Music Trade Review

Issue: 1914 Vol. 58 N. 22

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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Piano dealers should find in this column many
opportunities to make sales of automatic pianos
and orchestrions as well as many other musical
instruments.
corporators are Louis Bopp, Revere; L. Bopp, Jr., and K.
Bopp.
Henri G. Deser, 15 Beacon street, Boston, is preparing to
make some alterations on a local theater in Lynn, to cost
$25,000.
California.
Minnesota.
Ben Michaels, of San Francisco, has opened a motion
picture theater on Broadway, near Stockton, called the New
Theater.
A. Eby has opened a motion picture theater on Mission
street, near Twenty-eighth, in San Francisco, known as
the Mission Theater.
James T. Turner has obtained a permit to open a moving
picture show at 64 Eddy street, San Francisco.
Harry Laugenour will soon start the erection of a large
moving picture airdome at Woodland.
A new moving picture theater has been erected on the
grounds of the Fetters Hot Springs.
Neal McGuire and J. L. Stone have been granted permits
to conduct an airdome for moving pictures at Chico
Plans are being prepared for a moving picture theater
to be erected, at a cost of $25,000, at Burlingame.
A one-story motion picture theater will be built by Red-
ding & Stroud in Windom.
The City Amusement. Co. will soon erect a moving picture
theater in Devil's Lake.
cently incorporated for $5,000. M. Faiecer, M. Rothbert,
A. Carlos, 1950 Washington avenue.
Sanger Bros. Motion Picture Co., New Rochelle, has
been incorporated for $200,000.
S. V. Dowling, F. B.
Knowlton, Harry R. Sanger, 1402 Broadway, New York
City.
La Rose Amusement Corporation has recently been in«
corporated for $5,000. The incorporators are M. Randolph,
H. C. Gamage, G. W. Kirkman, 25 Broad street, New York
City.
John J. Walker is having plans prepared for a moving
picture theater at Schenectady, to cost $2,000.
The East Avenue Amusement Co. is planning the erec-
tion of a theater building, cost $100,000, at Rochester.
Edward Clapp is having plans made for a theater building,
to cost $30,000, at Amsterdam.
Missouri.
Nebraska.
Carl Boiler, Kansas City, in the Gayety Theatre building,
is planning to construct a moving picture theater soon.
Kennedy & Steigemeyer, Benoist building, St. Louis, are
preparing plans for a motion picture theater to be built
in Marshall.
The Mozart Amusement Co., St. Louis, has been incorpo-
rated for $2,000. The incorporators are Hector M. E.
Milton, E. N. and Randolph H. Pasmezoglu.
Jacob Burnstein, Twentieth and Cuming streets, Omaha,
will make improvements on his moving picture theater
costing $2,000.
Walter Savidge is contemplating the erection of a moving
picture theater in Wayne.
North Carolina.
The Lakeview Amusement Co., of Charlotte, has been in-
corporated for $25,000. R. L. Womack, W. S. Orr and
Charles Gibson are the incorporators.
Pennsylvania.
John J, Schmidt, of Hanover, is constructing a moving
picture house.
Texas.
The Rio Grande Feature Film Co., El Paso, has been
incorporated for $20,000. The incorporators are P. J. Terry,
W. A. Muir, and P. J. McMullen.
The Phillips Amusement Co., Fort Worth, has been in-
corporated for $15,000. E. H. Phillips, T. B. Yarbrough
and W. C. Stonestreet.
Washington.
The Klipson Hotel Co., Klipson Beach, has been incor-
porated for $20,000. A. T. Stream, H. J. Weigardt and
Viola Stream are the incorporators.
Wisconsin.
The Hadfield Theater Co., Superior, has been incorpo-
rated for $20,000. The incorporators are W. M. Steele,
M. M. Hoit and A. Munro.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SALE OF AUTOMATIC PIANOS.
New Motion Picture Theaters in Various Sections of the Country That Will Require Orches-
trions, Automatic Pianos or Other Musical Equipment.
Connecticut.
Plans are being prepared for Samuel Roodner
theater building to be built in South Norwalk.
for
a
Delaware.
The Garden Co. has been incorporated for $400,000; the-
atrical proprietors. The incorporators are M. M. Dugan,
George W. Dillman, M. L. Horty, of Wilmington.
Illinois.
D. S. Klafter, 64 West Randolph street, Chicago, is pre-
paring plans for a two-story theater, to cost $75,000. The
seating capacity will be 1,000.
