Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
POPULAR SONGS PICTURED
Modern Art" Gives the Eye the Best
of the Game.
SCENES FITTED TO THE MUSIC
tome OF the Means Employed TO Pro-
duce snappy Situations for the
Dime Circuits of the
Country.

Have you had a call from the illustrated
song man and his models yet?
II not, who are you and where do you
liver
II you have a house with a porch or a
garden. have you never come home to find
o lovesick couple incoming in one another's
arms on tho garden seat or Just pushing off
in your private boat OF posing in the midst
OF your favorite flower bed?
II you have any kind Of a place of busi-
ness, a dairy. a delicatessen, or a chicken
lturm. haven't you been besieged by the
picture man, TO allow him to come out
and take just a few pictures to Illustrate
a song that inadvertently mentions a COW,
q ham sandwich, or a cackle2
And even II you don't own the roof over
your head, do you mean TO say hat you
haven't met them in the parks. on the a X
front, on the streets. in crowded railway
stations-anywhere at all-enacting their
parts in their desired surroundings before
the camera of the ubiquitous picture man?
II you haven't you must be blind. for
with fan coming on and the music publish
ers all putting out new songs, with the
new copyright law. which allows a pub
Usher royalty on each picture that is made
to Illustrate his song, and with this method
OF popuisrizing a song acknowledged 70 be
foremost, Il naturally follows that the pic
ture man Is busy.
Every ono has seen and heard the IL
Illustrated song In the 5 and 10 cent theaters.
Sometimes the pictures have been better
than the song. but more often 1t has been
the other way.
one song that made quite a hit de-
serlbed a lovers dream Of the girl he
loved. He dreamed that she was sitting
-. AZ Len n fhaFW gHafonnru llffla home
Tho music was pretty and the sentiment
not bad at all, but the picture Of a super
ANIMATED youth being slowly squeezed TO
death in a rocker by a heavyweight cham
plon OF the opposite sex was about as pleas
ing and loving as would be the image Of a
baby hippo on a lily pad. And that was
not all. A roaring fire In the fireplace was
screened by a healthy, bright green rubber
plant Perhaps you will say that that was
the fault OF the artist, who. when painting
the slide, put flames In the empty fire
place behind the plant, and no doubt that
, is true, but what Of the man who selected
and posed those models? The least said
> probably the better.
Dream Pictures.
Has anyone escaped hearing a certain
Moonlight song whereof one illustration
depicts the young man as he rows upon the
iake IN the moonlight dreaming Of her
II is no uncommon thing to put these
dream pictures OF the absent sweetheart
or home or mother. In the fireplace. or on
the mantle-piece, or In the clouds OF ones
cigar or pipe. and as the nickel show
hAbitue Is usually liberal minded. IL mat
tiers not II these dream images assume the
olearness and high colors OF corporal re-
Atty.
such appearance, however, had a start
ling effect In the case OF the moon
light scene, wherein the amorous youth,
calmly resting on his oars, gazed ~insipidly
81 the real head and shoulders OF hts
sweetheart emerging out OF the water amid
a searchlight OF moonbeams-happy though
drowning,
a But such absurdities are becoming rare.
n Slide companies or transparency companies
a. many Of them cali themselves, appear