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MAY
20, 1922
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
P. Q. SPITZ BECOMES MANAGER
VICTOR ARTISTSTOR BIG CONCERT
Takes Charge of the Victrola Department of
the J. L. Brandeis Store
Homer, Schumann-Heink, Samaroff, Werren-
rath and Symphony Orchestra to Entertain
Convention Visitors at Carnegie Hall.
OMAHA, NEH., May 15.—P. G. Spitz, the well-
known talking machine man, has assumed
charge of the Victrola department of the J. L.
Brandeis Store, this city. Mr. Spitz is popular
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One of the big entertainment features in con-
nection with the annual convention of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce and the allied
music trade associations in New York during the
week of June 5 will be the complimentary con-
cert given at Carnegie Hall on Monday evening,
June 5, by the Victor Talking Machine Co., for
the benefit of the convention delegates.
C. G. Child, director of recording for the Vic-
tor Co., who has charge of the program, has
arranged for a truly imposing group of artists
on that occasion, they including Mine. Louise
Homer, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Olga
Samaroff, Reinald Werrcnrath and the Victor
Symphony Orchestra of eighty men under the
baton of Josef Pasternack. All of the conven-
tion visitors will be provided with tickets for
the concert, which will unquestionably prove one
of the big attractions.
to double
Vourlneome
COLUMBIA DEALERS IN POLITICS
Retailers in Philadelphia Territory F.'nd Time to
Take Interest in Public Affairs
Peter G. Spitz
with the talking machine trade throughout
Nebraska and Iowa, and was the first president
of the Iowa Victor Dealers' Association. He is
generally known as a "live wire" and his identi-
fication with the Brandeis Victrola department
promises greatly increased activity there.
TROY DEALERS ^JOINTLY ADVERTISE
Fine Display Made During Music Week by Lead-
ing Houses in Concerts and Publicity
TROY, N. Y., May IS.—The piano and talking
machine dealers of this city celebrated Music
Week with a strikingly arranged joint advertise-
ment in the daily papers of May 3, the center of
which consisted of some impressive and interest-
ing disquisitions on the various phases of music
and its importance. During the week the vari-
ous music houses gave a number of entertain-
ments, and Cluett & Sons especially had a Vo-
calion concert every afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m.
On May 3 the Misses Nellie and Sara Kouns,
sopranos, appeared with the Troy Vocal Society
and the singing of these exclusive Vocalion artists
was enthusiastically received. Their appearance
in the Cluett store resulted in a greatly increased
demand for their records. Troy was certainly
placed on the map during Music Week, thanks to
the enterprise of its music merchants.
T. B. N1LES NOW IN NEW YORK
T. B. Niles, who has been connected as assist-
ant manager of the Pittsburgh branch of the
Columbia Graphophonc Co., has been transferred
to Columbia headquarters in New York. Mr.
Niles comes to New York to take active charge
of special sales work and will from now on edit
the Columbia Record, the well-known house or-
gan which is sent out to dealers. Mr. Niles'
transfer to the New York office is in the way of
promotion, through the good work which, he has
dene while in the Pittsburgh branch, and he is
well qualified to take over these new duties.
DELAWARE INCORPORATION
The Globe Wholesale & Distributing Co., of
Wilmington, Del., has been granted a charter of
incorporation under the laws of that State to
handle talking machines.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 15.—At least two Colum-
bia dealers who are supplied through the local
branch of the Columbia Co. have time between
business deals to dabble in politics, according to
E. D. Woodward, sales representative of the
Philadelphia Columbia branch.
Frank E. Naginey, of Bellefonte, Pa., is run-
ning for the Assembly on the Democratic ticket
and it is declared that he has very good prospects
of winning out. S. E. Heffner, of Hilton &
Heffner, Columbia dealers in Lock Haven, Pa.,
is also an active politician, being chairman of the
Pinchot Campaign Committee in Pennsylvania.
and the proposition could be proved
sound from every angle, you wouldn't
hesitate, would you? Of course not,
but do you realize that a talking machine
department can be made to provide
sufficient revenue to take care of the
overhead on your entire establishment ?
Thousands of other retail music
chants have proved the above made
statement true and thousands of retail
music merchants have looked to T h e
Talking Machine World for guidance
in the matter of selecting the make of
talking machines they would handle, the
way they would map out their talking
machine department, etc.
FRIEDL ENTERSJliE RADIO FIELD
Well-known Talking Machine Man Forms the
Triangle Radio Supply Co. in New York
Lambert Friedl, who has long been connected
with sales organizations of some of the leading
talking machine companies, recently organized
the Triangle Radio Supply Co., Inc., and has
opened up offices and warerooms at 122 Fifth
avenue, New York City.
Mr. Friedl recently resigned as manager of
the Okeh wholesale division of the General
Phonograph Corp. _ Prior to that time he was
connected in an executive capacity with the
Columbia Graphophone Co.
Associated with Mr. Friedl is H. A. Lindc,
who for over five years was with Stanley &
Patterson, the well-known New York electrical
supply house. Mr. Linde has many qualifica-
tions for his field of activities. He was, during
the war, an instructor of radio for the United
States Navy at Harvard University.
The Triangle Radio Supply Co., Inc., will
act as jobber of radio apparatus and its com-
ponent parts. These goods, however, are to
be specially selected and of proven worth, the
object being to place in the hands of the trade
products having a ready sale and requiring little
or no technical knowledge. However, the com-
pany will carry out an educational campaign
for the dealer and is equipped, if necessary,
to give technical advice.
Among the products to be handled by the
new company are the radiophones of the De
Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph Co.;
equipment of the Stromberg-Carlson Co.; the
Brach Electric Co., the Atlantic & Pacific
Vacuum Tubes, and products of De Veau Elec-
tric Works and Cutting & Washington.
H. W. Lunceford, for the past two years sales-
manager of the Starr Piano Co.'s store at Tampa,
Fla., will have complete charge of the company's
new store at 1504 Grand Central avenue, that
city.
The Talking Machine World is the
oldest and largest trade journal in the
world devoted exclusively to the talking
machine industry.
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