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PRESTO
July 11, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
AUSTRALIA BLAMES RADIO
Commissioner in Report on Wool Industry Says
Clothing Business Is Hurt by New Industry.
Radio is blamed for poor trade in Australia, accord-
ing to a report from Melbourne which says:
"The poor old radio has been blamed for many
things, including, rain, heat and spoiled orchards.
Now comes the charge that wireless is ruining the
wool industry and clothing trade of Australia.
"The commissioner for Australia in an official re-
port on the wool industry states that wireless causes
people to stay at home and lessens the demand for
clothing."
Three additional substations are now under construc-
tion. No additional companies are to be formed, as
those already in operation are able to cover Germany
adequately.
As elsewhere, the introduction of operatic music
and theatrical performances in radio has met with
objection from those who claim that this will have
a detrimental effect on public attendance at the opera
and public plays and concerts. The effect of broad-
casting has not been to cause empty houses, but
to awaken interest for good plays and operas by
bringing them into the homes and thus creating a
desire to see with the eves what the ears have heard.
A LEE DEFOREST MESSAGE
BAR RADIO ADVERTISING
Congratulations of Wizard Cabled from Switzerland
to Council Bluffs at Station Dedication.
German Fans Peg Out When Anything Like Adver-
tising Is Broadcast.
Radio fans in Germany shut off their sets and
refuse to listen in when anything bordering on adver-
tising is broadcast, according to Consul C. M. Ravn-
dal, who has just made a report to the Department
of Commerce concerning broadcasting in Germany.
Every possessor of a radio receiving set in Ger-
many must pay 2 marks a month for a permit to
listen in. Of this amount 1.20 marks are credited
to the broadcasting station and the other 80 pfen-
nigs are retained by the postoffice to defray opera-
tion costs, upkeep, etc., for it keeps all records and
accounts and collects the dues. Registration and
collection are attended to by the fan's own postman.
On Feb. 26, last, there were 714,352 registered
fans in Germany, Berlin had over 3lHJ,OO0.
Tn this connection it is interesting that it has
taken approximately forty years to secure more than
one million telephone subscribers in Germany, where-
as in less than two years a like number will have
been enrolled to hear radio programs.
Broadcasting is a state monopoly in Germany.
Companies were formed for the purpose of broad-
casting, and wave lengths from 1 to 800 meters
released to them.
Germany now has nine broadcasting companies,
operating nine main stations and five substations.
Lee De Forest, "Father of Radio," whose inven-
tions have made present day radio broadcasting and
reception possible and who was born in Council
Bluffs, August 26, 1873, was unable to attend the
opening of Station KIOL in that city this week.
Dr. De Forest is taking a much needed rest in
Switzerland and cabled a message of congratulation
from Zurich to the directors of KIOL to be broad-
cast for him by proxy.
"It is with the keenest delight and greatest pleas-
ure that I learned a modern broadcasting station is
to be opened in Council Bluffs, the city of my birth.
I last visited Council Bluffs when I had just finished
my university training and was at the threshold of
a career in wireless development to which my life
has since been dedicated.
"A radio audience did not exist in those days as
one visualizes the many millions in practically every
country in the civilized world that today listens-in,
and it was not until 1916 that my radio broadcasting
efforts began to arouse popular interest among radio
fans.
"Since 1507 I have firmly believed that the radio
broadcasting stations and their programs would
prove a most potent factor in educating the public,
particularly in the love for good music and it is one
of the sincerest satisfactions in my life that radio
is actually bringing about this splendid uplift.
"May the programs sent out from KIOL be only
of the best and may this fine station do its full share
in bringing into the homes of thousands in the
Middle West the good things that radio alone can
supply."
