Music Trade Review
Issue: 1919 Vol. 68 N. 15 - Page 55
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APRIL 12,
1919
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
DOINGS OF EDISON ARTISTS
ENTIRE PLANT PRODUCING CABINETS
Frieda Hempel and Anna Case on Extended
Tours—Spalding to Return This Fall—Ed
Meeker and Leola Lucey Very Popular
Udell Works Compelled to Suspend Making
General Line of Furniture to Take Care of
Record and Music Roll Cabinet Demands
Herewith are shown thumbnail portraits of
live Edison artists who are prominent in the
public mind this month. Frieda Hempel, who
recently closed her seventh season at the Met-
April 7.—Convincing proof
of the growing demand for both talking ma-
chine records and music roll cabinets is indi-
cated in the report of the Udell Works, of this
city, to the effect that during the past six
months they have been compelled to use the
entire capacity of their plant to produce cab-
inets to take care of a fair proportion of the or-
ders in hand, and have practically discontinued,
for the time at least, the production of a gen-
eral line of furniture.
The Udell plant is a big one, and the fact,
therefore, that it is devoted entirely to cabinet
production is significant.
Incidentally, it is
stated that shipments for March were the big-
gest in the company's history.
Frieda Hempel
Anna Case
ropolitan Opera House, is now on an extended
concert tour over territory which includes Syra-
cuse, Boston, Utica, Lindsburg, Kansas, and
Charlotte, N. C. The last two engagements are
for music festivals. Anna Case is another Edi-
son artist who is also on tour, her present trip
being along the Pacific Coast. San Francisco,
Oakland, Portland, Ore., Spokane, Seattle and
Tacoma are some of the cities where she has
or will shortly have appeared.
Albert Spalding, violin virtuoso, who enlist-
ed in the aviation section shortly after war was
Albert
Leola
Edward
Spalding
Lucey
Meeker
declared, and who has been stationed in Italy,
is giving a series of concerts in the musical
centers of Southern Europe. He will return
to this country some time during the fall.
Ed Meeker, whose comic records are always
in demand, is proving a great favorite at the
various banquets being held in the trade at the
present time, and is also kept busy appearing
at other social affairs where his voice and good-
natured humor help add to the jollity of the
occasion. Leola Lucey is adding to her popu-
larity nightly at the Palais Royal on Broadway,
where she has an important part in the cabaret.
Her voice and her attractiveness combine to
make her act a "riot" every performance.
MME. LASHANSKA IN CONCERTS
Appears at Two Important Affairs in Cleveland
and Scores Complete Success
CLEVELAND, O., April 3.—Mine. Hulda La'shanska,
the famous concert soprano who records exclu-
sively for the Columbia record library, appeared
last night at a concert given for Columbia deal-
ers and their families in the Lattice Room of
the Statler Hotel. J. L. DuBreuil, manager of
the Columbia Co.'s branch in this city, invited
the company's dealers in this territory to attend
this concert, and a capacity audience was pres-
ent to hear this well-known artist.
On Tuesday evening, April 1, Mme. Lashan-
ska appeared at Gray's Armory in this city as
the soloist with the Cleveland Symphony Or-
chestra, and her performance won the enthusi-
astic praise of the local critics. She has been
appearing as a soloist with a number of the
country's leading orchestras and each concert
serves to add to her prestige and popularity.
The Columbia records made by Mme. Lashan-
ska are meeting with great favor everywhere,
and Columbia dealers state that their patrons
heartily commend these records. She received
an ovation from the Columbia dealers at Wed-
nesday night's concert at the Hotel Statler.
51
REVIEW
INDMNAPOLS, IND.,
SOME FINE EDUCATIONAL WORK
Miss Lillian A. Wood, Head of Victor Educa-
tional Department of C. C. Mellor Co., Pitts-
burgh, Getting Excellent Results
PITTSBURGH, PA., April 7.—The Victor educa-
tional department of the C. C. Mellor Co., of
this city, Victor distributors, is under the able
management of Miss Lillian A. Wood, who is
most active in furthering the plans of the de-
partment as they affect the introduction and use
How You Can
Safely 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 constitute a line
which can be admirably
blended with piano selling.
