Music Trade Review

'fHE MUSIC TRADE
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OPENS RETAIL MUSIC SHOP
Dave Frank, Formerly With Leo Feist, Inc.,
Opens Store in New Orleans
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REVIEW
Ma - cush ­ - - - la
Eagle, died recently at the Filth Avenue Hos­
pital, following an exploratory operation per­
forme'Cl which had disclosed a malignant cancer.
He was fifty-two years old and was a native of
Ohio. His father and one brother survive him.
Mr. Humiston was widely known as a writer
and lecturer on music, as well as conductor and
, composer. He wrote suites for orchestra and
Dave Frank, formerly a F eis t representative
in the South, has op ened a retail sheet music
department in the Junius Hart Piano House
Building, 123 Caron­
delet street, New Or­
leans, La., and will
operate under the firm
name of Frank & Mc­
Namara.
While the new de­
partment carries an
extensive stock of
standard and popular
music, it is efficie~tly
and compactly ar­
ran ged in a manner
to save the s teps and
energy of the salcs
departmen t. .\11 the
popular numbers are
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placed in slot s upon
the counter before
New Frank & McNamara Store
prospective purcha s­
ers a nd the standard sele ction:: are within easy
for violin reach on the re a r shelving, shown so clearly in
V\'agncr and various contributions to maga­
the accompanying photo ,~Taph. Proper display
zines.
is ea sil) given here.
A student under the late Edward MacDowell
'\mong the numbers featured by the new
at Columbia, Ml'. Humiston was among the
department are "Evcry Kight I Cry Myself to
early members of the MacDowell Memorial
Sleep Over You ," ":--.10, ):J'o, Nora," "Carolina
Colony at P eterborough, N. H. He also was
iV[ammy," "That Old Gang o,f Mine," "Just a
an organist and member of the American Guild
Girl That :-fen Forget," "\IV altz M e to Sleep
of Organists. He recei ved from Lake Forest
in Your Arms," "Midnif!ht Rose" and "Who's
University in Illinois the de g ree of Master of
Sorry K ow?"
Arts.
WILLIAM H. HUMISTON DIES
William H. Humi st on, iormer assistant con­
ductor of the Philharmonic Society and for th e
last two ye ars mu ,< ic critic of the Brooklyn
bECEMBER
Hind s, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., ha s re­
leased a new sacred so ng entitled "Seek Ye the
Lord." The number has words and musk by
Ru sse ll J. England and tho se who have heard
it speak highly of ·it.'
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15, 1923
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NEW RICHMOND=ROBBINS NUMBER
"She Wouldn't Do," Comedy Fox-trot, Already
Meeting With Wide Popularity
Richmond-Robbin s, Inc., has released a new
novelty comedy fox-trot song, entitled "She
\Vouldn't Do. " The song was originally re­
Itased with a few orchestrations to some of the
leading Broadway dance orchestras. These or­
ganizations invariably included a vocal rendi­
tion when playing the number, with the result
that it jumped into immediate popularity.
The publisher, therefore, has started an exten­
sive campaign on "She Wouldn't Do" and this
includes a wide distribution of orchestrations
with special arrangements with lyrics cued in.
Among the orchestras who have taken the num­
ber up is Gene Rodemich, who records exclu­
sively for the Brunswick records and who makes
St. Louis his headquarters.
ITALO MONTEMEZZI ARRIVES
Well-known Italian Operatic Composer Now
Visiting the United States
Italo Montemezzi, composer of several operas,
among them "The Love of Three Kin~s," ar­
rived here last week on the "Conte Rosso," o.f
the Lloyd Sabaudo Line, accompanied by his
wife, the former Miss Catherine Leith, of this
city, whom he married in Paris three years ago.
He said he was at work on a new opera named
"Paul and Virginia."
Signor YIontemezzi said that permanent opera
companies could be maintained in every Ameri­
can city if the Government carried out the plan
in effect iII j\lIilan, where the theatres and movie
houses were compelled to divert 2 per cent of
their proceeds for the expenses of La Scala.
"In this way good art could be built up at
the expense of, poor art;" he said.
Signor Monteme zz i is one o,f the leading
Italian composers today.