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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1929 Vol. 88 N. 20

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The Music Trade
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Kim ball Reproducing Piano Chosen
for Philadelphia's Newest Theatre
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PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 13.—One of the fea-
tures of the new Mastbaum Theatre in this
city is a Kimball Welte reproducing concert
grand specially finished to harmonize with the
decorations of the theatre and which occupies
a prominent place in the new playhouse. The
installation brings to mind that there are at
Kimball Grand Piano
for Broadcasting Studio
Edison Exhibit Takes
First Prize in Baltimore
A beautiful display of Edison radios pre-
sented by the Consolidated Gas & Electric Co.,
Edison radio dealers of Baltimore, was award-
ed the first prize at the Better Homes and
Building Exposition, held in that city during
the week of April 6.
The various Edison radios in the disp'ay
were placed in settings that represented por-
tions of completely furnished living-rooms and
were thus shown exactly as they appear in the
home, surrounded by furniture, lamps, rugs,
and other home-like decorations.
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present sixty theatres in Philadelphia and vicin-
ity that are equipped with the well-known
Kimball pipe organs.
Another Kimball grand, in Chippendale style,
was recently placed in the home of David Solo-
veiff, who recently won a $5,000 prize offered by
the Academy of Music.
MII.WAUKKE, Wis., May U.—Stephen A. Mond-
schein, 68, traveling representative for Edmund
Gram, Inc., in the State of Wisconsin, died re-
cently at his home at 3320 McKinley boulevard,
Milwaukee. Mr. Mondschein was well known
in the music field throughout the Middlewest-
ern territory. At one time he operated his own
store in this city known as the S. A. Mond-
schein Piano Co. He became connected with
Gram on November 10, 1910, and when he died
was a member of the board of directors of
that concern. He was a musician of some note.
The F. H. Groves Piano Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.,
has leased new quarters at 207 Fifth avenue,
that city.
California Trade Pleased With
Legislation Results of the Year
KANSAS CITY, MO., May 11.—Good activity in
the piano line has been experienced by the W.
W. Kimball Co. so far this month. H. W.
Wert, manager of the company, reports the in-
stallation of a Kimball grand piano in the
broadcasting station KWAC at the La Salle
Hotel, and says they are receiving a lot of
compliments on the instrument. They have
also placed in the High School of North Kan-
sas City one of the latest Kimball Studio up-
right models.
Atwater Kent Radio to Be
Displayed at Seville
The Atwater Kent Manufacturing Co. an-
nounces that through its Spanish distributor,
the Auto Electricidad of Barcelona, arrange-
ments for the exhibition of the complete At-
water Kent line of Screen Grid Radio were
completed, both at Barcelona and Seville,
(Spain), prior to the opening of the joint ex-
positions May 15.
According to Major W. J. Avcry, chief of
the Atwater Kent Export Department, it is
estimated that between a half and three-quar-
ters of a million people will have seen the dis-
play of the American manufacturer before the
expositions close late in December of this
year, including many thousands from South
American countries.
Atwater Kent has a special pavilion at the
Seville Exposition, built under the direction of
their Spanish Distributor.
Columbia Artist Appears
in Gala Performances
Maria Kurenko, exclusive Columbia artist,
and noted Russian soprano, will fill the role
of the ill-fated heroine, Martha, in Rimsky-
Korsakoff's opera, "The Tsar's Bride." The
performance will be presented by the Russian-
American Grand Opera Company at the Man-
hattan Opera House, New York. Her latest
recording for Columbia is the "Jewel Song"
from "Faust," and "La Danza."
T OS ANGELES, CAL., May 11.—Members
of the music and radio trades find many
reasons for congratulating themselves upon the
final outcome of the several proposed bills in-
troduced in the Senate and Assembly during
the session in Sacramento which ends May 15.
First of all the State tax situation was im-
mensely relieved through the fixing of a one
mill rate on all solvent credits with the Con-
stitutional amendment ruling that it should,
under no circumstances, exceed four mills. The
battle over this, however, has not entirely
ceased, because as soon as the adjournment of
the legislature takes place, a committee wi.l
commence to deliberate on further recom-
mendations for the better clarification of a
somewhat over-amended act or State law. It
is highly desirable that someone, who is con-
versant with the different angles of the situa-
tion and who has at least a fundamental under-
standing of the very complicated ramifications
of the tax legislation, should act in a partially
advisory position—self-appointed though he
may be—for the protection of the music, radio
and other installment sales business.
E. C. Mitchell, secretary of the Retail Furni-
ture Dealers of Los Angeles, who has done
more, perhaps, toward the protection of the
interests of the trades in respect to the tax
legislature, mentioned above, as well as in re-
gard to other laws and proposed laws, than any
other individual or group of individuals,
throughout the State explained the amendment
of a bill which had been introduced into the
Assembly, and which had had its third reading
in the Senate which, if it had not been amended,
would have given landlords of furnished houses,
apartment houses and bungalow flats the right
to seize and sell any merchandise which a ten-
ant might have bought on lease contract, to
settle for delinquent rent. Until the bill was
amended, it would have meant that selling
musical or radio merchandise to any persons
who did not own their homes, was extremely
hazardous. He also drew attention to another
proposed bill which would have placed all in-
stalment houses on a similar basis to finance
houses, obligating them to report to the Sec-
retary of State and to conduct their businesses
on similar lines.
