Music Trade Review
Issue: 1917 Vol. 65 N. 6 - Page 44
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SELLING "TIPS" FOR DEALERS IN MOTION PICTURE PLAYERS
New Motion Picture Theatres, Churches, Hotels and Restaurants in Various Sections of the
Country That Will Require Orchestrions, Automatic Pianos and Other Musical Equipment
Opportunities to make sales of automatic
pianos and orchestrions will be found in this
. column by piano dealers desirous of develop-
ing these prospects in the respective localities
mentioned:
Connecticut
The Lyric, Inc., has been organized at Bridgeport by
S. Z. Poli, L. M. Sagal, E. J. Poli, W. H. Isham, Thomas
M. Cullinan and Leroy D. Ball, of New York.
Laiulow Co. has plans for a new moving picture theatre
to be erected at New Haven.
District of Columbia
The Knights of Columbus, care Rev. Louis O'Horn, are
having plans prepared for the erection of a new $200,000
recreation hall at Washington.
Florida
J. Bornstein, of Louisville, Ky,, will erect a moving
picture theatre at Oldsmar.
Messrs. Karl and M. I. Kettler, West Palm Beach, have
leased the Crystal Theatre at Fort Pierce and will re-
model it.
Illinois
Pine Theatre Co., Chicago, $1,000; E. D. Ilopsen, Ida
Jacobson and A. T. Shotwell, incorporators.
The new Daley Theatre, owned by Harry Daley and Bert
Lancaster, at Carlinville, has just been opened.
George Fordyce has opened a moving picture theatre at
Eleventh and Cook streets, Springfield.
Flower & Meyer Amusement Co., Chicago; $10,000; Alex-
ander Flower, incorporator.
Charles Masters will show pictures in the Carlson Hall
Building at Springfield.
Imliana
The Royal Grand Realty Co. have plans for a new
$4(1,000 theatre building to be erected at Alariou.
William Cuppy has leased the Guy Building on Curtis
street, Cayuga, and will remodel and open it as a moving
picture theatre.
The Bedford Theatre Co., of Bedford, has been incor-
porated, with a capital stock of $10,000. for the purpose of
erecting a new opera house. The directors are William L.
Walls and E. Emmett McCarrell.
Kan?-as
The Columbus Theatre and Amusement Co., M. B.
Strauberg, general manager, has plans for a new moving
picture theatre to be erected at Junction City.
The Palace Airdome at Ford is rapidly Hearing com-
pletion.
E. A. Vandon has purchased the New Victoria Theatre
at Hiawatha.
The Opera House at Holton has been converted into a
moving picture theatre.
Charles Wurtz and I. M. Lindawood have purchased the
picture theatre business at Agenda from Mr. Lee.
The New Belmont Theatre has been opened at El Dorado
under the management of E. B. Munson.
Dr. Maintz has recently erected an airdome at Green
Leaf.
The New De Luxe Theatre has just been o]>ened at
Spearville.
Steve Clark is building a new moving picture theatre on
Main street, Ogden.
Tim Campbell has opened an airdome at Elkhart.
Kentucky
The Crescent Airdome has been opened at Louisville.
The Star Theatre at Salyers has been reopened.
A. C. Hedderich has leased the Queen Theatre at Owens-
boro.
Maine
William T. Haines is erecting a new moving picture
theatre on the Ilaines lot on Main street, Waterville.
Massachusetts
Work has been begun on the construction of a new
theatre at Upham's corner, Dorchester.
Michigan
The Matt Photoplay Co. has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $115,000. Lester Matter, of Flint, is inter-
ested in the project.
}
1NJ)EMM
THE
BEST
PROPOSITION
IN THE
Jerome Selling is planning
pl
to erect a new moving picture
theatre
t at
t Springwells.
S i l l
M i i
MihHouri
Billy Mueller will open the Jefferson Theatre at Jeffer-
son City in September.
W. J. Brill has opened an airdome at Sedalia, which is
called the Sky-dome.
