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and versatile playwright who, in recent years,
has contributed to the dramatic world her "Brown
of Harvard," "Ragged Robin," "The Boys of Com-
pany B," "One of the Boys," and, latterly, "The
Lottery Man." The music for Mrs. Young's new
comedy is by the famous composer, Victor Her-
bert.
At present Mrs. Young is engaged in transform-
ing her play, "The Boys of Company B," into a
musical production. It appears fitting and appro-
priate that the Witmarks should be the publishers
of Mrs. Young's first musical comedy, as this
gifted lady occupied the position of general press
representative of their house not long ago, and
the relations existing between her and the firm
have ever been cordial and friendly.
NOVEL DISPLAY AT "SONG SHOP/'
Collection of Spoons as "Remains of the Cafe
de I'Opera" Attracts Buyers—Another Sug-
gestion for Remick's Store Manager.
MUSIC
"UP AND DOWN BROADWAY" GIVEN.
New Summer Review Has Successful New
York Opening—Plenty of Catchy Songs in
the Score—Remick & Co. the Publishers.
"Up and Down Broadway," a new musical re-
view which had its opening at the Casino last
Monday night, made good most of the claims of
merit that had been made for it. In the matter
of summer music and songs of popular quality it
fulfilled all previous boasts. The first few days
of the production have been so satisfactory to all
concerned that the Shuberts announce that the
review is not to be merely a temporary production,
but will be an annual summer institution. As is
done with the "Follies," the winter's theatrical
events will be imitated or travestied each summer
under the title, "Up and Down Broadway."
Eddie Foy and Emma Cams are the two stars
of the piece, and the latter made a special hit.
She was credited, in fact, with holding the show
together. Her songs ranged from the near-
operatic, in which she was doing a "Mary Garden"
turn, to the rollicking novelty numbers that are
now in particular vogue. One of her songs,
credited with being the freshest, is "1861," in which
some contrasts are drawn between things as they
were then and as they are now. Another song,
"Mary Ann," has a, big swing and should take
well. One of the best songs did not fall to Miss
Carus. It is "The Pretty Little Girl Inside," well
given by Vida Whitmore and Martin Brown. A
musical number is of a "Chinese Apache" style, in
which takes place the usual foolish stabbing of one
of the participants, after which he responds to an
encore.
The book is by Edgar Smith, lyrics by William
Jerome, and music by Jean Schwartz. The music
is published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. There
are few interpolations. Berlin and Snyder "got
there" with one good song, whose title, as might be
expected, is "That Beautiful Rag."
In the window of the Broadway "Song Shop"
of Jerome H. Remick & Co. is a sign reading,
"Remains of the Cafe de l'Opera," and this arises
from a glittering heap of small spoons, for sale
at 10 cents each. The spoons have stamped on
them the name of the ill-fated and merely would-
be resort of fashion, which New Yorkers sat
down on rather than in because of snobbishness
on the part of the imported management. The
spoons are the result of an idea evolved by Will-
iam Phillips, manager of the Remick stores in
the East. They have appealed to souvenir-hunt-
ers like the traditional hot cakes, for it is pointed
out that as they have "Cafe de l'Opera" stamped
on them they must have come from there.
While this sale is going on some of Mr. Phil-
lips' friends have suggested that he put into opera-
tion another novel idea, such as the sale of bits
of rope from the Reno, Nev., ring, which was re-
cently the focus of several million pa : rs of eyes.
These strands of rope, it was pointed out, could
LIBRETTIST COMING WITH MASCAGNI.
be attached to copies ot the Remick song, "I'm
on My Way to Reno," and given as premiums to
It has been definitely decided that Luigi Illica,
buyers. Mr. Phillips thought the sales of the librettist of Puccini's "Tosca," "La Boheme" and
song would be further increased in this way, but "Madame Butterfly," and of Mascagni's new opera,
before trying it out was inclined to believe that
"Ysobel," and a number of other Italian operas
the display would look a bit "stringy."
of note, will accompany Pietro Mascagni to Amer-
ica next fall to witness the first production of
SAVAGE RE-ENTERS GRAND OPERA.
"Ysobel," which is to be presented by Liebler &
The announcement by Henry W. Savage, who Co.'s new Abott Opera Company, with Bessie
recently allied himself with the "open door" theatri- Abott in the title role. Illica will be compelled to
cal policy headed by the Shuberts, that he had return to Italy immediately after the New York
obtained the American rights to produce in Eng- premiere, although Mascagni, who will act as con-
lish Puccini's new opera, "The Girl of the Golden ductor of the new company, will remain in this
West," means, of course, that the production will country until the opening of the International Ex-
mark his re-entry into the field of grand opera. position at Rome next spring. Signor Illica has
The final details by which Mr. Savage acquired the spent some time preparing his new libretto, spend-
rights were completed on July 11, through George ing several months in the town of Coventry, where
Maxwell, the American representative of Puccini's the action takes place. He conducted as well some
publishers, G. Ricordi & Co., of Milan. The exhaustive researches in the British Museum.
original title of the opera, by the way, under which
Puccini has worked, is "La Fanciulla del West."
