Music Trade Review

Issue: 1916 Vol. 63 N. 12

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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
SELLING "TIPS" FOR DEALERS^INMOTION PICTURE PLAYERS
New Motion Picture Theatres, Churches, Hotels and Restaurants in Various Sections of the
Country That Will Require Orchestrions, Automatic Pianos and Other Musical Equipment
Opportunities to make sales of automatic
pianos and orchestrions will be found in this
column by piano dealers desirous of developing
these prospects in the respective • localities
mentioned:
British Columbia
A large new theatre is being erected at Vancouver by
the Pantages.
( alilornia
Anderson & Wood have leased the new moving picture
theatre at Redding.
Idaho
A new moving picture theatre has been opened at
Kmmett by F. M. Buckman.
Illinois
The Grand Boulevard Theatre Co., of Chicago, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000; to operate and
conduct theatres and moving picture productions. The in-
corporators are Louis E. Jacobson, Francis J. Sullivan and
Kdgar H. Deets.
J. Will Stone, of Pittsfield, is planning to open a new
moving picture theatre at Perry.
A new moving picture theatre has been opened at
L'rookport.
Romeo Theatre & Amusement Co., Chicago; $1,000; Isaac
W. Flight, Rasolite A. Sanden, J. W. Brown, incorporators.
Senate Hotel, Freeport; $4,500; Frank M. Keck, M. B.
Keck, F. E. Davis, incorporators.
Cafe Adair, Chicago; $2,500; Joseph Rosenberg, incor-
porator.
Central Inn, Chicago; $2,500; Thomas S. G. Newbold,
incorporator.
Schaefer Brothers' Theatre, Chicago; $6,000; Andrew
J. Ryan, incorporator.
Indiana
The Washington, a new moving picture theatre, will be
opened at Richmond by Dr. Charles E. Duffin, H. H.
Englebert and Clarence Finney.
A new $30,000 church will be erected at Terre Haute
by the Centenary M. E. Church.
The South Side Evangelical Church will erect a new
$16,000 structure at Elkhart.
Iowa
I.eon Weil is planning to erect a new $50,000 theatre at
Sioux City.
A new theatre will be erected on Front street, Clarence,
by Mayor Bittner, which will be leased by Manager Collins.
Bruce Jones has been making arrangements to open a
new moving picture theatre at Keswick.
The Pastime Theatre, at Maquoketa, which was de-
stroyed by fire, has been rebuilt and opened by Manager
Weber.
Maryland
A new moving picture theatre has just been opened at
Hagerstown by E. T. Wright.
Michigan
First Baptist Church is erecting a new $12,000 church
at Alma.
A new $60,000 church will be erected at Royal Oak by
the First M. E. Church.
The M. E. Church at Eaton Rapids is planning to erect
a new $10,000 structure.
New Jersey
Universal Amusement Co., Wildwood; $30,000; M. J.
Neary, T. F. Reddington, Scranton, Pa., Rollin S. Cham-
berlain, incorporators.
North Carolina
The Acme, a new moving picture theatre, has just been
opened at Goldsboro by H. R. Mason.
A. B. Huff and Leonard Henderson have leased the
new moving picture theatre being erected on the site of
the old McAdoo Hotel at Greensboro.
' A new moving picture theatre, the Almeda, will be
erected on the site of the H. A. Ross residence, at Albe-
marle, which, is being moved.
Ohio
Emil Mandelbaum is planning to open the new Stillman
Theatre at Cleveland soon.
A new theatre, to be known as the Clinton, is being
erected at Wilmington for Chas. W. Murphy, of Chicago.
A new $40,000 church is being erected at Lancaster by
the German Lutheran Church.
is the provision of facilities for securing the
registration, or tracking, of the perforations in
the material with the apertures in the tracker
board.
The automatic mechanism forming the es-
sence of the Patent No. 1,197,574 may, accord-
ing to the inventor, be very usefully employed
or embodied in, or in connection with, an or-
gan, orchestrion or other like instrument hav-
ing tone-emitting elements for manual scales
and pedal scales, its employment in such case
being as a means for selectively operating the
tone-emitting elements so that the tones
emitted will be manual tones alone, pedal tones
alone, or both manual and pedal tones to-
gether, in any of the infinite variety of com-
binations of manual and pedal tones necessary
to the proper playing of musical compositions.
