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Issue: 1920 1791

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PRESTO
Dealers who do not sell
TONOFONE
deny to their customers
their undeniable right to
the full enjoyment of
the phonograph
and
records which they sell
them.
PLAYS ALL RECORDS ON ANY PHONOGRAPH
One Needle Plays as many as 50 Records
Marvelous Tones
Wonderful
November 20, 1920.
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Absolutely Dependable
Best of Service
Western manufacturers find that our facilities
and experience afford the best source of supplies.
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OREGON, ILL.
Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak—
will not injure finest record.
Everybody*s Talking About It!
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
Manufacturers
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
Positively no other is like it—it has set a new
standard.
EVERY DEALER NEEDS TONOFONE
It helps to sell machines and records because it
plays them better.
EVERY DEALER
CAN GET THEM
Packed 4 in a box to retail at I0c;100 boxes in a
display carton cost* the dealer $6.00 net.
Write for full particulars aboal advertising helps and the name of the
nearest distributor.
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
.
PHONOGRAPH BEFORE COMFORTS
Mexican Family in Iowa Town Lacked Domestic
Conveniences But It Had a Talking Machine.
The Arnold Jewelry & Music Co., Ottumwa, la.,
in arguing that "music makes the home" said this
week that no home is too humble to be without
music. That some people even consider music
comes before comforts of the most essential kind
the firm showed by reprinting a news story from
Mason City, la., which appeared in the Ottumwa
Courier. This is the story:
"Music makes a home. Welfare workers here in-
vestigating conditions over the city today found a
Mexican family occupying a windowless, chimney-
less shack near the brickyards. The shack had very
little roofing and a stovepipe had been pushed
through it. The family went by the name of Gon-
zales, its members being Mr. and Mr. Pete Gonzales
and three small children.
"The entire household possessions consisted of a
bed, one pair of springs, two blanets, a stove, a box
for a table and a hundred-dollar phonograph. It
was playing classic music when the welfare work-
ers knocked at the door, hanging by one hinge."
OFFICIAL SAID HE EMBEZZLED
Shortage Discovered in Audit of Vitanola Machine
Company's Books Said to Be Explained.
Hoping to escape public exposure, a high official
of the Vitanola Talking Machine Company, Chi-
cago, went to W. W. Wheelock, federal receiver
of the company last week, and is said to have con-
fessed embezzling $100,000. He is said to have
admitted losing the money at dice. The talking
machine company, a $2,000,000 corporation, was
placed in conservatory receivership about three
weeks ago and Mr. Wheelock appointed by Judge
Carpenter to investigate the business.
The man said to have confessed embezzlement is
said to have applied to Attorney Clarence Darrow
after learning of the proposed inquiry. Mr. Dar-
row and his client then visited the receiver. Mr.
Wheelock intimated a warrant would be asked for
the official's arrest. An audit of the company's
books revealed the shortage. It is said the official
cashed checks sent in from all over the country to
pay for machines. He lost the money, he is said
to have confessed, in "crap games" on the west side.
"The embezzlement took place before the con-
cern was taken into the federal courts," said Mr.
Wheelock yesterday. "The assets are well over
$2,000,000, and the liabilities not more than $1,500,-
000, as near as we can learn at this time.
.
CHICAGO
E. KOPRIWA CO.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn Aye.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
"The falling off of business and the tight money
inarket made it necessary for the creditors to seek
adjustment in the courts. The company is not
bankrupt. We hope to put it on its feet soon."
A creditors' committee, headed by M. E. Greene-
baum of the Greenebaum bank, has been formed.
FILM AND VOICE SYNCHRONIZED
New Talking Machine Device for Use in Connection
With Moving Pictures Discussed by Engineers.
A moving picture-talking machine device, reported
to have been perfected by Professor William A.
Bristol, of Waterbury, Conn., was discussed last
week by the Indianapolis section, American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, at a dinner at the Univer-
sity Club in Indianapolis. The first demonstration
of this achievement was given recently by Professor
Bristol at Waterbury.
Professor Bristol's new process, it was said, shows
a moving picture of a speaker in connection with a
speaking record played on a talking machine and
through a fine process of synchronization the pic-
ture and record give an exact reproduction of the
actual delivering of the address. This same inven-
tion was reported to have been completed some two
or three years ago but was said to be unsatisfactory.
PARTY VISITS NEW STORE
Under the guidance of T. T. Evans, manager of
the wholesale Victrola department of the C. C. Mel-
lor Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., P. S. Schrake of
Kline & Heffelman Company, George C. Willie,
of the George C. Willie Music Company, of Canton,
O., Wood Brown of the Brown Music Company,
Kittanning, Pa., and J. H. Phillips, president of the
Talking Machine Dealers' Association, of Pittsburgh,
went to Washington, Pa., last week and inspected
the new music house of the G. W. P. Jones Music
Company. F. H. Burbick and S. J. Elliott of the
Mellor staff accompanied the party. On their return
to Pittsburgh dinner was followed with a theater
party at the Pitt Theatre. A. C. Mayer, eastern sales
manager for the Unit Construction Company, also
accompanied the party.
