The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
PRESTO TIMES WANT AD VS.
WHOLESALE SALESMEN WANTED
We would like to get in touch with several high grade
piano salesmen who have had successful experience
in wholesale and retail selling. Our 1928 program calls
for expansion of sales effort and there is now an op-
portunity for men of the right calibre to join this
growing organization on a favorable working basis.
If you are looking for a permanent opportunity rather
than just a job, write us for an appointment, giving
your experience, reference and photograph if conven-
ient. Gulbransen Company, 3232 Chicago Ave., Chi-
cago.
STORE FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—Established music store in heart of Cali-
fornia. Stock and fixtures invoice about $10,000. Every-
thing ideal for successful operation. Store has never
failed to make money. Ill health reason for selling.
Address "G. V., Box 1 , " % PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S.
Dearborn St., Chicago.
SALES MANAGER WANTS POSITION.
WANTED—Position as manager or sales manager. Can
furnish A1 reference in regard to ability, honesty and
character. 15 years' experience as salesman, manager
and owner. 40 years of age. Married. One child.
Desire to make change on or before April 1, 1928.
Address " J , " care PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S. Dearborn
St., Chicago.
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
MARCH RELEASES.
1956 A Kiss Before Dawn, Marimba Ballad.
1985—Changes—Fox Trot.
1964 Don't Forget When Summer Rolls By—
Fox Trot.
1966 Go Home and Tell Your Mother—F. T
1972 Golden Gate—Fox Trot.
1980 Henry's Made a Lady Out of Lizzie—
Fox Trot.
1954 Hollywood Rose—Fox Trot.
1955 I Can't Believe That You're in Love
With Me.
1960 I'm Making Believe That T Don't C a r e -
Waltz.
1978 I'll Think of You—Fox Trot.
1974—I'm Walking On Air—Fox Trot.
1962 Indian Cradle Song—Fox Trot.
1959 In Old Manila—Fox Trot.
1963 It's In the Bag—Fox Trot.
1975 Lonesome Waltz—Waltz.
1982 Love Baby—Fox Trot.
1967 Mine All Mine—Fox Trot.
1969 Mother of Mine I Still Have You—F. T.
1976 My Ohio Home—Fox Trot.
1981 [Oh, Dem] Golden Slippers—Fox Trot.
1977 Old Fashioned Locket—Fox Trot.
1968 Russian Doll—Fox Trot.
1979 Sorry—Fox Trot.
1984 Sunshine—Fox Trot.
1971 That Saxophone Waltz.
1983 The Grass Grows Greener—Fox Trot.
1987 The Man I Love—Fox Trot.
1953 Whole World Is Waiting—Marimba Bal-
lad.
1957 There Ain't No Laud Like Dixieland-
Fox Trot.
1970 There Must Be Somebody Else—F. T.
1965 Tie Your Troubles to the K Tail of a K i t e -
Fox Trot.
1986 What Do You Say—Fox Trot.
1973. What'll You Do—Fox Trot.
1958 You Can Tell Her Anything—Fox Trot
Extra Choruses
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
March 10. 1928
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
STORE FOR SALE.
Music store for sale in thriving northwest city. Annual
business, $60,000, $8,000 last year. Invoice, $10,000.
Address Box Q, % PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S. Dearborn
St., Chicago.
PROGRAM OF GERMAN THEATER
Company Includes Many Capable Performers and
Week's Programs Are Alluring.
A talented company of actors are presenting a
repertoire of dramatic and musical success from Ber-
lin and Vienna in their original forms at the German
Theater, Sheffield and Belmont avenues, Chicago.
The program this week includes "Fruehlingsluft"
(Spring Fever), an operetta with music by Josef
Strauss, brother of the great Viennese composer,
Johann Strauss, which will be performed on Saturday
and Sunday evenings. March 10 and 11.
On Thursday evening, the sensational drama,
"Madame X" will be given in German with Else
Janssen, a, recognized star of the German stage, in
the principal role. Next Sunday afternoon, March
11, "Alt Heidelberg." the play by Wi'helm Meyer-
Foerster, which formed the basis for the popular
American musical p!ay," The Student Prince," will
be given.
