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Musician Risks Life
to Save Banjo in Fire
A striking incident was related in metropoli-
tan newspapers this week pertaining to a musi-
cian in the Rosemont Dance Hall, 532 Fulton
street, Brooklyn, N. Y., who risked his life in
a fire there Sunday night to save the instrument
of his livelihood, a banjo. The man, Albert
Morrison, followed the crowd to the street
when the fire broke out, but suddenly remem-
bering his instrument, dashed back into the
building to secure it. Quickly locating the in-
strument he found that smoke and flames
blocked his return, and was forced to climb out
on a ledge on the second floor, where he waved
his banjo at the crowd below, calling for help.
The arrival of firemen with a ladder a minute or
two later saved the musician from anything
worse than a bad scare, but the possession of
his treasured banjo was sufficient consolation
for his unique experience.
Delano Named Chairman of
Music Week Band Contest
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., January 25.—As the result
of a conference between Chester W. Rosekrans,
chairman of the San Francisco Civic Associa-
tion, in charge of Music Week activities and E.
J. Delano, of Sherman, Clay & Co. Mr. Rose-
krans has appointed Mr. Delano chairman for
the Music Week school band contest. Nearly
every separate branch of Music Week activities
has a chairman, and for final endorsement the
plans for the band contest will go to Mr. Delano
and Mr. Rosekrans.
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There will be a school orchestra contest held
in connection with the city's Music Week this
year. Mr. Rosekrans states that at first it was
thought that the public schools and the amateur
orchestras might all participate in this competi-
tion. However, it was found that many of the
members of amateur orchestras are also mem-
bers of high school orchestras, and with many
of the students it would have been a case of
competing against themselves. As a result, the
orchestra contest is to be limited to schools.
Elite Music Store to Move
The Elite Music Store, 221 South High street,
Columbus, O., will soon move to its new loca-
tion at 116 South High street, where extensive
remodeling has been under way for some time.
BACON
BANJOS
Played by Leading
Musicians and Orchestras
Sold by Representative
Music Merchants
BACON BANJO CO., Inc.
GROTON, CONN.
New Holton Advertising Service
Is Now Available for Retailers
A PPRECIATING the problems of music outs is even greater than that resulting from
dealers in getting the maximum return from a single, large display involving an equal ex-
advertising expenditures in local newspapers, penditure.
Frank Holton & Co.,
Elkhorn, Wis., h a v e
prepared a series of
s m a l l advertisements,
which are now being
s u p p l i e d to Holton
dealers in mat form.
One-column l a y o u t s ,
economical in the use
of newspaper s p a c e ,
are furnished in every
instance.
In these Holton ad-
vertisements, the sales
messages are conveyed
in a brief but effective
form, and the art work
is of such a quality as
to be beyond the range
of the appropriation of
the average d e a l e r ,
working independent of
ifcL
this service.
Facsimile Reproductions of New Holton Advertising Matter
The idea behind the
That this service, which is furnished to
small, one-column Holton ads is to enable the
average dealer to be a consistent advertiser, dealers free of cost, is popular, is demonstrated
rather than use sporadic advertisements of by the surprisingly large number of Holton
larger dimensions. The company has felt that distributors, who are taking the utmost advan-
the pulling power from a series of smaller lay- tage of it in every way.
Closes Successful Year
Ward-Brodt Co. in Madison, Wis., Sold Many
Band Instruments During 1929
January 27.—The Ward-Brodt
Music Co. reports that it has closed an ex-
tremely successful year, and according to T.
Lane Ward, plans are under way for some un-
usual business promotions during 1929.
The Ward-Brodt Music Co., was organized in
April, 1927, and since that time has shown a
constant growth. The company handles the
Frank Holton line of band instruments, and is
planning the organization of several bands in
Dane county during this year.
This music store became the exclusive Bruns-
wick distributor in Madison since April 1, 1928,
and it also featured Brun&wick and Columbia
records.
A complete repair department is another fac-
tor in the success of the Ward-Brodt Co. The
department is fully equipped to take care of
repairs of string instruments, reed instruments,
phonographs, and during the last year repair
service for all other types of instruments ha:;
been inaugurated.
MADISON, WIS.,
Prize-Winning String Band
Uses Weymann Instruments
PHILADELPHIA, PA., January 28.—Weymann
banjos and guitars were the instruments played
by the prize-winning string band which yearly
has made the honors of the annual Mummers'
Parade held in the Quaker City on New Year's
Day and known as the Hegeman String Band,
of which Ernest A. Hegeman, 4203 Lancaster
avenue, music dealer, is director. This year,
owing to the rainy New Year, the Mummers'
celebration was not held until the succeeding
week when the third prize was bestowed upon
the Hegeman Band by the municipality. The
saxophone section played the Buescher and
Conn instruments. The Hegeman Band with
its eighty instrumentalists who were awarded
the prize journeyed to Perry Point, Md., last
Sunday to entertain the veterans of the World's
War in the Naval Hospital.
Harmonica Band to Be
Organized in Columbus
Organization of a harmonica band is one of
the latest activities in the boys' department of
the Central Y. M. C. A., Columbus, O. Just
UNIONTOWN, PA., January 28.—William R. Brad- how many members will comprise the band has
ley, a prominent Uniontown business man who not been determined, but enrollments for the
died recently, by the terms of his will leaves organization are coming in at a rapid pace. J.
$5,000 to his alma mater, the University of C. Spangler, pianist and accordion player, will
Illinois. The money is to go to the military direct the organization.
band department of the School of Music of the
University, and is to be a perpetual trust fund,
Walter Holloway, formerly a music dealer of
the income of which is to provide an annual Flushing, O., has returned to that town and
banquet for the department. The remainder of opened a music shop at High and Morristown
his estate, estimated at more than $50,000, is left streets. Mr. Holloway plans to carry a large line
entirely to his widow, Helen Byers Bradley.
of musical instruments.
Legacy for School Band
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