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Petrillo Plan Reiected
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163 5 FIFTH AVENUE
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
34
FOR
MARCH
1943
GRant 7818
Last Commandos Arrive
Capitol Thanks Gutshall
LOS ANGELES-Friday, March 12th,
was a big day for Jean Minthorne, Rock-
Ola distributor for Southern Cali'fornia and
Nevada, for on that day arrived the last
shipment of Commandos he will receive
until the war is over.
There were fifty machines in the ship.
ment and added to those Jean already has
in warehouses will provide enough machines
for a few weeks of ordinary selling. The
factory is completely sold out and the va-
rious distributors throughout the country
have no surplus stocks.
"Looks like we' ll be rationing Comman-
dos," stated Jean, "for with our limited
supply we'll have to parcel them out fairly
to all of our customers."
Recent purchasers of Commandos in-
clude: Frank Navarro and Jim Aile for
Los Angeles operating; Frank B. McCowen
for Ocean Park and West Los Angeles;
Glenn McCarter for Hemet ; John Patrick
for Santa Maria; A. M. Keene for Taft;
Jack Arnold for Barstow, and California
Music for Los Angeles. The last named
firm has purchased over half a carload
since the first of the year.
LOS ANGELES- Jack Gutshall of the
Jack Gutshall Distributing Co., is proudly
displaying a letter just received from Floyd
Bittaker, Pacific Coast Salesmanager, Capi-
tol Records, Inc., thanking him for the part
he has played in making Capitol Records
prime favorites with music machine opera·
tors.
"I want to take this opportunity of thank-
ing you for the splendid business and co-
operation which you have extended us in
the sale of Capitol Records," wrote Bitta-
ker. "After checking your purchases, I find
that you have received several thousand of
our recordings and it is indeed a pleasure
to note that your turnover as well as com-
plete representation of our line has been
very gratifying. Your recommendations of
our product plus the enthusiasm you have
shown has made possible the complete
coverage in music box entertainment that
we greatly appreciate."
Tom Watling Passes
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PITTSBURGH , PA.
CHICAGO-Funeral services were held
here March 6th for Tom Watling, 81 , foun -
der of the Watling Manufacturing Co., who
died of a heart attack at his home here on
the 3rd.
Watling spent more than 50 years in the
coin machine business and along with
Charles Fey was known as a true pioneer
of the industry.
Surviving are five sons, Albert, Burns,
John, Walter and William, and three daugh-
ters. John, the eldest, manages the Watling
firm .
Nation Goes Excelsior
HOLLYWOOD -
Every state in the
Union has taken Excelsior Records unto
itself and in the past few months the firm
has shipped substantial quantities of Ex-
celsior records to jobbers, distributors and
operatQrs in every state in the United
States.
Excelsior discs feature the finest colored
artists in new and original renditions. Otis
Rene, president and recording mentor, is
a song· writer of nati'onal reputation.
Rene attributes the tremendous sale of
Excelsior Records en~irely to THE REVIEW
for the firm has never advertised in any
other media.
NEW YORK-James C. Petrillo's Amer-
ican Federation of Musicians and repre-
sentatives of transcriptions and major re-
cording companies have different ideas as
to a feasible program for re-establishing
recordings by union musicians and as a
result the plans and terms outlined by
Petrillo at a meeting with the majors on
February 15th were promptly rejected.
In a lengthy letter to Petrillo stating rea-
sons for rejecting the proposal, the com·
panies maintanied that the plan: (l) Ob-
structs Technical Progress, (2) Subsidizes
Non-Employees, (3) Penalizes Employment
and Use, and (4) Duplicates Government
Relief.
Petrillo suggested that the recording
companies pay an additional sum directly
to the union over and above their regular
payments to the musicians employed. This
sum would be accumulated or disbursed
at the union's uncontrolled discretion for
the benefit of union members, regardless of
whether they render any services or not to
the recording companies. The recorders
met this plan with the statement that "the
destructive and dangerous fallacy of your
proposal is that it assumes that a specific
industry owes a special obligation to per-
sons not employed by it-an obligation
based only on such persons' membership in
a union,"
In rejecting the plan the recording com·
panies concluded: "Pending Congressional
authority for a plan which you yourself
have termed 'absolutely new,' we suggest
that you permit your members to return
to work immediately and produce phono·
graph records which are sorely needed for
both civilian and military morale. You
know of course, that we stand ready to
meet with you at all reasonable times when
you have anything further to submit."
Upon receiving the rejection Petrillo
released a statement that AFM members
would stand pat on his original decision
and not make any phonograph records until
some program was worked out with the
recorders for some sort of payment to the
unil!n.
New Capitol House Organ
HOLL YWOOD-"The Capitol" is the
name of a new 4-page house organ being
published twice a month by Capitol Rec-
ords, Inc., to acquaint 6,000 record dealers,
music operators, disc jockeys and reviewers
of the new record releases on the Capitol
label.
Edited by Dave Dexter, Jr., the publica-
tion is neatly turned out with a nice sprink-
ling of pictures of Capitol artists.
Spivak Joins Victor
CAMDEN-Charlie Spivak and his or·
chestra have signed to record for RCA
Victor. The popular young maestro, known
as "The Man Who Plays the Sweetest
Trumpet in the, World," and considered
by many musicians as the greatest trumpet
player to triple· tong~e a scale, brings to
the Victor recording list a band young in
years but well-seasont gagements at many of the country's top
night clubs, dance hails, theaters, and many
sustaining radio spots. And, equally im-
portant, the band is booked solid for the
first half of this year.
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There's nothing r-moother than silk-un-
less it's the girl who wears it.
Th e ne w executive dining room of the Rock-Ola plant is becom ing a fa vorite spot for business
d iscussions at lunch time. Here picture d are Otto Mal/egg , Jack N elson , David C. Rockola,
Rogerio Azcarraga and I. F. W ebb ready to che w business problems between courses.
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