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Presto

Issue: 1928 2186

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June 23, 1928
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
THE NUCRAFT CORPORATION
William Sparks, President of New Company in Jack-
son, Mich., Formed for Manufacturing.
The Nucraft Corporation, Jackson, Mich., was re-
cently organized to manufacture an automatic phono-
graph and radio combination. William Sparks is
president. Other members of the corporation are
Harry G. Sparks, Clifford M. Sparks, William J. Cor-
bett and Leland S. Bisbee. The new enterprise will
provide employment for several hundred people.
The new machine will handle twelve records of any
size or of assorted sizes, changing from one to the
other in but nine seconds. It is claimed to be the only
automatic phonograph and radio combination on the
market. Sparton radios will be used in the new pro-
duction.
A sample of the new machine was displayed at a
meeting last week of the Jackson City Club, and
aroused intense enthusiasm. The loud speaker of the
radio section is employed in connection with the pho-
nograph, and the tone control provides for a volume of
sound suitable for the home or for large auditoriums.
classics with symphonic accompaniment. The other
is the Chicago Mendelssohn Club, composed of 75
business and professional men. The offers have been
referred to the musical program committee of the fair.
GUILD OF BANJOISTS MEET.
The
American
Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and
The forty-first concert of music by Latin-American
composers will be given on the Esplanade of the Guitarists held its 1928 convention in Hartford, Conn.,
Pan American Union in Washington, D. C, on the last week and re-elected William B. Griffith of
evening of June 30. The program will be broadcast Atlanta, Ga., president for another year. Other offi-
from Station NAA, 435 meters (690 kilocycles), from cers elected were: Walter K. Bauer, Hartford, Conn.,
8:15 until 9:45 p. m. Eastern Standard Time. O. P. vice-president; Adolph Johnson, Boston, secretary.
Gascoigne, who for many years arranged and an- The board of directors elected include William Foster,
nounced the programs for WCAP of Washington, New York; Alma Nash, Kansas City; Don Santos,
will introduce the artists and the numbers for the Rochester, N. Y.; Stephen St. John, Schenectady,
N. Y.; J. W. McCarthy, New York, and Frank W.
Pan American event. The program will be unusual
for all of the selections, both vocal and instrumental, Bradbury, Hartford. Theodore Gebclian was appointed
will be heard for the first time in this country. The manager of the next convention, which will be held in
Baltimore.
United States Army Band, with Captain C. D.
Ahvay, commanding: Captain William J. Stannard,
band leader; and Thomas F. Darcy, second leader,
will play a program of ten selections, and the assist-
ing artists will come to Washington especially to
take part in this concert. The soprano soloist,
Julieta Muro de Lacarte, is a native of Uruguay
Is avoided by the manufac-
and is well known throughout the musical centers
turer who uses the
of Latin America. The celebrated pianist-composer,
Alfonso Zelaya, is interrupting his concert tour and
will come from Boston to Washington to take part
in the event.
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MUSIC FOR CHICAGO FAIR.
Construction of a great all metal organ with a tonal
capacity so vast that it can be heard for several miles
has been proposed by Charles Wales of the Western
Electric Company for the World's Fair in 1933. Music
from this organ could be heard directly through the
air by a million people, he explained. Two musical
organizations have offered their services for the fair.
The famous Mormon choir of Ogden, Utah, officially
known as the Ogden Tabernacle choir, is one of them.
This group, numbering 175, and conducted by Lester
Hinchcliffe, is known for its rendition of the sacred
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PRESTO-TIMES
June 23, 1928
CURBING LOUD SPEAKERS
San Francisco Trade Associations Meet to
Consider Complaints About Objectionable
Loud Speakers and Agree to Help Suppress
Nuisance.
Representatives of the Music Trades Association of
Northern California, California Retail Radio Associa-
tion, and the Pacific Radio Trade Associations met
recently at the Whitcomb Hotel in San Francisco to
consider the complaint regarding the objectionable
operation of loud speakers and phonographs in front
of radio and music stores.
After a discussion of the complaint and the reason-
ableness of its grounds a program was drawn up in
which it was agreed "to confine the operation of loud
speakers and phonographs to a degree of loudness
so that they can be heard only to the curb line or so
that they may be heard only by those passing the re-
tailer's place of business."
The written agreement, signed by fifty-three re-
tailers of radio and music in San Francisco pledged
the signatories to the elimination of objectionable loud
speaker and phonograph operation. The list included
all of the principal firms operating loud speakers and
J O I N T INTERESTS.
With the complete recapitalization and reorganiza-
tion of the DeForest Radio Co., that company be-
comes closely associated with the Acoustic Products
Co, and Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc., for the pro-
duction of radio receivers, phonographs and acces-
sories. P. L. Deutsch, president of the Acoustic
Products Co. and Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc., be-
comes a member of the board of the DeForest Radio
Co. The president and general manager of the
DeForest Co. is James W. Garside, a man long
experienced in production and merchandising activi-
ties.
PUBLISHER OPENS CHICAGO OFFICES.
The Sam Fox Publishing Co., New York and Cleve-
land, has opened offices in suite 713-14 Lyon & Healy
Building, 64 East Jackson boulevard, Chicago. Leon-
ard Greenberger has been transferred from the Fox
headquarters in Cleveland, and will act as general man-
ager with Stanley Warner as assistant manager. This
move followed the purchase by the Sam Fox firm of
the catalog of Pallma, Inc., Chicago, which firm had
also been located in the Lyon & Healy Building.
Piano Dealers
You can sell more pianos if you give
the purchaser one of the wonderful
new Ensco Piano Units. It makes a
Perfect Radio Loudspeaker of any
piano in two minutes.
AT T H E PLAYHOUSE.
The film play, "Berlin, the Symphony of a Big
City," which opened at the Playhouse, Chicago, June
11, is one of the most interesting pictures shown for
some time. Before Walter Ruttmann, Carl Mayer
and Karl Freund, three of Germany's foremost cine-
matists, produced the play now shown at the Play-
house, there had been no film which recounted the
jumbled and almost mad civilization from the eyes
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of the disinterested bystander. In the case of "Ber-
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lin, the Symphony of a Big City," the bystander was
firms.
The Health Committee of the Board of Supervisors, the camera, and like some holy invisible, the camera
the City Health Officer and several other city officials watched and recorded what it saw. The film is an
attempt to show the life of a metropolis—in this case
who might be interested in the passage of a proposed
Berlin—from dawn to dawn, and breaks away com-
ordinance regulating loud speakers in music stores
pletely from the conventional style of story telling in
were notified of the results of the meeting.
so doing.
The following committee was appointed to see that
the agreement is carried out: W. J. Aschenbrenner,
secretary, Pacific Radio Trade Association; R. B.
Miller, secretary, Music Trade Association of North-
ern California; B. S. Greiff, president, California Retail
Radio Dealers' Association.
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