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THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
10 Cents a Copy
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928
$2 The Year
BIG CONVENTION ATTENDANCE ASSURED
Enthusiastic Interest Among Members of All Music Trade Associations Will Result in Record=Breaking Crowds
at Annual Gathering at Hotel Commodore
FAR WEST TO BE
WELL REPRESENTED
Philip Clay of San Francisco, Who Is Sched-
uled for First Business Session Talk, Will
Be Accompanied to Convention by Big
Delegation of Earnest Westerners.
Philip T. Clay, president of Sherman, Clay &
Company, San Francisco, who is affectionately known
to a large number of members of this trade as "Phil,"
has accepted an invitation from the Merchants' Con-
tion there, and was on the Executive Committee of
the Red Cross all during the war, and had charge of
one of the drives. He also had charge of the account-
ing and collection during the Fifth Liberty Loan.
Mr. Clay is married and has two children. He will
be accompanied to the convention by Mrs. Clay.
Miss Curtis to Demonstrate
Arrangements have been made for a demonstra-
tion on Wednesday afternoon, June 6, at 3 o'clock in
the west ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, of the
Curtis System of group piano instruction. Miss Helen
Curtis, author of the system and one of the best
known and most successful authors of group instruc-
tion courses, will have charge of the demonstration.
She will have several children who have not pre-
viously had piano instruction, present and will give
a presentation of the exact manner in which group
instruction should be conducted. All of the members
of the National Association of Music Merchants and
any others attending the convention who may be
interested, have been very cordially invited to attend.
CONVENTION PROGRAM
. PHILIP T. CLAY.
vention Committee to address one of the business
sessions at the coming 27th annual convention of the
Merchants' Association at the Hotel Commodore,
New r York, the week beginning June 4. Mr. Clay
will be the opening speaker at the first business ses-
sion on Tuesday morning, June 5. His subject will
be "Dealer Operation," and his long and intimate
connection with one of the largest and most progres-
sive houses in the industry eminently fits him to
discuss this important subject.
Mr. Clay was born in San Francisco April 8, 1878.
After being graduated from the University of Cali-
fornia with the degree of bachelor of letters in 1901,
he went to work for Sherman, Clay & Company.
Upon the death of his father, Maj. C. C. Clay, in
1905, he was elected vice-president of Sherman, Clay
& Company, and held that office until January, 1920,
at which time L. S. Sherman retired as president of
the company to become chairman of the Board of
Directors. Then Mr. Clay was elected president and
since then has continued in that capacity.
Mr. Clay was elected president of the National
Association of Music Merchants at the convention
in 1914. This was at the time of the exposition in
San Francisco. He was a member of the Board of
Directors of the Panama Pacific International Exposi-
(Subject to slight revisions.)
SUNDAY, JUNE 3.
6:00 P.M. Directors, Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce. Breakfast Room.
MONDAY, JUNE 4.
10:00 A.M. Executive Committee, National Piano
Manufacturers' Association, Room A.
Board of Control, National Association
Music Merchants, Room C.
NOON.
Luncheon and mass meeting, Music In-
dustries Chamber of Commerce, Grand
Ball Room.
2:30 P.M. Band Instrument Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation, Room A.
6:00 P.M. Directors, Musical Supply Association,
Room C.
7:(X)P. M. National Piano Travelers' Association,
National Republican Club.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5.
9:30 A.M. National Association of Music Mer-
chants, West Ball Room National
P i a n o Manufacturers' Association,
Rooms A and B.
2:00 P. M. Musical Supply Association, Room A.
National Piano Technicians' Association,
Room C.
6:00 P.M. Dinner, Associated Musical Instrument
Dealers of New York, West Ball Room.
WEDNESDAY, J U N E 6.
9:30 A.M. National Association of Music Mer-
chants, West Ball Room.
National Musical Merchandise Associa-
tion, Room A.
2:30 P. M. National Association of Musical Instru-
ment and Accessories Manufacturers,
Room A.
THURSDAY, JUNE 7.
9:30 A.M. National Association of Music Mer-
chants, West Ball Room.
10:00 A.M. Joint Promotional Meeting, Band In-
struments Manufacturers' Association,
National Association of Musical Instru-
ment and Accessories Manufacturers
and National Musical Merchandise As-
sociation, Rooms A and B.
12:30 P. M. Luncheon, Delegates to Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce, Breakfast
Room.
1:30 P. M. Annual Meeting Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce, Breakfast Room.
EVENING. Banquet, National Association of Music
Merchants (entire trade invited), Grand
Ball Room.
WORLD TO LISTEN
IN ON SPEECHES
Two Important Social Events of Week of June
4, the Get-Together Luncheon and the
Annual Banquet, to Be Broadcasted
by Special Arrangements.
The world of radio users will be made aware of
the music trade conventions beginning June 4 at the
Hotel Commodore, New York City. It can now be
definitely announced that two of the important social
events of the conventions will be broadcast by
W E A F and the Red Network with supplementary
stations probably totaling 28 stations and extending
as far west as Denver. Arrangements for this broad-
cast were made by Delbert L. Loomis, executive
secretary of the National Association of Music Mer-
chants, with Vice-President George McClelland of
the National Broadcasting Company.
The two events will be a portion of the dinner
program at the annual banquet of the National Asso-
ciation of Music Merchants at the Hotel Commodore,
Thursday evening, June 7, including the address of
Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, and the
get-together luncheon of the Music Industries Cham-
ber of Commerce on Monday, June 4, at which Pro-
fessor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School
of Music, will be the guest of honor and principal
speaker.
This will be the first time in the history of an
association convention in this industry, either na-
tional or state, at which anything approaching a
nation-wide broadcast of important social events will
have taken place. The luncheon will be on the air
beginning at 2:00 p. m. Eastern daylight saving time,
and the dinner at 9:00 o'clock Eastern daylight saving
time.
A Change in Plans
President Roberts of the National Association of
Music Merchants and the Merchants' Convention
Committee have decided that it will be wise to hold
the regular meeting of the Board of Control of the
Merchants' Association on Monday morning, June 4,
at the Hotel Commodore, New York, rather than on
Sunday afternoon. In years past it has been the
practice to hold this regular meeting of the board
on the Sunday preceding the opening of the conven-
tion. It is felt by President Roberts and the com-
mittee that it will make for large attendance of
members to hold the meeting on Monday morning as
in the past those coming from a distance have not
arrived in time to attend the Sunday afternoon meet-
ing. The meeting will be held in the Tavern Rooms
on the Ballroom Floor of the Hotel Commodore,
beginning at 10 a. m. sharp.
It is the desire of President Roberts that there
be as large an attendance as possible at this meeting
as a number of matters of importance are scheduled
to be presented, and it is desired to have the members
present for the opening of the session because it will
be necessary to adjourn promptly at 12:30 to attend
the annual get-together luncheon to be served in the
Grand Ballroom on the same floor.
Major Frost on Schedule.
One of the principal speakers at the business ses-
sions of the annual convention of the National Asso-
ciation of Music Merchants will be Maj. Herbert H.
Frost, vice-president of Federal-Brandes, Inc., who
has had a very wide experience in the radio field and
is one of the most distinguished and active members
in this branch of the industry. Major Frost is vice-
president of the Radio Manufacturers' Association.
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