NEW PENNSYLVANIA STORE.
The Nanticoke Temple of Music, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa., held its grand opening last week. The new
store is situated in the Keystone! building on North
Market street. A full line of Victrolas and Victor
records is handled.
Energy Phonograph & Supply Co., talking ma-
chine jobbers, opened offices recently at 1608 West
Madison street, Chicago.
DETERLING
Talking Machines
Challenge Comparison in
every point from cabinets to
tonal results.
Prices attractive for fine
goods. Write us.
Deterling Mfg. Co., Inc.
TIPTON, IND.
NEW PHONOGRAPH STORES
Many Extensions of Well Established Departments
Noted in News of the Week.
The new music store in Mexico, Mo., of the
Taylor Music Co., of Columbia, has opened for
business on the west side of the Square.
New Castle, Pa.—Mather Bros, have opened their
new phonograph store in the city of New Castle, Pa.
A store in the Tendick Building, Jacksonville,
111., is being fitted up to handle phonographs and
records. The Wheeler Co. is the owner.
The McMurray Drug Co., Abbeville, S. C, is to
open a music parlor on N. Main St. It will be in
charge of F. S. Hill.
T. W. Karstedt and Louie Hoff purchased the
business and stock in the Harmel Building, Pekm,
111. They have secured the agency of the Edison
Phonograph.
Extensive improvements are in progress at the
Celeste Music House in the Arcade Bldg., Pekin,
111.
A new balcony extension is being built at the
H. Thoma & Son store, Bluffton, Ind., to provide
space for a phonograph sounding booth.
Oct. 29, Geo. Rumford and R. H. Bond, Stockton,
Cal., have purchased an interest in the H. E. Rob-
inson Stationery & Music store at Lodi, Cal.
Brewer & Burge, Warsaw, N. Y., dealers in phono-
graphs, have removed from the second floor of the
Whitlock Building to 16 N. Main St.
The Starr Piano Company has opened temporary
quarters at 102 West Second St., Rushville, Ind.,
opposite Windsor Hotel.
J. F. Mills, Sedro Woolley, Wash., has opened a
branch in Vt. Vernon, Wash.
Ray Carroll, formerly of the talking machine de-
partment of Sherman, Clay & Co., Saa Francisco,
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November 20, 1920.
has been made manager of the small goods depart-
ment of the company.
H. R. Winsch, Pennsburg, Pa., held the formal
opening of his phonograph store, at 228 Main street,
East Greenville, last week.
Mather Bros., New Castle, Pa., have opened a
new talking machine department as an addition to
their jewelery establishment.
Bert Allen has opened a talking machine store in
De Witt, la.
The C. A. Dorney Co., a furniture house in Allen-
town, Pa., has added a talking machine department.
The Atherton-Peoples Furniture Co., Haverhill,
Mass., has added a talking machine department.
A new agency for the Mandell phonograph has
been established with the Maxwell Furniture Co.,
Washington, D. C.
John J. Giftord has bought the talking machine
department of the Office Supply Co., Charlotte, N. C.
Burley & Biesinger, 332 West Ferry street, Buffalo,
N. Y., was opened recently.
PHONOGRAPH INCORPORATIONS
Growth of Trade and Industry Is Shown By
Newcomers in Field-
United Phonograph Stores, Inc., New York City;
$5,100,000.
Increase in capital, Columbia Graphophone Co.,
from $165,000,000 to $315,000,000, was announced last
week.
United Phonograph Stores Co., Wilmington,
Del.; manufacture of talking machines; capital,
$5,000,000.
The Queens Borough Cabinet Co., Brooklyn, N.
Y., capital $10,000. A. Saidel, T. Mororano and D.
Freiberger.
Singer Talking Machine Co., Milwaukee, Wis.,
$150,000. C. A. Kitts.
United Phonograph Stores, New York; manufac-
ture; capital, $5,000,000; incorporators, Fred. A.
Hiischfield, Joseph D. Englesber, New York; Adolph
O. Moss, Brooklyn.
Arion Record Import, Philadelphia; to buy, sell,
import and export and generally trade and deal in
talking machines, phonographs and talking machine
records.
Solotone Phonograph Co., Philadelphia., $200,000.
F. R. Hansell, J. Vernon Pimm, E. M. MacFarland,
Philadelphia.
Elwood Talking Machine Co., Elwood, Ind., $10,-
000. George Craycroft and Frank Kaiser.
Phonograph Products Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
$30,000. L. T. Lombra, C. J. Lally, G. Van Zandt,
50 Court street, Brooklyn.
PHONOGRAPHS IN PORTLAND, ORE.
The phonograph business is picking up all over
town. One of the favorite machines at present is
the Brunswick at $226. A great many of these ma-
chines have been sold this month by the Wiley B.
