April 15, 1929
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PRESTO-TIMES
R A D I O
Straube Radio Merits
Straube Piano Company's Character for Making Fine Pianos, Now
Expressed in Production of Radio Sets of Technical
Excellence and Artistic Design
The Straube Radio, made by the Straube Piano
Company, Hammond, Ind., is a powerful set in a
beautiful encasement. It is all-electric, nine tubes
and satisfaction in performance is guaranteed by the
manufacturers.
The character for the making of dependable pianos
gained by the Straube I'iano Company in its years of
activity is an asset in its industrial expansion into the
field of radio. Like the pianos, the Straube Radio
reliable construction. Doors swing all the way back
against sides of cabinet. The heights is 50 inches;
width, 27 inches, and depth 17^4 inches.
The Straube Purpose.
Tn entering the radio field, the Straube Piano Com-
pany was imbued with the purpose to produce radios
with the dependable features of construction that
achieved its high position in the piano field. At the
very start the Straube Rad : o enjoyed the prestige that
results in sales. Straube quality appeared in the form
of Straube Radio and Straube dealers benefited
thereby.
Straube Personnel.
Many things associated with the production of
Straube Radio suggested confidence. For one thing
the president and officers of the Straube Piano Co. are
men of long experience in making and marketing
pianos of superior quality. Another important con-
sideration is that the Straube factory of Hammond,
Ind., is admirably located and excellently equipped
for high class production in the new commodity. The
trade naturally expects radio excellence in sets pro-
duced in the progressive Hammond plant.
The factory of the Straube Piano is associated with
the character for unending research and continuous
improvement in the products. Many new principles
of piano construction originated there and it is safe to
assume that the ambition applied to piano improve-
ment will be continued in the manufacture of radios.
Selling Aids.
The cooperative character of its relations with deal-
ers is another Straube asset' that the trade is quick to
allow when the representation of Straube Radio is
considered. Aids to sales provided by the Straube
Piano Company are important factors towards big
turnovers and desirable profits. The experiences of
the trade enjoyed in selling Straube pianos may be
repeated with Straube Radio.
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
PROPOSE NEW
FEDERAL BUREAU
Representative Men in Music Trade And
Others Hold Enthusiastic Meeting in
Washington to Plan Procedure for
Forming New Department
of Fine Arts.
By HENRY MAC MULLAN.
A meeting was held April 8 at the Congressional
Country Club about twelve miles north of Washing-
ton, D. C, for the purpose of discussing and planning
for a request upon the Government at Washington
to establish a Department of Fine Arts.
The meeting was presided over by Frederick Philip
Stieff, head of Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., of Baltimore, Md.
Those in Attendance.
Those in attendance included Mr. and Mrs. Carl A.
Droop of E. F. Droop & Sons, Washington; Mrs.
Ingram of Dallas, Tex., sister of Robert N. Watkin
of the Will A. Watkin Music Company, Dallas, Tex.;
Hermann Irion of Steinway & Sons, New York; Del-
bert L. Loomis, executive secretary of the National
Association of Music Merchants; Mrs. Jno. F. Sippell,
president of General Federation of Women's Clubs,
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Jos. C. Byron, president of
Maryland Chapter of National Federation of Music
Clubs. Hagerstown, Md ; J. Fred Essary, author and
journalist, who is the Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun; Wm. J. Dougherty, managing
editor of Music Trade Review of New York; Mrs.
J. Frederick Essary, Washington, D. C ; Joseph A.
Helprin, director of the Advertising Club, Baltimore,
Md., who does the advertising for the Stieff house;
Arthur Kayc, managing editor of the Music Trades,
New York; Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelley, president
National Federation Music Culbs, Oxford, O.; Henry
MacMullen, Presto-Times, Chicago, 111.; Clarence J.
Roberts of Baltimore, Md., president National Asso-
ciation Music Merchants, and Mrs. Roberts; Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick J. Stieff, Baltimore, Md.: Guy R.
Smith, manager of the Stieff store in Washington,
D. C , and C. M. Tremainc, director National Bureau
for the Advancement of Music, New York.
F. P. Stieff Presided.
Frederick P. Stieff opened the meeting by indi-
cating the purposes for which it was called. He
read several letters of regret ffrom those who, for
one cause or another, were unable to attend, including
STRAUBE RADIO.
