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Issue: 1927 2136

PRESTO-TIMES
16
July 9, 1927.
Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of Lafayette
College in Pennsylvania; Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan,
rector of the Catholic University of America, Wash-
Bright Little House Organ of the Clark Orchestra ington; Dr. R. Deane Shure, the dean of music of
As a Rule the Level Is High and Its Educational
the American University (Methodist Episcopal).
Roll Co., Valued by Dealers.
Values Great.
Rev. Dr. William J. Deslongchamps, head of the
music
department
of
the
Catholic
University;
Rev.
The "Coin-Slot" is the name of a particularly
By MANFRED VON ARDENNE.
bright little house organ of the Clark Orchestra Dr. John A. Ryan, professor of moral theology in the
Programs on the whole are on a rather high level
Roll Co., De Kalb, 111., and what it says about elec- same institution, are others who approve of the in Germany, because, thanks to the paying basis of
tric piano owners, the rolls they buy or don't buy is audition.
organization in broadcasting listeners relatively large
valuable to the dealers who sell the pianos and the
sums are placed at the disposal of the program com-
A RADIO WEDDING.
rolls:
mittees of the broadcasting stations. These commit-
"To the piano owners and buyers new rolls fre-
The Clark Music Company, Syracuse, N. Y., which tees which determine the nature of program to be
quently look like a wasteful extravagance," says the broadcasts through Station WSYR, of the Hotel broadcast are composed of leading educators, civic
"Coin-Slot" in the July number. It is up to the Syracuse, entertained listeners-in last week with the workers and artists.
dealer in that event to show him w-hy new rolls first radio wedding ever held in that city. Glenn L.
The educational value of broadcasting in Germany
Chesbro, vice-president of the Clark Co., acted as is very great, since the less prosperous and educated
do pay and why they do it."
A Milwaukee dealer interviewed by a "Coin- announcer. Melville Clark played a solo on a Lyon part of the people constitute by far the greatest num-
& Healy concert harp, after which Miss Hershfield ber of regular listeners, while in the homes of the
Slot" reporter, said:
"To me, the automatic business is one of the most sang "Oh, Promise Me." The Estey pipe organ more w r ealthy and highly educated there is a surpris-
profitable lines a music dealer can sell. It requires played the Lohengrin wedding march with harp ac- ing lack of radio equipment. Germany being the land
carrying absolutely no stock on my shelves and be- companiment. At the close, Melville Clark and Miss of Wagner and Beethoven, these people expect too
cause of the advertising plan offered by the Clark Claudia Rice, harpist, and Frederick Jackson at the much of radio in the classical music line to be much
Orchestra Roll Company I am obliged to spend noth- organ played the Mendelssohn Wedding March.
interested. But with the advent of new devices now
ing to have the bulletins mailed direct to my cus-
being developed which will make reproduction prac-
tomers and prospects with my name imprinted on
MUSIC INCREASES POPULATION.
tically perfect radio is sure to gain ground in these
each catalog.
That musical advantages make a community a circles as well.
"Not only does selling automatic rolls bring in a more desirable place in which to live was again
These new devices now being developed in German
splendid monthly revenue from the music itself but demonstrated in connection with the closing of the
laboratories
include a new Reisz loudspeaker working
because of the contact roll sales give me with custom- season of winter concerts under the auspices of the
ers the business has sold a number of high priced Community Music Association at Redlands, Calif. on the electrostatic principle which will ensure uni-
instruments for me. Whenever I find a music dealer Friends of the movement in Redlands point out that form reproduction of all audio-frequencies down to 30
who is not selling automatic music I set him down as previous to the start of the Community Music Asso- cycles, some special battery eliminators for resist-
ance coupled receivers evolved in my laboratories and
a dead one."
ciation the population of the city had for many years new types of power tubes.
been static at about 16,000, but that it now amounts
The technical development of broadcasting in Ger-
to some 20,000.
many practically always moves along theoretical lines
and the theory of radio and kindred subjects is very
THE SLINGERLAND LINE.
far advanced over there, while in the United States
Leaders of Education Everywhere Approve of the
With the addition of the "Melody King," the I have found the practical side extremely well de-
Methods and Purposes of the Scheme.
Troubadour and several other new professional mod- veloped.