The automatic mechanism forming the es-
sence of Patent No. 1,197,575 may be very use-
fully employed or embodied in, or in connection
with, an organ, orchestrion or other likte instru-
ment having tone-emitting elements for manual
scales and pedal scales, its employment in such
case being as a means for selectively operating
tone-emitting elements so that the tones
emitted will be manual tones alone, pedal tones
alone, or both manual and pedal tones to-
gether.
The United Presbyterian Church is erecting a new
$15,000 church at Warren.
.\ new $25,000 structure is being erected at Kinsman by
the Methodist Church.
The Community Congregation is erecting a new $15,000
chuich at Avon.
Trinity M. E. Church is erecting a new structure at
Cincinnati.
Oregon
Meyers & Leiter are planning to erect a new moving
picture theatre at La Grande.
Pennsylvania
The Stanley Realty Co. have purchased the property at
190014 Market street, Philadelphia, and will erect a new
$600,000 moving picture theatre upon it.
Panopolis and Lambrus have purchased a site at Wood-
lawn, and will erect a new moving picture theatre upon it.
A new $10,000 theatre, the Gem, is being erected on
First avenue, Derry, by G. B. Meyers & Son.
A new moving picture theatre is to be erected at Fifth
and State streets, Erie, by II. B. Ashby and E. B. Ashby.
Manos Brothers will have their new $100,000 moving
picture theatre at Greensburg ready to open about the
middle of October.
Tennessee
Mrs. A. Genii has just opened a new moving picture
theatre at Memphis.
Texas
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Segal are erecting a new moving
picture theatre at Quanah. They are also planning to
erect theatres in two nearby cities.
Virginia
The building at 114 East Broad street, Richmond, will be
remodeled into a moving picture theatre.
Washington
Terry Hotel Co., Seattle; $10,000; C. A. and M. E.
Kerriss, E. B. Herald, incorporators.
West Virginia
A new $18,000 church will be erected at Hinton by the
Presbyterian Church.
Wisconsin
E. 11. Parks has opened a new moving picture theatre
at Iola.
A new moving picture theatre is being erected at Thirty-
eighth and Vliet streets, Milwaukee, by Mrs. F. Russell.
JENKINSON CO. INCORPORATED
The Whitehquse, a new moving picture theatre, being
erected on Third street, near Grand avenue, Milwaukee,
Manufacturers of Player Actions for Special
by O. L. Meister, will open shortly.
IMPROVED TRACKING DEVICE
Installation Now Known as the Jenkinson
Player Action Co., Inc.
Recent Patent Granted on Device Which Au-
tomatically Insures Perfect Tracking
CINCINNATI, O., September 11.—The former
Jenkinson Player Co., manufacturers of player
actions for special installation, located at 912
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 11.—The Ameri-
Elm street, has recently been incorporated, and
can Player Action Co., New York, are the own-
is now known as the Jenkinson Player Action
ers through assignment by Eugene T. Turney,
Co., Inc. The concern also rebuilds and re-
Davenport, la., of Patent No. 1,197,080 for a
pairs electrically operated pianos, and Presi-
tracker for piano players, and relates to im-
dent S. Jenkinson states that it is doing a con-
provements in piano players in which a strip
stantly increasing business in the installation
of perforated material is caused to pass over
of Jenkinson Player Actions in upright pianos.
a member having apertures therein, usually
The concern manufactures the "Makemplay"
termed a tracker-board, for the purpose of clos-
Suction Pump, which is specially designed for
ing the apertures in said tracker-board, except
player-piano use.
as and when the perforations in said material
come into coincidence with the said apertures.
The Crescent Theatre Co., of Ithaca, N. Y.,
As is obvious, in order to secure the most suc-
has closed a contract with the Marr & Colton
cessful operation of such a mechanism, the per-
Organ Co., of Warsaw, for the installation of
forations in the material should pass directly
a specially constructed two manual orchestral
over, or track with, the apertures in the tracker-
organ for the new theatre being erected on
board; and one of the objects of the invention
North Aurora street.
