Presto

May 21, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
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SMALL GOODS, MUSIC ROLLS AND SHEET MUSIC
JUNE OULBRANSEN ROLLS
Dances, Marches, Sacred and Classic Numbers
in Great Variety in Advanced List
Issued This Week.
The advance list for June of Gulbransen rolls has
been issued by the Gulbransen Music Roll Corp.,
599 Eleventh avenue, New York city, and 3232 West
Chicago avenue, Chicago. In the following list the
names of the recording artists are printed in paren-
theses:
Dance (word rolls)—No. 20310, Mary Dear, "Hon-
eymoon Lane," fox trot, key of C, Creamer-Dowling-
Hanley (Wehrlen); 20311, Down in the Old Neigh-
borhood, waltz, key B flat, McKenna (Clarke); 20312,
Positively—Absolutely, fox trot, key E flat, Coslow-
Herbert (Clarke); 20313, Red Lips (Kiss My Blues
Away), fox trot, key of C, Bryan-Monaco-Wendling
(Wehrlen);, 20314, Russian Lullaby, waltz, key of
D minor, Berlin (Wehrlen).
No. 20315, Rosy Cheeks, fox trot, key of C, Simons-
Whiting (Richmund); 20316, Lady Do, fox trot, key
of E flat, Baer (Montrey); 20317, The Same Old
Moon, "Lucky," fox trot, key of G, Harbach-Kalmar-
Ruby (Montrey); 20318, Forgive Me, fox trot, key
of F, Ager (Stevens); 20319, 'Deed I Do, fox trot, key
of E flat, Hirsch-Rose (Osborne); 20320, Underneath
the Weeping Willow, fox trot, key E flat, Breau
(Wehrlen).
Sacred—(Word Roll)—No. 20308, The Old Rugged
Cross, key of B flat, Bennard (Lybig).
Standard and Popular Ballads—(Word Rolls)—•
No. 20014, Battle Hymn of the Republic, key of B
flat, Steffe (Jones); 20029, Comin' Thro' the Rye,
key of A flat, Burns (Albertson); 20055, Juanita, key
of E, Norton (Jones); 20103, The Perfume of the
Flowers, key of F, Friedland (Jones).
Marches (Instrumental)—No. 30061, Clayton's
Grand March, Op. 100, key of E flat, Blake (Lutter);
30078, El Capitan March, key of C, Sousa (Lutter).
Salon and Classic (Instrumental)—No. 30209, Rose
Petals (reverie, key of F, Pierson (Jones); 40007,
Berceuse, "Jocelyn," Transcription, key of G flat,
Godard (Lybig); 40030, Etude, key of D flat major,
Liszt (Klein); 40091, Valse Brillante, key A flat,
Moszkowski (Haase).
rentius Gaudaguini made in Italy in 1743 and sold to
Efrem Zimbalist in the New York store of the Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Company, and according to Mr.
Wurlitzer, is valued at $8,000. That exact photo-
graphs of the original were given the police depart-
ment for identification by Mr. Wurlitzer. The police
department of Los Angeles have been notified of the
arrest and the positive identification of the violin
by Mr. Wurlitzer.
At the request of Patrick Henry, an employe of the
Wurlitzer store, detective sergeants John C. Owens
and John L. Carton arrested Schivell as he walked on
Wabash avenue with the violin case under his arm.
They were told by Henry the case contained a stolen
violin, identified the day previous by Rembert Wur-
litzer when Schivell offered it for sale. The prisoner
stated that he had bought the violin from an unknown
person in Kansas City, and that he had paid $500
for it besides a trade of a violin of his own. Later
he admitted he had taken it from the dressing room
of Zimbalist.
BAND CONTEST WINNERS
National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music Compiles Encouraging Figures of
Results in Several States.
Six of the state and sectional school band contests
with which the National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music is cooperating were held during the
first week in May. These were the contests of
Northern California, South Dakota, Colorado, Indiana,
Nebraska and Oklahoma. A total of twenty state
contests, in addition to the national, is the Bureau's
record for this year, which is only the fourth since
the inception of the work.
The California contest, held May 7, in the civic
auditorium of San Francisco, was under the auspices
of the San Francisco Civic Association, the city and
county of San Francisco, and the Music Trade Asso-
ciation of Northern California. E. J. Delano of Sher-
man, Clay & Company, chairman of the contest, re-
ported the event a wonderful success, with fine
playing by the bands, one or two massed numbers by
Talking Machine and Radio Men, Inc., Discuss Im- thirteen bands, and an attendance of 10,000.
portant Question at Monthly Meeting This Week.
