is spreading himself in the merchandise
vendor line.
As to equipment now in the territory, the
report is that there are plenty of used pin
tables, used phonos are not plentiful, and
stocks of new equipment grow shorter daily
although there is no acute shortage, except
in a few lines, as yet.
B. K. Anderson. •
"Flu" Stops
the Minthornes
LOS ANGELES - Jean J. Minthorne,
Rock-Ola distributor, accompanied by Mrs.
Minthorne, Super-Chiefed to Chicago last
month for a three weeks business and
pleasure trip. He managed to take care of
the business, buying four carloads of
Rock-Ola equipment, but the "flu" caught
up with both of them and cut short the
pleasure end. Both were, glad to get back
to sunny California.
Since the Minthornes return their offices
have been a beehive of activity. E. V_ Clark
has been added to the staff 'as auditor and
office manager and two more service men
added to make Rock-Ola installations and
turn out the Tone Columns for wired music
to fill Jean's many orders.
Among the visitors to Jean's office No-
vember 5th to help Jean and Dolores cele-
brate his birthday ,were Jack Nelson, of
Rock-Ola; George Murdock, Rock-Ola Dis-
trict M,a nager; Frank Navarro, large Rock-
Ola - operator, and Charles Ma«farland of
the Morris Plan in San Francisco_ A huge
cake as well as liquid refreshments were
,s ampled by the many friends who dropped
•
in to. congratulate Jean.
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FOR SALE
1 ROCK·OLA MYSTIC MUSIC CENTRAL
, STATION (talk·over music) complete
with 10 Mystic Combination Master
Rockolite
Phonographs.
Reasonably
priced.
Liberal Terms.
24·UNIT VOCA·TELE CENTRAL STATION
complete wit.h turn tables. Will sell
either as a whole or units of 6, 9 and 15.
Very reasonable.
Liberal Terms.
1 CENTRAL STATION UNIT complete with
10 rebuilt cabinets, complete with am·
plifiers, etc. Very reasonable.
Liberal Terms.
Wide Variety of Various Cabinets for Use
in Connection with Wired Music.
JEAN J. MINTHORNE
2920 W. Pi co Blvd.
. Victor-Hearst Tie-Up
to Aid Operators.
CAMD-EN, ,N. J . - Operators should
greatly benefit from RCA's new promotion
of . individual songs and records to the
mass nickel dropping public, tying in with
Hearst's "Puck, the Comic Weekly." This
publicity will run ten weeks in fifteen ma-
jor newspapers in fifteen key cities.
Hearst's papers will carry , news and
feature stories, photographs, advance an-
nouncements, truck posters, and spot an-
nouncements on Hearst radio stations_ The
actual color page will include pictures and
a biographical story of the individual
artists.
This publicity fea ture will be carried in
Hearst papers in Detn;Jit, Albany, Balti-
more, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Pitts-
burgh, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seat-
tle, Milwaukee, New York; and in Wash-
ington, D. c., Syracuse, and Atlanta inde-
pendently owned papers will also carry the
feature_
•
Los Angeles. Calif.
PA 1179
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
55
FOR
NOVEMIER
Mutoscope Host
to Arcade Men
NEW YORK-Approximately 150 penny
arcade operators of metropolitan New York
and New Jersey, as well as public officials,
attended a dinner party October 3 given by
International Mutoscope Reel Co. to cele-
brate what Willi am Rabkin, Mutoscope
president, termed, "the biggest and most
successful arcade year in our history."
Notables attending the super-festive oc-
casion included License Commissioner Paul
Moss and Hiram S_ Hall, industrial com-
missioner, Queens chamber of commerce.
Mr. and Mrs. William Rabkin saw that
the event got off to a congenial start by
inviting guests to the cocktail room of New
York's Fifth Avenue Hotel, where the din-
ner party was held.
Jovial Al Blendow, who was in charge of
festivities; Earl Winters, M. Leschen, and
other members of the Mutoscope "family"
also did their part in making the evening a
highly entertaining one.
Following dinner, short talks were given
by William Rabkin, Hiram Hall, Paul Moss
and Mrs. Grace B. Rabkin. Al Blendow
acted as toastmaster_
Billy Glason, in the role of M. C_ handled
the splendid show which capped the cele-
bration. This included entertainment by
Burns and Swanson, dance team; Francis
Carlyle, magician; Eddie Clark, comedy
waiter; Mildred Windell, songstress; Mary
Lou, accordionist and singer, and Arthur
Ball, tenor.
•
Jimmy Lunceford· • only on
DEC C A
Part 01 the happy throng at
International M utoscope's
dinner lor the arcade men
in the New York area_ Bill
Rabkin 01 M utoscope looted
the bill in celebration 01 the
best arcade equipment year
his lirm has ever en;oyed_
Just look at the smiling laces
-they en;oyed it too!
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