Allen Co. The ^Eolian-Vocalion is being adver-
tised so liberally by the Meier & Frank Company
that a great deal of attention has been called to
the superior merits of this instrument and sales are
very good. Victors are coming in better than for a
long time and dealers are gratified to again have
the privilege of exhibiting full stocks of this favorite
talking machine. The Edison, the Cheney, the
Pathe, the Columbia, which is also being extensively
advertised, are all selling better than for several
months.
IMPROVE PHONOGRAPH DEPARTMENT.
Three new music booths have been installed across
the front of the Bandy Furniture Company's store,
Evansville, Ind., to accommodate patrons of the
talking machine department. In order to do this
it was necessary to remodel the front part of the
store. The front of the building has also been
painted and improved. According 1 to Manager Ed-
ward McGinnes the changes affect several depart-
ments as a result of the improvements and will
greatly assist the company in handling its business.
PRICES IN CHINA.
Trade Commissioner Lynn W. Meekings reports
the establishment in Pekin, China, of an agency for
an American phonograph company. Of the initial
shipments of ten machines, seven have been sold.
The retail price of these instruments, which are of
the cabinet type, about four and a half feet high, is
$195 Mexican for customers having charge accounts
and $175 Mexican for cash payments.
EDISON IN CANADA.
The Canadian Edison Phonograph, Ltd., has pur-
chased a factory building at St. Thomas, Ontario,
and will equip it as a phonograph factory. The plant
is now occupied by the St. Thomas Cabinets, Ltd.
Leo W. Freed is the new manager of the talking
machine department of Beal & McCarthy, Brockton,
Mass.
PRESTO
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
Items from Here and There Show the Warm Inter-
est in the Goods.
Adrian-Reece, Inc., San Francisco jobbers of
music, gave a dinner and theater party to its em-
ployes last week:
Miss Florence Gardie, the new manager of the
sheet music department of the Oregon Eilers Music
House, Portland, was previously connected with a
' similar department with the Woolworth stores.
Window displays are continuously used by E. F.
Droop & Sons Co., Washington, D. C, to call atten-
tion to special numbers in the sheet music depart-
ment.
William Marconi's guests on a yacht in the Bay
of Naples recently danced to music supplied by wire-
less from London.
Vincent M. Sherwood, eastern manager of the Mc-
Kinley Music Co., returned to New York last week
after a two weeks' visit to the home office in Chi-
cago.
PUBLISHING ON THE FARM
Corinthian Music Company, Hadley, 111., Is Located
Amid Bucolic Sights and Sounds.
Hermes Zimmerman, head of the Corinthian Music
Company, Hadley, 111., divides his time between the
composition of songs to please the ear of people who
appreciate tunefulness and concocting menus for his
Duroc-Jersey hogs, which have critical palates. Mr.
Zimmerman is the man who established a music pub-
lishing house on a farm. He has made a success of
it, too.
After a trip to the East, where he learned of the
success of the Hershey chocolates, with the office on
the farm, and also of the Jones sausage with offices
on the farm in Wisconsin, he decided to maintain
his office at Hadley, 111., on the farm.
This farm music firm, the Corinthian Music Com-
pany, has a number of good songs for future publi-
cation, but is proudest of its first hit, "America! First
and Forever!" which is recommended for use in
public schools; for Americanization work and is be-
ing used on programs for an opening or closing num-
ber.
Before much time was spent on their now famous
song hit, "America! First and Forever!" a copy was
taken to a foreign country and the critic who played it
declared, "The music is simply grand but the words
give too much praise to America." Since then this
A National Song Hit
That finds its way into the Hearts of the
People is
"AMERICA! FIRST and FOREVER"
"Our Greatest Song of Praise"
Song Leaders and Supervisors of Music Laud
Its Power to Strengthen Americanism.
It is full of pep. 18 cents. Order Now.
Corinthian Music Co.
Hadley, Illinois
Copies may be secured thro' Lyon & Healy, Ch'cago, and
Plaza Music Co., New York.
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number has been called "America's Greatest Song
Praise," and the people love it for its words as well
as music.
This farmer-composer-publisher is also a member
of the Illinois Agricultural Association and of the
Farm Bureau Federation and specializes in Duroc-
Jersey hogs for farm activity. Many great hits in
music have been written on the farm, also much of
the best literature, but as far as is known the
Corinthian Music Company is the only firm with a
great hit to its credit and with its office "on the
farm."
BIG ORDERS FOR BOOKS.
Platt P. Gibbs, Chicago publisher, says business is
good. He has just received an order for one hun-
dred Golden Anthems for the use of the choir in the
Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City, Utah. He has
had a good call for Dr. Emerson's class book. Dr.
Emerson, of Boston, who died some time ago, will be
remembered as a well known teacher and author.
Mr. Gibbs has also had big orders for song books
from Gap, Pa., and from Alchua, Fla.
BUSY AT LYON & HEALY'S.
Manager Delaney, of the sheet music department
of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, says that trade has been
very active for several days past. It seems that
sheet music sells much faster as soon as cold weather
sets in, and it has been very wintry for the last week
or ten days in Chicago. The variety carried in the
sheet music department of Lyon & Healy's is im-
mense, and the detail of serving all classes of cus-
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