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The Music Trade Review
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Convention Plans Are Discussed at
Meeting of Radio Ass'n Directors
p v E L B E R T L. LOOMIS, executive secre-
•'-^ tary of the National Association of Music
Masters, attended the meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Radio Manufacturers Asso-
ciation, held at Hot Springs, Va., last week for
the purpose of discussing with the radio men
certain details concerning the next annual con-
vention of the Music Merchants Association,
to be held at the Hotel Drake, Chicago, during
the week of June 3, concurrently with the An-
nual Trade Radio Show.
Mr. Loomis appeared before the Directors at
one of the business sessions and extended
greetings from President Roberts and also
from President Irion of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Loomis told of the
close co-operation which exists between the offi-
cers of the Merchants Association, the Chamber
of Commerce and the Radio Manufacturers' As-
sociation, and assured the members of the
Radio Board that nothing would be left undone
Steinway & Sons Give
Party to Musical Friends
President Theodore E. Steinway and Mr?.
Steinway Hosts at Entertainment Given to
Several Hundred Notables in Music
On Saturday evening, March 2, Theodore
E. Steinway, president of Steinway & Sons,
with Mrs. Steinway, entertained a number of
their musical friends at a party in the Steinway
warerooms, 109 West 57th stre-et, three of
the large showrooms having been cleared of
pianos and tastefully decorated for the occasion.
Mr. Steinway himself acted as master of
ceremonies, and the entertainment was pro-
vided by John Palmer in pianologues; Fraser
Genge, baritone, accompanied by Mrs. Ethel
Cave-Cole; Mme. Nina Kosbetz in Russian folk
songs, accompanied by Valentine Pavlovsky:
Naoum Blinder, Emanuel Bay and Evsei Be
loussoff, the "B" Trio, and Milton Rettenberg
and Frank Banta, jazz pianists. Following the
entertainment, supper was served after whicli
there was dancing to the music of an excel-
lent orchestra.
Among the 400 or more who attended the
party, which was given to express Steinway &
Sons' appreciation of the friendly relations that
exist between them and the music profession,
were included: Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Levitzki,
John Powell, Olga Samaroff, Walter Damrosch,
Frank Damrosch, Carl Friedberg, Carolyn
Beebe, Thuel Burnham, Rudolph Gruen, Rosita
Renard, Amy Evans (Mrs. Fraser Gange), Clara
Rabinowitch, Muriel Kerr, Georges Barrere,
Albert Stoessel, Ernest Schelling, Alexander
Siloti, Alexander Lambert, Yolanda Mero, Ed-
win Franko Goldman, Abram Chasins, Kath-
erine Bacon, Maria Kurenko, Augusta Cotlow,
Henri Deering, Aurelio Ciorni, Isabelle Yal
kowski, Sigismund Stojowski, Willem Willekc
and Ignace Hilsberg.
Sonora for Portland Glub
Chas. B. Snow, president of the Main Music
Co., Portland, Me., has reported the sale of a
Sonora radio to the Portland Club, one of the
largest and most representative club in the state.
The instrument was selected from among four-
teen different makes sent to the club for dem-
onstration before the committee which made
the selection. Mr. Snow made the sale the
basis for some excellent publicity.
The Consolidated Music Co., Salt Lake City,
Utah, has made plans for remodeling the main
floor of the company's building and the instal-
lation of an entire new front.
to make the coming conventions the largest at-
tended and most successful in the history of
the Associations.
A number of important details in connection
with the convention were worked out during
Mr. Loomis' stay, and en route home he spent
a day in Richmond, Va., calling on the music
merchants and also visited President Roberts
in Baltimore.
Allen-Hough Mfg. Go. Buys
Garryola Go. of America
Important New Merger of Portable Phonograph
Interests With Assets of Over $500,000 An-
nounced in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE, WIS., March 11.—The Allen-Hougli
Manufacturing Co. of Racine, Wis., has pur-
chased the Carryola Co. of America at 279
Walker street, a subsidiary of the Prime Man-
ufacturing Co., and a new corporation, the
Allen-Hough Carryola Co., has been formed
with assets considerably over $500,000, accord-
ing to an announcement here.
Both the Allen-Hough and the Carryola com-
panies have been among the largest manufac-
turers of portable phonographs in the country,
and it is stated that the new concern will be
the nation's largest independent maker of this
line of products.
The Allen-Hough Co. has purchased for cash
the assets of the Carryola Co. and leased the
building. The amount involved in the trans-
action has not been made known.
Financing of the new corporation has been
accomplished through private subscription.