R. S. Boss has opened the Grand Airdome at St. Charles.
The Woodlawn Amusement Co., 15-17 Gravois, St. Louis,
will build a new $15,000 moving picture theatre.
Bob Minnis has sold his moving picture theatre at
Marceline.
Montana
George L. Onstad, of Westby, has purchased the Glacier
Theatre at Wolf Point.
Nebraska
C. G. Binderup has leased the opera house at Blooming-
ton and will remodel and open it as a moving picture
theatre.
The Mid-West Photoplay Corp. has leased a site at Fif-
teenth and Douglas streets, Omaha, and will erect a
$•300,000 moving picture theatre there at an early date.
Ohio
l.avine Amusement Co., Toledo; $10,000; Joseph E.
Lavine, incorporator.
Oregon
I). 11. Welch opened his new Columbia Theatre at
Astoria. July 19.
Jensen and Von Ilerherg's new Liberty Theatre, at Port-
land, has just been opened.
l'< nns.vWtiniii
Announcement has been made by the Harry Davis inter-
ests that a new $300,000 moving picture theatre will be
erected soon on the site of the Grand Opera House, Fifth
avenue, Pittsburgh.
The Albert Amusement Co., of Chattanooga, has been
incorporated to operate places of amusement at Wilder.
Washington
Ivan Fungstead has opened a new moving picture theatre
at Colville.
The new Liberty Theatre at Fort I.apwai has just been
opened by II. L. Wright.
M. W. Ebel has just opened the new Class A theatre at
Moscow.
C. 15. Strauhal has opened the Row Theatre at Long
Beach.
Hackeney & Hackeney have opened the Seaview Theatre
at Seaview.
PLAYER ROLL BRAKE
PRAISE FOR AMPICO CHICKERING
WASHINGTON, I). C, August 6.—Charles Fre-
borg, Kankakee, 111., was last week granted Patent
No. 1,234,325 for a brake for player-piano rolls.
This invention relates to improvements in
brakes for player-pianos, and has for its prin-
cipal object to provide a mechanism which will
automatically brake or slightly resist the move-
ment of player-piano rolls.
It is a well known fact that in the operation
of player-pianos, when the same are being
played, the music roll or roller tends to over-
run, due to the fly-wheel action thereof and
interfering with the proper operation of the
device. Similarly when rerolling the music, the
collecting reel tends to over-run even more
than in the case of the music roll, since no
vacuum is operating through the tracker bar
to resist the backward movement of the music
sheet.
This device provides for the elimination of
this over-running in either direction by apply-
ing a brake or drag to the roll or the reel, as
the case may be, automatically reversing to
brake the opposite member of the two when
the music is reversed.
Dr. J. R. Bridges Writes of His Enthusiasm for
This Instrument
Chickering & Sons, New York, received this
week an interesting letter from Dr. J. R.
Bridges of Kahoka, Mo., who recently purchased
an Ampico in a Chickering piano from Giles
Bros, of Quincy, 111., Chickering representatives
in that city.
Dr. Bridges is so thoroughly delighted with
the results he is securing from the use of the
Ampico that he wrote the following enthusiastic
endorsement:
"I received the ASGE Ampico Chickering about
two weeks ago, in good condition, and have
had ample opportunity to try it out. It cer-
tainly is a wonderful instrument and reproduces
the 'touch of the master' perfectly. The piano
in the first place is simply superb, and the
Ampico is perfect."
The American Piano Co. has received many
letters of this nature from enthusiastic Ampico
owners throughout the country, and they re-
gard these endorsements as the finest tribute
that could be paid the Ampico.
NEW LIST FROM AEOLIAN CO.
NEW UNIVERSAL CATALOG
The Aeolian Co., New York, has just issued
The Universal Music Co., New York, has just
a catalog of Metro-Art Metrostyle-Themodist
issued a twenty-four page catalog listing their
and song rolls. This catalog lists all rolls is-
Spanish edition of 88-note music rolls.
