Presto

Issue: 1925 2023

10
May 2, 1925.
PRESTO
ALLURING FOLDER
FROM LOS ANGELES
(Continued from page 3.)
tained by the principal manufacturers and jobbers of
the United States. A wing on the second floor of the
Biltmore will be reserved for this collective display.
Entertainment.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, between
morning and afternoon sessions, will be held the
popular inspirational luncheons—a tasty luncheon
flavored with community singing, with special music
and an inspirational speaker.
On Tuesday night the Victor Talking Machine
Company has invited all its dealers (and ladies) to
be their guests at a banquet, musical feast and ball.
On Wednesday night, the Brunswick-Balke-Collen-
der Co. has invited all its dealers (and ladies) to be
their guests at a dinner, musical program and dance.
On Thursday night will be the convention banquet
and ball.
On Friday the golf tournament will take place at
Palo Verdes Golf Club, one of the Southern Cali-
fornia's famous golf and country clubs. That eve-
ning the golf dinner will take place with all its fun
and good fellowship. Valuable prizes are now being
collected—there will be enough prizes for nearly
everybody.
For the Ladies.
A special Ladies' Entertainment Committee will
take the ladies in charge to occupy them during the
day should they not care to attend the business ses-
sions—several delightful trips have been planned. For
instance, up Mt. Lowe, through Movie Land, and to
the beaches. The ladies are most welcome to this
convention.
Send in Reservations Now!
The schedule of convention charge is as follows:
Registration and attendance fee, including badge,
$5; special luncheon Tuesday, $1.50; special luncheon
Wednesday, $1 50; special luncheon Thursday, $1.50;
banquet and ball Thursday night, $6; a total of $15.50.
Fee if you register now, $12.50.
Send Registration Check.
Send in your registration with check to E. Palmer
Tucker, treasurer, 603 Commercial Exchange Build-
ing, Los Angeles. If there will be several in your
party, state whom they will be so the committee can
plan accordingly. If you desire that the hotel com-
mittee make hotel reservations, please let them know
now, because the Los Angeles hotels will be crowded
in June; everybody can be made comfortable if reser-
vations are made early.
Room rates at the Biltmore: Single with bath—$5,
$6, and $7; double with bath—$7, 8, $9 and $10.
If less expensive accommodations are desired, do
not hesitate to write the Hotel Committee, explaining
just what is desired and the rate you care to pay.
The committee will make reservations at a less ex-
pensive hotel. Come to the Second Annual Music
Trades Convention—you will enjoy it—you will get
value received—you will never forget it!
The following are the officers of the Western
Music Trades Association with an office at 603-4
Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles:
E. A. Geissler, Geo. J. Birkel Co., Los Angeles,
president.
E. P. Kelly. Hopper Kelly Co., Seattle, Wash.,
first vice-president.
QUALITY
in Name and in Fact
TONE, MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION,
WORKMANSHIP, DESIGN—all in ac-
cord with the broadest experience—are
the elements which give character to
Bush & Lane Products.
BUSH & LANE PIANOS
BUSH t LANE CECILIAN PLAYER PIANOS
take high place, therefore, in any com-
parison of high grade pianos because of
the individuality of character which dis-
tinguishes them in all essentials of merit
and value.
BU9H 6 LANE PIANO CO.
Holland,
A. D. Lamotte, Thearle Music Co., San Diego, sec-
ond vice-president.
E. Palmer Tucker, Wiley B. Allen Co., Los An-
geles, treasurer.
A. G. Farquharson, Secretary Music Trades Asso-
ciation of Southern California, Los Angeles, secre-
tary.
The directors are: Frank Anrys, Wiley B. Allen
Co., San Francisco; John W. Boothe, Barker Bros.,
Los Angeles; George Q. Chase, Kohler & Chase,
San Francisco; Philip T. Clay, Sherman, Clay & Co.,
San Francisco; Charles Corbin, Bush & Lane, Port-
land, Ore ; J. J. Daynes, Daynes-Beebe Music Co.,
Salt Lake City, Utah; George Fisher, Fisher Music
Co., Tucson, Arizona; Emil Simons, Simons Piano
Co., Spokane, Wash.; Ed H. Uhl, Southern California
Music Co., Los Angeles.
The following committees have been appointed for
Western Music Trades Convention, of which E. A.
Geissler, Geo. J. Birkel Co., Los Angeles, is conven-
tion chairman:
Program Committee—Shirley Walker, chairman;
T. W. Boothe, H. C. Braden, Charles Corbin, W. H.
Graham, Fred Sherman, E. P. Tucker, Ed. H. Uhl.
Entertainment and Hotel Committee—J. W.
Boothe, Chairman; P. H. Beck, Ed. L. Berg, J. J.
Black, H. L. Brown, E. M. Burnham, Frank Case,
L. E. Fontron, F. L. Grannis, R. P. Hamilton, W. E.
Henry, W. R. Lawrence, Otto May, Al. Meyer, Ben
Platt, W. H. Richardson.
Radio Committee—J. W. Boothe, Chairman; J. A.
