Automatic Age

AUTOMATIC AGE
82
April, 1940
were acted upon— John Dross, Forest
City; Joe Bubul, Pittston; and
Michael Gnall, Taylor, as regular
members, and the Roth Novelty Com­
pany, Wilkes Barre, as an associate
member.
Plans were made for the coming
year in which every effort will be
made to strengthen the Association.
W h e r e ’s T h a t Sm ile, W e b b ?
See Long Earning Life
for Triumph
"S trike Up The Band," exclaims I. F. Webb, Rock-Ola vice president, who is shown
tw irling baton at Sauve Music Company’s special showing of 1940 Rock-Ola Phonographs
in D etroit on March 11 and 12. Left to right: Fred Pray, Rock-Ola district manager,
L. A. Sauve, I. F. Webb, Roy De Longpre, sales manager, Sauve Music Company, and
“ Ben” Boldt, Rock-Ola Advertising Manager.
Scranton Music Association
Elects Officers
The Scranton-Wilkes Barre Pho-
noraph Operators Association, at its
regular meeting at the Hotel Sterl­
ing in Wilkes Barre on March 18th,
elected officers for the coming year,
according to news received from Benj.
Sterling, Jr., of Moosic, Pa.
George Thomas, of Summit Hill,
was elected to succeed John Moran
as President.
John J. Martin, of Berwick, was
re-elected vice-president and Chair­
man of the Board of Directors.
Richard Geisinger, of West Pitts­
ton, was elected Treasurer to succeed
Benj. Sterling, of Moosic, who “did
not choose to run.”
Ben De Fazio, IMoosic; Joseph
Bradish, Freeland; Premo Cavallini,
Mocanaqua; Edward Plisga, Dupont;
J. D. Richards, Trucksville; John
Moran, Pittston; John Kovacs, Lu­
zerne; S. Sitko, Scranton; and Harry
Cohen, Wilkes Barre, were elected
to the Board of Directors.
Four applicants for membership
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Discussing the Triumph “buy-back”
novelty or free-play game, George
Jenkins, sales manager of Bally Mfg.
Company, stated that operators, job­
bers and distributors expect the game
to enjoy an unusually long life.
“In fact,” he said, “the way to guar­
antee a glorious Fourth of July is
to get plenty of Triumphs on location
now! Because Triumph will still be
earning big money in July— and some
of the smartest lads in the business
say Triumph will still be on location
next Labor Day.”
“Of course, you don’t really have
to be a prophet to foresee a long,
long life for Triumph. Simply look
back and remember that Bally Re­
serve held down choice locations for
five and six consecutive months! And
remember, Bally Reserve didn’t show
up on the used market until three
months after the peak of the run.
Triumph is already breaking Bally
Reserve collection records, and, where
Bally Reserve has a five or six month
run, you can count on at least six
or eight months for Triumph. And
with daily collections equal to average
weekly novelty collections in practic­
ally every spot where Triumph has
been placed,” Jenkins said.
An Interesting 17th
Century Prophecy
One Robert Harcourt, an English­
man, wrote in 1613: “This commodity
(tobacco) will bring as great benefit
and profit as ever the Spaniards
gained by the best and richest silver
mine in all their Indies.”
Just how true this ancient pre­
diction was can be seen in the United
States Bureau of Internal Revenue’s
report for 1935 on the production
of tobacco products in the United
States. This country alone manufac­
tured 4,863,192,00 cigars; 139,968,­
684,000 cigarettes; and 3432,727,000
pounds of tobacco used for snuff,
smoking and chewing.
“Is your husband the stay-at-home
type?”
“Yes, and I certainly wish he’d get
a job!”
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