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Presto

Issue: 1928 2211

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P R E S T O-T I M E S
15
R A D I O
RADIO AS A VOTE GETTER
December 15, 1928
NEW JESSE FRENCH
RADIO MODEL SHOWN
Following the Madrid Console This Week Is
Announced the Barcelona Console and
the Seville Consolette.
The Jesse French radio, announced by the Jesse
French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle, Ind., on
November 17, is already an assured success. The
new models are being added to the line and advance
orders on these, as well as the Madrid Console orig-
inally introduced, are gratifying in the extreme.
The new styles are the Barcelona Console and the
Seville Consolette. The Barcelona, here illustrated
with doors closed, is an Unusually handsome piece of
cabinet work- Its massive beauty is enhanced by
hand carving designed by Burt Murrel and executed
by the world-famous Jesse French craftsmen. The
effect of the cabinet is one of great richness and
beauty. Fancy burl walnut is given a fine piano
finish and the handsomely carved legs and embellish-
ments promise to make it one of the most popular
styles in the high grade field. The Barcelona Con-
sole is 51 inches high, 2d x / 2 inches wide and 17%
inches deep.
The Seville Consolette.
The Seville Consolette consists of the table model
mounted on a beautiful speaker table. (The table
model may also be had separately.) The very fine
woods and the delicate carving which feature the
Seville make it something out of the ordinary for this
type of cabinet and the characteristically fine finish
and strong construction make it a product worthy
of the "Name Well Known Since 1875." As a unit
it is 41 inches in height, 29J/2 inches in width and
inches deep.
Both the Barcelona Console and the Consolette
speaker table have the speaker opening adapted from
the design of the chapel window in the San Jose
Mission at San Antonio. The graceful opening is
backed with a heavy hand-carved grill and is covered
with cloth-of-gold.
In San Francisco.
Jesse French radio sets will be sold in San Fran-
cisco by the Union Music Co. of which D. A. Hen-
nessy is proprietor and manager. Mr. Hennessy, who
is making preparations to place a large stock of the
sets, is very enthusiastic about the merits of the
Jesse French radio sets.
"The quality of full tone in the Jesse French radio
set is an advantage that every customer will appre-
ciate," said Mr. Hennessy. "In fact it is a quality
which many radio customers seek when they are in
the market for a set. If the customer has had any
experience with a set of indifferent tone, he is the
more appreciative of a set with a full, sonorous one.
That quality of full tone, the ability to give the higher
and lower sounds clearly and without distortion, is
what the radio set manufactured by the Jesse French
& Sons Piano Co., New Castle, Ind., gives to the cus-
tomer."
N E W OGDEN STORE.
The Carnes Music Co. is the name of a new
music house that is being opened at 2350 Washington
avenue, Ogden, Utah, by C. R. Carnes, formerly
prominent in Idaho music trade circles, in connection
with the Sampson chain of music stores of that state.
Mrs. Carnes will assist her husband. They will carry
talking machines and radio principally and will sell
Victor products and Atwater Kent radio.
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
Manufacturers of
FACTORIES:
ONE GRADE ONLY
YORK
W I N N E R S IN RADIO CONTEST.
Hazel C. Arth, contralto, of Washington, D. C .
was announced by the Atwater Kent Foundation as
winner of the semi-final singing contest in the national
radio audition, which was broadcast from WEAF's
studio last Saturday. Amy Goldsmith, soprano, of
New York, won second place and Paula J. Phoenix,
soprano, of Oakhurst, N. J., was third.
for
PIANOS
The Wessell, Nickel & Gross action is a
guarantee of the grade of the instrument
in which it is found.
45th St.. 10th AT«. * W 4 6 i h
"Radio is getting a great deal of credit in these days
for purifying politics, but it was the newspaper
that began it," said Rudolph Wurlitzer of Cincinnati,
president of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., musical in-
strument house, in a recent interview in which he
made interesting post-election observations.
"Candidates seeing their speeches set forth in
cold type," Mr. Wurlitzer pointed out, "knew their
remarks would be combed for statements that might
be controverted or ridiculed and it was then the puri-
fication began. Radio, of course, has given it great
impetus, but the process had started before radio
came upon the scene. It is true that the radio lis-
tener is less susceptible to 'bunk' than is the man in
the visible audience, who is within range of the speak-
er's personality and the psychology of the crowd. But
the radio listener does catch a part of the influence of
the speaker's personality and the crowd's applause.
He wants to enjoy the speech. If he wishes to dis-
sect, analyze and criticise the speech he buys a
newspaper.
"To my mind the value of radio in the presidential
campaign lay not so much in the fact that it made
political orators more cautious as in the fact that it
gave interest, color and life to the stay-at-home's
politics. By doing so it has brought about a greatly
widened interest in governmental affairs, and that is
a most important public service."
