Presto

December 6, 1924.
DANCER FAVORS JAZZ
Mordkin, Russian Ballet Leader, Says It Would
Perk Up Opera Features.
Mikhail Mordkin, the famous dancer and origina-
tor of opera ballet features, has espoused jazz. "Jazz
music has such a funny laugh," he said. "I want to
get it into the the ballet. That will revive the ballet,
which is slowly dying for want of new ideas.
"Jazz is so grotesque that it could be easily trans-
lated into good pantomime," he explained. "Not a
divertissement, but a full evening's entertainment.
We can keep the classical fundamentals of the ballet
and still set them to jazz. In the greatest sym-
phonies and ballets there are movements that are
syncopated, and so are the minuet, the gavotte, the
tango, the polka, the quadrille.
"I have discovered in America that all these can
be made into jazz. It is nothing but a matter of
rhythm."
Mordkin admitted that his espousal of jazz would
be considered by his friends and admirers as rank
heresy.
RADIO INVENTORS JOIN HANDS
Lee De Forest and Roy A. Weagant Will Jointly
Contribute to Developments.
Two pioneers of radio development, Lee De Forest
and Roy A. Weagant, have joined hands after twenty
years of independent work. Each has contributed
greatly to the advancement of the art, and their
association now in the same laboratory, it may be
expected, will be productive of better broadcasting
apparatus.
While De Forest is well known to the radio fan.
Blanketing the Country
This advertisement will appear in all the im-
portant newspapers in North America.
his new associate, since 1908, has been actively en-
gaged in radio engineering.
His work with Fesscnden at that time soon brought
him to the attention of the radio world, and in 1920
he became chief engineer of the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Company, since absorbed by an American
corporation.
Weagant was awarded the Morris-Liebman prize
for his inventions and improvements of antenna de-
sign, notably his vsystem for balanced aerials, by
which static is eliminated. He is a charter member
and fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers and is
identified with other scientific societies. He is also
the inventor of the circuit which bears his name.
THE PLACE TO BUY RADIO Jil
Combination Advertisement of Chicago Music
Houses Tells the People Where to Purchase.
An instructive advertisement appeared in last Sun-
day's Chicago Tribune. It was handsomely illus-
trated and the text, under the display heading of
"The Music Store the Right Place to Buy Your
Radio" was as follows:
It took the better music houses to bring radio to
its present perfection. Ojuce the problems of trans-
mission were solved, radio authorities turned to the
tone specialists of the Music Industry for advice
and guidance in perfecting tone quality.
These same experts are still at your service—in
any of the stores listed below—ready to help you
select a receiving set whose resonance and tone
quality will be particularly suited to your specific
needs. A radio purchased from one of these houses
is bound to be satisfactory.
And besides getting exactl}' the set you want,
you have the comfort of doing business with an
old establishment whose known reliability assures
you of authentic value, regardless of- price.
Following was the picture of a radio set, with
loud speaker in place, and the following admonition—
both terse and sensible:
"See these music nouses before deciding the radio
question: W. W. Kimball Co., pianos, 308 South
Wabash avenue; Lyon & Healy, Wabash and Jack-
son; The Brunswick Shop, 225 South Wabash ave-
nue; Bent Music Shop, 214 South Wabash avenue;
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., 329 South Wabash ave-
nue; Steger & Sons Piano Mfg. Co., northwest cor-
ner Wabash and Jackson; Wade Twichell Co, 3'11
South Wabash avenue"
SONG WRITER DIES.
Thomas J. Grey, writer of several successful popu-
lar songs, died in New York last week at the age of
thirty-six. His talents included the ability to write
humorous plays.
W/jic/t of these Song Hits
do you like best f
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NEW RADIO PATENT BUREAU
Radiant Energy Division Just Formed by Govern-
ment Headed by C. D. Backus.
The patent office at Washington has created a new
division to handle applications for patents on inven-
tions dealing with radio. The new division, which
is known as the "radiant energy division," will be
headed by C. D. Backus, who for fourteen years has
been in the electrical energy division. Dr. William
A. Kinnan, first assistant commissioner of patents,
will supervise the new division.
The new radio division has twelve examiners, and
is the farthest in arrears of any division in the patent
office. It is hoped that with the change the patent
office can catch up on radio inventions.
At the present time there are pending around 2,000
applications for patents on radio apparatus. To
date, about 2,500 patents have been granted dealing
with radio, while in the neighborhood of 10,000 appli-
cations have been turned down.
There has been a tremendous increase in applica-
tions for radio patents during the last year. At pres-
ent they are fairly raining into the patent office.
The first important radio patent was granted to
Marconi in 1896.
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
"Follow the Swallow," a Remick hit, is a big seller
in Tacoma, Wash.
A display of selections from operas given by the
San Carlos Opera Co., playing in Boston last week,
made by the Oliver Ditson Co., resulted in lively
sales.
The new manager of the sheet music department
in the Oakford Music Co., Omaha, Neb., is Miss
Marie Novak.
The business of the Schirmer Music Co. in the
Steinert Building, Providence, R. I., has been sold
to the Coleman Music Co., a house with a lively
sheet music department.
"Howdy Do," the "radio song" composed by C. P.
Harrison, manager of the Ted Brown Music Co., Chi-
cago, has a hundred verses. Mr. Harrison composed
"Arizona Blues," "Drifting Back to Dreamland," and
others.
"Dainty Miss" and "If We Should Part," the first
a fox-trot and the second a ballad, are two new num-
bers published by Sherman, Clay & Co., San Fran-
cisco.
JOHN HAD NO BANANAS.
John Crotty, Chicago, drove his flivver over an
enbankment on the Illinois Central Railroad tracks
last Sunday night and the machine landed upside
down on tracks thirty feet below. Police rushed to the
scene. They heard a voice, but couldn't lift the car
to find out whose voice it was, so they called the
fire department. Firemen hoisted the car to the
street. Then Crotty got up and sang, "Yes, We
Have No Bananas." The cops smelled his breath
and locked him up.
ADVERTISING SONG BOOKS
Editor Presto: One of our customers inquires
about a collection of old-fashioned songs, suitable for
giving out to prospects and the general public. If
you can inform us where these are printed, you will
confer a great favor, and incidentally boost the piano
business, as it is a foregone conclusion that every-
one receiving a book will need a piano on which to
produce the accompaniments.—A Jobber.
Reply: About the best book of the kind within
our knowledge is put forth in quantities by the Illi-
nois State Register of Springfield, III. We believe
if you write to that concern you will get a sample of
about what you want.—Presto.
Over 50 songs, words and music for 4 voices and piano,
?'i p.p., 6x9, in editions with special illuminated cover
printed to order as wanted. Mention Presto.
REMICK SONG HITS
Mandalay
It Had to Be You
There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes
Dreamer of Dreams
Follow the Swallow
New Kind of Man
My Best Girl
Me and the Boy Friend
Little Black Buddy
Until Tomorrow
Old Pal
Goodnight, Sleep Tight
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow
Bring Back the Old Fashioned Waltz
The Grass Is Always Greener (In the
Other Fellow's Yard)
J. H. REMICK & CO.
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