Presto

Issue: 1925 2026

PRESTO
May 23, 1925.
AN ILGENFRITZ LETTER
Arthur A. Friestedt, Head of IT. S. Music Co.,
Gets Interesting News From Recording
Artist Abroad.
Arthur A. Friestedt, president of the United States
Music Company, Chicago, recently received a letter
from McNair Ilgenfritz, the clever pianist from
Library Edition rolls of the United States Music
Company, when he resumes his duties on or about
August 1.
Budapest, May 4th, 1925.
Dear Mr. Friestedt:
Just a line to say how glad I am that you advised
me to go to Budapest. It is indeed a beautiful city—
one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. My stay
is only for a few days, but I am thoroughly enjoy-
ing it.
I am the guest of Ambassador Brentano, whom
you will remember as former Judge Brentano of Chi-
cago. Their home here is delightful, an enormous
house. It is really a palace, but I fear I can't tell
you exactly where it is except that the monument
at the entrance of the park and the Art Museum are
very near. The home of Gladys Vanderbilt (Countess
Szechenyi) is right around the corner.
I am returning to Vienna shortly, then Munich,
Switzerland, Paris, perhaps Dresden and Berlin, Lon-
don—then home.
I have taken passage on the AMERIKA, sailing
July 8th, and will be in Chicago on August 1st, ready
to do a September bulletin.
Have sent you and Miss Brown cards from every-
where.
Hoping you are both well,
Sincerely,
McNair Ilgenfritz.
P. S. Brentano's had a very brilliant musicale for
me—played with success.
ROBT. N. WATKIN, PRESIDENT.
Robert N. Watkin of the Will A. Watkin Co.,
Dallas, Tex., was elected president of the South-
west Brunswick Dealers' Association at a meeting
in Austin recently. Other officers elected were: J. R.
Reed, Austin, first vice-president; B. L. Blanton,
El Dorado, Ark., second vice-president; J. A. Mc-
Millan, Houston, third vice-president; J. IT. Adams,
Waco, fourth vice-president; J. D. Samuel, Jr., Wax-
ahachie, secretary-treasurer. Dallas was chosen as
the next meeting place.
McNAIR ILGENFRITZ.
TO REBUILD BURNED STRUCTURE.
Budapest, Hungary, dated the 4th inst., which con-
tains news interesting to his friends at home.
Mr. Ilgenfritz's musical talents are too well known
to require elaboration. He will devote his entire
attention to recording and editing the Auto-Art and
The building of the Lewis Bros. Co., East Liver-
pool, Ohio, destroyed by fire recently with loss ex-
ceeding $100,000, will be rebuilt. This firm, now in
temporary quarters on Washington street, is plan-
ning to return to its original location when a new
structure will be erected.
FAIRBANKS
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RADIO CUTS RATES
Thousands of Receiving Sets on Sale in New York
Stores at Reduced Prices.
The sales manager of one of the largest radio cor-
porations estimates at least 300,000 receiving sets
have been placed on the market at reduced prices
since April 1. The low prices are attributed to over-
production. One manufacturer called in hundreds of
sets from dealers and conducted a large sale in New
York to clear the market, and make way for new
merchandise soon to be introduced for the Fall mar-
ket. A sale of five-tubed neutrodyne receivers was
held at Gimbel Brothers last week. On the first day
240 clerks were kept busy. The total sale for the
day was 5,300 sets.
It is understood that two new models of the Radi-
ola superheterodyne in portable form will be placed
on the market May IS. Unlike the first semi-portable
set the loop antenna will be adjustable so that the
benefits of the directional properties of the loop can
best be obtained. It is claimed that the catacomb
containing the instruments is the same as that of the
earlier set. One of the new outfits weighs about
thirty-seven pounds complete.
NEW SONORA RECEIVING SET.
The Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc., New York, has
announced a new radio receiver bearing the Sonora
trade-mark and "representing three years of study
and investigation by our company," according to
Frank V. Good, general salesmanager of the com-
pany. The new receiver will be distributed through
dealers handling the Sonora phonograph. It is a five
tube tuned radio circuit with refinements and im-
provements developed by Sonora research engineers.
FIRST RADIO MANAGER.
E. W. Banse, manager of the Schmoller & Mueller
radio department, was put in charge when that de-
partment was added by the company. Mr. Banse
received his first radio training in Germany. His
department handles many kinds of radios, and he
is well acquainted with all the parts and details of
them.
DEALERS and TUNERS!
