Bob Darch: Did you ever write any ragtime songs?

Arthur Marshall: No. No, I didn't try to write no songs. Everything was ragtime dance music. (Actually, Marshall arranged Charlie and Robert Warfield's song "Down in that Foreign Land", published in 1907 by the Popular Music Co. of Chicago, and he also composed an unpublished ballad, "When My Dream Girl Comes Along".)

Bob Darch: Arthur, what do you consider your best rag?

Arthur Marshall: Well, my best rags as far as I considered, were "Kinklets, "Ham and!", "Swipesy" and "The Pippin". In fact, I like all of them -- all of them's good to my notion, played right.

Above: "Down in that Foreign Land," 1907. Right: Marshall's photo from the same cover, enlarged. Courtesy Mr. Reginald R. Robinson.