Presto

March 26, 1927.
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
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SMALL GOODS, MUSIC ROLLS AND SHEET MUSIC
NEW GULBRANSEN ROLLS
New Bulletin of Gulbransen Music Roll Cor-
poration Includes Standard and Operatic
Ballads, Marches and Sacred Numbers.
The April bulletin of Gulbransen music rolls has
been issued by the Gulbransen Music Roll Corpora-
tion, 599 Eleventh avenue, New York. The following
word rolls are included with the names of the re-
cording artists in parentheses:
Standard and Operatic Ballads (word rolls), No.
20280, Gypsy Song (Stride La Vampa). "II Trova-
tore," key E minor, Verdi (Haase); 20046, I Dreamt
I Dwelt in Marb'e Halls, "The Bohemian Girl," key E
Hat. l'.alfe (Jones); 20250. Jean, key D flat, Burleigh
( Frohm); 20070, Love's Old Sweet Song, key E
flat, Mollov (Jones).
Sacred Music (Word Rolls)—Xo. 20051. I Need
Thee Every Hour, key A flat, Lowry (Albertson);
i()102, The "Palms, key~B flat. Faure (Frohm).
Marches (Instrumental)—Xo. 30038, Boy Scouts
Parade, key C, Johnson (Albertson); 30039, The
Burning of Rome (descriptive march), key E flat,
Paull (Stevens); 30157. Midnight Fire Alarm, key E
flat, Lincoln (Lutter).
Salon (Instrumental)—No. 30059. Chrysanthemums,
key G. Penn (Jones); 30105, Humoresque, Op. 101,
No. 7. key G flat, Dvorak (Haase); 30263, Traumerei,
Op. 9, No. 4, key B, Strauss (Herzberg).
Dance (Word Rolls)—20281, At Sundown, fox trot,
key F. Donaldson (Wehrlen); 20282, Crazy Words,
Crazy Tune, fox trot, key G, Ager (Stevens); 20283,
I'm Back in Love Again, fox trot, key F. FYiend
(Richtnund); 20284, Kinkajou, The "Rio Rita," fox
trot, key E flat, Tierney (Stevens); 20285. My Sunday
Girl, fox trot, key F", Stept (Tucker); 20286, Someone
to Watch Over Me, "Oh. Kay!" fox trot, key E flat,
Gershwin (Tucker): 20287, There's Everything Nice
About You. fox trot, key F, Wendling (Clarke);
;O288, What Does It Matter? wa'tz, key F, Berlin
(Wehrlen): 20289, Where's That Rainbow? "Peggy
Ann," fox trot, key C, Rodgers (Clarke).
KREISLER UNDER ARREST
Graphic Stcry of the Violinist's Escape, in
Which His Performance Was More Easy
to Recognize Than His Features.
Rev. Frederick F. Shannon, pastor of Central
Church, Chicago, is a remarkable orator of the
Beecher-Gunsaulus school of preaching, who holds
forth in Orchestra Hall Sunday mornings. His serv-
ices are broadcast by radio and so he is listened to
by an audience nation-wide. And all in Dr. Shan-
non's congregation are well paid, for he is one of the
greatest living pulpiteers.
Last Sunday Dr. Shannon broadcast a story about
F'ritz Kreisler, the famous violinist. It was a good
story, but whe'her original or not the Central church
pastor did not say. In any event, the story discredited
the intelligence of the music clerks of Hamburg and
set forth the strange problem of the great violinists'
violin being better known than the features of the
artist himself in a place where such a condition must
seem all but impossible. For the viol'n, when not in
use, is carefully concealed in a box and jealously
guarded by its owner, whereas Fritz Kreisler himself
is a very genial individual who easily makes friends
in the open. But here's Dr. Shannon's entertaining
story:
One day Kreisler was passing through Hamburg
bound for London, in which city he had an engage-
ment that very night. He must wait an hour before
the boat would sail. He was naturally attracted to
the leading music store, not far from this wharf. He
had his violin under his arm when he entered the
music store.
Shortly after entering the store a clerk asked the
artist if he could see the violin which the stranger
carried. The box was opened and Kriesler permitted
the clerk to take it. Almost instantly the instrument
was returned and, without explanation, the clerk hur-
ried out. He soon returned with a policeman who
touched Kreis'.er on the arm and said, "You are under
arrest!"
The violinist was astonished and asked why he was
under arrest. "I have done nothing," he said. "Why,
replied the clerk, "you have a stolen violin in your
possession! That violin be'ongs to the great Kreis-
ler!"
The artist, realizing that his boat for London would
leave in half an hour, was terribly troubled. At the
minute he should be hearing the applause of a critical
English audience he would be in a noisome Hamburg
prison! But, as is characteristic of Kreisler, he
thought quickly. Turning to the clerk he asked. "Have
you a phonograph record of Fritz Kreisler's?" The
clerk sought and found one.
"Please play it." said the artist. It was done, and
when the beautiful music had ceased, Kreisler took
up the violin and repeated the identical composition,
but with even greater beauty of tone. "Are you sat-
isfied?" he asked.
"Oh, yes," said both clerk and policeman, "you are
Kreisler himself." And the violinist caught the boat
for London.
CALLS MUSIC DIVINE
New York Minister Says It Aids in Bringing Man
Into Right Relation with God.
