PRESTO
10
BOOTH
SHOW
Sparkling Fountain Will Mingle Its Melody
with That of the Playerpiano in Grand
Central Palace Display.
January 22, 1920.
A GREAT NEW PIANO
STORE IN
Visitors to the Autopiano exhibit at the National
Music Show, Grand Central Palace, New York, dur-
ing the first week of next month, are promised an
artistic treat. Booth 35 has been handsomely dec-
orated and sumptuously furnished in a style befitting
the distinguished instruments for which it is to be
the setting. Period furniture, artistic draperies,
sculpture, pictures, rugs, etc., will lend to it an
atmosphere of homelike elegance and refinement.
Among the appointments will be a babbling fountain
of water blending its musical tinkle with the dulcet
tones of the famous playerpiano.
The Autopiano, which has been signally distin-
guished by the American army and navy, the Vatican
and international expositions on numerous occasions,
will be displayed in all its classic models, including
the popular playerpiano, the phonograph piano, and
the Reproducing Grand Piano (Welte patent).
Extensive arrangements have been made to pro-
vide for the practical needs of visitors. The display
will be in charge of President Paul Brown Klugh,
Vice-President Frank E. Edgar and Beeman P.
Sibley, music roll representative. Expert attendants
in all departments will be provided. A competent
stenographic staff will be in attendance, under the
direction of Mrs. M. A. Lamson, and telephonic
and correspondence facilities will be supplied.
The Autopiano exhibit is on the main floor of the
Palace and visitors are assured of a hearty wel-
come.
DALLAS ASSOCIATION VOTES
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
VIEWS OF NEW HEADQUARTERS OP GLENN BROS.-llOBERTS PTANO CO.
Music Trade Organization in Lively Texas City
Voices Feelings of Appreciation.
At the regular weekly meeting of the Dallas
Music Industries Association, Dallas, Tex., held re-
cently, the following resolution was introduced by
W. L. Bush, and seconded by the entire member-
ship, then carried with a rousing cheer and unan-
imous vote:
Resolved, That this association tenders, through
its secretary, a vote of thanks and sincere apprecia-
tion to the music trade press for the splendid pub-
licity and liberal notices, also editorial comment
given voluntarily in support of this association and
its activities for the betterment and advancement of
the work in which Dallas has gained a reputation
for initiative action.
The Dallas Music Industries Association, of which
J. C. Phelps is president and B. W. Gratigny, sec-
retary, fulfils all the purposes of a trade organiza-
tion of that nature. It has been a force not only in
music trade affairs since it was established but also
in artistic events and civic matters.
THE "Q R S BULLETIN" IS
ATTRACTIVE TRADE ITEM
Dainty "House Organ" of Famous Player Roll In-
dustry Is of Special Interest.
Dealers everywhere have received copies of the
"Q-R-S Bulletin" and know what an attractive
courier of good things musical it is. It is original
in its "makeup" and dainty in its colorings. In
short, it is distinctly Q-R-S.
The February "Q-R-S Bulletin" has a remarkably
beautiful first page picture, illustrating "The Silvery
Brook," which is described as follows:
The picture on the front cover would mean little
to you if we did not tell you that it is a view of the
Valley of the Arno in the Alps, where Emperor
Napoleon crossed with his troops in mid-winter.
The Q-R-S Story Roll tells you the story of the
music as you play the roll.
"The Silvery Brook," a new Q-R-S story roll,
tells a beautiful story to the tune of a fascinating
melody.
The music and the story combined make a roll,
without which you player roll library will be in-
complete.
The Bulletin for February also contains a scene
from the Passing Show of 1919, especially the fox-
trot. "Tumble In," which was listed in the January
Bulletin. There is a page of minor notes, with por-
trait of Mme. Sturkow-Ryder, one of the Q-R-S
artists. The page concludes with this paragraph:
The daily newspapers throughout the country are
Last week's Presto, on page 14, told the story of Salt Lake City, Utah, to be known as Chickering
the opening and souvenir < giving at Glenn Bros.- Hall. Here the Chickering pianos and the Ampico
Roberts Piano Company's fine new warerooms at Reproducing pianos are being shown and sold.
featuring "music sections" and music rolls in this
section. The Ft. Worth Record of Texas carried a
full list of Q-R-S December numbers as a news
item, showing its recognition of the place the player-
piano holds in American homes.
