Presto

Issue: 1920 1794

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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
v
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.
CAN GET THEM
Packed 4 m a box to retail at I0c;l00 boxes in a
display carton ccwts the dealer $6.00 net.
Write for full particulars about advertising helps and the name of the
nearest distributor.
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
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PORTLAND, ORE., NEWS NOTES
High-Priced Talking Machines Considerably Favored
by Customers in Oregon City.
The phonograph business is thriving in Portland.
High-priced machines are the favorites with the
Wiley B. Allen customers. Period designs and large
instruments are more popular than medium priced
ones.
The Etruscan Phonograph company's new man-
ager is G. C. Cook, formerly with the Pacific Ac-
cessory & Supply Co.
E. Kienle is now manager of the phonograph de-
partment of Edwards furniture store. They carry
a complete line of Brunswick records, and are clos-
ing out their line of Pathe records.
PHONOGRAPH INCORPORATIONS
Growth of Trade and Industry Is Shown By
Newcomers in Field.
Magravox Products, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., $10,-
000. Frank J. Coupe, P. J. Morris, Joseph Wolff.
American Odeon Corporation, Manhattan; to make
phonographs. $5,000. C. Hennepan, W. Pilgrim, J.
Schechter.
Oklahoma Phonograph Co., Oklahoma City, Okla.:
$25,000. A. H. Smith, S. L. Harris and J. R. Spiel-
man, all of Oklahoma City.
Gibbons & Owens, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y.; to deal
in phonographs; $50,000. Michael Ward, .E. W. Gib-
bons and Morris W. Owens.
The Copley Square Music Shop, Inc., Boston.
Ernest A. Carr, Arthur B. Sewcll and William F.
Dodge.
THE "AMPLIPHONE" TRAVELER.
F. C. Decker, representing The Amplipbone Co.,
Chicago, started eastward this week. He is helping
to build up a large family of representatives for the
splendid line of phonographs which come in in-
creasing quantities from the factory at Brazil, In-
diana. President F. A. Knight, of The Ampliphone
Company, is at the factory much of the time and
the business has become one of the substantial and
standard talking machine industries.
PHONOGRAPHS NO SIDE LINE.
"You don't buy clothes from a grocer, or groceries
from a tailor." says the Davis, Burkham & Tyler Co.,
Wheeling, W. Va., in pointing out the wisdom of
going to a music store for a phonograph. The point
the Wheeling firm so cleverly made in an adver-
tisement this week was that the house did not carry
phonographs as a side line, but that it was a special-
ist in talking machines, "We can give you service,
Absolutely Dependable
Best of Service
Western manufacturers find that our facilities
and experience afford the best source of supplies.
Get Your Plates From Oregon
PARAGON FOUNDRIES COMPANY
OREGON, ILL.
Talking About It!
EVERY DEALER
Paragon Piano Plates
Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak-
will not injure finest record,
Everybody's
December 11, 1920.
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CHICAGO
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
Manufacturers
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
E. KOPRIWA CO.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn AT©.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
intelligent advice, reliability, helpful suggestions in
choosing Victor records. We can keep your Victrola
in good condition after you have bought it," is the
promise.
COMBINES FACTORIES.
The Technola Company, Borden and Review ave-
nues, Long Island City, N. Y., has given up the
manufacture of phonographs, has combined its fac-
tory on Tenth street, Long Island City, with the Bor-
den avenue plant, and will in the future give the en-
tire united plant at Borden avenue over to the repair
and salvaging of pianos. The phonograph manufac-
turing end of the business has been transferred to a
New England plant. In the Long Island City plant
there are employed about 125 men, more than 100 of
whom are experts.
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.
COLUMBIA PAYS MILLION RENT.
One of the largest leases that has been made for
space in a New York office building north of Thirty-
fourth street was signed by the Columbia Grapho-
phone Company for eight floors in the new Gotham
National Bank Building, at Columbus Circle, Broad-
way and Fifty-ninth street, for a term of years.
Close to $1,000,000 will be paid in rent for the
space.
GRAPHOPHONE CO. CUTS ALL EMPLOYES.
The Columbia Graphophone Company, Bridge-
port, Conn., has made announcement of a 10 per
cent reduction in wages of all its employes, includ-
ing- salaried officials. Six thousand employes are
affected.
WAR ON JAZZ AT MADISON.
Jazz music is said to have brought conditions of
dancing to a point at the University of Wisconsin
at Madison where the dean of women, the dean of
men, the owners of dance halls, and the girls are
preparing to bring about a change. "There is no
denying the fact that the music produced by the
saxophone and the clarinet have a great deal to do
with the quality of dancing," F. Louise Nardin, dean
of women, said.
STUDENTS COMPOSE SONG.
Out of twenty original songs chosen last week
for the University of Chicago co-eds' musical com-
edy, "The Joy of Shanghai," Miss Helen Palmer,
a junior noted for her work in the dramatic club and
for her singing and dancing, led the list with eight.