T H E COMSTOCK, CHENEY & CO., 1V0RYT0N - C0NN
:MANUFACTURERS =
Piano-forte Ivory Keys, Actions and Hammers,
Ivory and Composition Covered Organ Keys
Established 1853
GRUBB & KOSECARTEN BROS.
Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE
PIANO-FORTE ACTIONS
NASSAU. Rensselaer County. N. Y.
THE STANDARD CO.,
TORR1NGTON,
CONN.
Manufacturers
SYLVESTER TOWER CO.
Grand a n d
Towers Above
All Others
Upright Plano-torte Actions
Keys, Actions. Hammers. Brackets and Nickel Rail Furnished Complete
131 to 147 Broadway
.
.
.
.
CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
MANUFACTURERS
OF
Manufacturers of a
Complete Line of Piano Action Hardware
Brass Flanges, Damper Rods, Special Capstan Screws,
Bracket and Ball Bolts, Key Pins, Regulating Brackets
and Specialties.
WHITE, SON COMPANY
Manufacturers
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO LEATHERS
530-540 ATLANTIC AVENUE
PIANO
ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
ONE GRADE ONLY
OFFICE
457 WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
FACTORIES—WEST FORTY-FIFTH ST.
Tenth Avenue and West Forty-Sixth Street
NEW YORK
BOSTON. MASS
A. C. CHENEY PIANO ACTION CO.
^# J PNEUMATIC ACTIONS FOR PLAYER-PIANOS
ol < HIGH-GRADE PIANOFORTE ACTIONS
CASTLETON, NEW YORK
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THE
SPECIALLY DESIGNED PIANO CASES
Jesse French & Sons Bringing Out New Style
Piano Finished in American Black Walnut,
Which Shows the Full Beauty of the Wood
S. V. Duncan, writing in Veneers, recently
cited an interesting case where the unusual
attractiveness of the natural figure found in a
carload of veneer caused a factory superintend-
ent to design a case which would show to the
best advantage the beauty of the wood. Mr.
Duncan says:
"The use of imagination is not exclusive with
autfcors, artists, musicians, etc., but has been a
strong factor in the advance of nearly every
successful business. The ability to look ahead
and work for the materialization of some sug-
gestion or idea is a gift worth having and of
high commercial value. While we are apt to
boast of American quickness of perception and
promptness to take advantage of opportunity,
there are many omissions, due mostly to -lack
of imagination.
"On a recent visit to the studio of a com-
mercial photographer I saw some photographs
of piano cases made by Jesse French & Sons.
New Castle, Ind., which engaged my interest
to the point of writing to the firm. The reply
was prompt and confirmed the conclusions T
had drawn.
"It seems that a recent purchase of American
walnut veneers contained flitches of such ex-
traordinary beauty as to excite the imagina-
tion of C. J. Winterbotham, superintendent of
the factory. The figure in the veneers was so
handsome that he conceived and designed some
cases in which the entire decorative effect
would depend upon the veneers.
"To be best appreciated the cases should be
seen, but a description will enable one to judge
something of the results achieved. Not a curve
or mold is used in the design, which consists
of well-balanced straight lines. They give sim-
plicity and dignity to the cases. The whole
idea was to produce a design which would show
off the beautiful walnut to the best advantage.
"This case is known as Style 161, is 4 feet
7 inches high, 5 feet 2 inches long, 2 feet 2
inches deep, and holds the regular eighty-eight
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note instrument. It will not be placed on the
market until October 1. The trimmings are
of brass and the back is finished in natural white
maple. The efforts of the matchers in the ve-
neering department have ably supported the
idea of the designer and a case has been
achieved that presents a fitting exterior for a
high-grade musical instrument."
A. L. EBBELS FINDSCONDITIONS GOOD
On Recent Trip Finds Factories Busy and Re-
tail Trade Excellent—Looks for Record
Breaking Season—The Supply Situation
A. L. Ebbels, of the American Piano Supply
Co., has just returned frorii a five weeks' trip,
covering nine States and two provinces, and
reports that he found business conditions excel-
lent in all sections. The factories are very
busy, and the retail trade very satisfactory.
