Music Trade Review
Issue: 1916 Vol. 62 N. 6 - Page 47
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
HEARS HERJ)WN RECORDS.
Marguerite Farrell Visits the Warerooms of A.
C. Wilson in Youngstown, O., and Enjoys
Hearing the Columbia Records of Her Voice.
VICTOR EDUCATIONAL WORK.
Meeting of the Victor Educational Department
Recently Tells of Progress of Movement—
Schools in 3,100 Cities Using Victors—In-
teresting Features of this Important Meeting.
(Special to The Review.)
YOUNGSTOWN, ,O., February 1.—When Margue-
rite Farrell, who is a headliner in vaudeville cir-
cles, visited this city recently she spent quite some
time in the warerooms of A. C. Wilson, who han-
An interesting meeting of the Victor educational
department was held in January at the offices of
the Victor Talking Machine Co. at Camden, N. J.
This department, established over five years ago
under the direction of Mrs. Frances Elliott Clark,
has proved to be a very valuable and effective part
of this company's great campaign of publicity and
education. It is composed of twelve teachers and
musicians, who travel to every part of this country
lecturing in schools and instructing teachers in the
use of Victors and Victrolas. It is a significant
fact that from the few instruments used in schools
fsve years ago there are now schools in 3,100 cities
and towns which have installed Victors as a regu-
lar part of their equipment. At the January meet-
ing the educational department gave a series of
special demonstrations in the public schools of
Camden and vicinity illustrating the use of special
educational records in every line of school work.
A review of old English country dancing was
given by the members under the direction of Miss
Ruth Burchenal, of New York. Many of these
dances, collected by the English composer, Cecil
Sharp, will be used in the coming Shakespeare ter-
centenary all over the country. By means of its
Miss Farrell Listening to Her Own Voice.
Shakespeare records the Victor educational depart-
dies the complete line of graphophones and records ment is co-operating with the Drama League of
manufactured by the Columbia Graphophone Co., America in extending these observances.
New York.
Valuable features of the meeting were interesting
Miss Farrell was particularly interested in Co- talks delivered by Everett E. Worthington, the
lumbia product at the time of her visit, as she only Victor representative who had charge of the Victor
recently recorded several selections for the Co- Temple at the San Francisco Fair, and by Branson
lumbia library, which have proven very successful. M. DeCou, a Victor educational representative,
Miss Farrell is well known to theatregoers who has been delivering lectures on the exposition,
throughout the country, and her voice has been illustrated with beautiful colored slides, the
found particularly adaptable for recording pur- products of his own camera.
poses.
This year Victor educational representatives will
Mr. Wilson, upon the occasion of Miss Farrell's visit every school where Victors are installed, in
visit to Youngstown, took advantage of the op- order to acquaint the teachers with many new
portunity to call attention to her records, and in- records which are being featured in the Victor
terested a number of his patrons in the various catalog.
popular songs she has recorded.
U M. MARKS GOESJO ST. LOUIS.
"i-:
(Special to The Review.)
?-MILWAUKEE, WIS., January 31.—M. Marks, man-
ager of the piano and Victrola departments at the
three department stores of Edward Schuster
& Co., has resigned in order to engage in business
with his son in St. Louis, and left here early in the
month. Mr. Marks was the first manager of the
Schuster piano departments and built them up in a
remarkable manner.
Mr. Marks has been succeeded as manager at
the Schuster stores by T. P. Lehrncr, connected
with the Schuster concern for the past seven years.
Mr. Marks will have direct charge of the depart-
ments at the Third and Garfield streets store, and
will be assisted by Miss Elizabeth Hughes, a young
talking machine woman of much ability. The de-
partments at the Twelfth and Vliet streets store
will be under the direction of John H. Becker, who
has been manager of the Victrola department there
for about a year. The Sixth avenue and Mitchell
street store departments are in direct charge of
D. Meyer. All will be .under the general direction
of Mr. Lehrner.
The Smith & Barnes and a number of other
pianos and players are carried at the Schuster
stores. The piano and Victrola departments at all
three stores will be enlarged and new parlors and
booths will be installed. A large concert hall will
be arranged at the Third and Garfield streets store.
VICTROLA FOR TUBERCULAR SCHOOL.
R. A. HAWARD GOES TO TOLEDO.
Manager of Talking Machine Department of
C. A. House Music Co. Takes Similar Posi-
tion with Whitney-Currier Co.
(Special to The Review.)
WHEELING W. Va., January 31.—R. A. Haward,
for the past fifteen months the efficient manager
of the Victrola department of the C. A. House
Music Co., of this city, has resigned. On Feb-
ruary 1 he will assume the managership of the re-
tail Victrola department of the Whitney-Currier
Co., of Toledo, O.
