Music Trade Review
Issue: 1918 Vol. 66 N. 21 - Page 131
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MAY
25, 1918
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
117
MREVIEWfltARS
Thousands of
Music Lovers
are just beginning to appreciate
that the above trade-mark stands
for the best in music at a tremen-
dous saving.
"Century Edition" meets the econ-
omy situation by enabling lovers
of good music to buy just as much
as they always did with a saving
to them and a BIG profit to you.
It pays to let your customers know
you carry "Century Edition."
Century Music Pub. Co.
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
HAVING A SUCCESSFUL SEASON
Demand for Music of "Oh, Look!" Helps Keep
Up McCarthy & Fisher Average
McCarthy & Fisher, Inc., publishers of the
music of "Oh, Look!" the musical comedy by
James Montgomery, are very desirous of see-
ing the show go on tour as soon as it is through
with its New York engagements. It is at pres-
ent playing the houses in and around New York,
and as the sales of the music are quite heavy
a road tour would be a success from the pub-
lishers' standpoint. George A. Friedman, gen-
eral manager of the company, reports his firm
as having an especially successful season. The
company's popular catalog has several numbers
which are having large sales, one standing very
prominently at the present time being the song
"Lorraine."
REVIVING ANOTHER OLD SONG
Among the old-time songs that are being re-
vived with much success is "Just as the Sun
Went Down," published by M. Witmark & Sons,
and which is pushing some of the newer war bal-
lads for the honors. Several vaudeville artists
are featuring the song.
THAT Chicago authorities have banned music
of all kinds in cabarets and other places where
liquor is sold in that city.
THAT the new order will put an awful damper
on the enthusiasm of the boys who are prone to
"harmonize" after the third drink.
Now-a-days they do Everything
THAT Ernest R. Ball, the composer, is suf-
in a Military Way:—
fering from abscesses on the vocal chords, which
will require an operation, and he has been com-
pelled to cancel his vaudeville bookings.
The Famous Plattsburg Song
THAT Leo Feist, Inc., was among those
houses in the trade who donated 10 per cent
of their receipts on last Wednesday, May 22
to the Red Cross fund.
THAT Irving Berlin, now a private at Camp
(One-Two-Three)
Upton, has found time between drills to write
a new song for the use of Fred Stone in "Jack
By Lieut. Trounstine, U. S. R.
o' Lantern."
Tells how "Sammy" makes love
THAT one trade punster opines that song plug-
gers should prove good ball players because
SPECIAL PRICE TO DEALERS
they are so used to making hits.
^y
a copy if you attach this
THAT in a trifle over two weeks the music
# C
Advt. to your order
publishers and dealers of the country will meet
L
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O
.
F
E
I
S
T
,
Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
in New York for their annual conventions, and
there will probably be many matters of deep
tMil. I
.I,IMiliLhldDiliTTTfl
interest to be considered at the sessions.
THAT President Arison, of the New York
WHAT NEW YORK SPENDS FOR MUSIC
Sheet Music Dealers' Association, is not back-
ward in explaining what caused the demise of Government Tax Returns Report Some Surpris-
ing Figures Regarding the Amount Paid to
that organization.
Hear Music of the Better Sort
"Give Me A Kiss
By The Numbers"
CHURCH, PAXSON & CO.'S NEW SONG
Church, Paxson & Co. have just released a
new song entitled "Somewhere." The number
is a love song and is the work of Henry Williard.
The publishers have given the song a very at-
tractive title page, which should be in demand
for window displays, as it really is a very ar-
tistic piece of work. The song itself has a very
appealing melody, and the words tell the story
of a young lady who awaits the home-coming of
her lover from "over there."
Latest Song Sensation
"A Soldier's Rosary"
For the first time New York's annual outlay
on a season's music may be verified or audited,
so to speak, by comparison with the last year's
reported collections of the war tax on theatres
and amusements. '
Unofficial figures credit the Metropolitan
Opera with paying about $170,000 to the Gov-
ernment since last fall, the concerts in Carnegie
Hall, $40,000, the recitals in Aeolian Hall, $20,-
000, and other sources, $20,000 more. The total
of $250,000 is one-tenth of the value of tickets
sold or given away, so that the year's music
stands the public and promoters about $2,500,-
000.
Statisticians have figured that the season of
1917-18 has included something like 200 opera
performances, 132 symphony concerts, 128 song
recitals, 100 miscellaneous benefits and private
affairs, 85 piano recitals, 50 chamber music con-
certs, 38 violin recitals, 26 choral concerts, 10
'cello recitals, and a few scattering events, mak-
ing the grand total around 800.
Come across for the Red Cross.
THE GREATEST POPULAR BALLAD THE
WAR HAS YET PRODUCED
McKinley's New Song Success
THE SONG THAT TOUCHES EVERY HEART
HE'S GOT THOSE BIG BLUE £!J£S 1IK£ H0V
MINE
Order Today 7 He per copy
A. J. STASNY MUSIC CO.
56 W. 45th St.
New York City
M.WITMARK&SQNSS
MAY
25, 1918
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
117
MREVIEWfltARS
Thousands of
Music Lovers
are just beginning to appreciate
that the above trade-mark stands
for the best in music at a tremen-
dous saving.