The South Dakota contest, organized by the Uni-
At the April meeting of Talking Machine and versity of South Dakota, was held at Vermillion, after
Radio Men, Inc., the association of the trade of New five district contests had been run off during April
York, New Jersey and Connecticut, there was a dis- at Madison, Aberdeen.
The list of winners of the Illinois contest, held
cussion on the subject, "Is the Present Retail Dis-
count Profitable from the Dealers' Point of View and April 29-30, at Urbana, under the auspices of the Illi-
Advisable from the Manufacturers' and Jobbers' nois School Band Association, were: Class A, Nicho-
Point of View?" The discussion was still at fever las Senn High School, Chicago, first; Quincy High
heat when the meeting was adjourned so it was car- School, second; Champaign High School, third. Class
ried over as the subject for discussion at a meeting B—Belvidere, first; St. Elmo, second. Class C—
East Aurora Grade School, first; Joliet Grade School,
held at the Cafe Boulevard on Wednesday, May 18.
second. Class D—Champaign High School Second
"The subject is the most important one discussed
Band, first; Patoka High School, second. The march-
by any association in the trade," said Irwin Kurtz, ing contest was won by Quincy, with Waukegan sec-
president, in a letter to dealers urging attendance at ond. There was a total of forty bands in the Illi-
the meeting. "Associations all over the country are nois contest.
ready to follow our lead. Can I earnestly request
Full reports have not yet come in from the con-
that all jobbers instruct their salesmen to invite every
radio dealer on their route to come to the meeting tests in Indiana, Colorado, Oklahoma and Nebraska,
and that all dealer-members visit their competitors but the names of the winners, wired to Mr. Tremaine,
are as follows:
and bring them along?"
Indiana: Class A—Marion High School; Class B—
As part of this general discussion Chester Abelo-
Fairmount
High School. Orchestra contest, Ham-
witz led on "Should Our LInited Industries Re Ex-
tended a Longer Dating on Goods Purchased by mond High School.
Colorado (Rocky Mountain High School Music
Them?"
Contest,
held as a feature of Denver's Music Week):
The Schickerliug Products Corporation demon-
Class A—Colorado Spring High School, first; Cen-
strated their new Abe Power packet and new tube.
tennial High School Pueblo, second. Class B—Cas-
Following Arrest of Herman Schivell, Valuable Instru-
per, Wyo., High School, first; Greeley High School,
second.
ment Is Identified as a Laurrentius Gaudaguini.
Nebraska: McCook High School, first; Grand
The violin stolen from the dressing room of Efrem
Island High School, second.
Zimbalist, the famous violinist, while filling an en- "Alice, Where Art Thou?", Popular Sixty Years,
Oklahoma: Stillwater High School, first Cleveland
gagement in Los Angeles about two months ago, is
and "Perfect Day," a Perpetual Seller.
High School, second.
now in the office of the custodian of property of the
Additional state band contests to be held in May
Two of the greatest radio favorites are "Alice,
Chicago police department. Herman Schivell, arrested
with the violin in his possession last week, has con- Where Art Thou," and "A Perfect Day," according to are the Ohio contest at Cleveland, the Texas contest
Announcer Will Hay, of the WGN station, Chicago. at Wichita Falls; the North Dakota contest at Grand
fessed to the theft and is held pending the arrival of
Forks, and the Minnesota contest at Minneapolis.
Joseph Ascher, who wrote "Alice, Where Art
police from Los Angeles.
The violin was identified for police records by Thou?" was a London pianist and composer, who at The Michigan and Wisconsin contests will be held
Rembert Wurlitzer, an expert on violins, as a Laur- eighteen went to Paris, where he became the court towards the end of the month, as will also the New
pianist for Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon I I I . England sectional.
He later returned to London, where he died in 1869,
at the age of thirty-eight.
RADIO ADJUSTMENTS JUNE 1.
Carrie Jacobs Bond says she composed her "Per-
Complete readjustments of wave lengths and power
fect Day" while dressing for dinner with friends at
Riverside, Cal., where the setting sun inspired her. of broadcasting stations throughout the country will
She read the poem at dinner, but it was not until, be made effective June 1, it was announced last week
months later, while crossing the Mojave desert with by the federal radio commission. The reassignment
a party one starlit night that the music came to her of wave lengths is about complete and will be made
and she sang for the first time what has become per- public by the end of this week. It is the expectation
of members of the commission that interference in the
haps the most popular of all modern songs,
of De Kalb, Illinois
air will be largely done away with by the readjust-
The Music Dealers' Association of Baltimore, Md., ments. Effective June 1 the stations will receive
is cooperating with the Musicians' Union in preparing sixty day licenses, the purpose being to grant only
for the international convention of the American Fed- short term licenses in order that further read-
eration of Musicians to be held in the city in May. justments may be made without difficulty.
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