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The Music Trade Review
FEBRUARY 19, 1927
Prize Winners in the Dorothy Lee
Window Display Contest
T
H E prize winners in the window display contest on
Co., Montgomery, Ala.; Weeks & Dickinson, Binghamton, N.
"Dorothy Lee's Famous Songs" arranged by the Sam
Y.; Bell Music Co., Muncie, Ind., and Snyder Piano Co., of
Fox Publishing Co., closing on February 1, 1927, have
New Castle, Pa.
just been announced. The
The judges were V. D.
judges of the contest after
Walsh of the Music Trade
close examination of photo-
Review, B. W. McClelland of
graphs, many of which were
Music Trades and Adrian F.
remarkable works of attrac-
Boylston of Music Trade
tive window dressing, unani-
News. It was the consensus
mously decided on the follow-
of opinion of these experi-
ing: The first prize of $200
enced judges that the collec-
to the Gamble Hinged Music
tion of photos presented was
Co., of Chicago; the second
of the highest standard of
prize of $100 to Van Ausdle-
sheet music window displays
Hoffman Music Co., ot Spo-
ever gathered together.
kane, Wash.; the third prize
The displays included the
of $75 to Southern California
artistic and the commercial
Music Co., of Los Angeles,
and were noted for originality
Cal.; the fourth prize of $50
in presenting either one or the
to the Heim's Music Store,
three Dorothy Lee songs,
Danbury, Conn.; the fifth
which included her outstand-
prize of $25 to Guillemettc's
ing numbers, u In the Heart of
FIRST PRIZK WINNER: Gamble Hinged Music Co., Chicago, 111.
Music Shoppe, Manchester,
the Hills," "Out of the
An unusually artistic conception using the Lee name as a back-
ground.
N. H . ; sixth, seventh, eighth,
Dusk" and 'One Fleeting
ninth and tenth prizes were
1 lour."
for $10 each and were awarded to the following: Sherman,
Lack of space makes impossible the showing of all these splen-
Clay & Co., San Francisco, Calif.; Jesse French & Sons Piano
did competitive windows.—Advt.
SECOND PRIZE:
Wash.
Exclusively
Van Aiisdle-IIoffman Music Co., Spokane,
on "Heart of the Hills," with appropriate
atmosphere.
THIRD PRIZE: Southern California Music Co., I>o* Angeles, Cal.
By clever arrangement arriving
Almost exclusively sheet music.
at artistic effect
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FOIRTH PRIZE:
Heims Music Store, Danbury, Conn.
Very
unusual display using color effects; oil painting, green shades,
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orange floor trimmings, orange window lights.
FIFTH PRIZE: Guillemette's Music Shoppe, Manchester, > T . H. An-
other example of exclusive use of title pages, giving unusual mass
effects.
The following photographs entered in the competition were found exceptionally worthy of mention by
the judges: Rorabaugh-Wiley Dry Goods Co., Hutchinson Kansas; Henry Grobe Division of Wiley B.
Allen Music Co., San Francisco, Calif.; Johnston's Harmony Shoppe, Los Angeles, Calif.; Actuelle Music
Shop, Youngstown, Ohio; Souders Music Shop, Muncie, Ind.; Severson Music House, Lafayette. Ind.i
Phinney's, Ltd., Halifax, N. S., Canada; Miller Brothers, Colorado Springs, Colorado.