The Atwater Kent Foundation is greatly encour- els, the Slingerland Banjo Company, Chicago, now
aged by the enthusiasm with which its national radio has a most extensive line of banjos, ranging from
audition, to discover obscure vocal talent among the the medium-priced models to the attractive art styles
boys and girls of the country, has been received which have been designed to meet the demands of
the most discriminating professionals, and include The Clark Orchestra Roll Company, De Kalb, 111.,
throughout the United States.
Letters of commendation and congratulation have the Diplomat, De Luxe, Pal, Picardy, Comrade,
Offers Fine Service to Dealers.
been received at the foundation headquarters here Nightingale, Nite Hawk, Songster and Queen.
The Clark Orchestra Roll Co., De Kalb, 111., issues
from outstanding leaders in national life. Officials of
a monthly bulletin of music for electric pianos which
the government, educators, workers for the advance-
BANDS VISIT FACTORY.
ment of musical culture and religious leaders of all
A tour of the band instrument factory of Frank constitutes a complete catalog of automatic music.
persuasions are unanimous in the opinion that the Holton & Co., Elkhorn, Wis., was made recently by Up-to-the-minute hits, ballads and foreign rolls make
cause of good music—especially radio music—will be eight Wisconsin high school bands, assembled there it the largest library of automatic music issued by any
greatly advanced by this thorough-going effort to dis- for a band contest. The bands marched to the Hol- music roll manufacturer.
"Copies mailed direct to your customers with your
cover promising voices.
ton plant for their inspection tour and the contest
The plan of the Foundation to make liberal cash followed, after which there was a picnic at Booth imprint," is the offer of the company to dealers.
awards to the ten national winners and to provide Lake. Prizes amounting to fifty dollars were offered "Write us for information as to how this bulletin
can be made to serve you and increase your profits."
free musical tuition for six of them in a leading by Frank Holton & Co.
American conservatory, has been especially com-
mended as calculated to bring into public apprecia-
R. W. JACKSON'S APPOINTMENT.
ENLARGE SMALL GOODS STOCK.
tion vocal talent w r hich now may be hushed in ob-
R. W. Jackson, Brunswick executive, has just been
The Vernon Piano Company, Alliance, O., has en-
scurity.
appointed general sales manager of the musical divi-
From Washington comes the commendation of Dr. larged its musical merchandise department and now sion of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company,
John J. Tigert, United States Commissioner of Edu- carries one of the largest and most complete stocks Chicago, succeeding A. J. Kendrick, who resigned a
cation; D. R. Crissinger, governor of the Federal Re- in all lines. The store, in recent weeks, has been short time ago.
serve Board, commends the project, and educational featuring small goods in window displays.
leaders in the national capital are no less enthusiastic.
ARTHUR W. TAMS DIES.
It is announced that a composer of the name of
Arthur W. Tarns, founder of the Tarns Music
Kurt Kern,, of Leipzig, has produced a jazz sym-
phony, which is claimed to be the first, and probably Library, New York, died recently at the age of 78.
He leaves a widow, Catherine N. Tarns. Mr. Tarns
the last, of its kind.
was a musical director, stage manager and producer.
"COIN=SLOT PRINTS ADVICE
GERMAN RADIO PROGRAMS
ATWATER KENT FOUNDATION
ROLL CATALOG MAILED FREE
Two Songs of Merit
Boston's Latest Song 'Hit'
"SPRING and MAY," in E flat
"MINE," in E flat
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Both these songs are of medium range and
well suited to either soprano or tenor voices.
Dealers will find them good sellers.
Orders may be placed direct with the
publisher,
VIDA B. BAXTER
124 North Collett Street
Lima, Ohio
CAROLINA"
(I'm Coming Back ToYou)
Featured by Jack Smith, Victor Artist, Paul Specht,
and 100 other leading stars.
Dealers and sellers of music—are you getting your
share of the demand created 'right now' for this, the
biggest selling song published in years? It has the
'PEP.' The first 5 and 10 cent store sold 500 copies in
a week. Tou can do likewise. (Title page superb.)
Special terms to dealers and stores who will make
Show Window and Counter Displays.
Sample Copy Free—Writ© Us at ONCE.