Dealers will find the February "Q-R-S Bulletin"
a reliable guide to the "best sellers" in the player
music-roll department.
RALEIGH, N. C. FIRM WILL
FEATURE KRAKAUER PIANO
Owner and Manager of New Firm of J. T. Bowles
Music Co. Man of Experience.
The J. T. Bowles Music Co., Inc., is the name of a
new firm in Raleigh, N. C, which will be formally
opened on February 15. The Krakauer pianos and
players, made by Krakauer Bros., New York, will be
featured in the new piano warerooms.
J. T. Bowles, the owner and manager of the new
firm, is well and favorably known in Raleigh, where
for the past four years he has been manager of the
Darnell & Thomas Co. Mr. Bowles, who has just re-
turned from New York, is personally superintenidng
the preparation of the new warerooms, which he
means to make the equal in beauty and sales facil-
ities of anything in the South.
T. M. PLETCHER TAKES TRIP.
Thomas M. Pletcher, president of the Q R S
Company, Chicago, left last Saturday for California,
to look after a little business and a lot of golf. He
said to a Presto representative before starting: "I
may return by way of southern Texas and New
Orleans, but I hope to get in a little golf at every
stop." Mr. Pletcher did not say how he was going
to dodge insistent customers for more Q R S rolls,
on this long trip.
STILL SOME "WAS AND NOW."
Occasionally, even now,'there comes an adver-
tisement of the old-time and much kicked and dis-
cussed "Was and Now" kind. A specimen is that of
Weilers piano house at Quincy, 111., which is adver-
tising a number of used pianos with the pictorial
display having figures attached. And the figures run
from $40 up. Some good piano names are attached
to the pictures, which gives to the adv. a somewhat
"fishy" look.
CABLE BREAKFAST EVENT
OF CONVENTION WEEK
Custom Established by Maj. Jonas M. Cleland Will
Be Observed as Usual.
The fifteenth annual breakfast to The Cable Com-
pany's dealers will be given by that Chicago manu-
facturing concern at the Commodore Hotel, New
York, on the morning of February 4; Wednesday
morning of convention week. An attendance of 75
persons is expected, and all Cable dealers are in-
vited to attend. The custom was established in
1906 by Maj. Jonas M. Cleland, who at that time
was president of The Cable Company. Those in at-
tendance from The Cable Company will be Presi-
dent George J. Dowling, Vice-president W. E. Guy-
lee and C. E. Jackson, wholesale manager.
Frank Anrys, of San Francisco, Cal., general man-
ager of the Wiley B. Allen Company's business,
was in Chicago on Monday of this week on his way
to the New York convention and Music Show.
With him was James Black, manager of the Wiley
B. Allen talking machine business. Mr. Anrys said
that the outlook on the Pacific Coast is promising
for a good year, provided the dealers can get the
goods.
William H. Collins, manager of the retail piano
department of Lyon & Healy's, Chicago, will at-
tend the convention. He expects to visit a good
many places in the metropolis, as he will have a
whole week there. Mr. Collins intends to leave
Chicago on this trip on January 27.
Frank N. Lord, assistant manager of the Hotel
Commodore, New York, which is to be convention
headquarters, is a brother of B. P. Lord, of the
piano retail department of Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
Being so nearly related to a good piano man, Mr.
Lord of the hotel is preparing to take care of piano
men to the best advantage. A great many of them
have arranged for rooms through him, and he is
seeing to it that they get the most advantageous
rates possible.
E. W. Furbush, one of the wholesale ambassa-
dors for the Haddorff Piano Company, is going to
the convention. Mr. Furbush seldom or never
misses a convention of the piano men.
Miss Alma Seile, Winamac, Ind., has taken over
the music store on Pearl street heretofore con-
ducted by W. F. Burrell.
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