Before coming to Wheeling Mr. Haward was
with the Musical Instrument Sales Co., of Minne-
apolis, Minn. During his short stay here he has
made a host of friends, who are congratulating
him upon his advancement and are wishing him
continued success.
TO MAKE NEW_S0UND BOX.
(Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 1.—A $100,000 company
has been incorporated in Milwaukee by A. J. Hoff-
man, J. D. Thomsen and H. E. Ransom to exploit
the sale of a new sound box for talking machines,
which is intended to soften the tone. The new box
is the invention of J. H. Ellis, who perfected a
new type of diaphragm some time ago. Mr. Ellis
has made many inventions in the telephonic and
phonographic field.
(Special to The Review.1
DEATH OF LOUIS W. A. WESTEE.
HARRISBURG, PA., January 29.—The Susquehanna
Open Air School for Tubercular Children has been
given a Victrola by the educational committee of
the Civic Club. Believing that the talking machine
is an important factor in the musical education of
school children, the committee hopes to place a
machine eventually in every schoolroom in the city.
Louis William Alphonse Westee, formerly auditor,
secretary and treasurer for Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
who lived at 11 Gaston street, West Orange, N. J.,
died on Thursday night of last week at West Cald-
well, N. J. Mr. Westee was born in Brooklyn,
June 1,1865, and at one time served as City Auditor
of Orange, N. J.
Increase Your
Income
Piano merchants, who
have not investigated
the talking machine
field, will find that the
subject is one of deep
interest to them and
they will also learn that
talking machines con-
stitute a line which can
be admirably blended
with piano selling.
The advance that has
b e e n m a d e in this
special field has been
phenomenal and every
dealer w h o desires
s p e c i f ic information
concerning talking ma-
chines should receive
The Talking Machine
World regularly.
This is the only publi-
cation in A m e r i c a
devoted exclusively to
the interests of the talk-
ing machine, and each
issue contains a vast
fund of valuable in-
formation which the
talking machine job-
bers and dealers say is
worth ten times the cost
of the paper to them.
You can receive the
paper regularly at a cost
of $1.00 a year and we
know of no manner in
which $1.00 can be ex-
pended which will sup-
ply as much valuable
information.
ESTATE OF
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
Publisher
373 Fourth Ave.
NEW YORK
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
HEARS HERJ)WN RECORDS.
Marguerite Farrell Visits the Warerooms of A.
C. Wilson in Youngstown, O., and Enjoys
Hearing the Columbia Records of Her Voice.
VICTOR EDUCATIONAL WORK.
Meeting of the Victor Educational Department
Recently Tells of Progress of Movement—
Schools in 3,100 Cities Using Victors—In-
teresting Features of this Important Meeting.
(Special to The Review.)
YOUNGSTOWN, ,O., February 1.—When Margue-
rite Farrell, who is a headliner in vaudeville cir-
cles, visited this city recently she spent quite some
time in the warerooms of A. C. Wilson, who han-
An interesting meeting of the Victor educational
department was held in January at the offices of
the Victor Talking Machine Co. at Camden, N. J.
This department, established over five years ago
under the direction of Mrs. Frances Elliott Clark,
has proved to be a very valuable and effective part
of this company's great campaign of publicity and
education. It is composed of twelve teachers and
musicians, who travel to every part of this country
lecturing in schools and instructing teachers in the
use of Victors and Victrolas. It is a significant
fact that from the few instruments used in schools
fsve years ago there are now schools in 3,100 cities
and towns which have installed Victors as a regu-
lar part of their equipment. At the January meet-
ing the educational department gave a series of
special demonstrations in the public schools of
Camden and vicinity illustrating the use of special
educational records in every line of school work.
A review of old English country dancing was
given by the members under the direction of Miss
Ruth Burchenal, of New York. Many of these
dances, collected by the English composer, Cecil
Sharp, will be used in the coming Shakespeare ter-
centenary all over the country. By means of its
Miss Farrell Listening to Her Own Voice.
Shakespeare records the Victor educational depart-
dies the complete line of graphophones and records ment is co-operating with the Drama League of
manufactured by the Columbia Graphophone Co., America in extending these observances.
New York.
Valuable features of the meeting were interesting
Miss Farrell was particularly interested in Co- talks delivered by Everett E. Worthington, the
lumbia product at the time of her visit, as she only Victor representative who had charge of the Victor
recently recorded several selections for the Co- Temple at the San Francisco Fair, and by Branson
lumbia library, which have proven very successful. M. DeCou, a Victor educational representative,
Miss Farrell is well known to theatregoers who has been delivering lectures on the exposition,
throughout the country, and her voice has been illustrated with beautiful colored slides, the
found particularly adaptable for recording pur- products of his own camera.
poses.
