March 7, 1925.
PRESTO
MME. BLOOMF1ELD=ZEISLER
HONOR GUEST OF CLUB
poor, this woman kept plugging right away, and
when the years sales were checked up it stood at
eighty-three. Let the Woman's World's Fair take
that!
NEWS OF THE TRADE
IN CLEVELAND, OHIO
Distinguished Pianist Played at Last Monday's
Meeting and Was Made Life Member of
Chicago Piano Club.
WILL USE RADIO TO
EXPOSE SONG SHARKS
Schulz Store Moved to the Piano Row and
Radio Dealers Are So Thick That
Protection Is Needed.
Gala days at the Chicago Piano Club arc becoming
numerous, for many distinguished individuals have
been guests at the Monday noonday luncheons of
late. No individual, however, has been more welome
or more congenially received than was the guest of
honor last Monday noon, Madam Fannie Bloomncld
Zeisler. And no one more distinguished has ever
been the guest of the club.
Madam Zeisler, as we all know, this week cele-
brated the golden anniversary of her life in music.
For it was fifty years ago when, as a child, she
made her first appearance in concert. And from the
start of Mme. Bloomfield Zeisler's artistic career
she has been recognized as one of the greatest con-
cert pianists.
The Piano Club not only fetes this celebrated lady
but it bestows all the honor in its power to her by
making her an honorary life member of the club and
passes resolutions in praise of her signal qualifications
as a torch bearer of the best in music and her
eminent position as pianist and interpreter. The
resolutions, adopted unanimously by the club, paid
tribute to the high place held by Mme. Bloomneld-
Zeisler as an artist, her nobleness of character and
her almost matchless contribution to Chicago's place
among the music-loving cities of the world.
Beside Madam Zeisler the club was honored by the
presence of the stars of "Blossom Time," the Franz
Schubert musical play now at the Auditorium. These
artists gave several selections from "Blossom Time,"
among them the serenade, which is the famous Schu-
bert Serenade, and the immortal composer's Song
of Love.
The meeting Monday was another overflow affair
and was an occasion that will be remembered for a
long time to come.
C. L. Dennis, of Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, Will Tell of Swindling Methods.
The May Co., who carry a larger line of musical
instruments than any other concern in Northern
Ohio, are enlarging several of their departments and
making other changes. The radio and brass, string
and reed departments have heretofore been located
on the third floor, while the piano and phonagrphs
were on the fourth floor. All are now adjacent to
each other on the fourth floor.
The company will now specialize in general mu-
sical instruments and greatly enlarge this depart-
ment. A full line of saxophones and all other brass
instruments will be carried, as well as larger stocks
of string and other wind instruments. The radio
department is also being enlarged, and both it and
the musical instrument sare placed under the man-
agement of D. Bumbaugh.
The Schulz Piano Co. have just moved into their
new store at 1904 Euclid avenue. Their old loca-
tion, on Huron Road, is being torn down to make
room for the new Bell Telephone Building. This
part of Euclid avenue is now becoming a regular
piano row, as there are already a number of piano
concerns located in close proximity to each other
here.
The Schulz Co. have much more attractive quar-
ters and are in a better business location than be-
fore. They have an exceptionally deep store and,
in addition to the main salesroom, have three
smaller rooms which will be devoted to the display
of reproducing pianos, players and used instruments.
The next meeting of the Cleveland Music Club
is to be held on March 9th. Luncheon w T ill be
Served at the Hotel Statler and a good speaker will
be on hand. It is to be a radio meeting, and there
is ample to discuss on this subject.
Price slashing seems to be the aim of a majority
of radio dealers in Cleveland,' and hardly a day
passes but announcement is not made of a new set
being placed on the market. Drug stores, washing
machine dealers, and even confectionery stores, sell
sets, and the legitimate dealers fell that the time
must soon come for the industry to be stabilized.
It is expected that a radio show will be held at
Grays Armory the first week of April, which will
be the first real radio show to be held in Cleveland.
REMARKABLE RECORD OF
A PIANO SALESWOMAN
Coming Women's World's Fair Will Make No
Better Showing than Tireless Worker.
The Woman's World's Fair, to be held in Chicago
April 18th to 25th, has as its foundation the showing
of the progress and accomplishments of women. The
exhibits already arranged for will show the part
women take in the practice of law, in advertising, in
missionary work, in the conducting of railroad tours,
hospital work, banking, chiropractic, welfare work,
education, the telephone, in selling, etc.
It is doubtful, however, if any exhibit of successful
effort .by women will equal, for pluck, determination
and results, the record of a woman in the business of
piano selling. This particular woman sold 83 Gul-
bransens in the year 1924, under the most trying con-
ditions. Crop conditions were adverse and roads
were almost impassable—so bad, in fact, that in one
trip of 12 miles, with a Gulbranscn loaded on to a
Ford roadster, and entire new set of tires was ruined.
Four tires—twelve miles! Yet with all the handicaps,
with all the valid reasons whv business should be
The exposure of song sharks and their methods of
defrauding amateur song writers will be continued in
a radio talk by C. L. Dennis, of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce, to be broadcasted at 3:20
o'clock Monday afternoon, March 9th.
The song swindle has not yet been stamped out,
in spite of the three years' campaign of the Music
Industries Chamber of Commerce to eliminate these
parasites on legitimate music business, because of the
ignorance of would-be song-writers which makes
them so easily defrauded.
In a radio interview January 7th by Terese Rose
Nagel. of Station WGBS, Mr. Dennis answered ques-
tions about the "Musical Moonshiners," as they were
termed by Carl Engel, of the copyright division of
the Library of Congress, and was asked to return
again Monday, March 9th, to explain in more detail
the methods of the song sharks and the pathetic
cases of their victims.
MORE ABOUT NEW
ADDITION TO PLANT
More About the New Addition Which Will Be Built
to Plant at Hammond, Ind.
Construction work on an addition to the Straube
Piano Company's plant in Hammond, Ind., that will
make the factory one of the biggest in the industry,
was started last week: The new structure will face
on Manilla avenue, and will be four stories high and
basement. The new addition, which is expected to
be completed by early summer, will be devoted to
the manufacture of grand and reproducing grand
piaons.
With the new addition completed, the Straube
company will have a total frontage of 435 feet
with floor space approximating 160,000 square feet.
There could be no better evidence of the Straube
Piano Co. and the favor of the instruments with the
trade.
HELPS EXPORT SERVICE.
The Export Bureau of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce is used by about one hundred mem-
bers of the musical industry interested in foreign
trade, that maintains a monthly service of reports
based on information received from the United States
Department of Commerce showing shipments of
pianos, phonographs and parts to practically all of the
countries in the world. The Bureau also issues spe-
cial bulletins from time to time whenever it receives
information on foreign conditions or on markets for
musical instruments in foreign countries. Up to the
present date this service has issued nearly 500 reports,
and it is anticipated that it will become more valuable
to its users with the expected increase in activity in
the export field during the coming year.
ROCHESTER FIRM REOPENS.
The S. M. Wallace Eurniture Co., Rochester, N. Y.,
has opened in its new building in West Main street,
Rochester, with five times as much floor space as
that occupied before the fire which destroyed its
building nine months ago. The music department is
one of the principal features of the new store, which
is the largest in Rochester's West Side shopping dis-
trict, it has a frontage of 114 feet and is five stories
high.
INTEREST IN HADDORFF GRANDS.
Ernest Dickerson, manager of the Haddorff Music
House, Rockford, 111., reports excellent business since
the company moved' to its new quarters at 220 N.
Main street. The interest in the models in Haddorff
grands is very lively and many sales have been made.
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