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1 1012; ty, the Sew Tork Herel Co. Ait (Coearient, 10125 47, th HREEB years ago black- haired young man of twenty with s moderately fair voice Teg tid ex parodies of popular songs were 20 than those of hundreds of others,86 Bis New. Dhe Wild Cherry Rag. and other rags. A blonde voice crooned: Talk Fad ot yo loon-by coons, talk ot yo spoo-ny F334 lov-er of coon-y .tiines, Jackson- was-the-leader-of- ig-brase-band. : JOE M'CARTHY Sold for'a Song Loses its Mean- ing. He Mado 3,000.0n Op copies, and decrepit pianos from the banks of the to the shores of the Yukon; Ei at Panmitia tothe remoter its, With the proceeds from his or more other hits including: Tinlian Love, Everybody's Doin wand That Mesmerizing Mendels- WiMr. Berlin has made (Giese figures are. based on own statement) 100,000. 30,000 for One: Song. When Io met the popular author of Grisly Bear I could not delp think- of. Richard Le Gallienne, Bliss 0; Edwin Markham and oth r poets) St my acquaintance, wl polishing up a sonnet for w get atop notch price ranging from 14 25, Mr. Berlin's 30,000 Ajdxan Ragtime Band was written in ten: Jnintes: 1 could: not help thinkingof)sbout i item. laboring for seven years on his, *Paradise Lont wad selling it for fifteen pounds, of Pos. hungry, -demented with anxiet parting with The Raven for and of Chatterton starring. In json with our modern writers of bona fide Yerse, who have exchanged the garret of a more elassic antiquity for-any child can-play or sing. slectrie-lighted and steam-heated Harlem d weeks they may) 0, . comparison flats, Mr. Berlin: cal at a big hotel. dine at the most ness. Tahorate of our gilded lobster palaces, and run bis own car. lt;kapwn favorites of the stupendousty, su Rie wax atquaint acknowledged fraukl swell, I tel. you, we -fellers don t beats me, associate with one anotber much a8 Mr. erlin s tone indicated that he had F tact, excepts occasionally W2 . fear of ay one making him look like 2 drink. Jeug than bait a dozen who make more than 5,000 a-year; a few make apward choir. He contemplated-going Ito a shop. of 10,000. Pwo or three make this sum va x Mingic sing. Mr, Berlin, the Rock gents: wear did no: feller of the song industry, bas writfe figured I had a-voice, he said, more than four hundred songs, of WHIEH felt 1 co more'than one hundred and fifty Baye bee stage. So 1 bucked poblish d. Neatly sll-have sale and Y gang around New York for several dozen bare made bis hits. To gectine an inter other industry. oon ou three successive alaya, elit information come to iis office yet ; te) wus Bet wi ephone gall 40 bite cae man was composing wad COUd agin bet inl I disturbed ht wo re Upsilon) comedy stars, who came w try JL gor to work and Productions, be told with a franik gePeonld ear w duit dowg,of his songs be Tag tried io a hilt dozen other lite vena ted The Rag A gasping bronette attempted: Fid-dle up, fid-die up... on... your violla; lay right on it, rest your chin up-oni it; dog-gone, you bet-ter begin. A peraxide Froice chirruped In the belt: Where s Ted? Give my love to Tedt and a bess from, a Broadway chorus went rushing by. A truculent and very theatrie in- dividual was raising a row in tear of- fice. And Berlin was saying Never Studied Music. To be frank about It, the Jess you know about music and the le s you know about verse;i'the better chances you sot fo make a public hit If 1'd bad an educa- tion I'd not be where I am now.) I never had no chances, and I never got any school Yearning. I never atudied music, and I can pick out a time only with one finger but I know what the public wants. X I depend on inspiration. get, a though a line omes the lyric writes Iteelf An then T pick outa tune. The whole thing is to get-a punch in, your composition fa thing the public will remember. You get the knack of it in time; it's simply trick; and song writigg is a Dasiness, I you tiki the simpler the better. the proverbial thirty cents. never studied anybody else I just wrote what-esme You may call it genius, if But I got no such swell idea And this business ts one o' the things Where lack of education helps. The more Hiiited your vocabulary is the better: I don't ktow many ible words; can't talle well; but I'm not sorry, for, as T've found out, the public won't buy a song withany three syllable words in it They want things while it is bot. None of-my real hital Which ssemed adequately to sum up fn occupy a Inxitrious the philosophy of the song writing busi- In Mr. Berlin s opinion, one-person out of every twenty-has ambitions to