March, 1932
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PRESTO-TIMES
DIGGANS MUSIC HOUSE IN NEW
MODERN HOME
With a record of having sold collectively upwards
of ten thousand pianos in the state of Texas during
the past twenty years and now, today, located in a
fine modern store with a stock of instruments all paid
for, this is the way the Diggans boys are now estab-
lished in their new location, 435 Main avenue, San
Antonio. Tex. A big special sale was the opening
event.
As now organized Earl C. Diggans is president,
CENTURY OF PROGRESS MUSIC PLANS
Music at the Century of Progress; Chicago's 1933
World's Fair is progressing and promises great im-
portance. The architect's rendering of the proposed
Music Group has been given out and partial announce-
ments have been made by the committee on music
headed by Herbert Witherspoon. The Auditorium
will seat 4,000 and have a stage accommodating an
orchestra of 100 and a chorus of 600. Included in
this building is a hall seating 600, for chamber music
and lectures, studios for demonstrations of group
teaching, etc.
INTERIOR VIEW DIGGANS MUSIC STORE, SAN ANTONIO, TEX.
George C. Diggans is vice-president, and W. P.
Schwartz secretary-treasurer, and these gentlemen
are each and all of them thoroughly experienced
piano men.
The concern is cooperative, as all employees as
well as officers have an interest in the business, and
each has an extensive personal following, built up
through years of contact with the public and giving
the latter satisfactory service. The home of the com-
pany is in a good location and is quite attractive.
It is certainly a great record for a house when the
entire stock of goods, rent, and a considerable portion
of the advertising is paid in advance with a good dis-
count for cash.
Flanking the entrance to the Auditorium are small-
er exhibit buildings for the music industries, music
publishers and the like.
The Music Group, with its vari-colored walls and
its geometric elements, will represent an interesting
architectural flight into the realm of modernism.
MR. JACOB ENJOYS LIFE IN FLORIDA
Charles Jacob, now "out of the business," so to
speak, so far as the music business is concerned, who
has been basking in Florida sunshine and fishing on
both the East and West coast, is returning to New
York this month, but may make one more Florida
trip before hot weather sets in.
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THE SUPERVISORS' NATIONAL CONFER-
ENCE AT CLEVELAND, O., APRIL 3-8
The 1932 annual convention of the Music Super-
visors' National Conference will be held in Cleve-
land April 3-8 and which this year is known as its
Silver Anniversary. The program sent out by the
committee from 64 East Jackson boulevard, Chicago,
is of unusual interest. Copies of this program may
be had by addressing the headquarters at the address
given above. Some of the work before the confer-
ence this year embraces the following schedule:
Instrumental Music—Instrumental Ensemble.
Vocal Music—Voice Culture.
Vocal Music—A Capella Chorus.
Vocal Music—Elementary School Choirs.
Vocal Music—General Chorus—Mixed, Boys and
Girls.
Vocal Music—Vocal Ensemble.
Rural School Music.
Parochial School Music.
Radio Music Education.
Appreciation of Music.
Music Theory in Secondary Schools.
Dalcroze Eurythmics.
Elementary School Activities, Section I: (a)
Rhythm Orchestra; (b) Creative Work.
Elementary School Activities, Section I I : (a) Key-
board Theory; (b) Music Reading, etc.
R. V. Morgan, president of Music Supervisors Na-
tional Conference, says in his annual announcement
that keen observers state that no other event in the
history of music education has attracted such wide-
spread attention as the forthcoming Silver Anniver-
sary Convention and Festival of the Music Super-
visors' National Conference. This may be attributed
not only to the significance of the occasion, and the
unusual features of the program, but also to the
fact that now, as never before, earnest thought is
being given to all matters that pertain to the present
and future status of music in the schools.
Particular attention is called to the National Music
Discrimination Contest, to be held on Wednesday,
April 6, in the Public Auditorium, and to be broad-
cast over the NBC network at the time of the conven-
tion. Although only students who are in Cleveland at
the time will have their papers judged and be eligible
for awards, all schools with radio facilities may have the
benefit of the test. An eight-page pamphlet contain-
ing study plans for use in preparation for the test
will be forwarded by writing to the headquarters, 64
East Jackson boulevard, Suite 840.
St. Louis
Denver
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DOLGEVILLE. N. Y.
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Traplevers and Mouldings
J. BRECKWOLDT, Pre*.
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711 Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, 111.
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