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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TO ARGUE VICTOR=STARR
SUIT ON FEBRUARY 5TH
Actual Arguments in the Case to Be Heard in
the U. S. District Court on That Date Follow-
ing Taking of Testimony Last Month
FRIGHTENED BY OWN RECORD
ANOTHER GOOD WORD FOR "TALKER'
Hulda Lashanska Calls Listening to Her First
Record Most Exciting Moment of Her Life—
Thing Seemed Uncanny, She Remarked
America's Musical Taste Improved by Talking
Machine, says Zelma Lawrence
MILWAUKEE, WIS., January 10.—When Hulda
Lashanska, noted soprano and Columbia artist,
Arguments in the suit brought by the Victor heard her first record she had much the same
Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., against feeling as a person seeing a ghost. Her friends
the Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind., charging chaff her about the glazed look that Game over
infringement of the Johnson patents covering her face when the sounds of her own voice came
the making of lateral-cut talking machine rec- from the instrument.
ords, will come up for argument before Judge
"Listening to my tirst record was the most
Learned Hand in the U. S. District Court, New
exciting moment in my musical experience up to
York, on February 5.
date," the pretty young singer said, telling of
Testimony in the case was taken during the her experience recently.
last two weeks in December, this feature con-
"I can't -describe the queer sensation it gave
suming something like eight days. The interest me; I had the strange impression that somehow
of the trade at large in the suit was evidenced there were two Lashanskas—that someone had
by the number of talking machine men who were taken a part of me and was using my voice. 1
regular attendants at the court during the taking sat on the edge of a chair, all eyes and ears, as if
of the testimony. Numerous technical experts I had never seen a graphophone before in my
were called by both sides.
life. The thing actually scared me. Tt made me
Kenyon & Kenyon appeared as counsel for uncomfortable and spooky, just the W2y people
the Victor Co., while Kerr, Paige, Cooper & probably feel at a spiritualistic seance. If my
Hayward appeared in like capacity for the de- double had suddenly risen up out of the machine
fendants.
in thin, vaporous, quivering shape I know it
would not have astonished me at all, for I was
MCLAUGHLIN BUYS OUT GIBSON CO. simply hypnotized and a million miles away
from the recording laboratory. I kept saying
Kentucky Music Man Will Now Operate Two to myself, 'Did I really do that? Is it really I ? ' "
Stores in Paducah—Large Line of Pianos and
Mine. Lashanska is known and loved not only
Victor Talking Machines Handled
for her beauty and talent, but for her unbounded
charity.
PADUCAH, KY., January 10.—O. D. McLaughlin,
During the war she not only devoted much of
the "Music Man" of this city, has purchased the her time to singing in the hospitals and encamp-
Gibson Piano Co., at 518 Broadway, and will ments, but gave no less than $14,000 worth of
operate both the Gibson store and his own place, concerts to the Red Cross and other charitable
at 317 Broadway, under the firm name of O. D. organizations, and sold $4,000,000 worth of Lib-
McLaughlin. His stock of pianos will be added erty bonds through the medium of her voice.
to the stock of instruments of the Gibson store.
All Mme. Lashanska's training has been in
In the talking machine department will be car- America, although she lived in Paris for a short
ried Victor machines and records. The Colum- time in order to perfect herself in French, which
bia line, which was formerly sold by Mr. Mc- she now speaks like a native. Her diction in
Laughlin, will in the future be sold by J. A. this tongue, as well as in other languages, is
remarkable and has been commented upon.
Rudy & Sons.
INTERESTING REMINGTON FOLDER
"Musical Tone, Pure and Clear as the Crystal
Brook," is the subject of a six-page folder lately
produced by the Remington Phonograph Corp.
as a dealer help. Substantial quantities have
been ordered by Remington dealers.
JANUARY 15, 1921
The President Talking Machine Co., of Hart-
ford, Conn., has organized with a capital of
$50,000. The subscribers to the stock are Louis
J. Jackson, 6,500 shares; Richmond P. Martin,
3.000, and Almira A. Martin, 500. The Winslow,
Day and Stoddard corporation of New Haven
has issued 200 additional shares of stock.
Writing from Birmingham, Ala., Miss Zelma
Lawrence adds her testimony to the part played
by the talking machine in the advancement of
the cause of music as follows: "America's taste
in music has improved greatly in the past decade,
and American audiences continue to show more
and more appreciation of the higher class
music. I have played in many of the larger
Western and Southern cities in the past ten
years and have noticed a gradually increasing
interest in the classics. Much of this increased
interest in better music can be traced to the
perfection of the phonograph. The newer in-
struments of all makes furnish selections by the
leading artists of the day, and the children be-
gin, almost from infancy, to hear the voices of
Caruso, Melba, Galli-Curci, Ponselle and other
famous singers, the violins of Elman and Ku-
belik, the piano selections of Paderewski, in
my opinion the greatest of them all, and even
the famous band selections of Pryor, Sousa and
others.
"All this tends to ingrain in the child a taste
for the better class of music, and while it is
counteracted to some extent by the lighter jazz
selections of today, the love of good music is
bound to be so deeply imbedded that it will
grow to a greater appreciation as the years
go by. I am sure that the next generation
of Americans will have far more appreciation of
music than the present—and I frankly credit
this increased interest to what is popularly
termed as canned music as heard through the
various makes of talking machines."
OPENS COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT
Little Rock Department Store Now Has Com-
plete Columbia Display Rooms
The Pfeifer Bros, department store in Little
Rock, Ark., has recently added a Columbia de-
partment on the third floor of the building at
Sixth and Main streets. A full line of Co-
lumbia Grafonolas and Columbia records will
be carried. The department has been fitted
with glass demonstration booths and also has
ample display salons. J. C. Havelill is man-
ager of the new Columbia section.
MUSIC AIDS IN SCHOOL WORK
EiUblJihed 1864
Manufacturers and
Wholesale Distributor*
WEYMAHN
& SON, Inc.
1108 Chestnut Street
.Philadelphia, Pa.
World famous
Weymann
"Keystone S t a t e "
S t r i n g Instruments
and "W & S" brand
M u s i c a l Merchan-
dise.
H. A. Weymann & Son, Inc.
Victor
Supreme
The Victor dealer who de-
votes his entire energy to the
advancement of Victor mer-
chandise in his Talking Ma-
chine Department will find
that in turn his e n t i r e
business will be greatly
benefited.
At Your Service
Delaware Teachers Find Talking Machine In-
creases Efficiency and Discipline
That the educational scope of the talking ma-
chine is broadening was demonstrated in tests
recently ma"de before prominent educators by
teachers of a Delaware school in which a large
number of backward pupils had failed to pass
in their studies.
The ready response of the pupils to the
rhythm of the music of the school talking ma-
chine as an aid to greater mental activity was
noticeably impressive. It was proved that in
reading, physical drills and even the study of
geography and history the children showed in-
creased desire to learn when the music of the
talking machine was inspiring them. It clari
fied and refreshed the mind of the pupils and pur
them in a receptive mood.
As a help towards maintaining discipline,
such as in entering the school buildings in the
morning or at recess, music was of great im-
portance. The orderly filing in of the pupils to
the music of a march was a pleasing contrast to
the disorganized rushing in to their work pre-
viously encountered.
«•-•';;
'Gibbons & Owens, Brooklyn, N. Y., have
taken over the store of the Rannah Co., 10
Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., and will con-
tinue it as an exclusively Victor shop in the
future.