Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 51 N. 27 - Page 64
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THE:
EDWARD LYMAWB1LL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. sriLLANE, Musging Editor
R.W.SIMMONS, Editor Music Scctloa
Pabltoart Every Safrtay at 1 Um*Utn Awae. Hew Ywk
•CBSCKIPTION. (Including portage). United ttatea and
Mexico, 12.00 per year; Canada, S1.50; all ether conn
trlee, $4.00.
Telcpkoiet-Nnmkcra 4677 and 4«78 Gramercy
Connecting all Departments
NEW YORK, DECEMBER
31,1010
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
that was given at least histrionically by the first.
The public rushed to see the play; at least, that
section of it described above did so. The New
York performances were given before packed
houses, and most of the imitations did a good busi-
ness. One of George Bernard Shaw's dramas was
suppressed in New York, then permitted to resume.
The same proceedings ensued as followed the
"Sapho" case. Now we find that in some in-
stances certain music publishers have gained finan-
cial profit—instead of being punished financially,
as they deserved—from the advertising their songs
have received through being named by the Chicago
police as too suggestive to be entitled to public
performance in that city. One New York firm,
in particular, already notorious for a peculiar class
of songs which were entirely animal-like in the
only appeal they carried with them, played a promi-
nent part in the Chicago proceedings. The sales
at such of their songs as were placed under the
ban have, of course, merely been increased by the
further low notoriety that has come to them. Now,
it seems, two or three other New York publishers
have yielded to the unworthy temptation that has
thus been set before them.
of us with their sophistry. It is greatly to be re-
gretted that any publishers should be so badly in
need of cash that they would descend to the mire
and grovel therein for a little money. In the cases
mentioned it is the more to be regretted, for the
composer of the first song mentioned—the worst
number of the season—wrote a beautiful march
ballad a few years ago that swept the entire coun-
try. The second publisher has had dozens of big
hits in the past. To his credit, we can say that he
has already intimated he is ashamed of his song.
Let the third man continue to wallow in the filth
of his expectations. For the rest, suffice it to say
that the most prosperous publishers of popular
music in this city are those who never allow a line
of suggestiveness to creep into their issues, and
who, irrespective of this policy, find that their
clean, sweet ballads or rollicking novelty numbers
are, after all, the real "best sellers."
Buying and Selling at Same Price?
A New Haven reader of The Review writes us
a letter of which the following is an excerpt:
"Believe me, 'tis terrible but true, all the late hits,
Shapiro's, Remick's, Daly's, Morse's, Harris', Von
Tilzer's, and so on, are selling here at 8 cents
retail, and this in spite of the fact stated in a
Groveling in the Mire for Money.
One of these firms has issued a song that could recent issue of yours that 'the strong firms will
not last a minute in Chicago, nor would any self- hold fast to 8 cents per copy.' Who pays the
respecting singer use it in his act. A second has express and the salaries if dealers buy for 8 cents
a song which is not particularly objectionable as and sell for 8 cents?" The Man on the Street is
to the verses, but which has a title that is abso- very glad to receive such communications. For
lutely disgusting. A third says he has a song that one thing, he cannot personally visit other cities
will "beat the others a mile," and gleefully talks while New York publishers are insisting
A new development in the local music publish- of the big sale it will have. We will not mention that each has the biggest hit of the year. He
ing situation is the almost incredible fact that two names and titles, but we have seen copies of the has not been into the country for a long while,
or three of the publishers of popular music in this first two songs. The first publisher mentioned, moreover, except for a trip to the Bronx last sum-
city actually seem inclined to seek advantage in when seen by The Review, defended his number mer. As for the situation to be found in New
an unseemly way from the publicity given to the by saying that a "liberal-minded" audience would Haven, it is certainly terrible if true, as Mr. K.
crusade which the Chicago police have been carry- take the song in a merely humorous way, and that, writes. We call his attention to the fact, however,
ing on against suggestive songs. There is no gain- furthermore, only those with evil in their minds that we wrote that the "strong firms" will hold fast
saying the fact that a great many persons among would see evil in the song. This is the same old to 8 cents per copy. If they do not, they will not
the millions in this country are willing to submit prattle. The real point is that any adult who goes long continue strong. At times, especially in the
their minds to the taint of smut. If a new novel to vaudeville performances and who has heard late fall and early winter, most publishers will
is said to be suggestive or is declared so unfit to jokes that must inevitably reach the purest ears shade their prices. All but one of the New York
be read that it is forbidden the mails, they rush at times, knows the meaning underlying the phrases publishers mentioned in the above list assure us
to obtain copies of it. If the Chicago police or the used in the indecent songs and the contortions they have not cut rates. Mr. Harris offers $5,000
authorities in some other city decide that a song with which attempts are made to "put the songs to anyone who will prove that he has done so.
