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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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TALKING MACHINE EXPORTS.
The
Figures for
May
Presented—Exports
Show Falling Off for the Month.
( Special to The Review.)
PHILADELPHIA'S ON THE SEA.
Talking Machine Men from Snellenberg & Co.
the Guests of E. G. Evans, of C. Bruno &
Son, Inc., on a Fishing Trip Outside Sandy
Hook—Some Happenings of Interest.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 20.—In the summary
of the exports and imports of the commerce of the
United States for the month of May (the latest
period for which it has been compiled), which has
just been issued by the Bureau of Statistics o,f the
Department of Commerce and Labor, the follow-
ing interesting figures relating to talking machines
and supplies are set forth:
The total exports of talking machines, records
and supplies for May, 1914, amounted to $175,794,
•as compared with $194,860 for the same month of
1913.
R. B. Cope, E. W. Eisenhart, W. C. Stiver, Jr.,
and Wm. S. Irwin, of the talking machine depart-
ment of N. Snellenberg & Co., Philadelphia,
motored to New York last Saturday, where they
were the guests of E. G. Evans, of C. Bruno &
Son, Inc., 353 Fourth avenue, New York, the
musical merchandise jobbers.
With his usual hospitality, Mr. Evans invited
the party to a fishing trip on his motor yacht, and
with a "properly loaded" boat the party struck the
sea just outside of Sandy Hook. A fair sea was
running, so the story goes, and the semi-circular
rail stunts of Bro. Cope would do justice to any
LATEST PORTRAIT OF SLEZAK.
acrobat of Barnum's circus, reliability and speed
being the chief points of merit. But the other
Famous Tenor Shown in Unconventional Pose
members were pulling in sea bass and fluke by the
at His Home in Europe.
(thousands, hundreds)—take your choice as you
One often hears of
read—in any event, totaling a very good score.
temperamental a r t i s t s Evans, it seems, has a special map of the fishing
getting "up in the air," grounds.
but it is rare to see a
The party got back to the landing successfully,
prominent artist in ex- and about 12 o'clock at night started to motor
actly the reverse posi- back to Philadelphia. In an hour they were caught
tion. The accompanying by the big thunder and lightning storm, but this
unconventional snapshot time they toured through the water without the
of Slezak, the famous use of "Mothersills."
tenor, whose records on
the Columbia have prov-
BIG COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT.
en so popular, was taken
Western Fancy Dry Goods Co., Sole Distributers
at his home in Europe,
for Columbia Products in Large Section of
and shows how the
Western Canada, Opens Separate Quarters
singer spends his period
for
Department
Under
Management
of
of rest. Xot being a
Robert Shaw Assisted by Competent Staff.
dancer, the picture is in-
teresting only as show-
(Special to The Review.)
ing Slezak upside down,
WINNIPEG, MAN., July 20.—The Western Fancy
but perfectly cool and contented.
Dry Goods Co., sole distributer for the Co.lumbia
Graphophone Co. for the provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, has
BLACKMAN ONJDEAL TOUR.
made special preparations to take care of the rapid
increase in the business in that department, which
Head of Blackman Talking Machine Co. on
is now located in separate quarters in the Gowans
Motor Trip Through New England.
Kent Building, this city, and under the direct
J. Newcomb Blackman, president of the Black- management of Robert Shaw. Mr. Shaw is an
man Talking Machine Co., started on Sunday to aggressive and thoroughly experienced talking
make the "ideal tour" for automobilists, which machine man and a Co.lumbia enthusiast, and is
covers about a thousand miles of the best high- well known to the trade in the States owing to his
ways in New England and takes the motorist having attended several of the conventions of the
through some of the most beautiful sections of
National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers.
the Berkshire Hills and other localities noted for
Mr. Shaw has brought together an increased
their scenery. Mr. Blackman is accompanied rjy staff of assistants and has started a live campaign
Mrs. Blackman and upon reaching Maine will in favor of the Columbia line among the trade in
spend several days at resorts in that State. Mr. Western Canada, in which strong letters and
Blackman will do his traveling in his big Buick bulletins are proving big factors.
"six."
TO MAKE TALKING MACHINES.
FILES INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS.