Howard H. Hoyt, Jr., and L. J. Washburn, Evanston, are
having plans made for a theater building, to cost $65,000.
Frederick O. Cloyes, 189 W. Madison St., Maywood, is
preparing plans for a theater building.
E. J. Rosser has awarded the contract for the erection of
a moving picture theater at Nelsonville to Charles Vorhes.
The seating capacity will be 300 and the theater will cost
$10,000.
W. A. Ross, Hoopeston, has awarded a contract to Titus
Frankenfield to remodel his moving picture theater so it
will have a larger seating capacity.
W. W. Watts, 111 North Fifth street, Springfield, is
having plans made for a new vaudeville and moving picture
theater, with seating capacity of 1,100.
Indiana.
The old Opera House at Greenfield has just been opened
afi a moving picture theater.
The F. J. Rembusch Enterprises, of Indianapolis, have
been incorporated, with a capital stock of $10,000. They
will operate vaudeville houses featuring moving pictures.
Kansas.
The North St. Joseph Real Estate Co., 609 Edmond
street, St. Joseph, Mo., is to build a one-story moving pic-
ture theater at Atchison, Kan., to cost $30,000.
The
Standard Amusement Co., of St. Joseph, Mo., is the lessee.
Kentucky.
Arthur Mitchel, manager of the Dixie Theater at Russell-
ville, is about to move into the Dixie's new home.
The Powell Lumber Co., Lewisburg, has opened a new
picture show.
New moving picture shows have been opened at Bevier
and Livermore.
J. R. Hobson has opened the Arena, a "movie" house at
Campbellsville, and a new electric piano furnished the music
for the opening.
G. W. Neville, of Louisville, has reopened the old Ma-
jestic Theater, of Jeffersonville, Ind.
Manager John Buckland is about to open a picture show
in the Odd Fellows Hall.
C. P. Davidson, of luiddleboro, has opened the new Ly-
ceum Theater.
Luther E. Huron, of Lancaster, with several associates,
has formed a company to construct a motion picture house.
The Howe & Soper Amusement Co. has been incorpo-
rated at Nicholasville, with a capital stock of $1,000.
The new Abin Motion Picture Theater, of Hodgenville,
has opened for business.
J. T. Dillon will install a picture show in the building
now occunied by Curlin, Shaw & Co., in Hickman.
Geo. W. Bouck has leased one of the storerooms in the
new building being put up by A. A. Faris in the same town
and will open a picture show.
T. B. Dixon will use the new building being erected next
to the building used by an undertaking establishment at
Scottsville, for a motion picture show.
The Fourth Avenue Amusement Co. in Louisville has
leen incorporated for $75,000 and will open a motion pic-
ture house on Fourth avenue, between Walnut and Green
streets.
New York.
The Seventy-second Street Amusement Co. is planning
the erection of a two-story moving picture theater in New
York City, to cost $25,000.
The Hof Co. has recently been incorporated for $5,000;
hotels and restaurants. The incorporators are J. J. Spiel-
berger, A. F. Schaefer and H. P. Hof, 435 East Twenty-
third street, New York City.
The Interurban Amusement Co., Schenectady, has been
incorporated for $6,000; E. Savage, H. R. Leonard, A. M.
Jackson.
The Chenango Theater Corporation, Norwich, has been
incorporated for $35,000.
The incorporators are R. S.
Eaton, W. H. Wells, Adam Tennis, Utica.
The Chartered Theaters Corporation, New York City, has
been incorporated for $150,000. H. A. Hallett, F. U. Adams
and V. J. O'Farrell, 27 William street, are the incorporators.
The International Pastime Co., Buffalo, has been incor-
porated for $5,000. The incorporators are C. D. Devere,
S. E. Crittenden and H. J. Brown.
The Brunell Amusement Co., New York City, has been
incorporated for $5,000. Charles Black, H. C. Wing, Giu-
seppe Brunell, 307 West Forty-third street, are the incor-
porators.
The Van Kelton Amusement Corporation, New York City,
has been incorporated for $6,000. A. M. Rosenthal, J. S.
Siegel, Francis Gilbert, 237 West 122d street, are the incor-
porators.
The Marie Hotel Co., Freeport, has recently been incor-
porated for $15,000. The incorporators are Isidor Mayer,
H. J. George, Charles Johnsen.
The Mirror Motion Picture Co. was recently incorporated
for $50,000. L. B. Parmer, R. V. and W. F. Haddock, 570
East Fifteenth street. New York City.
