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THE
JULY 17, 1920
MARION HARRIS WEEK COMING
Columbia Dealers Preparing to Feature Record-
ings by Miss Harris During Week of August
28—Special Displays to Be Furnished
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
PATHE CONVENTION IN OMAHA
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"BILLY" MURRAY NOW "EXCLUSIVE"
Dealers in That Section Gather for Business Signs Contract With Victor Co. Whereby This
Conference Under Auspices of Wright & Wil-
Company Controls His Recordings from
helmy Co.—May Form Local Association
July 1, 1920—One of the Great Favorites
OMAHA, NEB., July 10.—A large attendance of
Pathe dealers in this State was reported at the
first annual Pathe dealer convention held at the
headquarters of Wright & Wilhelmy Co., Pathn
distributors, of this city.
An address of welcome
was given by J. David
Larson, commissioner of
the Omaha Chamber of
Latest Excltts&e Columbia Record Artist
Commerce. Inspiring ad-
dresses were made by
James Watters, secretary,
and H. N. McMenimen,
managing director of the
Pathe Freres Phonograph
Co., who journeyed from
Pathe
headquarters
in
Brooklyn to attend this
"get together" meeting.
Entertainment was fur-
nished by two celebrated
Pathe artists, Marion Cox
and Lewis James. At the
close of the session oppor-
tunity was given to all
dealers to give the expres-
sion of their views on the
various daily problems
that arise. As additional
entertainment the Wright
Columbia Display Featuring Miss Harris' Records
days Columbia dealers everywhere will co- & Wilhemy Co. planned a matinee Orpheum
operate in introducing to the public this new and party for the ladies and all delegates journeyed
popular artist and her first two exclusive Co- to Krug Park at night.
As the outcome of this convention, it is ex-
lumbia records.
The Dealer Service Department of the Colum- pected that a Pathe dealers' association will
bia Co. has prepared, in addition to the usual shortly be formed in this section of the country.
September window display, several Marion Har-
VISITORS AT COLUMBIA OFFICES
ris units, consisting of a regular artist poster in
colors, a long window glass streamer, two rec-
ord holder cut-outs, featuring her first two rec- Many Out-of-town Dealers Visit Local Head-
quarters—Wholesale Branch to Hold Outing
ords, and a special record hearing-room hanger
oi Miss Harris' recordings.
During the past few weeks there have been
The complete September display, as shown in
the illustration herewith, consists of the follow- quite a number of visitors at the executive of-
ing: Large centerpiece, a copy of Columbia's cur- fices of the Columbia Graphophone Co. Among
rent magazine ad in full color, large side card these callers were O. O. Rorobaugh, head of the
listing popular dance records, large side card Rorobaugh-Brown Dry Goods Co., of Wichita.
listing concert numbers, giving particular prom- Kans., which also controls stores in Hutchinson,
inence to exclusive Columbia records by Pablo Kans., and Oklahoma City, Okla.; Edgar New-
Casals; two record holder cut-outs featuring man, treasurer of the Maison Blanche, New Or-
Marion Harris' first records; three record leans, La.; A. E. Landon, Columbia Canadian
holder cut-outs, one of each featuring Jol- branch manager; Westervelt Terhune, manager
son, Barbara Maurel and the popular operetta ot the Columbia branch at Atlanta, and J. Kapp,
"Florodora"; two small easel-backed cards fea- of the sales staff of the Columbia branch in
turing the exclusive Columbia non-set automatic Chicago.
The Los Angeles branch of the Columbia Co.
stop and the other the latest recording by Frank
reported recently that Richardson, Inc., Los An-
Crumit.
geles, Cal., dealers, had sold period model Grafo-
nolas to Mrs. Thos. H. Ince and Marshall
BUYS INTEREST IN CAPITAL CO.
Neilan, both of whom are well known in mov-
jay T. Kanney, Formerly of La Porte, Ind., Will ing picture circles.
Lambert Friedl, manager of the local whole-
Have Charge of Olympia Store
sale branch of the Columbia Co., announced this
week that R. L. Basch, who had been a mem-
OLYMI'IA, WASH., July 12.—Announcement has
been made of the sale of half interest in the ber of the office staff of this branch, had been
Capital Music Co: by L. R. Mclntosh to Jay T. appointed a traveling representative and will
Kanney, recently of La Porte, Ind. Mr. Kanney cover up-State territory.
The local wholesale branch of the Columbia
has had ten years' experience in the talking ma-
chine business and will have charge of the in- Co. has set July 24 as the date for its annual
outing and according to present plans the mem-
side work at the store. He is a son-in-law of
J. D. Kuhns, manager of the Sloan shipyards bers of the branch will visit Far Rockaway. An
for the Emergency Fleet Corp. Mr. Mclntosh interesting program has been prepared for this
retains half interest in the business and will de- outing and an attendance of 100 per cent is ex-
vote his attention to the outside sales. The pected.
Capital Music Co. is one of the best known con-
cerns in its line in Thurston county and special-
Consult the universal Want Directory of
izes on talking machines. Its stock of records The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
is one of the most complete in this State.
free of charge for men who desire positions.
As announced recently in The Review, the
Columbia Graphophone Co. has advised its deal-
ers that the week of August 28-September 3 will
be Marion Harris week and during these six
CAMDEN, N. J., July 12.—C. G. Child, director
of recording for the Victor Talking Machine Co.,
has officially confirmed the rumors that have
been abroad recently to the effect that "Billy"
MARION HARRIS
Billy Murray
Murray had been signed up as an exclusive Vic-
tor artist, from July 1, 1920.
Billy Murray certainly ranks as a great na-
tional favorite and the sales of his records have
undoubtedly been as large as or larger than those
of any popular artist recording at the present
time. His name is known to talking machine
owners from coast to coast, thousands of whom
have placed standing orders with their dealer
for every Billy Murray record that is produced.
His voice is recognized as particularly adapt-
able to recording purposes and his enunciation
has won the enthusiastic commendation of musi-
cal critics. He is "an old timer" but is to-day
going stronger than ever.
DEALER SERVICE CONVENTION
Representatives of Columbia Co. Dealer Service
Department Hold Informal Gathering in
Philadelphia—H. L. Tuers Chairman
An informal convention of representatives oi
the Dealer Service departments in the branches
of the Columbia Graphophone Co. was held last
week at the company's. Philadelphia branch. All
of the representatives of this department from
the branches East of the Mississippi were pres-
ent at this convention, and an interesting pro-
gram that was filled with importantand prac-
tical topics was scheduled during the three
days' session.
H. L. Tuers, manager of the Dealer Service
department, was in charge of the meetings, ca-
pably assisted by the members of his executive
organization. Philadelphia was selected as the
meeting place because of the fact that a Model
Shop had just been installed in this branch and
ideal facilities were afforded for the meetings.
The Dealer Service department of the Co-
lumbia Graphophone Co. has attained phe-
nomenal success during the past few years
under Mr. Tuer's direction, and the plans for
the coming year include many important cam-
paigns that will be of the utmost value to Co-
lumbia dealers everywhere. These campaigns
ate based on co-operation and service to Co-
lumbia merchants, and judging from the success
of the various plans introduced by Mr. Tuers re-
cently, the dealers will be keenly interested in
the announcements that will be issued by this
department for the coming year.