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PRESTO-TIMES
Tune 23, 1928
NEWS OF TRADE IN
NEW YORK CITY
(Continued from page 7.)
Thursday night's show. Miss Henderson played with
The Gothamites, and they put on "Little Old New
York." Her first selection was an Italian love song,
"In the Garden," by Charles Scheutz. She next
played Debuessey's "Girl with the Golden Hair," a
little French folk song by Marcel Grandiany, and as
an encore she played "Annie Laurie,"' arrangement by
Carlos Salvedo, a celebrated harpist.
Favilla & Sons in Fine New Factory.
A. Favilla and his son, Ernest Favilla, of Favilla
& Sons, small goods manufacturers and repairers,
have just removed to their new factory building, 168
Franklin avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. "Business is get-
ting better every day," said Ernest Favilla, "and this
condition keeps us very busy." The instruments made
by this company, principally ukuleles, are handled by
many of the largest musical instrument concerns in
this country. In their new factory A. Favilla & Sons
have facilities and equipment for greatly increasing
their output, and the demand for their instruments is
mounting every week.
Sonophones in Ziegfeld Follies.
The Sonophone Company, 548 Wythe street, Brook-
lyn, N. Y., on Wednesday, through Mrs. Carlisle,
president, reports the demand for the Sonophone, an
instrument that has been manufactured with success
for many years past, keeps up at a lively rate and
the plant is busy. She showed a picture of a great
chorus at the Ziegfeld Theater, New York, with 100
sonophones in use on the stage at once. Many of the
biggest houses in the musical instrument line in
America handle sonophones as an accessory. The in-
strument does not require notes; the performer sings
through it.
Receives Estey Organ Co. Prize.
Dr. William Berwald, professor of piano and com-
position at Syracuse University, who won the $1,000
prize of the Estey Organ Company for his symphonic
prelude for organ and orchestra, received the prize
Friday in the office of Major Edward Bowes in
the Capitol Theater, New York.
H. R. Spoerl Keeps Busy.
H. R. Spoerl, manager of Paul G. Mehlin & Sons'
New York store, second floor of 509 Fifth avenue,
at "the busiest corner in the world," naturally keeps
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busy despite the set-in of summer in the great
metropolis. We had one sticky, humid day at mid-
week and that was all. Rain played havoc every
day of convention week. It poured floods upon those
arriving at the travelers' dinner; it rained upon those
assembling for the big banquet of the piano mer-
chants at which 921 people were fed; it rained upon
those gathering for the Gulbransen breakfast; and it
rained and rained and rained on everything except
the golf tournament at Bayside, Long Island, the
departing day. But it takes more than rain to dis-
courage piano men. We're drifting away from Mr.
Spoerl. He's busy selling beautiful Mehlin grands.
B. K. Settergren on Road Again.
B. K. Settergren, the piano manufacturer of Bluff-
ton, Ind., head of R. K. Settergren Co., checked out
of his hotel in New York, a few days ago, and took
to the road once more. It is a safe prediction that
wherever Mr. Settergren calls the question of mak-
ing piano sales is not relegated into the background.
Link Organ for Elmhurst Theater.
Link, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y., are building a
beautiful organ to be placed in the Elmhurst The-
ater, Elmhurst, Long Island, about the end of
August. The recent convention exhibit of Link's in
room 672, Commodore Hotel, was so crowded with
interested visitors that it required the almost con-
stant attendance of George Link, from Bingham-
ton, and Miss Helen Bobsin, who is now managing
the New York office at 148 West 46th street. At
this office and exhibition rooms Presto-Times cor-
respondent had the pleasure on Saturday of hearing
the music of the new small residence and funeral
home pipe organ, the machine that was demonstrated
daily at the convention. The company is proud of
its C Sharpe-Minor unit organs and the Link Selec-
tive Roll Reproducing player. The New York office,
where Miss Bobsin has charge, was opened May 1.
International Musical Mart.
The International Musical Mart, permanent show-
rooms and offices, will open in Grand Central Palace,
New York, on October 1, 1928. The office address
is room 1003, Grand Central Palace; the telephone
number, Ashland 5800.
W. P. Haines & Co. Trade Is Good
T. L. Floyd-Jones keeps busy these summer days
in the management of W. P. Haines & Co.'s ware-
rooms at 396 Fifth avenue. Here can be seen one
of the nicest displays of hue pianos in New York
city, and what a grand and glorious setting this
whole neighborhood has! There are no more
stylish shopping districts anywhere—be it the city
of Paris. London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit
or any A No. 1 center of fashion and wealth. Mr.
Jones reports a very good business for the month
of Mav.
NEW MARYLAND INCORPORATION.
The Minium-Conrad-Hause Co. is a new incor-
poration in Hagerstown, Md., to deal in pianos, pho-
nographs, radios, musical merchandise, etc., which oc-
cupies a store at 17 South Potomac street. The com-
pany is capitalized at $25,000. The officers are S. E.
Minium, president; H. M. Conrad, secretary, and
W r m. G. Hause, treasurer. Mr. Minium has been
engaged in the music business in Hagerstown for
twenty-eight years, as manager for the M. P. Moller
Co., and also later for the local branch of Chas. M.
Stieff, Inc., and both other officers have been asso-
ciated with him as salesmen.
GUY BOLTON BUYS A FISCHER.
New York Knabe Warerooms recently sold a
Fischer hand-painted Upright Ampico Style 38 GE
to Guy Bolton, for use in his home at Great Neck,
L. I. Mr. Bolton is very prominent in theatrical
circles, where he has made an established reputation
both as a playwright and in connection with the
production of books of many prominent musical suc-
cesses. Mr. Bolton wrote the book of "Rio Rita"
and "The Five o'Clock Girl," both of which are at
the top rank of current popular New York musical
comedy offerings. In the dramatic field he has to
his credit such well-known dramas as "The Dark
Angel" and "Polly With a Past."
MUSIC STUDENTS HOLD
RECITALS IN DALLAS, TEX
In Splendid Recital Hall of Will A. Watkin Com-
pany Clever Young Pianists Show Abilities.
The pupils of Lazel! Light gave a recital at the Will
A. Watkin Music Salon, 1207 Elm street, Dallas,
Texas, recently.
A piano recital and Dunning demonstration by the
pupils of Mrs. James M. Sewell was held recently in
the Will A. Watkin Recital Hall, Dallas, Tex. The
Chickering piano was used.
The Dallas Academy of Music presented a group of
students from the Intermediate and Elementary
Classes of the Piano Department conducted by Ruby
Frances Jahn recently in Watkin Recital Hall, Dallas,
Texas. Chickering pianos were used.
FERRY & CO. ACTIVE.
The factory of Ferry & Co., manufacturers of musi-
cal instruments, which recently moved to St. Mary's,
Ohio, from Chicago, is now in operation and new
employes will be added gradually until the plant shall
reach its full production. All departments will be
operating in a month, according to Max Tannebaum,
manager.
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