Capitalization consists of $250,000 of first pre-
ferred seven per cent $20 par stock, $150,000
second preferred seven per cent $20 par and
100,000 shares of no par common.
Don T. Allen of Milwaukee, president of the
Allen-Hough Manufacturing Co., becomes presi-
dent of the new corporation. George P. Hough,
Racine, becomes vice-president; and Gardner P.
Allen, Racine, secretary-treasurer, both retain-
ing the same positions they held in the Allen-
Hough Co.
For the time being, the Allen-Hough Carry-
ola company will operate both the Racine and
Milwaukee plants, but in the near future opera-
tions will probably be consolidated in the Mil-
waukee plant, a four-story structure with 50,-
000 square feet of space.
Goold Bros. Open New
Branch Store in Buffalo
BUFFALO, N. Y., March 11.—Goold Bros, have
just opened one of the finest community music
stores in this locality at 2145 Seneca street,
which they will operate as a branch of their big
Main street store. A complete line of musical
instruments is carried in the new store, of
which E. R. Allen is manager.
Miss Rose
Mootz is assistant manager, the sales staff also
including Norman Mootz, J. L. Stein, Mrs. L.
DeCoursey and Bertha Wills. The store is lo-
cated in the heart of the rapidly developing
South Buffalo business district.
The main floor of the store of the Starr Piano
Co., Cleveland, has been remodeled and the
space will be devoted to a display of pianos
and radios, the specialty shops formerly located
there having been discontinued.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
MARCH 16, 1929
American Piano Go. Stores
for Atlanta and Milwaukee
New Retail Branches to be Opened This Month
With Lionel Tompkins and E. C. Hill as
Managers—Others in Prospect
The formal opening of two new retail
branches of the American Piano Co., this
month, at Atlanta and Milwaukee, respectively,
was announced by the company this week:
Lionel Tompkins has been appointed manager
of Ampico Hall in Atlanta, which is located in
spacious quarters at 193 Peachtree street. The
main salesroom of this establishment embodies
10,000 square feet of floor space, making it suit-
able as a concert hall on special occasions.
Five beautifully furnished studios for music
teachers, a large mulberry carpeted drawing
room for exclusive social and musical events,
and a ladies' lounge fitted in rose and green
are among the attractive features of the new
Ampico Hall. On Mr. Tompkins' staff at the
new Ampico Hall in Atlanta are Gordon L.
Richardson, formerly of the Cable Piano Co.,
S. N. Frankel, formerly with Ludden and Bates,
Atlanta; W. P. Clemont, office and collection
manager; T. L. Rainwater and J. R. Durdcn,
who are in charge of the service department.
The Milwaukee Ampico Hall is located in the
Kesselman Building, 445 Broadway, and is under
the direction of Elmer C. Hill, former sales
manager of the Chicago Ampico Hall.
The warerooms present an impressive appear-
ance with a frontage of twenty-five feet and a
depth of 125 feet; the second floor has a width
of fifty feet. This branch also is equipped
with a recital hall seating three hundred and
fifty people and will be utilized by Mr. Hill
for a series of promotion concerts, featuring
the Ampico and other leading instruments of
the American Piano Co. line.
The decision to distribute its own products in
Atlanta and Milwaukee is in line with the new
policy of the American Piano Co., as announced
by George Urquhart, president of the company,
in an exclusive interview in The Review during
January, in which he stated that local branches
will be established only when no other repre-
sentation can be obtained.
Repossession Service Is
,
Aid to Cleveland Trade
CLEVELAND, 0., March 11.—The newly organized
repossession service recently inaugurated by
the Cleveland Music Trades' Association is
proving popular and a large number of cases
have been reported to Secretary Rexford. C.
Hyre. He will in turn advise other members
of the names and addresses of these people.
The annual banquet of the association is ten-
tatively set for April 9. Tuesday evening.
Tickets will be two dollars a plate. It will be
held in the rooms of the Cleveland Chamber
of Commerce in the Terminal building. The
ladies will be invited and a big attendance is
looked for.
Heppe & Son Tie Up With
Armbruster Recitals
PHILADELPHIA, PA., March 11.—Tying in with
the appearance here last Sunday evening at the
Stanley Theatre, of Robert Armbruster, pianist,
the C. J. Heppe & Son Co., 1117 Chestnut street,
made a special arrangement to have the artist
autograph his recordings on the Duo-Art for
patrons at the store. A window display tied in
with the appearance of Armbruster at the Stan-
ley Club recitals in which the reproduction of
his playing on the Duo-Art Audio Graphic re-
producing pianos was featured along with the
Steinway Steck, Stroud and Weber Duo-Art
pianos.