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Waters & Ross Open New "Uncle Jack" Plays the
Sheet Music Department
Rolmonica Over Radio
SAN
FRANCISCO, CAL.—Waters & Ross, of San
Francisco, have recently made a number of
changes in their store, in order to install a
large department for sheet music.
All the
phonograph booths have been removed and the
space devoted to the firm's latest activity,
which is in charge of K. Fuhrman, one of the
best-known merchants of printed music in San
Francisco. Speaking for The Music Trade Re-
view, Mr. Fuhrman said that they will carry
a little popular music, a wide selection of band
and orchestra music, and will also specialize on
educational music and music for school bands
and orchestras, in addition to educational music
for piano and vocal students.
"Uncle Jack," of WCAO Safety Club, Balti-
more, Md., has endeared himself to the chil-
dren of Baltimore by the program which he
puts on daily and in which he has made the
Rolmonica an important feature. "Uncle Jack"
gives complete and readily understood instruc-
tion for the proper playing of the harmonica.
Illustrations help to make the text more com-
prehensive. The other publication is a har-
monica transposing chart, which makes possi-
ble harmonica arrangements for musical se-
lections written in eleven different keys. Both
publications are modestly priced, and are al-
ready available for distribution to jobbers and
dealers.
"Uncle Jack"
Playing the
Robbins Music Corp. Opens
New Professional Salons
Ralmonica
Bs.'ore the
Microphone
The Robbins Music Corp. recently held the
formal opening of an elaborate new professional
quarters at 799 Seventh avenue, New York.
The new quarters are most commodious
and meet the needs of the growing Robbins
business, and are arranged and decorated in
the modern manner representing a particularly
interesting example of what can be done in the
modernistic art.
-: New Schirmer Manager
Holroyd Andrews, for several years manager
of G. Schirmer Music Stores, Inc., Cleveland,
O., due to a serious illness in his family has been
obliged to resign from his position as manager
of the Cleveland store and will return to his
home in Boston.
Emiel Kujawski, for many years manager of
Gibbons & Stone of Rochester and recently as-
sociated with the Levis Music Store, assumed
his position as manager of the Schirmer Cleve-
land branch on August 11.
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BANK-NOTES
THE MONEY HITS
OF AMERICA
GO HOME AND TELI YOUR
MOTHER
Prom "Love In the Rough"
JUST A LITTLE CLOSER
from "Remote Control"
SINGING A SONG TO THE
STARS
from "Way Out West 1 '
HERE COMES THE SUN
(Another Singin' In the Rain)
SING (A HAPPY LITTLE
THING)
from "Dough Boys"
ANCHORS AVVEIGH
(The Song of the Navy)
Robbins Music Corporation
799 Seventh Ave.
New York
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Music Engravers and Printers
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311 West 43rd Street
New York City
is none other than Don Hicks, who was born in
a small town near Columbus, O., and showed
a marked liking for the stage at an early age,
at that time joining a vaudeville troupe playing
in Chicago. He has been a newspaper car-
toonist, in motion pictures, a publicity manager,
and played one year in stock with Charlie
Chaplin. After serving with the California
Coast Artillery throughout the war, he became
interested in radio announcing, and one of his
first programs from WCAO was the "Movie
Answer Man."
His creation of the Safety Club in Baltimore
won a quick response from the children in that
city, to whom he is known as "Uncle Jack."
The accompanying illustration shows him play-
ing the Rolmonica during one of his programs.
New Ensemble for Radio
A new name entrant in the radio field
shortly will be the Grofe-Wiedoeft Ensemble,
consisting of Ferde Grofe, musical arranger and
composer; Rudy Wiedoeft, saxophone virtuoso,
and H. Emerson Yorke, former Eastern casting
director for Paramount pictures.
With an orchestra of thirty-one picked mu-
sicians under the Grofe baton, this ensemble
gave an impressive radio audition recently, both
in New York City and Chicago, for a repre-
sentative group of national advertisers.
Ashley Music Supply Co.
Organized in New York
Abe Schlager, for the past fifteen years ac-
tively identified with the wholesale sheet music
industry, the last eight years of which were
spent with the Richmond-Mayer Music Corp.,
as service manager, has formed the Ashley
Music Supply Co., with headquarters in the
Gaiety Theatre Building, 1547 Broadway, New
York. The Ashley company will distribute
everything in music. Associated with Mr.
Schlager, as sales manager, is Phil Moore, who
also has had long experience in the trade.
Two Valuable Books for
. Harmonica Students
There has recently been published by Irving
& Davis, Philadelphia, two valuable helps for
the harmonica player, prepared by Fred Son-
nen, widely recognized as a harmonica teacher
and soloist. The first is a booklet entitled "The
Harmonica Student," in which Mr. Sonnen
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