This
sued by the company up to and including July,
catalog contains a splendid list of music which
1917, and the rolls are arranged in such a way can be used to excellent advantage by those
that the dealer and his patrons may refer to
dealers who have a clientele that arc in the mar-
them with maximum convenience. All the rolls
ket for rolls of this character.
presented in this catalog are 88-note rolls, and
the catalog contains eighty-four pages.
SCHENGKE
PIANO AND
PLAYER-PIANOS
Built to a Standard and not to a Price
SCHENCKE PIANO CO., 273-275 Rider Ave., N. Y.
BRAMBACH
PIANO
COMPANY—
drner
dOA/u^
Exclurive ^
producerr or
bGdfr
639 - 6 4 3 WEJT 4-9*./T.
/NEW YORK CITY
MARK P CAMPBUI
Potr.
MARKET
Lindeman&SonsPiano &
BJUR BROS. COS
New York,
Uniformly Good
Always Reliable
ROGART
PIANOS
P1A A N Y O E S B
I^ST VIILISJIICU 1887
Walters, oi
Pianos and Player-Pianos oi Quality
• -
.. 705-.717 WMUpek Avenue, New
M^A«im*Aii
BOGART PIANO CO.
9-11 Canal Place
NEW YORK
Christman SHONINGER PIANOS « . PLAYERS
Pianos
F. RADLE PIANO
FACTORY AND OFFICES. NEW HAVEN. CONN.
The Most Artistic made for the Price
Exceptional in TONE a n d FINISH
Write for details
"The firat touch tell*"
597 E. 137th Street, NEW YORK
WAREROOMS. SOS FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK
ESSENTIALLY A HIGH GRADE PRODUCT
6 9 1
Manufactured by F . R A D L E , we.. 3°« .t l«re«. N e w Y o r k C i t y
DE RIVAS & HARRIS
MANUFACTURERS OF
High Grade Upright and Player-Pianos
New Factory. 134th to 135th S t t . and Willow A T C .
(Caoacltv 6000 Pianos D « annum)
N E W YORK
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
SELLING "TIPS" FOR DEALERS IN MOTION PICTURE PLAYERS
New Motion Picture Theatres, Churches, Hotels and Restaurants in Various Sections of the
Country That Will Require Orchestrions, Automatic Pianos and Other Musical Equipment
Opportunities to make sales of automatic
pianos and orchestrions will be found in this
. column by piano dealers desirous of develop-
ing these prospects in the respective localities
mentioned:
Connecticut
The Lyric, Inc., has been organized at Bridgeport by
S. Z. Poli, L. M. Sagal, E. J. Poli, W. H. Isham, Thomas
M. Cullinan and Leroy D. Ball, of New York.
Laiulow Co. has plans for a new moving picture theatre
to be erected at New Haven.
District of Columbia
The Knights of Columbus, care Rev. Louis O'Horn, are
having plans prepared for the erection of a new $200,000
recreation hall at Washington.
Florida
J. Bornstein, of Louisville, Ky,, will erect a moving
picture theatre at Oldsmar.
Messrs. Karl and M. I. Kettler, West Palm Beach, have
leased the Crystal Theatre at Fort Pierce and will re-
model it.
Illinois
Pine Theatre Co., Chicago, $1,000; E. D. Ilopsen, Ida
Jacobson and A. T. Shotwell, incorporators.
The new Daley Theatre, owned by Harry Daley and Bert
Lancaster, at Carlinville, has just been opened.
George Fordyce has opened a moving picture theatre at
Eleventh and Cook streets, Springfield.
Flower & Meyer Amusement Co., Chicago; $10,000; Alex-
ander Flower, incorporator.
Charles Masters will show pictures in the Carlson Hall
Building at Springfield.
Imliana
The Royal Grand Realty Co. have plans for a new
$4(1,000 theatre building to be erected at Alariou.
William Cuppy has leased the Guy Building on Curtis
street, Cayuga, and will remodel and open it as a moving
picture theatre.