is not fit to be sung in public, they rush to buy over." Knowledge, not innocence, is protection. Mr. Burt of Remick's, Mr. Friedman of Harry
copies of the song. The same with plays. The It happens, too, that few of us are the ignoramuses Von Tilzer's, Mr. Selden of Shapiro's, and so on,
production of "Sapho" was suppressed here a few- or the "mollycoddles" these publishers would make offer no reward but take their oaths. Shapiro, by
years ago, then allowed to continue. One result
was that productions of "Sapho" sprang up like
mushrooms in all parts of the country, most of
them without a tithe of the artistic presentation
All matter o 1 every nature intended
for this department should be addressed
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
COMMENTS B Y - „
SOME OF OUR REAL HITS
\
CHAS. DILLINGHAM
PRESENTS
ELSIE JANIS
IN
"THE SLIM
PRINCESS"
BOOK BY HENRY BLOSSOM
MUSIC BY
LESLIE STUART
CHAPPELL <& CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK
HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHIN6 COMPANY
ADDRESS ALL MAIL TO
NFW VORK OFFICE
The Most Beautiful Child Song Written
In Years.
"I WANT TO BUY A
LITTLE BIT OF
LOVE"
By Chas. K. Harris
PUBLISHED BY
LONDON
" UNDER THE Y U M Y U M TREE »
" I ' L L LEND YOU E V E R Y T H I N G I ' V E GOT"
"'1 L O V E I T "
" M Y SOUTHERN
ROSE"
•'KEEP YOUR FOOT ON T H E SOFT P E D A L '
" T H E CUBANOLA G L I D E "
(ZlZL'.XJ
MELBOURNE
If I I A R R K Columbia Theatre Bldg.
i * • n A n n i d , Broadway and 47th St.
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
|*>C Mf«..« J « J e«
•
M
w r. • < .
• 25 West 43d Street, New York City
They are all here, from
"lley, Diddle, Diddle," to
"Here We Go 'Round the
Mulberry Bush!"—And the
quieter, sweeter songs like
Emmett's "Lullaby" have a
place in the book, too.
These songs are the ones
that children the world over
have loved, and the ones that
older people with young
hearts have delighted in, as
well. This collection is the
most complete collection of
children's songs published,—
and yet its price, attractively
bound, is but 50 cents.
HINDS. NOBLE & ELDREDGE, 31-35 West 15th Street, New York
c SHEET MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
WILL ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS TO YOUR STORE
ANY OTHER MEDIUM YOU COULD EMPLOY THAN
Write for catalogue and particulars as to how to
make a sheet music department a money-maker
Address nearest office
McKINLEY MUSIC CO., 185 Harrison St., Chicago, III.
NO. 80 FIFTH AVENUE, NEV* YORK, N. Y.
THE:
EDWARD LYMAWB1LL - Editor and Proprietor
J. B. sriLLANE, Musging Editor
R.W.SIMMONS, Editor Music Scctloa
Pabltoart Every Safrtay at 1 Um*Utn Awae. Hew Ywk
•CBSCKIPTION. (Including portage). United ttatea and
Mexico, 12.00 per year; Canada, S1.50; all ether conn
trlee, $4.00.
Telcpkoiet-Nnmkcra 4677 and 4«78 Gramercy
Connecting all Departments
NEW YORK, DECEMBER
31,1010
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
that was given at least histrionically by the first.
The public rushed to see the play; at least, that
section of it described above did so. The New
York performances were given before packed
houses, and most of the imitations did a good busi-
ness. One of George Bernard Shaw's dramas was
suppressed in New York, then permitted to resume.
The same proceedings ensued as followed the
"Sapho" case. Now we find that in some in-
stances certain music publishers have gained finan-
cial profit—instead of being punished financially,
as they deserved—from the advertising their songs
have received through being named by the Chicago
police as too suggestive to be entitled to public
performance in that city. One New York firm,
in particular, already notorious for a peculiar class
of songs which were entirely animal-like in the
only appeal they carried with them, played a promi-
nent part in the Chicago proceedings. The sales
at such of their songs as were placed under the
ban have, of course, merely been increased by the
further low notoriety that has come to them. Now,
it seems, two or three other New York publishers
have yielded to the unworthy temptation that has
thus been set before them.
of us with their sophistry. It is greatly to be re-
gretted that any publishers should be so badly in
need of cash that they would descend to the mire
and grovel therein for a little money. In the cases
mentioned it is the more to be regretted, for the
composer of the first song mentioned—the worst
number of the season—wrote a beautiful march
ballad a few years ago that swept the entire coun-
try. The second publisher has had dozens of big
hits in the past. To his credit, we can say that he
has already intimated he is ashamed of his song.
Let the third man continue to wallow in the filth
of his expectations. For the rest, suffice it to say
that the most prosperous publishers of popular
music in this city are those who never allow a line
of suggestiveness to creep into their issues, and
who, irrespective of this policy, find that their
clean, sweet ballads or rollicking novelty numbers
are, after all, the real "best sellers."
Buying and Selling at Same Price?
A New Haven reader of The Review writes us
a letter of which the following is an excerpt:
"Believe me, 'tis terrible but true, all the late hits,
Shapiro's, Remick's, Daly's, Morse's, Harris', Von
Tilzer's, and so on, are selling here at 8 cents
retail, and this in spite of the fact stated in a
Groveling in the Mire for Money.
