PRESTO-TIMES
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE FOR
CONVENTION OF MUSIC INDUSTRIES
Complete Arrangements for the Events of Week After Next, Beginning
Monday, June 6th, and Closing With Merchants'
Banquet of Thursday
May 28, 1927.
CHICAGO PIANO CLUB
AND THE CONVENTION
Further Particulars of an Important Event,
with Advice to All Who Expect
to Participate.
Roger O'Connor, of Kranich & Bach, treasurer of
the Chicago Piano Club, who presided at the Monday
meeting, this week, in the absence of President
concerning methods of piano instruction adapted to Laughead, outlined the progress of the various com-
Plans are now complete for the 1927 convention of
the music industries, which will be held in the Hotel store purposes, as well as for use in public schools. mittees that are arranging the events sponsored by
The methods to be demonstrated are such as are the club and its Committee of Arrangements for
Stevens the week of June 6, opening with a luncheon
and mass meeting under the auspices of the Chamber available to dealers in every locatity throughout the convention week, June 6-9.
The Monday luncheon at the Stevens is slated to
country.
at noon on Monday, and ending with the usual annual
banquet of the Merchants' Association on Thursday Trade Is Invited to Finals Piano Playing Tournament. be an extraordinary occasion and arrangements for
A thrilling event will take place on Wednesday eve- the great banquet of merchants Thursday night in the
evening.
ning in the Grand Ball Room of the Hotel Stevens, grand ballroom of the hotel now is well along with
Monday morning will be devoted to registration,
validation of railroad tickets and visiting the ex- where 30 of the 15,000 Chicago school children com- toward a thousand reservations booked. The main
peting in the Greater Chicago Piano Playing Tourna- thing in connection with these attractive features
hibits.
which the committees urge is to secure seats without
further delay. Many will have to be seated in the
lobbies and side rooms of the main dining room. To
avoid such location it is urgently advised to secure
reservations early. Carl Sundberg, committeeman on
tickets for the grand finals, Wednesday night, of the
piano playing contest, said that he would supply ad-
missions to any members of the club or members of
the trade who would advise him where to send and
the number required. It was pointed out that holders
of tickets should be in their places by half-past seven
o'clock, otherwise the section reserved for them may
be taken by the crowd of miscellaneous visitors.
The following telegram came to Presto-Times
office on Monday:
"Over six hundred fifty rooms are now definitely
engaged by the trade for the National Music Trades
Convention. Hotel Stevens, Chicago, June 6th-9th.
"Since the grand opening of this hotel, May 18th,
it has been selling out the full room capacity almost
every night.
"Everyone who wishes to attend this convention
should immediately write the Hotel Stevens reserving
their room. Rooms at $3.50, $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00
are selling out quickly.
"Estimating upon previous convention reservations
at this date, it is believed that from three to five thou-
sand people all engaged in the music business will be
in Chicago a part of the week beginning June 6th.
"Music Trade Convention Arrangements
Committee.
"Gordon Laughead, Chairman."
The luncheon announcement, printed in green and
THE HOTEL STEVENS, CHICAGO.
red, which has been mailed to members of the trade,
ment will play in the grand finals for the award of
reads as follows:
Directions for Obtaining Special Railroad Rates.
Special railroad rates of one and one-half fare for piano leadership.
"Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
the round trip can be obtained under the following
"The only Official Luncheon of the Music Indus-
At least 5,000 persons will see this event, and the
conditions:
tries Chamber of Commerce is Monday noon, June
committee has cautioned that no one will be admitted
1. Obtain regular ticket to Chicago, buying same without a ticket. Those interested in attending this 6th, Grand Ball Room, Hotel Stevens.
between June 2 and 8 and requesting a "certificate," function are urged to write immediately to Peter F.
"All seats at Luncheon—Reserved!
not a "receipt."
"Be in on the keynote of the most important con-
Meyer, 20 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, advis-
2. If your home station has no certificates, buy a ing him the number of tickets they can use.
vention in our history.
regular ticket to the nearest station which the agent
"YES! There will be entertainment, Theatrical
Music merchants have displayed considerable in-
informs you has them, and purchase a through ticket
Celebrities, Music.
terest in this feature of the convention, and many are
and obtain a certificate there.