Keys Recovered and Rebushed
THE FAIRBANKS CO., Springfield, Ohio
"SUPERIOR" PIANO PLATES
All work is done by expert workmen
and modern machinery and you are
assured of correct spacing which is so
important. When keys are replaced they
will appear exactly as when the instru-
ment left the factory.
PRICES FOR PYRALIN IVORY
52 heads and tails
$8.00
52 fronts
2.50
88 keys rebushed
4.00
Express or Parcel Post to
FRIELD MILLER & CO.
3767 N. Illinois Street
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
HOW TO SEND
Rcmov* from frame, number plainly near Capstan,
wrap or bos securely, and ship Parcel Pott or Bxprew.
Manufactured by
SUPERIOR FOUNDRY CO.
Cleveland, Ohio
Please do not remove the old ivories as
there is danger of the wood being broken.
Ivories will be returned if demred.
PERFECTION
Benches and Cabinets
The line that sells on sight and satisfies always
—35—
Nationally Priced
Size 14x30, in all finishes
Full size Bench 15x36
Packed two benches in one crate.
Send for catalog and price list
$6.00
7.50
PERFECTION PIANO BENCH MFG. COMPANY
1514-1520 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, III.
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PRESTO
JUNE VOCALSTYLE ROLLS
Big List of Ballads, Blues, Fox-Trots, Waltzes
and One-Steps and New Foreign
Numbers Presented.
The following song rolls are included in the list
of June releases of the Vocalstyle Music Company,
Cincinnati, O., the names of the recording artists
being printed in parentheses:
Bells of the Sea (ballad), Lamb & Solman (Lillian
Tyler Plogstedt; Cannon Ball Blues (Blues), Henry,
Heywood & Brockman (Dick Osgood); Cheatin' on
Me (fox-trot), Yellen & Pollack (Hilda Myers); China
Girl (fox-trot), Halstead, Warner & Singer (Abe
Cole); Get Yourself a Broom and Sweep Your Trou-
bles Away (fox-trot), Rose, Brockman & Von Tilzer
(Hilda Myers); Hot Hot Hottentot (fox-trot), Fred
Fisher (Edgar Hayes); I Want Your Love (Most of
All) (waltz), Horne & Tandler (Ruth Mack); I'm
So Ashamed (waltz), Miller & Cohn (Ruth Mack);
In Shadowland (waltz ballad), Lewis, Young, Brooks
& Ahlert ("Bernice" the Radio Star); Insufficient
Sweetie (fox-trot), Wells & Jones (Hilda Myers);
In the Garden of Tomorrow (ballad), Graffe, Jr., &
Deppen (Lillian Tyler Plogstedt); Johanna (fox-trot),
Robertson, Persell & Smith (Mary Allison); Let It
Rain—Let It Pour (I'll Be in Virginia in the Morn-
ing) (fox-trot), Friend & Donaldson (Rudy Ger-
main).
Little Brown Jug, the (one-step), Eastburn (Joshua
Jones); My Sugar (fox-trot), Britt & Little ("Bernice"
the Radio Star); Nora Lee (fox-trot), Persell &
Smith (Rudy Germain); Old Favorites No. 4 (fox-
trot), containing Auld Lang Syne, Old Folks at
Home, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny; When You
and I Were Young, Maggie, Silver Threads Among
the Gold, Love's Old Sweet Song (Mary Allison);
One Stolen Kiss (waltz), Rodemich & Conley (Ruth
Mack); Play Me Slow (Blues), Hagen & O'Flynn
(Edgar Hayes); Swanee Butterfly (fox-trot), Rose &
Donaldson (Abe Cole); Tom Cat Rag, The (Blues),
Henry, Heywood & Brockman (Dick Osgood); West
Virginia (march song) (one-step), Honaker & Jay
(Dick Osgood); When I Think of You (fox-trot),
Owens & Rose (Edgar Hayes); When My Sugar
Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birds Go
Tweet-Tweet-Tweet (fox-trot), Austin, McHugh &
May 23, 1925.
Mills (Sam Jones); When You and I Were Seventeen
(waltz), Kahn & Rosoff (Hilda Myers); Why
Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me? (fox-trot), Kahn &
Jones (Hilda Myers); Yearning (Just for You) (fox-
trot), Davis & Burke (Edgar Hayes).
The following instrumental number is included:
Someone Loves You After All, McCarthy & Tierney
("Bernice" the Radio Star).
