Music Trade Review
Issue: 1915 Vol. 61 N. 20 - Page 57
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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CENTURY EDITION FACTS
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An absolutely fixed price—ioc.
The best value ever offered in music.
Liberal and guaranteed profits.
Over 2,000 selected numbers, including
classics.
Expert and careful grading for teachers
and students.
The best of printing and paper.
Handsome display title pages.
Exchange of unsalable numbers for those
that will sell.
National advertising campaigns at our
expense.
Co-operation with the dealer in practical
sales promotion.
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CENTURTMUSICfUK 0
231-235West4O tt JtHwYork(ity
MREVIEWflEARS
Harry B. Kohler Alleged to Have Been Asso-
ciated with J. V. Green and J. T. Hall Who
Are Already in Toils—Government Is Busy.
Chicago Man Makes Some Trite Comments on
Certain Types of Songs and Shows W h y the
Lyrics Are Not Logical.
According to a writer in a Chicago paper the
popularity of various sections of the world as indi-
Uarry B. Kohler, who is alleged to have been cated by the songs heard in the vaudeville houses
associated with J. Victor Green in running the of that city is to be rated as follows :
Dear Old Treland
60 per cent.
Knickerbocker Harmony Studios on West Forty-
California
20
per cent.
second street, and with John T. Hall, of the Hall
Araby
10 per cent.
Music Co. on Columbus Circle, was arrested last
Kentucky
10 per cent.
Saturday on a charge of using the mails to defraud
The writer then gives his ideas regarding the
amateur song writers, and released on a bond of
$'J.5OO. Kohler was placed on trial with Hall and different places, as learned from the songs and of
Cireen, who are already in the toils, before the which the following view of Treland, as set forth
United States Court on Monday of this week, in song, is typical:
Dear Old Ireland: An island, somewhere near
when work was started on hearing the testimony
the song writer's heart, peopled exclusively by the
of scores of alleged victims.
lovely type known as colleen, which has never been
known to rhyme with anything else but "green."
Breaking up the monotony of this army of colleens
F
START°H E
are some 12,000,000 Trish lakes of blue, 10,000
lovers true (they've got to be true to rhyme with
the blue just mentioned), and the rarest assort-
ment of smiles seen outside of a manicure parlor.
The article then goes on to say : Below is a table
showing the places that the composers have boosted.
Following each name .is a number. This is the per-
centage of popularity. Look at it again. It also
indicates how much of a chump the song writers
infer you are for staying where you are. Follow-
ing the number is one reason why you shouldn't
go to the place mentioned. O allow us one:
A
FIRST MAGNITUDE
LITTLE GREY
MOTHER
WHO WAITS
ALL ALONE
1U3IC oy
WORDS By
BERNARD
IGROMMAN
HARRY
J)E CO5TA I
NOW AT
-
THE ZENITH OF ITS POPULARITY
M.WITMARK & SONS
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
5 A N FRANCISCO
LONDON
Per cen*.
Ireland
20 Food scarce.
Manhattan. . 12 Drinks high.
California . . 18 Jitney busses.
Carolina. . . . 11 Fever and chills.
Hawaii . . . . 10 It's hard to get back.
Tennessee... 10 Moonshine industry stopped.
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON Publishers
WALTER JACOBS
We Publish an Excellent Line of Teaching Music
OEljurrlT, JJaxaou an?) (Eompattg
1367-1369 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Mnslc Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
SU Wutt 43d Street, New Tori City
You
Can't G o
Wrong
With
eist So
THAT Sam Fox, head of the Sam Fox Publish-
ing Co., Cleveland O., has been spending some time
in the East cleaning up in orders for his specialties.
THAT he is particularly enthusiastic regarding
his latest number, "Valse Annette," by Lionel
Baxter.
THAT Howard Johnson is getting real chesty
these days because he had his picture in the New
York American last Sunday as the author of
"M-O-T-H-E-R," the latest Feist song success.
THAT Theodore Morse was also "illustrated"
as the one responsible for the music of that song.
THAT the combination of music publishers to
handle ten-cent talking machine records seems to
be as far off as ever.
THAT T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter
have arranged for the publication rights to several
new operettas and musical comedies, .the names of
which will be announced shortly.
THAT one "music publisher" was arrested by
Federal officers, charged with swindling over 1,500
hopeful song writers.
THAT the mystery is, why does the Government
allow them to get away with the money of the
1,500 before starting action?
