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VOL. 86. No. 3
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Music Supervisors in New York
Special Piano Committee of Music Supervisors' National Con-
paign in Co-operation of "Times-State" With Expectation
That 15,000 Children Will Be Enrolled in Drive
T P H E first meeting of the special committee on the piano, a division of the Committee on In-
strumental Affairs of the Music Supervisors' National Conference, will be held in New York
on Monday, January 23, at 11 a. m. Following the initial gathering there will be an open meeting
at 12.45 at the Musical Round Table luncheon in the Town Hall Club.
The members of the piano committee are Joseph E. Maddy, Ann Arbor, Mich., chairman; W.
Otto Miessner, Milwaukee, Wis.; T. P. Giddings, Minneapolis, Minn.; Helen Curtis, Chicago;
Osbourne McConathy, Newark, and C. M. Tre-
maine, director of the National Bureau for the activities have been countless and highly valued.
Advancement of Music, secretary. It will be
As a testimonial of their regard and esteem,
remembered that the committee was appointed the officers of the company, and representatives
by the Music Supervisors' National Conference of the various departments gave Mr. White a
farewell dinner in the State Apartment of the
upon the recommendation of Mr. Tremaine.
It is believed that this meeting will outline Waldorf-Astoria on the evening of January 10.
a policy and a program which will give a de-
cided impetus to the introduction of piano
classes in the public schools of the country.
The National Association of Music Merchants
has shown its broad-minded and progressive
attitude by agreeing to pay the traveling ex-
penses of those members of the committee who
are not coming to New York on business of
their own, thus assuring that there will be a
full attendance. This assistance has become
possible through the funds made available by
the new merchants' promotion stamp.
J. W. Murray, treasurer of the Okeh Phono-
graph Corporation, also owned by the Columbia
interests, has been appointed assistant comp-
troller of Columbia, and will assume charge of
Mr. White's work at Bridgeport. Eli Oberstein,
who has been connected with the treasurer's de-
partment of Columbia, will succeed Mr. Murray
as treasurer of Okeh.
Peters Made Manager
Gable Waukegan Branch
R. J. Cook, general manager of the stores
of the Cable Piano Co., Chicago, announces that
Ha'rley Peters has been transferred from selling
position in the retail organization to the man-
agership of the Waukegan branch. Another
promotion that has been made in the retail sales
force is the appointment of C. E. Bailey as man-
ager of the Hammond, Ind., branch.
Melody Way Club Formed
by Cincinnati Merchants
Named Managing Director
of the Nipponophone Co.
Lester H. White, Comptroller of Columbia
Phonograph C o , Placed in Charge of Japa-
nese Interests Acquired Recently
Lester H. White, Comptroller of the Colum-
bia Phonograph Co., and supervisor of seven
departments in Columbia's Bridgeport factories,
has been appointed managing director of the
Nipponophone Co., of Japan, recently acquired
by the Columbia interests. Mr. White has left
for his new post, from which it is hoped he
can be recalled to the American field after a
year.
Mr. White, who is still in his mid-thirties, is
one of the Columbia Co.'s ablest executives,
with a remarjcable record for so young a man.
A graduate of New York University, he was at
first in the banking business, then with a leading
firm of industrial engineers, and entered Col-
umbia's service in 1919, since which time his
Local Music Merchants Organize to Hold Melody Way Cam-
paign in Co-operation of "Times-State" in Expectation
That 15,000 Children Will Be Enrolled in Drive
N C I N N A T I , O., January 16.—Heads
C I Way
Club, the organization of which
of piano houses expect great things from the Melody
has just been completed. For one thing, and one which
should be of great benefit, the movement is expected to be of great assistance in bringing the
piano trade together in a permanent business organization of their own. Several piano houses
are now tentatively organized into an association, and this, it is thought, will be made per-
manent.
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The organization of the Melody Way Club
Co. and the William R. Graul Piano Co. The
was completed a few days ago at a meeting in
club will act in conjunction with the Miessner
the Chamber of Commerce, and the following
Institute of Music of Milwaukee, and the Cin-
officers were chosen: President, P. B. Reister,
cinnati Times-Star, the latter furnishing the
necessary publicity.
of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.; secretary, J.
The Institute of Teachers has been formed,
Fred Van Court, of the Otto Grau Piano Co.;
and these are being instructed in the Melody
treasurer, D. F. Summey, representative of the
Way by Miss Violet Collins, associate director
Mason & Hamlin Co. D. L. Runyan, retired
of the Miessner Institute, who has won fame
principal of the" Hoffman public school, was
made executive secretary of the club, and he as a "teacher of teachers." It is estimated that
will be in charge of general matters. Besides at least fifteen thousand pupils will be enrolled.
The Melody W a y Club will have community
the firms mentioned above the membership at
classrooms, where children and adults will be
present includes the Baldwin Piano Co., the
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Starr Piano Co., the George P. Gross Piano