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THE
JUNE 4, 1921
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
HOUSE TO CONSIDER TAX QUESTION
ALFRED L. SMITH IN WASHINGTON
Following Hearings of Finance Committee of
Senate the Ways and Means Committee of the
House Will Go Into the Revenue Tax Matter
Confers With General Counsel of Chamber and
Attends Several Conferences
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With the tax hearings of the Finance Commit-
tee of the Senate concluded the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce urges the members of
the trade to turn their attention to the mem-
bers of the House, in which the matter will
soon come up for consideration.
It will be only a week or two before the Ways
and Means Committee gets the tariff onto the
floor of the House. It will then turn its atten-
tion to tax. Whether hearings will be held has not
yet been decided, but there will be a lot of
discussion by the members of the committee and
every member of the music industry should con-
stitute himself a committee of one to see that
his Representative, particularly if he is a mem-
ber of the Ways and Means Committee, is sup-
plied with arguments, such as the Chamber has
sent out broadcast, in favor of a sales tax.
It is impossible to state how long it will be
before the tax bill will leave the Ways and
Means Committee. When it does, however, the
fight will immediately center in the House.
After action there the bill will go back to the
Senate.
The Chamber has mapped out the Congres-
sional districts of the country in order that it
may know which members of the trade reside in
the territory of important Representatives, so that
it can urge them to get behind the sales tax
movement with a vim that will put it over.
Following an automobile trip through Mary-
land and Virginia during which he called upon
M. P. Moller, of M. P. Moller, Hagerstown, re-
elected president of the Organ Builders' Asso-
ciation of America at the Chicago convention,
and other members of the industry to discuss
trade matters, Alfred L. Smith, general man-
ager of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce, passed Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-
day of last week at Washington in conference
with George W. Pound, the Chamber's general
counsel, and others in reference to tariff and
tax matters.
Thursday he attended a conference of a com-
mittee of the American Trade Association Sec-
retaries, of which he is a member, with the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and
on Friday he participated in a conference of
another committee of trade secretaries with Her-
bert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce.
UNIQUE WELTE=MIGNON CATALOG
Wood Cuts Give Artistic Reproductions of
Famous Reproducing Instrument in Booklet
Issued by Welte-Mignon Corp.
The Welte-Mignon Corp., 297 East 133d street,
New York, has issued a catalog which is a new
departure, but very striking and effective. In-
stead of having the text matter and' illustrations
printed on highly coated paper, these are dis-
played on rough deckle-edged stock and very
BANGOR HAS NEW HOUSE
fine wood cuts of the WeLte-Mignon grand, up-
Rice's Shop Opens Its Doors in Fine Structure right and cabinet players are used. On the sec-
ond page there are displayed the medals of award
With Complete Musical Lines
given to the house of Welte, including a medal
Occupying handsome quarters in the new Stet- from the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadel-
son Building on Central street, near Hammond phia in 1876, one from the London Exhibition
street, Bangor, Me., Rice's Music Shop recently in 1862, a gold medal from the Paris Exposition
had an auspicious opening, the proprietor, H. of 1900, the Grand Prize won in St. Louis in
Edward Rice, personally greeting the hundreds 1904, the gold State medal awarded at Leipzig
of his friends and patrons who came to inspect in 1909 and the gold medal of award from San
the store and congratulate the owner. The new Francisco in 1915. These are but a few, a com-
shop will carry a full line of musical merchan- plete list of which is given on another page,
dise, sheet music and orchestrations and talking which includes twenty-nine awards.
The last three pages are devoted to the artists
machines. Manager Rice is the leader of the
orchestra that bears his name and was manager whose works have been recorded on the Welte-
for ten years of the music department of An- Mignon. Here again well-executed wood cuts
have been used, the illustrations being those of
drew's Music House on Main street, that city.
I. J. Pad'erewski, Yolanda Mero, Josef Lhevinne,
Josef Hofmann, Walter Damrosch and Ferrucio
MISS RITA KOHLER TO MARRY
Busoni. On the last page is given a partial list
Mrs. Charles Kohler, widow of Charles Koh- of more than two hundred of the famous pianists
ler, the founder of the Kohler Industries, has whose playing ha.s been recorded for the Welte-
announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Mignon library.
Rita Kohler, to Julius White, of New York.
NEW STORE IN HUNTINGTON, W. VA.
R. W. Tyler Music House Opens Handsome
Quarters in That City
HUNTINGTON, W. VA., May 30.—The formal
The Lauter-Humana
A player-piano designed
to meet the needs of the
discriminating buyer.
Is Your Territory Open?
LAUTER-HUMANA CO.
NEWARK, N. J.
opening of the new R. W. Tyler Music House,
at Fourth avenue and Eighth street, this city,
was held recently. The new company has most
elaborate quarters and the many visitors took
occasion to inspect them on the opening day and
were entertained with an excellent musical pro-
gram. R. W. Tyler is president of the com-
pany, Ada Kettlwell, treasurer, and B. F. Becker,
vice-president. The company, which maintains
a branch at Clarksburg, handles the Kurtzmann,
Emerson, Milton, Lindeman and Schomackcr
pianos and player-pianos.
NEW KROEGER CATALOG
The Kroeger Piano Co., Stamford, Conn., has
issued a very attractive catalog in which several
models are shown, including the Style C, minia-
ture baby grand, upright Styles 10 and 19 and
player Styles 44 and 47. In Styles 19 and 44 is
contained a new scale. The instruments have
won quick popularity for their superior tone and
modern attractive case designs.
Victrola No. 90, $125
Mahogany, oak or walnut
Other styles $25 to $1500
Victor
Supremacy
The supremacy of the
Victrola marks it as the
greatest of all musical
instruments.
And with Victrolas in
such s p l e n d i d variety,
possibilities areunlimited
for every Victor retailer.
"Victrola
is the Registered Trade-
mark of the Victor Talking Machine
Company designating the products of
this Company only.
Warning: The use of the word
Victrola upon or in the promotion or
sale of any other Talking Machine or
Phonograph products is misleading and
illegal.
Important Notice. Victor Records
and Victor Machines are scientifically
co-ordinated and synchronized in the
processes of manufacture, and should be
used together to secure a perfect re-
production.
Victor Talking
Machine Co.
Camden, N. J., u. s. A.