MOVING TRUCKS
PIANO ACTIONS
HIGHEST GRADE
Rudolph Wurlitzer in Newspaper Interview
Points Out the Value of Radio in a
Presidential Campaign.
Orthophonic Victrolas
Electric Refrigerators
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December 15, 1928
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
Australian correspondent of the journal of the Amer-
ican Medical Association. "It has been found that
the quantity of sedative drugs that are distributed
to insure sleep is reduced, the patients frequently fall-
November Figures Exceed Those of October ing to sleep with their head phones in situ.," he con-
tinues. "The advantages of this method of distract-
and Company Is Now Manufacturing
ing the patient's attention from his bodily discomforts
Over 3,500 Sets Per Day.
were soon realized, and other Australian hospitals
B. J. Grigsby, president of Grigsby-Grunow Com- soon availed themselves of the technical experience
pany, Chicago, manufacturers of Majestic Electric gained at the Alfred Hospital. It has been found
Radio Sets, announced this week that shipments for that once the installation is complete the cost of up-
the month of November were $5,275,000.00, as com- keep is negligible."
pared with $5,140,000.00 in October and that net prof-
its for November were in excess of $800,000.00, after
depreciation and all charges but before taxes, which
is equal to over $2.00 per share on the 340,200 shares
of capital stock outstanding. The company has no
One of the most popular broadcasting stations in
bank loans or funded indebtedness.
the Rocky Mountain region is KLZ of Denver, Colo.,
The company is now employing nearly 7,000 people and a prominent factor in its popularity is the Bald-
and has 55 distributors and approximately 9,000 deal-
ers throughout the United States. The directors have
declared a dividend on an annual basis of $3.00 per
share and an extra dividend of 25c per share has been
voted on the dividend payable for the quarter ending
December 31.
The company is now manufacturing in excess of
3,500 console radio sets per day, and extensions to its
plants are in the course of construction to increase
this to a capacity of 5,000 sets per day. The company
expects to introduce a new combination radio and
electric phonograph early in 1929 which will be popu-
larly priced.
BIG MAJESTIC SHIPMENTS
BALDWIN IN RADIO STATION
The Growth
of Your Business in
Band and Orchestra Instruments
Depends on the Prestige of the
Manufacturer in Producing Meri-
torious Goods.
That Is Why an Agency for
the Products of
C. G. CONN, Ltd.
ELKHART, IND.
RADIO PRODUCTION GROWS
Radio apparatus and tubes valued at $191,848,665
were manufactured in the United States in 1927, the
biennial census of 1928 taken by the Department of
Commerce shows. This is an increase of 8.4 per cent
as compared with $176,990,334 for 1925, the last pre-
ceding census year.
The production of tube-type receivers in 1927 was
1,938,192, valued at $94,050,031, a decrease of 19.1 per
cent in number, but an increase of seven-tenths of 1
per cent in value as compared with 2,395,700 sets, val-
ued at $93,356,546, in 1925. The production of socket
power devices in 1927 aggregated 1,405,191, with a
value of $23,357,814, or 13.4 per cent of the total value
of radio apparatus manufactured during the year.
The production of socket power devices was very
small in 1925, and the value was not reported sep-
arately, but was included in the value of miscella-
neous radio parts.
returning to America, he will embody his findings in
equipment for the transcontinental service. "I have
great hopes for the use of radio on planes," Mr. Pan-
nill said. "In time the number of radio installations
on planes will far exceed those on ships. So far as
the ships go, there is no reason wry, in time, there
should not be constant communication on shipboard
from both shores. To achieve that, however, it will
be necessary to develop the short wave apparatus."
win piano which is used in the studio. The accom-
panying cut shows the Baldwin grand piano in posi-
tion in the busy place.
RADIO FOR HOSPITAL.
The Alfred Hospital at Melbourne, Australia, con-
taining 340 beds, was the Australian pioneer in the
provision of wireless head phones whereby broadcast-
ing programs were brought to the bedside, writes the
OPENS IN P I T T S F I E L D , I L L .
Ben Brunswick is now established in his new music
shop, in Pittsfield, 111. The building has just been
completed to replace the one burned early this year,
at which time the contents were almost entirely de-
stroyed. The place is beautifully and conveniently
arranged. Beside his Victrolas and records, he has
added a stock of radios and musical novelties.
AIMS AT AIRCRAFT RADIO.
"Business men will soon be getting stock quotations
as they travel in airplanes," Vice-President C. J. Pan-
nill of the Radiomarine Corporation of America said
upon leaving New York for a tour of study of radio
communication and aricraft in Europe recently. Upon
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