become So farjas the higher-brow writers of x popular song weiter, Hundreds of manu- ipics 0, they ate bot vaguely known to scripts of verses and musical composi- Mr. Berlin and his plethoric contempo- tions are received by him personally every Faries. MThe mention of the names week? but, according to him. the new. Arthur Symons, George Sylvester Viereck comer bas little chance. and Joyce Kilmer.evoked only a puzaled Jook of disidt rested Inquiry. And whet ey send jn here. It is certainly rot-ten. effort to got atthe personality some of the things mre pretty good: and land inteligctual interests of these On- ir 1 can, I encourage writer; but, as a g-loving Du matter of fact, there yathor Of the geld. Now, miy songs were so successful whether that I was tuken in the musical publish- with Swisborne, be ing firm that printed them. chance here for a uewcomer uniess be: You'd be surprised at the rotten atuf little chance In the There's no Berlin's father was a rabhi, and as a) ebild Irving esed to sing in a synarogue nd selling goods, but the purveying of by rights I should have gotten 2,000 for): what I sold for 25. I next wrote Sadie Salome copies, On the strength of that I' gets regular job with a music house. I wrote lots of songs some were only fair mic ceases. As a matter of fact; the thing that makes a big hit is the plece that it sold to the extent of 250,000) comes by inspiration, the song you write took more than half an hour to do, One day I. went: Into one of: these coop-like places and composed My Wite's Gone to the Country, words and music, and then, being anxious to see how it would go, I took it tolm caf up here on Broadway. It-made an fnstant hit with the people there. That song was written, and played before the publie In less than half an hour, Over 600.000 copies were sold, and, it made me 12,000. Chorus Always Written First. Some Rainy: Afternoon, That Mesme 100,000 in Three Years -Fioney, listen to that dreamy tune ther're Won't oli tell me how on earth you keep Um Um Oh, that Mendelssotn Spring If you ever loved me, show me now or Lord, I wish they'd play *hat music on for Ob, that Menfelssonn time y . 5 gt; My honey love, to that ever lovin Sprini Kita mie lke you would your mother, One goad-fine deservex another, thi That tantatizin , bypnotizin ; mesmerizin house. took it; they didn t have money to ; advertise or push it; the song made Steel, Night after niglit one can hear the and in two months everybody was'singing applauding some Boarse i, * 5 unis twenty-five minute production made fa the caf s But when some exquisite an instant public appeal. selection from Alda or Madam Bat- zo be the love plaint of a lone maiden, but terfiz Te stingily given there Is con judging by her method of expressl m, the trasting Jack of enthusiasm. The intense popular type in: song does nct resemble interior anguish 1 have observed two that of Mr. R. W. Chambers jn fiction.or peratic singers of my ecquaiitance ex-/ Mr, D. Gibson in a t. ible during these riotous, ripping per penoig ta-me formanees was equalled only by the pain Four of Mr. Berlin's nits, Cail Me Up) ining: Mendelssohn Tune, Phe Grizzty Bear and Kiss Me Stop were peits ten In three weeks. Over three million copies of these were sold. Last FeAr) wigenced by thatajsciple of Swinburnian Berlin wrote Sweet. Italian Loye, Men with No Musical Education Who Ha erties terviewed and tipped. Night after night jand make themselves Author of *Alexander s Ragtime, Band, Says He Made playin , from swayin'? Song tune never: ever. Um Um Api the chorus comes: Song * hod y, Please: me, honcy sqiteeze mo to that) Mendelssohn strain. Made Forlunes Out of Syncopated Songs. Mr. Berlin, apd he singer id i certaln to sell everywhere, The musical house which exploits Mr. Berlin employs 75 people to push these songs: fof of money in the business, he anid. lig 1 throw ten dollars away CFF) 145 the Fandango Rag took it for his Follies; But'the orchestra couldn't play it, The air waa peculiar t got the sound-ovt of * thelr Inst *What kind, o' dance goes this Py -Jullan Mitehell, the siage.manager. He didivt know. f and they Phe popularity of thik was evidenced they , shout out: Great chord, thats sid coinfebrot visit the by a sale of 100,000 copies At the pres that e now that'e a real barber shop 3 ani time Mx, Goodwin has aixty-two enerally agreeable. songs on the market, Of these several, Theysspend miniinum of 10 a day on Brass Bang x Joues,* I'm . . ets Sa se Aboot Thatsttorkey Trot and World's Fair looking for something io do. tance of getting a song started In