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APRIL 21, 1923
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
DETAILS OF CHICKERING^ CENTENNIAL BOSTON PROGRAM
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Celebration Will Occupy All of Saturday, April 21—Concert With Boston Orchestra and Handel
and Haydn Society and Famous Pianist Quintet—Vice-president Coolidge Speaks
The final details for the great celebration of
the Chickering Centennial in Boston have been
completed and the stage is set for an observ-
ance that will hold a most important place in
the history of Arrierican music and of the Amer-
ican music industry. The affair has been
planned to occupy practically all of Saturday of
this week, and includes, as already stated, a
notable Centennial concert by the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, followed
by a banquet at the Copley-Plaza Hotel in the
evening.
In addition to the activities on Saturday
there will be a dinner and a reception for the
employes of Chickering & Sons at the factory
on Friday evening in which C. Alfred Wagner,
president of the company, together with other
officials, will participate.
A number of invited guests will leave New
York on Friday night to attend the celebration,
arriving in Boston on Saturday morning. After
breakfast at the Copley-Plaza the party will be
taken on a trip through the Chickering factory,
following which there will occur the presenta-
tion of a memorial bronze centennial tablet by
a committee representing Chickering dealers all
over the country.
The Centennial concert at Symphony Hall
will start at 2.30 p. m. with the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra, under the baton of Pierre
Monteau, and assisted by the Handel and
Haydn Society. A notable feature will be the
appearance of a quintet of famous pianists, in-
cluding Erno Dohnanyi, Mme. Elly Ney, Mme.
Germaine Schnitzer, Guy Maier and Leo Patti-
son.
During the concert an address will be made
by W. J. Henderson, who will be introduced by
Philip Hale, music editor of the New York
Herald and Boston Herald. The musical pro-
gram arranged for the occasion is in itself ex-
ceptional.
At the banquet at the Copley-Plaza in the
evening Courtney Guild will act as toastmaster,
and Calvin Coolidge, Vice-President of the
United States, will be the principal speaker, hav-
ing as his subject "Music as a National Asset."
Richard W. Lawrence, president of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce, will talk on
"The Romance of the Piano," and other speak-
ers will include Mayor Curley, of Boston, and
Otto Kahn, of New York. There will also be
music by the five noted pianists who will take
part in the concert program in the afternoon.
At the conclusion of the banquet the New
York delegation will return to the metropolis,
arriving home Sunday morning.
It is announced that the most important radio
broadcasting stations of the country have prom-
ised to include the celebration of the Chicker-
ing Centennial in their programs on Saturday,
prominent artists giving their services for the
occasion. At each station, too, an address will
be delivered on the life of Jonas Chickering and
his contributions to American music.
The speeches of Vice-President Calvin
Coolidge and others at the banquet in the
Copley-Plaza will be broadcasted by radio.
BUFFALO VICTORDEALERS MEET
HOLIDAY DANCEjATNVMPICO STUDIO
New Association Formed at Meeting Held in
That City on April 12—DuoArt Featured in
Local Moving Picture Theatre
Ampico Plays Part in Interesting Social Event
Under Notable Patronage
N. Y., April 17.—George W. Pound,
chief counsel of the Music Industries of Amer-
ica, spoke before the Mercerites recently, who
declared his address a "rare treat." It was im-
mediately recognized and consequently enjoyed
as something out of the ordinary. Mr. Pound
spoke on "What of the Day."
Mr. Pound said the world needs more re-
ligion and more music. He suggested that there
ought to be a great enlargement of the plans
which have been adopted in some of the great
industrial plants and large department stores,
which provide music as a lightener of burdens
of work, a shortener of working hours, a rest-
ful easement of the workers' minds, which tends
to send them home happy and to bring them
back to work in the same state of mind. He
gave numerous illustrations of where music had
worked this charm in large industrial plants.
The organization of the Victrola Dealers' As-
sociation was completed at a meeting of Victor
dealers from Buffalo and vicinity, in the Iro-
quois Hotel, April 12. By-laws and the con-
stitution of the organization were drawn up at
a previous meeting and were adopted at the
last meeting, which took on the form of a noon
luncheon, presided over by C. E. Seigesmund.
Officers of the new organization will be
elected at a meeting to be held on April 24 in
one of the private dining rooms of the Iroquois
Hotel. It is planned to have with them Miss
Elsie Baker, Royal Dadlun and Lamber Murphy,
Victor artists.
An especially artistic feature on the program
at Shea's Hippodrome the week of April 15 was
the film "The Music Mirror," in which the Duo-
Art takes first honors. The picture met with the
same enthusiastic reception that has been ac-
corded it wherever it has been shown.
BUFFALO,
Martin G. Chandler, music dealer of Chilli-
cot lie, ()., has announced his intention of retir-
ing on June 1, when J. G. Robinson, of Mar-
tinsvillc, Ind., will take over the business.
Victrola No. 210
$100
Mahogany or walnut
Victor supremacy
is the supremacy
of performance
And with its sphere
of influence constantly
expanding, the V i c t o r
offers eve r-increasing
opportunities to every
dealer in Victor prod-
ucts.
An interesting series of private entertainments
have been given at the Ampico Studios during
the season, among the latest being a holiday
dance under the auspices of patronesses whose
names stand high in the social register, and for
a number of debutantes and their friends.
The dance was preceded by an entertainment
of exhibition dancing by Peggy Stout and Mar-
tino di Bitillo. A group of French songs were
sung by Mariposa Hayes, and a number of
dances were given by Miss Brown to the accom-
paniment of the Ampico. Supper was served
at Sherry's, after which there was dancing at
the Studios to the accompaniment of Miss
Burns' Orchestra.
Victrola No. 260
$150
MUSIC DEALER^ TRAGIC END
Other styles $25 to $1500
COLUMBUS, NEB., April 16.—William I'Ontein,
brother of Maurice H. Fontein, local music
dealer, met with tragic death last Monday when
his motorboat caught fire and went down sixty-
seven miles off the Florida coast. There is no
hope of recovering his body. The only survivor
was picked up by a British steamer on its way
to France, from whom Mr. Fontein is anxiously
waiting for details.
'HIS MASTER'S VOICE"
Mahogany or walnut
GLEN BROS.=ROBERTS BUY BUILDING
OODEN, UTAH, April 16.—Negotiations for the
sale of the Blackman & Griffin property on
Washington avenue to the Glen Bros.-Roberts
Piano Co. were completed recently.
President George Glen, of the Glen Bros.-
Roberts Piano Co., said the company would
take immediate possession of the new building
and begin extensive improvements. The sec-
onl floor will be used for a music recital hall
and the lower floor for musical instruments,
pianos and music stock.
Consult the universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Victrola
REG.US PAT OFF
Important •• Look for these trade-marks.
Under the lid. On the label
Victor Talking
Machine Co.
Camden,N. J.