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Issue: 1928 2186

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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-
phonographs and a large proportion of the smaller
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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Trucks, Hoists, Covers and Special Straps.
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June 23, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
OLD MUSIC FIRM ADDS RADIO
H. R. Eisenbrandt & Sons, Inc., Baltimore, Features
Full Line of Receiving Sets—-Other News.
H. R. Eisenbrandt & Sons, Inc., 216 West Frank-
lin street, Baltimore. Md., the Monumental City's
oldest music house and one of the oldest in the
country, has now added a line of radios, featuring
the A-C all electric Majestic radios, manufactured
by the Grigsby-Grunow Co., of Chicago, and for
which it has been appointed exclusive distributor for
Baltimore, Maryland, District of Columbia, and parts
of Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia.
This is the first time in the long history of this
local music house that radios have been sold by it.
For more than one hundred years, H. R. Eisen-
brandt & Sons, Inc., have devoted their business
exclusively to the selling of band and orchestra in-
struments.
Many Baltimore musical instrument stores did a
thriving business in harmonicas during the past few
weeks in equipping aspiring harmonicists and in
equipping harmonica bands.
Baltimore prize-winning harmonicists have had
their talents recorded for films to be shown and
heard in. moving-picture theaters in all parts of the
country. The event took place in the Band Pavilion
at Clifton Park.
DE FOREST RADIO CO. REORGANIZED.
The De Forest Radio Co., New York, has been re-
organized and become closely associated with the
Acoustic Products Co. and the Sonora Phonograph
Co., Inc., for the production of radio receivers, phono-
graphs, and accessories. P. L. Deutsch, president of
the Acoustic Products Co., and the Sonora Company,
becomes a member of the board of the De Forest
Company. James W. Garside is president and gen-
eral manager of the De Forest Company, and the
directors are prominent in the business world.
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LUMBER ORDERS INCREASE.
The lumber industry showed further improvement
last week, reports from 868 mills to the National Lum-
ber Manufacturers' Association indicating larger aver-
age new business. The piano industry put in only
moderate orders.
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Organs and Orchestrions
Whether you sell automatic playing in-
struments or not, it will pay you to
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CLARK ORCHESTRA ROLLS
Monthly bulletins of new records. Write
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Clark Orchestra Roll Company
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De Kalb, Illinois
The Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle,
Iud., has issued a wall motto to dealers which is
reproduced herewith and which is unusually good as
an inspiration and characteristic of the taste in print-
ing of the company. It is a tribute to Music and in
its framed form adds the artistic touch to any office.
H. Edgar French, president and genera] manager of
the company, in a letter, gives credit for the motto
to Richard E. Banta, publicity man for the company.
Mr. French says: "In his publicity work, he has
evolved something which is deserving of wide pub-
licity on the part of the piano trade; in fact, we felt
impelled to have it engrossed and illuminated. Use
it as you may like, giving Mr. Banta credit. The
thought is his, even though we sign the message."
NEW CADMAN SONG.
Groups.of children playing harmonicas, strumming
ukuleles, and singing songs on the Los Angeles play-
grounds have been an inspiration to Charles Wake-
lield Cadman and brought forth a new song from
him, "The Playground Song of Youth," which he has
dedicated to the children of the Los Angeles play-
grounds. During the past few months Cadman has
been interested in the widespread interest in the
musical activities developed on the playgrounds, and
secured the co-operation of Corrine Dodge, author
of the lyrics for which he composed an unusually-
attractive song.
"The Playground Song of Youth" has met with
such enthusiastic response that it will be given first
place in the Official Song Book of the Los Angeles
Playground Department, which will be off the press
next month. This new book is a collection of ap-
proximately ISO songs which are suitable for commu-
nity singing in playgrounds, camps, and industrial
recreation groups, and has been compiled as a result
of the increased demand for singing in Los Angeles.
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