New few others have soored exceptional hits. York. If it makes a hit here it is pretty Mr. Goodwibjaaye that his income Ieatiaround town, and finally x ye iF exceeded 19,000, But I gotta: pet playing ragtime in the Manufacturers juildinig at th fain Wve years ago 1 adxty-twoy chord. I beat it around for about five years. Then 1 went to Chicago at the time of the I thought I'd find gold of the streeis there: I didn t. I played rags in low pisces and Ziegfels Author of That Barber Shop oie ceemndy night. treating in the caf s. And com Htinuinig bia remiarks about poetic values, Me added, As for reading. well, I bave oy yack to writin music I wrote the read Kipling and Omar Khayyam. Mz. Goodwin's composer, Al. Plama- time Rosie Plays the Rosary, it iasaid, makesian income of others. Then I tied up with musical conceit, und-tiav:-got guarariteed sal- ry. I make about 10,000 (year. If 1'd-got-all that -w: dod, 10, averaged by sdmne of the older writers songs, who include Eddie Madden, a0- me I'd a made 12,000 on The Barber thor of the recent hit, Rum-tum-tiddle Vincent Bryan, Perey Wetrich, B. Ray G etz and Billy Jerome. Joe MeCarthy, ue of the newcomers, made over 10,000 ten piano rodms are constantly occupied by singers who visit the establishment to learn the melodies, Next to Mr. Berlin, the most successful of uew song writers is Joe Goodwin, slight. dapper youth of twenty-two, who tsst year. Mr. McCarthy ie twenty-six, professes much astonishment at the easy nioney made in this business, Mr. Goodwin is the author of the jopo- lar song Billy, whis In the early part. of labor of coniposition required twenty-five minttes and Mr. Goodwin's royalties lumiounted to 8,000. fortune of a new publishing house, as well jas launched Mr. Goodwin, and sold to) the extent of one million copies. Mr. Goodwin is also a graduate from vaudeville. I used to do character sketches in street elothes no make-up, be sald. I'd always written verse and wrote parodies for friends. You eee T hadu't much educa tion, but I liked to write. So I made up my mind I was going to try the song game. I came to New York, got a cheap room, and worked for four or five months on lyrics. d a hard struggle, I'd take these to pub- Ushers and get four.or five dollars for and in three years has written Honey Man, Dresmy Italian Walts and Honey Man, alone be declares he miade 8,000. , he wrote one day, 4. The actual keep tabs on the public's musical pulse, is unquestionably the sort of music most in demand, and compared with it, as one manufacturer of. this sort of melody ex- pressed it, opry don t figger. What- lever commentary it may be on the pub- Uc taste, Mr Lew Muir, who has made the most sensational recent hits in ra; fime, made twice.as much on his By ber Shop Chord as Professor Horatio Parker made out of Mona. Billy made the he knows nothing about musig- Which, in his-opinion, acounts for his being able) 10,000 to 15,000 year. tor me, Mendelssohn tune. obsterites ? voiced gitl singing this arrant nonsense in. quick succession Alexander Time Band, That Mysterious Rag. peal to him. years, got engagements in theatres snd with Me, Berl Yfetie cates. wan ds ditieuit ns with a magnmte.of a4F fog. 1 ased to make pa Accent af hie Olfice Xt Zong. an fen Ac M., at noon, ad fougtin the after- ther i cou lied the en paving KES we two. wreks to get into te aw aaa e rity T-ahonsnt F WORK pais, Success slegen de RU, ye saroinlea lad Fick of putting in what dm gill well try ori Well, at Hike tine MURR that s swinging EMRE SSS B00 oranda ra P Madison. Square, ESR wit Sigs wil ARERR Garden 1 Boa aac, yrexsion op tlie yoidie ming aA) then be revistat ees merous song utwut an xa live? At tease they t years hing enough for tu win to m publiwhee 1 iuisical immorta weaus uothims Mz. jreity: good and sugsest df wer it to Ho and Yee ante, to popular Well, 1k That's ihe way 1 always feet, ffl . Lmiusie 1w ( Dorando ar 9 ft sw L the id tt Kot : op miglody tur t Kes (io) my? verprce its a Lilt: and make easier moriey on the the vaudeville game, elouye the composer explained, them I en pretty hard iip. Doin 1t Now. write the words. Usually 1 work at, bis interpr tation may ve di he ways, home, and I've got to k ep working all to his lack of musical knowledge or to the time, If 1 loaf a week or twp Wt hix confessed determination to-be original Xiddle on Your Fiddle and The Wid) Cherry Rag. of which between two 80d Besin. three million oples were disposed of. De- termining to write four rag songs of the You don t need the, moon-a-light same metre and style. Berlin composed