Miss Janis has ever worn
her hair "done up," and considerable dignity at-
VICTOR KRENER
Real Live Sellers
FOUR BIG SELLERS BY WM. MARX
"NIGHT AND DAY"
44
Don't Forget That We Were Playmates"
" When The Evening Turns To Gray "
44
Where The Brazos River Flows "
44
A Peaceful Country Home"
3 Keys. Brauen and Lloyd.
"THE ANGLE WORM WIGGLE"
Mule Engraver* ni Prliten
HMD MANUICKIFT AND IDEA OP TITLE
ESTIMATE
III WOT urn m m ,
ww YMI a n
Harry Williams, of the well-known song-writing
team of Williams & Van Alstyne, whose songs
are published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., was
taken seriously ill with ptomaine poisoning in
Philadelphia late last week, in which city he was
playing a vaudeville engagement with Jean
Schwartz, of Jerome & Schwartz, an "act" having
been arranged between the two a few weeks ago.
Mr. Williams suffered considerably for a few
days, but is now well on the road to recovery.
He was expected to return to New York late this
week. He attributes the attack to a dish of crab
meat which he ate one night at dinner. A few
hours after indulging in this dangerous dish he
was seized with the violent and characteristic
pains of this severe affliction.
He and Mr.
Schwartz were to have played in Pittsburg this
week, but the date was cancelled. Mr. Schwartz
returned to New York last Mondav.
Jeromehremicksellers.
Talk is cheap. We could utilize all this space
to tell you that all the songs we mention in our
advertisement are
Surehltsbut
we want your confidence and we want you jusl:
to believe us when we say that if you buy more
than your usual allowance of the following songs
Youwillnotgetstuckfor
we are going to make them sell better than the
old time and proverbial hot cake.
Werefertothesefive
'Oh You Dream"
'Shame Upon You Nancy"
' Honolulu Rag"
' Sugar Moon " and
'Silver Bell"
Order from your Jobber or direct from us either
New York or Detroit.
Yours truly
Jerome II. Remick 5 (o.
1 31 Wast 41 st Street, New York
6 8 Farrar Street, Detroit
"SHE'S A PATIENT OF MINE"
S O M E OF
by Chris Smith.
Big hit from Jumping Jupiter.
HAVILAND'S HITS!
11
DON'T FORGET ME DEARIE"
J. B. Walsh and Al W. Brown.
"ANY OLD TIME OR Ml
ROBERT TELLER SONS ft DORNER
HARRY WILLIAMS POISONED BY FOOD.
by I. Maynard Schwartz and Harry S. Lorch,
an over night hit.
WM. MARX, Music Publisher
251 Ida Ave., Wichita, Kan.
Sample copies free to Dealers interested
taches itself to this momentous transition. She is
no longer the romping youngster, running about
through "The Vanderbilt Cup," nor the tomboyish
schoolgirl of "The Hoyden," nor even the half-
grown-up girl we knew last season in "The Fair
Co-Ed." She is really Miss Janis, and quite up-
holds the dignity surrounding a self-made star
of "The Slim Princess" magnitude.
It is a new young woman who comes to us this
year, with the recommendation of her name in
electric lights above the Studebaker entrance, a
mature and serious-minded young woman whose
memories of the days long ago, when she was the
"Little Elsie" of vaudeville fame, are quite dim
and hazy. Do not imagine that in personality the
fair Elsie is less popular than ever, for no star
ever held the affections of a company of stage
players with firmer grip than she. But the romp-
ing days and the games of baseball with the boys,
the decidedly ingenuous jokes on prim uplifters of
the stage—all are forgotten by the contemplative
and interesting Miss Janis, who no longer insists
upon putting tacks in the orchestra leader's chair,
as in the boisterous days of old.
OLD PLACE"
same writers
"AFTER THE ROUND U P "
great cowboy song.
MAIN OFFICE
6773 S.CLARKS It will pay you to subscribe for
CHICAGO
our new issues.
"Somebody Else, It's Always Somebody
Else."
"Cupid's I. 0. U."
"You'll Come Back."
"That Chinatown Rag/'
Our New Issue proposition will be of interest to you—
write us for it and our special bulletin of big hits.
THE F. B. HAVILAND PUBLISHING CO.
126 West 37th Street. New York.
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