A bill which would have required the record-
ing of all lease contracts, incurring extra ex-
pense and loss of time for all merchants selling
on the instalment plan, was also introduced
and, although it was not very strongly sup-
ported by its sponsor, nor by those who were
in favor of it, it was necessary to have some-
one to employ opposition to its passage. This
bill has been introduced at each legislative ses-
sion—which occurs every two years—for the
last six or eight years and has been defeated.
Taraffo, Noted Guitarist,
Now Columbia Artist
Pasquale Taraffo, the celebrated Italian
guitarist, whose fourteen-stringed instrument
so interested the New York critics the past sea-
son, is the latest addition to the list of exclusive
Columbia recording artists.
Taraffo made his United States debut at the
Gallo Theatre, New York, on December Zi,
1928, before an audience which then consisted
mainly of his own countrymen. His record
recital a few days later, however, drew great
crowds of American music lovers, owing to the
praise of the critics.
He invented his very sonorous, enlarged
guitar himself. It has eight extra strings, of
unusual length, and rests upon a pedestal when
played.
The American Bosch Magneto Cor]), an-
nounces three new Bosch Radio models, all
engineered to the new screen-grid, four element
tubes. The new line is composed of a table
model and a Combined set and Speaker Con-
sole and a DeLuxe Highboy model. All will
use the same seven-tube chassis. All three
models have sliding doors, including the table
model and present rather unusual furniture at-
tractiveness. All models are for dynamic type
speaker operation. The consoles will have the
new Bosch dynamic type speaker, which is also
furnished as a table type as well.
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The Music Trade Review
MAY 18, 1929
Death of Charles H. Ditson
Prominent Music Publisher
President of Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, and
Charles H. Ditson & Co., New York, Passes
Away in Eighty-fourth Year
Charles Healy Ditson, the music publisher,
president of the Oliver Ditson Co., of Boston,
and Charles H. Ditson & Co., of this city, died
at 10 o'clock Tuesday night at his home, 1*1
The Late Charles H. Ditson
East 37th street, New York, after a brief illness.
He was in his eighty-fourth year.
Mr. Ditson's health had been poor for the last
few years, nevertheless he remained active in
business to the end. He was an exceptionally
hard worker.
Mr. Ditson was born in Boston on August
11, 1845. His father, Oliver Ditson, founded
in 1835 the music publishing house that bears
his name.
After Charles H. Ditson had graduated from
the English high school in Boston his father
sent him to Europe for travel and study. In
1865 he entered his father's firm. Two years
later the firm bought the business of Firth, Son
& Co., of New York and Charles came here to
manage it as a branch of the Boston firm under
the name of Charles H. Ditson & Co. In 1875
the business of William Hall & Son, and two
years later that of J. L. Peters, both of New
York, were acquired by Mr. Ditson's New York
firm.
Between 1867 and 1878 the growing business
of the New York house caused its removal from
553 Broadway to 711. then to 843. In 1883
the firm erected at the southwest corner of
Broadway and Eighteenth street the first Dit-
son building. Here at 867 Broadway it re-
PHILIP W. OETTING & SON, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
So?.« AGENTS FOR
WEICKERT
Hammer and Damper Felts
Piano Club in Chicago Plans for
Many Convention Week Activities
/CHICAGO, ILL., May 13.—Owing to the
^^ trade interest in the approaching Chicago
conventions, the Piano Club devoted the enter-
tainment time on Monday to an outline of the
work so far accomplished by the Chicago en-
tertainment committee in providing for the en-
tertainment of the visitors—both men and
woinen.
Vice-President G. B. Brownell as chairman
of the local entertainment committee first an-
nounced that there would be a prc-convention
meeting of the Chicago piano men to take the
form of a supper at 6.30 p. m. Monday, May
27, at the Medinah Athletic Club. It is the
desire of the officers to have as many local
piano men present at that convention as pos-
sible, and tickets can be obtained from either
Mr. Brownell or other members of the com-
mittee, who also include: G. S. McLaughlin, Ted
Benedict, James T. Bristol, and H. T. Hewitt.
The conventions will, as usual, be formally
opened by the luncheon on Monday at 12.30,
June 3, at the Drake under the auspices of
the Piano Club of Chicago. The Tuesday
luncheon at the same hotel will be managed
by the Chicago Piano & Organ Association.
Later provision is expected to be made for
organization luncheons on Wednesday, and at
the banquet at the Drake on Thursday night.
It is the hope of the Chicago men that the
diners will number at least as many as at the
Chicago convention of two years ago, when
there were nearly 800 took part in the festivi-
ties. The tickets for this event are $7.50 each
and for the Monday luncheon $2.50 each.