The Tidewater Standard Co., to build structures for ad-
vertising and amusements, has been incorporated for $10,000
in Brooklyn.
The incorporators are A. G. McLaughlin,
P. G. Honeyman.
M. Lippman, 226 Pennsylvania avenue,
Brooklyn.
Guillaume & Co., Utica, hotels, has been incorporated for
$10,000. J. G. Fritten, F. L. and H. F. Guillaume are the
incorporators.
Smith & Quinn's Restaurant was recently incorporated
for $10,000. The incorporators are R. F. Mitchell, A. B.
Wilde and W. Quinn, 24 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn.
The C. & R. Amusement Co., New York City, was re-
The
A MUSICAL RENDEZVOUS
Is the Establishment of Chas. H. Ditson & Co.,
of New York, Where, in Addition to a Com-
plete Line of Musical Merchandise and Mu-
sic, the National Piano Co.'s Line of Pianos
and Players Are Handled.
One of the attractive points in the musical in-
strument industry of New York is the large build-
ing of Chas. H. Ditson & Co., wherein eight
floors are devoted to the display and sale of
musical instruments of all kinds. This company
is the local representative for the Briggs, Merrill
and Norris & Hyde pianos, as well as the metal
Arrow-player; the department being in charge of
Louis R. Dressier.
A. L. Jewett, of the National Piano Co., will be
here during the conventions and the dealers who
contemplate looking at the National players can
see an entire line of styles in their respective fin-
ishes at Ditson's.
Approval
OFFER
that was recently made
by this company to re-
sponsible dealers has met
with a wonderful response
from North, South, East
and West.
W e are making this
offer because we £non>
that the Coinola is "trou-
ble-proof" and sure to
make good.
Maine.
The Eastern Theaters Co., of Boston, has taken over the
management of the Casco Theater at Portland.
Maryland.
George K. Callis, Jr., Knickerbocker building, Baltimore,
will build a one-story moving picture theater in this city
which will cost $10,000.
Style C—a big seller—is encased
attractively in mission oak with an
illuminated art glass panel.
The
attractive steel orchestra bell at-
tachment, new scale, improved
mandolin attachment, nickel-plated
frame, high grade keys, felts, etc.,
offer a remarkable value in auto-
matics.
Massachusetts.
The T. J. Broderick Co., of Ipswich, has been incorpo-
rated for $5,000; hotel. The incorporators were Thomas J.
l-roderick, T. J. Broderick and M. J. Lucey.
The Navahoe Club, of Boston, has been incorporated for
$40-,000. C. F. Corey, John H. Brennan, of Everitt, and
C A. Reardon, of Boston, are the incorporators.
The Revere Beach Amusement & Construction Co., Re-,
vere, has recently been incorporated for $15,000. The in-
STYLE
C—"TROUBLE-PROOF"
COINOLA
OPERATORS PIANO COMPANY
1911 CLYBOURN
AVENUE
CHICAGO
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H E T H E R or not the average player man ever thinks of it,
the fact remains that some features of the player that have
escaped the notice of those professionally engaged in the player
business have been observed by outsiders. Fo'r instance, it is no
doubt almost unknown to most piano and player men that the
peculiar system of tuning which we use in all keyed instruments is
necessitated and kept in active use entirely through the limitations
of the keyboard. Now the piano or organ keyboard is as it is
simply and only because the hand cannot manage anything more.
Yet, as tuners know, if we would have the perfection of concord,
with every interval sounding in perfect tune, it would be necessary
to have a great many more separate tones available within each
octave than the present twelve. Whether the world will ultimately
demand a system of tuning better than the present equal tempera-
ment may not be certain; but what is certain is that no system
which uses more than twelve separate tones to' the octave will have
a chance with th.e pianists. Attempts have been made to construct
keyboards which the hand can grasp, containing the 53 or 66 sepa-
rate tones required within each octave to give approximately perfect
concords in every tonality. But the difficulty of manipulating these
has been found to be too* great. Now, however, we have a new
implement. The pneumatic mechanism is by no means confined to
twelve tones, or for that matter to any other number, within each
octave. It could be built so as to actuate as many tones as desired.
In fact, if the piano makers could construct a piano with as many
as sixty-six separate tones within each octave, as undoubtedly could
be done, then the player men could build us a player capable of
playing it. Then, indeed, we should know heavenly harmony. Why
not? Won't somebody try?
