PRESTO
INDIANA MOON A WINNER
November 13, 1920.
THE AMPICO IN CONCERT
IN OWENSBORO THEATER
Cultured Music Lovers of Kentucky City Lis-
ten to Recital Provided by Samuels-
Bittel Music Co.
Indiana Moor, is a wonderful song, the music of
which,' with the words, is now produced as Q R S roll
No. 1154. The Indiana Moon photo shown here
came from the San Francisco office of the Q R S Co.,
sent there from the Daynes-Beebe Music Company,
of Salt Lake City. The name of the young man
who gets up these ideas, and is the Daynes-Beebe
Music Co.'s roll department manager, is G. Todd
Taylor, who is an adept at window trimming and
auistic decorating.
As to the details of this window, real water was
used in a canvas tank with sand and pebbles in the
bottom, which merged into a hand-painted scene in
the background; and the yellow moon was lighted
electrically at night, reflecting in the real water.
The huge fee, overhanging the water, and other
foliage, rocks, etc., made it a very impressive scene
and realistic.
CHEAP GERMAN PIANOS
FLOOD ENGLISH MARKET
hired and he had been instantly killed, apparently by
a blow upon the left temple.
Mr. Waters was a descendant of two very old
Rhode Island families—the Vaughans and the Wa-
ters. His father, Horace Waters, a well-known piano
manufacturer, died about ten years ago.
In 1896 Mr. Waters married Elizabeth L. Blanc,
better known as "Baroness" Blanc, an actress. They
lived together thirty-one days. A decree of divorce
was later procured in Chicago.
Products Are Well Made and Low Price Made Pos-
sible by Low Exchange Rates.
German pianos at an average price of $245 and
Austrian pianos at an average price of $147 are now
offered to dealers in the English market. British
manufacturers cannot hope to make them at the
money, says the report from London.
The flooding of English markets with cheap Ger-
man goods, which are closing factories and throwing
thousands of Britons out of work, is causing an in-
sistent demand for a protective tariff. The German
goods are as well made as the home products and
they can be sold vastly cheaper than English goods
because of the low German exchange.
LEEDS VAUGHAN WATERS
MURDERED IN HOTEL
Mystery Over Tragic Death in New York of Son of
Late Horace Waters.
Leeds Vaughan Waters, 49 years old, a son of
the late Horace Waters, piano manufacturer and
member of a wealthy Rhode Island family, was mur-
dered in a room at the Hotel Plymouth, 257 West
Thirty-eighth street, New York, on the morning
following election day, by a young man with whom
he had registered an hour before. The murderer,
carrying Waters' gold-topped cane, ran out of the
hotel and disappeared before the night clerk discov-
ered that the struggle he had heard in room 805 had
resulted in the death of one of the men. No motive
for the crime was revealed.
Identification of the body was made by Benjamin
R. Vaughan, a cousin. Mr. Vaughan's name and
address were found on papers in Mr. Waters' wallet.
He said that Mr. Waters was planning to leave soon
for Europe, where he usually spent the winter. Mr.
Waters, according to the report made to the detec-
tives, had registered as "J- Talbot, Milwuakee," and
the man with him signed the register as "James
Dunn, Milwaukee."
The murdered piano man's skull had been frac-
THE SCHMOLLER & MUELLER FIRE.
The loss by the total destruction of the Schmoller
& Mueller Piano Company's store, 1110 Douglas
street, Omaha, Neb., recently was covered by in-
surance in the following companies: American Alli-
ance, $8,000; American Eagle, $2,500; Continental,
$9,000; Fire Association, $14,500; Hartford, $2,500;
London Assurance, $9,600; Newark Fire, $2,000;
Phoenix Fire of France, $2,500; Queen, $17,000; Sun,
$8,000; Bankers' Fire, $6,500; Camden Fire, $6,000;
Commercial Union, $2,000; Farmers, $1,500; Globe &
Rutgers, $7,500; Insurance Co. of State of Pennsyl-
vania, $2,000; National American, $16,000; National
Union Fire, $8,000; Scottish Union & National, $2,500,
and the St. Paul Fire and Marine, $3,500.
ADVICE TO CUSTOMERS.
Theo. T. Miller & Sons, Dixon, 111., agree that
ail pianos look good in the store. "But," adds the
Dixon firm in its advertising this week, "the best
judge of a piano is the trained musician. He knows
what to expect of the instrument, and appreciates
what fine music is attainable with the Lyon & Healy
on display in the Miller store. When you visit Dix-
on's finest music house in quest of the piano that is
to grace your home for years to come, take with
you a friend who knows his pianoforte—then ask
him to play for you the perfect Lyon & Healy!"
