October 27, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
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at the hotel at the same time. Many other matters
were taken up and decided and some new things were
set in motion, but outside of settling the date, Secre-
tary Smith said there was nothing else for pub-
lication.
Gifts for Irion and Roberts.
The
Piano
Club took the occasion of the banquet
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cent of the British piano manufacturers, is making to especially honor the presidents of the two groups
prominent in the meetings—Hermann Irion, presi-
close to 100,000 pianos annually, which Mr. Irion
dent of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce,
thought was a very large output among a population
and C. J. Roberts, president of the National Asso-
of some 40,000,000.
ciation of Music Merchants. Each of these gentlemen
"Not all of you are working for your own aggrand- was presented with a Zipper Bag with his name in
izement in this country," said Mr. Irion. "So help gold upon it and beneath the name the words. "Com-
us paddle our canoe. Let us all pull together. We
pliments of the Piano Club of Chicago." The pre-
ought to see to it that every one that desires any
sentments were made by C. E. Byrne, vice-president
benefit from our associations is brought in. What
of Steger & Sons Piano Mfg. Co., whose choice of
we are doing is a benefit to all, whether they are pay- language is always oratorical.
ing for it or not, and those not now members must
Musicians of the Occasion.
be made to see that. All large firms should join
us, and Chicago has a special reason for helping us
The music for the dinner was the work of artists in
to get a 100 per cent membership in the manufac- their profession, and the players were warmly ap-
turers' association. With the dealers it is not so plauded. Bernice Yanacek was pianist; Freda Bethig,
easy, as many of them are remote."
violinist; Ann Slack, 'cellist.
A Song and Golfing Movies.
Roberts Likes Chicago
These young ladies also played while the golfing
C. J. Roberts spoke next. He said Chicago had
film was exhibited. As an introduction to the golf
always been good to him.. He mentioned several
things wittily in which Chicago had favored him. movies "Ted" Benedict, general chairman of the en-
tertainment and speakers' committee of the Piano
Besides, Mrs. Roberts was a Chicago girl.
Club, sang a song of his own composition, a "take-
Shirley Walker, when called upon said, after con-
vulsing the hearers with laughter at a few funny off" on golfers generally, which produced much laugh-
ter. In the workaday world Mr. Benedict is con-
sallies, "We'll have to stand together or we'll slide
nected with the pipe organ department of the W. W.
mighty fast. We believe in not telling our fellow
Kimball Company. He is also the official organist
members how not to do business, but how to do busi-
of Radio Station WENR.
ness."
"Years ago the associations were fighting one an-
Walter Elfstrom of Detroit, connected with the
other. Now they are fraternizing.
Cable Company store there, and vice-president of the
Detroit Music Merchants' Association, recited a com-
"I smile when I hear Mr. Roberts speak of the
ical selection, which was received with much mirth.
long trip from Baltimore to Chicago which prevents
This was the first time the Piano Club of Chicago
him from visiting this city as often as he visits New
has had the honor of entertaining both groups of
York. I've come several thousands of miles to this
the piano men, and the club certainly is entitled to
meeting and would go farther. Mr. Loomis and I
praise for the successful way in which the entire
have been several thousands of miles together on
recent trips, and with a result in his favor of 40 new program was carried out.
members at $10 each. While we are a long ways off
Guests at Dinner and Frolic.
in California, we're still a part of the United States.
We've got to cover every city in this country so that
The following were the guests of the Piano Club of
we will be able to carry on our business on a more
Chicago at the dinner and frolic on Monday evening
profitable basis."
of this week at the Drake Hotel, Chicago. Anyone
familiar with the personnel of the piano industry and
Chamber Concurs on Date and Place.
trade will see at a glance that these names are rep-
The Musical Industries Chamber of Commerce held
resentative of firms and forces in pianodom:
a meeting, with the press excluded, at the Drake
Board of Control—Frank J. Bayley, Wm. H. Beas-
Hotel on Tuesday forenoon. Much of the time was
ley, Thos. J. Edgar, H. H. Fleer, Edmund Gram, Jay
taken up with discussion of the feasibility of holding
Grinnell, W. B. Hamilton, Otto B. Heaton, Delbert
the manufacturers' and the chamber's conventions at
L. Loomis, C. R. Moores, Alex McDonald. Lloyd L.
the same time and place as the convention of the
Parker, J. B. Ryde, C. J. Roberts, W. W. Smith,
merchants.
Shirley Walker, Henry E. Weisert, Geo. B. Wiswell,
The decision concurred in the plan adopted by the Carl Wittich, Parham Werlein, E. R. Weeks.
merchants on Monday to hold the convention at the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce—C. D.
Drake on the week of June 3, so that they will all be
Bond, Mark P. Campbell, Max de Rochmont, H. C.
Dickinson, Raymond E. Durham, Hermann Irion, E. R.
Jacobson, W. A. Mennie, Alfred L. Smith, C. Alfred
Wagner, E. C. Boykin, Roy Hibschman, W. E.
Guylee.
Imitating Broad Scotch
Mark P. Campbell has the cosmopolitan spirit
which qualifies him for being the life of any party in
which he is cast. He enlivened the table at the Mon-
day luncheon by "braed Scawtch" imitations of Harry
Lauder, which he (Campbell) had given at a meeting
of the Federation of British Musical Industries in
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London and he also imitated the less broad Scotchi-
ness of William Thomson, sometimes called "Wully"
Makers of Grand, Upright
Thomson, the Glasgow piano dealer, when that schol-
and Inner'Player Pianos,
arly man-of-the-world relaxes into dialect and low-
land provincialisms.
including Conover, Cable,
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because one of his men had been hurt in an auto
accident and another had reported his machine stolen.
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