"You Never Can Tell What Daughters Can Do,"
"Chinese Trombone Glide," and "Lament" are the
names of some of the new songs that were chosen
by the judges. Miss Josephine Strode wrote the
words for five songs. Miss Martha Beck composed
the music for seven, and Miss Esther McLaughlin
for five.
"In the heart of Memphis" is the phrase printed
with the title of Reinhardt's, 2550 Main street, Mem-
phis, Tenn. The Columbia line of phonographs and
records is carried.
The Allen Jewelry & Music Co., Pittsfield, 111., in
its advertising reminds readers of the possibilities
of the talking machine for making long winter eve-
nings pleasant.
Edward Thomas, Pittsfield, Mass., has taken the
Berkshire county agency of the Phonolamp manufac-
tured by the Electric Phonograph Corporation ot
New York City.
Mastbaum Bros. & Flcisher, Philadelphia, Pa., rep-
resenting the owner, have leased to the Talking Ma-
chine Company two stores at the southeast corner of
Fifty-second and Chestnut streets for a term of
years. The rental for the term aggregates close to
$100,000.
Taylor C. White, manager of the Remick Song
Shop in Portland. Ore., reports a visit from Mose
Gamble of New York. Mr. Gamble was well pleased
with the appearance of Portland's Song Shop. Ho
was only in Portland a short time going from there
to Seattle. The popular Remick numbers at pres-
ent are "Avalon" and "Beautiful Annabelle Lee."
"Sicily" by Moret and "Coral Sea" by Brown are
two western publications that are popular in Port-
land, Ore., and other cities on the Coast. "Sicily"
is published bv Daniels & Wilson, of San Francisco,
and "Coral Sea" by Sherman, Clay & Co.
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messenger for H. M. Higgins, when that old-time
leader had a large double store on Randolph Street
near Clark, and that was in the sixties.
TRADE WANTS MCKINLEY HITS
HOW SHEET MUSIC HELPS
The music dealer, during these weeks before
Christmas, is lucky when he has a tempting
line of sheet music to satisfy the increased de-
mand at this time. The dealer who sees the
possibilities of the sheet music for attracting
business asserts that every day is sheet music
day. That is true, but there are particular
times when the sheet music days are more
cheering in results and more satisfactory in
profits than at other periods.
"My most effective publicity, my greatest
bid for the interest of people who love music
is my sheet music department," said a promi-
nent dealer in expressing his views at the
monthly meeting of a local trade association in
a western city recently. "My music roll de-
partment and my phonograph record depart-
ment are noticeably stimulated by the active
condition of the printed music. In fact every
department in a music store helps every other
department but the first incentive to buy rolls
and records in a great many cases comes from
the direct hearing of the singing or playing
from the printed sheet."
The force of the statements of the western
dealer was enhanced by the knowledge his
hearers had of the importance of his sheet
music department. That was something that
had a small beginning about five years ago.
Being an observant man he soon saw the
great possibilities of a well-managed sheet mu-
sic counter. Now his favorite topic is the in-
fluence of that valued department on the others
in his store.
Making the nation's songs for bare plaudits,
once satisfied the troubadour, now it is a prof-
itable business. "I care not who makes the
Nation's songs, if I can make the hits," is
now the paraphrasing of a famous poet's de-
sire. It is the motto of a vast host of song
makers. According to the song publishers
there are at least a million ambidextrous indi-
viduals who seek expression of an inward
prompting by working the words with the
right hand while they pick out the tune on
the piano with the first finger of the left. In
one hand there is little regard for rhyme and
in the other an utter indifference to rhythm.
Successful Publishers of Fine Songs Find Repeat
Orders Best Evidence of Merit in Productions.
'"The House of Good Ballads" is a phrase familiar
to sheet music dealers and accurately represents the
character of the production of its users, the McKin-
ley Music Co., Chicago and New York. The good
ballad is one with the obvious merit that commands
success. Th,e evidence of success in the McKinley
national honors at. the biennial convention in June. songs may be gathered everywhere at home and
The various classes and prizes offered are:
abroad. McKinley successes are as familiar to the
Special Prize—Oratorio—Apocalypse on a libretto song lovers of England as they are to the McKinley
by Pauline Arnoux McArthur and Henri Pierre fans here at home. And the song that Paris is sing-
Roche, to be known as the Carrie Jacobs Bond prize, ing and whistling just now is a McKinley hit, "Sweet
$5,000.
Hawaiian Moonlight."
Class 1—Violin solo, $150. Given by Musicians
But in the list of McKinley hits that America is
Club of Chicago.
singing are other alluring numbers with the moon-
Class 2—Organ solo, $100. Given by the St. Ce- light theme, "Suwanec Moonlight" and "Shimmy
cilia Club of Grand Rapids, Mich., as memorial to Moon" and "Song of the Southern Moon" and "Wish-
Mrs. Edwin F. Uhl, first president of the National ing Moon." Other songs also suggest the romance
Federation of 1 Musical Clubs.
of Hawaii, "Hawaiian Rose," for instance. And
Class 3—Cel o soio, $100. Given by the St. Cecilia Dixie, that ever fresh incentive to the writer of songs
Club of Grand Rapids. Mich., as a memorial to Mrs. with human feeling provided the suggestion for some
Charles B. Kelsey, a president of the National Fed- of the pronounced song successes of the McKinley
eration of Musical Clubs.
