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JULY 24, 1926
The Music Trade Review
Michigan Music Merchants Ass'n Issues
Complete Program for Coming Meeting
First Annual Convention of New State Body Will Be Held at the Book-Cadillac Hotel, in
Detroit, on August 16, 17 and 18—Final of Detroit Piano Contest a Feature
FJETROIT, MICH., July 19.—The convention
committee of the Michigan Music Mer-
chants' Association in charge of the plans for
the second annual meeting of that body at the
Book-Cadillac Hotel, on August 16, 17, 18 and
19, has made elaborate arrangements for the
entertainment of the many music tradesmen
and their families who are expected to attend.
The committee has reversed things to a cer-
tain extent in the matter of entertainment and
instead of winding up the convention with a
day of play, have arranged to give the dele-
gates most of their entertainment on the first
day of the meeting so they will be in proper
spirit to get the most out of the business meet-
ings that are to follow.
The tentative program for the four conven-
tion days as outlined by the committee is as
follows:
9 A. M. Monday, August 16
Registration, Reception and Transportation
committees will see that guests are taken to
Masonic Country Club for day's outing. This
is a wonderful million dollar club, seventeen
miles out Jefferson avenue, on Lake St. Clair.
Golf tournament presided over by Phil
Sadowski, Jay Grinnell, Paul McCullough, Art
Wessell, of New York, Henry Hewitt, George
Amez and Ken Curtis, of Chicago. Luncheon at
12. Everybody will be bathing and sail-boating
during afternoon. Club sailors will be on hand
to give everyone a sail-boat and motor boat
thrill. This club location, which is the finest of
its kind on the lakes, must be seen to be appre-
ciated and the building which is completely
Spanish in architecture and furnishings is
beautiful. A dinner-dance will take place in
the big dining-room and ballroom in the eve-
ning. The idea of the committee being to
start out the convention with a wonderful
day's outing on the water-edge where all may
become thoroughly acquainted and entertained
as private guests. A convention badge will
constitute a guest-card. Those desiring, may
stay all night and engage in an early morning
fishing party on one of the finest bass grounds
on the Great Lakes a short distance from the
club, up to the capacity of the rooms.
8 P. M.—Washington boulevard (adjoining
the Book-Cadillac Hotel) street dances for the
Detroit public in celebration of the Music con-
vention. Permission has been secured from
the city authorities to rope off the big double
parkway for the event.
Tuesday August 17
10 a. m.—Opening session of convention.
12.30 p. m.—Luncheon for all, Address of
Welcome by Mayor John W. Smith.
2 p. m.—Convention.
8 p. m.—Grand Final of Greater Detroit
Piano Playing Contest.
11 p. m.—Annual Conclave of Michigan
Chapter No. 2 of Ancient and Accepted Order
of Cheese-Hounds in Italian Garden of Book-
Cadillac Hotel. Initiation of accepted candi-
dates, followed by supper and adjournment to
adjoining Crystal Ballroom for suitable en-
tertainment presided over by John Goldkette,
Victor artist.
Wednesday, August 18
10 a. m.—Convention.
12.30—Luncheon for all, with speakers of
note.
2. p. m.—Convention.
8. p. m.—Grand Banquet in big ballroom,
with speakers of note, followed by dance till
1 a. m. Jean Goldkette's celebrated dance
orchestra.
Thursday, August 19
Trip by convention delegates and guests to
the Ford airport at Dearborn, eleven miles out
Michigan avenue, viewing the new airplane fac-
tory and then after lunch adjourning to the
River Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Co., the
greatest and most efficient industrial plant in
the world, under special guidance of Ford
Motor Co.
Later details will be published in subsequent
issues of this paper. Detroit is making very
complete plans to make attendance at this con-
vention both a pleasure to the family and of
profit to the merchant. A large attendance is
anticipated, expense to the delegates will be
held down and every courtesy extended.
