Music Trade Review
Issue: 1929 Vol. 88 N. 12 - Page 15
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MARCH 23, 1929
Johnny Marvin Now on
Lengthy Vaudeville Tour
Well-Known Recording and Radio Artist Will
Co-operate With Harmony Co. Dealers En
Route, in Demonstrations
CHICAGO, lu.., March 18.—Johnny Marvin, well-
known recording artist, who has appeared re-
cently on several of the big chain broadcasts
is now on tour playing vaudeville engagements
in the Fox Theatres. His trip takes in Brook-
lyn, Washington, Detroit and St. Louis in addi-
tion to many smaller intermediate cities.
In all his presentations he features the
Johnny Marvin professional tenor ukulele made
by the Harmony Co., Chicago. His brother
Frank, also a recording artist of note plays
with him, and both of the Marvin boys offer
great assistance to the retail music dealers in
stimulating an interest and demand in stringed
instruments. It is their intention, on the pres-
ent tour to co-operate with the dealer in pre-
senting store demonstrations. This together
with the radio broadcasting gives the dealer
exceptional publicity and advertising.
Evidence of the interest aroused by Johnny's
playing is shown in the flood of letters from
radio fans following his appearance over the
radio. Typical of the letters received is one
from a young woman near New York who
writes that she enjoyed the program very
much, especially since she played the ukulele
herself and wanted some of Marvin's music for
her own use on her instrument.
Form All-City Band
Interesting Organization Is Developed Among
School Children of Milwaukee
Wis., March 18.—The all-city grade
school band, made up of many children from
the various grade school bands in Milwaukee,
and the all-city grade school orchestra will
play before 1,500 music supervisors of the
Northwest, when they meet in Milwaukee at
the Auditorium, April 16, 17 and 18. High
school students who have been taking music
in the public schools will present a program
which will include the all-city high school band,
orchestra, harp classes, and combined high
school choruses.
One of the features of the music festival pro-
gram which will be given by the school chil-
dren is a cantata, "Dryad's Kisses," performed
by sixth grade students, and composed by W.
Otto Miessner. The cantata will be performed
for the first time.
MILWAUKKE,
George G. Wille Go.
Leases Larger Quarters
CANTON, O., March 19.—The George C. Wille
Co., one of the oldest and best-known music
houses here, located now at 410 Market avenue,
N, has obtained an extended lease on the
Paqulet building at Cleveland and Sixth street,
NW, and will move to the new quarters March
28, according to an announcement by George C.
Wille, head of the company.
Extensive changes are being made to the
building to improve the facilities of the com-
pany. There will be approximately 15,000 feet
of floor space, which is a much greater area
than at the old store. With the added space,
tlie Wille Co. will carry an even larger selec-
tion of radios and the same extensive line of
pianos, talking machines and sheet music than
in the old store.
Mr. Wille came to Canton from Dunkirk,
N. Y., in 1916. There he had been engaged in
the music business. He purchased the E. E.
Powell Music Co. and from 1916 the business
lias increased until to-day the store ranks with
the largest in the State.
The Music Trade Review
School Band Contests to Be Taken
Up by Seven More States in 1929
A CCORDING to reports made to the Na-
tional Bureau for the Advancement of Mu-
sic, seven new States will be added this year
to the list of those conducting school band
contests held in cooperation with the Bureau.
These are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, West Virginia, Oregon, Eastern
Washington and Idaho. Together with the
thirty States in which the contests were held
last year, and with one or two others with
which arrangements are pending, they will
bring the total to nearly or quite forty States
organized to date.
Nor does this total give adequate idea of the
growth of the movement. As pointed out by
C. M. Tremaine, director of the Bureau, a fact
of equal significance with the growth in the
number of States is the development of pre-
liminary district contests in many of the States
already organized, bringing in a much larger
number of entries than could ever come to the
State finals alone. In some cases the establish-
ment of the district contests has increased the
totals of the groups participating from 200 to
300 per cent, but there has also been a steady
if slower growth in those which have not yet
added district meets.
The fourth national school band contest will
be held in Denver, Colorado, May 23-25, under
the auspices of the local school system, Cham-
ber of Commerce and other civic organiza-
Ward-Brodt Music Go.
Buys Hook Bros. Piano Go.
The Ward-Brodt Music Co., Madison, Wis.,
has bought out the Hook Bros. Piano Co., that
city, and will move its stock to the Hook Bros.
