Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Issue: 1942 April

Public Nibbling
Phonograph and Console . Specials
(Continued from Page 13)
of candy, popcorn and cold drinks in
theaters are now well known. No one has
ever disputed this fact, and it would seem
that such operation grows increasingly more
acceptable and profitable as time goes on.
However, for the sake of showmanship, it
must be realized, and we reiterate it in
conclusion, that elien.JlWre important is the
public service angle. By maintaining the
'extra profit' item as a service to the theater
patrons, confection vending is given its
proper relation to the theater's real business
- entertainment."
Miss Kent, whether knowingly or not, has
done an excellent job of public relations
for the vending machine section of the coin
machine industry. It's up to operators
themselves to capitalize. Her suggestions
will make many a theater manager now
listen to an operator's plans with a ready
ear.
PHILADELPHIA
COIN
MACHINE
IIEVIEW
14
FOil
APIIIL
J942
PHILADELPHIA-A tremendous reno-
vation campaign is being undertaken by
local music machine operators. All types of
phonographs are being moderni:l;ed and pre-
pared for use should the drastic elimination
of new machines make necessary placement
of old equipment.
The annual social event of the local op-
erator spring season is the Phonograph
Operators of Eastern Pennsylvania and New
Jersey dance and banquet. This year the
widely-awaited affair will be held at the
classy Club Bali on Sunday evening, May 5.
Entertainers from New York and Phila-
delphia will provide the pleasure for op-
erators, their wives and guests. In addition
a number of prominent civic officials and
judicial personalities are expected to attend
the affair which will have an attendance of
several hundred.
Affairs for the banquet are being capably
handled by business manager Jack Cade
. and Sam Stern, both of whom are already
working-in-high on the line-up for the eve-
ning's amusement. A name-orchestra and
singers of the various recording companies
have already been assured the operators by
Raymond Rosen & Co. and other distrib-
utors. A special tie-up has been arranged
with the "Bonds For Victory" committee
in order' to provide guests with a unique,
patriotic souvenir of the occasion.
The entertainment committee for the ban-
quet, in addition to chairman Sam Stern,
consists of Ben Hankin and Herman Scott.
The year book committee is comprised of:
2 Rock -O la S pectravox
a nd P lay mast.rs ...... $299.50
I Rock -Ola S uper
..... 275.00
Rocko lit e
Rock- Ola Master
Rockolite ................... 250.00
I Rock -O la Maot.r
Wa l nut .............. . .... 240.00
4 Rock -Ol a De lux.
175.00
I Rock -Ola Monarch .... $100.00
2 Wu rlltz.r 616 ............... .79.50
2 Rock -O la Stan dard .... 160.00
4 Ba lly Hig h Hand ... _ ... 174.50
8 Silver Moon Tota lizers 149.50
12 Ju mbo P arad •• ,
Ani ma l Re.l.
89.50
I J ennings Free P lay
Mint V.nder
69.50
Above 'Consoles a re all Free Play in excellent mechanical condit ion .
One-third deposit require d _
Writ . for Our Latest Price List
H. C. PAYNE COMPANY
312 BROADWAY
NASHVILLE. TENNESSEE
Harold Reese, Herman Scott, Ben Hankin,
Harry Elkins, Phil Frank, Bert Sheward
and Ben Fireman. As usual THE REVIEW
will be the only trade paper represented in
the program for ALL members of the Asso-
ciation are REVIEW subscribers and the
publication has the official endorsement of
the Association. Business manager Jack
Cade remains as an ex-officio member of
each committee.
The Phonograph Operators are already
planning a long range, powerful public re-
lations and good-will campaign intended to
instruct the public regarding the usefulness
of their industry and the tremendous bene-
fits in employment, pleasure and entertain-
ment derived from music machines. A well-
known public relations expert will be hired
to handle the task of acquainting Mr. and
Mrs. Average American with the phono-
graph and its usefulness.
First step taken by the Association to
cooperate with defense has been to change
their music-machine label ' to a patrioti«
motif. Prominent words on the label are
"Buy Bonds For Victory."
Max Margolis is being congratulated for
his wife gave birth during the past month.