Among the incorporations filed with the Secre-
tary of State at Delaware this week was that of
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., recently filed in- the Symphony Instrument Co., with the object of
junction proceedings against the TrafTord Music manufacturing phonographs and other musical in-
Co. of Mason City, la. The Edison Co. claims struments, capital $250,000. The incorporators are:
that the Trafford people have removed the Edi- F. R. Hansel!, Philadelphia, Pa., G. H. B. Martin
son identifications and then offered its machines and D. T. Vennel, Camden, N. J.
for sale, in spite of the fact that the Chalmers
Music Co. has sole selling rights in that city.
THE SOUND REPRODUCTION CO.
The Sound Reproduction Co. was incorporated
this week by the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y.,
to engage in the manufacture of reproducing ma-
chines. The incorporators are A. Joseph Geist,
H. C. Burinstein and H. W. Hess, and the capital
is placed at $5,000.
A. K. Cox, a music manager of Minneapolis,
Minn., has been made manager of the Victrola de-
partment for the Cable Piano Co. in that city.
COLUMBIA CO. GLEANINGS.
E. N. Burns and G. C. Jell on European Trip
— H . L. Willson Returns—Columbia Grafo-
nolas for the Schools of Natick, Mass.—Va-
cations Now Under Way—News of Week.
il. L. Willson, assistant general manager of the
Columbia Graphophone Co., returned from Europe
Friday of last week on the "Aquitania." Mr. Will-
son was enthusiastic over the trip.
Edward N. Burns, vice-president and manager
of the export department of the Columbia Co.,
and G. C. Jell, chairman of the record committee,
sailed for Europe on the "Imperator" and will re-
main abroad for some time. Mr. Burns will visit
the various large cities in England and on the Con-
tinent chiefly for the purposes of business, while
Mr. Jell takes the trip as a vacation and will spend
some time with relatives in Berlin and Carlsbad,
after which he will visit London, Paris, Milan and
Rome. Mr. Jell will, incidentally, keep a bright
outlook for new singers and material for record-
ing.
These are vacation days with the Columbia staff
and every Saturday sees some of the staff mem-
bers leaving for a period of recreation at moun-
tain or seashore. This week the vacationists in-
clude Prof. Frederic Goodwin, manager of the
educational department, who is recuperating in
New England, and H. E. Parker, of the advertis-
ing department, who said that he "was going away
to hide and would lose the address." Mr. Parker
evidently understands the purpose and value of a
vacation.
Several members of the executive staff of the
Columbia Co. are sporting expensive Panama hats
—hats that are 'way beyond the five or ten dollar
class and give an air of much wealth to the
wearer, through the generosity of E. F. Sause, of
the export department, who recently returned from
a South American trip and brought the hats back
as souvenirs.
Fairbanks & Son, who handle the Columbia line
in Natick, Mass., have just reported the sale of
four Leader Grafonolas to the schools of that
city as follows: One each to the Nathan Rise
School, the Wilson School, the Bacon School and
the Nathan Goodnow School. This is good work
on the part of Messrs. Fairbanks & Son and in-
dicates that they are alive to opportunities lying
in the educational end of the Grafonola business.
INCORPORATED.
The Colonial Talking Machine Co., of Roches-
ter, was incorporated with the Secretary of State
at Albany, N. Y., this week with a capital stock
of $10,000. The parties interested are H. B. How-
ard, R. C. Cash and L. Weyranch.
ARTHUR D. GEISSLER TO EUROPE.
The Vice-President and Managing Director of
the New York Talking Machine Co. Accom-
panied by Mrs. Geissler Sailed This Week
on the "Aquitania" for a Trip Abroad.
Arthur D. Geissler, vice-president and managing
director of the New York Talking Machine Co., 81
Chambers street, New York, Victor distributer,
accompanied by Mrs. Geissler, sailed Tuesday after-
VICTROLA WITHJHE ORGAN.
noon on the "Aquitania" for a trip abroad. Mr.
Charles H. Demorest gave a novel program on
Geissler, who has been working day and night for
the organ in Tally's Broadway Theater in Los the past three weeks, in order to place everything
Angeles, recently in which the Victrola was used
in shape after the company's disastrous fire on
with organ accompaniment in Leoncavallo's arioso
June 21, has not decided just how long he will stay
from "I Pagliacci," sung by Caruso, and in John
abroad, having merely determined to take a much-
McCormack's singing of Marshall's "I Hear You
needed and well-deserved rest.
Calling Me."
It is well to remember that a fifteen-foot di-
ameter balloon holding hundreds of thousands of
cubic feet of gas can be punctured by a ten-cent
pocketknife.
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