Music Trade Review
Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 21 - Page 68
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THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
matter from a seemingly inexhaustible supply, and gags on the vaudeville and burlesque stages, the
the price suffering a steady shaving process. Those New York Clipper, in an editorial, called attention
acquainted in the slightest degree with the writing to the fact that in the majority of cases, though
and publishing of music will readily appreciate the songs themselves were sufficiently harmless,
the generous spirit which prompted the following the habit of many artists in singing the numbers
offer, this time made by the head of the Western in a manner to make them appear suggestive, had
IDWA1D LYMAN BILL - EilUr aid Prtprleltr company in an individual capacity, who announces: aroused the disgust of the public. The Clipper
"If you will send me a good poem I will write said in part: "Recently there has been consider-
J. L SFDLLANE, Muagtag Miter
the music and submit MS. to leading publishers, able adverse newspaper comment on a number of
B. B. WILSON, Editor Music Section
myself, bearing clerical and mailing expense. You songs which have been put over the footlights by
are to dvance $1.25 in rebuttal. You are to pay vaudeville and burlesque artists. In some instances
PaMlilM* Ivtry Saturday at 1 MaJhrn Avcnt. New Y#rk
nothing more. I am well known to many publish- the criticisms have been timely and just, but in
lOMOUFTlON. (Including poata**), United itatea and
ers. If I succeed, which I will use my every fa- others the faults have been more in the way the
Mtzloo, $2.00 per ytar; Cuada, $1.60; all •tfcar oooav
trlM. $4.00.
cility to do, I will send to you, at once, one-half songs were rendered than in the songs themselves.
of the money I receive. It takes from two to six Some performers endeavor to make their songs
Telephones—Numbers 4*77 and 4678 Grancrcy
Connecting all Departments
weeks. Your money will be sent you immediately and gags as broad as possible, knowing full well
when sale is made. My music is widely known. that there is always an element in a music hall
N E W Y O R K , N O V E M B E R 25, l t l l
Good available songs bring from $15.00 up to audience that will loudly applaud anything that is
$500.00. If you wish to try two at the same time off-color. It is gratifying to know, however, thai
$1.75 will cover your rebuttal expense for the managers everywhere are endeavoring to give clean
All matter of every nature Intended
two. Let your songs be two or three verses and performances, and the majority of performers are
for this department should be addressed
chorus in length. Complete works, also, handled." heartily co-operating with them in the effort to
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
remove the prejudice which has existed for a long
No Chances Taken.
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
It will be seen that there is nothing promised, time, in the minds of some people, against the
nothing guaranteed. Even the probable quality music hall shows. . . . It is a great mistake to
of the music (written free) is not dwelt upon. believe that to be funny one must be nasty; there
is more genuine mirth and laughter in a single
The scheme has at least one undeniable point of
merit; it is designed to take from the hands of the genuine witty saying or ludicrous situation than
amateur song writer, who likely believes himself there is in a hundred coarse jests. No respect-
a prodigy, the copy of his "poem." Probably such able music publisher will to-day issue an immoral
a course will save the legitimate publishers much song, but sometimes it happens in singing, as it
Some time ago, in this column, attention was suffering. It might pay even the professional song does in speaking, that 'it does not matter so much
called to the offer of a Western concern to help writers to send the $1.25 and have the music writ- what you say as the way you say it.' This inter-
the struggling song writer in having his poems ten for them and thus save the charges of the polation of songs to gain applause is rapidly being
set to music and published at reduced rates. In composer and arranger. Saving money is making eliminated, and the day is not far distant when
other words, where those moved by philanthropic money in these days of high living cost. Just to it will be unknown in any playnouse laying claim
and other motives had looked upon $25 or $50 as show the sincerity of the man back of the propo- to respectability." The editorial seems to offer a
the minimum amounts for which they could af- sition and his desire to do good (this can be taken capable summing up of the situation.
ford to extend their valuable (?) assistance to the both ways) he heads his latest letter to the pros-
ambitious but innocent amateur, the Western house pect as follows: "Dear Friend: As manager of
LISZT RELICS DEMANDED.
came to the front with the post-card idea. For our business I address you personally as friend,
the small sum of $6.50, which was later reduced because I know if you and I knew each other,
A dispatch from Budapest says that relatives of
to $5, payable in instalments, the song writer could could search each other's inmost life designs, we Franz Liszt demanded of the Hungarian Govern-
have music written for his poem free of cost and would be and really are friends." Isn't that ment on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth
have 500 post-cards printed of same. Of course, enough to make the veterans sit up and take no- the celebrated musician's belongings. The Abbe
he only actually received 100 of said post-cards, tice?
left, besides a small sum of money, presents and
the balance being "distributed" by the publisher
The Singer and the Song.
souvenirs valued at $50,000. These, which in-
through special channels for the purpose of ad- In discussing the comments made by many news- cluded a golden baton set with brilliants, the gift
vertising.
papers upon the prevalence of risque songs and
of the composer's "friend," Princess Sayn-Witt-
MUSIC5ECTI0N
COMMENTS B Y -
"Angels of the Struggling."
