The Billboard 1924-06-14: Vol 36 Iss 24 (1924-06-14)

The Billboard JUNE 14, 1924 By JONES and KAHN | x Si aime Rts « ane Calle, Sabah TE cating aT" Cty 7 Shh ons eae 9 “DRIFTING TO YOU” The Waliz Ballad Beautiful Written by VER CLAY SMITH, AL. SHORT, The Eminent Composer and Critic. Director Tivoli Theatre. ; Scheduled for elaborate Art Production in Balaban & Katz Theatres, a Chicago, for three weeks, starting Monday, May 26th. Week of May 26th, Chicago Theatre. Week of June 2nd, Tivoli Theatre. Week of June 9th, Riviera Theatre. Splendid orders have been coming in from all parts of the United States and Canada and “DRIFTING TO YOU” is off with a running start. CHAS. E. ROAT MUSIC CO. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. a eee ir Club, $3. 00 Per Year _ ee MILTON wen, MUSIC CO., Inc. MURRAY BLOOM, Mor. | oe Williams Is the Lucky Publisher a ‘Down Home Chant. 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My arrangements @m’t be beat and I have hundreds of letters to that effect from satisfied patrons and publishers. Get the wet apd have no regrets HERMAN A. HUMMEL, 1441 West 85th St., CLEVELAND, OHIO By GENE RODEMICH in tities of the Year aie EVENING BLUES” _“UNFORTUNATE_ BLUES” SINGLE ORCHESTRA TIONS, MELODY MART (Continued from page 19) argument. Different arrangements are usually made in publishing such works. “Rock-a-Bye Baby Blues’, a fox-trot song by Clifford Orr, Herbert Talbot and Henr Sullivan, bas been released by the Oliver Ditson Company, of Boston. Dance orchestras and singers broadcasting the number report it an excellent all-round selection. Another Ditson publication that is becoming more popular than ever is the melodious and tender ballad, “‘At Dawning’’, by Nele Richmond Eberhart and Charles Wakefield Cadman, Over the radio it is unusually effective. Ray Foster has completed his five-reel feature industrial film, entitled “A Million Miles of Music’, which will show the process of recording and manufacturing player-piano rolls, heretofore carefully guarded. Eight months were spent in preparing the film, during which time Foster made a complete study of roll manufacture under Lee S. Roberts, of the Q. R. S. Music Roll Company. Altho Foster directed the production, Mr. Roberts supervised the proceedings to make sure everything was technically correct and all details authentic. The cast includes well-known wirters recording artistes, among them being Roberts, Zez Confrey, Max Kortlander, sell Robinson, Pete Wendling, Phil and Victor Arden. The hits to the of some of those mentioned include: “Smiles’’, by Roberts; ‘‘Margie’’, Robinson; ‘Tell Me’’, Kortlander; “‘Yaka Hula Hicka Dula’”’ and “Ob, What a Pal Was Mary’’, Wendling, and “Kitten on the Keys’ and ‘‘Stumbling’’, Confrey. and le e J. 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