NATIVE MAHOGANY FURNITURE
ATTRACTS THRONGS
Manual training exhibits by the pupils of the Homestead High
School and the Redland High School, on display at the Redland
District 'Fruit Festival held at Homestead, Florida, recently at-
tracted large crowds. The splendid workmanship of the pupils
produced furniture pieces of real merit, which received real praise.
The display covered a wide range of furniture pieces—desks,
beds, coffee tables, chairs, sewing tables, cedar chests, buffets,
chests of drawers, dressing tables, and many other pieces in
Sheraton, Colonial, Renaissance, Empire. Duncan Phyffe, and
Chippendale styles. The woods used were varied, poison wood,
maple, cedar, tammarind, oak and walnut being used in some of
the pieces, with a preference by many for mahogany as it is a
native wood of this district.
. Both of the schools are under the supervision of C. Hagler Rice,
whose reputation for cabinet work is nation wide. The Hoaiestead
School shop is the only one that has the privilege of labeling its
mahogany furniture with the official red seal label of the Mahog-
any Association of America.
A program was given during the Festival by the Davis String
Quartette which included a number of the best known classical
selections for such instruments. At the close of this program
judges presided over a contest as to whether violins made from
native mahogany or those made from traditional maple were better,
and decided that the former were better. Both sets of violins were
on display in Mr. Davis' booth at the Fruit Festival.
TEACHERS COELEGE BUYS SEVEN
WURLITZER PIANOS
Seven Wurlitzer Spinettes were purchased by the North Texas
State Teachers College for its department of music this spring to
supplement other equipment for its new $100,000 music hall. The
sale was made by H. A. Wellbaum, highly capable sales manager
of Brook Mays & Company, Dallas. Texas.
Perhaps the most rapidly growing department of music in the
Southwest, the N.T.S.T.C. music department has expanded so
rapidly in the past three years that it now boasts a total of 307
music majors, as well as several hundred other music students who
are not majoring in the field.
The broadcasting studio in the new music building is one of the
largest, either professional or college, in the South, according to
Dr. Wilfred C. Bain, music department head at the Denton Teach-
ers College. The studio is 85x38 feet, large enough to house a full
symphony orchestra and chorus.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CO.
1640 WALNUT STREET
CH I C A C O
MARCH HIGHEST VET EOR
CRC TRANSCRIPTION DIVISION
During the month of March Columbia Recording Corporation's
transcription division set a new high for volume of business booked,
according to the division's general manager, William A. Schudt, Jr.
With activities in full swing in specially built transcription studios
in New York, Chicago, and Hollywood, CR.C chalked up many
new and large accounts.
Transcriptions were manufactured for many leading motion pic-
ture studios in Hollywood, and New York. Some of these includ-
ed:— Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, Twen-
tieth Century Fox, and Universal Pictures.
MAY,
1941
EIVE WURLITZER SVINETTES IN KORDEUOX
USED ON FAMOUS AMATEUR PROGRAM
|ust across the street from the Wurlitzer retail store in Brook-
lyn, Xew York, is the Fabian Fox Theatre where the W'MCA
Amateur Hour eminates. Some time ago a Wurlitzer Spinette,
Model 410-7. blond maple finished in White Kordevon was chosen
to be used for solo work for amateurs. Recently four more of these
beautiful pianos were added for the show's feature attraction. "Al
Curtis and His Forty Fingers of Rhythm."
FACE SEVEN
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