Music Trade Review
Issue: 1913 Vol. 56 N. 11 - Page 59
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THE
SELLS AND
SATISFIES!
Thousands of Dealers have
learned the value ol handling
Century Edition
It sells—and satisfies.
Century Music Pub. Go.
1178 Broadway
New York City
That
Old Girl of Mine
By JONES & VAN ALSTYNE
THAT OLD OIRL OT
The
BEST BET
of the season.
One of those
appealing
ballads.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
68 Library Avenue
NEW YORK
DETROIT, MICH.
NEW HARRIS PUBLICATIONS.
Five Interesting Numbers Now on the Press
and Will Soon Be Ready for the Trade.
Chas. K. Harris expects to stir things up con-
siderably within the next month by the means of
several new numbers which are now on the press.
Mr. Harris in the first place has taken advantage
of the interest stirred up by the Suffragettes at
the present time and written a new child's song
based upon the "Votes for Women" campaign en-
titled: "Please Miss Central Find My Mama."
Mama in this particular instance is one of the
hiking variety of suffragettes who in her zeal for
the cause forgets her home and family. Another
new ballad by Mr. Harris is called, "Don't You
Wish You Were Back Home Again." The clever
team of Leo Edwards and Blanche Merrill have
contributed as their share the song, "By the Light
of the Twinkling Stars," and Will Cobb has writ-
ten the lyrics and Leo Edwards the music of,
"Would You Think As Much of Me To-morrow
Night if You Met a Nicer Girl To-night?"
The last of the quintette of new songs is a pleas-
ing number by Lew Brown and Leo Edwards called
"Say Good-bye to Your Traveling Man." With
these new additions to his catalog Mr. Harris will
have little loose time on his hands.
MU3IC
TRADB
59
REVIEW
ThEREVIEWflEAR5
THAT rumors of combinations of smaller music
publishing houses are coming thick and fast in
the trade these days.
THAT certain combinations are advocated on
the theory that the exploitation campaigns can be
better handled with larger organizations and the
amount of competition reduced.
THAT the Forty-fifth Exchange building, at
145 West Forty-fifth street, is fast becaming
a real music publishing center, three additions
having been made to the colony in the building
during the past month.
THAT "My Little Persian Rose 1 ' (Remick) does
not appear to be diminishing in popularity to any
extent.
THAT the sales of the recent additions to "The
Most Papular" series of music books are reaching
proportions that are actually making the salesmen
blush.
THAT Charles Frohman, as a witness in a recent
suit, declared that the credit for a successful play
was due to the man who whipped the piece into
shape and made its presentation possible, rather
than to the originator of the idea.
THAT on such a basis the various prominent
music arrangers will demand that their names ap-
pear on the title pages as being responsible for the
song hits.
THAT if a successful song writer, getting a
square deal from a publishing house, would lose
the idea of publishing his own music and getting
all the profits, he might save a few thousand dol-
lars, more or less.
THAT a music publishing business may be started
with a desk and a chair, but at the present time
it requires real cash and an organization to popu-
larize and sell the music.
THAT the ball of the Songwriters' Club, at the
McKinley Square Casino on Saturday night, was,
to judge from the reports and the after effects,
considerable affair.
THAT Joe McCarthy has become connected with
tlie Shapiro Music Publishing Co.
THAT the Theodore Morse Music Co. has
opened a branch office in Chicago, Mr. Morse mak-
ing a trip West for that purpose.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POPULARITY.
Practically Impossible to Explain Why the Pub-
lic Extends Its Full Favor to One Song from
Among Many That Apparently Possess Equal
Merit and General Interest.
SAINT PATRICK'S DAY
at the
UNION SQUARE THEATRE
the
PRIMROSE FOUR
singing
BE SURE HE'S IRISH ! !
The Four Leaf Shamrock Song!
TABLOID
TRUTHS
A rocking chair has a lot of motion, but it
covers little ground!
LEO.
FEIST, I n c . ,
- NEW YORK
The Season's Biggest Waltz-Song Hit
"Climb a Tree With Me"
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
You can order it from your nearest
jobber or direct from the Publisher.
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th St., New York
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
Slightly more difficult
than The Most Popular
Violin Pieces (one of the
biggest selling v i o l i n
books ever published),
this collection has been
compiled and edited by
Eugene Gruenberg, Vio-
lin Director of the New
England Conservatory, to
satisfy the requirements
of teachers and students
deman d i n g a slightly
more advanced grade of
music than is contained
in The Most Popular
Violin Pieces, which is
• arranged solely in the
first position.