The proud daddy is just recovering from a
severe attack of yellow jaundice which
made him fear that the infamous yellow-
peril had struck him.
Vacationotes: Sam Stern of Keystone
Music is planning an extended trip to Hot
Springs, Ark., following completion of his
arduous labors on the Associati'on banquet.
Back_ in Philly from Florida jaunts are
Marty Mitnick, who looked the picture of
health following recovery from an illness,
and Eddie Leopold who was just down to
look over the business prospects at the
tracks.
Hits of the month. included: Glenn Mil-
ler's "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree" and
• FREE PLAY GAMES for Immediate Delivery
ABC Bow ler ...... $42.50
Anab.1 .................. 17.50
Argent in. . ........... 42.00
All American ...... 18.00
Air Force ........ ___ . 56.00
Att.ntion ............ 22.50
Dbl e. F.ature ...... 15.00
Band Wagon ...... 19.00
B. II. Ho p .......... 39.50
Big Chief .......
19.50
Big Leag ue .
18.00
Big S how ............ 17.00
Bola Way ............ 40.00
Boom Town _ ....... 28.50
Big Parade ..........
Broadcast ............
Bosco ....................
Cadillac ..............
Champ ..................
Captain Kidd ......
75.00
25.QO
60.00
20.00
49.50
55.09
,
Click .................... $55.00
Cross Line ......... 20.00
Clover ................. 64.50
Do-Re- Mi ........ 34.50
Drum Major ...... 22.50
Du plex ................ 22.50
Doubl. P lay ...... 32 .50
Dixie
._. 18.00
F licker ......... _ ....... 22.50
Four Roses .......... 24.50
Four Diamonds .. 4 1.00
F ive & T e n .......... 77.50
Formation .........
Go ld Star ............
Gu n Club ............
Hi Hat ...............
Hi-Stepper ..........
19.00
22.00
44.50
33.00
28.00
H ome R un .......... 72.50
Horoscope ............ 37.50
J ungl • .................. 57.50
50 Mills Fre. P lay
Mint Ven ders ............ $ 79.50
8 Sup.r Bell. ........ . ....... 239.50
I Ba lly Big To p.....
119.50
2 Watling Big Ga mes
with T otalizer ........ 139.50
2 W atling Big Gam ....... 119.50
2 Su per Bells, Brand
New ......................... 265.00
Knock -Out .......... $75.00
Leader ........... ...... 17.50
Leg ionnaire ..... _ 47.00
Landslide ............ 17.50
Majora '41 ..... __ 35.00
Spot Poo l
........ $51.50
'Su n Beam ... _._ ... 30.00
Sky Blazer ......... 43.00
S lugger
............. 25.00
Mon icker ... _ ........
New Champ ........
................
P olo
Play Ball
......
M iami Beach ...... 36.50
60.00
59.00
23 .50
22.00
Score-a-L ine ...... 22.00
St ars .................... 25.00
Sky Lin • .............. 17.50
Power House ....
18.00
T exas Mustang ....
Topic .................
T owers ............ __ ....
Target Skill ..........
T.n S pot ............
Vi cto ry _.
..
Seven Up _._ .. __ ...... 27.50
Sea Hawk ............ 28.00
Silver Skate ........ 29.50
Sport Parade ____ . 27.00
Star Attract ion ___ 40.00
Spot-a-Card ....... 58.00
V en us
.....
47.50
7S.0n
62.50
29.50
35.00
75.00
. .. 62.SO
w il a Fir.
.._"26.50
Ve lvet .................. 2 1.50
Yac ht Club .......... 18.50
Z,ig Zag ................ 40 no
Strato liner .......... 24.0n
Super Chubbi • .... 39.50
Zombie ................ 21.50
TERMS: 1/ 3 DE P OS IT , BALAN CE C. o. D.
B.BETTI &: SONS
1801 Manhattan Ave •• Union City. N. J .
Phone Union 3·8584
the same band's dandy "The Story Of A
Starry Night" while Dinah Shore also
moved back into the hitrack with "Good-
night Captain Curly-Head" and a teaming
with Freddy Martin on "I Looked At
Heaven". Vaughn Monroe's warbling of
"Honey Dear" has already succeeded in
making girls dig deep for more nickels.
