Music Trade Review
Issue: 1924 Vol. 79 N. 24 - Page 154
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140
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
1924
was
EDW. B.MARKS
[CELEBRATING OUR 3tf CHRISTMAS
'waaDEHSowiens'
eft
BELLE BAKER'S
COLORADO
CHAHGESMADE
SOPNie
TUCKERS
BI66L0W&LEES
DECEMBER 13,
1924
earnest in intent and well put together. It is
talked about by the actors in the most extrava-
gant terras and is supposed to be the culminat-
ing work in the life of a great genius. If it
does not quite come up to all this press-agent-
ing, that fact is hardly Mr. Seilers' fault. Bee-
thoven would have had a hard time filling Mr.
Brown's requirements."
Applause for the father in the play is be-
stowed by Ernest Newman, the new Evening
Post critic, on the ground that he offered his
son 500,000 francs if he would give up trying
to write music and join up in the office. Says
Mr. Newman: "One of the reasons we have
so much bad music is that most parents are
too poor to be able to bribe their sons not
to do it. Even at the present rate of exchange,
500,000 francs is a fairly large sum of money;
but it is not more than a grateful world would
be prepared to pay to prevent some composers
writing the music they do."
Numbers from "My Girl"
That Are Hailed as Hits
IH MARCH'} ^ S I S T E R
YOUREWITHT0-NI6HT l w y « . e w W ^ S A W E 7
MY-HEART
LOVE YOU
fHARIKTONfAftlM v
VMHI^LLJI V n VHPin Ar
I NEVER C A R E ™ !
WRITE F0R SPECIAL TRADE R
ATES AND
Complete catalog, sheet m»$ic, orch. and musical specialties
EDW B MARKS MUSIC
- -
Musicians Object to Their Presentation
in Martin Brown's Play, "Great Music"
General Reaction Is That Composers Receive Unfair Treatment From Playwrights and Authors
in Presenting Them As Neurotics and Even Worse
X/fUSICIANS in New York are not satisfied
*• with the measure of justice done to the art
and its creative exponents in the recently ex-
hibited play, "Great Music," by Martin Brown.
The latter has written a drama about a com-
poser and has made the contrasting moods of
its acts correspond with the four movements of
a symphony. Act 1 of "Great Music" is entitled
"theme"; Act II, "scherzo"; Act III, "largo";
Act IV, "rhapsodie and finale," and every act
begins with a fragment of music (composed by
C. Linn Seiler) from a symphony imagined to
have been written by Erik Fane, the hero of the
play.
This play made Deems Taylor, the New York
World's music critic, feel that composers get
unfair •treatment from playwrights and authors.
While they make poets noble characters, says
he, they invariably make the composer a com-
plete swine. Mr. Brown, so the critic thinks,
apparently labors under the conviction that mu-
sical genius is something like epilepsy. His
Erik Fane has his music in seizures, instead
of sitting down like a sensible genius and writ-
ing it; is a devil among the women; talks in-
cessantly about his soul; and only really gets
down to serious work when a good old-fash-
ioned case of leprosy makes it impossible for
him to waste his time in further amorous pur-
suits.
"We have known several composers, and
good ones," declares Mr. Taylor. "One of the
best of them runs a tent and awning factory,
another gives singing lessons and was formerly
a semi-professional pitcher, while a third has a
job in a department store. Playwrights ought
to stop reading the life of Richard Wagner and
do a bit of research work concerning Franck,
Debussy, Haydn, Bach and Brahms."
"Mr. Seller's music," continues the critic, "is
"You and I" Fox-Trot and "When a Fellow
Like Me" Waltz Among the Selections in
New Musical Comedy That Win Favor.
There are two big hits in the new musical
comedy "My Girl." One is entitled "You and
I" and is an outstanding fox-trot song. The
chorus arrangement played against the "Barca-
rolle" is unusually appealing. The other big
number in the show is entitled "When a Fellow
Like Me" (Likes a Girlie Like You). This
number has been compared favorably to "Alice
Blue Gown," from the well-known "Irene."
Two other songs from the same show are
"Desert Isle" and "Rainbow of Jazz." The
former undoubtedly will assume hit proportions
and the latter, considering the stage effects
that accompany the number, should have a
heavy sale wherever the show appears.
The writers are Harlan Thompson and Harry
Archer, writers of "Little Jessie James." The
music is published by Leo Feist, Inc.
New Sherman-Clay Song
One of the new songs added to the catalog
of Sherman, Clay & Co. is "Bygones," the
words of Harry D. Kerr and music by Irving
Abrahamson and Don Warner. The piano
copies are also arranged for ukulele. Also
there has been added to the Sherman-Clay
list "Patsy," the lyric by Dick Coburn and
music by Earl Burtnett and Dick Winfree. The
number has been featured by Art. Landry and
His Orchestra.
"Sweetest Girl, I Long For You," published
by the Xlnt Music Publishing Co., of Hinsdale,
Mass., has been accepted for the European dis-
tribution by Herman Darewski, Ltd., of Lon-
don, England.
