August 15, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
LATE MUSIC TRADE NOTES
erates until 7 and 8 p. m., according to President
F. S. Smith. The company is now making fine radio
cabinets.
Addition of a new department has been announced
by Lammers Music House, 123 East Sixth street, Cin-
cinnati. This new division, a booking department,
operated under the management of Walter Marshall,
will provide music, orchestra, etc., for dances and
other occasions.
The Baldwin Piano Company, Galesburg, III., has
opened a factory branch store at 53 North Cherry
street under the management of J. R. Huckins.
Ray Winter has opened a music store on the west
side of the square in the Claypool building, Marshall,
111. He will handle Baldwin pianos, sheet music,
radios, and music rolls. Alfred Murphy and L.
Harris have started their work as solicitors for Mr.
Winter.
Lord & Thomas & Logan, noted advertising agency,
has taken three floors of the new Palmolive Building
in Chicago—the building with the Lindbergh beacon
on top.
Joseph C. Smith, piano dealer at La Porte, Ind.,
is looking for 50 boys who want to become members
of a drum and bugle corps. Their ages should be
Two broadsides were recently sent out by Thomas between 9 and 13 years, Mr. Smith says.
A. Edison, Inc., to the trade. They mention the
Henry H. Fry, of Vincennes, Ind., has opened a
new Edison needle records as a new profit-maker
from the Edison laboratories. Two Edison portables Baldwin piano store at Bloomington, Ind.
are also mentioned.
The 25th annual convention of the International
At the World's Advertising Congress in Berlin, Advertising Association will be held in Berlin in
Germany, last Saturday, Mr. Younggreen of Milwau- August. Albert Einstein, the scientist, will speak on
kee said: "The real object of advertising is to in- "The Ethics of Advertising."
crease the general prosperity of the world."
Austin Conradi, American pianist, was the featured
WORLD'S GREATEST MUSIC T E M P L E .
artist at the Baldwin piano on Sunday evening,
A special cable to the New York Times the other
Aug. 11.
day says that a gigantic temple of music to cost five
million dollars and which will not have an equal any-
In a signed article in the Chicago Evening Post of
Aug. 5, Harry Edward Freund says that "music has where else in the world has been offered to France
taken a most important place in the industrial and by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moulton of New York.
The proposed auditorium would seat 15,000 persons
business life of Chicago."
and be situated at one of the gates of Paris leading
Mrs. Charles A. Bent, widow of the late Charles A. to the Department of Seine et Oise, where the Moul-
Bent who was a well-known Chicago piano man, died
tons own a stately chateau near Saint Denis.
last week in her home at La Grange, 111., a Chicago
suburb.
A HEAD TONE.
The introduction of the little dollars caused a boom
in the wallet trade. About $6,000,000 in small bills
"That great lady singer put a rock in a note and
went into circulation in New York City the first dropped it on a man's head below her window."
week.
"I wonder what the note was?"
"Dunno. When it hit, the man said, "Gee!"—A.
The Perfection Furniture Co.'s factory, 2267-69
Clybourn avenue, Chicago, is so busy that it op- Lawton Atwood, in Chicago Daily News.
The Children's Civic Theater of Chicago, Inc.,
Margaret Pack acting director, celebrated Book Week
on Wednesday of this week, Aug. 14, with a pro-
gram written by Esther Olson, author and play-
wright.
Conductor Arthur Fiedler has been giving con-
certs at the Charles River Esplanade, Boston, to
audiences of between 5,000 and 8,000 nightly.
The Leedy Manufacturing Co., Palmer street and
Barth avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., has published a
folder telling all about the chimes it manufactures.
The Richardson Music Company, 730 West 7th
street; Los Angeles, Calif., W. H. Richardson, presi-
dent, is busy selling Charles M. Stieff pianos, Victor
and Brunswick products, as well as R. C. A. Radiolas.
Hinds, Hayden & Eldred, Inc., 59 Union Square,
New York, are issuing a book containing children's
piano pieces and violin pieces.
Orchestra Leader Robbed.
Carleton E. Coon, of the Coon-Sanders Orchestra,
was robbed of a $4,000 ring by a band of masked men
on August 5, while on his way home to Evanston,
111., from The Dells, Wis. The thieves also relieved
him of $450 cash.
" / / there'a no Harmony in the
Factory there will be None
in the Piano,"
The Harmony in the Pack*
*r«l is Reflected in the Har-
mony among the Dealers
who Sell them.
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J. S. Everett, of 212 Banks avenue, Knoxville,
Tenn., is anxious to learn where he can purchase
pearl key tops, and particularly who first manufac-
tured this kind of tops. He says there are only two
pianos in that part of Tennessee that contain that
kind of key tops, and the owners would not sell them
at any price.
There is an old lady nearly 90, of great intelligence
and a wonderful mind, living near his place who has
an old piano that has one of these pearl tops, and she
says that only one man in New York made them,
over 100 years ago, and so far as she knows, he made
only about four pianos of this kind, then died. So,
from what she says, the material or art of making
them seems to be a mystery.
SUIT ALLEGES I N F R I N G E M E N T .
Two Rochester and tw T o Buffalo, N. Y., concerns,
distributors of Atwater Kent radio receiving sets,
have been named defendants in a suit for alleged
infringement of patent, filed in United States District
Court in Rochester, on August 8, by the Hazeltine
Corporation, with headquarters in Jersey City, against
C. W. Ludwig & Sons, Inc., of 566 Clinton street
north, and C. L. Hartman Corporation of 18 North
Union street, Rochester, and the Kurtzmann Piano
Company and the Neal-Clark and Neal Company,
both of Buffalo, N. Y., according to D. Clyde Jones,
solicitor for the plaintiffs. The Hazeltine Corpora-
tion in its bill of complaint alleges that a patent it
has held since February 20, 1924, is encroached upon
in receiving sets manufactured by Atwater Kent and
distributed through the defendants.
The patent
broadly covers radio receivers which are supposed not
to develop unwanted noises in tuning operations.
F R E T T E D INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRAS.
The National Bureau for the Advancement of
Music, 45 West 45th street, New York, has recently
issued a 100-page book on "Fretted Instrument Or-
chestras." This volume, illustrated with fifteen pages
of photographs, is a guide to procedure on organ-
izing and maintaining ensembles of banjos, mando-
lins, guitars and other plectrum instruments. This
book is being used in an active summer campaign to
stir up interest in plectral playing.
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