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THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
MARCH 18, 1922
VIEWS OF THE THREE-DAY CONVENTION OF VICTOR DEALERS HELD IN PHILADELPHIA
The Great Assemblage of Victor Dealers at Opening Session of the Convention at the Bellevue-St ratford, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Jobbers
Left to Right—Eugene Stern, Talking Machine Co.; T. \V. Barnhill, Penn Phonograph
Co.; Louis Buehn, Louis Buehn Co.; H. W. Weymann, H. A. Weymann & Son, and
F. J. Heppe, C. J. Heppe & Son
The Glad Hand Committee
Left to Right—Standing: Harry A. Ellis, Chas. Paulson, Claude Kohl, E. J. McCormack,
Harold Cregor, L. P. Crown, D. W. Mayberry, E. P. Bliss and George W. Witney.
Seated: Frank R. Rausley, E. E. Hippie, Win. Doerr, George A. Tatem ("Phil
Jobbs"), R. Burrows, Frank Schaller ana Thomas Hower
EDISON RECORD_PRICES REDUCED
COMPTON REJOINS STONE CO.
Material Revisions Made in List Prices of Re-
creations—Reductions Also Effected in Two
Very Popular Styles of Phonographs
Has Been Made Manager of the Wholesale
Vocalion Department of Prominent Minne-
apolis Concern—Well Known in Trade
Downward revisions in the list prices of Edi-
son Re-creations, effective immediately, have
Leen effected, according to an announcement by
A. C. Curry, vice-president of Thomas A. Edi-
son, Inc. The revised prices reduce the $2.25
records to $2.00, the $1.85 records to $1.50 and
the $1.35 records to $1.00. Two styles of Edi-
son phonographs, the Heppelwhite and the Ja-
cobean, have also been reduced from $157.50 to
$145, and $265 to $245 respectively.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., March 14.—G. H. Compton,
for the past twenty-seven years identified with
the music business and well known in the talking
machine field, has severed his connection with
Lawrence H. Lucker, Edison jobber, of Minne-
apolis, Minn., to rejoin the Stone Piano Co., of
this city, as sales manager of the company's
wholesale Vocalion department.
Mr. Compton made his first appearance in the
music business with the Stone Piano Co. He
resigned from the company and some time later
Consult the universal Want Directory of returned as manager of the Fargo, N. D., branch,
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted where he remained for four years. He was then
free of charge for men who desire positions. made manager of the company's Grand Forks,
N. D., branch. He retired from the music busi-
ness for several years and then became associated
with the Lucker concern, where he remained
until he made his present connection.
WRITES BOOK_ON CARUSO
Salvatore Fucito, for several years coach and
accompanist for the late Enrico Caruso, the
tenor, has recently completed his book regard-
ing Caruso and his work, under the title "Caruso
and the Art of Singing," in which he incorpo-
rates interesting information regarding the
great tenor. The book is published by Stokes.
The Victor Talking Machine Co., of Camden,
N. J., has declared its regular quarterly divi-
dends of $10 per share on common stock and
$1.50 on preferred stock, payable April 15, on
stock of record March 31.