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Issue: 1929 2236

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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
(Worth
%STARRTIANO COMPANY
Established 1872
Richmond. Indiana
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October 1, 1929
P R E S T O-T I M E S
PRESTO TIMES WANT ADVS.
SALESMAN WANTED—Radio manufacturer wants one
or two active and able representatives.
Address
"Radio Manufacturer," care of P R E S T O - T I M E S .
PIANO S A L E S M E N W A N T E D .
We have an opening for two good piano salesmen. Oper-
ating out of a town of 20,000 population in the best
part of North Dakota, where conditions are good. If
interested, write
Dahners-Tavis
Music
Company,
Minot, North Dakota.
O P E N FOR POSITION
A L L - A R O U N D MAN thoroughly competent to superin-
tend piano or piano-radio factory; manage a busi-
ness; establish a trade and produce satisfactory r e -
sults, is open for engagement after Sept. 15. - A d -
dress Piano-Radio Man; Care Presto-Times, Chi-
cago, III.
PIANO M A N
E X P E R I E N C E D PIANO M A N is open for position as
salesman, manager, or traveller.
Address: S M T ,
Box 1, Care Presto-Times, Chicago, III.
W A N T S CARLOADS OF PIANOS.
An old established piano company in the middle west is
in the market for a few carloads of attractive, used
straight and player pianos. We might also consider
a quantity of new instruments at clean-up prices.
Address J. K. L., care Presto-Times, giving descrip-
tion and prices of what you have to offer.
T R A V E L E R W A N T S POSITION.
WANTED—Experienced traveler wishes to connect with
piano manufacturer. Can work in any territory. Best
of references furnished. Address "Experienced T r a v -
eler," car© P R E S T O - T I M E S . Chicago.
W A N T S PLACE IN LARGE T O W N .
Piano salesman with his own highly efficient advertising
system wants position with respectable music house
in some large industrial center. Address "Piano Sales-
man," Box 4, care P R E S T O - T I M E S .
T U N E R - M E C H A N I C W A N T S PLACE.
High class piano tuner and mechanic desires position as
combination tuner and salesman. Better than average
selling ability. 25 years' experience. Address "Tuner-
Mechanic," care P R E S T O - T I M E S .
TO T A K E OVER RADIO.
W A N T E D — M a n to take over radio department on his
own hook in established music store in fine county
seat town in central California. Established business
and very best agencies. About $2,500 necessary. A d -
dress Graber Music House, Visalia, Calif.
ZENITH'S NEW CABINET WORKS.
Plant No. 3, in Chicago, which contains Zenith's
new cabinet works complete with the most modern
of woodworking machinery, representing a cost of
$250,000 wherein Zenith will hereafter manufacture its
own cabinets, drew the cynosure of attention from
many recent visitors. Individual operations in the
making of a cabinet were shown to have been reduced
to a minimum with the cabinet proceeding in line
from the time the wood enters the first machine until
it is turned out at the end of the line, a complete
unit. Many of the machines are almost human in
operation, accomplishing work in a few minutes that
could not be done satisfactorily by hand in many-
hours.
CENTRALIZING AT BRIDGEPORT.
The assembly plant of the Columbia Phonograph
Company, which has been located at Wabash, Ind.,
for the last several years, will be moved to Bridge-
port, Conn., in a few weeks, it was announced by
Gerry Byrne, manager. Mr. Byrne said that the com-
pany had been operating assembly plants in various
parts of the country and all will be moved to Bridge-
port, where the main factory is located. About thirty
persons were employed by the company at Wabash.
MUSIC SELLERS!
HERE IT IS—
$20,000 INTERNATIONAL SONG HIT
A. T. /<•/* _ M J:,.-W\ I'm Coming Back
Lax'* ( C a r o l i n a )
T O YOU
Now the sensation of Europe and destined to
be the outstanding Song Hit of U. S. A. Fea-
tured from Maine to California by several
thousand of the Leading Professional Artists.
SALESMAN W A N T E D .
Salesman for country music house carrying good line of
instruments. Not over 35 years of age, with good
references and his own automobile. One who knows
how to sell pianos in the country. Leads furnished;
no canvassing necessary. Pianos, radios, phonographs.
Salary and commission or any way the man wishes
to work. Address "Country Salesman," care PRES-
T O - T I M E S , 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
TO WORK W I T H
DEALER.
Combination tuner, phonograph repairman and salesman
wants position or hook-up with dealer. Twelve years'
experience.
