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The Music Trade Review
Boston Branch of the Stieff Co. Now
Handling Full Line of Brunswick Co.
Vincent F. Dunphy Is Appointed Manager of the Phonograph Department of the
Store—Charles S. Norris Takes the Victor Talking Machine Line
D O S T O N , MASS., June 14.—Much activity
was experienced at the wareroom of the
Charles M. Stieff, Inc., 114 Boylston street, yes-
terday when that company opened its new talk-
ing machine department. The complete Bruns-
wick line has been installed, and from the very
beginning the record business began to surprise
Manager M. N. Levy of the wareroom and Vin-
cent F. Dunphy, manager of the new depart-
ment. Platt Spencer, of the Brunswick office,
brother of President Harry L. Spencer, of that
company here, was on hand to show the mer-
chandise and to acquaint the floor salesmen of
the Stieff organization with the outstanding fea-
tures and advantages of the Brunswick models.
The local Stieff store had, up till the present
time, devoted its energies to piano retailing
only; but, following the lead in other cities
where Stieff stores are located, decided to put
in the Brunswick line. The Stieff warerooms is
one of the best appointed in the city for the
artistic display of high class merchandise, and
the beautiful Brunswick Panatropes look fit com-
panions for the period model Stieff grands
which are found in the Stieff window and on
the wareroom floor. Several special audition
booths have been installed in the rear of the
wareroom where one may hear selections with
privacy.
Manager Levy is well pleased with Mr. Dun-
phy, the new manager of the talking machine
department. Mr. Dunphy has had a wide ex-
perience in retailing records in this city and is
known up and down "Piano Row."
There was a slight move in the trade here
for a closing that would begin Thursday night
and hold till Monday next. This was thought
of because Friday, June 17, is a holiday, Bunker
Hill Day, in this city and suburbs, and Sat-
urday the wareroom will begin their early clos-
ing. However, the movement was short lived,
and the great majority of the warerooms will\
open for the half day.
The Chas. S. Norris wareroom is being fitted
with audition booths for the reception of the
Victor line of merchandise, the agency for which
was secured last week by Chas. S. Norris, well-
known Autopiano representative for this terri-
tory. The Norris wareroom marks the second
former piano wareroom exclusively that has in-
stalled a famous line of talking machines.
Alexander Steinert, treasurer of M. Steinert
& Sons, received a jubilant letter from his son
Alexander Lang Steinert, recent winner of the
Frederick A. Juillard Fellowship in musical
composition. The letter had nothing, however,
to do with musical composition, for the con-
tents were all about Lindbergh's epoch-making
flight. Young Mr. Steinert wrote to his father
that he was one of the enthusiastic spectators
at Le Bourget field when the "Spirit of St.
Louis" came to earth with Lindbergh in the
cockpit. Young Steinert is still continuing his
musical education at Paris, where he has been
for several years past.
Among the first to return from the Chicago
convention to this city were Henry L. Mason,
president of the Mason & Hamlin Co., and Wil-
liam P. Marsh also of that company. Ava Poole,
of the Poole Piano Co., intends to make many
dealer calls before he appears at the factory in
Cambridge, Mass.
A. J. Oettinger, president of the Musicians
Supply Co., 177 Tremont street, is taking a
needed rest ISO miles above Quebec, Canada.
He will indulge in a little fishing to keep his
mind off the really trying business cares which
have emburdened him the past six months. The
Musicians Supply Co. suffered a complete loss
by fire at its wareroom on Newbury street last
January. The new home of the company is just
about nearing the final touches that will make it
complete.
The sympathy of the music trade is extended
through these columns to A. J. Archambault, of
the Mason & Hamlin retail wareroom, in the
recent loss of his brother at Fairfield, Vt.
Columbus Contest Winner
Practiced on Kimball Grand
Mary Katherine Royer, Who Carried Off the
Contest Honors, Pays Tribute to the Kimball
Piano in Her Home
COLUMBUS, O., June 13.—Mary Katherine Royer
who recently won the piano-playing contest
held in this city and with it the title of grand
champion pianist of Columbus, did much of her
practicing for the event on a Kimball grand
piano purchased by her parents some time ago.
Miss Royer is rather an unusual type of con-
test winner inasmuch as she refused to accept
a theatrical engagement at $500 per week, which
was part of the reward for being first in the
contest. As it was, she won $200 in gold, $100
in the senior high school classification and $100
for the championship. She is a senior at Up-
per Arlington High School.
In a letter to Arthur L. Roberts, general man-
ager of the Otto B. Heaton Co., Miss Royer
wrote: "Many thanks for your congratulations
upon my winning the grand championship of
JUNE 18, 1927
the Columbus Dispatch piano-playing contest.
You will be glad to know that I have a Kimball
piano in my home and attribute, to a large de-
gree, my success as a pianist to the splendid
tone quality and touch of my highly prized
Kimball."
A. G. Linsig Sails on
South American Trip
Will Cover Entire Southern Continent Repre-
senting the Columbia Line
A. G. Linsig, who has had a wide experience
in introducing the phonograph and radio in
foreign markets, sailed recently for South
America as representative of the Columbia
Phonograph Co. Before embarking on his
present mission, Mr. Linsig spent considerable
time studying the Columbia products and ex-
pressed his belief that the results already
achieved by the company in the export field
were but the beginning of a steadily increasing
demand for the new Viva-tonal Columbia and
the Columbia New-Process Records.
Although a comparatively young man, being
still in his thirties, Mr. Linsig has a remarkable
background for his new work. Bom in Alsace,
he obtained his education in Europe and located
in New York a few years before the war, be-
coming an American citizen. In 1912, he be-
came associated with a relative in Santiago,
Chile, who was the first phonograph dealer on
the West Coast of South America. Since that
time, he has held many important executive
posts in both the phonograph and radio indus-
tries and his knowledge of six or more lan-
guages has been a real asset in his foreign con-
tacts.
W. W. Shailer Dead
William Webb Shailer, connected for the past
fifty-three years with Comstock, Cheney & Co.,
at Ivoryton, Conn., died recently at the home
of his son, L. L. Shailer, in Chicago. He is
survived by his two sons, William M. Shailer,
vice-president of Philip W. Oetting & Son,
New York, and L. L. Shailer, of Chicago. Mr.
Shailer retired from active business last July
and had made his home with his son in
Chicago since that time. His death was due
to a heart attack while sleeping.
Ampico Studio Visitors
Among the visitors at the Ampico Studios,
New York, during the past week were Leo
Ornstein, Charles Cooper, Mieczyslaw Munz,
Dimitry Tiomkin, Edgar Fairchild and Ralph
Rainger, all of whom made recordings and ap-
proved previously made records.
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