Music Trade Review
Issue: 1911 Vol. 53 N. 23 - Page 49
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THE
pie cannot supply enough of the work of our best
singers. Had any one prophesied this ten years
ago he would have been ridiculed.
"So like these business men, the American mana-
gers have awakened to a sense of the change. And
because they realized what it meant, they have
made possible light operas with a theme and a gen-
erally conceived style. The time has arrived when
our best composers, who have been held back by
their natural distaste for the prevalent light musical
mode, may and should come forward. It is just
the working out of the natural sequence. It is
first the public, then the managers, then the com-
posers who work the change.
"There are many other influences which will
quicken this transition from mere vulgar forms
of light music. If our poetry improves, then our
music will improve. For the most genuine inspira-
tion a composer can receive is from poetry, just as
a poet oftenest gets his impressions and inspira-
tions from music. The two are co-ordinate. They
must be. Give me beautiful words, with a beauti-
ful thought, and I feel like setting it to music.
But give me a poor set of lyrics and I am in
despair. And naturally the music becomes mechan-
ical at the best.
"If some of our poets would turn from the
heavy Elizabethan forms of drama, from tragedies
SELLS AND
SATISFIES!
Thousands of Dealers have
learned the value of handling
Century Edition
It sells—and satisfies.
Century Music Pub. Go.
1178 Broadway
New York City
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
particularly, to light, fantastic themes, full of real
lyric poetry, and the charm of quaint, whimsical
humor, we would all rise apace. As a matter of
fact, it is much easier to write a good heavy theme
than a good light one, whether it be music or
poetry. Given a pathetic situation and a little
shiver music, any one can produce tears."
TWO SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTIONS.
"They All Look Good When They're Far Away"
and "When the Right Man' Sings Tra La." M.
Witmark & Sons publish the music for both pro-
ductions.
WITH THE BOSTON PUBLISHERS.
The Various Concerns Busy—Many New Pub-
lications of Merit Appearing—Other Items.
(Special to The Review.)
"Around the World" at Hippodrome and "The
Boston, Mass., Dec. 4, 1911.
Enchantress" at the New York Theater
Playing to Crowded Houses—Some of the A publication that the White-Smith Co. is justi-
fiably priding itself on just now is a volume bear-
Musical Features.
ing the title, "Songs for the Home and Kinder-
"Around the World," the Hippodrome spectacle garten." It is compiled by Miss Ida C. Knapp, a
of the season, is drawing overflowing houses con- woman who has done brilliant work in the devel-
tinuously, which fact is especially noteworthy as opment of kindergarten work in Detroit, and who
the- weeks immediately preceding Christmas are now is in Boston making a study of voice culture.
generally dull ones for the theatrical fraternity.
The volume is in cycles and portions are devoted
The various musical features of the present show, to the children's tea party, the family, boating,
the compositions of Manuel Klein, have played a bird songs, a shepherd's idyl and at the end a
prominent part in making for the success of the group of miscellaneous songs. The house also has
.production, some of the most popular selections just put out a volume especially adapted to the
being "It's a Long Lane that Has No Turning,"
Christmas season called "The Capture of Santa
"Blarney from Killarney," "Sweet Senorita," "In
Claus," a Christmas operetta, which already bids
Venice," "My Old Town" and "The Royal Dur-
fair to be popular for children's entertainments.
bar."
The B. F. Wood Music Co. are experiencing a
Another notable Broadway success of the sea- strong demand for their music publications. A
son is Victor Herbert's new operetta, "The En- group of pieces for piano is called "Trois Mor-
chantress," which is playing at the New York
ceaux" for the left hand alone by C. W. Krog-
Theater with Kitty Gordon in the title role. Mr. mann. They are "Vals'e Viennoise," "Marche
Herbert's talents as a composer are fully in evi-
dence in the music of the new work and at least
one of the numbers in the production, "The Land
of My Own Romance," has leaped into immediate
popularity. Other numbers for which there is a
strong demand include: "All Your Own Am I"
YOU CAN TELL A HIT!
