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The Music Trade Review
JUNE 26, 1926
Fitzgerald Music Co., Los Angeles,
Holds Its Annual Piano Playing Contest
Knabe Grand Piano, the Prize, Won by Miss Alice Kaye, a Pup.l of Olga Steeb—This Year's Per-
formances of Contestants Showed Much Higher Standards of Accomplishment
she was very closely followed by iour other
contestants:—Marie Louise Caselotti, Olive
May Crampton, Irma Olsson-Seffer, Lillian
Scher. John E. Yuncker, vice-president of the
Fitzgerald Music Co., presented these five
ladies to the judges and announced Miss Kaye
ANGELES, CAL., June 18.—The an-
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nual contest for the seventeen hundred
dollar Knabe Ampico grand piano presented by
J. Taber Fitzgerald, president of the Fitzgerald
Music Co., took place on Saturday, June 5th, at
the Ebell Club. Eighteen candidates were
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Sherman, Clay & Co., is expected to be present
at the banquet and will notify the committee
on arrangements as to the date he can attend
as soon as he returns from his present Eastern
trip. The committee is made up as follows:
A. S. Cobb, W. H. Lawton, O. D. Bloom and
Miss E. E. Patterson.
Only One Radio Show
for New York This Fall
Radio Manufacturers' Association to Sponsor
Big Exhibition at Madison Square Garden in
September
Announcement that only one radio show will
be held in New York this Fall was made this
week by George A. Scoville, vice-president of
the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufactur-
ing Co., New York, who is chairman of the
board of directors of the Radio Exhibition
Corp. This organization is sponsored by many
of the leading radio manufacturers of the
United States. Mr. Scoville said: "It has been
decided by the board of directors of the Radio
Exhibition Corp. that the proposed radio ex-
position to be held at Grand Central Palace,
September 10 to 17, be canceled. It is believed
that this action will be to the interest of both
the public and the entire radio industry. The
directors are recommending to all of its exhibi-
tors that they exhibit at the Radio World's Fair,
to be held in new Madison Square Garden,
September 13 to 18, under the auspices of the
Radio Manufacturers' Association."
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scheduled for the final contest but nine only
actually took part in the test.
The contest was conducted in such a way that
the candidates were screened off and hidden
from view so that the judging was done from
a musical standpoint only. The compositions
played consisted of Concerto D Minor, Op. 70,
No. 4, Rubinstein; Sonata No. 12, C Major,
Scarlatti; Sonata Tragica, Op. 45, MacDowell.
It was necessary for the students to play all
these competitions from memory and the judges
included Modest Altschuler, formerly conductor
Russian Symphony Orchestra, New York; Carl
Bronson, music critic, Los Angeles Herald;
Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer; Gage
Christopher, Choral Conductor; Walter Henry
Rothwell, conductor Los Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra; Kathryn A. Stone, supervisor of
music in Los Angeles public schools, and music
critics of the various Los Angeles newspapers
with A. G. Farquharson, secretary of the Music
Trades Association of Southern California, act-
ing as referee and score-taker.
After a very careful examination by the
judges the final result was announced to the ef-
fect that Miss Alice Kaye, a pupil of Olga
Steeb, was the winner of the seventeen hundred
dollar Knabe grand piano.
Although Miss Kaye was the actual winner
to be the winner, requesting the latter to ad-
dress the former and point out to them where
they had been specially successful or otherwise.
M •. Altschuler, the celebrated Russian Sym-
phony Orchestra'Conductor, stated that he had
been a judge in last year's contest and that
he was gratified to be able to state that this
year's performances had shown a higher stand-
ard than ever and he congratulated the Fitz-
gerald Music Co. upon their wonderful enter-
prise in encouraging students in such a sub-
stantial manner.
Walter David, manager of the Educational
Division of the Fitzgerald Music Co., is deserv-
ing of the greatest praise for the manner in
which the contest was conducted and the
smooth way in which it was executed from the
preliminaries to the finals.
Seattle Stores Dinner
SEATTLE, WASH., June 12.—A banquet and dance
will be given soon by the combined sales forces
of music stores of Seattle and nearby cities
under the auspices of the Seattle Retail Music
Dealers' Association. The purpose of the affair
is to stimulate interest in the Western Music
Trades convention to be held at the Olympic
Hotel, July 27-30. Philip T, Clay, president of
Also Supplies a Radiola 28 With Loud Speaker
Equipment and Generator for New Vessel
Being Built for Earle P. Charlton
A recent installation by the Aeolian Co. is that
of a Brunswick Panatrope, together with a
Radiola 28, a loud speaker and a motor gener-
ator, on the new 100-foot cabin cruiser now be-
ing completed at Neponset, Mass., for Earle P.
Charlton, vice-president of the F. W. Wool-
worth Co., whose home is in Fall River. The
vessel, which is handsomely finished and equip-
ped, will be known as the "Edamena IV." A
novel feature of the installation is the placing
of the generator in the engineroom with a
double control, so that it may be operated
either from the radio receiver in the cabin or
from the engineroom itself.
Texas House to Open Branch
BROWNSVILLE, TEX., June 21.—The R. R. Records
Music House, of Houston, Tex., has made ar-
rangements for opening a branch store in this
city, handling a full stock of musical instru-
ments. The lines carried will be the same as
those in the Houston store, including Lyon &
Healy and Washburn pianos, Columbia and
Kimball phonographs and a complete assort-
ment of band instruments. The store will be
opened about July 1.
To Open New Store
The Werner Piano Co., Chicago, 111., ha ;
announced plans for opening a large, new store
on Milwaukee avenue near the Wieboldt depart-
ment store. Alec Stinson, general manager of
the company, states that many unusual features
will be incorporated in the presentation of mer-
chandise.
The Indianapolis Music Shoppe, Inc., of In-
dianapolis, Ind., has been granted a charter to
deal in musical instruments with 100 shares,
no par value. The directors of the company
are John C. O'Brien, William Gage Hoag and
I. E. Sollenberger.