The following are foreign rolls of recent issue:
Spanish—La Soldadera, Cancion Mexicana, Marimba
waltz; La Provinciana, tango; La Rancherita, Cancion
Mexicana, fox-trot; Recuerdo "Yals Bolero": Va Ca-
yendo La Tarde!, Cancion Mexicana, Marimba waltz.
NEWS OF SMALL GOODS FIELD
Many New Names Appear,in Musical Instrument
Business and Old Ones Continue in Activities.
H. S. Hartogensis will move his music business
from 615 East Baltimore street to the southwest cor-
ner of Baltimore street and Market place, Balti-
more, Md., when alterations are completed in the
new location.
J. Clyde Bostian recently opened a new store in
the C.obbett Building, 100 South Front street, Mil-
ton, Pa.
Petrank's Jewelry Store at Owatonna, Minn., has
RUSSIA'S RADIO CRAZE.
its music department.
Radio has gripped the entire city populations of Rus- enlarged
furniture and music business of John Sether
sia and is beginning to spread to the rural districts, at The
Elbow Lake, Minn., was purchased recently by
according to reports from Moscow received by the Erickson
Bros, of Evansville, Ind.
Russian information bureau in Washington. The de-
The Perfect Music Shop was recently opened for
mand for receiving sets far surpasses the supply. Six business
at 18 West Chestnut street, Lancaster, Pa.
thousand workingmen's clubs and 12,000 provincial
Miss
Josephine
has purchased the busi-
reading rooms are being equipped with loud speak- ness of the Koskie Gunther
Music Co. at Dansville, N. Y.
ers. The commissariat of posts and telegraphs, which
The Andrews Music Store has moved to new quar-
has about fifty radio transmitting stations, is devel-
oping the educational features of the radio programs. ters in the Kimball Building, West Broad Street,
An All-Russian congress of radio fans will be held Statesville, N. C.
C. M. Iverson and Robert E. Anderson now oper-
ate the Music Shop in Montevideo, Minn.
The Clifford Jewelry & Music Co., 60 South Main
street, South Norwalk, Conn., has opened a music
ORCHESTRA AS ADVERTISER.
The Dwight Johnson Strollers, an exclusive department.
The Fox Piano Co. has moved into its new store
Buescher organization of ex-collegians, who for the
past year have been a big attraction at the Hotel in South Norwalk, Conn., where pianos and phono-
Multnomah, Portland, Ore., are being featured in a graphs are featured.
A repair department was recently added by the
series of concerts at the Liberty theater of that place.
The organization was furnished its Buescher instru- Music Box, conducted by Lloyd Flanders and Ed-
ments by the Seiberling, Lucas Music Co., of Port- ward Martin at 32 West Main street, Battle Creek,
land, Ore., and the firm is extensively advertising Michigan.
Otto A. Thoenues is now located in his new store
its appearance and calling upon all musicians to hear
the famous band at the Liberty and notice the ex- at 315 West State street, Rockford, 111.
The central Chinese government is planning to lift
cellent quality and tone of the various instruments.
the embargo on radio material and supplies, accord-
ing to correspondence of the American Radio Relay
EXPANDS IN MILWAUKEE.
A policy of expansion has been adopted by Rinzel- League, whose headquarters are in Hartford, Conn.
Tesch, Inc., a music st'ore at 459 Eleventh avenue,
Milwaukee, which has enlarged its phonograph de-
The United States is the greatest copper con-
partment. Announcement about the enlargement of suming country in the world, recent figures com-
the department called attention to the addition of
piled by the Copper and Brass Research Associa-
Brunswick phonographs, Radiolas and records to the tion showing that almost one-half the world's total
regular stock.
production is used here.
HIGH GRADE
SL1NGERLAND
Folding Organs
School Organs
May Bell
Practice Keyboards
t>Ml«r«' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Enrfewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Slingerland Banjos
VIOLIN, CELLO AND DOUBLE
BASS WOUND STRINGS
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY
Guaranteed for thirty day* after they are sold
SEND FOR CATALOG
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they are Highest quality and sold
at a reasonable price.
Over 40 Styles of Banjos, Banjo Mandolins, Tenor Banjos
and Banjo Ukuleles, to select from.
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8106 Chappell Avenue,
CHICAGO, ILLS.
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1815 Orchard Street
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Player-actions installed. Instruments
renmshed or remodeled and actions and
keys repaired. Work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable.
Our-of-town dealers' repair work solic-
ited. Write for details and terms.
THE PIANO REPAIR SHOP
C. D. GREENLEAF, Fre».
J- F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
All of the moit celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to any point in th U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Branch store
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