Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-10

women who cannot 90 to the mnsic-hails
a chance to hear her, she will be earn
ing $500 week.
When she is not on the stage Miss
Collins is a thoroughly domesticated lit
tie woman, with q fat and three bounc-
ing children in Islington. She deliber-
ately refused all offers to sing this week
and threw $500 to the winds in order
that she might take her children to
France TO put them 70 school there. She
expects to make money enough out OF
this song before 10 runs IL course TO re-
tire from the stage and to bring her
husband home from America. or course
the words are nothing. They never are
in the real riotous popular song. And
whatever the words may be, 1T is the
Choir that makes the song go, and the
chorus is nothing but eight variations
on "Ta-ra-ra BOOmde-ay."
There IS no Disgusting the fact that
the popularity Of this song is NUS
ance. 1t is impossible TO escape from 1t
anywhere. Every concert hall In town
has some sort of parody on il. 1t has
been worked to death in all the panto-
mines. Even Charles Wyndham does
not scruple 10 score a laugh out OF 1t by
injecting into it play which has made
him. popular almost before Lottie Col
Inns was born. Perhaps the best idea or
the way the people feel about it may be
obtained from the following verses
printed this week in popular society
journal:
hear it in the Office; hear IL in the street
From milionaises and paupers, the lowly' the
ctdf'
Philosophers and fools unite, as men ofcommon
In bawiiinis Ta.ra.ra Boom-dc-ay, Ta.rA-ra Boom
decay
It ceases not the whole night through police
To cheer their spirits in the dark the awful
And burglars softly whisper it, and jewellers
Run into lamp posts to the tuEe Of Ta-ra-ra
bOOm-de-aN.
The organ-grinder's gotitaDd plays itnight and
morn
As though his hurdy-surdy could perform no
salyationists are after it; we soon will hear
them pray
Ta-ra-ra Allcluia-Alleluia Boom-de-ay.
POPULAR MUSIC 400 YEARS OLD.
The words OF "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay"
were written by Richard Morton and the
music was supplied by Angelo A. Asher.
An interview with each OF these gentle
men supplied some interesting facts
about the production. Mr.. Morton Is a
round-faced. clean shaven man, appar-
emily not yet thirty, with black eyes
and hair. To the question, How did
you write "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" ne
replied:
'In the first place the music OF the
song is about four hundred years old. IL
was carried over to America years ago
by some emigrants from the east OF Eu-
rope. What country can exactly claim
IL is not exactly known. But II seems
to me that Roumania is very likely the
birthplace Of the air. ! have heard
several Continental variety turns In
London say that it was an old peasant
march with which their boyhood was
familiar.
1T had some vogue as chorus which
was sung in a gay house in St Louis.
Somebody thought with different words
it might go as a song, and it was intro
duced into a minstrel farce called
Tuxedo" which was played all over
the United States. This may account
for Mr.. Labouchere sayings in Truth
that it is a plantation melody. The only
negroes who had anything to do with
that melody were burnt-cork ones in the
Tuxedo" company. The very swing Of
the tune shows It's continental origin.