JESSE FRENCH IN MISSOURI.
Malone's Music Shop, Sedalia, Mo., which featured
the Jesse French & Sons piano in a special way last
week, has placed many fine instruments from the
factory of the Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., New-
castle, Ind., in the best homes in and around Se-
dalia. Maione's Music Shop has been selling the
Jesse French & Sons pianos for twenty years and
the playerpiano of the company since the first one
was produced in the Newcastle factory,
The Samuels-Bittel Music Co., Owensboro, Ky.,
presented a joint recital November 2 at the Bleich
Theater in which Victor Wittgenstein, Ethel Rust
Mellor and the Ampico participated. About fifteen
hundred people were accommodated with seats and
at least this number had to be turned away from
lack of seating accommodations.
The Samuels-Bittel Music Co. has for many years
used the slogan, "The store that made Owensboro
musical," that so many are familiar with and the
staging of this concert has proven this in the fullest
meaning. A short time ago when the president ot
this firm, W. S. Samuels, applied for the agency of
the Ampico, he was asked by the manufacturer if
Owensboro would support an agency for the high-
est grade pianos manufactured, and the answer from
Mr. Samuels was that Owensboro was the best place
in the world in which to live and the best people on
earth lived there and that nothing was too good for
them. It is generally known that this firm has done
everything possible to give to their patrons the very
best that could be had in this line and the benefit of
the knowledge of the wants of the public has made
it successful. It is well known that the policy of
this concern is to serve.
The Samuels-Bittel Music Co. advertised the re-
cital at the Bleich Theater in its usual thorough way.
A record attendance was the result. Alluding to the
recital and the. part of the Ampico in it, the music
critic of one of Owensboro's papers wrote:
"It was clearly demonstrated that there is no dif-
ference between the playing of Mr. Wittgenstein, as
well as other renowned artists, and the Ampico. It is
possible that some doubted that the Ampico could
reproduce the technique and color of the artists' in-
terpretations, but this astounding invention has ac-
tually accomplished this amazing result.
"The Ampico's playing is not an imitation but it
is actual performance by the artist himself. All of
Mrs. Mellor's accompaniments were played by the
Ampico in as perfect a manner as if the artist, Mr.
W r ard-Stephen's fingers were actually touching the
keys. The great classic masterpieces by the great-
est pianists in the world can be brought into the home
by the Ampico and the musicians and music lovers
of our city are invited to our store to again hear
the marvelous Ampico."
BABY BECOMES CENTER
OF INTERSTATE FAIR
Crowds at Hagerstown, Md., Big Show Gaze in De-
light and Wonderment at Gulbransen Kid.
One of the greatest attractions at the Interstate
Fair, Hagerstown, Md., recently, was the Gulbransen
"Baby-at-the-Pedals" in motion. This feature was
a leading part of the exhibit of the M. P. Moller
Co., Hagerstown, which firm reports satisfactory
results from the use of this explanatory aid to one
of the chief merits of the Gulbransen player.
It was clear from the interest evinced by the
crowds at the fair that the Gulbransen baby made plain
the "easy to play" feature of the product of the Chi-
cago manufacturers. But many sales traceable to
the unique illustration of Gulbransen merits are con-
sidered by the Hagerstown firm to be the most con-
vincing proof of the potency of baby's services.
Dealers in other parts of the country are attesting
to the meritorious qualities of the product of the
Gulbransen-Dickinson Co., Chicago. On November
1 the Grand Haven, Mich., Daily Tribune contained
an advertisement of John J. Boer & Sons, the Grand
Haven dealers, reading as follows:
"After two years of waiting we have secured the
agency for the Gulbransen playerpiano. We could
have purchased other instruments during that time
but simply because we wanted the best playerpiano
on the market, we waited and we now have the first
instrument on our floor.
"Come in and play America's leading player.
The Gulbransen player has achieved a unique posi-
tion in the hearts of music lovers. It possesses un-
mistakable individuality. Because of the sheer qual-
ity of the instrument, its sweet singing tone, its re-
markable flexibility and its easy action, it has justly
earned its title as "America's leading player. A Gul-
bransen makes happy homes happier."
WINNERS ALWAYS.
The genius of the Chicago Tribune's Line o' Type
"colyum" had this to say on election day: "Lyon
& Healy, who are running for office in the Fifth
district, should bet the solid harp vote."
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