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The Music Trade Review
Complete Program for
Music Merchants' Banquet
In Addition to Address by Gov. Albert C.
Ritchie There Will Be Other Interesting En-
tertainment Features
As previously announced, a portion of the din-
ner program to be given at the Twenty-seventh
Annual Banquet of the National Association of
Music Merchants at the Hotel Commodore
Thursday evening, June 7, will be broadcast
over WEAF of the National Broadcasting Co.
and associated radio stations from 9:00 to 10:00
o'clock P. M., eastern daylight saving time.
The program will begin with opening remarks
by President C. J. Roberts and with a solo by
Suzanne Keener, soprano, formerly of the Met-
ropolitan Opera Company. Mr. Roberts will
introduce Frederick P. Stieff of Baltimore, a
personal friend of Governor Albert C. Ritchie
of Maryland, and Mr. Stieff will introduce the
Governor, who will be the principal speaker and
guest of honor at the banquet. Following Gov-
ernor Ritchie's address there will be a solo by
William Simmons, baritone, after which there
will be a short address by "Sir James Elwell
Cowie," who is on the dinner program as a rep-
resentative of the British piano trade and is
said to hail from London, England.
Harry Richman, well-known member of
George White Scandals, will also be on the din-
ner program and will present one of his inimi-
table vocal numbers. There will be dancing in
the grand ballroom where the banquet will take
place from about 11:00 o'clock to 1:00 A. M.
Orchestral music for the dinner and the dancing
will be by the Hotel Commodore orchestra,
Bernard Levitow, conductor.
Show Visuola Window
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.—A special window fea-
turing the Visuola Duo-Art has been installed
in the retail store of Sherman, Clay & Co. Two
Duo-Art equipped grand pianos are shown with
the Visuola mechanisms. The window cards
state that the Visuola Duo-Art has been used
successfully in the most important schools and
conservatories of the east. Richard Ahlf, in
charge of the piano department of Sherman,
Clay & Co., said today that the Visuola window
was installed in compliment to Bert Farjean,
representative of the Visuola here.
JUNE 2, 1928
"Tom" Griffith Elected
President of Udell Works
Popular Vice-President, With Others, Purchases
Controlling Interest in Prominent Furniture
and Cabinet Company
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., May 28.—H. T. "Tom"
Griffith, for some years past vice-president of
the Udell Works, well known furniture and
cabinet manufacturers of this city, has, with
Columbia Radio Receiving
Howard H. Phillips, secretary and treasurer of
Set to Be Ready Soon the company, purchased the controlling stock
interests in the concern from the estate of Al-
W. C. Fuhri, vice-president and general sales bert A. Barnes, founder of the business, and has
manager of the Columbia Phonograph Co., has become president. Mr. Phillips will continue as
just announced that a new radio set, to be secretary and treasurer, and James E. Perry,
known as the "Columbia," will be ready for prominent financier of Indianapolis, and presi-
the market early next season. This set will be dent of the Indianapolis Baseball Club, has be-
manufactured through special arrangement with come vice- president.
the Kolster Radio Corp. and is to contain a
In the new official line-up, Mr. Griffith, as
number of new features developed in the president, will look after sales advertising, Mr.
Columbia research laboratories. A choice of Phillips will continue to manage the factory
models is to be offered, and a carefully worked and production end, and Mr. Perry will take
out price range established, The Columbia Radio care of the financing. Mr. Griffith joined the
Set will enable Columbia dealers to offer the Udell organization as a boy in 1902, and has
public a complete line of Columbia cabinet, advanced rapidly as a result of his earnest and
portable, and electric reproducing phonographs, capable effort, being largely responsible for the
radio-phonograph combinations and straight successful marketing of Udell products. Mr.
Phillips is another Udell veteran, having joined
radio sets.
the company in 1895.
The company is bringing out an imposing new
Columbia-Kolster at
line of furniture and cabinets, and will have a
Baltimore Fashion Show display of new radio cabinets at the Hotel
Stevens, Chicago, during the Radio Trade Show
The G. Fred Kranz Music Co., one of Balti- from June 11 to 15, occupying Booth 142 and
more's best known music dealers, recently sup- Room 553. In addition the company will show
plied a Columbia-Kolster electric reproducing a minimum of forty new patterns at the Chi-
phonograph for a large fashion show held at cago Furniture Show, the American Furniture
Martha's, Inc., Baltimore's exclusive and stylish Mart, Chicago, opening on June 25.
women's store. Some of the city's most attrac-
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
tive debutantes appeared as mannequins and
the event was largely attended by the city's The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
elite.
free of charge for men who desire positions.
In Justice to Yourself
]H VERY PIANO DEALER owes it to himself
to investigate our financing proposition.
We have the pianos. We have the plan to
finance the merchandising of the pianos.
Consult us at your convenience in Room 1006
of the Hotel Commodore during the music
industries convention the week of June 4, or
write to us at our offices for details.
JACOB BROS. CO.
CHARLES JACOB, President
C. ALBERT JACOB, JR.,
Vice-President
C. ALBERT JACOB, SR., Treasurer
CHARLES HALL JACOB,
Secretary
Manufacturers of Quality Pianos for 51 Years
306-308 East 133d Street
NEW YORK CITY