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Presto

Issue: 1925 2035

July 25, 1925.
PRESTO
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FEATURING Q R S ROLLS IN SAN ANTONIO
COLUMBIA PROGRESS SHOWN
Second Annual Exposition Held Under Bridgeport
Chamber of Commerce a Great Success.
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Here's an attractive window of Thomas Goggan
& Bros., San Antonio. Tex. The Q R S Girl was
much in evidence and the special rolls were featured
with dark blue cardboard with orange lettering.
Along with the window as a couple-up, the company
sent out a postal card featuring these and other rolls,
among them the three latest Q R S recordings by
Harry Snodgrass, "King of the Ivories."
Miss Louise Pinto, the wide awake roll department
manager of the San Antonio firm, said: "It brought
customers into our department who had not been in
for two years at least."
The facts arc that even in summer time you can
sell rolls if you go after it in the right way, and they
know and do the right way at Goggan's.
BRITISH TAKE ACTION.
At the recent annual convention held in Llandudno,
Wales, the British Association of Piano Supply
Houses unanimously adopted the resolution to have
the words "British Made" cast upon the frame of
every British-made piano. The association was
moved to the action by the unfair trading methods
of retailers with pianos made in central Europe and
stamped with fictitious names.
The second annual Progress Exposition held in
Bridgeport, Conn., the home town of the Columbia
Phonograph Company, Inc., recently, was given
under the auspices of the Bridgeport Chamber of
Cemmerce and co-operating organizations of the city,
and proved a success from every standpoint.
In the Columbia Phonograph Company's booth
1 he current Columbia Phonograph and Columbia
New Process Records w r ere featured and demonstra-
tions were given. A beautifully lettered show card
announced a list of the dealers in the sales territory
showing where the company's products could be
obtained so that the sales angle was not over-
looked during the exposition.
A display stand in the front of the booth con-
tained an exhibition of the various processes through
which a record passes from the time the master rec-
ord is made. At the sides of this exposition samples
of the record dies and sheets of labels were shown
as well as samples of the record stock material to-
gether with a row of bottles in which samples of
the various ingredients used to produce a record
were shown. Another interesting feature of the dis-
play was the series of Masterworks Album Sets of
complete symphonies recorded by world famed mu-
sical organizations.
The display also contained two historical exhibits,
one the "Treadle Graphophone," one of the first
types of talking machines made by the Columbia
organization in 1888. The second exhibit showed the
kind of records made by Columbia in 1898—the large
cylinder ''Graphophone Grand" record. The contrast
between the 1925 models and the If88 models were
very interesting and showed the wonderful progress
that has been made in talking machines since they
were first invented.
MISBRANDING OF WOODS.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued com-
plaints against designating certain kinds of woods,
"Philippine mahogany," which do not belong to any
species of mahogany. The commission terms the use
of the description an unfair method of competition
with those who handle real mahogany.
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PRESTO
July 25, 1925.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
Marimba waltz, Raymond & LeRoy Dewitt (Ruth
Mack); Yes, Sir, That's My Baby, fox trot, Kahn &
Donaldson (Rudy Germain).
Instrumental—The Picadore March, march, J.
Allen-Thede Music Co., Tulsa, Okla., Expands Philip Sousa (Osgood & Black).
Phonograph and Record Department in
The following is a selected list of song and dance
hits in great demand: Alabamy Bound, fox trot;
Response to Growing Trade.
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, mountain song; Caro-
From an exceptionally small beginning- to the lina Sweetheart, marimba waltz; Don't Bring Lulu,
largest phonograph and record account in the South- fox trot; Isn't She the Sweetest Thing?, fox trot;
west, describes succinctly the progress of the Allen- How Do You Do? (famous radio song); In Shadow-
Thede Music Co., of Tulsa, Okla., during the past land, waltz ballad; Just a Little Drink (A song with
sixteen years.
