MUSIC
NOVEMBER 3, 1923
TRADE
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JOHN H. WILSON, 324 WASHINCTON STREET, TELEPHONE. MAIN 8850
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BO~TON, MAss., October 30.- What's thl mat
ter with the New England Music Trade Associa
tion ? The season is ge tting on and there is no
prospect of any meeti ng in sight, despite th l
fact that it is aplJroaching the period for the
annual mcetin~:, when officers for the ensu in g
yea r are, or s hould be, elected. There was some
talk the other day of g etting th e members to
gether fo r a lunch eon at the En gineers' Club,
bue as there did not seem to be any program
that cou ld be guaranteed it was thought by
some of the far- seei ng ones that the lunch
eon, in poi nt of numbers, might not be a suc
cess. There is no question that the burden
of the work for any occasion falls upon a few
shoulders and it is not altogether surp risin g,
therefore, that some of these men are getti ng
a bit tired of having to put their sho uld er to
the wheel every time any undert aking is pro
posed. Within the last few years the credit
for , making a dinner or luncheon any kind of
a s ucce ss belongs to a handful of members, and
as an evidence of this take the dinner in th e
Spring at the Hotel Somerset-that was not
, altoge th er the success it was hoped and it might
have be en much worse were it not for the
Herculean work on the part of a 'f ew, Billy
Merrill, the secretary, being a conspicuous ex
ample. When it comes to' electing the ne x t
president it is suggested that it would be the
wi se r thin g to select a man fronl this city, for
then he is always on the ground and ca n easi ly
be reached and consulted when matters of s pe
cial int erest to the Ass ociation, or even to the
trade at larg e, intrude themselves.
Boston's Music Week
:\.[ention was mad e in this department in la st
\\' eek's iss ue of The Review that 'the music ex
position that was to be promoted by the Na
tional Exhibition As sociation, Inc., for the week
beginnin g November. 26 had been postponed
nntil the latc Sprin g. Now comes the announce
!ll ent from Cjuite another source that ',Boston
will join the nation-wide observanc e next year
of Music Week, be g inning May 4, ' and that
i\![ayor Curley 'has promised full co-operation in
th e movement in which sG.hools, churches, the
atres and musical organizations will take a lead
in g ·part. It is understood that th e Mayor will
request an approp riati on from the City Council
and attention is called to the fact that last year
New York spent $5,000 in such a celebration.
At a meeting at the Bo ston Art Club a tem
porary organiza tion was effected, and among
those att ending were Chester L Campbell, who
has ste ere d a great m a ny exhib itions to success,
Ilotably the annual automobile shows with
which his name is intimately ident ified; John
,\. O'Shea, who is attached to the music depart
m ent of the city of Boston; Courtenay Guild,
pre s ident of the Apollo Club, one of the leading
male singin g bodies; Frank C. Brown, an archi
tect; Fra nk P. Spear, president of Northeastern
College; Prof. John 1). Marsh a ll, of Boston
L' niversity, and Miss Mabel Daniel s. Mrs. Wil
liam Arms Fisher, director of education of the
Na ti onal Federation of Music Clubs, was chosen
dire ctor of the undertaking with authority to
a ppoint a chairman, treasurer and secretary. At
the rneeting last week of the Boston Music Pub
lishers ' Association the "Music Week" was en
dor sed by that body.
At Vose & Sons
On e learns at Vose & Sons' factory t hat there
has been a decidedly pronounced demand for
upri g hts, which leads to the impr ess ion that th e
seas on at it moves along is going to be notable
for the call fo r this type of piano. Indeed,
Vos e & Sons state that dealers throughout the
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country are making special mention of upri ghts
pi co will be use d for the'vo'c al and" ins trumental
in their correspondence, at the same time
accompaniments, and it also will play for Miss
Brown's dancing.
placing good orders for early d eli very, some of
them going into more or less detail about the
Hallet & Davis Has Big October
lIpri.t::h t being the ideal type of piano for small
The Hallet & Davis Co. has had a most ex
homes. This means that the Vase factory is
cellent October business and there is general
li ke ly to be especially busy on uprights for the
rejoicing all around, C. C. Conway has been
rest of the season,
in town from New York; John L. Cotter has
Fred C. Harlow, of the traveling staff of been over in New York on a special trip, and
Vose & Sons, has extended his visit into the
R. O. Ainslie is home from his trip to the
So uth and is now in Texas, where he will visit
Middle West.