CLARK
ORCHESTRA ROLLS
of De Kalb, Illinois
J. S. Unger Music House, Pub., Reading, Penn.
C. G. CONN, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind.
C. D. GREENLEAF, Pres.
J. F. BOYER, Sec'y
World's largest manufacturers of High Grade Band and Orchestra Instruments. Employs 1,000
expert workmen.
The most celebrated Artists use and endorse Conn Instruments.
Famous Bandmasters and Orchestra Directors highly endorse and recommend the use of the
Conn Instruments in their organizations.
Conn Instruments are noted for their ease of playing, light and reliable valve or key action;
quick response, rich tonal quality, perfect intonation, tone carrying quality, artisticness of design,
beautiful finish and reliable construction.
Conn Instruments are sent to auy point in the U. S. subject to ten days free trial. Branch stores
or agencies will be found in all large cities. Write for catalogues, prices, etc.
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
THE FAMOUS
DEPT. MS.
ELKHART, IND.
The Best for Automatic Playing Pianos
Organs and Orchestrions
Whether you sell automatic playing in-
struments or not, it will pay you to
handle and be able to furnish
CLARK ORCHESTRA ROLLS
Monthly bulletins of new records. Write
for lists, folders and FULL PARTICU-
LARS.
Clark Orchestra Roll Company
Manufacturers — Originators — Patentees
De Kalb, Illinois
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July 9, 1927.
17
PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
that is, the owners of business establishments which
deal with one another, rarely or never meet. Busi-
ness dealing is carried on by subordinates and inter-
More States in the Union Have Active Movements mediaries. When people do not know one another
at first hand the opportunity for misunderstanding is
for the Passing of Taxing Laws.
much greater and lack of confidence is much greater."
Mr. Filene advocated greater co-operation between
Ohio and Nevada have movements for the passing
of a law enabling municipalities to form and main- buyer and seller as one of the most effective means
of doing away with trade abuses. As the first step
tain bands.
In Ohio the local bodies which have been making in the movement to do away with unethical practices,
the campaign have had the support of the National he suggested that a joint trade relations committee
Bureau for the Advancement of Music, which has be set up, representing on one side the manufacturers
corresponded with the various locals of the Ameri- in a prominent European industry, and on the other
can Federation of Musicians, through which it has side the American retailers of its products. A manu-
brought the matter to the attention of the leading facturers' trade association in one of the European
countries, he added, might furnish the medium for
band masters.
The new band law in West Virginia, has recently organizing the European side of such a committee,
been utilized by the city of Morgantown, where at and the National Retail Dry Goods Association,
the municipal election the taxpayers gave consent to which represents the department store interests of
a levy for municipal concerts. The rate is a tax of the United States, might be responsible for organiz-
ing the American side.
five mills on an assessed valuation of one hundred
dollars. This will give about $2,000 for the concerts.
THE MAC DOWELL FESTIVAL.
The MacDowell festival under the auspices of the
National Federation of Music Clubs for the benefit of
the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N. H., was
Radio Corporation of America Files Opposition to held Wednesday, 3' p. m., June 29, at Willow Grove
Park, N. Y. The MacDowell Colony is the first at-
Chas. Raymond Ablett's Trade-mark.
tempt to provide a place where artists may work to
Radio has brought about a long series of patent the best advantage, as a scientist works in a labora-
battles among the competing manufacturers and tory, an astronomer in an observatory, a surgeon in a
broadcasters. But none is more unusual than the hospital, an executive equipped with telephone and
attempt to keep Charles Raymond Ablett of New dictograph. It is a valuable and practical asset to the
York from using his own initials on radio tubes of his art of the country free from sentimentality, based on
sound business principles.
own manufacture.
This is all the more unusual in that Ablett has been
FOR RADIO WORLD'S FAIR.
using his initials for the last twenty years in the
G. Clayton Irwin, Jr., who managed the first an-
manufacture of electric lights. His expansion into
nual Radio Trade Show in Chicago, is now engaged
the radio vacuum tube field he considers logical.
But the Radio Corporation of America has filed in perfecting the program for the Radio World's
opposition proceedings before the examiner of inter- Fair, opening in the New Madison Square Garden,
ference of the Patent Office, maintaining that Ablett's Sept. 19. "Dealers from all over the country report
trade-mark of his initials conflicts with their "RCA" a demand even beyond their own sanguine expecta-
tions for the new receivers, which are so far in ad-
mark on their vacuum tubes and radio sets.