(Champagne song), "Art Is Calling for Me" (I
IT'S
IN THE ATMOSPHERE!
Want to Be a Prima Donna), "Come Little Fishes"
(Goldfish song), "If You Can't Be as Happy as We were part of the audience
You'd Like to Be, Be Just as Happy as You Can."
at the FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
"Rose, Lucky Rose," "Come to Sunny Spain," "I've
last week when "THE TEMPLE
Been Looking for a Perfect Man," "That Naughty
Little Song," "One Word from You" (duet), QUARTETTE" did their "stunt".
^-with a
"SQUARE
DEAL"
TO ALL DEALERS
Our Sensational Successes:
"That Haunting* Melody" "The Brookside Inn"
"The Vienna Roll"
"tfots and Fans"
"That Haunting- Melody"—entre-acte.
RUM
TUM TIDDLE!!!
(Winter Garden)
New York World—The hit was scored by Al. .Tolion In
his two songs, "Haunting Melody" an'd "Rum Tom
Ttddle," which were reputedly encored.
All Live Dealers Will Write at Once
for
and
and
You,
our New Issue Proposition. It's a New
Original business deal that will interest
Convince you that we're going to give
Mr. Dealer,
A REAL SQUARE DEAL.
JEROME & SCHWARTZ PUBLISHING CO.
1445 Broadway, New York,
Ted S. Barron, Gen'l Mgr., B'way Theatre Bldg.
They are a swell act; a full
dress act, a genuine drawing
room attraction! You could
tell the audience liked them.
Their fifth song was
" H O N E Y M A N "
and you could tell that the
audience liked the song
tremendously! The applause
was spontaneous--you felt it
coming all through the house.
The audience's thoughts were
all in harmony!
" H O N E Y
Oh! You Beautiful Doll
Witmark Production Successes
NOW PLAYING IN NEW YORK
At the New York Theatre
GREAT
"THE ENCHANTRESS"
M A N "
was THE h i t ! They had t o
s i n g t h e chorus over a g a i n
and a g a i n !
LEO.
F E I S T - - N E W YORK
with KITTY GORDON.
Beautiful lyrics
and a dashing
melody that is
irresistible.
Book and Lyrics by Fred De Gresac and Harry
B. Smith. Music by Victor Herbert.
At the New York Hippodrome
"ROUND THE WORLD"
Book by Arthur Voegtlin and Carroll Fleming.
Lyrics and Music by Manuel Klein.
At the Astor Theatre
THE QUICKEST HIT IN YEARS
"THE RED WIDOW"
with RAYMOND HITCHCOCK.
A. H. GOETTING
MUSIC
JOBBING SERVICE
Why don't you. Mr. Dealer, buy ALL YOUR
MUSIC FROM ONE SOURCE?
No matter what muiic is wanted or how many
copies, limply send ONE ORDER to u». and the
muaic will be shipped to you on the day your order
is received.
Our prices are guaranteed to be the LOWEST,
as we won't be undersold by anyone. Send for
our Monthly Bargain List (free) and join the
circle of money-making muaic dealers.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Book and Lyrics by Channing Pollock and Rennold
Wolf. Music by Chas. J. Gebest.
A.
68 Farrar St.
Detroit, Mich.
M. WITMARK & SONS
A. H. Goetting, 158 l«0 Wabash Ave.. Chicago.
New York Music Supply
ppy Co.,
., 1868 Broadway,
y, N. Y.
E
M i Supply
S l Co.,
C 140
140 W.
W 86th
8 6 h St.,
S N.
N Y.
Y
EftUrprtM Music
Coupon Muaic Co.. All Washington St., Bostoa.
A, H. Gocttimg. 148 Yoo*» S c . Toronto. Can.
131 W. 41st St.
New York
PUBLISHERS
New York Chicago San Francisco London Paris
H. GOETTING
Springfield, Mass.