"LOCATION SONGS" ANALYZED.
ANOTHER "PUBLISHER" ARRESTED.
53
8 Bosworth St.,
pubusher
«
OLIVER
BOSTON, MASS.
M e r r y
Madne»»"
DITSON
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
\nrtcipate and supply Every Requirement of Music Dealeri
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. GO.
•UBUSHEJS^NTERS,
Rrueh Howe*: New Yorb *ni Chicago
MK.
A Title That's Worth
Remembering
"Come Back Home to
Old Kentucky"
It's *'Liable" to surprise you soon
cents a copy if you attach this
Advt. to your order
LEO FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York ::::;:::«
Georgia
Kentucky...
Egypt
Holland
Arabia
Texas
Others
Total
4
4
3
3
2
1
2
Lynchings popular.
Home of Southern chivalry.
Tourists.
Exports its gin.
Fleas and sand.
Sand and fleas.
Other things.
',
100
In "others" is included every town in the United
States except one. Nohody has ever written a
song about Gary, Tnd.
TO HONOR AMERICAN COMPOSERS.
Commemorative Celebrations to Be Held in
New York Parks for Stephen C. Foster and
Others According to Present Plans.
Guido Hruno and Charles Edison, who conduct
the Neighborhood Theatre, 10 Fifth avenue, largely
in the interests of Edison phonographs, have worked
out a plan for honoring American song writers
with commemorative celebrations in the parks for
the purpose of acquainting the public with the life
and works of those few writers deemed worthy of
such attention. The first writer to be honored will
he Stephen Collins Foster, author of "My Old
Kentucky Home," "The Old Folks at Home,"
"l T ncle Ned" and other well-known negro songs of
other davs.
We arc the publishers of
THESONGOFSONGS
(Chanson dn cocar brisc)
Music by Mora
Three Keys: Ab, Bb and D
Send 12 Cento (or Sample Copy
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41E. 34th St., NEW YORK
Canadian Branch
347 Tonce St.. TORONTO
A REAL HARRIS BALLAD
"Can You Pay For
A Broken Heart?"
By GHAS. K. HARRIS
SOLD WHEREVER MUSIC IS SOLO
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
New York
MEYER COHEN. Mar.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
m t Some
IrFacts
CENTURY EDITION FACTS
I.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
An absolutely fixed price—ioc.
The best value ever offered in music.
Liberal and guaranteed profits.
Over 2,000 selected numbers, including
classics.
Expert and careful grading for teachers
and students.
The best of printing and paper.
Handsome display title pages.
Exchange of unsalable numbers for those
that will sell.
National advertising campaigns at our
expense.
Co-operation with the dealer in practical
sales promotion.
1
CENTURTMUSICfUK 0
231-235West4O tt JtHwYork(ity
MREVIEWflEARS
Harry B. Kohler Alleged to Have Been Asso-
ciated with J. V. Green and J. T. Hall Who
Are Already in Toils—Government Is Busy.
Chicago Man Makes Some Trite Comments on
Certain Types of Songs and Shows W h y the
Lyrics Are Not Logical.
According to a writer in a Chicago paper the
popularity of various sections of the world as indi-
Uarry B. Kohler, who is alleged to have been cated by the songs heard in the vaudeville houses
associated with J. Victor Green in running the of that city is to be rated as follows :
Dear Old Treland
60 per cent.
Knickerbocker Harmony Studios on West Forty-
California
20
per cent.
second street, and with John T. Hall, of the Hall
Araby
10 per cent.
Music Co. on Columbus Circle, was arrested last
Kentucky
10 per cent.
Saturday on a charge of using the mails to defraud
The writer then gives his ideas regarding the
amateur song writers, and released on a bond of
$'J.5OO. Kohler was placed on trial with Hall and different places, as learned from the songs and of
Cireen, who are already in the toils, before the which the following view of Treland, as set forth
United States Court on Monday of this week, in song, is typical:
Dear Old Ireland: An island, somewhere near
when work was started on hearing the testimony
the song writer's heart, peopled exclusively by the
of scores of alleged victims.
lovely type known as colleen, which has never been
known to rhyme with anything else but "green."
Breaking up the monotony of this army of colleens
F
START°H E
are some 12,000,000 Trish lakes of blue, 10,000
lovers true (they've got to be true to rhyme with
the blue just mentioned), and the rarest assort-
ment of smiles seen outside of a manicure parlor.
