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and warerooms, 832-850 Blackhawk street. The "Se-
lectraphone and All-Electric Amplified Phonograph
and the Derby Novelty pianos, together with a com-
plete line of automatic musical instruments.
The Packard Piano Company, Fort Wayne, Ind.,
will he represented at the convention by W. B. Mar-
shall, sales manager, C. A. Eyles and H. B. Harris,
who will have headquarters in the Drake Hotel.
Adam Schaaf. Inc., is making a display of their
rugular models at their warerooms, 321 South Wabash
avenue. They have made no elaborate designs or
fancy models, but display an elegant line of the regular
Schaaf pianos.
A special exhibit of the entire line of American
Piano Company instruments will lie held at Ampico
Hall, 234 South Wabash avenue.
Kranich & Bach have a special display at their
warerooms in the Straus Building, 77 East Jackson
boulevard.
Kreiter Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wis.,
with Conrad Kreiter, president, in attendance, will
have a few samples of Kreiter pianos to show to the
trade.
A special line of automatic self-playing pianos and
organs is on exhibit at the factory and warerooms of
the Operators' Piano Company, 715 North Kedzie
avenue.
Some Grand Displays.
The Cable Piano Company has a grand display of
the entire line of Cable instruments, including the
Cable, the Conover, the Kingsbury and a complete
exhibit of the Cable Midget pianos.
Jesse French & Sons Piano Company, New Castle,
Ind., have an exhibit, including the full list of Jesse
French radio receiving sets, among them the Madrid
and the Barcelona models. Jesse French II will be
in charge of this exhibit.
The W. W. Kimball Co. is showing a very com-
plete line of their pianos; grands, uprfgfits and repro-
ducing pianos; and also the new K radio receiving
set recently announced. The W. W. Kimball Com-
pany assures visitors of a worthwhile exhibit at their
warerooms in the Kimball Building, 306 South Wa-
bash avenue, at Jackson boulevard.
Ivers & Pond Piano Company, Boston, Mass., will
be represented at the Drake Hotel by Clarence H.
Pond, president, and also by Alexis A. Mahan, R. B.
Struthers, Ralph Henry Day. A. E. Stone, and W. H.
Evans.
The Story & Clark Piano Company is displaying
an elegant line of their instruments at their ware-
rooms, 173 North Michigan avenue.
M. Steinert & Sons, piano makers, Boston, Mass.,
have a display of the Steinert pianos at the Moist
Piano Company, 309 South Wabash avenue, Chicago
representatives for the Steinert piano, as well as at
the Drake Hotel. Arthur O'Leary and Jerome F.
Murphy, who will represent the Steinart company,
will have their headquarters in the Drake Hotel.
Henri DuQuesne will represent the Steinart company
at the radio show, with headquarters at the Stevens
Hotel.
The Starr Piano Company's exhibition of pianos is
in suite 218, Auditorium Hotel. Their display of
radios, radio cabinets, etc., is at rooms 1105a-1106a
and space 34 at the Stevens Hotel. Harry Gennett
will be in charge of The Starr Piano Company's
interests at the Chicago convention. Others in at-
tendance: Fred Gennett, A. E. Nolder, W. C.
Klumpp, A. M. Sweetland, Ray Strahan, G. B. Olsen,
C. R. Hunt and R. C. Ball.
C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., will display its
latest models in suite 192-193. In attendance—C. D.
Greenleaf, J. F. Boyer and C. J. Fairchild.
The Selectraphone Mascot small automatic instru-
ment will be shown at the Drake Hotel in room 320
during the convention. The Selectraphone plays any
standard record; the records are not required to do
any mechanical work. Also the Duotone Electric
Sound Mirror, the Derby Novelty Racing Piano and
the Selectra Tune Selecting Piano. In attendance—
A. F. Larson, J. E. Johnson and B. C. Waters.
Allied Lines at Radio Show.
Among the exhibits at the radio show more closely
connected with the piano and music industries are:
The Bush & Lane Piano Co., Suite 40, Stevens.
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Cable Supply Co., Suite 11, Stevens.
Starr Piano Co., Suite 34, Stevens.
Capehart Automatic Phonograph (Co., Suite 37,
Stevens.
Jesse French & Sons Piano Co., Palmer House.
C. Kurtzmann & Co.
In attendance—H. C. Rice, president, and R. E.
Becker, sales manager, sviite 539-540.
Jesse French & Sons Radio.
The Jesse French & Sons Piano Company, now
ranking as one of the most important in the radio
field as manufacturers of receiving sets of superior
quality, have an exhibit of their radios at the Palmer
House, where probably one or two of the late models
of the Jesse French & Sons Company's pianos may
also be seen. The Jesse French company are not
making an extensive exhibit of pianos, but in the radio
field, which line of their business has increased amaz-
ingly of late. They have a showing worthy of the
attention and inspection of not only music dealers
that handle radio, but of any other lines of business
which carry radio receiving sets.
Baldwin Piano Co.
In attendance—J. P. Thornton, Philip Wyman, C.
C. Givans, Jr., and E. P. Williams.
SUMMER BALDWIN PROGRAMS
The "At the Baldwin" radio programs, a feature of
Sunday's network offerings, will be continued through
the summer at a new hour and over a revised net-
work. Beginning Sunday, June 2, the Baldwin pro-
gram will be broadcast at 9:45 Eastern Daylight
Savings Time over WJZ and the following asso-
ciated NBC stations: New York, WJZ; Boston,
WBZA; Springfield, WBZ; Baltimore, WBAL;
Rochester, WHAM; Pittsburgh, KDKA; Detroit,
WJR; Cincinnati, W L W ; Chicago, KYW; Milwau-
kee, WTMJ; Minneapolis-St.Paul, KSTP; Duluth,
WEBC. Stations which have been added include
KDKA, WTMJ, KSTP and WEBC.
