Presto

PRESTO
20
September 13, 1924.
SMALL GOODS, SUPPLIES AND RADIO
Furniture Co., Bellingham, Wash. The store is being
remodeled following a tire which did considerable
damage to the store recently.
Portable phonograph sales were very lively during Changing Conditions in Trade Cause Officials of
September Building of the Columbia Music August with the Daynes-Beebe Music Co., Salt Lake
Company to Predict a Good Fall.
City, Utah, according to Manager G. Todd Saylor
Roll Co., Chicago, Include All the
The demand for Wilson drums has never been bet-
of the talking machine department.
Most Popular Songs.
Ukuleles and similar string instruments to the ter than at the present time, was reported to a
The same stimulants for sales are visible in the value of $10,089 were imported from Hawaii to the Presto representative at the Wilson Drum Mfg. Co.,
September list of rolls of the Columbia Music Roll United States for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1924. 218 North May street, Chicago, this week. The
Co., 721 North Kedzie avenue, Chicago, as have been The value of such goods imported here the fiscal year drums and accessories produced by the Chicago firm
have always been favored by the better class of the
features of the monthly lists previously issued. The ending July, 1922, was $9,389.
presentations are selected and recorded with the view
A musical merchandise department has been added trade, which is now entering upon its busiest season,
the beginning of which brought a pleasant surprise
to providing music dealers with the kind of com- by the Stahlschmidt Piano Co., Evansville, Ind.
to the officials of the big drum industry, in the
modities that make roll departments lively places.
amount of orders received and the optimistic view-
The September list is an admirable assortment of
point of the Wilson dealers who foresee a splendid
fox-trots, waltzes and the proper proportion of one-
season ahead.
steps and blues. And rolls of the pepful kind are
assured when the names of the recording artists are
The policy of the Wilson Drum Mfg. Co. in main-
noted. Billy Fitch, Harry Geise, Wayne Love, Nell Frank Weiser New Roadman in Chicago District and taining a steady producing capacity during slack sea-
Morrison, Clarence Johnson, Gus Drobegg, James
George D. Turner Will Supervise Output.
sons as well as in the busier ones has proven suc-
Blythe, Art Gilham and Paul Jones, are names to
cessful. Dealers are thereby assured that their re-
influence the decision of the music roll shopper. All
Frank Weiser, well known in the piano trade, has quirements will be forthcoming when most needed.
the latest hits are found in the new September list
been secured by the Superior Foundry Company to This has relieved dealers of worry especially -.luring
of the Columbia Music Roll Co.
represent the company particularly in Chicago and
the school term when the outfitting of bands bring
There are other features in the rolls that make surrounding territory. Mr. Weiser will keep in con- unusual calls on drums and accessories.
them interesting to the dealers themselves. The stant touch with the trade, and his wide experience in
The orders for the Wilson products declined only
opportunity to offer a good roll at an alluring price piano construction should be a beneficial factor both one month during the summer season, and that was
is attractive, and these assurances of the makers add to the piano trade and the Superior Foundry the month of July, when business in general was
to the inducements.
Company.
slack. The company expected the big change to take
"Made of the best materials obtainable. Will
George D. Turner, who has been representing the place about the second week in September, but the
please your trade and double your sales. Quality Superior Foundry Company in the Chicago territory, demand the middle of last month was as good as
and price make Columbia rolls the dealer's best and whose ability as a piano plate maker is recog- had been anticipated in this month.
profit-producer in a roll department."
This is of great significance to the company and its
nized throughout the trade, will devote practically all
his time to maintaining the high quality of Superior dealers, in the fact that the school season is not well
plates, as the company is instituting several changes under way yet, and the formation of bands will not
in their manufacturing to produce piano plates as take place for several weeks. Hence the optimism at
the Wilson factory.
uniform as possible.
Growth of the Musical Merchandise Business Shown
The superior quality of the plates made by the
WALTZ HIT IN RECORD FORM.
Superior Foundry Company have always possessed
by New Stores and Extensions.
the character of uniformity in quality and this has
"Tell Me You'll Forgive Me," a waltz hit, pub-
The White House and the Quarg Music Co., San been a merit that continued the customers of the lished by Garrick Music Sales, 4040 Dickens ave-
Francisco, are new representatives of the Brunswick company in their loyalty to Superior plates year nue, Chicago, is now on Victor Record No. 19416,
phonograph and records.
after year. "Once a user of Superior plates, always which will be released very shortly. This number
Phonographs and records will be carried in the a user," is a proud phase bf the association of the was recorded by the International Novelty Orchestra
with vocal refrain.
new music department to be added by the B. B. Superior Foundry Co., with the piano industry.
WILSON DRUMS IN DEMAND
NEW COLUMBIA ROLL LIST
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY NEWS
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