The article then goes on to say : Below is a table
showing the places that the composers have boosted.
Following each name .is a number. This is the per-
centage of popularity. Look at it again. It also
indicates how much of a chump the song writers
infer you are for staying where you are. Follow-
ing the number is one reason why you shouldn't
go to the place mentioned. O allow us one:
A
FIRST MAGNITUDE
LITTLE GREY
MOTHER
WHO WAITS
ALL ALONE
1U3IC oy
WORDS By
BERNARD
IGROMMAN
HARRY
J)E CO5TA I
NOW AT
-
THE ZENITH OF ITS POPULARITY
M.WITMARK & SONS
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
5 A N FRANCISCO
LONDON
Per cen*.
Ireland
20 Food scarce.
Manhattan. . 12 Drinks high.
California . . 18 Jitney busses.
Carolina. . . . 11 Fever and chills.
Hawaii . . . . 10 It's hard to get back.
Tennessee... 10 Moonshine industry stopped.
BUY YOUR MUSIC FROM
BOSTON Publishers
WALTER JACOBS
We Publish an Excellent Line of Teaching Music
OEljurrlT, JJaxaou an?) (Eompattg
1367-1369 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Mnslc Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
SU Wutt 43d Street, New Tori City
You
Can't G o
Wrong
With
eist So
THAT Sam Fox, head of the Sam Fox Publish-
ing Co., Cleveland O., has been spending some time
in the East cleaning up in orders for his specialties.
THAT he is particularly enthusiastic regarding
his latest number, "Valse Annette," by Lionel
Baxter.
THAT Howard Johnson is getting real chesty
these days because he had his picture in the New
York American last Sunday as the author of
"M-O-T-H-E-R," the latest Feist song success.
THAT Theodore Morse was also "illustrated"
as the one responsible for the music of that song.
THAT the combination of music publishers to
handle ten-cent talking machine records seems to
be as far off as ever.
THAT T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter
have arranged for the publication rights to several
new operettas and musical comedies, .the names of
which will be announced shortly.
THAT one "music publisher" was arrested by
Federal officers, charged with swindling over 1,500
hopeful song writers.
THAT the mystery is, why does the Government
allow them to get away with the money of the
1,500 before starting action?
"LOCATION SONGS" ANALYZED.
ANOTHER "PUBLISHER" ARRESTED.
53
8 Bosworth St.,
pubusher
«
OLIVER
BOSTON, MASS.
M e r r y
Madne»»"
DITSON
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
\nrtcipate and supply Every Requirement of Music Dealeri
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. GO.
•UBUSHEJS^NTERS,
Rrueh Howe*: New Yorb *ni Chicago
MK.
A Title That's Worth
Remembering
"Come Back Home to
Old Kentucky"
It's *'Liable" to surprise you soon
cents a copy if you attach this
Advt. to your order
LEO FEIST, Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York ::::;:::«
Georgia
Kentucky...
Egypt
Holland
Arabia
Texas
Others
Total
4
4
3
3
2
1
2
Lynchings popular.
Home of Southern chivalry.
Tourists.
Exports its gin.
Fleas and sand.
Sand and fleas.
Other things.
',
100
In "others" is included every town in the United
States except one. Nohody has ever written a
song about Gary, Tnd.
TO HONOR AMERICAN COMPOSERS.
Commemorative Celebrations to Be Held in
New York Parks for Stephen C. Foster and
Others According to Present Plans.
Guido Hruno and Charles Edison, who conduct
the Neighborhood Theatre, 10 Fifth avenue, largely
in the interests of Edison phonographs, have worked
out a plan for honoring American song writers
with commemorative celebrations in the parks for
the purpose of acquainting the public with the life
and works of those few writers deemed worthy of
such attention. The first writer to be honored will
he Stephen Collins Foster, author of "My Old
Kentucky Home," "The Old Folks at Home,"
"l T ncle Ned" and other well-known negro songs of
other davs.
We arc the publishers of
THESONGOFSONGS
(Chanson dn cocar brisc)
Music by Mora
Three Keys: Ab, Bb and D
Send 12 Cento (or Sample Copy
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41E. 34th St., NEW YORK
Canadian Branch
347 Tonce St.. TORONTO
A REAL HARRIS BALLAD
"Can You Pay For
A Broken Heart?"
By GHAS. K. HARRIS
SOLD WHEREVER MUSIC IS SOLO
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
New York
MEYER COHEN. Mar.
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