June 21, 1924.
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PRESTO
IN SMALL GOODS DEPARTMENT
West Forty-fifth street. The school committee was
instructed to confer with New York board of educa-
tion executives with a view to developing a greater
Growth of the Musical Merchandise Business Shown attention to the teaching of musical instruments in Foreign Music, Invading Shanghai, Creates Chinese
by New Stores and Extensions.
the public schools.
Demand for Occidental Instruments of Melody.
The Phoenix Pharmacy of Sixty-seventh street and
Miss Elsa Luedtke, director of high school instru-
Despite
the extreme contrast of Chinese and for-
Foster road, Portland, Ore., has been added to the mental music at Juneau, Alaska, announced recently
Victor dealers of that territory. John Leach is the that southeastern Alaska is planning to put an or- eign music, which limits the instrument market in
proprietor of the establishment.
chestra concert on the list of events at the annual Shanghai chiefly to foreigners and foreign educated
natives, $37,000 worth of wind and stringed instru-
inter-school meet next year.
Joseph Burke, connected with the New England
ments and $16,000 of unclassified musical instruments
Phonograph Distributing Co., Boston, has been
France is going to have a broadcasting station for were imported through that place in nine months of
elected vice-president and general manager of that farmers only.
1923, according to a report to the Department of
company, at the meeting of the Board of Directors,
The Brunswick Music Company of Shreveport, Commerce from Trade Commissioner G. O. Howard.
held recently in New York.
La., has increased its capital stock to $50,000.
Shanghai has a symphony orchestra of about 50
Frank A. Meter, the traveling man, is now asso-
E. B. Hyatt, of the Hyatt Talking Machine Co.,
Portland, Ore., has again been nominated to serve on ciated with O. S. Seville, 900 Republic Building, pieces, playing on Sunday afternoons during the win-
ter months in the Town Hall, and at Jessfield Park
Chicago, 111.
the board of directors of the Advertising Club of
Norbert Berhoff of the Flanner-Hafsoos Music and Hongkew Park several evenings a week during
Portland.
Co., Milwaukee, is teaching a saxophone band he or- the summer. It is a purely "volunteer" organiza-
At a meeting of the Associated Musical Instrument
tion made up of various nationalities. Its programs
Dealers of New York, which was held recently at the ganized in Hartford, Wis.
Seth J. Story, manager of the small goods de- are excellent and its recitals are well attended.
Chamber of Commerce of the Music Industries, 45
partment of 'the H. Hauschildt Music Co., San In addition to these are some dozen more or less
Francisco, is very active in placing band instruments permanent dance orchestras of from five to ten pieces,
using the usual piano, traps, violin, saxophone, cornet,
in schools.
trombone, banjo, bass viol combination common in
America. Several small groups of from three to ten
A MUSIC SKYSCRAPER.
Chinese play foreign-style horns and drums in wed-
The Association of Authors, Composers and Pub- ding and funeral processions, parades, and for ad-
lishers is planning the erection of a music skyscraper vertising purposes.
in New York City. The idea is to create a national
It is understood that during recent years the de-
center of the art and industry. The American So- mand for band instruments from the various military
ciety proposes to build the $5,000,000 center in the organizations in China has been negligible, though in
Times Square district. It is to be paid for with Peking both army and navy general headquarters
royalties, and authors and publishers will be asked have very good bands which play Sousa's marches in
to co-operate in erecting this great building. Should the parks on Sundays.
the project go through, it is expected that the music
A fair amount of business is done in banjos, man-
trade bureaus and associations would find a home dolins, guitars, ukuleles, etc., with both foreigners
there also.
and Chinese.
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