This year Victor educational representatives will
Mr. Wilson, upon the occasion of Miss Farrell's visit every school where Victors are installed, in
visit to Youngstown, took advantage of the op- order to acquaint the teachers with many new
portunity to call attention to her records, and in- records which are being featured in the Victor
terested a number of his patrons in the various catalog.
popular songs she has recorded.
U M. MARKS GOESJO ST. LOUIS.
"i-:
(Special to The Review.)
?-MILWAUKEE, WIS., January 31.—M. Marks, man-
ager of the piano and Victrola departments at the
three department stores of Edward Schuster
& Co., has resigned in order to engage in business
with his son in St. Louis, and left here early in the
month. Mr. Marks was the first manager of the
Schuster piano departments and built them up in a
remarkable manner.
Mr. Marks has been succeeded as manager at
the Schuster stores by T. P. Lehrncr, connected
with the Schuster concern for the past seven years.
Mr. Marks will have direct charge of the depart-
ments at the Third and Garfield streets store, and
will be assisted by Miss Elizabeth Hughes, a young
talking machine woman of much ability. The de-
partments at the Twelfth and Vliet streets store
will be under the direction of John H. Becker, who
has been manager of the Victrola department there
for about a year. The Sixth avenue and Mitchell
street store departments are in direct charge of
D. Meyer. All will be .under the general direction
of Mr. Lehrner.
The Smith & Barnes and a number of other
pianos and players are carried at the Schuster
stores. The piano and Victrola departments at all
three stores will be enlarged and new parlors and
booths will be installed. A large concert hall will
be arranged at the Third and Garfield streets store.
VICTROLA FOR TUBERCULAR SCHOOL.
R. A. HAWARD GOES TO TOLEDO.
Manager of Talking Machine Department of
C. A. House Music Co. Takes Similar Posi-
tion with Whitney-Currier Co.
(Special to The Review.)
WHEELING W. Va., January 31.—R. A. Haward,
for the past fifteen months the efficient manager
of the Victrola department of the C. A. House
Music Co., of this city, has resigned. On Feb-
ruary 1 he will assume the managership of the re-
tail Victrola department of the Whitney-Currier
Co., of Toledo, O.
Before coming to Wheeling Mr. Haward was
with the Musical Instrument Sales Co., of Minne-
apolis, Minn. During his short stay here he has
made a host of friends, who are congratulating
him upon his advancement and are wishing him
continued success.
TO MAKE NEW_S0UND BOX.
(Special to The Review.)
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 1.—A $100,000 company
has been incorporated in Milwaukee by A. J. Hoff-
man, J. D. Thomsen and H. E. Ransom to exploit
the sale of a new sound box for talking machines,
which is intended to soften the tone. The new box
is the invention of J. H. Ellis, who perfected a
new type of diaphragm some time ago. Mr. Ellis
has made many inventions in the telephonic and
phonographic field.
(Special to The Review.1
DEATH OF LOUIS W. A. WESTEE.
HARRISBURG, PA., January 29.—The Susquehanna
Open Air School for Tubercular Children has been
given a Victrola by the educational committee of
the Civic Club. Believing that the talking machine
is an important factor in the musical education of
school children, the committee hopes to place a
machine eventually in every schoolroom in the city.
Louis William Alphonse Westee, formerly auditor,
secretary and treasurer for Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
who lived at 11 Gaston street, West Orange, N. J.,
died on Thursday night of last week at West Cald-
well, N. J. Mr. Westee was born in Brooklyn,
June 1,1865, and at one time served as City Auditor
of Orange, N. J.
Increase Your
Income
Piano merchants, who
have not investigated
the talking machine
field, will find that the
subject is one of deep
interest to them and
they will also learn that
talking machines con-
stitute a line which can
be admirably blended
with piano selling.
The advance that has
b e e n m a d e in this
special field has been
phenomenal and every
dealer w h o desires
s p e c i f ic information
concerning talking ma-
chines should receive
The Talking Machine
World regularly.
This is the only publi-
cation in A m e r i c a
devoted exclusively to
the interests of the talk-
ing machine, and each
issue contains a vast
fund of valuable in-
formation which the
talking machine job-
bers and dealers say is
worth ten times the cost
of the paper to them.
You can receive the
paper regularly at a cost
of $1.00 a year and we
know of no manner in
which $1.00 can be ex-
pended which will sup-
ply as much valuable
information.
ESTATE OF
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
Publisher
373 Fourth Ave.
NEW YORK
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