a number of the company's dealers before turn
Recent Visitors
ing ;-J orthward. He writes home that every
Recent Boston visitors have included George
where he goes he finds business good and deal
]. Dowling, president of the Cable Compa ny,
ers are very optimistic over the prospects for
who does not get h ere from Chicago very often;
a good Fall and 'Wi nter business,
William B. Murray, artists' manager for the
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Jerome Murphy Home
Baldwin, who was h ere from New York, and
Jerome Murphy, of M. Steinert & Sons, is
W. J. Fitton, of the George H. Sharp Piano
home from his extended trip to the Pacific
Co.'s Springfield sto re, who was accompanied
Coast. During the time he was away he had
by S. F. Monahan, of the Ludwig Co.'s Spring
two narrow escapes from accidents. One was
field store.
when he had taken an earlier train than the one
\Vinthrop A. Harvey, head of th e C C. Har
that met with disaster while crossing the creek
vey Co., is home from his hunting trip in Maine,
at Caspar, Wyo., when a number of persons
but he didn't get the game he was lookin g for
lost their lives, and the other when ' he was on
O deer no. Not much like last year, when his
a train that met with an accident just outside
friends enjoyed venison following a similar trip.
of Kansas City, Mo. It had been ML Murphy's
'Twas very rainy weather; that's the eXCllse.
original plan, on his r eturn East, to go to
Mason P. Currier, of the retail staff of the
S t. Louis, but a wire from hom e asked that he
C. C. H arvey Co., is a proud father-a boy, to
s top off at Kansas City to see Jenkins' Sons,
be named for its father and grandfather, Mason
an d it so happ ened that he was on the, train
P. Currier, 3rd,
wh ere the man havi ng the compartment next
to him was severely injured. Mr. Murphy, who
DEALER IN BANKRUPTCV
was accompanied by his wife, bad a very pleas
ant trip on the whole, and he found business
Involuntar y bankruptcy ' proceedings arc In
good wherever he stopped.
progress against Temistolle Mattioli, doin g
E. C. Parkhurst Home
business as the Metropolitan Music Store, 720
E. C. Parkhurst, of the Poo le Co., arrived
East 187th street, New York City. Hi s liabili
home yesterday from his Western trip, on which , tie s ar ~ given as $1 1,298 wi th no ass ets.
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he has been away several weeks. For the most
part he remained in Chicago, but also visited
Consult . ·the' Universal Want Directory of
?vli lwaukee and a few other places. He found ;The R'eyiew. In it advertisements are inserted
business conditions good and his views of the :free of charge for men who oesire positions,
genera l si tu ation in the trade tally with those
given by other traveling men who have lately
return ed from 'the Western and mid-Western
CHARACTER
frelds. "Dan" Fabyan, who has been on the
"Admirable Quality; AckDowledged _ReputatioD •.
road for seve ral weeks, is at present in Penn
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sylvania and is sending home some very good
orders.
McPhail Office Moves
The office staff of the A. M. McPhail Co. is
no longer at its old-time quarters in the Walker
Building, 120 Boylston street, for a day or two
ago, or, more officially, beginning November I,
the offices are removed to the McPhail factory
at the corner of \1I,'as hin gto n and Wareham
Manufactured by
streets at the South End, the regular number
being 40 on the latter street. It was decided
that it would be to the advantage of the officers
to be located in the atmosphe re of the factory;
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hence the move. But the old quarters at 120
Boylsto n stree t will not be without a piano
tenant, for the retail concern of Sullivan &
Barry, which started in business less th an two
years ago and which has been doing a splendid
have for 33 years
business, has taken over the lease of the other
justified their right
quarters . and in a few days will move th ere
to be called
from their present place at 234 Boylston s tr eet,
which is the old Thorndike Building.
Arripico in Concert
This coming Friday night at the Copley-Plaza
the Chickering Ampico will be put to excellent
FACTORIES
uses. The occasion is an entertainment for the
North
Milwaukee,
Wis.
Chicago, 111.
benefit of the Simmons College Endowment
Fund, at which Mme. Jacchia will be the so
OFFICE
prano soloist, Miss Louise Brown, of the "Sally,
1872 Clybourn Avenue
Chicago, 111.
Irene and Mary" Company, will dance, and
Rolland Taple y will be the vio linist. The Am -
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PIANOS
Smith, Barnes
Strohber COe
Pianos of Character