Ras Dat's Italian tove, sweet Italian love, Yer Tn writing rhgs I first work out the operas, Rigol tr: Hecsinton Bos asked hiv opinion on. this weet Italian love. nice Itallan love, to tell her: In da houne, or on aa roof, or in da cellar, spagette, The Rag Time Violin and Everybody's ya's ttallan love. Mr. Berlin has seen the Itstian La Gloconda. Alda and the others. The difference of The entire duc Joes not. however, rest with the eAbeoMy mic that wi meat eee Miperoyhics : + Mas ever meant) phen I wrote Billy? An unknown the Rosary, Chilly Billy Bee, sand ny, and became tdi Bert Tae company, e own at Jost because I lore a man T feel so bad Now that be has gone away. Though I bare bis picture sear, and call me dear; Bo I confess I'm hungry for some real live love. It was Mr. Goodwin who admitted that with the verse, George Sylvester Viereck, wien by Mri t can't tov gee love he did not associate. often Algernon Charles Swinborne. wanted to discove. where, and how, the njWhen youskiss your pet, and I's a Uke writers of these commercially profitable Iytics get their inspiration. Crazier Line Bigger Hit Of course, you read the poets? with the 979 BEE iano in cates a query as to be author of Laus Veneria. any Ideas from them? Well, Fil tell you, not * uch, acntainta: of a popular wong Goose. re ww the first oily -tetan a aud thas may Ulnareate thts ) your wong. uated: bootie Le W MUIR Chord a year, This sum is said to be When Broadway Was a Pasture * On Ragtime; in the opiiion of those who Mr. Muir. also frankly acknowledges to write original rags and earn from Glad to Be Written Up. The prospest-of being written up in paper appealed powerfully to the com- poser of When Ragtime Rosie Ragred Tie. Oklahoma Twirl. Alth ugit Mr. Muir bis toured the country in a minstre Williams in white lia career bas: never beet glowingly. presented. to thie.gpublic. The- truth is, Mr. Muir Wimitted, that people are playin my compositions) all over the country, and nobody knows who Lew Muir is outside of the pro- fession. Now, I'm mighty giad to be written ap, and I'll tell you all about my- self. Of couree, I've made.a hit; T work hard, snd Latick at the business; things is easy now, but I've had a time, I tell you. And there are certain things I don t like to tell about. Yim twenty-six now I've never taken a mpale lesion fnm life. When I was) a kid in Oklahoma 1 used to beat out tunes with a-pencil on my desk and: the teacher would get hot. Why I'd beat ont yon woything boxer tin cans, bon pieces 0 wood, I went in the Saray after he Md ree om mmilinery business and peddled hats and trimmin's Off and on I played the Bear Cat Rag, Shop Ctord e You know it's a funny thing My family never took me seriously, 80 far as music goes. I'm a nephew of Dr. Joseph Muir, who was appointed by McKinley an Secretary to the Agee Legation. at Sweden. He is a ago when I used to compose rags he'd say to me, Tew, that s awful Lew, you're rotten? Well, I got the-langh qm him now. * go to vaudeville, Gee, Lew, but yoa're a geniu great thing you've wrote You're a lucky guy, all right. You've got talent in dumps ire was sy akhame figeito play rass. 00 nie out irovighttie South weet TL became known Moreh abt 1 used gt;to joat about All through iciyigeom, shir: ou Seager a hu some ae 1 etrit roe aT uses th yell, to be frank Peodcldeido's if any cones Pathe full wouldn't 1 got che ides tor The the) with those of Richard iui an ime snd afl rhe had to go up and play the plano and teach the chorus the steps, Tt waa s pe euilar step and that was the origins taskey trot. No, it didn't take ne the time the publid wasn't educated op to it, : Well, L slipped back tito the millinerz business didn t like, St thought again about music, and The Barbee Shop Chord came tome, I took it to pub- Usher and it made great hit I got an engagenient in a minstrel company and went out West. Gee when I got te places where.I d played in dumps years before. Jt was like as home-comin Everywhere they was playin The Bar- ber Shop Chord and I found myself fa- mons. Everybody greeted me an every- body touched ms. Why, I've loaned hundreds and hundreds of dollars an I' never get a cent back. Must Have Kick. didn t like the show business, and T. *Chiribiribin, When Rag- nd a lot of 15,000 comin to Jone. ician. and years. How do I compose? .Depend on ins spiration. A fellow may come in with set o words, and they'll give-me an idea for the melody. The words don't count, in m, opinion, With rag it's the mual en- tikely. Then I sit down work out the tune. I ca Just have the knack, tha: plano.and