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The Music Trade Review
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Music by FRED PHILLIPS
JULY 24, 1926
LEAVE ME
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musical people of this community. This house
is located at 709 Fannin street. The piano line
is the principal part of the business, although a
sheet music department catering to the general
trade on every requirement is also active.
W. T. Grant Co.
Grant's, of this city, at 607 Main street, has a
popular music counter consisting of the best
sellers and the high lights in the popular field
as well as the best-known "Black and White"
songs. F. P. Harris, the manager of the music
department, formerly of Salem, Mass., is the
gentleman I interviewed. He is delighted with
the location of the popular music section in the
store and has a splendid display, extremely dec-
orative.
W. C. Munn Co.
On the mezzanine floor of the W. C. Munn
Co., one of the largest department stores in
this section of the country, you will find the
sheet music department, featuring popular
music, a selected line of methods and studies
and the better type of ballad. Regular demon-
strations are carried on acting as a stimulant in
keeping the music department alive. - ; ;---
Galveston, Tex.
The location and climate seem to be the key-
notes of most of Galveston's sucess in all her
varied enterprises. In a maritime sense Galves-
ton is admirably located. The trade of the
Southwest flows through the city easily and
naturally, for transportation conditions are ex-
cellent. Galveston claims to be the chief sea-
port of Texas—the largest cotton-exporting port
in the world, a wholesale distributing point and
a Winter and Summer resort. The recent city
directory gives the city population as nearly
55,000. Galveston also claims it has the finest
surf bathing in the world. The beach is hard,
clean sand, which gives particular delight to
those who like to lounge in the sun in those
intervals between plunges. The water is warm
without being tepid and a swimmer may stay in
it for an indefinite length of time without suf-
fering any ill effects. There is practically no
current and the beach is absolutely devoid of
any dangerous undertow. It runs along the
entire Southern length of the city and there are
no restricted beaches.
Thos. Goggan & Bro.
A. R. Davis, the manager of the Galveston
branch of Thos. Goggan & Bro., had this to say
when I had a chat with him in his office at the
rear of the store: "We have spent nearly two
years in making considerable changes and im-
provements in this store. Our sales are in-
creasing every month. We handle practically
the same lines found in our main store at Hous-
ton. This is the fifty-fourth consecutive year of
the Goggan house handling the Emerson piano.
Things look bright generally in this section.
This town is just on the verge of a boom. At
this store we own and operate our own broad-
casting station KFUL, where splendid programs
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are arranged to entertain the musical public of
this vicinity and elsewhere."
L. M. Simon, a fine chap, whom I have known
for quite some years with this concern, is still
here and manages everything in the store with
the exception of the piano department. Mr.
Simon is a very pleasant fellow and far from
being a crab. Yet, while I was in town, one of
his friends addressed him as "Oh, you sand-
crab." I presume that is because he loves the
water and hangs around the sand.
In the sheet music department Mr. Simon has
Miss Julia Mendle, a bright and cheery young
lady, who conducts things in a very business-
like fashion. J. W. Deavours is Mr. Simon's
assistant and is very talented musically. Re-
gardless of what the instrument is, when he is
selling it, he can demonstrate it. The Victrola
department is looked after by O. H. Jahn and
the radio expert is G. R. Clough.
Galveston Piano Co.
Steinway & Sons, of New York and elsewhere
in the world, selected their home here with the
Galveston Piano Co. Oscar Springer is the pro-
prietor and C. A. Peters, general manager. This
concern handles many other good makes of
pianos, such as the Kranich & Bach, Krakauer,
Ivers & Pond, a direct agency for Cable & Sons
piano line, the Duo-Art reproducing pianos,
Victor talking machines, Gibson line of musical
instruments—in fact, everything musical for the
whole band and orchestra.
My visit with Mr. Peters was most pleasant
and he had this to say: "In our business, quality
is what counts. It is a measure of excellence.
In the haste of the present generation many
persons are inclined to overlook merit in quality.
In our business we recommend high-grade mer-
chandise." Being a Rotarian, Mr. Peters knows
the value of service and courtesy to the
customer at all times and always has a thankful
remark of appreciation for the patronage. He
makes the customer feel perfectly at home in the
store at all times.
The sheet music department is compact, han-
dling a splendid variety of material, suitable to
the taste of the masses and the discriminating
public looking for tetter type of music.
I had the pleasure of meeting the young lady
in charge of the department, Miss L. Herzog,
who is of the alert type and appears to be thor-
oughly thrilled with the work she is engaged in.
My Work Was Over
Little did I realize how tired I was at,the
end of my California-Texas journey. It was on
a Friday. The Hotel Galvez was so comforta-
ble, the lobby so spacious and beautiful, the sun-
parlor filled with lounges and many comfortable
seats outdoors facing the Gulf of Mexico, just
a stone's throw from the water's edge—all was
so enticing that it took very little time for me
to decide to spend a week-end here. The hotel
is just six minutes from the heart of everything
in Galveston and is in every way a great hotel.
For a complete rest nothing suited me any bet-
ter. I was indeed grateful that I was almost
at my journey's end. Yet, I felt lonesome and
blue that my family was not here with me to en-
joy this most delightful spot, the treasure island
of America.
Kosarin South American
Representative for Publishers
Robbins-Engel, Inc., and Several Other Ameri-
can Firms Represented in Southern Continent
by Harry Kosarin
Harry Kosarin, sales agent for Robbins-
Engel, Inc., in South American countries, is
now actively representing several other Ameri-
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can publishers. Mr. Kosarin has achieved ex-
ceptional results in exploiting American popu-
lar songs and standard music in all the large
trade centers in the Southern continent. His
work, in addition to creating a market for such
goods, is supplemented by energetic activities
in protecting American copyrights in these
same countries.
We herewith show Mr. Kosarin sitting at
ease in his executive office, and, with the pur-
pose of getting the most out of the occasion,
holding a copy of "For Heaven's Sake."
F. B. Kelton With Harms
Frank B. Kelton, formerly California repre-
sentative of Jack Mills, Inc., is now manager
of the band and orchestra department of
Harms, Inc., 62 West Forty-fifth
street,
New York. Young Kelton has been closely
associated with the show world all his life and
has played all of the leading vaudeville circuits
of America.
W. A. Quincke & Co., of Los Angeles, Calif.,
'has just added a new high-class song to its
catalog called "Open the Gates of Dawn," the
music of which is by Anton Lada and poem by
William M. Hamer.
The number, which ap-
peared in the standard catalog of the above
company, has been introduced by Alice Niel-
sen, the well-known operatic and concert artist,
in recital.