The Bedford Theatre Co., of Bedford, has been incor-
porated, with a capital stock of $10,000. for the purpose of
erecting a new opera house. The directors are William L.
Walls and E. Emmett McCarrell.
Kan?-as
The Columbus Theatre and Amusement Co., M. B.
Strauberg, general manager, has plans for a new moving
picture theatre to be erected at Junction City.
The Palace Airdome at Ford is rapidly Hearing com-
pletion.
E. A. Vandon has purchased the New Victoria Theatre
at Hiawatha.
The Opera House at Holton has been converted into a
moving picture theatre.
Charles Wurtz and I. M. Lindawood have purchased the
picture theatre business at Agenda from Mr. Lee.
The New Belmont Theatre has been opened at El Dorado
under the management of E. B. Munson.
Dr. Maintz has recently erected an airdome at Green
Leaf.
The New De Luxe Theatre has just been o]>ened at
Spearville.
Steve Clark is building a new moving picture theatre on
Main street, Ogden.
Tim Campbell has opened an airdome at Elkhart.
Kentucky
The Crescent Airdome has been opened at Louisville.
The Star Theatre at Salyers has been reopened.
A. C. Hedderich has leased the Queen Theatre at Owens-
boro.
Maine
William T. Haines is erecting a new moving picture
theatre on the Ilaines lot on Main street, Waterville.
Massachusetts
Work has been begun on the construction of a new
theatre at Upham's corner, Dorchester.
Michigan
The Matt Photoplay Co. has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $115,000. Lester Matter, of Flint, is inter-
ested in the project.
}
1NJ)EMM
THE
BEST
PROPOSITION
IN THE
Jerome Selling is planning
pl
to erect a new moving picture
theatre
t at
t Springwells.
S i l l
M i i
MihHouri
Billy Mueller will open the Jefferson Theatre at Jeffer-
son City in September.
W. J. Brill has opened an airdome at Sedalia, which is
called the Sky-dome.
R. S. Boss has opened the Grand Airdome at St. Charles.
The Woodlawn Amusement Co., 15-17 Gravois, St. Louis,
will build a new $15,000 moving picture theatre.
Bob Minnis has sold his moving picture theatre at
Marceline.
Montana
George L. Onstad, of Westby, has purchased the Glacier
Theatre at Wolf Point.
Nebraska
C. G. Binderup has leased the opera house at Blooming-
ton and will remodel and open it as a moving picture
theatre.
The Mid-West Photoplay Corp. has leased a site at Fif-
teenth and Douglas streets, Omaha, and will erect a
$•300,000 moving picture theatre there at an early date.
Ohio
l.avine Amusement Co., Toledo; $10,000; Joseph E.
Lavine, incorporator.
Oregon
I). 11. Welch opened his new Columbia Theatre at
Astoria. July 19.
Jensen and Von Ilerherg's new Liberty Theatre, at Port-
land, has just been opened.
l'< nns.vWtiniii
Announcement has been made by the Harry Davis inter-
ests that a new $300,000 moving picture theatre will be
erected soon on the site of the Grand Opera House, Fifth
avenue, Pittsburgh.
The Albert Amusement Co., of Chattanooga, has been
incorporated to operate places of amusement at Wilder.
Washington
Ivan Fungstead has opened a new moving picture theatre
at Colville.
The new Liberty Theatre at Fort I.apwai has just been
opened by II. L. Wright.
M. W. Ebel has just opened the new Class A theatre at
Moscow.
C. 15. Strauhal has opened the Row Theatre at Long
Beach.
Hackeney & Hackeney have opened the Seaview Theatre
at Seaview.
PLAYER ROLL BRAKE
PRAISE FOR AMPICO CHICKERING
WASHINGTON, I). C, August 6.—Charles Fre-
borg, Kankakee, 111., was last week granted Patent
No. 1,234,325 for a brake for player-piano rolls.
This invention relates to improvements in
brakes for player-pianos, and has for its prin-
cipal object to provide a mechanism which will
automatically brake or slightly resist the move-
ment of player-piano rolls.