Music Co. "Pickaninny Blues," full of the rollick-
Class 4—Song, $100. Composition must be by a ing character of the Dixie ditty; "Play Me a Dixie
woman composer and a member of the National Fed- Melody," "Floatin' Down to Cotton Town" and others
eration of Musical Clubs. Offered by Mrs. J. B. that add to the joy of living.
Custer of Chicago, this being a perpetual prize.
Class 5—Chorus for unchanged children's voices,
SHEET MUSIC MEN ACTIVE.
$100. Offered by Mrs. Francis E. Clark, Philadel-
A.
D.
La Motte, head of the sheet music depart-
phia, Pa.
ment of the Thearle Music Co., San Diego, Cal., is
These contests have aroused the greatest interest one of the music commissioners appointed by the
because the winners are given a year's management mayor of San Diego. Mr. La Motte has been iden-
for their concerts, the last year being tremendously tified with every movement to advance the cause of
successful for the winners of this contest at the last music in the Southern California city. Through
biennial held at Peterboro, N. H. Many clubs his activity the San Diego Union has decided to
throughout the country engaged these young artists, run a music page in the daily edition and several
paying them a fair price for their services.
pages in the Sunday paper. The editor of the San
The endowment fund committee has for its chair- Diego Union's music page has requested the service
man Mrs. Frank Gates Allen of Moline, 111., who has of the National Bureau for the Advancement of
reported a "much-increased fund in her department. Music.
Ways and means have been devised to help strug-
gling young professionals from this fund.
The National Federation of Musical Clubs is a
If you are not handling the
purely altruistic organization. The attitude for serv-
ice is one of co-operation and fraternity toward all
existing organizations.
The aim is a music club in every city, in every
county, in every state in the Union, and soldiers'
clubs, and junior boys' and girls' club auxiliary.
McKINLEY EDITION OF
10c MUSIC
CHARLES HIMMELMAN DIES.
Charles Himmelman, one of the veterans of the
music trade in Chicago, died at his home in Oak
Park, a suburb of that city, on Friday of last week.
For a great many years Mr. Himmelman had con-
ducted a mail order sheet music business in the Tem-
ple Court Building, Chicago. His special lines were
hymn books, school song books and books of musi-
cal instruction generally. In later years he had
published books of instruction for violin, banjo and
ukulele which proved very successful. Mr. Himme!-
man was one of the few remaining "pioneers" of the
music trade in Chicago. He began when a boy as
A National Song Hit
That finds its way into the Hearts of the
People is
'AMERICA!, FIRST and FOREVER"
"Our Greatest Song of Praise"
COMPOSERS SEEK HONORS
Hundreds of Manuscripts Are Being Submit-
ted for Illinois and Iowa Contests at Tri-
Cities June 8 to 15.
The seventh biennial prize competition for Ameri-
can composers, which will be decided at the conven-
tion of the National Federation of Musical Clubs at
Moline, 111., Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, III.,
on June 8 to 15, brought forth hundreds of compo-
sitions, the manuscripts of which had to be in the
hands of Mrs. El'a Smith of Columbus, Ohio, by
last Wednesday night, according to the president,
Mrs. Frank A. Seiberling of Akron, Ohio.
Airs. Louise E. Yager of Oak Park, 111., chairman
of tin- young artists' contests, has announced that
these competitions will be held in every state in thf
Union, the state winners to go to the district com-
petition and the district winners to compete for the
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.
Comprising Standard,
Classic and Teaching Music
you are losing an opportunity to make money
Dealers Realize
150% PROFIT
On Sales of McKinley Music
It is the most popular library of 10c music
on the market. Selections contained in this
Edition are used by the most prominent
teachers in the country—Students, Accom-
plished Musicians, and the Music Loving
Public in general.
It is conveniently handled; arranged in
compact form, and is labor saving in serving
the customers.
The dealer is supplied with catalogs bear-
ing the business imprint which serves to
bring more customers to the store than any
other advertising medium that could be em-
ployed.
WRITE US FOR SAMPLES AND PAR-
TICULARS TODAY
Our Jobbing Department is the largest and
most complete in the country. We can sup-
ply you with every want in the sheet music
line. We fill all orders the day they are
received.
McKinley Music Company
The Largest Sheet Music House
in the World
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
1501-13 E. 55th St.
145 W. 45th St.
A Most Beautiful Waltz Ballad
"THAT IRISH LULLABY"
Endorsed by the BEST, as the BEST
Dealers and Jobbers Send for Sample and Introductory Prices
EMIL BACHER, 46 Henion St., DUBUQUE, IOWA
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