"Century Edition" meets the econ-
omy situation by enabling lovers
of good music to buy just as much
as they always did with a saving
to them and a BIG profit to you.
It pays to let your customers know
you carry "Century Edition."
Century Music Pub. Co.
231-235 West 40th Street, NEW YORK
HAVING A SUCCESSFUL SEASON
Demand for Music of "Oh, Look!" Helps Keep
Up McCarthy & Fisher Average
McCarthy & Fisher, Inc., publishers of the
music of "Oh, Look!" the musical comedy by
James Montgomery, are very desirous of see-
ing the show go on tour as soon as it is through
with its New York engagements. It is at pres-
ent playing the houses in and around New York,
and as the sales of the music are quite heavy
a road tour would be a success from the pub-
lishers' standpoint. George A. Friedman, gen-
eral manager of the company, reports his firm
as having an especially successful season. The
company's popular catalog has several numbers
which are having large sales, one standing very
prominently at the present time being the song
"Lorraine."
REVIVING ANOTHER OLD SONG
Among the old-time songs that are being re-
vived with much success is "Just as the Sun
Went Down," published by M. Witmark & Sons,
and which is pushing some of the newer war bal-
lads for the honors. Several vaudeville artists
are featuring the song.
THAT Chicago authorities have banned music
of all kinds in cabarets and other places where
liquor is sold in that city.
THAT the new order will put an awful damper
on the enthusiasm of the boys who are prone to
"harmonize" after the third drink.
Now-a-days they do Everything
THAT Ernest R. Ball, the composer, is suf-
in a Military Way:—
fering from abscesses on the vocal chords, which
will require an operation, and he has been com-
pelled to cancel his vaudeville bookings.
The Famous Plattsburg Song
THAT Leo Feist, Inc., was among those
houses in the trade who donated 10 per cent
of their receipts on last Wednesday, May 22
to the Red Cross fund.
THAT Irving Berlin, now a private at Camp
(One-Two-Three)
Upton, has found time between drills to write
a new song for the use of Fred Stone in "Jack
By Lieut. Trounstine, U. S. R.
o' Lantern."
Tells how "Sammy" makes love
THAT one trade punster opines that song plug-
gers should prove good ball players because
SPECIAL PRICE TO DEALERS
they are so used to making hits.
^y
a copy if you attach this
THAT in a trifle over two weeks the music
# C
Advt. to your order
publishers and dealers of the country will meet
L
E
O
.
F
E
I
S
T
,
Inc., FEIST Bldg., New York
in New York for their annual conventions, and
there will probably be many matters of deep
tMil. I
.I,IMiliLhldDiliTTTfl
interest to be considered at the sessions.
THAT President Arison, of the New York
WHAT NEW YORK SPENDS FOR MUSIC
Sheet Music Dealers' Association, is not back-
ward in explaining what caused the demise of Government Tax Returns Report Some Surpris-
ing Figures Regarding the Amount Paid to
that organization.
Hear Music of the Better Sort
"Give Me A Kiss
By The Numbers"
CHURCH, PAXSON & CO.'S NEW SONG
Church, Paxson & Co. have just released a
new song entitled "Somewhere." The number
is a love song and is the work of Henry Williard.
The publishers have given the song a very at-
tractive title page, which should be in demand
for window displays, as it really is a very ar-
tistic piece of work. The song itself has a very
appealing melody, and the words tell the story
of a young lady who awaits the home-coming of
her lover from "over there."
Latest Song Sensation
"A Soldier's Rosary"
For the first time New York's annual outlay
on a season's music may be verified or audited,
so to speak, by comparison with the last year's
reported collections of the war tax on theatres
and amusements. '
Unofficial figures credit the Metropolitan
Opera with paying about $170,000 to the Gov-
ernment since last fall, the concerts in Carnegie
Hall, $40,000, the recitals in Aeolian Hall, $20,-
000, and other sources, $20,000 more. The total
of $250,000 is one-tenth of the value of tickets
sold or given away, so that the year's music
stands the public and promoters about $2,500,-
000.
Statisticians have figured that the season of
1917-18 has included something like 200 opera
performances, 132 symphony concerts, 128 song
recitals, 100 miscellaneous benefits and private
affairs, 85 piano recitals, 50 chamber music con-
certs, 38 violin recitals, 26 choral concerts, 10
'cello recitals, and a few scattering events, mak-
ing the grand total around 800.
Come across for the Red Cross.
THE GREATEST POPULAR BALLAD THE
WAR HAS YET PRODUCED
McKinley's New Song Success
THE SONG THAT TOUCHES EVERY HEART
HE'S GOT THOSE BIG BLUE £!J£S 1IK£ H0V
MINE
Order Today 7 He per copy
A. J. STASNY MUSIC CO.
56 W. 45th St.
New York City
M.WITMARK&SQNSS
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