It is the intention to put on an interesting
musical program at the Monday luncheon with
one or two opera stars as headliners. A num-
ber of manufacturers' representatives said that
the inquiries they had made had convinced them
that more dealers than usual will attend this
convention, and former President Gordon
Laughead of the Piano-Club, and sales manager
of the Wurlitzer Grand l'iano Co., made an im-
promptu but inspiring speech calling attention
to the undeniable sales possibilities for manu-
facturers and dealers alike in the present con-
dition. He reminded the assemblage of a fact
incurred by other makers that the dealers'
stocks were low throughout the country and
that energetic and persistent selling was bring-
ing satisfactory results.
The announcement was made of the recent
death of Willard A. Vose, president of the Vose
Piano Co., and at the suggestion of several of
the members present paid the deceased a tribute
by standing in silence several minutes.
Atlas Now Distributing
Portables and Records
The Atlas Player Roll Co., Newark, N. J.,
manufacturer of Atlas and A-R player rolls,
has expanded its organization to include the
distribution of a standard make of portables
and Vocalion popular, "race," "hill billy," Mexi-
can, Jewish and Polish records, released by the
Vocalion division of the Brunswick-Balke-Col-
lender Co., Chicago. The territory to be cov-
ered by the distributing division of the Atlas
mained until 1907, when it erected the second Player Roll Co. covers and includes Wilming-
Ditson building at 8-12 East Thirty-fourth ton, Delaware; North along the Atlantic sea-
board to Canada on a line roughly passing
street. The firm was then forty years old.
Oliver Ditson died on December 21, 1888, and through the middle section of Pennsylvania
his son Charles became treasurer of the parent and New York State. Distributing branches
house. Upon the death of President John C. carrying complete lines of all these various
Haynes in May, 1907, Mr. Ditson became presi- products, including music rolls, have been es-
tablished in Boston and Philadelphia, in addi-
dent.
Mr. Ditson was a liberal contributor to settle- tion to the main office and factory in Newark
ment schools and other welfare organizations. N. J.
His benefactions to individuals were many. He
was esteemed for his considerateness toward
employes when they were past their best years
Sadock & Adelman, who have opened an
of service.
During his more than sixty years of residence elaborate new furniture store on South Michi-
in New York, Mr. Ditson had been active in gan avenue, Chicago, have installed a piano
the city's music life. He was a member of the department to handle the Cable Company line.
New England and Boston Societies, the Society Keevan Sadock, of the company, was formerly
of Mayflower Descendants, the Players' Club manager of the branch store of the Cable Piano
Co. at 11361 Michigan avenue.
of New York and the Algonquin of Boston.
In October, 1890, he married Miss Alice M.
Christopher C. Zcek, for the past 30 years a
Tappin of this city, who survives him.
Funeral services were held at Mr. Ditson's piano dealer in Morristown, Pa., died in his
late home on Friday evening of this week, and home in that city recently following a stroke of
the body was taken to Boston for burial on paralysis. He is survived by a widow, a
daughter and two sons.
Saturdav.
Open Piano Department
THE REVIEW'S UNIVERSAL "WANT" DIRECTORY
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forward to this office a "position
"wanted" advertisement intended
for this Department, to occupy four
lines agate measure, and it will be in-
serted free. Replies will also be for-
warded without cost. Additional space
charged at the rate of 25c per line. If
bold-faced type is desired, the cost for
same will be 25c a line, 7 words to a line.
"Help Wanted" advertisements will be
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Cash must accompany order.
Business Opportunities and For Sale
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only at $7.00 per single column inch.
All advertisements intended for this
department must be in hand on the Sat-
urday preceding date of issue.
A
EXCEPTIONAL CHANCE FOR ORGAN
SALESMAN—We want a thoroughly ener-
getic, reliable, man capable of taking full charge
of pipe organ sales and getting results. Draw-
ing account, commission basis. Give full de-
tails by letter to D. P. Garber, general manager,
Geneva Organ Co., 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chi-
cago, 111.
MANAGER—Thoroughly experienced in every detail of
music store operation, also in branch store management,
collections, service, etc., with Steinway and American
Piano houses, desires position as manager or sales manager
with first class store, preferably in New Jersey or Pennsyl-
vania.
Highest references.
Address Box 3327, Music
Trade Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—Sales and advertising, by Amer-
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Trade Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED—by A-l tuner and player me-
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Trade Review, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
POSITION WANTED — Experienced piano salesman
wants wholesale connection on a part-time basis, in and
around Minnesota, with privilege to retail line in home
city. Address Box 3325, Music Trade Review, 420 Lex-
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EXECUTIVE—Many years' experience with Steinway
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manager or sales-manager where future depends on results
obtained. A-l references. Address Box 3322, care of The
Music Trade Review, 420 Lexington Ave., New York City.
POSITION WANTED—First-class tuner and player
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connection.
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Address
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