Tommy Dorsey's "What Is This Thing
Called Love" has stirred many memories,
while Sammy Kaye's moans about "Seeing
You Did Me No Good" is another hitune.
Hal McIntyre's new band has swiftly caught
on with " How Do I Know It's Real" while
Artie Shaw stays in the top ranks with
"Somebody Nobody Loves".
The dinner meeting of the Association
was held this month at Benny The Bum's,
a swell place despite the tag, and every-
body is still raving about the excellentype
entertainment turned-in by the member's
impromptu dancing and singing. Some.of the
men have already received offers from Izzy
Hirst's Troc troupe.
Eddie Heller, Abe Lyman's record promo-
tion manager, returned home for a few days
before taking leave for Uncle Sam's Army,
and the flood of good-wishes which he re-
ceived merely proved once more than he
was tops in popularity.
Harry Bortnick
Atlas Ready With Games
CHICAGO- In anticipation of the ap-
proaching deadline on May 1st when all
manufacturing of coin-c.ontrolled equipment
will stop, the Atlas Novelty Co., is con-
tinuing more strongly than ever the policy
of buying all types of good, late equipment.
For several months Eddie and Morris
Ginsburg, Atlas officials, have been stocking
up on both new and used equipment. The
sales have beyn good during the past few
weeks and they feel this stock is still suffi -
cient to serve their customers for many
months.
When May 1st arrives Atlas expects to
have a stock second to none in the world
in size and variety. Operators can there-
fore depend upon Atlas for all the machines
they will need to keep their .operating busi-
ness on a profitable plane for the duration.
Wise operators are looking ahead right
now and buying what they need before
shortages bring higher prices.
Grundy Back
LOS ANGELES- W. Kay Grundy has
just returned from an extended business
trip which took him the length and breadth
of California.
While in San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs.
Grundy spent some time with Fred Trevil-
lian, who was returning to his operations in
Hawaii. Fred had waited three weeks for
passage and finally had to ship as a first-
class seaman to get back to the Islands.
Grundy is readying a new machine which
will shortly be announced.
Mention of THE COIN MACHINE REVIEW is your best introduction to our advertisers.
Clarifies 5%
Tax
LOS ANGELES-In a letter received
here by the Southern California Tavern
Association, Deputy D. S. Bliss of the
Treasury Department clarified the 5% cab-
aret tax and its application to locations
using automatic music.
Said Bliss: "It is stated that certain
cafes, restaurants, etc., furnish mechanical
music machines and intend to cover the
dance floors with rugs or tables to prevent
the patrons from dancing prior to certain
hours during the evening. Advice is re-
quested as to whether the amounts paid for
OAKLAND-One of the busiest organiza-
refreshment, service and merchandise prior
tions of coin machine operators in the entire
to the time the entertainment starts, are
country is the California Music Operators'
subject to the tax.
Association headed by their dynamic state
"During the time the floor is covered
President, George A. Miller.
with rugs or tables and no dancing is per-
The Association held their annual stag
mitted, the entertainment does not qualify
party a month ago and had some fourhun- -
as a public performance for profit within
dred in attendance, including many out-
the meaning of the Section."
standing city and county officials, such as
If a cafe or simila,r places has an auto-
the Chief of Police, .. ity Councilmen, and
matic phonograph and space for dancing,
but has a permit for Saturday nights only • Supervisors, as well as assemblymen and
Senators. An excellent dinner, top-ranking
when an orchestra is employed, the location
floor show, and enjoyable evening was had.
is liable for the 5% tax on all refreshments
Speaking of the many activities of the
service and merchandise vended for th~
group, prexy Miller said: "The California
entire week.