Two Radio Hits
HOW DO YOU DO
The original "How Do You Do" Song
12 New Verses and Uke arrangement
Latest Edition
o
A Sweet Southern Lullaby
SWEETEST LITTLE ROSE
— IN TENNESSEE —
TED BROWNE MUSIC CO., Inc., 218 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago
140
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
1924
was
EDW. B.MARKS
[CELEBRATING OUR 3tf CHRISTMAS
'waaDEHSowiens'
eft
BELLE BAKER'S
COLORADO
CHAHGESMADE
SOPNie
TUCKERS
BI66L0W&LEES
DECEMBER 13,
1924
earnest in intent and well put together. It is
talked about by the actors in the most extrava-
gant terras and is supposed to be the culminat-
ing work in the life of a great genius. If it
does not quite come up to all this press-agent-
ing, that fact is hardly Mr. Seilers' fault. Bee-
thoven would have had a hard time filling Mr.
Brown's requirements."
Applause for the father in the play is be-
stowed by Ernest Newman, the new Evening
Post critic, on the ground that he offered his
son 500,000 francs if he would give up trying
to write music and join up in the office. Says
Mr. Newman: "One of the reasons we have
so much bad music is that most parents are
too poor to be able to bribe their sons not
to do it. Even at the present rate of exchange,
500,000 francs is a fairly large sum of money;
but it is not more than a grateful world would
be prepared to pay to prevent some composers
writing the music they do."
Numbers from "My Girl"
That Are Hailed as Hits
IH MARCH'} ^ S I S T E R
YOUREWITHT0-NI6HT l w y « . e w W ^ S A W E 7
MY-HEART
LOVE YOU
fHARIKTONfAftlM v
VMHI^LLJI V n VHPin Ar
I NEVER C A R E ™ !
WRITE F0R SPECIAL TRADE R
ATES AND
Complete catalog, sheet m»$ic, orch. and musical specialties
EDW B MARKS MUSIC
- -
Musicians Object to Their Presentation
in Martin Brown's Play, "Great Music"
General Reaction Is That Composers Receive Unfair Treatment From Playwrights and Authors
in Presenting Them As Neurotics and Even Worse
X/fUSICIANS in New York are not satisfied
*• with the measure of justice done to the art
and its creative exponents in the recently ex-
hibited play, "Great Music," by Martin Brown.
The latter has written a drama about a com-
poser and has made the contrasting moods of
its acts correspond with the four movements of
a symphony. Act 1 of "Great Music" is entitled
"theme"; Act II, "scherzo"; Act III, "largo";
Act IV, "rhapsodie and finale," and every act
begins with a fragment of music (composed by
C. Linn Seiler) from a symphony imagined to
have been written by Erik Fane, the hero of the
play.
This play made Deems Taylor, the New York
World's music critic, feel that composers get
unfair •treatment from playwrights and authors.
While they make poets noble characters, says
he, they invariably make the composer a com-
plete swine. Mr. Brown, so the critic thinks,
apparently labors under the conviction that mu-
sical genius is something like epilepsy. His
Erik Fane has his music in seizures, instead
of sitting down like a sensible genius and writ-
ing it; is a devil among the women; talks in-
cessantly about his soul; and only really gets
down to serious work when a good old-fash-
ioned case of leprosy makes it impossible for
him to waste his time in further amorous pur-
suits.
"We have known several composers, and
good ones," declares Mr. Taylor. "One of the
best of them runs a tent and awning factory,
another gives singing lessons and was formerly
a semi-professional pitcher, while a third has a
job in a department store. Playwrights ought
to stop reading the life of Richard Wagner and
do a bit of research work concerning Franck,
Debussy, Haydn, Bach and Brahms."
"Mr. Seller's music," continues the critic, "is
"You and I" Fox-Trot and "When a Fellow
Like Me" Waltz Among the Selections in
New Musical Comedy That Win Favor.
There are two big hits in the new musical
comedy "My Girl." One is entitled "You and
I" and is an outstanding fox-trot song. The
chorus arrangement played against the "Barca-
rolle" is unusually appealing. The other big
number in the show is entitled "When a Fellow
Like Me" (Likes a Girlie Like You). This
number has been compared favorably to "Alice
Blue Gown," from the well-known "Irene."
Two other songs from the same show are
"Desert Isle" and "Rainbow of Jazz." The
former undoubtedly will assume hit proportions
and the latter, considering the stage effects
that accompany the number, should have a
heavy sale wherever the show appears.
The writers are Harlan Thompson and Harry
Archer, writers of "Little Jessie James." The
music is published by Leo Feist, Inc.
New Sherman-Clay Song
One of the new songs added to the catalog
of Sherman, Clay & Co. is "Bygones," the
words of Harry D. Kerr and music by Irving
Abrahamson and Don Warner. The piano
copies are also arranged for ukulele. Also
there has been added to the Sherman-Clay
list "Patsy," the lyric by Dick Coburn and
music by Earl Burtnett and Dick Winfree. The
number has been featured by Art. Landry and
His Orchestra.
"Sweetest Girl, I Long For You," published
by the Xlnt Music Publishing Co., of Hinsdale,
Mass., has been accepted for the European dis-
tribution by Herman Darewski, Ltd., of Lon-
don, England.
Two Radio Hits
HOW DO YOU DO
The original "How Do You Do" Song
12 New Verses and Uke arrangement
Latest Edition
o
A Sweet Southern Lullaby
SWEETEST LITTLE ROSE
— IN TENNESSEE —
TED BROWNE MUSIC CO., Inc., 218 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago
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