Frederick R. Huber, municipal director of music,
Model 270, Open.
furnishes the pride of name value. The Straube Pleasant Ride by Presto-Times Man Through Baltimore; Warren E. Rollins, artist, who painted
the wonderful pictures that decorate the main hall
Radio assures splendid reception, reliability and. sat-
Portion of State Discloses Busy Condition
of the Congressional Club and who is the father-in-
isfactory results.
in Manufacturing Plants.
law of Frederick P. Stieff. Mr. Rollins' home ie at
Gets Warm Reception.
A two days' motor trip through northern Indiana Pueblo Bonito, N. M. Regrets were also sent in by
recently
by
a
representative
of
Presto-Times
was
The Straube Piano Company's dealers eagerly
Hans Schuler, sculptor, director of the Maryland
adopted the Straube Radio at its first appearance. made interesting by reason of delightful weather and Institute, School of Art and Design, Baltimore, and
Knowing the character of the house for dependable visits to factories where good trade reports added from Rebort X. Watkin of Dallas; Jno. J. Glynn of
pianos of fine musical quality, they felt assured that more joy to the conversations.
New York; Jay Grinnell, eDtroit; also from E. Arthur
a radio presented by the ambitious house would pos-
The Straube Piano Company, Hammond, Ind., Miller, president of the Advertising Club of Baltimore.
sess merit in the same degree. The distinguished reported a very excellent trade, in fact, rather above
Expert Legislative Correspondent.
position of the Straube piano in the field of music normal conditions at this season of the year, but
Mr. Pessary was called upon as a man who had
gives the purchaser of a Straube Rad:'o that satisfac- which often occurs as a result of active work from
tion which comes from the assurance of quality in the headquarters. The Straube Piano Company's radio expert knowledge around the legislatures of Wash-
product. The Straube Piano Co. gives the guarantee business is assuming very important proportions and ington on how to initiate a movement of this kind;
that "The Straube radio is as fine as modern means the convincing evidence appears in factory and ship- whether to put the matter up to the President of
the United States direct or a Senator or a Represen-
and ingenuity has produced and the Straube type of
ping room.
artistic and graceful designing is always modern;
Elkhart, Ind., the band instrument center of the tative. His advice, cautiously given, was: "Get your
always in vogue.
world, is alive with the activities of this great line of groupi; organized; organized on a central basis, in
Merits of Set.
manufacturing there. Automobiles of the employes order to reach the political minds as well as the prac-
of the Conn plant lining the streets surrounding the tical minds. T do not think that any one group can
"The Straube radio represents the highest type of
performance, reliability and cabinet encasement. It Conn factories and the automobile parking space for make any great impression, but all the groups could.
cars was filled; all indicating the activities Sell the idea. Have one man on the floor of the
combines the latest quality achievement of famous Conn
r
:
House plugging day after day and month after
radio engineers with fifty years' experience in the w hich preva ls at the Conn institution.
The Conn Center is like a great educational insti- month." He cited an instance or two in his observa-
making of fine pianos. In the Straube radio you will
notice not only the artistic gracefulness of enduring tution where artists, artisans and business people tions of Congress where already plugging won the
design and the beauty of richly figured and magnifi- assemble for important reasons. There is provided day where nothing else would. Mr. Essary was with
cently finished furniture equipment, but the unusual a great line of band and orchestra instruments that go President Wilson on both his trips across the ocean.
Hermann Irion on Art and Music.
fidelity of tone; the clarity of instrumental music and forth to all parts of the world. On the day of the
Presto-Times
man's
visit
J.
F.
Rover,
the
general
the natural inflection of the human voice. You will
Hermann Irion of New York said art had in its
:
notice, too, the ease with which volume without dis- manager, was attending a convent on at some point in earlier history been under some grand potentate and
tortion from very soft to*very loud is readily obtained. Kansas and Mr. Schwartz of the Pan-American divi- later on had come under the fostering wings of the
And the nine tube all electric Straube with built-in sion was on a similar mission at another point.
Catholic Church through the centuries; and without
dynamic speaker furnishes power far beyond that
Notwithstanding the Hobart M. Cable Company, that we wouldn't have much of art. So now it ought
which you will ordinarily use."
La Porte, Ind., has not been before the trade the past to come under the protection of government. He
r
The Straube style 270 (closed) is shown in an few months as persistently as in times past, never- referred to the paternalistic patronage of music by
theless
there is considerable activity at the factories the governments of Germany, France and Italy, and
accompanying cut. The model reflects rare excel-
lence of design, extraordinary beauty of figured and warm enthusiasm over the prospects of a favor- he said of the four branches of art there was only one
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veneer, the handsomeness of piano finish and sturdy, able future trade.
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