The advance that has been
made in this special field
has been phenomenal and
every dealer who desires
specific information con-
cerning talking machines
should receive The Talking
Machine World regularly.
Miss Lillian A. Wood
of the Victrola in the public schools of Pitts-
burgh and vicinity. Miss Wood, who has a
pleasing personality and is most capable in her
work and its expansion, is deeply interested in
the school room work and is very busily en-
gaged practically all of her time in giving dem-
onstrations in school rooms or in pointing out
to callers in the educational department the
many advantages of the Victrola in its applica-
tion to school room life. Miss Wood arranges
very interesting programs that appeal to the
older as well as to the young folks for evening
recitals, etc. These are features that are utilized
in fund raising campaigns for obtaining cash
wherewith to purchase additional records or to
install a new Victrola.
In this very interesting work the friendly
suggestions and advice of Miss Wood prove
most timely and helpful. This lady is deep-
ly in love with her work and esteems it a pleas-
ure and not a task to demonstrate the use of the
Victrola in school rooms. In making her plans
she has the helpful counsel of John Fisher, the
well-known manager of the Mellor Victrola de-
partment.
This is the oldest publica-
tion in America devoted
exclusively to the interests
of the talking machine, and
each issue contains a vast
fund of valuable informa-
tion which the talking
machine jobbers and dealers
say is worth ten times the
cost of the paper to them.
You can receive the paper
regularly at a cost of $2.00
a year and we know of no
manner in which $2.00 can
be expended which will
supply as much valuable
information.
A BROOKLYN INCORPORATION
The Metropolitan Record Sales Co., Inc., of
Brooklyn, was incorporated this week at Al-
bany with a capital stock of $5,000 for the pur-
pose of conducting a business in musical sup-
plies and novelties. Those interested are A.
Levy and B. L. & W. Bloch, of 111 Lee avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, Inc.
Publisher
'
373 Fourth Avo.
NEW YORK
APRIL 12,
1919
THE
MUSIC
TRADE
DOINGS OF EDISON ARTISTS
ENTIRE PLANT PRODUCING CABINETS
Frieda Hempel and Anna Case on Extended
Tours—Spalding to Return This Fall—Ed
Meeker and Leola Lucey Very Popular
Udell Works Compelled to Suspend Making
General Line of Furniture to Take Care of
Record and Music Roll Cabinet Demands
Herewith are shown thumbnail portraits of
live Edison artists who are prominent in the
public mind this month. Frieda Hempel, who
recently closed her seventh season at the Met-
April 7.—Convincing proof
of the growing demand for both talking ma-
chine records and music roll cabinets is indi-
cated in the report of the Udell Works, of this
city, to the effect that during the past six
months they have been compelled to use the
entire capacity of their plant to produce cab-
inets to take care of a fair proportion of the or-
ders in hand, and have practically discontinued,
for the time at least, the production of a gen-
eral line of furniture.
The Udell plant is a big one, and the fact,
therefore, that it is devoted entirely to cabinet
production is significant.
Incidentally, it is
stated that shipments for March were the big-
gest in the company's history.
Frieda Hempel
Anna Case
ropolitan Opera House, is now on an extended
concert tour over territory which includes Syra-
cuse, Boston, Utica, Lindsburg, Kansas, and
Charlotte, N. C. The last two engagements are
for music festivals. Anna Case is another Edi-
son artist who is also on tour, her present trip
being along the Pacific Coast. San Francisco,
Oakland, Portland, Ore., Spokane, Seattle and
Tacoma are some of the cities where she has
or will shortly have appeared.
Albert Spalding, violin virtuoso, who enlist-
ed in the aviation section shortly after war was
Albert
Leola
Edward
Spalding
Lucey
Meeker
declared, and who has been stationed in Italy,
is giving a series of concerts in the musical
centers of Southern Europe. He will return
to this country some time during the fall.