The campaign so far had the usual earmarks
of such "angels of the struggling," but the aspiring
amateur still continued to receive fresh printed
dec i
x. ^ * *±. w^
I-T—
>v
^*'_^ I
JUST LIKE THE 6IRL THAT MARKED DEAR OLD DAD"
We are publishers of the following
Successful Productions
"ALL ABOARD FOR BLANKET B A Y "
" THE COUNT of LUXEMBOURG"
"THE QUAKER GIRL"
"GIPSY LOVE"
"THE PINK LADY"
"PEGGY"
"THE SLIM PRINCESS"
"THE ARCADIANS"
"THE BALKAN PRINCESS"
"HAVANA"
"THE CLIMAX"
C H A P P E L L & CO., L t d .
CHAS If U1RRK Columbia Theatre Bldg.
I*IIA». K. NANff|», Broadway and 47th St.
41 East 34th St., New York
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
"THEY ALWAYS PICK ON ME"
This collection will ap-
peal most to lovers of
gems from the operas
through the fact that it
is complete in every re-
spect, and contains all the
favorite standard operas,
including selections from
Comes D'Hoffman, Lak-
me, Eugene Onegin, etc.
The melodies selected are
the ones with which
everybody is familiar and
the arrangements a n d
modern fingering are spe-
cial features which will
appeal to the intelligent
lover of the piano. Price,
75 cents.
Most Beautiful Child Ballad Written
In Years.
"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven?"
By Chas. K. Harria
HINDS. NOBLE & ELDREDGE.
Just Published
31-35 West 151h Street, New York
Just Published
THE
ROOT EDITIOIN BEAUTIFUL
Trad© Supplied by the iVtcKlnley Musit Co., Chicago
and New York:
The Root Edition Beautiful is being advertised in every musical magazine in this country. 200,000 music teachers are being supplied with catalogs containing thematic and de-
scription of each piece. If you do not supply the demands you will have for the edition, it is because you lack interest in the newest publications and that means you are not up-to-date
Write for samples.
MUSIC
COMPANY,
CHICAGO
AIND
N E W YORK
68
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
matter from a seemingly inexhaustible supply, and gags on the vaudeville and burlesque stages, the
the price suffering a steady shaving process. Those New York Clipper, in an editorial, called attention
acquainted in the slightest degree with the writing to the fact that in the majority of cases, though
and publishing of music will readily appreciate the songs themselves were sufficiently harmless,
the generous spirit which prompted the following the habit of many artists in singing the numbers
offer, this time made by the head of the Western in a manner to make them appear suggestive, had
IDWA1D LYMAN BILL - EilUr aid Prtprleltr company in an individual capacity, who announces: aroused the disgust of the public. The Clipper
"If you will send me a good poem I will write said in part: "Recently there has been consider-
J. L SFDLLANE, Muagtag Miter
the music and submit MS. to leading publishers, able adverse newspaper comment on a number of
B. B. WILSON, Editor Music Section
myself, bearing clerical and mailing expense. You songs which have been put over the footlights by
are to dvance $1.25 in rebuttal. You are to pay vaudeville and burlesque artists. In some instances
PaMlilM* Ivtry Saturday at 1 MaJhrn Avcnt. New Y#rk
nothing more. I am well known to many publish- the criticisms have been timely and just, but in
lOMOUFTlON. (Including poata**), United itatea and
ers. If I succeed, which I will use my every fa- others the faults have been more in the way the
Mtzloo, $2.00 per ytar; Cuada, $1.60; all •tfcar oooav
trlM. $4.00.
cility to do, I will send to you, at once, one-half songs were rendered than in the songs themselves.
of the money I receive. It takes from two to six Some performers endeavor to make their songs
Telephones—Numbers 4*77 and 4678 Grancrcy
Connecting all Departments
weeks. Your money will be sent you immediately and gags as broad as possible, knowing full well
when sale is made. My music is widely known. that there is always an element in a music hall
N E W Y O R K , N O V E M B E R 25, l t l l
Good available songs bring from $15.00 up to audience that will loudly applaud anything that is
$500.00. If you wish to try two at the same time off-color. It is gratifying to know, however, thai
$1.75 will cover your rebuttal expense for the managers everywhere are endeavoring to give clean
All matter of every nature Intended
two. Let your songs be two or three verses and performances, and the majority of performers are
for this department should be addressed
chorus in length. Complete works, also, handled." heartily co-operating with them in the effort to
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
remove the prejudice which has existed for a long
No Chances Taken.
