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P R E S T O
January 10, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
WHAT PRESIDENT FAVORS
Recommendation for Bigger Appropriation for
Inspection Made to Director of Budget
Bureau.
President Coolidge recommends an additional ap-
propriation for the radio inspection service, and from
hearings already held by the Budget Bureau on the
matter there is every indication that a favorable re-
port will be made to the President within a very
short time.
If the budget bureau recommends that more money
be appropriated for the radio service the recommen-
dation probably will be sent to Congress by the
President, where it is likely to receive favorable con-
sideration.
Additional money for the radio bureau, it is be-
lieved, will result in decreased interference. It will
enable the radio bureau to double its field force and
give it a chance to investigate the thousands of com-
plaints of interference which are received monthly.
President Coolidge has high hopes for the benefits
of radio to the public and desires to do anything with-
in his power to stimulate its growth. The President,
it was said, is sympathetic not only from a personal
but also official point of view in attempts to improve
reception through the elimination of interference.
For the fiscal year 1925 (June 30, 1924, to June 30,
1925) Congress appropriated $205,238 for the radio
service. For the fiscal year 1926 the Bureau of the
Budget has recommended that Congress appropriate
$220,525. It is estimated that at least $100,000 in
addition is required for 1926.
U. S. JAZZ WINS LONDONERS
American Syncopation Enthusiastically Received at
Well-Attended Concert in Queen's Hall.
London music lovers had their first taste of Ameri-
can syncopation on a concert platform when the
Savoy Orpheans gave a symphonic concert in the
historic Queen's Hall, and as a consequence Ameri-
can jazz has come into its highest own, like the
prophet, outside its own country.
The house was jammed and gave an unexampled
reception_to every number, although the majority of
those present are patrons af admittedly serious classic
and romantic music.
The program was divided into three parts and ran
from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" of Irving Berlin to
a syncopated version of "Love Is Just a Gamble."
The British audience was intrigued with fragments
of Dvorak's "New World Symphony," and the ec-
centric treatment accorded Wagner's "Tannhauser."
Among the patrons and patronesses of this unique
attempt to elevate jazz to the same level with classic
music were Serge Diaghileff, Frieda Hempel, Fritz
Kreisler, Nellie Melba and Luisa Tetrazzini.
HOOVER ON RADIO SERVICE
Attitude of Public Towards Broadcasted Programs
Has Undergone Complete Change, He Saya.
The change in attitude of the public on radio has
been the most marked development in radio during
the last year, according to Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover, who informs the Chicago Herald
and Examiner that "listeners are becoming more ap-
preciative of the real service of radio and increas-
ingly critical both as to the character of the matter
furnished them and as to the efficiency with which it
reaches them. The whole broadcasting structure is
built up on service to the listeners. They are be-
ginning to realize their importance, to assert their
interest and to voice their wishes. Broadcasting must
be conducted to meet their demands and this neces-
sarily means higher character in what is transmitted
and better quality in its reproduction to the ears of
the listener.
"The broadcasters as a whole are alive to the situ-
ation. There is a growing realization on their part
of the public responsibilities they assume in conduct-
ing an agency so greatly affecting the cultural prog-
ress of our people.
"The innovations of which we hear so much—na-
tional programs, wire interconnection, short wave re-
broadcasting, increased power, and wired radio, which
are playing so important a part and are destined to
have still greater influence for good—are based en-
tirely upon the necessity for meeting the growing
popular requirement for better service.
"The demand will continue to increase, and new
methods of efficiency will continue to be found to
meet it. Beyond all, radio has begun to enrich
American life by a real contribution to the home. It
yet has far greater service to perform in this way
and I believe the next year will see great and more
definite advance in this direction."
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
Royal Claycomb is the successor to H. Reed & Co.
in the music business in Marshall, Mo.
The Little Music Shop, Charles F. Smith, pro-
prietor, has been opened on Center street, New
Haven, Conn.
Emil H. Schwerd opened a music and radio store
at 117 West Fifty-seventh street, New York, soon.
E. Harry Ambrosia, 104 Court street, Middletown,
Conn., has added a radio department.
The Har Mo Nee Music Shop, a new store, was
opened in Decorah, Iowa, recently.
Brown's Music House in Reading, Pa., has moved
from 28 North Eighth street to 17 North Eighth
street.
A combination radio and phonograph was recently
provided for the patients of the veterans' hospital of
the National Soldiers' Home in Milwaukee, Wis., by
the Kesselman-O'Driscoll Co.
August Krueger and A. Pass have opened a music
store at Shakopee, Minn.
The public schools in southern Indiana are now
nearly all supplied with either a phonograph or radio
set.
Arthur B. Flint, who was retired last spring after
63 years' services with the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston,
died last week.
Jerome H. Remick & Co., music publishers, New
York, recently won a suit in the U. S. Court in Bos-
ton against the Globe Theater Co. on a charge of
copyright violation. The organist had played "Bar-
ney Google" without the necessary permission from
publishers.
Stephen Basternocki Co. has engaged in the music
business at 4750 Woodward avenue, Detroit.