It is a well known fact that in the operation
of player-pianos, when the same are being
played, the music roll or roller tends to over-
run, due to the fly-wheel action thereof and
interfering with the proper operation of the
device. Similarly when rerolling the music, the
collecting reel tends to over-run even more
than in the case of the music roll, since no
vacuum is operating through the tracker bar
to resist the backward movement of the music
sheet.
This device provides for the elimination of
this over-running in either direction by apply-
ing a brake or drag to the roll or the reel, as
the case may be, automatically reversing to
brake the opposite member of the two when
the music is reversed.
Dr. J. R. Bridges Writes of His Enthusiasm for
This Instrument
Chickering & Sons, New York, received this
week an interesting letter from Dr. J. R.
Bridges of Kahoka, Mo., who recently purchased
an Ampico in a Chickering piano from Giles
Bros, of Quincy, 111., Chickering representatives
in that city.
Dr. Bridges is so thoroughly delighted with
the results he is securing from the use of the
Ampico that he wrote the following enthusiastic
endorsement:
"I received the ASGE Ampico Chickering about
two weeks ago, in good condition, and have
had ample opportunity to try it out. It cer-
tainly is a wonderful instrument and reproduces
the 'touch of the master' perfectly. The piano
in the first place is simply superb, and the
Ampico is perfect."
The American Piano Co. has received many
letters of this nature from enthusiastic Ampico
owners throughout the country, and they re-
gard these endorsements as the finest tribute
that could be paid the Ampico.
NEW LIST FROM AEOLIAN CO.
NEW UNIVERSAL CATALOG
The Aeolian Co., New York, has just issued
The Universal Music Co., New York, has just
a catalog of Metro-Art Metrostyle-Themodist
issued a twenty-four page catalog listing their
and song rolls. This catalog lists all rolls is-
Spanish edition of 88-note music rolls.
This
sued by the company up to and including July,
catalog contains a splendid list of music which
1917, and the rolls are arranged in such a way can be used to excellent advantage by those
that the dealer and his patrons may refer to
dealers who have a clientele that arc in the mar-
them with maximum convenience. All the rolls
ket for rolls of this character.
presented in this catalog are 88-note rolls, and
the catalog contains eighty-four pages.
SCHENGKE
PIANO AND
PLAYER-PIANOS
Built to a Standard and not to a Price
SCHENCKE PIANO CO., 273-275 Rider Ave., N. Y.
BRAMBACH
PIANO
COMPANY—
drner
dOA/u^
Exclurive ^
producerr or
bGdfr
639 - 6 4 3 WEJT 4-9*./T.
/NEW YORK CITY
MARK P CAMPBUI
Potr.
MARKET
Lindeman&SonsPiano &
BJUR BROS. COS
New York,
Uniformly Good
Always Reliable
ROGART
PIANOS
P1A A N Y O E S B
I^ST VIILISJIICU 1887
Walters, oi
Pianos and Player-Pianos oi Quality
• -
.. 705-.717 WMUpek Avenue, New
M^A«im*Aii
BOGART PIANO CO.
9-11 Canal Place
NEW YORK
Christman SHONINGER PIANOS « . PLAYERS
Pianos
F. RADLE PIANO
FACTORY AND OFFICES. NEW HAVEN. CONN.
The Most Artistic made for the Price
Exceptional in TONE a n d FINISH
Write for details
"The firat touch tell*"
597 E. 137th Street, NEW YORK
WAREROOMS. SOS FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK
ESSENTIALLY A HIGH GRADE PRODUCT
6 9 1
Manufactured by F . R A D L E , we.. 3°« .t l«re«. N e w Y o r k C i t y
DE RIVAS & HARRIS
MANUFACTURERS OF
High Grade Upright and Player-Pianos
New Factory. 134th to 135th S t t . and Willow A T C .
(Caoacltv 6000 Pianos D « annum)
N E W YORK
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