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P R E S T O-T I M E S
October 1, 1929
G. DUNBAR SHEWELL JOINS RCA AIDS GULBRANSEN
NEWSPAPER RADIO
RADIO DEALERS
EDITORS ASSOCIATION The creation of a new department in the Radiola
Officers Are Elected at the Sixth Annual New York
Radio Show.
The Newspaper Radio Editors' Association was
formed last week in New York at a meeting held by
the editors who were in attendance at the Radio
Show. According to William S. Hedges, radio edi-
tor of the Chicago Daily News, this association has
as its function the providing of an open forum at
which radio editors may discuss questions affecting
public interest in radio. One of the first things to
be done will be a nationwide survey of local legisla-
tive trends, such as efforts of municipalities to tax
the sale of receivers, to regulate against interference
and to exercise control over local activities of broad-
casters.
Harry Lamertha of the St Louis Globe-Democrat
was elected president, Robert D. Heinl of Washing-
ton was elected vice-president and Orrin E. Dunlap
of the New York Times secretary. Arthur Stringer
of Chicago, press representative of the Radio Manu-
facturers' Show association, was elected executive
secretary.
D. E. Replog'le, chairman of the Television Com-
mittee of the Radio Manufacturers' Association, said:
"It is not unreasonable to suppose that while the
advent of commercial television is not yet here, it may
be close, as I believe we can look to the future with
confidence that radio will be no longer blind."
division of the Radio-Victor Corporation of America
to exploit the sale of musical devices, the first of
which is known as the "RCA Theremin," has just
been announced by J. L. Ray, president of the Radio-
Victor Corporation of America.
G. Dunbar Shewell has been appointed musical de-
vices sales manager, in charge of the newly created
department, with headquarters at the executive offices,
HADLEY WITH GRIGSBY-GRUNOW CO.
Earl H. Hadley, who for more than ten years was
advertising manager of The. Cable Company, Chicago,
is now an executive of the sales promotional staff of
the Grigsby-Grunow Company, manufacturers of
Majestic Radio, Chicago:' He will have direct charge
of certain phases of sales promotional work, partic-
ularlv with retail stores.
STROMBERG-CARLSON'S NEW LINE
Stromberg-Carlson is displaying a new line of screen-
grid sets designed by engineers with an "eagerness to
take pains—to put here a little stronger piece of mate-
rial, to shield with a heavier plate of copper, to wind the
coils a bit more thoroughly, to make a wire connection
a degree more" solid."
G. DUNBAR SHEWELL.
233 Broadway, New York city. Mr. Shewell is well-
known in the musical industry, having been president
of the Cheney Sales Corporation of Philadelphia, New
York and Boston, and recently the eastern wholesale
representative of The Aeolian Company. His wide
experience as a merchandiser, in addition to his ability
as a composer, a pianist and recording artist, ably fits
him for the new work.
MAJESTIC GOES TO EUROPE.
In the page ad of Foster & Waldo, Minneapolis,
Minn., appear these words: "The word, 'Every-
where' in the slogan, once a prophecy, is soon to
become reality. Wm. C. Grunow, vice-president and
production manager, once said: 'Majestic will never
meet its demand so long as there is any unorganized
sales territory on the civilized globe.' Even now,
B. J. Grigsby, president, is in Europe completing
arrangements for manufacture and distribution in the
eastern half of the world."
Cyril Farny, of the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Com-
pany, De Kalb, 111., was met the other day by a
Presto-Times representative and asked about the
effect of radio on the piano business. Speaking as a
piano manufacturer Mr. Farny said: "Although the
statement is often heard that radio seriously injured
the piano business, piano manufacturers are finding ex-
actly the opposite to be true. Radio has been a dis-
tinct aid in the sale of both upright and grand pianos,
although it has interfered with the sale of player-
pianos by providing another type of mechanical music.
"The radio has stimulated interest in music generally
and has aroused the desire in people to create music for
themselves. This creative desire is the inborn heritage
of the human race and the radio is a distinct aid in
developing this desire, which has resulted in a general
increase in grand piano sales."
RADIO STATIONS NUMBER 3,500.
There are approximately 3,500 radio stations above
6,000 kilocycles in the world at present, according to a
complete list just compiled by G. Colby Blackwell of the
engineering staff of the radio commission. Of this
number, there are between 1,500 and 1,600 of such sta-
tions, including the numerous experimental transmitters,
in the United States.