As it is the supply trade is swamped to meet
demands from piano manufacturers, declared
Mr. Ebbels. Some goods are harder to get
than ever, and all prices are steadily rising.
"We will have a fall trade to which last sea-
son's flurry will not be a marker," declared Mr.
Ebbels, and the forehanded man will win."
KRAFT $500,000 WILL FILED
"Old Tanner," of Bronxville, Leaves
Piano Leather Process to Sons
Secret
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., September 11.—The will
.of the late Frederick W. Kraft, known as the
'"old tanner," of Bronxville, who left an estate
estimated to be worth close to $500,000, was
filed for probate with Surrogate Sawyer at
White Plains this morning.
Mr. Kraft, who was eighty-one, held the secret
process for the manufacture of high-grade
leather which is used in piano actions. The
secret was imparted to his sons, William F.
and John Kraft, before his death, and after
leaving them the bulk of his fortune, he re-
quests them to continue the leather business
in Bronxville.
After leaving his grandson,
William Dinsmore Kraft, his gold watch and
all his valuable diamonds, the decedent be-
queaths $2,000 to Frank Gallow.
MATERIALS,
TOOLS AND
SUPPLIES
FOR
LARGE ORDERS FROM ENGLISH HOUSE
Managing Director of C. Erhardt & Co., of
London, Places Large Orders for Piano Sup-
lies During- Recent Visit Here—Unusual
Labor Conditions in England
W r . Gaite, managing director of C. Erhardt &
Co., Ltd., of 36 Southwark Bridge road, Lon-
don, England, left for London on the Philadel-
phia last Saturday, after a two weeks' visit to
this country. Mr. Gaite arrived in New York
City from London on the "New York" on
August 29, for the purpose of procuring addi-
tional piano supplies at present not available
in England, on account of the shortage of labor
which exists there. The Erhardt concern, of
which Mr. Gaite has been managing director
for many years, was established in 1869, and
is one of the best known piano supply houses
in London. The firm is sole agent in Lon-
don for several of the leading American manu-
facturers of piano supplies, among whom are
the American Felt Co., the Comstock, Cheney
& Co., makers of piano keys; the J. L. Mutty
Co., makers of rubber supplies for player-
pianos; the Hammond-Reed Co., and the Piano
& Organ Supply Co., manufacturers of reed
boards, and the Cornwall & Patterson Manufac-
turing Co., makers of piano and action hard-
ware.
Director Gaite was a caller at The Review
offices during his stay here, and in a most in-
teresting interview stated that conditions in
England were very good at the present time
except for the extraordinary shortage of labor,
due to the number of men away at the front,
and also due to the fact that thousands of
workers in other lines are now engaged in the
munitions trade. Piano manufacturers in Eng-
land are selling pianos as fast as they can be
manufactured, and the unusual demand for
musical instruments which has been a feature
throughout England during the past year would
enable the manufacturers to do twice the
amount of their present business if they could
secure more experienced piano makers.
Mr. Gaite's last visit to this country was in
October, 1914, when he made a longer stay,
due to the fact that the labor situation in
England was not as acute as it is at the pres-
ent time. On his present trip Mr. Gaite was
successful in placing orders for a large amount
of piano supplies with the firms which he rep-
resents. He expressed himself as being highly
pleased with conditions as he observed them
here during his short stay, and while here, met
a large number of his friends and acquaint-
ances in the trade.
BUSH SEEKING PIANO BENCHES
PIANO MANUFACTURERS
HINGES, BUTTS, CASTERS, PEDALS, FELTS,
CLOTHS, PUNCHINGS, SWINGS, HANGERS,
KNOBS, LOCKS, ETC., AND A FULL LINE OF
TOOLS USED IN TUNING, REGULATING AND
REPAIRING. CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.
W. L. Bush, of the Bush & Gerts Piano Co.,
Chicago, has been negotiating with Oshkosh
manufacturers for the purpose of placing con-
tracts for tlie manufacture of piano benches-
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Richardson Piano Case Co.
Manufacturers of
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
NEW
Upright—
Cases
YORK SINCE 1848
Established
4th A v c . & 13th S t .
LEOMINSTER
::
1891
::
MASS.

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