Hartley, C. Hyatt, F. A. Levy, C. H. Mansfield, Al
Meyer, C. A. Stone, L. W. Sturdevant, I. H. West-
phal.
Reception Committee—Harry N. Briggs, chairman,
Geo. P. Bent, C. B. Boothe, Geo. Bowen, G. P. Ellis,
Worth Hathaway, W. E. Henry, H. L. Hulme, Ed.
P. Little, John Monning, Harold Pracht, Geo. Shean,
Fred Sherman, Robert Sommers, Chas. Soule, Earl
Stone.
Finance Committee—Geo. P. Epstein, chairman;
Frpnk Anrys, Geo. J. Birkel, P. T. Clay, Geo. Q.
Chase, J. T. Fitzgerald. Ed. P. Kelley, A. D. La-
Motte, E. P. Tucker.
Golf Committee—B. P. Sibley, chairman; Earl Bar-
ker, Earl Burnham, Geo. Q. Chase, L. E. Fontron,
F. L. Grannis, Geo. Leathurby, Ben Platt, R. L. Ray-
uer..
Exhibitors Committee—E. R. Potter, chairman;
Chas. B. Boothe, H. C. Braden. Marshall Breeden,
Chas. Dundore, C. E. Gorham, Walter S. Gray, W.
E. Henry, Chas. T. Kaffenberger, H. T. McCallum,
Andrew G. McCarthy, Alex. McDonald, A. L. Quinn,
B. P. Sibley, James A. Stitt, C. H. Tracey.
Attendance Committee—H. L. Nolder, chairman;
Mr. Beasley, J. J. Black, E. N. Briggs, B. R. Brass-
field, S. S. Cowan, Chas. Dundore, A. G. Farquhar-
son, L. Goelzelin, C. E. Gorham, H. M. Hulme, Geo.
F. Johnson, Ed. P. Kelly, A. D. LaMotte, Ellas
Marx, Cass Redewill, C. B. Sampson, B. P. Sibley,
C. H. Tracey.
Ladies' Entertainment—H. N. Briggs, chairman;
J. N. Martin, Mrs. E. L. Berg, Mrs. J. W. Boothe,
Mrs. A. G. Farquharson, Mrs. J. T. Fitzgerald, Mrs.
E. A. Geissler, Mrs. Greenwood, Mrs. Worth Hatha-
way, Mrs. Harold Jackson, Mrs. H. L. Nolder, Caro-
line Pearson, Mrs. Ben Platt, Mrs. B. P. Sibley, Mrs.
E. P. Tucker, Mrs. Ed. H. Uhl.
Sheet Music Committee—H. G. Neville, chairman;
J. J. Apffel, Wm. L. Belrose, Henry Grobe, Ed. P.
Little, Arthur Reese, H. R. Skeath, Harvey Wood.
Musical Merchandise Committee—Harry Baxter,
chairman; Roy Duncan, H. C. Hanson, Daniel Miller,
F. A. Norton, Don C. Preston, Earl Stone, Scott Wil-
liamson.
Membership and Registration Committee—Ed. H.
Uhl, chairman; H. L. Brown, Chas. Corbin, J. J.
Grimsey, W. E. Henry, H. M. Hulme, Elmer Hunt,
Harold Jackson.
Publicity Committee—Ed. L. Berg, chairman; Geo.
H. Barnes, G. P. Ellis, A. G. Farquharson, Don C.
Hill, J. D. Lemon, Shirley Walker.
Printing Committee—Ed. L. Berg, chairman.
WOODRUFF IS "CHESTY."
'"Manager Woodruff of the Woodruff company is
feelin' sort o' chesty this week," reports the Carnegie
(Okla.) Herald. "He received a single shipment of
eighteen Guibransen pianos Tuesday, one of the
largest shipments of its kind coming to this part of
the state. These new pianos are beauties in design
and are divided between players and straights.
But why shouldn't Woodruff feel chesty? He is
now in his new building and has one of the largest
stocks of musical goods shown by any store in the
southwest. Woodruff is a musician himself. It's
a treat to hear him play 'How Do You Do'—on
the player."
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. has opened a branch in
Fond du Lac, Wis., under the management of A. J.
Hook, for some time connected with the music trade
and recently with the Milwaukee branch of the
company.
"Built on Family Pride*'
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th Stt and Cypreu Ave.
NEW YORK
Becker Bros.
Manufacturer$ of
HIGH GRADE PIANOS
and PLAYER PIANOS
Factory and Wareroomt
767-769 Tenth Avenue, New York
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYBR
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
GRANDS and UPRIGHTS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
This Trade Mark la caat
in the plat* and alao ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Flanoa, and all lnfrtngers
will be prosecuted. Beware
cf Imltatlona auch as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son. and alao
Shuman, aa all atencil
shops, deatera and user* of
planoa bearing a name In
imitation of the name
Schumann with the Inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to (he
fullest extent of the law.
New Catalogue on Request.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, Preaident
Rockford, 111.
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May 2, 1925.