Excellent reference. Address "Experi-
ence," P R E S T O - T I M E S , 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
SALES MANAGER WANTED.
OPEN FOR POSITION—Experienced organizer and sales
manager. Competent to handle any size music store.
Twenty years' experience. Can furnish best reference
as to honesty, sobriety and ability. Right age for
business. Address " O - K , Box 11," P R E S T O - T I M E S .
417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, III.
PIANO T U N E R W A N T E D .
POSITION W A N T E D — A 1 piano tuner; player mechanic.
Experienced in all lines of tuning and repairing. A d -
dress " A - 1 , " % P R E S T O - T I M E S .
A FEW NOTES.
R. H. Comstock, Jr., of the Piano & Organ Sup-
ply Company, Chicago, is now staying in Colorado to
regain ruggedness of health.
Frank M. Hood of the Schiller Piano Company is
starting this week for a business trip through Kansas,
Missouri and Nebraska.
Prof. Zillaya, who was the performer at the recent
Ohio convention of piano dealers, tried out the Schil-
ler Grand on exhibition there and wrote on an
envelope attached to it: "This is a wonderful piano—
beautiful tone, excellent action. Good luck."
Henry Hewitt, of the M. Schulz Company, Chicago,
won the low gross prize at the recent golf tourna-
ment of the Ohio Piano Golf Association.
Philip Reister has resigned as director of advertising
for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Manufacturing Company to
give his whole time to the development of the National
Lobby Display Company of Cincinnati, of which he is
vice-president.
Irma Glenn, who performs at the keyboard of the
mighty Wurlitzer organ used in the studios of radio
station WENR, Chicago, was chosen as runner-up
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT,
CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE
ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUG. 24, 1912,
nf PRESTO-TIMES, published weekly at Chicago, 111.,
for October 1, 1929.
State of Illinois, County of Du Page, ss.—Before me, a
notary public in and for the state and county aforesaid,
personally appeared P. D. Abbott, who, having been duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the
business manager of Presto-Times and that the following
Is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true state-
ment of the ownership, management (and if a daily
paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication
for the date shown in the above caption, required by the
Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal
Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse side of
this form, to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, edi-
tor, managing editor and business manager are:
Publisher—Presto Publishing Co., 417 S. Dearborn St.
Editor—Frank D. Abbott, 417 S. Dearborn St.
Managing Editor—Henry MacMullan, 417 S. Dearborn
St.
Business Manager—P. D. Abbott, 417 S. Dearborn St.
2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of
Individual owners, or, If a corporation, give its name and
the names and addresses of stockholders owning or hold-
ing 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock)—
F. D. Abbott, 417 S. Dearborn, St., Chicago, 111.
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other
security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of
total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities are:
(If there are none, so state.)—None.
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the
names of the owners, stockholders and security holders,
if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and s e -
curity holders as they appear upon the books of the
company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or s e -
curity holder appears upon the books of the company as
trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the
person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting
is given also that the said two paragraphs contain state-
ments embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to
the circumstances and conditions under which stockhold-
ers and security holders who do not appear upon the
books of the company as trustee, hold stock and securi-
ties in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner;
and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other
person, association or corporation has any Interest di-
rect or indirect in the said stock, bonds or other securi-
ties than as so stated by him.
PRESTO PUBLISHING CO..
Per A. Loeppert, Sec'y.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd day of
March, 1929.
Lillian Ludeka, Notary Public.
(My commission expires April, 1932.)
in the national contest recently held to select the most
beautiful woman engaged in radio entertainment in
the United States.
F. A. Dtelano has been appointed by the Grigsby-
Grunow Company to conduct the Majestic School
of Retail Salesmanship.
Ruggiero Ricci, 8-year-old violinist, made his New
York debut on October 20 as a soloist with the Man-
hattan Orchestral Society.
Walter Baker, aged 57 years, composer of the once
popular song, "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey,"
died in Niagara Falls, N. Y., on September 22.
The Inland Electric Company, 16 South Wells
street, Chicago, announces the agency of the Peerless
and. Courier radios equipped with the Kylectron set.
BAY PLANT MAY BE SOLD OCT. 10.
The matter of receiving bids for the property of the
H. C. Bay Piano Company at Bluffton, Ind., has been
postponed until Oct. 10, according to Fred Hummel,
of Chicago, receiver for the concern.
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Miss Vella Cook, Chicago's famous Contralto
now singing both songs over station WCFL,
Chicago, with unbounded success.
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Special Introductory Price t o Jobbers,
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