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
It will be seen that there is nothing promised, time, in the minds of some people, against the
nothing guaranteed. Even the probable quality music hall shows. . . . It is a great mistake to
of the music (written free) is not dwelt upon. believe that to be funny one must be nasty; there
is more genuine mirth and laughter in a single
The scheme has at least one undeniable point of
merit; it is designed to take from the hands of the genuine witty saying or ludicrous situation than
amateur song writer, who likely believes himself there is in a hundred coarse jests. No respect-
a prodigy, the copy of his "poem." Probably such able music publisher will to-day issue an immoral
a course will save the legitimate publishers much song, but sometimes it happens in singing, as it
Some time ago, in this column, attention was suffering. It might pay even the professional song does in speaking, that 'it does not matter so much
called to the offer of a Western concern to help writers to send the $1.25 and have the music writ- what you say as the way you say it.' This inter-
the struggling song writer in having his poems ten for them and thus save the charges of the polation of songs to gain applause is rapidly being
set to music and published at reduced rates. In composer and arranger. Saving money is making eliminated, and the day is not far distant when
other words, where those moved by philanthropic money in these days of high living cost. Just to it will be unknown in any playnouse laying claim
and other motives had looked upon $25 or $50 as show the sincerity of the man back of the propo- to respectability." The editorial seems to offer a
the minimum amounts for which they could af- sition and his desire to do good (this can be taken capable summing up of the situation.
ford to extend their valuable (?) assistance to the both ways) he heads his latest letter to the pros-
ambitious but innocent amateur, the Western house pect as follows: "Dear Friend: As manager of
LISZT RELICS DEMANDED.
came to the front with the post-card idea. For our business I address you personally as friend,
the small sum of $6.50, which was later reduced because I know if you and I knew each other,
A dispatch from Budapest says that relatives of
to $5, payable in instalments, the song writer could could search each other's inmost life designs, we Franz Liszt demanded of the Hungarian Govern-
have music written for his poem free of cost and would be and really are friends." Isn't that ment on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth
have 500 post-cards printed of same. Of course, enough to make the veterans sit up and take no- the celebrated musician's belongings. The Abbe
he only actually received 100 of said post-cards, tice?
left, besides a small sum of money, presents and
the balance being "distributed" by the publisher
The Singer and the Song.
souvenirs valued at $50,000. These, which in-
through special channels for the purpose of ad- In discussing the comments made by many news- cluded a golden baton set with brilliants, the gift
vertising.
papers upon the prevalence of risque songs and
of the composer's "friend," Princess Sayn-Witt-
MUSIC5ECTI0N
COMMENTS B Y -
"Angels of the Struggling."
The campaign so far had the usual earmarks
of such "angels of the struggling," but the aspiring
amateur still continued to receive fresh printed
dec i
x. ^ * *±. w^
I-T—
>v
^*'_^ I
JUST LIKE THE 6IRL THAT MARKED DEAR OLD DAD"
We are publishers of the following
Successful Productions
"ALL ABOARD FOR BLANKET B A Y "
" THE COUNT of LUXEMBOURG"
"THE QUAKER GIRL"
"GIPSY LOVE"
"THE PINK LADY"
"PEGGY"
"THE SLIM PRINCESS"
"THE ARCADIANS"
"THE BALKAN PRINCESS"
"HAVANA"
"THE CLIMAX"
C H A P P E L L & CO., L t d .
CHAS If U1RRK Columbia Theatre Bldg.
I*IIA». K. NANff|», Broadway and 47th St.
41 East 34th St., New York
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
"THEY ALWAYS PICK ON ME"
This collection will ap-
peal most to lovers of
gems from the operas
through the fact that it
is complete in every re-
spect, and contains all the
favorite standard operas,
including selections from
Comes D'Hoffman, Lak-
me, Eugene Onegin, etc.
The melodies selected are
the ones with which
everybody is familiar and
the arrangements a n d
modern fingering are spe-
cial features which will
appeal to the intelligent
lover of the piano. Price,
75 cents.
Most Beautiful Child Ballad Written
In Years.
"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven?"
By Chas. K. Harria
HINDS. NOBLE & ELDREDGE.
Just Published
31-35 West 151h Street, New York
Just Published
THE
ROOT EDITIOIN BEAUTIFUL
Trad© Supplied by the iVtcKlnley Musit Co., Chicago
and New York:
The Root Edition Beautiful is being advertised in every musical magazine in this country. 200,000 music teachers are being supplied with catalogs containing thematic and de-
scription of each piece. If you do not supply the demands you will have for the edition, it is because you lack interest in the newest publications and that means you are not up-to-date
Write for samples.
MUSIC
COMPANY,
CHICAGO
AIND
N E W YORK
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