A new musical feature entitled "Reminiscent
Ragtime" was added to "The Follies of 1910" at
the Jardin de Paris (the New York Theater roof)
last Tuesday evening. The principals and a chorus
of sixty participated.
FOUR BIG SELLERS BY WM. MARX
HAVILAND'S HITS!
" Don't Forget That We Were Playmates "
" When The Evening Turns To Gray "
" Where The Brazos River Flows "
" A Peacetul Country Home"
WM. MARX, Music Publisher
251 Ida Avc, Wichita, Kan.
Sample copies free to Dealers interested
MIKE BERNARD WITH CHAS. K. HARRIS.
Mike Bernard has formed a partnership with
Karl Tausig, and they have entered the song writ-
ing field, Mr. Tausig writing the lyrics and Mr.
Bernard the music. Chas. K. Harris is their pub-
l.isher, and he will issue several of their songs in
the near future. "That Tickling Rag," instrumen-
tal, by Mr. Bernard, is out, and Mr. Tausig is
writing words for it.
WIDENING MARKET FOR HIS SONGS.
William Marx, music publisher of Wichita,
Kan., is now engaged in marketing several songs
which have been out but a few weeks. Several
thousands of copies were sold in his home town
before he began to expand the market for them,
he reports, and as his numbers are equal in quality
to many successful songs issued by eastern pub-
lishers, the prospects for success look good. Mr
Marx is a comparatively new man in the field,
but declares he has entered the music business to
stay in it. He was formerly connected with the
Ellis Marx Music Co., of Sacramento, Cal.
NEWMAN'S NEW YORK OFFICE PLANS.
Harry L. Newman, the music publisher, an-
nounces that his New York office, in the Astor
Theatre Building, will remain open until Septem-
ber 1. Meanwhile his Chicago office is bigger
than ever, he says diffidently, with fifteen new
songs therein.
BLANCHE RING CRITICISES CLIQUES.
"It is customary in New York when a new song
is introduced at a Broadway premiere for every-
body interested in that particular song, accorr-
panied by numerous friends, to be present and
form a little clique for the encouragement of the
singer and to make sure that the song gets a-
plenty," said Blanche Ring recently. "There is
more than mere conceit in the efforts of such n
band of 'pluggers,' as they are called in New York,
for at every opening performance are representa-
tives of the big music jobbers who have their
headquarters in New York, and the size of their
royalty largely depends upon the enthusiasm with
which the audience receives the song. In their
efforts to 'plug' their own songs these cliques fre-
quently prove to be nuisances, and when the same
production contains three or four songs published
by rival music houses the play is prolonged ami
dragged by the persistent applause of the 'plun-
gers' for more encores."
BALLAD BY LADY ARTHUR HILL.
SHEET MUSIC IN BORNEO JUNGLE.
John Philip Sousa, the famous bandmaster and
composer of marches, returned to this country re-
cently from an extended stay abroad, and at once
began making arrangements for his coming round-
the-world tour. "I think one of the best compli-
ments I ever had paid me as a composer came
from Major Kauffman, of the United States
Army," remarked Mr. Sousa between statements as
NEW FEATURE IN THE "FOLLIES."
to his plans. "Major Kanffman told me that in
the depths of the tropical jungle of Borneo he
had found pinned against the trunk of a tree with
a great thorn a copy of one of my compositions,
where some native had been wrestling with the
white man's music on his primitive instrument."
" I'm Awfully Glad I Met You."
" I Want a Girl From Yankee Doodle
Town."
"Under The Irish Moon."
" Monkey Doodle Dandy." (Jungle Song)
Our new-issue proposition is of interest to every dealer.
Send for it.
THE F. B. HAVILAND PUBLISHING CO.
1 2 6 Wast 37th Street, New York.
One of the most popular ballads in England at
the -present time is "Rosemary for Remembrance,"
the composer of which is Lady Arthur Hill, a
prominent member of the English aristocracy. The
words were written by the well-known English
lyric writer, Fred E. Weatherly, and have assisted
in great measure in making the song popular.
''Rosemary for Remembrance" is published by
Chappell & Co., of London and New York.
D E A L E R S
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" Galling Dear Gome Home," Barn Dance
" Loving Loving all the Time "
" Day Dreams"
"When the Honeymoon is Over"
"There Is Something We Have Missed"
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