ADDITION TO SETTERGREN PLANT.
An addition to the plant of the B. K. Settergren
Co. at Bluffton, Ind., will be ready for use October 1,
in which the Indianapolis Times says it is planned to
produce six upright pianos daily; that ten grand
pianos are now being turned out daily.
APOLLO BOYS' BAND IN CONCERT.
JOIN R. C. A. BOARD.
De Witt Milhouser, a partner of Speyer & Co.,
and Frederick Strauss, a partner of J. & W. Selig-
man & Co., were recently elected directors of the
Radio Corporation of America. The Speyer and
Selgiman firms were managers under the plan to
merge the Radio Corporation and the Victor Talking
Machine Company, which was recently effected Mr.
Milhouser is also a director of the Victor Talking
Machine Company.
GORMAN AND KLUGH AT NEW YORK.
AT WATER KENT CONTEST.
Applications have been received from more than 100
young amateur singers for admission to the local con-
test of the national radio audition of the Atwater Kent
Foundation, Isobel Lowden, chairman of the New York
Music Week Association, said last week.
The Gulbranson Company of Chicago has recently
announced completion of arrangements with Commer-
cial Investment Trust, Incorporated (C. I. T.) where-
by radio dealers may receive financial aid in their in-
stallment selling. This represents an extension of
the plan made with C. I. T. in the early days of
installment selling as an aid to Gulbransen piano
dealers.
C. I. T. is the largest and oldest installment
financing corporation in the country, founded in 1908
and now doing an annual business of $400,000,000.
It was chosen by Gulbransen because of its estab-
lished reputation, unusually large resources totalling
over $200,000,000, and the particularly attractive plan
which it made possible to radio dealers.
In general the finance plan worked out by the two
companies embodies a 90 per cent advance to the
dealer, low rates, and return of the reserve upon
liquidation. Furthermore, the dealer is allowed to
make his own collections, which permits him to main-
tain his contact with the purchaser.
RADIO AIDS PIANO SALES.
MAJESTIC IN CANADA
One hundred of the leading radio merchants and
salesmen were guests at a luncheon-meeting last
Wednesday noon in the oak room of the Windsor
Hotel, Montreal.
With the tremendous demand for radios in the
Montreal district at the present time, the problem of
an adequate supply is uppermost. J. E. Rogers,, vice-
president of the Rogers-Majestic Corporation, Ltd.,
told of the increases in production being made week
by week as a larger factory organization is being
brought to a state of complete co-ordination and
efficiency.
B. A. Trestrail, also a vice-president of the same
company, emphasized the importance of enthusiasm
in any selling job. He also showed a series of charts
proving the steady and phenomenal growth of the
radio business as reflected in yearly increases in pro-
duction of the Rogers and Majestic lines. He gave a
report of conditions as he found them in Chicago
recently where the Majestic has gone on a produc-
tion schedule of six thousand five hundred complete
radio sets per day.
Company Makes Arrangement to Help the Dealers
to Finance Themselves.
Two prominent Chicagoans of the music industry
were in New York last week in connection with thr
Radio Show, namely Paul B. Klugh, vice-president
and general manager of the Zenith Radio Corporation,
and Vice-President John S. Gorman, of the Gulbran-
sen Company.
STARR PIANOS
The forty-nine high school boys brought to Chicago
from over the country to perfect the Apollo Musical
Club's Ail-American High School Band, ended their ten
weeks' stay there last week, when then they gave a con-
cert in Orchestra Hall.
STORE FOR ITHACA, MICH.
The Sawkins Music House, of Alma, Mich., is open-
ing a branch store at Ithaca, Mich., under the man-
agement of Thomas Jackson.
He will handle
Atwater Kent, Victor, Majestic and Zenith radios.
LOUISVILLE SHOP CHANGES NAME,
The Durlauf & Berry Music Shoppe, Louisville, Ky.,
has changed its name to Durlauf Music Shop and filed
incorporation papers increasing its capital stock from
$10,000 to $15,000.
STARR PHONOGRAPHS
GENNETT RECORDS
(Represent the Hiqhest oAttainment in oMnsical
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Established 1872
Richmond. Indiana
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