"And a good dinner included—entire cost only
attending with the object of securing ideas which may
3. Upon arrival at the convention, present certifi- be used for promoting similar contests in their own $2.00.
cate at registration headquarters for validation, which
"In order to secure a CHOICE reserved seat, send
territories.
will entitle you to purchase return ticket over same
$2.00 NOW! Tables can be arranged for groups of
Exhibits
Will
Show
Association
Activities.
route at half regular rates, good until June 13, except
eight and ten.
on certain limited trains not honoring reduced fares.
"GURNEY R. BROWNELL, Chairman,
There will be comprehensive exhibits of the prize
"243 South Wabash Avenue,
4. The special rates are contingent upon 250 dele- winning retail advertisements of the year, the work
gates to the convention applying for same.
"Chicago, Illinois."
of the National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music, including particularly school band promotion,
Special Train Provided from East.
A special train will leave New York at 1:00 p. m. advertising and other material of the National Piano
Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, June 4, and Promotion Committee, and publicity of the National
Association of Musical Instrument and Accessories
special cars to be attached to it will leave Boston at
Manufacturers.
10:15 a. m. Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, June
4. For reservations, apply to Albert Behning, 105
Fitzgerald Music Company Last Week Attained to
West 40th street, New York City, or for the Boston
STRAUBE DEALERS' HELPS.
Its Thirty-fifth Year in Business.
cars to William F. Merrill, 258 Boylston street, Bos-
An advertisement featuring the Straube Grand ap-
ton, Mass.
Thirty-five years ago last week, James Taber Fitz-
pears in the June issue of "Good Housekeeping"—on
Business Sessions Will Be Held Mornings and Ex- sale at the news-stands this week. The Straube Piano gerald laid the foundation for the Fitzgerald Music
Company of Los Angeles, Cal., when he opened a
hibits Open Afternoons.
Co., Hammond, Ind., sends enlargements of this ad
small store at North Spring and Franklin streets,
The plan of holding business sessions in the morn- for dealers' windows on request. It will pay Straube then the heart of the business district.
representatives
to
make
good
use
of
them.
The
ing, so successful last year, will be continued. Tues-
Last week the thirty-fifth anniversary of the firm
Straube Piano Co. also supplies copy of tie-up ad for
day, Wednesday and Thursday mornings have been
was
observed in a public reception at the sales head-
set aside for the business sessions of the various as- dealers' use. These tie-up ads are of real value in
quarters of the company. Mr. Fitzgerald's first small
getting
prospects
familiar
with
local
stores,
as
well
sociations, thus leaving afternoons free for exhibits.
as with the Straube products. A request, saying shop was opened April 26, 1892, and one year later
Exhibitors are expected to open exhibits not later
whether
mat or electro is preferred, will immediately removed to larger quarters at 113 South Spring street,
than noon each day.
paying a bonus of $1,250 for a lease. It was the first
About 100 exhibitors have reserved space at the bring these dealers' helps.
bonus of this sort known to have been paid in Los
hotel. Several exhibitors are reported to have very
Angeles, according to Mr. Fitzgerald.
WALTHAM FOR ACCOMPANIMENTS.
interesting new products. A number of manufac-
Here he enlarged his business to include pianos.
turers also plan to have available material showing
In a concert in Tarentum, Pa., recently a Wal- After six years at this location the Fitzgerald Com-
their advertising and sales campaign for discussion tham playerpiano was used to accompany Rego pany moved to 523 South Broadway. At the end of
with dealers.
Casey, concert violinist, and Mrs. R. H. Knowles, seven years it removed again to the present Hill street
Group Methods of Piano Instruction Will Be Dem- soprano. The concert was arranged by the Windsor headquarters.
Music Company of that city, as a demonstrative pres-
onstrated.
entation of the new Waltham piano. This piano was
The Milwaukee Suburban Musical Association in-
Arrangements are being made for a demonstration
among the very first makes handled by this pioneer cludes all the school music organizations of the city
of various methods and systems of group piano in- music house here.
and suburbs.
BIG LOS ANGELES HOUSE
CELEBRATES ITS BIRTHDAY
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