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AUGUST 25, 1928
The Music Trade Review
B. G. Erskine; Contact Committee, A. T.
Haugh; Credit Committee, T. Sheldon; Dis-
tribution of Publication Committee, L. E. Par-
ker; Engineering Division, H. B. Richmond;
Fair Trade Practice Committee, W. L. Jacoby;
Finance Committee, John C. Tully; Foreign
Trades Committee, G. H. Kiley; Legislative
Committee, C. C. Colby; Membership Commit-
tee, H. H. Eby; Merchandising Committee, L.
E. Noble; Patent Committee, Fred D. Williams;
Public Relations and Educational Committee, J.
B. Hawley; Resolutions Committee, T. K.
Webster, Jr.; Show Committee, Morris Met-
calf; Statistics Committee, L. A. Hammarlund
and traffic Committee, Wm. Sparks.
Attending the Buffalo meeting were four new
AN FRANCISCO, CAL., August 17.—In celebration of the opening of the Pacific Radio
RMA Directors, George H. Kiley, of Brooklyn,
Trade Association's annual exposition at the Civic Auditorium, a luncheon will be given
B. G. Erskine, of Emporium, Pa., N. P. Bloom,
jointly by the Music Trades Association of northern California, the Pacific Radio Trade of Louisville, Ky., and L. A. Hammarlund, of
Association and the Electrical Development League, in the gold ballroom, Palace Hotel on Mon- New York.
day, August 20. Don E. Gilman, managing director of the National Broadcasting Co. will be
The Board also reappointed the following
chairman. Speakers will be Shirley Walker, president of the Music Trades Association of north-
executive officers: Bond P. Geddes, executive
ern California, W. E. Darden, chairman Pacific
vice-president; M. F. Flanagan, executive sec-
Radio Exposition, and Ernest Ingold who will from the factory are C. C. Forbes from the
retary; John W. Van Allen, of Buffalo, legal
have the musical program in charge. It is ex- sales department at Camden, N. J., who is counsel, and Frank D. Scott, of Washington,
pected that there will be a large attendance by showing the dealers the new Victor models, legislative counsel.
Mr. Sullivan, engineer, who is telling dealers
members of the music trades.
The next RMA Board of Directors' meet-
matters of mechanical interest regarding the ing will be held at New York during the pe-
Lindsey with Sherman, Clay & Co.
Lawrence Lindsey, formerly assistant treas- new models and Miss Madelaine Davies, in
riod of the Madison Square Garden Show in
urer of the Wiley B. Allen Co., is now with charge of record sales promotion at Camden. September.
Following the meeting and before the dinner,
Sherman, Clay & Co. as auditor of their Kearny
street store here. Mr. Lindsey was for twenty time had been set aside for an open forum at
years with the Wiley B. Allen Co., and in addi- which dealers present made suggestions, and dis-
tion to being assistant treasurer, he also had cussed sales plans and so on. Formerly attend-
ance at dealers' meetings was limited to dealers
charge of all the branches of the company.
and heads of departments, but at the Caravan,
More Space for Piano Display
PHILADELPHIA, PA., August 20.—The Story &
the entire Victor sales force of any music house
Piano display rooms on the sixth floor of
Clark Piano Co. will devote its newly acquired
Sherman, Clay & Co.'s store at Kearny and is welcome. During the dinner, some of the store and basement quarters, located at 220 S.
Sutter streets, are being enlarged by taking in popular Victor recording artists appeared in
Eleventh street, this city, to the display and
a portion of the sixth floor of the adjoining person and entertained the guests.
offices for its various makes of instruments. The
Wiley B. Allen building. Work on this exten-
old offices in the building at 105 S. Twelfth
sion is now in progress. This will give a very
street will be closed September 1 and the firm
large amount of floor space for the display
removed to the new location. The retail sale of
rooms. There are also display rooms on the
the Story & Clark Co. pianos will be continued
fifth floor.
at Gimbel Bros., the local store and offices be-
Two Howard Grands for Imperial Theatre
Preliminary Announcements Have Tended to ing devoted solely to display and executive de-
The Baldwin Piano House here, which is fea-
Hurt Radio Sales Declares Board of Direc- partments, under the management of David
Uhle.
turing the Howard grand piano, a recent
tors at Meeting in Buffalo Last Week
product of the Baldwin factory, has just
equipped the Imperial Theatre with two
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of
Howard grands. This theatre has been for
the Radio Manufacturers' Association held in
years past one of the leading downtown mov-
Buffalo, N. Y., last week, and presided over
ing picture houses, but just recently it has by President H. H. Frost, particular atten-
add-ed vaudeville to its first-run picture pro- tion was given to the problem of setting the
PHILADELPHIA, PA., August 20.—An involuntary
gram. The Howard grand pianos will be used
public right regarding the development of tel- petition in bankruptcy was filed during the week
in the musical numbers. T. F. Cavanagh of
evision. It was pointed out that premature against the Guarantee Talking Machine Sup-
the Baldwin sales force arranged the sale.
exploitation of television apparatus had proven ply Co., 35 North Ninth street, of which William
Eddie Peabody, who is being much featured
most injurious to sales of radio receivers. A Posner, is head. The firm manufactured the
at Loew's Warfield Theatre for a special week, committee was appointed, with H. B. Rich- Guarantee portable talking machines and parts.
is endorsing the Howard piano, and the Bald- mond as president, to make a thorough survey Leon H. Fox has been appointed receiver under
win advertisements show him, as a sketch artist
of television and formulate a carefully digested $1,000 bond.
imagines the vivacious Eddy, directing his statement for the public and the trade.
musicians while using a Howard grand piano
The development of broadcasting, the suc-
as a conductor's stand.
cess of the plans for the interchange of radio
Victor Dealers Attend Caravan
patents, the plans for the Fall shows in New
Ballens' Modern Music Shop, 2144 North
A number of interested Victor dealers York and Chicago, and the radio industries'
Front
street, Philadelphia, Pa., which was re-
assembled this afternoon and evening in the banquet in the latter city, were all discussed
Colonial ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel to at length as were plans for stimulating the cently incorporated, has arranged to add sheet
music and radio departments to the long es-
attend the Victor Caravan, a new departure for
radio industry generally.
the Victor Co., which is being inaugurated all
In lining up the RMA for the fiscal year tablished musical merchandise business.
over the country. Otto May, president of the beginning August 1st, President Frost appoint-
California Victor Co., was chairman at the ed the following as chairmen of the various
Consult the Universal Want Directory
meeting which convened at 2 p. m.. Visiting
RMA committees: Broadcasting Committee, The Review.
Music Trade Participates
in the Pacific Radio Show
Shirley Walker, of Music Trades Association of Northern Cali-
fornia, Speaker at Inaugural Luncheon—L. Lindsey
With Sherman-Clay—Howards for Imperial
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Story & Clark Go. Occupies
New Philadelphia Quarters
Television Premature
Say Radio Manufacturers
Receiver Appointed for
Talking Machine Company
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