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PRESTO
QULBRANSEN AT WOMAN'S FAIR
KURTZMANN
Grands—Players
Manufactured by
The booth of the Gulbransen Company at the
Woman's World's Fair was one of the features of the
week in Chicago from April 18 to 25. The only
chance that mere man had to get into the limelight
at all was on the last day of the show, when Vice-
President Dawes was the distinguished visitor and
got a front page newspaper story.
The fair was, in the main, devoted to the activities
bransen Registering Piano; of the modest Berg store
in Superior; and of the business district of the town,
which has only 2,500 population.
Hundreds of women daily crowded into the booth
to read all about Mrs. Berg's accomplishment.
Alongside of the panel was a life-size cut-out of Mrs.
Berg, as shown in the picture. Incidentally the
women visitors had the opportunity to hear the Gul-
and accomplishments of women in all fields of en-
deavor. The Gulbransen exhibit itself was given
an atmosphere in keeping with the spirit of the fair,
for its outstanding feature was the display of a
panel picturing "What One Woman Accomplished!"
This showed Mrs. Zona Borg, of Superior, Nebraska,
who in 1924 sold 83 Gulbransens in spite of a good
many handicaps in the way of bad general conditions,
terrible roads and a limited market in which to sell.
The roads were so bad, in fact, that in the case of
one sale, an entire set of four new tires was worn
out in a twelve-mile drive over the mud roads. The
panel showed a picture of Mrs. Berg and her Ford
roadster equipped with a Loader and carrying a Gul-
branseu Registering Grand, to see the Gulbransen
Moving Baby in action, and to take home some
attractive literature.
On the back of the booth was hung a beautiful,
vari-colored and striking tapestry, picturing a scene
from the opera "Tristan and Isolde."
The Gulbransen booth was the most attractive
music exhibit in the building and it was crowded all
the time. The co-operating dealers were the Glick's
Music Shop, Reichardt Piano Co., and Riviera Music
Shop.
It is estimated that 200,000 women, local and from
out of town, saw the fair.
CHANGES IN THE TRADE
AT INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Monday. The company is very much elated over the
representation of the Zenith radio, which will be espe-
cially featured.
C. KURTZMANN & CO.
Factories and General Offices
526-536 Niagara Street
BUFFALO, N. Y.
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
WILLIAMS
CHICAGO
Pianos and
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
OFFICES, REPUBLIC BLDG.
209 State Street
CHICAGO
One Store to Close, New Association President, and
Other Items of General Interest.
The Robinson Music House in North Pennsylvania
street, Indianapolis, Ind., is trying to dispose of the
twenty-year lease on the building occupied by that
company and close the store. The stock on hand
will be shipped to Terre Haute, Ind., where the com-
pany has its main store and offices. The statement
was made by Mr. Atmore, in charge of the Indian-
apolis branch.
At the last meeting of the Indiana Music Dealers'
Association Mr. Alfred Rapp, of Rapp & Lennox, was
elected secretary of the association to take up the
duties of Mr. Hook, local manager of the Starr Piano
Company, who sent in his resignation, on account of
other duties taken up all his time..
The Pearson Piano Company is undecided as to
whether to close the storeroom which was formerly
used by the Steinway Company on May the first, or
continue under another name. The fixtures will be
removed to the Pearson warerooms as soon as future
plans can be decided upon.
George Gittins, of the Estey Piano Company, was
a visitor at the company's Indianapolis warerooms on
The Heppe, Marcellua and Edouard Jules Piano
manufactured by the
HEPPE PIANO COMPANY
are the only pianos In the world with
Three Sounding Boards.
Pftcented In the United States. Great Brltalfit
France, Germany and Canada.
Liberal arrangements to responsible agents oaif.
Main Office, 1117 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
ADAM SCHAAF, Inc.
REP
P?A D NOS NG
GRANDS AND UPRIGHTS
ft*™!
Established Reputation and Quality Since 1873
FACTORY
1020 So. Central Park Ave.,
Corner Flllmore Street
OFFICES AND SALESROOMS
319-321 So. Wabash Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.
New Adam Schaaf Building,
CABLE MIDGET FEATURED
IN BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY
Attractive Little Instrument Described as a "New
Piano for Unusual Places," and Ideal Uses Shown.
A piano display that has attracted scores of passers-
by this week is that of the Cable Piano Co., Jackson
and Wabash, Chicago, featuring the Cable Midget
instrument.
The little piano is especially designed for use in
places where the saving of space is important. It
has so many uses that it is called a "New Piano
for unusual places."
Some of the many places where it is a fitting in-
strument are depicted in the display, in which is
shown an instrument of old ivory case design with a
bench of the same finish. The coloring harmonizes
perfectly with the piano and bench.
The tone and construction of the Cable Midget
make it a favorite where a small piano is needed.
Alterations at the store to be occupied by Canelli's
Music Shop, Quinnipiac street, Meriden, Conn., have
been completed.
RADLE TONE—The Musician's Delight
Whenever you hear the name RADLE you immediately
think of a'wonderful tone quality, durability and design.
Musicians insist on RADLE
F. RADLE, Inc. Est. 1850. 609-11 W. 36th St., New York City
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