Presto

October 15, 1927
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NEW1RULE ON OLD CLARK ROLLS
Announcement in Coin Slot Tells of New Policy
Adopted by De Kalb Manufacturer.
In the October number of Coin Slot, the Clark
Orchestra Roll Co., De Kalb, 111., comments on the
problem of ''old rolls" and declares that "old roll
sales are now taboo." The problem of disposing of
old rolls is a serious one with the manufacturer for
no matter how carefully production is planned there
are always some rolls of each number left after
orders have been filled, is the view expressed. This
follows:
"For the past few years," admitted Mr. E. G.
Clark, the Clark Orchestra Roll company president,
"we have thought ourselves justified in putting these
rolls on sa'e at a reduced price and in that manner
always succeeded in cleaning up our surplus."
The inconsistency, however, of selling old rolls
and at the same time advertising the necessity of
using new music and the abandoning by the piano
owner of out-of-date melodies, finally carried home
and Mr. Clark has issued orders that from now on
old rolls will be carefully shot at sunrise and buried
in an abandoned well over the hill.
Not only is the sale of old rolls a contradiction of
sales policy of the Clark Company, but purchases of
these relics seriously glutted the market for new
music. Dealers from many parts of the country men-
tioned the difficulty they had in selling new music
after their customers had taken advantage of the low
prices of the sales and asked the Clark company if
some other policy could not be adopted.
The president was not long in deciding that the
best disposition of old music was their destruction
and he now wears a smile when he tells his cus-
tomers to "go and do likewise."
fact that love and humanity have been immutably
the same throughout the centuries. The auditor may
take his choice and regard the play either as a deli-
cious though perhaps indelicate delineation of femi-
nine escapade, or as a colossal satire on the hollow
yet terrible ambitions that depend on war."
ST. LOUIS OUTLOOK BRIGHT.
Fred J. Base, traveler for the Fred Gretsch Mfg.
Co., who covers the territory from Cleveland to
Kansas City and throughout the Central West, was
in St. Louis last week. At his headquarters in the
Republic Building, Chicago, on Monday of this week
Mr. Base said to a Presto-Times representative that
better times have arrived in St. Louis, where there is
much rebuilding going on in restoring the struc-
tures damaged or completely blown down by the
recent tornado. "Most of the fronts of the buildings
were blown off," said Mr. Base, "which seemed a
freakish way for a cyclone to act."
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R. E. SHERWOOD'S NEW PLAY
Prominent Critics Declare "Road to Rome" Bears
Comparison to Shaw's Plays at Their Best.
"The Road to Rome," the new play by Robert
Emmet Sherwood, in which Miss Grace George will
open in the Adelphi Theater, Chicago, Monday eve-
ning, October 17, has been compared to Bernard
Shaw at his best by no less a dramatic and critical
authority than Philander Johnson, of the Washington
Evening Star, who says:
"The play avails itself of every current license and
goes a few T steps beyond even the latest privileges of
speech and suggestion. It is perhaps the first play in
many seasons that can claim comparison with the
work of George Bernard Shaw at his best.
"The heroine, wife of Fabius, asserts the idea laid
down in 'Man and Superman'—that in courtship wo-
man is naturally the aggressor—on direct and un-
compromising lines. One of the most emphatic
charms of the performance is the manner in which
it turns a situation which threatens to be philosophic-
ally sound into a laughing episode.
"The play is a romping series of anachronisms,
resting its claim to consideration squarely on the
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