The 27 numbers con-
tained in this volume range in difficulty from easy first po-
sition to moderately difficult third position. Price, Violin
with Piano Accompaniment, 75 cents.
When a publisher examines the compositions
submitted to him for publication, how is he to
know the successes from the failures?
He cannot be guided entirely by his own likes
and dislikes, for experience teaches him that some
of the works on which he had founded his great-
est hopes have proved to be inexplicable disap- HINDS. NOBLE * UDKFDOE. 11-45 West 15th Street. New Yrrk
pointments. He cannot be guided by the purity
of style or the perfection of technique of the com-
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
poser, for he well knows that some of the loosely
Mnsic Engravers and Printers
constructed and poorly written compositions of
amateur or half-fledged composers have sold by
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
the tens of thousands, almost rivaling the popu-
FOR ESTIMATE
larity of a well-written masterpiece. Why,- for
226 West 26th Street, New TorK City
instance, should a song like Hermann Lohr's "Lit-
tle Grey Home in the West" have such an enor-
mous vogue when other songs equally simple, as
MONUMENT TO GU1LMANT.
well as equally melodious and equally attractive,
A monument is to be erected to the memory of
apparently, remain on the publishers' shelves, dusty
Felix Alexandre Guilmant in France. The site
and forgotten? There are other composers with
selected is at the side of the Palais du Trocadero,
the technical equipment of Hermann Lohr and
there are scores of songs as natural and as tuneful Paris. It will be designed by Allau, and executed
by Theunissen, the famous sculptor. The Amer-
as the "Little Grey Home in the West." Then
why should this song be singled out by the public ican committee want to raise $5,000 as the con-
fiom among a hundred or more seemingly meri- tribution from this country. In order to facilitate
torious? Has the public, collectively, a finer dis- matters the committee ask that all subscriptions
crimination or more horse sense than the musician
should be paid in before April 15, 1913. Contri-
who chooses the manuscripts for publication? A butions by check or post office money order should
fortune awaits the man who can explain the psy-
be sent to Edmund Jaques, treasurer, address St.
chology of popularity to the composer and pub- Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, 29 Vesey street, New
lisher of music.
_ York City,
THE
SELLS AND
SATISFIES!
Thousands of Dealers have
learned the value ol handling
Century Edition
It sells—and satisfies.
Century Music Pub. Go.
1178 Broadway
New York City
That
Old Girl of Mine
By JONES & VAN ALSTYNE
THAT OLD OIRL OT
The
BEST BET
of the season.
One of those
appealing
ballads.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
68 Library Avenue
NEW YORK
DETROIT, MICH.
NEW HARRIS PUBLICATIONS.
Five Interesting Numbers Now on the Press
and Will Soon Be Ready for the Trade.
Chas. K. Harris expects to stir things up con-
siderably within the next month by the means of
several new numbers which are now on the press.
Mr. Harris in the first place has taken advantage
of the interest stirred up by the Suffragettes at
the present time and written a new child's song
based upon the "Votes for Women" campaign en-
titled: "Please Miss Central Find My Mama."
Mama in this particular instance is one of the
hiking variety of suffragettes who in her zeal for
the cause forgets her home and family. Another
new ballad by Mr. Harris is called, "Don't You
Wish You Were Back Home Again." The clever
team of Leo Edwards and Blanche Merrill have
contributed as their share the song, "By the Light
of the Twinkling Stars," and Will Cobb has writ-
ten the lyrics and Leo Edwards the music of,
"Would You Think As Much of Me To-morrow
Night if You Met a Nicer Girl To-night?"
The last of the quintette of new songs is a pleas-
ing number by Lew Brown and Leo Edwards called
"Say Good-bye to Your Traveling Man." With
these new additions to his catalog Mr. Harris will
have little loose time on his hands.
MU3IC
TRADB
59
REVIEW
ThEREVIEWflEAR5
THAT rumors of combinations of smaller music
publishing houses are coming thick and fast in
the trade these days.
THAT certain combinations are advocated on
the theory that the exploitation campaigns can be
better handled with larger organizations and the
amount of competition reduced.
THAT the Forty-fifth Exchange building, at
145 West Forty-fifth street, is fast becaming
a real music publishing center, three additions
having been made to the colony in the building
during the past month.
THAT "My Little Persian Rose 1 ' (Remick) does
not appear to be diminishing in popularity to any
extent.
