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PRESTO-TIMES
CHICAGO RADIO SHOW
Large Attendance Both Day and Night—No
Instruments Were Allowed to Be Played—
Prominent Exhibitors Included Zenith,
Majestic, Capehart, Gulbransen.
No instruments were permitted to be played at
the great radio show in Chicago this week, a rule
which worked a hardship upon some of the exhibitors
in their opinion. And yet, somehow, there was plenty
of music—beautiful music. And there was also an
abundance of beauty throughout the big Coliseum,
if we apply the old definition of beauty in the Roman
school, "multitude in unity."
The Sonora.
The Sonora Melodon was to be seen in combination
with the new Sonora All-Electric Radio in the show,
but visitors to the city and the show had to go to
Lyon & Healy's store to hear them played.
The Orchestrope.
An eager, jamming crowd was around the Cape-
hart Automatic Phonograph Corporation's demon-
stration at the Coliseum day and night continually
during the show. This remarkable show was in
charge of F. L. Fields and F. W. Barnholdt. The
Chicago offices of the company are on the sixth floor
of the Lyon & Healy Building, 64 East Jackson
boulevard and the factory and general offices at Hun-
tington, Ind. The Orchestrope, the instrument under
demonstration, is a beautiful musical instrument which
plays twenty-eight records on both sides continuously,
changing and turning them automatically, with am-
plified volume control and a most wonderful tone
quality. It was the automatic turning over of the
records that held the riveted attention of the spec-
tators. The walnut cabinet is decorated with beau-
tiful inlays with overlays of satin and vermilion
woods, with marquetry moldings.
Gulbransen Styles.
Gulbransen Radio was represented at the show by
Table Model 160T, Console Model 260C 6-Tube re-
ceiving set. In the slips that were handed out at
the Gulbransen booths was this assurance: "The
Gulbranseu Radio comes to you with A. G. Gul-
bransen's full assurance of the quality and careful
workmanship with which the Gulbransen name is
inseparably linked."
Zenith Models.
Zenith Radio Corporation, 3620 Iron street, Chi-
cago, exhibited Zenith Electric DeLuxe Models, the
Zenith Radio Automatic and Zenith Electric Phono-
graph combinations. Of Model 37A this was said on
the folder handed to visitors:
"Many months of extensive experimenting in the
great Zenith laboratories as to the proper method of
combining Zenith radio with an efficient phonograph
October 13, 1928
has resulted in this instrument. A special induction
type motor with adequate control eliminates any pos-
sibility of extraneous noises which often occur when
any other type of motor is used. The turntable is
mounted on jeweled bearings, and uniform speed
control is obtained through a separate control knob
designed so that the phonograph may be operated
when the radio is off."
At every turn in the big show there was something
new. Upon entering the hall every woman was
handed a paper satchel for carrying around all the
cards she might collect. These bags contained the
ad. of the Grebe Syncophase on the cover.
Among the interesting machines, devices and radios
the reporter noted the experiments with the Tlior-
darson Audio Transformer; the Sylvania Radio Tubes
from the Sylvania Products Company, Emporium,
Pa.; Scott's World Record Shield Grid Nine and
Power Amplifier, made by the Scott Transformer
Company, 4450 Ravenswood avenue, Chicago.
The Freed-Eisemar.n Exhibit.
Freed-Eisemann Radio Corporation had a fine
exhibit from their big factory at Liberty avenue and
Junius street, Brooklyn. Among the designs was one
known as "The Great Eighty."
The Sparks-Withington Company, Jackson, Mich.,
exhibited the new Sparton Equasonne.
National Carbon Co. Demonstration.
The National Carbon Company, Inc., 30 East 42nd
street, New York, manufacturer of Eveready bat-
teries, had an interesting booth. A demonstrator
showed why radio is better with battery power.
Kellogg Radio, manufactured by the Kellogg
Switchboard & Supply Company, Chicago, was ex-
hibited in various styles. One of these, the "Dernier
Cri," is described in the literature of the makers as
"This master creation of modern radio."
BUSINESS BETTER, SAYS W. M. BAUER.
"Business is now much better," said William M.
Bauer, president of Julius Bauer & Co., 1335-45 Alt-
geld street, Chicago, in answer to a question by a
Presto-Times reporter on Thursday. "We are busy
taking care of orders and they are for the very best
instruments we know how to make. It looks now like
good business for the rest of the fall."
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Looking at Distant Speaker's Face.
A television demonstration, with close-up views
for everybody, was the greatest drawer of the crowds.
It was carried out on the second floor and required
the activities of a squad of officers used to military
drills and crowd-handling. But everybody got a
look-in.
Majestic Gave Football Schedule.
"Follow your favorite football team with a Majestic
All-Electric Radio" was the advice of the makers of
the Majestic, the Grigsby-Grunow Co., Chicago. The
little folder will be kept, as it is a scorecard for every
football game in the country throughout the season.
PHILIP W. OETTING SAILS.
Philip W. Oetting of Philip W. Oetting & Son,
Inc., successors to Richard Ranft, 213 East 19th
street. New York, who has been in Europe for the
past month, is sailing for home on the S.S. Reliance
after a most enjoyable time abroad. He is due in
New York on the 18th.
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