Oregon Ass'n Holds
Get-Together Outing
Court here. The petitioning creditors of the
Gibbs Company were three New York piano
manufacturers: Mayer Bros. & Bramley with
a claim of $37,892; the Schubert Piano Co.,
30,734, and the Milton Piano Co., $1,042. The
creditors cited a general assignment for the
benefit of the creditors some time ago.
With Williams-Guttenberger
MACON, GA., July 19.—E. L. Scarborough has re-
cently become affiliated with the Williams-
Guttenberger Music Co., 466 Second street,
this city, as assistant manager in charge of
the piano department. Mr. Scarborough was
manager of the company's branch store at
Dublin, Ga., in 1919 and 1920, after which he
was identified with several piano firms in the
East. For the past two years Mr. Scar-
borough has been manager of the Charles M.
Stieff store in Charleston, W. Va.
New Arthur Jordan Branch
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., July 19.—The Arthur
Jordan Piano Co., of Washington, D. C, has
opened a branch here recently at 220 West
Main street, handling a complete line of
PORTLAND, ORE., July 15.—"All aboard" was re- pianos. William M. Poole has been appointed
sponded to by 260 members of the Oregon manager and is organizing a local selling
Music Trades Association, their families and staff.
friends in a pre-convention meeting and dance
held aboard the excursion boat "Swan" the
evening of July 13. The happy boatload
sailed down the river to the strains of
BUFFALO, N. Y., July 19.—C. Preshon, well
music furnished by the Brunswick-Balke-Col- known in music trade circles of the East, has
lender Co. A. R. McKinley, Pacific North- been made manager of the piano and player
west manager, and A. W. Metier, of the department of Goold Brothers, Inc.
Brunswick wholesale section, manipulated a
handsome large Brunswick Panatrope, and
played the latest Brunswick dance records,
keeping those on both the upper and lower
decks dancing to their music.
A kangaroo court was one of the big fea-
tures of the trip. G. F. Johnson, president of
the association, and E. B. Hyatt, of the Hyatt
Music Co., were defendants with H. H.
Princehouse, of the McCormick Music Co.,
the judge; Randall Bargelt, Oregon representa-
tive of the Columbia Phonograph Co., and
L. E. Larsen, of Seiberling, Lucas Music Co.,
the two lawyers, and H. H. Thompson, of the
Thompson Music Co., the "constabule." A. R.
McKinley, Bertha Gribble, Ward Robinson and
George Thompson, Jr., secretary of the asso-
ciation, were witnesses.
The prisoners were handcuffed and all the
participants in the trial were in costume. Mr.
Johnson was accused of having made the state-
ment that the Chickering piano was the best
piano and Mr. Hyatt was accused of employing
none but beautiful girls. After much examina-
Established in
tion and cross-examination both Mr. Johnson
and Mr. Hyatt were found guilty and Judge
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Princehouse sentenced them to run a race
around the deck on kiddy cars. The race
at Deep River, Conn.
provd a dead heat. Mr. Johnson made a few
Still There
remarks at the end of the voyage, explaining
that the purpose of the excursion was to stress
the importance of a large Oregon attendance
at the Western Music Trades convention to be
Standard Service and Highest
held in Seattle July 28, 29 and 30, and to ask
Quality
the hearty co-operation of all members in the
Special
Repair
Departments
day's entertainment of the special trainload of
Maintained for Convenience
California music merchants who will stop in
Portland for one day, July 26, on their way to
of Dealers
the convention. George Thompson, Jr., sec-
retary of the association, was untiring in his
PRATT, READ & CO.
efforts to make the boat party a success and
everyone who attended expressed the belief
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that it was the best "get-together" that the
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Oregon Association had ever staged.
Pre-convention Dance and Boat Ride Held to
Open Large Attendance at the Western
Convention
New Goold Bros. Manager
Pratt Read
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Piano Actions
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Gibbs in Bankruptcy
BOSTON, MASS., July 17.—The G : bbs Piano Co.,
of Springfield, was petitioned into voluntary
bankruptcy yesterday in the United States
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