One of these firms has issued a song that could recent issue of yours that 'the strong firms will
not last a minute in Chicago, nor would any self- hold fast to 8 cents per copy.' Who pays the
respecting singer use it in his act. A second has express and the salaries if dealers buy for 8 cents
a song which is not particularly objectionable as and sell for 8 cents?" The Man on the Street is
to the verses, but which has a title that is abso- very glad to receive such communications. For
lutely disgusting. A third says he has a song that one thing, he cannot personally visit other cities
will "beat the others a mile," and gleefully talks while New York publishers are insisting
A new development in the local music publish- of the big sale it will have. We will not mention that each has the biggest hit of the year. He
ing situation is the almost incredible fact that two names and titles, but we have seen copies of the has not been into the country for a long while,
or three of the publishers of popular music in this first two songs. The first publisher mentioned, moreover, except for a trip to the Bronx last sum-
city actually seem inclined to seek advantage in when seen by The Review, defended his number mer. As for the situation to be found in New
an unseemly way from the publicity given to the by saying that a "liberal-minded" audience would Haven, it is certainly terrible if true, as Mr. K.
crusade which the Chicago police have been carry- take the song in a merely humorous way, and that, writes. We call his attention to the fact, however,
ing on against suggestive songs. There is no gain- furthermore, only those with evil in their minds that we wrote that the "strong firms" will hold fast
saying the fact that a great many persons among would see evil in the song. This is the same old to 8 cents per copy. If they do not, they will not
the millions in this country are willing to submit prattle. The real point is that any adult who goes long continue strong. At times, especially in the
their minds to the taint of smut. If a new novel to vaudeville performances and who has heard late fall and early winter, most publishers will
is said to be suggestive or is declared so unfit to jokes that must inevitably reach the purest ears shade their prices. All but one of the New York
be read that it is forbidden the mails, they rush at times, knows the meaning underlying the phrases publishers mentioned in the above list assure us
to obtain copies of it. If the Chicago police or the used in the indecent songs and the contortions they have not cut rates. Mr. Harris offers $5,000
authorities in some other city decide that a song with which attempts are made to "put the songs to anyone who will prove that he has done so.
is not fit to be sung in public, they rush to buy over." Knowledge, not innocence, is protection. Mr. Burt of Remick's, Mr. Friedman of Harry
copies of the song. The same with plays. The It happens, too, that few of us are the ignoramuses Von Tilzer's, Mr. Selden of Shapiro's, and so on,
production of "Sapho" was suppressed here a few- or the "mollycoddles" these publishers would make offer no reward but take their oaths. Shapiro, by
years ago, then allowed to continue. One result
was that productions of "Sapho" sprang up like
mushrooms in all parts of the country, most of
them without a tithe of the artistic presentation
All matter o 1 every nature intended
for this department should be addressed
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
COMMENTS B Y - „
SOME OF OUR REAL HITS
\
CHAS. DILLINGHAM
PRESENTS
ELSIE JANIS
IN
"THE SLIM
PRINCESS"
BOOK BY HENRY BLOSSOM
MUSIC BY
LESLIE STUART
CHAPPELL <& CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK
HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC PUBLISHIN6 COMPANY
ADDRESS ALL MAIL TO
NFW VORK OFFICE
The Most Beautiful Child Song Written
In Years.
"I WANT TO BUY A
LITTLE BIT OF
LOVE"
By Chas. K. Harris
PUBLISHED BY
LONDON
" UNDER THE Y U M Y U M TREE »
" I ' L L LEND YOU E V E R Y T H I N G I ' V E GOT"
"'1 L O V E I T "
" M Y SOUTHERN
ROSE"
•'KEEP YOUR FOOT ON T H E SOFT P E D A L '
" T H E CUBANOLA G L I D E "
(ZlZL'.XJ
MELBOURNE
If I I A R R K Columbia Theatre Bldg.
i * • n A n n i d , Broadway and 47th St.
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
|*>C Mf«..« J « J e«
•
M
w r. • < .
• 25 West 43d Street, New York City
They are all here, from
"lley, Diddle, Diddle," to
"Here We Go 'Round the
Mulberry Bush!"—And the
quieter, sweeter songs like
Emmett's "Lullaby" have a
place in the book, too.
These songs are the ones
that children the world over
have loved, and the ones that
older people with young
hearts have delighted in, as
well. This collection is the
most complete collection of
children's songs published,—
and yet its price, attractively
bound, is but 50 cents.
HINDS. NOBLE & ELDREDGE, 31-35 West 15th Street, New York
c SHEET MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
WILL ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS TO YOUR STORE
ANY OTHER MEDIUM YOU COULD EMPLOY THAN
Write for catalogue and particulars as to how to
make a sheet music department a money-maker
Address nearest office
McKINLEY MUSIC CO., 185 Harrison St., Chicago, III.
NO. 80 FIFTH AVENUE, NEV* YORK, N. Y.
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