"Among the influences that bring man into the
right relation with God music is not the least," said
the Rev. Dr. Fred M. Ohms in a sermon on "The
Ministry of Music," at the First Evangelical Church,
424 West Fifty-nint'.i street. New York. The occa-
sion for his sermon was the dedication of a new pipe
organ.
"Among musical instruments, I think we are safe
in saying that the pipe organ is the queen," he said
in dedicating the organ.
"Music is essentially divine, and man is essentially
divine, too. Music is universal."
"There is nothing so good, so pure and uplifting
but that Satan, if he cannot get it for his own service,
will try to destroy it, and so it is that in modern
times instrumental music has been to a large extent
usurped by the powers of evil," he said, referring to
jazz music.
FRED J. BACON IN NASHVILLE.
The O. K. Houck Piano Company, Nashville,
Tenn , had as a guest last week Fred J. Bacon, an
internationally known manufacturer of banjos. Mr.
Bacon first began the manufacture of Bacon banjos
in 1907. since when he has appeared in concerts in
every stale in the Union. Mr. Bacon made the state-
ment while in Nashville that, contrary to popular
opinion, the banjo was not the creation of a Negro,
but the invention of Joel Sweeney of Virginia, who
made his first banjo in 1845. The honor of being
t'le world's champion five-string banjo player is one
of the many championships he'd by Mr. Bacon. He
won this honor in Lewiston. Me., on October 15, 1926.
TALKS ON SONG MAKING.
Music teachers from all parts of Kentucky attended
the annual convention of the Kentucky Music Teach-
ers' Association early this month.
Outstanding
among the events of the three-day session were the
children's chorus, and addresses by O. A. CHppinger,
of Chicago and Frederic Covvles, of Louisville. At
the children's chorus more than one thousand chil-
dren from all parts of the state took part. At the
opening session Mr. Clippinger spoke on t'.ie "Making
of a Song."
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CHAMPION ELECTROGRAPH HITS
Starr
Piano Company, Richmond, Ind., Presents
Latest in Winning Music for Dances.
The Starr Piano Co., Richmond, hid., has issued its
latest bulletin of champion Electrograph records of
popular dance and vocal music and champion
specials:
Champion Dance Hits—Blue Skies (Fox Trot,
Vocal Chorus), Lakeshore Dance Orchestra, and
Just One More Kiss (Melody Fox Trot, Vocal
Chorus), Alabama Serenaders.
Consolation (Waltz, Vocal Chorus'), The (ieorgia
Collegians, and Carolina Mine (Your Rolling Stone Is
Rolling Home), (Waltz, Vocal Chorus), The (ieorgia
Collegians.
One Alone (Fox Trot, Vocal Chorus). Alabama
Serenaders, and There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's
Eyes (Blue Fox Trot), Vocal Chorus), Alabama
Serenaders.
It's O. K. Katy With Me (Fox Trot), Lakeshore
Dance Orchestra, and Forgive Me (Fox Trot, Vocal
Chorus), Dick Beeson and his orchestra.
My Little Bunch of Happiness ( F. T.. V. C ) , Fred
Sharp's Dixie Players, and Make Me Know It (Fox
Trot), Bill Williams and his gang.
I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (Fox Trot,
Vocal Chorus), Fred Sharp's Dixie Players, and
Georgia Bo-Bo (Fox Trot), Bill Williams and his
gang.
Champion Popular Vocal—Blue Skies, Horace Win-
ters, and Lonely Eyes, Orville Patti. Play Gypsies—
Dance Gypsies, Horace Winters, and Hello Bluebird,
Orville Patti. Perhaps You'll Think of Me, Dorothy
Garland, and 1 Don't Want to Forget, Dorothy Gar-
land. Sam, the Old Accordion Man, Lakeshore Club
Quartet, and (You Know—I Know) Everything's
Made for Love, The Four Serenaders.
Champion Specials—The Worst Rose of Summer
(Comic Novelty—Laughing Record), Vaughn De
Leath. and By the Side of the Omelette Sea (Comic
Novelty). Vaughn De Leath. When the Roses Bloom
Again (Old Time Mountain). I'nclc Jim Seaney. and
Kenney Wagner's Surrender (Old Time Mountain),
Uncle Jim Seaney. You Belong to That Funeral Train
(Negro Sermon), Rev. J. M. Gates and His Congre-
gation, and I Know I Got Religion (Negro Sermon),
Rev. J. M. Gates and His Congregation.
MAKES NON-SKID PICK.
Fred F. Gatchell. Springfield, Mass., an instructor
on the guitar, banjo and mandolin, is the inventor of
the "Non-Skid" pick which he is manufacturing in
that city. The pick is made of fiberloid and a corru-
gated patch enables the player to get a firm grip of
the pick. A company called the Non-Skid Pick Co.
has been organized to make and market the product.
PHONOGRAPH TRADE IS GOOD.
In spite of the increasing popularity of the radio,
dealers in phonographs in southern Indiana towns
say that the demand for talking machines continues
good. Many of the local dealers declare they sold
more talking machines in 1926 than during any pre-
vious year and they are looking for a good volume of
business this year.
THE FAMOUS
CLARK
ORCHESTRA ROLLS
of De Kalb, Illinois
The Best for Automatic Playing: Pianos
Organs and Orchestrions
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CLARK ORCHESTRA ROLLS
Monthly bulletins of new records. Write
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Manufacturers — Originators — Patentees
De Kalb, Illinois
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