Music Operators' Association has put on a
Questioned as to whether receipts from
Defense Bond drive in Northern California
an automatic phonograph were taxable
and the members of the organization have
Bliss said: "The 5% tax imposed by sec-
purchased over $20,000 in defense bonds to
ti~n 1700e of the Code, as amended, ap-
this date. Our quota is $50,000 and we are
plIes only to those amounts paid for admis-
certain to attain it.
sion, refreshment, service and merchandise
"Another one of our activities is a book
at a cabaret or other similar place furnish-
and magazine drive which was 100% suc-
ing a public performance for profit and
cessful and several carloads of books and
it is held that coin s deposite d b y pat -
magazines were delivered to the various
rons in a mechanical music machine
army, navy, marine and air corps bases.
do not con stitute amounts paid for
From time to time our group has been
a d mission, refr eshment, service or mer-
called upon to donate phonographs to the
chandise within the meaning of the
various military bases and Red Cross chap-
section."
Where there has been a misunderstanding . ters and in each instance we have complied
and provided machines that will remain the
of _ the l~w and the tax has not been paid,
property of the army, navy, or other parts
BlIss saId that the locations will only be
of the service for the duration of the war.
liable for tax from the date they became
"In the last few weeks we have called
aware of the ruling in Mimeograph CoIl.
upon every music operator in our area to
No. 5321.
donate at least ten records for distribution
to the various parts of the U. S. defense
service. The men have responded 100%
CHICAGO - The American Society of
and records have been supplied the various
Composers, Authors and Publishers, long-
army posts."
time nuisance to coin machine locations,
The Wired Music Industry has co-oper-
has a new theme song, "Not to Sue But to
ated splendidly and President Miller's last
Sell."
speech was broadcast into every tavern that
According to a statement by John G.
had wired music. The System is also being
Payne, general manager, ASCAP will
used for blackouts and other emergency
warnings.
change its tactics in regard to collections
The membership can well be proud of the
from music users and will henceforth em-
six year record of the California Music Op-
ploy a persuasive sales technique rather
erators' Association for it has functioned
than threat of suit.
probably as well and even better, than most
Speaking at a meeting of ASCAP dis-
music operator organizations and has per-
trict managers and field agents, Payne
formed a real service to both the operator-
stated: "AS CAP is changing from a pro-
members and the general public.
tective policy to a sales policy. In this con-
T.o aid in giving better service to the
nection the society recently dismissed its
membership President Miller has an-
lawyer representatives and replaced them
nounced that Jack Grant has just been em-
with businessmen."
ployed as his assistant and is already doing
For 25 years, ASCAP has used a dis-
a splendid job in working with the
tinctly legal approach, collecting its fees by
operators.
litigation, and its lawyer representatives
"Jack is a military man and has a verv
were accustomed to obtaining fees by the
wide acquaintance of friends around the
threat of suit.
Bay District," said George, "and with his
ASCAP, which emerged much chastened
after major networks banned its music for
10 months of 1941, will use its agents as
salesmen, who will keep users informp.d
of composers' latest works and aid in mer-
chandising the tunes.
California Music Operators' Association
Conducts Varied Activities
ASCAP Gets In Line
D E
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All-Star
The Wise Operator
Is Buying Ihe BENNETI
4000-PLAY NEEDLE
A
Records
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
GEORGE A . MILLER , State President
California Music Operators' Ass'n .
various connections he is bound to be an
asset to the organization as well as a good
assistant to me."
State President Miller will still be in
complete charge of Northern California
and the East Bay district, but will have
more assistance in handling many of the
minor details.
Miller believes, as does Grant, that the
California Music Operators' Association is
still one of the finest organizations in the
United States and certainly has a group of
the finest gentlemen for members. THE RE-
VIEW seconds the expression and sincerely
thanks the Association for the nice tribute
paid it in the advertising columns of this
issue.
Whatls In A Phono?
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Here is some
consolation for those who may be affected
by the recent War Production order ban-
ning manufacture of automatic phono-
graphs after May 1st.
One large phonograph contains enough
brass to make 750 cartridge cases, enough
steel, 130 pounds, to make five light ma-
chine guns, and 42 pounds of plastics which
can be used for control panels on army
and navy planes. The aluminum in 125 of
the larger size would be enough for one
fighter plane.
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"It must be terrible for an opera singer
to realize that he can never sing again."
"Yes, but it's much more terrible if he
doesn't realize it."
at
- only on
JACK CUTSHALL D1ST. CO.
C A
1870 W. Washington Blvd . , Los Angeles
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