a kick), fox trot; The Little Brown Jug, one-step;
This organization is operated entirely by Mrs. The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane, (mountain
L. P. Thede, who has devoted many years to the tune); The Little Rosewood Casket (mountain tune) ;
phonograph record business and who deserves a great Moonlight and Roses, fox trot; My Sugar, fox trot;
deal of credit for building, single handedly, the won- Oh, Katharina!, one-step; The Prisoner's Song
derful enterprise which is now acknowledged to be (mountain tune); Rock All, Our Babies to Sleep
in the foremost ranks of Southwestern music dealers. (mountain tune); Titina (from "Ijfuzzles of 1925"),
Recently Mrs. Thede added a complete line of one-step; When My Sugar Walks Down the Street,
Columbia phonographs and records to her stock and fox trot; When You and I Were Seventeen, waltz;
expressed her enthusiasm over the type of record Yearning (Just for You), fox trot.
which Columbia is merchandising today. To an-
nounce to her trade that this new line has been added,
CLEVELAND RADIO SHOW.
Mrs. Thede made a splendid window display of one
Cleveland,
Ohio, will hold its first annual radio
of the monthly window display sets which form part
of Columbia's Dealers' Service. This display caused show in the Public Hall the week beginning
November 7. G. B. Bordenhoff is general man-
considerable comment and many sales.
ager and L. G. Baldwin, manager of radio sales
The Thede organization also handles a complete for the Willard Storage Battery Company, general
line of other phonograph merchandise but in order to chairman of the arrangements committee. Radio
compete with the persistent demand for Columbia manufacturers, dealers and distributors of northern
products, it was felt that it would be a wise sales Ohio are already giving their hearty co-operation and
move to install a Columbia department. In a recent requests for exhibit space are now being recorded.
interview Mrs. Thede said—"The new recordings put The Public Hall has two unusually large floors which
out by the Columbia at the present time are simply will be used for displays. Cleveland music merchants
marvelous and will revolutionize the phonograph who handle radio sets and equipment are also deeply
business. The demand on the new recording has interested in the show.
already picked up very much and is bound to be a big
stimulation to the record business."
Thomas P. Foote, of the Knight-Campbell Music
The Allen-Thede Music Company is a splendid Company, Denver, Colo., has been elected a director
example of musical merchandising and proves con- of the Retail Credit Men's Association.
clusively how successful such an enterprise can be
when the owners of the business follow a consistent
sales policy, with good merchandise of the type that
is in persistent demand by the music loving public.
ADDS COLUMBIA LINE
AUGUST VOCALSTYLE ROLLS
New List of Song Rolls Issued by Vocalstyle Music
Company, Cincinnati.
The following are the August releases in song rolls
by the Vocalstyle Music Co., Cincinnati, the name of
the recording artists being printed in parenthesis:
Ah-Ha!, fox trot, Clare & Monaco (Edgar Hayes);
All Aboard for Heaven, fox trot, Rose & Meyer
(L. Stevens); Are You Sorry?, fox trot, Davis &Ager
(Edgar Hayes); By the Light of the Stars, fox trot,
Little, Sizemore & Shay (Abe Cole); Collegiate (Col-
legian), Brown, Jaffe & Bonx (Mary Allison);
Dreams of Dixie, waltz, Johnson & Bivens (Rudy
Germain); The Flapper Wife, fox trot, Burton &
Rupp (Mary Allison); Fooling, fox trot, Klages,
Meskill & Sherman (Rudy Germain); Marguerite,
fox trot, Murphy, Sherman & Bernie (Ruth Mack);
Mighty Blue, blues, Egan & Whiting (Edgar Hayes);
Oh How I Miss You Tonight, waltz, Davis, Burke
& Fisher (L. Stevens); Rose, Wonderful Rose, waltz
ballad, M. H. & J. W. Dodge (Ruth Mack); Shall
You? Shall I?, hymn, James McGranahan (Mary Al-
lison); Snow Deer (Indian song), one-step, Mahoney
& Wenrich (L. Stevens); Steppin' In Society, fox
trot, Gerbcr & Akst (Clarence Jones); If You Knew
Susie (Like I Know Susie), fox trot, B. G. DeSylva
(Rudy Germain); Suite 16, fox trot, Meyers, Kassel
& Schoebel (Abe Cole); Thinking of You, ballad,
Eastman & Heltman (Joe Murray); Waiting (I
Wonder If She's), Marimba waltz, Warner & Halls
(L. Stevens); Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's
Daughter (While the Caretaker's Busy Taking Care),
fox trot, Chick Endor (Sam Jones); Wondering,
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