REMICK SONG HITS
I Can't Stop Babying You
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
Swanee Butterfly
By the Light of the Stars
Old Pal
Somebody Like You
Sweet Georgia Brown
Me and the Boy Friend
My Best Girl
Dreams
Lucky Kentucky
Just Lonesome
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
Don't Bring Lulu
Take Me Back to Your Heart
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
R. M. A. AT CONVENTION.
A large delegation of members of the Radio Man-
ufacturers' Association left Chicago to attend the
annual convention of the organization at Atlantic
City Friday and Saturday of this week. The delega-
tion was headed by Major Herbert H. Frost, presi-
dent, who is said to be slated for re-election to that
office. The R. M. A., as it has become known in
the trade, was organized by six Chicago manufac-
turers a year ago. Now it numbers more than a hun-
dred of the leading radio makers in the United States.
At the convention the organization will be expanded
to provide for an eastern division, with offices in
New York, and representation also for the Pacific
coast.
FREED-EISEMANN CORP.
Encouraging Report of Anticipated Business
for 1926 Made of Meeting of Stockholders
Who Re-elect J. D. R. Freed President.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Freed-Eisemann Radio Corporation, New York, was
held last week in the Sperry Building, Manhattan
Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn, and a most encouraging re-
port of anticipated business for 1926, due to the
demands for Freed-Eisemann receivers and the gen-
eral stabilization of the radio industry, was made by
Joseph D. R. Freed.
"Every indication tends to show that the sales for
the year ending May, 1926, will exceed those of the
preceding year," Mr. Freed declared. "We have dur-
ing this year more than doubled the capacity and
facilities of our plant and have now a production
capacity of 1500 to 2000 sets a day."
With reference to the position of the business of
the company in the radio field, the report says:
"A recent official report of the royalties paid to the
licensor by the other thirteen Neutrodyne licensees
indicates that the sales of your Company alone were
more than half the combined sales of the thirteen
other manufacturers for the calendar year of 1924.
This proves the dominance of your Company in the
Xeutrodyne field."
Joseph D. R. Freed was re-elected president, Einil
Eisemann, vice-president, Alexander Eisemann, treas-
urer, and Arthur Freed, secretary, and the entire
board of directors was re-elected.
The fiscal statement showed a healthy condition
with no money whatsoever owed to banks.
NEW FESTIVAL FEATURE.
A novelty in music festivals is that scheduled to
begin July 11, at Conneaut Lake Park, Pennsyl-
vania, under the direction of Lee Hess Barnes. In-
stead of lining up an array of soloists and merely
gathering an audience to hear them, Mr. Barnes
planned for the first time in such a festival to create
a real and practical contact between the actual music
and its hearers. For this purpose he engaged Dr.
Sigmund Spaeth, well-known as a speaker and as
author of "The Common Sense of Music," to give
daily talks on types of-composition represented in
the programs.
MISS BARTER'S SONG WINS.
Grace Barter is composer of the song, "Mother of
Mine, I Am Dreaming of You." which is reported
a "best seller" in all the Colorado cities. Miss Barter
is a former Marion girl, being the daughter of the
late Wm. J. Barter. She left Illinois five years ago,
going to Colorado, where she has been employed
ever since by the D. Z. Phillips Music House of
Pueblo.
JOINS SONG COMPOSERS.
Mrs. Lyda Keck Wiggins, Ohio newspaper woman,
is author of the song, "The Roarin' Lions." which
was chosen last week at Columbus in competition with
a large number of entries by the Lions' Interna-
tional convention. The words were written by Mrs.
Wiggins, while the music is by Frederick Hall, noted
organist and composer, now at Palm Beach.
AXEL CHRISTENSEN'S TOUR.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
Axel Christensen, well known pianist on the staff
of the United States Music Co., Chicago, and who
broadcasts regularly from stations KYW, STAS,
W E B H . WGN, WMAQ and WLS, is now "booked
solid" over the Orpheum and Keith vaudeville cir-
cuits at a salary of $1,000 per week. Mr. Christen-
sen is offering "Sympho Synco," a music treat com-
bining classic and popular melodies.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, III.
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