Ed Meeker, whose comic records are always
in demand, is proving a great favorite at the
various banquets being held in the trade at the
present time, and is also kept busy appearing
at other social affairs where his voice and good-
natured humor help add to the jollity of the
occasion. Leola Lucey is adding to her popu-
larity nightly at the Palais Royal on Broadway,
where she has an important part in the cabaret.
Her voice and her attractiveness combine to
make her act a "riot" every performance.
MME. LASHANSKA IN CONCERTS
Appears at Two Important Affairs in Cleveland
and Scores Complete Success
CLEVELAND, O., April 3.—Mine. Hulda La'shanska,
the famous concert soprano who records exclu-
sively for the Columbia record library, appeared
last night at a concert given for Columbia deal-
ers and their families in the Lattice Room of
the Statler Hotel. J. L. DuBreuil, manager of
the Columbia Co.'s branch in this city, invited
the company's dealers in this territory to attend
this concert, and a capacity audience was pres-
ent to hear this well-known artist.
On Tuesday evening, April 1, Mme. Lashan-
ska appeared at Gray's Armory in this city as
the soloist with the Cleveland Symphony Or-
chestra, and her performance won the enthusi-
astic praise of the local critics. She has been
appearing as a soloist with a number of the
country's leading orchestras and each concert
serves to add to her prestige and popularity.
The Columbia records made by Mme. Lashan-
ska are meeting with great favor everywhere,
and Columbia dealers state that their patrons
heartily commend these records. She received
an ovation from the Columbia dealers at Wed-
nesday night's concert at the Hotel Statler.
51
REVIEW
INDMNAPOLS, IND.,
SOME FINE EDUCATIONAL WORK
Miss Lillian A. Wood, Head of Victor Educa-
tional Department of C. C. Mellor Co., Pitts-
burgh, Getting Excellent Results
PITTSBURGH, PA., April 7.—The Victor educa-
tional department of the C. C. Mellor Co., of
this city, Victor distributors, is under the able
management of Miss Lillian A. Wood, who is
most active in furthering the plans of the de-
partment as they affect the introduction and use
How You Can
Safely 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 constitute a line
which can be admirably
blended with piano selling.
The advance that has been
made in this special field
has been phenomenal and
every dealer who desires
specific information con-
cerning talking machines
should receive The Talking
Machine World regularly.
Miss Lillian A. Wood
of the Victrola in the public schools of Pitts-
burgh and vicinity. Miss Wood, who has a
pleasing personality and is most capable in her
work and its expansion, is deeply interested in
the school room work and is very busily en-
gaged practically all of her time in giving dem-
onstrations in school rooms or in pointing out
to callers in the educational department the
many advantages of the Victrola in its applica-
tion to school room life. Miss Wood arranges
very interesting programs that appeal to the
older as well as to the young folks for evening
recitals, etc. These are features that are utilized
in fund raising campaigns for obtaining cash
wherewith to purchase additional records or to
install a new Victrola.
In this very interesting work the friendly
suggestions and advice of Miss Wood prove
most timely and helpful. This lady is deep-
ly in love with her work and esteems it a pleas-
ure and not a task to demonstrate the use of the
Victrola in school rooms. In making her plans
she has the helpful counsel of John Fisher, the
well-known manager of the Mellor Victrola de-
partment.
This is the oldest publica-
tion in America devoted
exclusively to the interests
of the talking machine, and
each issue contains a vast
fund of valuable informa-
tion which the talking
machine jobbers and dealers
say is worth ten times the
cost of the paper to them.
You can receive the paper
regularly at a cost of $2.00
a year and we know of no
manner in which $2.00 can
be expended which will
supply as much valuable
information.
A BROOKLYN INCORPORATION
The Metropolitan Record Sales Co., Inc., of
Brooklyn, was incorporated this week at Al-
bany with a capital stock of $5,000 for the pur-
pose of conducting a business in musical sup-
plies and novelties. Those interested are A.
Levy and B. L. & W. Bloch, of 111 Lee avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL, Inc.
Publisher
'
373 Fourth Avo.
NEW YORK
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