PRESTO-TIMES
November 10, 1928
New York city. The artists whom you will hear
will be those artists whose music will shortly be avail-
able for you in permanent form on Sonora records."
Sonora will be on the air over the Columbia Chain
Model 35 Automatically Tuned Radio Sets every Thursday evening from 9 to 10 o'clock, East-
ern Standard Time. The artists who were heard dur-
Used to Broadcast News from Every
ing the first Sonora hour were Ruth Breton, violinist,
State in Union.
Allan Jones, tenor; Helen Croy, contralto; The
A splendid publicity tieup was effected in Chicago Sonora Symphony Orchestra, the Picadors, the May-
for election night between the Zenith Radio Cor- fair House Salon Orchestra, and the Trianon Instru-
poration and the Lubliner & Trinz theaters for the ment Trio.
broadcast of election returns direct from the sta^e
HAS F R E E MUSIC POLICY.
of each L. & T. theater. This included the Lynch
The Independent Music Publishers, with executive
circuit and the Stern & Meyers circuit, comprising
ofl'ces in Hachito, N. M., sends the following notice:
thirty theaters in all.
The Model 35 automatically tuned Zenith radio sets "The Independent Music Publishers, with representa-
were used and immediately after the last performance tives in all important centers, announces its radical
in each house the election returns were given the po icy of tax-free music to all theaters, movie houses,
ball rooms and radio stations. The last release.
audiences up until 1 a. m.
The Zenith radio receivers were on display in the "When You Know Me and I Know You," is meet-
ing with spontaneous success and is well on the road
various lobbies for one week prior to election night
to a national hit. Other new releases are now in
and trailers on all the screens carried excellent pub-
preparation."
licity for Zenith.
This same publicity stunt was carried out through-
NEW P R E S I D E N T KIMBERLY CO.
out the entire United States, according to W. J. Pohl-
Announcement lias been made that L. T. Johnson,
man, publicity director of Zenith. Zenith dealers
well-known among the radio trade, has been elected
throughout the country tied up with the local theater
managers of their town, resulting in Zenith receiving president of the Kimberly Radio Company, 154 East
Erie street, Chicago. The Kimberly Company is the
amazing publicity on a national scale.
distributor for the Zenith line through a number of
the mid-western states. Mr. Johnson succeeds Percy
R. Kimberly, the former president, who was killed
in an automobile accident a few weeks ago.
On the occasion of the broadcasting of the first
T O BUILD GREAT RADIO FACTORY.
Sonora Hour, sponsored by the Acoustic Products
Co. on behalf of the Sonora Phonograph Co. and A. Atwater Kent, manufacturer of radio sets and
Souora dealers all over the country, Percy L. Deutsch, receivers, Philadelphia, has broken ground for a new
president of the Acoustic and Sonora Companies, en- $3,000,000 factory that will double the size and capac-
ity of the present I6J/2 acre plant. The company
tertained a party of distinguished guests in the beau-
claims it will have the world's largest radio factory.
tiful demonstration room at Sonora Building, New
York city. Mr. Deutsch opened the broadcast pro-
Arthur H. Morse, of the engineering department
gram with a brief speech in which he said in part:
"The Sonora Hour will be broadcast at this time (if the Baldwin Company, Cincinnati, was in Chicago
every Thursday. This program will come to you to- on a business trip on Monday of this week. Inci-
night and henceforth direct from the recording dentally, Mr. Morse made a call at Presto-Times
studios in Sonora's new home, the Sonora Building, office.
ZENITH ELECTION RETURNS
OPENS SONORA HOUR
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
NEW AUTOMATIC MUSIC ROLLS
November Issue of Music for Electric Pianos Is An-
nounced by Automatic Music Roll Company.
The Automatic Music Roll Co., Chicago, has issued
its November bulletin of Seeburg and other standard
coin-operated instruments. The rolls are suitable for
use with the following standard 65-note rewind coin-
operated electric pianos using 3 z / 2 inch cores:
American, Carleton, Casino, Chicago Electric, Coin-
ola A, C, and Cupid, Colonial, Cote, Cremona, Eber-
hardt. Electra, Empress 65-note, Engelhardt, Eusym-
phonic, Harwood, Heller, Howard, Jewett, I.ehr, Mar-
quette, Midget Orchestra, Monarch National 20R.
Nelson-Wiggen Style 1, 2, 3, 4, Originators, Opera-
tors, A. C. and Cupid, Presburg, Price & Teeple,
Rand, Regina Reichard, Schaeffer, Seeburg A, B, C,
E, E, K, L & PGA, Starr, Tangley Calliaphone,
Tangley Calliope, Victor, Violophone, Western Elec-
tric A, C, X and J.
All styles of Seeburg organs, orchestrions and
pianos using 3-inch cores are also available for use
of the rolls: Anderson, Ariston, Armstrong, Auto-
electrola, Decker Bros., Electratone, Evans, Haines,
Ideal, Wi!son, Wm. A. Johnson, Kibby, King, Kreiter,
Xetzow, Reed, Rhapsodist, Schultz, Standard F and
GR, Waltham, Watson.
K O L S T E R D E V E L O P S TUNING DEVICE.
Kolster Radio Corporation announces the develop-
ment of a new device for controlling tuning and vol-
ume of a radio receiver from a distant point. The
device will be featured on some of the 1929 sets. With
the new invention it is possible to operate a Kolster
set from any point in the building in which the set
is installed.
William Grosvenor, who departed from his busi-
ness at 1022 Wilson avenue, Chicago, and whose
original name before he had it legally changed was
Grospkof or Grosskopf, should not be confused with
George B. Grosvenor, formerly of Grosvenor & Lap-
ham, Chicago, who for many years had the A. B.
Chase agency in Chicago. George B. Grosvenor is
now living at Orlarrdd. Ela.
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