Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — LONDON IS RAG TIME MAD [ARTICLE]

LONDON IS RAG TIME MAD

Music Halls Now Are Putting On American Aire Find an Agreeable Change. London. —The latest phase of the American invasion of London is ragtime music, which has suddenly developed on a large scale. Today no London music hall program is complete without a rag-time act -.One house is preparing a rag-time reHew. Sir Edward Moss, head of the MossStoll vaudeville circuit and the biggest man in the British variety world, said: "I thoroughly believe we are about to have a craze ’or rag-time music. Viennese waltz songs have a great run of popularity, but the public is demanding something new. Ragtime, the real American rag-time, which is at present little known In England, is entirely new and a change.”