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VOL. LXXVIII. No. 21 Finished Every Saturday. Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., 383 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. May 24, 1924
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National Music Industries Convention
Annual Meetings of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce and Its
Divisional Unit Associations to Be Held in New York, at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel, During the Week of June 2 to June 7—Resume of Program
modern hotels. That hotel, however, has long held and still main-
ITHIN two weeks after this issue of The Review
tains a social character that is not to be questioned and is the
reaches its readers the Music Industries Chamber of
headquarters for Presidential parties and foreign dignitaries and
Commerce and the various associations affiliated with
their staffs whenever they have occasion to visit the metropolis.
that central organization will be in the midst of the
The Merchants' Program
National Music Industries Convention, scheduled to be held at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, during the week of June 2,
Another interesting feature of the convention, and of the
with the principal business activ-
meetings of the National Asso-
ities confined within the limits of
ciation of Music Merchants par-
two days, namely, Tuesday and
ticularly, is that the members
Wednesday, June 3 and June 4.
of that body have been called
This year the convention
upon to select their own program
proceedings will be watched with
of discussion through the medi-
particular interest since exhibits
um of questionnaires sent out
of all kinds have been barred
from Association headquarters.
from the convention hotel by a
The result has been the choice of
resolution of the National Piano
a dozen subjects or so, all dis-
Manufacturers' Association con-
tinctly timely and all of direct
curred in by other trade inter-
importance and interest to the
ests, in the expectation that with-
retailer and, in many cases, to
out the attraction of exhibits to
the manufacturer.
interfere those attending the con-
These several subjects in
ventions might find more time
the order of their importance as
and inclination to sit in at the
decided upon by the merchants
various meetings and give to the
are as follows: Trade-in Prob-
association activities a represent-
lem, Shorter Selling Terms,
ative character recognized as
Maintenance of Retail Prices,
highly desirable.
Legitimate Commissions, Train-
ing Salesmen, Overhead as Af-
There has been for several
fecting Profits, Collections, Bet-
years past a very definite and
ter
Advertising, Quick Turnover
sustained movement on the part
of
Merchandise, Better Credits
of association executives and
and
Co-operative Insurance. We
others to have at least one con-
have
heard in the past some crit-
vention without exhibits to sec
icism
on the part of Association
how the idea worked. Although
members
to the effect that the
the decision to make the experi-
conventions were uninteresting
ment this year has not in any
because those particular matters
sense met with unanimous favor,
in which the complainant was
it is well that the idea is being
most interested were not dis-
tried out, if for no other reason
cussed, but this year that criti-
than that it will either prove or
The Waldorf- Astoria Hotel
cism can hardly hold good because the merchants themselves have
contradict the arguments of those who have urged it as a direct
had the privilege of arranging their own program.
means for increasing attendance at the meetings and at the conven-
The Chamber
tion itself.
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce and its various
The New Meeting Place
bureaus has also planned to present much valuable material for
In selecting a convention meeting place this year, also, there
the consideration of the trade as a whole. Most important among
has been a slight change in the routine program, the Waldorf-
this material will be the exhibition of trade advertising, one section
Astoria being selected for headquarters as against several more
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