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VOL. 88. No. 18 Published Weekly. Federated Business Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y., May 4 , 1 9 2 9
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The Formation of Radio-Victor
Corporation Is Announced
New Concern Will Take Over Sales Activities of Victor Talking
Machine Co. and Radio Corp. of America,
With J. L. Ray as President
FORMATION of the Radio-Victor Corpora-
tion of America, a wholly owned subsidiary
of the Radio Corporation of America, has been
announced by General James G. Harbord, presi-
dent of R. C. A. The new company, incor-
porated under the laws of the State of Mary-
land, will take over the sales activities of the
Radio Corporation of America and the Victor
Talking Machine Co.
Over 99 per cent of the common stock of
the Victor Talking Machine Co. has been de-
posited by Victor stockholders pursuant to the
unification plan announced last January.
On the Board of Directors are representatives
of General Electric, Westinghouse and the
Radio Corp. They include H. P. Davis, Gen-
eral James G. Harbord, J. L. Ray, Andrew W.
Robertson, David Sarnoff, Edward E. Shu-
maker, Gerard Swope and Owen D. Young.
The officers will be David Sarnoff, Chairman
of the Board; J. L. Ray, president; I. E. Lam-
bert, vice-president and general counsel; A. E.
Reoch, vice-president in charge of production,
Will You Be There?
service and traffic; H. C. Grubbs, vice-president,
Victor Talking Machine Division; Quinton
Adams, vice-president, Engineering Products
Division; Meade Brunet, vice-president, Radio-
tron Division; E. A. Nicholas, vice-president,
Radiola Division; E. C. Grimley, treasurer and
comptroller and Francis S. Kane, secretary.
The Radio-Victor Corp. welds into a com-
pact unit the entire R. C. A. sales organization,
with branches in New York, Chicago, San Fran-
cisco, Dallas and Atlanta and its foreign sales
activities, and the Victor sales organization with
its Camden offices, a nation-wide system of dis-
tribution, and branch connections through sub-
sidiary companies.
"The world-wide sales organizations of Vic-
tor and the Radio Corporation," said General
Harbord, "will be brought together under one
management. The personnel of both will be
retained."
The unified laboratory, factory and sales
facilities of the new company will result in a
more complete service to the trade and to the
public, according to J. L. Ray, who will head
the Radio-Victor Corp. The mutuality of in-
terest of the two organizations brought to-
gether in this new merchandising unit makes
this an important step in their respective and
now mutual progress.
Mr. Ray said that the Radio-Victor Corp.
would market this year a number of new models
of radio sets and talking machines, with both
the Victor and RCA trade-marks, developed in
the laboratories of the two organizations, and
embodying radically new principles of design.
"Th* Richest Child is Poor
Without a Musical Training"
MUSIC TRADES
CONVENTION
DRAKE HOTEL
JUNE 3 TO 6 1929
CHICAGO
The Official Sticker of the 1929 Music
Conventions in Chicago Next June
In Seventy-Ninth Year
DAYTON, O., April 28.—Celebrating the anniver-
sary of the seventy-ninth year in Dayton, the
Anderson-Soward Piano Co. this week is stag-
ing a sale which reaches all departments of
the store. The concern was founded as the
Sovvard Co. in 1850. Since that time the com-
pany has changed quarters five times, due to
the increased business and demand for more
space.
J. L. Ray, President of the Radio-Victor Corp.
Barker Bros, to Build
LONG BEACH, CAF.., April 27.—Barker Bros., who
have maintained a branch of their Los Angeles
store in this city for some years, have made
plans for the erecting of a new eight-story
building here at a cost of approximately
$l,O(X),(K)u. A feature of the new store will be
the musical instrument department occupying
the tiitin- second floor.
Music Store Broadcasts
JOHNSON CITY, TENN., April 28.—Samuel Poris,
proprietor of the Rose Radio & Music Shop,
this city, has recently installed a radio broad-
casting outfit operating on 249 meters. Mr. Poris
has sponsored many fretted instrument ensem-
bles and soloists in the past and is placing many
of his musician friends on the broadcast pro-
grams.
Edward Hamilton, assistant manager of
C. W. Lindsay Co., Ltd., Montreal, Canada,
died at his home in that city on April 28. He
was 58 years old and had been with the Lind-
say house for 40 years. He is survived by a
widow and three children.