Since the inauguration of the Baldwin Program last
February, many famous artists have been presented.
It is announced there will be no lowering of the
standard of artists and music during the summer
months. Outstanding singers, pianists and violinists
will be presented. The Baldwin Singers, "The Sing-
ing Neighbors,'' one of the finest male quartets on
the air, will appear on the majority of programs.
The scene will remain the same—an informal musicale
in the living room of a Baldwin home.
Display of Aston Cabinets.
The Aston Cabinet Manufacturers, a division of
the Standard Piano Bench Manufacturing Company,
noted for distinctive originality in the design of its
line of high grade radio cabinets, plans to show eight
models in its booth at the Stevens Hotel. The con-
vention will be the occasion for the introduction of a
newly designed cabinet, in which the receiver and
speaker sections are interchangeabale.
The construction of the Aston LOKORNER radio
cabinets is of the mortise and tenon type, three-ply
tenons being used. In joining various parts of a cab-
inet, a tenon is used the full length of the part joined;
making an absolute lock corner.
Officers of the Aston Company are J. E. Aston,
president; G. L. Aston, secretary and treasurer; and
H. W. Johnson, office manager.
The Carter Radio Company's Exhibit.
Another Chicago radio firm that has arranged an
exhibit at the Stevens is the Carter Radio Company,
which will show a line of radio parts, featuring its
high-grade rheostats and resistances.
Fine Gulbransen Display.
In its spacious booth on the mezzanine floor of the
Drake Hotel the Gulbransen Company will display
the three pianos comprising its Home series, its dis-
tinctive Chinese grand, and its Accompanist, the
player-piano that can pick out and play any part of a
roll with almost human intelligence. Another attrac-
tion at this booth will be the Gulbransen radio, which,
during the year that has passed since its introduction,
has proved that it, too, possesses Gulbransen quality.
This prominent place at the show is indicative of the
position the Gulbransen Company enjoys among the
leaders of the industry. The Gulbransen radio will
also be shown in space 445A at the Stevens Hotel.
KILLS WISCONSIN MUSIC BILL.
The Wisconsin Senate killed the music bill pro-
posed by the lower house providing for a course of
music study in the common schools, by a vote of
28-1. Senator James Barker, Antigo, in opposing
the bill, expressed surprise that farmers in the house
would support such a measure. He estimated the
cost of musical courses in the common schools at
$1,000,000, and said $400,000 of that would have to be
paid by the farmers.
BRIDES GIVEN GULBRANSENS.
Gulbransen pianos were given to each of the cou-
ples who were married at a public double wedding
held Saturday, June 1, at the Merry Garden ball room,
3136 Sheffield avenue, Chicago. This occasion dem-
onstrated to the many young couples present the
great contribution self-expressed music can make to
the happiness of the newly-established household.
HARRISBURG CORRECTION.
In Presto-Times of May 15 our correspondent,
writing from Harrisburg, Pa, referred to the house
of Troup Bros, as the representatives for the Stein-
way piano at that place. This was an oversight much
regretted by the house of Troup Bros., as well as by
the publishers of Presto-Times. The house of C. M.
Sigler, Inc , 30 North Second street, Harrisburg, has
been the "Home of the Steinway" in that city for
man}* years.
DIRECTOR OF TRADE ASSOCIATION.
AGGRIEVED MUSICIANS PARADED.
THE PACKARD PIANO COMPANY, Fort Wayne, IndL
WHOLE NATION HEARD CONCERT.
In a setting as elaborate as that of a gala night
at the opera, twenty-two internationally famous
artists faced the microphone during the coast-to-coast
broadcast of the Victor Talking Machine Company
on Friday evening. May 24. This assembly of Victor
celebrities constituted the largest all-star cast of
broadcast headliners ever put on the air on one pro-
gram and was heard by a nation-wide audience listen-
ing to thirty-seven stations of the NBC system.
Friends of J. W. A. Henderson, manager of the
Edison Distributing Corporation, Minneapolis branch,
are congratulating him upon his recent election to
the board of directors of the Northwest Radio Trade
Association.
Musicians in moving picture theater orchestras
thrown out of work by the Movietone, the Vitaphone
and other devices of the sort, which provide their
own music as well as their own conversation, paraded
in New York on March 20, the line of March being
from 210 East 86th street to the Fisk Building at
Broadway and 57th street. It was said that 12,000
men of this class were out of work in New York, but
this figure is probably far too large.
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ADDRESSES SHEET MUSIC MEN.
John L. Bratton, recently appointed executive sec-
retary of the Better Business Auxiliary Board of the
Music Publishers' Association of the United States,
will address the convention of the National Sheet
Music Dealers' Association on Monday, June 3, at the
Drake Hotel.
Mr. Bratton is on an important mission which is
pointed toward a betterment of business conditions
in the sheet music field, including music schools,
teachers, dealers and publishers. Every dealer who
can possibly do so, is urged to attend this meeting to
hear Mr. Bratton, and it will be well worth coming
out to hear his message.
John A. Mitthauer, aged 85 years, one of the first
musicians to play for recording machines and who
was associated with Thomas A. Edison in perfecting
the phonograph, died on May 22 at his home in
Philadelphia.
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