I
N this number of the Player Section we have made a sugges-
tion which may or may not appear to be reasonable, but
which we believe to be most distinctly called for. This is that
the Buffalo Player Conference of 1909 should be revived and
that it should in effect be made an annual affair, even if no spe-
cial organization be created for the purpose of carrying it on.
In fact, we are rather of the opinion that it would be better for
the special purposes of the proposed Conference, that it should
be a voluntary affair, brought together year by year by the neces-
sities of the situation and by no means a perfunctory annual
meeting. Readers who are interested in the present and future
good of the trade are respectfully referred to the special article
in which we have discussed this topic at length.
Y the way, has it ever been noticed, as we hinted above, that
outsiders often see most of the game? Bernard Shaw, the
eminent annoyer of the British public, who is also a musical critic
of genuine attainments and distinction, long ago recognized the
possibility of the player bringing about the birth erf a new art of
music. He has used a player himself for many years and knows
what he is talking about. It was he who drew attention, we be-
lieve, for the first time to the possibility noted above. Why is it
that Americans are so eternally content with the mere superficialities
of things?
B
W
HY on earth does the ordinary piano salesman think that
good player demonstration consists of putting in a rag-
time roll and pounding away with it until the perspiration rolls
down his face, while the spirit of music hugs herself in a corner
and shivers with horror? What is more to the point, why do deal-
ers permit this sort of thing? It is a fair guess that as many sales
are lost as are made by this process. What is more, intelligent
people cannot be expected to become wildly excited over an instru-
ment which, when demonstrated to them, sounds like a dozen pianos
all gone crazy, all tumbling downstairs and all playing at once.
What is the idea? We should really like to know.
W
E are a great nation, but if we bragged a little less about
our greatness and thought a little more about how much
each one of us individually really knew of things in general, it
would be better.
H
ERE'S hoping that the conventions will be successful and
that the attractions of New York City will not be so over-
whelming in their winsomeness and seductivity as to prevent the
transaction of business.
RECORDS FOR_STANDARD CO.
Jack Glogau, Well-Known Composer and
Pianist, Records His Own and Other Compo-
sitions by Means of Improved Apparatus.
The Standard Music Roll Co., Orange, N. J., re-
cently completed arrangements with Jack Glogau,
a well-known and successful composer and pianist
connected with Leo Feist, Inc., the prominent music
publishers, to record his own and other composi-
tions published by the Feist house. Mr. Glogau
did his first recording at the factory of the Stand-
ard Co. on Friday of last week, the numbers in-
cluding "Shores of Italy," "Celebration Day in
Tennessee" and "One Thousand Years Ago," of
his own composition, and "When It's Moonlight
on the Alamo" and "Over the Alpine Mountains,"
two unpublished compositions by Fred Fischer,
composer of "Peg o' My Heart" and "I'm on My
Way to Mandalay."
Under the new arrangement the owners of
player-pianos may now hear the new popular se-
lections before they appear in sheet music form, a
fact worth considering by both dealer and pur-
chaser.
Mr. Glogau is enthusiastic regarding the new
recording apparatus of the Standard Music Roll
Co., and was especially impressed with the correct-
ness of both the recording and reproduction and
the fact that by means of the new recording
mechanism he was able to listen to his own play-
ing. He has certified to the accuracy of the Stand-
ard Music Roll Co.'s records of his playing,
whether of his own or other compositions.
"Here, Sir, is the Musical Money Maker"
Tell that to your prospective customer, point out the slot where the nickels
roll in and help to swell his bank account. Then operate it for him. Let
him hear the sweet, satisfying, unmechanical tones. Show him the Endless
roll of 15 selections. He will then see the logic and common sense of owning a
LINK COIN-OPERATED PIANO
(Pays for Itself—Plays by Itself)
Absolutely the only electric piano having an Endless Roll Containing 15
Choice Selections.
No Intermission between the end and beginning of roll as is usual with re-wind
instruments. This is a very essential point where the instrument is to be
used for Continuous Performance. Saves time. Never stops taking in the
money.
There's a great, big, profit-making proposition waiting for you to write and
ask for it. Don't delay until to-morrow. Write to-day.
LINK F*IAIVO COMPANY
Factory: Binghamton, N. Y.
Chicago Salesroom: 339 S. Wabash Ave.
M. J. Kennedy, Mgr.
Boston Office: 302-310 Walker Building
120 Boylston St.
M. J. Lockwood, Mgr.

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