The German Theater company includes such capa-
ble performers as Lucie Westen, soprano, formerly
of the Chicago Civic Opera: Max Bratt, famous
Viennese tenor; Hele Holstein, Viennese soubrette;
Walter Bonn, Angelo Lippich, Curt Ben sch, Her-
bert Kiper, Johanna Eiseman and Otty Ottmar-Hahn.
all well-known on the German stage.
ELECTRIC PIANOS FOR SALE.
Eight Style " L " Seeburg electric coin-operated pianos.
Bargains for quick sale. Write or wire Schneider
Music Co., Vincennes, Ind.
AN OPPORTUNITY.
Music store for sale in town of 9,000 inhabitants. Bus-
iness established twenty years. Only music store for
miles in northeastern Iowa. For particulars address
" H . M. H.," care PRESTO-TIMES office, 417 S.
Dearborn St.. Ciicago, III.
NEW UKULELE CATALOG.
The Hawaiian .Mahogany Co., Ltd., manufacturer
and exporter of Hawaiian koa-wood ukuleles and
guitars at Honolulu, Hawaii, has issued a catalog for
!928 which illustrates the complete line of Hawaiian
string instruments, including six styles of ukuleles,
four styles of tenor ukuleles, and two styles of gui-
tars.
QUARTER-TONE MUSIC.
An American syncopated orchestra playing music
scored for quarter tones is the plan of Paul Specht,
orchestra leader, who is now rehearsing his Jardin
Royal orchestra on several numbers especially scored
for quarter-tone playing on an original scale devel-
oped by Specht. Specht plans broadcasting selections
by this special orchestra at an early date.
A BRUNSWICK DIVIDEND.
The directors of the Krunswick-Balke-Collender
Co., 623-633 South Wahash avenue, Chicago, have
authorized a dividend of 1)4 P e r cent, payable April
1, 1928, on the outstanding preferred stock of this
company, as of record March 20, 1928.
"CAROLINA"
(I'm Coining Back to You)
By AT. HAYES and A. T. I,AX
"SUPPOSING"
(A Novelty Game Song)
By DR. F. PALMER and A. T. LAX
DEALER CONSIDER YOUR GAIN IN PROFITS
Mail Us 15c in Postage and the Postman Will
Bring: You a Copy of Each
J. S. UNGER
MUSIC
HOUSE
Publishers
READING
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is avoided by the manufac-
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Will please your trade and
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Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
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mechanism.
A. C. CHENEY
PIANO ACTION COMPANY
CASTLETON, N. Y.
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
TUNER WANTED.
WANTED—A high class tuner who thoroughly under-
stands automatic, electric and reproducing pianos of
all types. One with sales ability and knowledge of
radios preferred.
Salary $60 per week to begin.
Steady job to right man. Write or wire.
Kallski
Music Company, Ltd., Monroe, La.
IN THE U. S. A. TODAY ARE
A. C. Cheney Player Action
721 N. Kedzie Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
TUNER WANTED.
POSITION WANTED—First-class tuner and repairman
with sales experience desires position in mid-western
city of less than 100,000 population. Experience i n -
cludes electrics and reproducers. Address "Tuner,"
Box 4, care PRESTO-TIMES.
THE TWO BIGGEST SONG HITS
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Made of the best materials
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
WANTS OUTSIDE MANAGER.
Experienced piano salesman wanted. Must be a strong
closer and capable of handling outside men. Name
references and experience. Kreiter Piano Co., Mil-
waukee, Wis.
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
formation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing Pianos.
Wanted: Young Men!
—to become specialists in a field which will l not
only pay t h e m exceptionally well but which
will give them social standing and prominence!
O young men looking for such an opportunity we
have an unusual off»>i. Pight now r.i numberless
cities and towi s in the United States, 'here is a great
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning larjre salaries
for thin exceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
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l th« rut. Make a place for yourself among the
bestpeople. Our complete course in our new $85,-
1.00.00 laboratory fits you for a real payine pro-
fession. You can dnit. Others have with no better
backing than you have. Find out the facts anyway.
POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
Polk Building, DtrttO
La Porte, Ind.
T
jf Piano Tuning, La Porte. Ind.
ea of becoming a professional
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House it and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
U/IIIIAMC Makers of Williams Pianos.
WILLIAMS Epworth Piano, and Or*an.
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