The Cowlitz Music Co., Masonic Temple Building,
Kolso, Wash., has been succeeded by G. E. Cooper.
The Radio Sales Studios, Inc., 1506 Connecticut
avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., has added musi-
cal instruments to its stock of radio equipment.
. Bush & Lane moved last week from 518 Water
street, Port Huron, Mich., to 234 Huron avenue.
A. J. Cunningham, Inc., recently opened a new
music store at 3 Belmont avenue, Newark, N. J.
The Ashby Piano Co. opened for business recently
at 3317 Adeline street, Berkeley, suburb of San Fran-
cisco, Cal. Bernice K. Chisholm is manager.
DON'T BE B L U F F E D .
The dealer should remember that few songs create
a demand for themselves by intrinsic musical and
lyrical merits; that even the admittedly good songs
must be featured and exploited before they are "put
over"; then he can realize his own opportunities for
exploiting something already in stock. Merchants in
other trades see the advantages of "showing the
goods." Why shouldn't the sheet music dealer pre-
vent the accumulation of copies by varying the "hit"
featuring with the playing of something from the
leftover shelf? Don't be bluffed by the "newest"
song fans into relegating the not so new or even the
admittedly old to the limbo of the sheet music de-
partment—the dusty resting place of the supposedly
dead.
JAZZ AN OBSESSION.
That the jazz spirit today is a positive menace but
that it will play itself out ultimately was the state-
ment made by Eugene Liels, special representative of
the National Playground and Recreational Associa-
tion of New York, in a discussion at the tenth annual
National Social Hygiene Conference. He said: "Our
youth and our adults are obsessed with too great an
eagerness to make a show of themselves."
A C O M P E T E N T MANAGER.
Willard Stark has taken charge of the radio de-
partment of the Shroyer Music Co., of Bethany, Mo.
The store has established a service department and
gives operating instructions with every receiving set
sold. Mr. Starck is well known as a radio enthusiast
and expert in constructing and regulating sets.
PLANS FOR PARIS MEETING
Legal Problems of International Character Relating
to Radio Broadcasting to Be Discussed.
The
International
Committee
for Wireless
Telephony, which was founded in 1923, is planning
to hold a great international meeting in Paris, France,
from April 16 to April 20, 1925.
Twenty-seven nations are represented in this or-
ganization, which is in close relations with the League
of Nations, the International Chamber of Commerce,
the International Law Association and many other
international organizations with wide interests in the
legal, artistic and business development of wireless.
In view of the coming meeting, which is to be
largely devoted to working out legal problems con-
nected with wireless broadcasting and communica-
tion, radio amateurs throughout the world have de-
cided to hold a meeting in Paris at the same time,
and the two groups have decided to co-operate in the
fullest measure possible.
STORE HOLDS RADIO SHOW
Instructive Exhibit by Marshall Field & Co., Chicago,
Adds to Prospect List.
The history of radio and its present status of de-
velopment were considerations that brought crowds
oi people interested in radio to a radio exhibit at
Marshall Field & Co.'s store in Chicago this week.
The show put on by the Radio Corporation of
America presented to the public a clear picture of the
growth of radio, its station twenty years ago, and its
many far-reaching outgrowths of today.
Visitors were given a new conception of how long
radio has been developing, how many uses it has to-
day other than for home amusement and instruction,
and how dependent the world has become on its use.
Ship communication, communication between na-
tions, military radio, as well as broadcasting, were
made clearer and nearer to the visitor by seeing the
actual apparatus and listening to the lectures.
This traveling exposition is under the direction of
G. H. Clark, an old-time radio engineer, who has
been associated with the art, in governmental as well
as commercial lines, since its beginning.
UNIQUE RADIO DISPLAY
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, Features a Fine Line of
Radio and Accessories in Corner Window.
For the first time since it entered the radio field,
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, utilized its large corner
window at Jackson and Wabash for the showing of
radio.
The beautiful arrangement of radio sets makes it
the most impressive radio display seen on Chicago's
piano row since radio was admitted into the big music
houses.
The color chosen for the artistic exhibit is green,
and all radio apparatus is set on velvet of that color.
Receiving sets ranging from the most expensive to
the small, inexpensive crystal sets are shown in the
colorful window, which shows the fine progress made
by the big music house in radio since its addition to
the retail departments.
The line chosen for the display include the R. C. A.
Superheterodyne, Operadio, Crossley and the Walt
& Skeezix crystal set. Loud speakers are also shown
with prominence.
GEORGE D. LOTTMAN'S CHANGE.
George D. Lottman, for the past four years in
charge of publicity and advertising for Jack Mills,
Inc., music publishers, has severed his connection
with that firm to engage in the publicity and adver-
tising business under his own shingle. Lottman is
located in the Publicity building, at 1576 Broadway,
New York, and has already made connections with
some important accounts in the theatrical and allied
professions.
COMPOSER DIES.
Prof. S. B. Stambaugh, a well-known musician and
composer of Bedford, Pa., died recently at the age
of 43. He was the composer of "The Gettysburg
March," "The Frog and the Turtle" and other widely
known selections. He had been leader of the Altoona
Band, Altoona, Pa., for several years before his
death.
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