reads I When X started I determined to make money, I concluded that the Americas, ple don t like a long or difficult song And the thing they take to is the: thing with a kick in it The public will re- member a sudden twist in the melody. Now, take wy last song, Raging the Baby to Sleep' ma:. the twist ae Right has fates, Ughts af low: Shadows they. cretp bab All at ouce there comes .squall he baby haw started to baw oval Bay Twins Pan suid Sim Sears the bed, tn your, armas Zootate she weakened once more FOU You ham wile you're walking the Goor: Phat ragtime walk with Dabs bady baby. Now, there s a song with the kick. It s already used by such artists as Al Jolson, Dorothy Russell, daughter of the fair, Lillian, and Marshall Montgomery, the veutriloguist. The public will hear it, and if they like it they'll bux it Now? with this piece we employ talent and end tem out to sing this song in the caf s. What's:the way,a song is introduced in the caf s and theatres. out too.. Every: night ifs tippin and treatin , But tHat s. part of the-business. And this is-a business. I just learn what the public likes ard I gives em the goods. Pluggifig the Game. My recredtions? Mr, Muir for a mo- ment seemed. surprised. what you mean, got little time for pleas ure. I'm on the Job most o the time. 1 work every - day write scores and metodies some I throw sway. Igo out plugging my gai my pieces. I got nice little home. ine T live with my pal ey're satisfied how to have ig business. You see, I cai ree more in it than inmil in a while-L Say, fellers often come in. Behe an way, Duis a Listen to me. far us editeation goes, 1 know I'm ape Southwest. this trick down, and I k one-up to we Giriius. and say, dise it wants, and 3 laugh right bere. And Mr, Mule chuckled fato the st. +o jub. 1 simpiy have ge wv ow 1 ninh ney. 1 give the public the m 4 tor x mus k shirt. Miss Mgry Garden rec ican public ave ng poetry: ncellectual Bue whether this Ja r dreds. of t sii Jollars, U Hy. theirs is 0 pat Prostate acoupations of olseueity And perhgps: the only one (t which, hey delare. lack of evtucation nray an-aeeet 4 jan; 1 gotta go Oh, if that's At olghts and pushin have a not mitrried. iF then F belong: 10. the Comedy Club, nd hope toon .to join the Elks. GREECE INSISTS IN PASSES AEGEAN Prime Minister of Classics Positive Interesting Point NO WISH FOR S' OF ASIA Greece is Liberat Conque: Isles of Greece ways Grecian. icy mand from Turkey the res : Greece of the Aegean isk mnos, Imbros, Lenedo: Chios, Mitylene and the: fact, ail the islands whiet Grecian. In these are in as have been occupied by in the recent way with 1 Inasmuch as the Turki kept in the Dardanelle, Gre mistress of the Aegean se is not as conquerors tha these istands, but as em: Greece is not trying trate the possession of ot gt; is not seeking. to reduce. pulations isito. submission; dy trying. to regain her o1 and restore them place as part and pai rile and eivilization. -- The isles of Greece since dawn of history. been Greek for more tha turies, even though they volved-in the contest Constantinople; the purest all Greater Greece the- sentiment of never have been their religion Greek. Mr. Venerelos was ask Greece Would insist on for these islands. Greece will insist, he The Turks have urged in to our demand that our pi Chids and Mitylene would ace toxtheir power and t Asia Minor. This is spe ment. It might as well that there. should be no n of the boundary of Bt Turkish Thrace, . because would become a menace but the boundary between tries is conventional minous. : - The sea is a natural bi tween the Aegean islands Asia mainland. We cannot do. others continued, than demand (Continued on page ERAN CIVIL SERVANT Dr.-George Hodgin: Away at Ripe A; minent Educatio at his home in this city. his 92nd year and had. b as ono of the mostidiiatings Ae servarits of the province jo, Hisfam as aneduca od not atily througtdut th but to,foreign countries, his long carcer he was. th of many high honors in th pedagogy. * He entered the civil sem rovince as confidentiai cl educational department in D came secretary of the Public education in 1846 2 tg the chief superintender From 1876 to 1880 he w minister of education and year became librarian and to the department. In 18 lished the. first volume of mentary history of educati Mario, work which event prised 28 yolumes. . T. P. TO CALGA Calgory, De. 24 W: the last leg f the Trunk Pacific Railway Calgary s to the rusl completion, The ord push the work were d from President Chamb: PRB EE
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