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THE
ERNEST LUZ PAYS COMPLIMENT
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
NEW "CONCERTINO" WINS FAVOR
MARCH 12, 1921
NEW BALLAD A HIT
General Musical Director of Loew's Tells of Use Composition by John Alden Carpenter Well Irving Berlin, Inc., Featuring "The Last Little
of Feist Song With Feature Film
Received by Symphony Concert Audience—
Mile I s Longest"
Published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York
The new Leo Feist, Inc., song success, "Un-
Irving Berlin, Inc., have just released a new
derneath Hawaiian Skies," which is one of the
That brilliant and ingratiating "concertino" for song from the pens of Joe Young, Sam Lewis
leading song numbers used by Eugene and piano and orchestra by John Alden Carpenter and Walter Donaldson entitled "The Last Lit-
Willie Howard in the Winter Garden in "The that Percy Grainger played in New York a short tle Mile Is the Longest." This new ballad, al-
Passing Show of 1921," is being featured exten- time ago with the New York Symphony Or- though only recently released, has seemingly
sively in all of the Loew theatres, in conjunc- chestra is published by G. Schirmer, Inc., in two won favor in a large way with vaudeville per-
tion with the Paramount feature picture, "Idols forms. One is the orchestral score; the other formers.
of Clay," with so much success that Ernest Luz, is an arrangement in which the orchestral part
There has been no ballad in recent months of
general musical director of Loew's, Inc., sent the is reduced for a player on a second piano, the this type, and the reception the number is re-
following letter to Leo Feist, Inc.:
instrumentation being well noted in the second ceiving wherever it is presented to the public
"I would deem it an injustice to you should piano part.
marks it as an assured success among numbers
I neglect to inform you of the many wonderful
Mr. Carpenter, in a note that was printed in of its kind.
and complimentary remarks passed upon your the program of its performance here, mentioned
Home is always a theme that has a wide ap-
late publication, 'Underneath Hawaiian Skies,' the "light-heartedness" of the piece and com- peal, and where the lyrics of a song of the home
which I used as the theme in my music score pared it to a conversation between two friends, a type touch the heart the singer programing the
for the Paramount super-feature, 'Idols of Clay,' little garrulous, in which rhythms, American, number need not strive hard to win the favor
featuring Mae Murray, throughout all the Loew Oriental and other, are discussed. "The rules of his audience.
theatres in the United States and Canada.
of polite talk, as always between friends, are not
We shall probably hear quite frequently, for
"I am positive that no less than five thou- strictly observed—often in animated moments the next few months, "The Last Little Mile Is
sand people in our theatres asked for the name they talk both at once, each hearing only what the Longest," as the number has much merit
of this number. In several of our houses more he himself says. Presently the moment comes, and tells a story that will, without doubt, make
than one hundred people waited after the per- always between friends, when no conversation it one of the most popular ballads of some
formance to learn the name of this number.
is necessary, a relaxed moment, when Friendship seasons.
"It is not unusual that we get requests for itself takes them in hand, and they have nothing
the names of numbers played by our orchestras, to say. But the reaction is quick and strong;
"BABY" FOR CHAPLIN PICTURE
but the number of such requests in this instance there is still so much that presses to be said, on
lias been so unusually high that I feel you should a pleasant night, with youth in the air between
Bertrand Brown's waltz lullaby, "Baby," is
know that its reception in our theatres foretells friends—."
being featured in the musical score for Charlie
this number as one of this year's greatest suc-
This is a pleasant way of describing what Chaplin's latest film comedy, "The Kid," in the
cesses and I assure you that you have my best must be considered one of the most successful forty Marcus Loew theatres throughout the
wishes that my judgment be not amiss."
attempts yet made in America to write in the country.
form of the piano concerto. It is indeed "light-
Ernest Luz, musical director of the Loew cir-
MARVIN LEE NOW IN CHICAGO
hearted," as Mr. Carpenter suggests, but there cuit, selected the number for Charlie's lullaby.
is not only skill in the manipulation of the solo It comes in the score when Charlie gets his
Marvin Lee, the traveling representative ol
instrument and of the orchestra in the use of adopted baby home and attempts to "mother"
Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, covering the Mid-
syncopated rhythms that are "rag-time," but there him.
dle West territory, is making his headquarters
is
a fullness of musical idea, of nius.cal gaiety
"Baby" is issued in the Musique Picturesque
at the Chicago office of the company.
and ebulliency. The concerto is in three move- series by the house of Harold Flammer, Inc.,
Mr. Lee, who is well known to the trade, was
ments, simple in form, though the solo part New York.
quite put out recently through the fact that a
requires an accomplished pianist and the or-
Lee with a similar name has entered the music
chestra a full selection of percussion instru-
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Jack Mills, president of Jack Mills, Inc., re-
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interest of his firm's catalog. On the trip he
featured "Mazie," "Sweet Mamma" (Papa's Get-
ting. Mad), "I Lost My Heart to You" and
"Strut, Miss Lizzie." He reports encouraging
conditions in the territory visited.
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