THE
pie cannot supply enough of the work of our best
singers. Had any one prophesied this ten years
ago he would have been ridiculed.
"So like these business men, the American mana-
gers have awakened to a sense of the change. And
because they realized what it meant, they have
made possible light operas with a theme and a gen-
erally conceived style. The time has arrived when
our best composers, who have been held back by
their natural distaste for the prevalent light musical
mode, may and should come forward. It is just
the working out of the natural sequence. It is
first the public, then the managers, then the com-
posers who work the change.
"There are many other influences which will
quicken this transition from mere vulgar forms
of light music. If our poetry improves, then our
music will improve. For the most genuine inspira-
tion a composer can receive is from poetry, just as
a poet oftenest gets his impressions and inspira-
tions from music. The two are co-ordinate. They
must be. Give me beautiful words, with a beauti-
ful thought, and I feel like setting it to music.
But give me a poor set of lyrics and I am in
despair. And naturally the music becomes mechan-
ical at the best.
"If some of our poets would turn from the
heavy Elizabethan forms of drama, from tragedies
SELLS AND
SATISFIES!
Thousands of Dealers have
learned the value of handling
Century Edition
It sells—and satisfies.
Century Music Pub. Go.
1178 Broadway
New York City
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
particularly, to light, fantastic themes, full of real
lyric poetry, and the charm of quaint, whimsical
humor, we would all rise apace. As a matter of
fact, it is much easier to write a good heavy theme
than a good light one, whether it be music or
poetry. Given a pathetic situation and a little
shiver music, any one can produce tears."
TWO SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTIONS.
"They All Look Good When They're Far Away"
and "When the Right Man' Sings Tra La." M.
Witmark & Sons publish the music for both pro-
ductions.
WITH THE BOSTON PUBLISHERS.
The Various Concerns Busy—Many New Pub-
lications of Merit Appearing—Other Items.
(Special to The Review.)
"Around the World" at Hippodrome and "The
Boston, Mass., Dec. 4, 1911.
Enchantress" at the New York Theater
Playing to Crowded Houses—Some of the A publication that the White-Smith Co. is justi-
fiably priding itself on just now is a volume bear-
Musical Features.
ing the title, "Songs for the Home and Kinder-
"Around the World," the Hippodrome spectacle garten." It is compiled by Miss Ida C. Knapp, a
of the season, is drawing overflowing houses con- woman who has done brilliant work in the devel-
tinuously, which fact is especially noteworthy as opment of kindergarten work in Detroit, and who
the- weeks immediately preceding Christmas are now is in Boston making a study of voice culture.
generally dull ones for the theatrical fraternity.
The volume is in cycles and portions are devoted
The various musical features of the present show, to the children's tea party, the family, boating,
the compositions of Manuel Klein, have played a bird songs, a shepherd's idyl and at the end a
prominent part in making for the success of the group of miscellaneous songs. The house also has
.production, some of the most popular selections just put out a volume especially adapted to the
being "It's a Long Lane that Has No Turning,"
Christmas season called "The Capture of Santa
"Blarney from Killarney," "Sweet Senorita," "In
Claus," a Christmas operetta, which already bids
Venice," "My Old Town" and "The Royal Dur-
fair to be popular for children's entertainments.
bar."
The B. F. Wood Music Co. are experiencing a
Another notable Broadway success of the sea- strong demand for their music publications. A
son is Victor Herbert's new operetta, "The En- group of pieces for piano is called "Trois Mor-
chantress," which is playing at the New York
ceaux" for the left hand alone by C. W. Krog-
Theater with Kitty Gordon in the title role. Mr. mann. They are "Vals'e Viennoise," "Marche
Herbert's talents as a composer are fully in evi-
dence in the music of the new work and at least
one of the numbers in the production, "The Land
of My Own Romance," has leaped into immediate
popularity. Other numbers for which there is a
strong demand include: "All Your Own Am I"
YOU CAN TELL A HIT!
