Presto

May 22, 1920.
26
BRIEF BITS OF LATE NEWS
(Continued from page 24.)
Standard Phonograph Motors, Inc. At the recent
meeting at which the change was effected new offi-
cers were elected.
The Widdicomb phonograph has been added to
the line of the music department of the J. L. Hud-
son Co., Detroit.
Al. Waltamath, after an absence of a year and a
half with the U. S. Army abroad, has returned to
the phonograph department of the J. W. Brown
Piano Co., Canton, O.
D. Dcs Foldes is manager of the Grafonola Shop,
Norfolk, Va.
Achor & Weldon handle talking machines and
records in a new store recently opened at Modesto,
California.
The Baas Music Shop, Rock Island, 111., will move
to a new location about the end of August.
William A. Carey has opened a new store on Mon-
roe avenue, Rochester, N. Y.
C. R. Ross is manager of the Portland Phono-
graph Co., Portland, Ore., which handles the Puritan
phonograph.
The Reed-Klapp Phonograph Co., Middleton, O.,
held a formal opening of its new store recently.
The Talking Machine Co., Victor retailers in
Philadelphia, has moved its central store and offices
from 143 South Broad s-treet to 1225 Chestnut street.
W. V. Davies, heretofore partner of R. T. Shelly
in the music business in Marshalltown, la., has sold
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his interest to his former partner and retires from
the business.
Roy Shirlein has bought a half interest in the A.
B. Coover Talking Machine Company on Columbia
street, Union City, Ind.
C. R. Hays has opened a music department in the
Dankworth Pharmacy on Belmont street, Bellaire,
Ohio.
Miss Florence Roman will manage the Limbeck
& Nelson music store, Aunawan, 111., as soon as the
branch is opened.
The store formerly occupied by the Keystone
Store, Bellefonte, Pa., is now occupied by the Gheen
Music Co.
Herman Spitz, agent for a talking machine com-
pany, has taken an option to purchase the store
property of Mrs. Julia Smith, at Main and. Spring
streets, Sag Harbor, N. Y.
The W. F. Duker Company, Quincy, 111., has pur-
chased the Columbia Graphonola agency from the
Leowenstein Music Company.
SEATTLE MANAGER RESIGNS.
Frank Dorian, of the Seattle branch of the Colum-
bia Graphophone Company, has retired from busi-
ness. After spending a few months in California he
will go to New York, where he will make his home.
He and C. V. H. Jones were Portland visitors dur-
ing the week. Mr. Jones has resigned his position
with the Columbia company. He was wholesale
representative of the Seattle territory. Mr. Jones will
accompany Mr. Dorian to California and will make
his home there and go into a different line of busi-
ness. Mr. Ackley, the new manager of the Colum-
bia company, has not yet arrived, and until his ar-
rival, George Brown, assistant manager, is in charge.
ELDREDGE R. JOHNSON'S GIFT.
Elrlredge R. Johnson, president of the Victor
Talking Machine Company, Camden, N. J., has given
$50,000, and F. Wayland Ayer $25,000 toward the
Camden Y. W. C. A. fund. Mr. Johnson's gift is
conditioned that sufficient funds are raised to go ahead
substantially with the building project. The fund
now stands at $122,000. Business girls were gather-
ing coins and bills at the ferries last week to help
build the new home.
NEW SALES MANAGER.
C. L. Johnson is the new sales manager of the
Blackmail Talking Machine Co., New York, which
handles the Victor line in a wholesale way. Mr.
Johnson was recently with Bristol-Barber, New
York, and previous to that was manager of the
talking machine department for Steger & Sons,
branch in Newark, N. J.
BOOKLET TELLS
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Dainty Publication in Which the Remarkable
Powers of the Apollo-Phone Are Told
in Entertaining Style and
Artistic Illustrations.
An unusually artistic and effective booklet has ap-
peared in which some of the advanced attainments
of the Apollo-Phone are described in attractive terms.
The booklet is entitled "An Epoch Making Instru-
ment," and it is the work of the publicity depart-
ment of The Apollo Piano Co., of DeKalb, 111. Typo-
graphically the publication is so attractive as to fit
the facts of which it treats. It is printed, in clear
type, with a blue border in which the face of the
mythologic god after whom the Apollo is named
forms a conspicuous part. But, of course, it is what
the booklet says that is the chief interest. The in-
troductory page is as follows:
An Epoch Making Instrument.
For years the world of music lovers has dreamed
of the perfect union of the player piano and phono-
graph. It dreamed of an instrument that would not
only bring to the home the great opera singers, the
great violinists and all masters of the musical art,
but would give to all the wonderful privilege of ac-
companying, and thus sharing in the performance of
the great artists.
Many experiments were attempted by other piano
manufacturers, but it remained for the manufactur-
ers of the Apollo to achieve the ideal in the Apollo-
Phone.
It is significant, that the genius of the organization
which created the metronome motor, the transposing
device—the dynaline and other notable inventions
that have made the player piano a musically artistic
instrument, was responsible for this achievement
which has broadened the influence of music.
Unlimited Possibilities.
Following that succinct setting forth of facts fa-
miliar to the trade, but still new to very many who
long to own such an instrument as the Apollo-Phone,
are four pages in which are told the "Unlimited Pos-
sibilities of the Apollo-Phone" as a player-piano, as
a phonograph and as a "straight" or manual piano.
There is also stress put upon the unique feature of
the instrument by which "the harmonious union of
the phonograph and the highly artistic player-piano
opens up new fields of delight to all who love music."
This chapter concludes with the suggestive and
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