21
PRESTO-TIMES
April 2, 1927.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
A Few Items Interesting to People in Sheet Music
Department Are Printed.
The United States Marine Band, at its barracks
in Washington, D. C, has more than 300,000 band
and orchestra compositions in its library, valued at
over a million dollars.
Will J. Anderson, composer of song hits, died
recently at his home in Ridgewood, N. J., at the age
of forty-six.
At an impromptu celebration of St. Patrick's Day
in the House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada, several
Irish favorites of American publishers were sung,
the soloist being F. P. Quinn, member from Halifax.
An attractively arranged show window in the store
of Thomas Goggan & Bro., Houston, Tex., recently
featured "Houston," composed by Mrs. A. Lively.
Paul Whtteman, Inc., is the name of a recently
formed subsidiary company of the well known or-
chestra leader, to publish and exploit music by Amer-
ican composers.
"Clean Music" was the subject of an address re-
cently by G. L. Taylor, of Sherman, Clay & Co.,
San Francisco, to a meeting of the Santa Clara
County Schoolmasters' Association at the Hotel St.
Claire, San Jose, Cal.
: OPENS MUSIC MASTER SUIT
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
Trustee in Bankruptcy in New York Asks $203,424 of
Ware Radio Co. Receiver.
Suit was brought in the Supreme Court at New
York last Saturday by David S. Dudlum, as trustee
in bankruptcy of the Music Master Corpora'tion,
against Stark B. Ferris, as receiver of the Ware
Radio Corporation, for $203,424 as the value of 2,545
radio sets alleged to have been transferred to the
defendant four months before the Music Master Cor-
poration went into bankruptcy.
The charges that the transfer was made when the
corporation was actually insolvent, and created a
preference in violation of the Federal Bankruptcy
Act. The petition in bankruptcy was filed against the
Music Master Corporation in April, 1926. It was
adjudged bankrupt on May 3 by the Federal Court
in Pennsylvania. The transfer is said to have been
made on March 4, 1926.
RECITAL BY "MUSIC HEALER"
Huston Ray, Pianist, Gives a "World Premiere"
Performance at New York.
Huston Ray, pianist and "music healer," last week
gave what was announced as a "world premiere con-
cert demonstration" of the healing power of music
and mechanical sound-wave therapy last Monday in
Carnegie Hall, New York. The audience silently
examined the stageful of apparatus, ranging from
familiar broadcasting microphone and voice ampli-
fiers to talking-machines, radio hookups, sound-re-
flectors and lighting instruments of electro-therapy.
Ward Gibson was introduced as spokesman >to de-
scribe laboratory experiments in adapting music of
different moods to the stimulating of mental and
physical processes. After the mechanical "demon-
strations" of military marches, songs of sentiment and
humor and Gospel hymns, Mr. Ray gave similarly
contrasting examples at the piano from Chopin's
works and arrangements of his own. Willy Schaef-
fer accompanied Dolores Cassinelli, soprano, in an
air from "Mignon" and songs by Cadmon, Metcalf
and Sadero.
D. L. DAY IS NEW PRESIDENT
Other New Officers of Musical Merchandise Manu-
facturers' Association, Eastern Zone, Also Elected.
At the recent meeting in New York of the Musical
Merchandise Manufacturers' Association, Eastern
zone, D. L. Day was elected president. Other offi-
cers elected were Walter Grover, vice-president; H.
C. Lomb, secretary, and E. Stathopoula, secretary.
The new board of directors is composed of M. Lifton,
C. F. Martin, F. Gibson, G. F. Chapin and Walter
Schmidt.
Mr. Day reviewed the history of the association and
pointed with pride to its steady development to an
organization of vital force in the music industry.
"There are big problems to handle in our trade and
they can only be worked out by national coopera-
tion," said Mr. Day. "We are now entering a most
important era in our Eastern zone association, and I
think that those of us who have attended national
association mee-tings are now more vitally interested
than ever. If we can strengthen our local body it
will strengthen the national."
PERFECTION CHARACTER CONTINUED.
The change in name of the Perfection Piano Bench
Mfg. Co., Chicago, to the Perfection Furniture Co., is
a change in name only and the quality of the piano
benches and cabinets will still deserve the character
of perfection. The new title followed the expansion
of the manufacturing scope of .ithe company which
was accompanied by an increase of the capital stock
to $50,000. The executive personnel remains the
same.
FREE VIOLIN SCHOLARSHIP.
A free scholarship of $250 in violin is offered at
the Bush Conservatory, Chicago, by the Omega
Chapter Sigma Alpha Iota Sorority to a talented
and deserving student of limited means. The stu-
dent must be.under twenty-five years of age. All
applications must be received before April 6. The
contest, with two contrasting violin solos as a require-
ment, takes place Saturday afternoon, April 16, at
3:30 o'clock.
The Hyatt Music Co. furnished the Baldwin grand
for the recent concert of Albert Spalding in Port-
land, Ore.
Philip W. Oetting & Son, Inc.
213 East 19th Street, New York
HIGH GRADE
Folding Organs
School Organs
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Practice Keyboards
Grand and Upright Ham-
mers Made of Weickert Felt
Dealers' Attention Solicited
A. L. WHITE MFG. CO.
215 Englewood Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Fine Action Bushing Cloths, etc
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