Show World (October 1910)

THE SHOW WORLD LOUI8 XAMI3TY TAILOR TO THE PROFESSION MOST SELECT WOOLENS AT Room 617, 167 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO SCEKiERY FEDERAL ST. Specialties Staple Goods and Novelties Suitable for Prizes, Souvenirs, Premiums and favors for Skating Rinks, Games and 5c Theatres. We have a big variety. Send for FREE Catalogue. N. Shure Co. Drislane and Geo. W. Meyer sponsors, is a commendable little song which we Joy in reviewing. We don’t know know just exactly it is in Mr. Drislane’s lyrics that ap¬ peals to us, but somehow or the other, we like them. Certain it is that songs bearing his name as the lyrist seldom prove a drug on the market, which shows that Mr. Havi- iand is sagacious and knows what he is doing. “BELOVED,” one of five semi¬ classic ballads by Robert M. Stults, issued by the P. B. Haviland Pub¬ lishing Company, is meritorious and melodious. Mr. Stults, who gave us "The Sweetest Story Ever Told,” evi¬ dently takes his work seriously and pays considerable attention to de¬ tail. “Beloved,” is refined and neatly; turned, showing that Mr. Stults long ago was graduated from the rank and file of the brazen amateur. “TEDDY DA ROOSE,” words by Ed. Moran, music by J. Fred Helf, is exasperatingly poor and void of any. merit. We reiterate, it is poor. (J. Fred Helf Company.) There are ballads which are high class—using vernacular of tinpan al¬ ley—in name only, and then there are ballads which are not only so-called “high class,” but which merit the classification in every respect. The FOR SALE j Ball Game. Cheap if taken quick. Address, Edw. Stewart, 2770 E. 75th St., Chicago MAGICIANS,NOTICE! FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS — great production trick. Four tiers of Flags. Almost new. Ad- ballad of love and of heart throbs ever has been with us, and, we be¬ lieve, ever will be with us so long as we have popular writers in our midst. A goodly proportion of the high class version of ballads now being written contain some flaw or the other which works to the detriment of the complete success of such songs. Per¬ haps the words limp, perhaps the melody is not representative. Again, the words may be all they should be and the melody also may claim this distinction, and yet words and music may not be happily wedded. We’ve noticed one or more of these defects in several high class ballads which we have before us. But it is our mission to temporize and not go too deeply into the analization of these creations. We desire to say, in pass¬ ing, many of these ballad writers are pure tautologists, unabashed and cas* hardened. Theodore Morse has been among tion. _„ _ „„ stigmatized with plagiarism, s_ It has been dainty and original, and much of it has been of highly fin¬ ished workmanship and caliber. KiS successes have been plentiful, his speak plainly in type, taken keener delight in reviewing a song than we do in Mr. Morse’s latest high class ballad, "IF THIS ROSE TODD YOU ADD IT KNOWS.” Mr. Moree har excelled himself in this in¬ stance. Purity of composition and simplicity it has in superabundance. Mr. J. F. Mahoney, who furnished the word setting for this masterpiece of popular song writing, is no mere rhymster or word juggler. His words to the song under discussion are ex¬ tremely poetical and beautiful. They are as delicately fragrant and sweet as it the rose of which he speaks, “If This Rose Told You All It Knows” is as perfect a song as has come to our attention since "O, Promise Me.” (Theodore Morse Music Company.) “A KNIGHT OF the ROAD,” is> the title of a song that just hag reached us. It is published by E. J. Burdick (who wrote the words) of t x w v 0 rk, and the music is by E. J. Washbon. Mr. Burdick’s lyrics are entirely original—a good Direction JOHN CORT Mrs. Leslie Carter Will Begin Her New York Engagement November 21, at the Nazimova Theater, in a New Play by Rupert Hughes, TWO WOMEN The Authors’ Producing Company ANNOUNCE THE SEASON’S DRAMATIC TRIUMPH CHARLES KLEIN’S “THE GAMBLERS” NOW PLAYING at the LYRIC THEATER, CHICAGO At the Maxine Elliott Theater, New York, beginning October 31. In Preparation—A New Play by Henry Arthur Jones; a New Play by Margaret Mayo. MAX FIGMAN In The Best Play He Has Ever Had “Mary Jane’s Pa” BY EDITH ELLIS “JINGA BOO” A New Musical Comedy Book Adapted from the German by Leo Dietrichstein. Lyrics by Vincent Bryan. Music by Arthur Pryor. Will Receive Its New York Presentation in November.