(Champagne song), "Art Is Calling for Me" (I
IT'S
IN THE ATMOSPHERE!
Want to Be a Prima Donna), "Come Little Fishes"
(Goldfish song), "If You Can't Be as Happy as We were part of the audience
You'd Like to Be, Be Just as Happy as You Can."
at the FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
"Rose, Lucky Rose," "Come to Sunny Spain," "I've
last week when "THE TEMPLE
Been Looking for a Perfect Man," "That Naughty
Little Song," "One Word from You" (duet), QUARTETTE" did their "stunt".
^-with a
"SQUARE
DEAL"
TO ALL DEALERS
Our Sensational Successes:
"That Haunting* Melody" "The Brookside Inn"
"The Vienna Roll"
"tfots and Fans"
"That Haunting- Melody"—entre-acte.
RUM
TUM TIDDLE!!!
(Winter Garden)
New York World—The hit was scored by Al. .Tolion In
his two songs, "Haunting Melody" an'd "Rum Tom
Ttddle," which were reputedly encored.
All Live Dealers Will Write at Once
for
and
and
You,
our New Issue Proposition. It's a New
Original business deal that will interest
Convince you that we're going to give
Mr. Dealer,
A REAL SQUARE DEAL.
JEROME & SCHWARTZ PUBLISHING CO.
1445 Broadway, New York,
Ted S. Barron, Gen'l Mgr., B'way Theatre Bldg.
They are a swell act; a full
dress act, a genuine drawing
room attraction! You could
tell the audience liked them.
Their fifth song was
" H O N E Y M A N "
and you could tell that the
audience liked the song
tremendously! The applause
was spontaneous--you felt it
coming all through the house.
The audience's thoughts were
all in harmony!
" H O N E Y
Oh! You Beautiful Doll
Witmark Production Successes
NOW PLAYING IN NEW YORK
At the New York Theatre
GREAT
"THE ENCHANTRESS"
M A N "
was THE h i t ! They had t o
s i n g t h e chorus over a g a i n
and a g a i n !
LEO.
F E I S T - - N E W YORK
with KITTY GORDON.
Beautiful lyrics
and a dashing
melody that is
irresistible.
Book and Lyrics by Fred De Gresac and Harry
B. Smith. Music by Victor Herbert.
At the New York Hippodrome
"ROUND THE WORLD"
Book by Arthur Voegtlin and Carroll Fleming.
Lyrics and Music by Manuel Klein.
At the Astor Theatre
THE QUICKEST HIT IN YEARS
"THE RED WIDOW"
with RAYMOND HITCHCOCK.
A. H. GOETTING
MUSIC
JOBBING SERVICE
Why don't you. Mr. Dealer, buy ALL YOUR
MUSIC FROM ONE SOURCE?
No matter what muiic is wanted or how many
copies, limply send ONE ORDER to u». and the
muaic will be shipped to you on the day your order
is received.
Our prices are guaranteed to be the LOWEST,
as we won't be undersold by anyone. Send for
our Monthly Bargain List (free) and join the
circle of money-making muaic dealers.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Book and Lyrics by Channing Pollock and Rennold
Wolf. Music by Chas. J. Gebest.
A.
68 Farrar St.
Detroit, Mich.
M. WITMARK & SONS
A. H. Goetting, 158 l«0 Wabash Ave.. Chicago.
New York Music Supply
ppy Co.,
., 1868 Broadway,
y, N. Y.
E
M i Supply
S l Co.,
C 140
140 W.
W 86th
8 6 h St.,
S N.
N Y.
Y
EftUrprtM Music
Coupon Muaic Co.. All Washington St., Bostoa.
A, H. Gocttimg. 148 Yoo*» S c . Toronto. Can.
131 W. 41st St.
New York
PUBLISHERS
New York Chicago San Francisco London Paris
H. GOETTING
Springfield, Mass.
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