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JUNE 18, 1921
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
47
Another Smashing Hit
Other Big Hits
Are
Do You Ever
Think of Me
Successor to "Whispering"
Sweeping the country from Coast to Coast.
To be had on all records and player rolls.
Published by
Sherman Way & Co.
San Francisco
LIVE CAMPAIGN ON "KARMA"
HOLD SONQ COMPOSERS' FESTIVAL
Riviera Co. Featuring That Number in the Ter- Interesting Meeting Held in Greenwood, Ind.,
Early This Month, With Geoffrey O'Hara and
ritory West of Chicago
George Fischer Among the Speakers—Prizes
Given for Best Art Songs and Ballads
CHICAGO, III., June 13.—The Riviera Music Co.
has just started a campaign to exploit its new
Oriental fox-trot, "Karnia," in the principal
The second American Song Composers' Fes-
cities west of Chicago. The number will be tival was held early this month in Greenwood,
featured by the leading orchestras and will be Ind, with a large representative attendance of
the subject of a special campaign of local ad- composers and musicians from various sections
vertising. The company also reports good re- of the country. The festival was conducted
sults from "There'll Come a Time." Among under the auspices of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Polk,
those using this number are Robert Long and with a view to stimulating American composi-
Ward Terry in vaudeville. On July 1 the Ri- tion.
viera Co. will start a new publicity campaign.
Among the speakers at the festival were:
R. G. McCutchan, Dean of the DePauw Univer-
sity School of Music, who dwelt upon the ad-
"FLOR=I=DAD=DA" IN VAUDEVILLE
vance that has been made in music during re-
Sam B. Lewis & Co., New York City, who cent years, and Geoffrey O'Hara, the well-
publish the song "Flor-i-dad-da," are very much known composer, who delivered an interesting
gratified with the success the number is having address on "How to Publish Songs."
in the various vaudeville houses, particularly
"1 am going to tell you how not to publish
on the Keith circuit. It was recently featured songs," began Mr. O'Hara. "Beware of the
as both song and dance at the Palace Theatre, song publisher who advertises that he will fur-
New York, and it has been programmed in nish the music for the words of your song and
practically all the houses regularly. "Flor-i- publish it at a great profit to you. There are
dad-da" is from the pens of Saul Wolf, E. dozens of those fellows down at Atlanta on the
inside of the bars looking out. Some of them
Manny Akst and Jim Falco.
have been there for ten years, and should be
there several periods more of ten years each."
The composer then outlined the unscrupulous
methods of these publishers who worm sums
varying from $50 to $150 from ambitious com-
posers for promises to publish music which they
15 cents per copy
never intend to attempt to publish. These so-
called publishers are careful to comply with the
chic
New York
law, and hence many of them have never been
brought to justice. Mr. O'Hara laid down pre-
cepts for the guidance of hopeful composers of
music. They are: Get a beautiful melody, get
heart interest in the words, have aii idea which
is different from others, write in concrete state-
meilts, write what you mean and mean what you
say, use simple words with simple lines, use
virile words, master the simple before attempt-
ing the complex, and always write backward—
write the refrain first and the verse last.
George Fischer, of J. Fischer & Bro., New
York'; also spoke on "The Outlook for the
American Composer," and held out bright hopes
that the American music composers will make
greater strides in their realm of endeavor in the
future than they have in the past. He paid par-
ticular tribute to the Indiana composers and
their contributions to the music of the nation.
The festival ended with the presentation of
prizes for the best compositions during the
year, the prizes being offered by Mrs. Pope and
presented by her husband. The prize of $100
for the best art song was awarded to Harold
M. Wausborough, of Chicago, with the second
prize going to Mrs. Robert Jones, of Chicago.
Mrs. Edna C. Otis, of Greencastle, won the $100
prize for the best ballad, with P. M. Paulson, of
Wonderful "Mother" Song
Starting Splendidly
'«° McKinley Music Co.
"Whispering"
"Coral Sea"
"I'll Keep on
Loving You"
"Wandering
Home"
"My Wonder Girl"
"Idling"
"Louisiana"
Indianapolis, taking the $50 prize for the sec-
ond ballad.
Throughout the festival there were rendered
several elaborate programs of modern music. .
BLANCHE RING'S NEW SONG HIT
Blanche Ring, who recently opened in the
new Selwyn show, "The Broadway Whirl," at
the Times Square Theatre, is introducing a new
song, entitled "Stand Up and "Sing for Your
Father." This is a typical Blanche Ring num-
ber and, of course, she gets the most out of it.
"The Broadway Whirl," from every indication,
can be termed a Summer success. At least, so
say the various local critics. "Stand Up and
Sing for Your Father" is published by M. Wit-
niark & Sons.
DAMROSCH'S PROGRAM IN LONDON
Walter Damrosch's American program with
the London Symphony Orchestra, announced at
the Congress of the British Music Society in
June, will include excerpts from his own inci-
dental numbers for "Iphigenia in Aulis" and
"Electra," together with John Alden Carpenter's
"In a Perambulator" and two movements from
the "Indian Suite," by the late Edward Mac-
Dowell.
It has been announced that Fanny 1'ricc will
sing the Feist song, "Mon Homme," in the
"Ziegfeld Follies of 1921." The singing rights
of this number are restricted to the exclusive
use of the Ziegfeld production, which will lav-
ishly stage the number.
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