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THE MUSIC TRADE
42
REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 2,
1922
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HAROLD FLAMMER IN SAN FRANCISCO
EXHIBIT FOSTER MEMORIAL TABLET
New York Publisher Finds Business Much
Improved on Annual Transcontinental Trip
Pittsburgh to Present State of Kentucky With
Memorial Tablet
HAMMERSTEIN'S PLANS FOR OPERA
Plans of Arthur Hammerstein for the pro-
duction of grand opera in English may be set
back for two years because of the failure thus
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., August 26.—Harold
The bronze tablet in memory of Stephen C. far of the manager to secure a composer who
Plammer, of Harold Flammer, Inc., New York Foster to be presented by the City of Pittsburgh will undertake the score. Hammerstein, who, it
publishers of sheet music, is in San Francisco to the people of Kentucky on the occasion of the is said, is sincere in his ambition to follow in his
on his annual trip to the Coast. Mr. Flammer dedication of the Judge Rowan homestead (Fed- father's steps, first proposed the presentation for
came through Chicago and the Northwest, vis- eral Hill) at Bardstown, Ky., is on exhibition in the season of 1923-24. It is understood that he
iting the Rocky Mountain territory, Canada, the Mayor's office in the City County Building. approached Puccini, but the noted Italian re-
Seattle and many other points. In the Dakotas The tablet is the work of John Polasheck, a New plied he did not desire to go in for any operatic
and Rocky Mountain territory, both in this York sculptor, and was cast for a Pittsburgh compositions at this time. It is said that Victor
country and Canada, he found conditions very stamping concern which received the city's con- Herbert was also offered the assignment, but
satisfactory and sold about 25 per cent more tract for the bronze.
likewise declined.
sheet music than he did on his last year's trip.
The tablet will be placed on the walls of the
The drama, which is to be made into a grand
He looks for a very successful year in sheet old manor house at Federal Hill some time this opera under Hammerstcin's directions, is "The
music. He is finding a good deal of interest year when the people of the Blue Grass State Light of the World," a play produced several
here in one of his numbers, "Little Old Log formally take over the Rowan homestead as a seasons back by Comstock and Gest. Among
Cabin," the lyric being written by Jesse G. memorial to the Pittsburgh composer. It was the other composers considered for the score
McGlick, an employe of Sherman, Clay & Co., while visiting the family of Judge Rowan in 1858 were Richard Strauss and Rudolph Friml. The
and the music by C. Wclborn Jackson, an or- that Foster wrote the words and music of "My latter, who is well known for his musical com-
chestra player in a local theatre.
Old Kentucky Home" and it was in this fine old edy and revue scores, is regarded as one of the
country house the song was first sung by a Ken- best of America's present-day composers.
"PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS" tucky belle of ante-bellum days.
William H. Stevenson, chairman of the Penn-
NEW TRIANGLE FOX TROT
Clever Number from "Chauve Souris" Strongly sylvania Historical Commission, suggested the
presentation of a tablet from Pittsburgh and this Triangle Music Co. to Exploit "Hand Painted
Featured in Window Displays in New York
was authorized by action in City Council on an
Doll" During Coming Season
New York crowds had the new number, ordinance introduced by Robert Garland. The
"Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," from the design was selected by a committee of experts
The Triangle Music Co. has taken over the
"Chauve Souris," brought to their attention in from the Historical Society of Western Penn- song "Hand Painted Doll," a fox-trot ballad by
no uncertain manner recently through special sylvania.
George Green and Victor Arden, and will im-
displays in all the leading talking machine and
mediately inaugurate a publicity campaign on
music stores, featuring particularly the new
the song. The above issue, together with
KRESS DEPARTMENT TO CLOSE
Victor records of the number. Real wooden
"Suez," another fox-trot, will receive extensive
l)i NVEK, COL., August 26.—The sheet music'de- early exploitation during the coming Fall and
soldiers, almost life size, were set up in the
windows, and appropriate cards told what they partment of the S,. H. Kress store, of this city, Winter months.
represented. "The Parade of the Wooden Sol- will shortly be abandoned, according to an an-
diers" has been recorded by practically all the nouncement of the local management. This
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tured by leading orchestras in and about New- of stores is unable to get deliveries of popular
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