THAT the sales of the recent additions to "The
Most Papular" series of music books are reaching
proportions that are actually making the salesmen
blush.
THAT Charles Frohman, as a witness in a recent
suit, declared that the credit for a successful play
was due to the man who whipped the piece into
shape and made its presentation possible, rather
than to the originator of the idea.
THAT on such a basis the various prominent
music arrangers will demand that their names ap-
pear on the title pages as being responsible for the
song hits.
THAT if a successful song writer, getting a
square deal from a publishing house, would lose
the idea of publishing his own music and getting
all the profits, he might save a few thousand dol-
lars, more or less.
THAT a music publishing business may be started
with a desk and a chair, but at the present time
it requires real cash and an organization to popu-
larize and sell the music.
THAT the ball of the Songwriters' Club, at the
McKinley Square Casino on Saturday night, was,
to judge from the reports and the after effects,
considerable affair.
THAT Joe McCarthy has become connected with
tlie Shapiro Music Publishing Co.
THAT the Theodore Morse Music Co. has
opened a branch office in Chicago, Mr. Morse mak-
ing a trip West for that purpose.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POPULARITY.
Practically Impossible to Explain Why the Pub-
lic Extends Its Full Favor to One Song from
Among Many That Apparently Possess Equal
Merit and General Interest.
SAINT PATRICK'S DAY
at the
UNION SQUARE THEATRE
the
PRIMROSE FOUR
singing
BE SURE HE'S IRISH ! !
The Four Leaf Shamrock Song!
TABLOID
TRUTHS
A rocking chair has a lot of motion, but it
covers little ground!
LEO.
FEIST, I n c . ,
- NEW YORK
The Season's Biggest Waltz-Song Hit
"Climb a Tree With Me"
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
You can order it from your nearest
jobber or direct from the Publisher.
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th St., New York
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
Slightly more difficult
than The Most Popular
Violin Pieces (one of the
biggest selling v i o l i n
books ever published),
this collection has been
compiled and edited by
Eugene Gruenberg, Vio-
lin Director of the New
England Conservatory, to
satisfy the requirements
of teachers and students
deman d i n g a slightly
more advanced grade of
music than is contained
in The Most Popular
Violin Pieces, which is
• arranged solely in the
first position.
The 27 numbers con-
tained in this volume range in difficulty from easy first po-
sition to moderately difficult third position. Price, Violin
with Piano Accompaniment, 75 cents.
When a publisher examines the compositions
submitted to him for publication, how is he to
know the successes from the failures?
He cannot be guided entirely by his own likes
and dislikes, for experience teaches him that some
of the works on which he had founded his great-
est hopes have proved to be inexplicable disap- HINDS. NOBLE * UDKFDOE. 11-45 West 15th Street. New Yrrk
pointments. He cannot be guided by the purity
of style or the perfection of technique of the com-
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
poser, for he well knows that some of the loosely
Mnsic Engravers and Printers
constructed and poorly written compositions of
amateur or half-fledged composers have sold by
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
the tens of thousands, almost rivaling the popu-
FOR ESTIMATE
larity of a well-written masterpiece. Why,- for
226 West 26th Street, New TorK City
instance, should a song like Hermann Lohr's "Lit-
tle Grey Home in the West" have such an enor-
mous vogue when other songs equally simple, as
MONUMENT TO GU1LMANT.
well as equally melodious and equally attractive,
A monument is to be erected to the memory of
apparently, remain on the publishers' shelves, dusty
Felix Alexandre Guilmant in France. The site
and forgotten? There are other composers with
selected is at the side of the Palais du Trocadero,
the technical equipment of Hermann Lohr and
there are scores of songs as natural and as tuneful Paris. It will be designed by Allau, and executed
by Theunissen, the famous sculptor. The Amer-
as the "Little Grey Home in the West." Then
why should this song be singled out by the public ican committee want to raise $5,000 as the con-
fiom among a hundred or more seemingly meri- tribution from this country. In order to facilitate
torious? Has the public, collectively, a finer dis- matters the committee ask that all subscriptions
crimination or more horse sense than the musician
should be paid in before April 15, 1913. Contri-
who chooses the manuscripts for publication? A butions by check or post office money order should
fortune awaits the man who can explain the psy-
be sent to Edmund Jaques, treasurer, address St.
chology of popularity to the composer and pub- Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, 29 Vesey street, New
lisher of music.
_ York City,
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