Ablett, however, insists it is his "inalienable right" vance of previous sets in tonal reproduction and sim-
to use his initials as trade-mark, especially since he plicity of operation, the two factors most desired by
had been using them for twenty years. He produces a public that has become decidedly critical," Mr.
birth and baptism certificate to prove his name with Irwin stated.
the C. R. A. initials was given to him at birth.
ALMA GLUCK'S ROYALTIES.
It is a peculiar case, in which patent authorities
are waiting to learn whether a man's name is his
Madame Alma Gluck Zimbalist, soprano and wife
own.
of Effram Zimbalist, received nearly twice as much
money from royalties on sales of phonograph records
from 1914 to 1919 as she was paid for concert sing-
ing and operatic engagements, she revealed recently
in federal court. Testifying in a suit in which she
is seeking to recover $7,781.42, alleged to have been
an excessive tax payment on her income, Mme. Zim-
They May Be Eliminated by a Closer Contact Be- balist told of receiving $600,000 in royalties from the
Victor Talking Machine Co. and $345,000 from other
tween Producers and Distributors.
singing engagements.
"Unfair trade practices in international trade can be
eliminated to a large extent through closer co-opera-
FOR BETTER BUSINESS PRACTICE.
tion and a better understanding between producers
"Within the last sixty days the National Better
and distributors," declared A. Lincoln Filene, Boston Business Bureau has made public standards of busi-
merchant, in an address in Stockholm June 29 before ness practice adopted by four important industries,"
the Fourth General Congress of the International stated its president, James C. Auchincloss, this week.
Chamber of Commerce.
"Possibly the briefest and most graphic way to show
Mr. Filene attributed the growth of unfair trade the real importance of such a trend in today's business
practices to the distrust existing between the busi- is to point to production values for these industries,
ness men in one country who sell goods and the busi- which total over $700,000,000."
ness men of another country who buy. Where sus-
picion exists, he said, there develops what are known
IMPROVES GERMAN BROADCASTING.
as trade abuses, that is, attempts by either a producer
Organization of broadcasting in Germany is such
or a distributor to take an unfair advantage of the
that most listeners have not the choice of different
other.
"In every trade," he pointed out, "there are a programs offered in the United States. That condi-
minority of business men whose business practices tion is to be remedied in the near future by the erec-
are regarded by the concerns with which they deal as tion of a mammoth station working with 100 kilo-
uneconomic and unfair, although they may not be watts of power in the antenna, using a wave-length
dishonest in the strictest sense of the word. Some- of 1,250 meters at Zcesen, which is about twenty miles
from Berlin.
times unfair practices unwittingly may be absorbed
into the general body of practices of a particular
Another attractive sheet music window in the store
trade.
"In international trade there is the complicating of McKnight-Campbell Music Co., Denver, Colo.,
factor that the principals to business transactions, was a big aid to sales of "Mexicalli Rose Waltz."
FOR MUNICIPAL BAND LAWS
QUESTIONS RIGHT TO HIS NAME
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JULY RELEASES.
I Wonder How I Look When I'm
Asleep—Fox Trot.
Rio Rita—Fox Trot.
I'm a Stern Old Bachelor—One
Step.
Dawn of Tomorrow—Waltz.
I Could Waltz on Forever (With
You Sweetheart)—Waltz.
I'll Take Care of Your C a r e s -
Waltz.
Falling in Love with You—Waltz.
Tenderly Think of Me—Fox Trot.
Red Lips (Kiss My Blues Away)
Fox Trot.
When You're in Love—Waltz.
May God Bless You, Mother—
Waltz.
Pbsitively-Absolutely—Fox Trot.
South Wind—Fox Trot.
Oh, What a Pal Was "Whoozis"—
Fox Trot.
So Blue—Fox Trot.
Hello, Cutie—Fox Trot.
I Wonder Who's with You When
I'm Not There—Fox Trot.
(You Flew Over) Uncle Sam
Takes His Hat Off to You—Fox
Trot.
Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.
S. A.)—Fox Trot.
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
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in a roll department.
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