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Foreign Prize Winners
Columbia Phonograph Co.
in Schubert Contest
Holds Annual Meeting
Old Officers Re-elected as Well as Board With
Addition of Frank Dorian and F. J. Ames
The annual meeting.of stockholders of the
Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc., was recently
held at the executive offices of the company, at
1819 Broadway, New York City. There were
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present at this meeting, or represented by
proxy, 79,305 shares out of a total outstanding
of 82,523 shares, or more than 96 per cent. This
bespeaks, the keen interest taken by the com-
pany's stockholders in the progress made by
Columbia in the past year, marked as it has
been by rapidly mounting sales volumes, the
acquisition of world-famous recording artists,
and the introduction of new electric reproduc-
ing phonographs and phonograph-radio com-
binations, as well as the addition of striking
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models to the already established Viva-tonal
Columbia line.
The retiring directors were unanimously re-
elccted and Frank Dorian and F. J. Ames of
the Columbia executive organization were also
elected to membership on the board. The board
is now composed as follows: Frederick J. Ames,
George R. Baker, Mortimer N. Buckner, Henry
C. Cox, William C. Dickerman, Frank Dorian,
William C. Fuhri, Fred W. Shibley, Louis Ster-
ling and H. Mercer Walker. The Board of Di-
rectors re-elected Louis Sterling, chairman of
the Board; H. C. Cox, president and general
manager; W. C. Fuhri, vice-president; F. J.
Ames, secretary and treasurer; R. H. Barker,
assistant secretary and assistant treasurer.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
Columbia Phonograph Co. Announces Awards
Made in European Countries—November 18
to 25 to Be Marked as Schubert Week
Following the announcement of the three
American prize winners in the International
Schubert Contest, the Columbia Phonograph
Co., sponsors of the Schubert Centennial, have
received dispatches from foreign zones an-
nouncing their winners and the payment of the
zone prizes, amounting to $10,000. All the zone
prize works are being sent to Vienna for the
International Jury Meeting, where the grand
prize of $10,000 will be awarded, thus making
$20,000 in all, paid by the Columbia Co.
Germany: First prize, Herman Wunsch, of
Berlin, for symphony; second prize to Kurt
von Wolfurt, a pupil of Max Reger, for varia-
tions on a theme by Mozart; third prize, to
Job. C. Berghout, of Holland, for symphony.
Scandinavia: First prize, Kurt Atterberg, of
Sweden, for a symphony; second prize to
lrgens Jensen, of Norway, for a Passacaglia;
third prize to J. L. Emborg, of Denmark.
France: First prize divided between Henri
Ryder and G. Guillemoteau, both living in the
same town in France; second prize to Martz;
third prize to Otto Rippli, of Basle, Switzer-
land. All of these prize-winning works are com-
pletions of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.
Russia: First prize to Michail Tschcrnow for
a symphony; second prize to Wassily Kalafati
for a Lengende. Both prize winners are pro-
fessors at the Leningrad Conservatory.
Poland: First prize to Czeslaw Marek for a
symphony; second prize to Witold Malerzewski
for completion of the Unfinished Symphony;
third prize to Karol Jan Lampe for a symphony.
Italy: First prize to Euida Dannian for a
symphony; second prize to Bona Ventura Som-
ma for a tone poem; third prize to Pietro Mon-
tani for a Symphonic Suite.
The following have been named as the dele-
gates to the International jury meeting of the
Schubert Centennial Contest: United States,
Walter Damrosch; England, Professor Donald
Francis Tovey; Spain, Adolf Salazar; France,
Alfred Bruneau; Italy, Franco Alfano; Ger-
many, Professor Max Von Schillings; Scandi-
navia, Carl Nielsen; Poland, Emil Mlynarski;
Russia, Alexander Glazunoff.
The Committee on International Relations of
the Schubert Centennial, comprising Louis Ster-
ling, chairman; James M. Beck, Frederic R.
Coudert, John H. Finley and Charles E.
Hughes is in receipt of advices from European
chancellories, approving the selection of No-
vember 18 to 25 as the date for Schubert Week.
This date has been agreed upon after consulta-
tion between the various foreign committees,
organized by the Columbia Phonograph Co.,
sponsors of the Schubert Centennial, as a re-
sult of which the world tribute to Franz Schu-
bert will take place at the same time through-
out twenty-six countries.
Change of Baldwin Co.
Managers in the West
DENVER, COU, June 11.—Earle P, Hagemeycr
will succeed Fred Thunnell as manager of the
Denver office of the Baldwin Piano Co. on
June 15, on which date Mr. Thunnell will go
to Salt Lake City as manager of the Utah-
Idaho district for Baldwin. Mr. Hagemeyer has
been connected with the Baldwin Co. with a
slight intermission for some twenty years.
Now Operated as Annex
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., June 7.—The former
Wiley B. Allen Co.'s store on Kearny street
is now operated as a tempor&ry annex of Sher-
man, Clay & Co.'s downtown store at Sutter
and Kearny streets which i.t adjoins. All the
demonstration booths have been removed and
the. Kearny street side has been transformed
into one large piano salesroom which comfort-
ably accommodates forty-two grand pianos.
Harald Pracht, retail piano sales manager for
Sherman, Clay & Co. here, said that they are
using these salesrooms to display instruments
which have been taken in part exchange on new
pianos during the recent Wiley B. Allen closing
out sale. Others were taken in exchange in Stein-
ways and Duo Arts and some are pianos that
have been out at rental and, with the vacation
season at hand, have been returned.
All Ohio Tuners Invited
to Cleveland Gonvention.
CI-EVKLAND, (.)., June 11.—Joseph B. Wurstner,
chairman of the Cleveland division of the Na-
tional Association of Piano Tuners, who, as a
member of that organization, is making a lot
of preparations for the annual convention of
the National Association of Piano Tuners to
be held at the Hotel Statlcr, that city, on Au-
gust 13 to 16, has sent a special letter to all
tuners in Ohio advising them that they are wel-
come to attend the convention sessions whether
or not they are members of the Association.
The point is emphasized that the meetings are
educational, not only to the tuners who attend,
but to such dealers as take the opportunity of
being present.
Radio broadcasting station WKBF, located in
Webster, Mass., recently purchased a Vose
grand piano to be used in connection with its
studio programs. The order for the Vose was
secured by the Pearson Piano Co., of Wor-
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