Building, at 101 Main street. The Hook Bros,
store has been established in Madison for many
years and Floyd Hook will continue with the
new owners as manager of the piano depart-
ment. Cecil Brodt and T. Lane Ward, owners
of the Ward-Brodt Co., were formerly as-
sociated with Hook Bros., and established their
present business on April 1, 1927. They handle
prominent lines of pianos, Brunswick phono-
graphs and records, Holton band instruments,
and Gibson string instruments.
Laundry Service Band
Occupies Its Own Home
NEW ORLEANS, LA., March 18.—The Laundry
and Dry Cleaning Service Band, which was re-
cently organized and purchases its instruments
exclusively from Philip Werlein, Ltd., has
moved into its own home at 611 Common street.
Harry Mendelson is the director of the band.
New Line of Clarinets
The music concern of Waters & Ross, San
Francisco, Cal., has just been appointed agent
for the line of metal clarinets made by Penzel,
Mueller & Co., Long Island City. George Ross,
of the firm, was very enthusiastic over the new
acquisition and feels that there is a big poten-
tial demand for them hereabouts. These in-
struments are equipped with a double tube and
have a platinum finish.
Celebrates Anniversary
The Bates' Music House, Meadville, Pa., of
which Alfred J. Bates is proprietor, recently
celebrated the forty-ninth anniversary of the
establishment of the business through the medi-
um of a special sale and is already laying plans
for an imposing celebration when the business
passes the half-century mark.
tions. From present indications there will be
thirty-five or more picked bands representing
all parts of the country, and each a winner in
its State over from ten to forty or more par-
ticipating groups. The estimated number of
entries in the State contests will be between
600 and 700 bands, as compared with 500 last
year and 150 in 1923.
In more than half the States holding band
contests orchestra contests will also take place,
and there will be a national contest at Iowa
City, May 17-18. The Bureau has been co-
operating in the orchestra contests only since
1928, but the development of the movement
since that time has been relatively as great as
with the band contests.
0
OLIVER DITSON CQ
BOSTON. MASS
0
Manufacturers
Importer* and Jobber* of
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive
Modern
Specialties
Service
ESTABLISHED 1884
DURRO
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
AND
STEWART
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacob son
NEW YORK
5-7-9 Union Square
You have tried the rest
—Now use the BEST
Joseph Rogers' Son
"XXX" and "STANDARD" Brand
Drum and Banjo Heads
Made from Genuine Calfskin
The Frederick Rogers Co.
17 Jackson Ave.
Middletown, N. Y.
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J.
GoldMedalStrings
for musical instruments
Gold-plated Steel and
Wound Strings
Gibson Musical String Co.
MARCH 23, 1929
Johnny Marvin Now on
Lengthy Vaudeville Tour
Well-Known Recording and Radio Artist Will
Co-operate With Harmony Co. Dealers En
Route, in Demonstrations
CHICAGO, lu.., March 18.—Johnny Marvin, well-
known recording artist, who has appeared re-
cently on several of the big chain broadcasts
is now on tour playing vaudeville engagements
in the Fox Theatres. His trip takes in Brook-
lyn, Washington, Detroit and St. Louis in addi-
tion to many smaller intermediate cities.
In all his presentations he features the
Johnny Marvin professional tenor ukulele made
by the Harmony Co., Chicago. His brother
Frank, also a recording artist of note plays
with him, and both of the Marvin boys offer
great assistance to the retail music dealers in
stimulating an interest and demand in stringed
instruments. It is their intention, on the pres-
ent tour to co-operate with the dealer in pre-
senting store demonstrations. This together
with the radio broadcasting gives the dealer
exceptional publicity and advertising.
Evidence of the interest aroused by Johnny's
playing is shown in the flood of letters from
radio fans following his appearance over the
radio. Typical of the letters received is one
from a young woman near New York who
writes that she enjoyed the program very
much, especially since she played the ukulele
herself and wanted some of Marvin's music for
her own use on her instrument.
Form All-City Band
Interesting Organization Is Developed Among
School Children of Milwaukee
Wis., March 18.—The all-city grade
school band, made up of many children from
the various grade school bands in Milwaukee,
and the all-city grade school orchestra will
play before 1,500 music supervisors of the
Northwest, when they meet in Milwaukee at
the Auditorium, April 16, 17 and 18. High
school students who have been taking music
in the public schools will present a program
which will include the all-city high school band,
orchestra, harp classes, and combined high
school choruses.
One of the features of the music festival pro-
gram which will be given by the school chil-
dren is a cantata, "Dryad's Kisses," performed
by sixth grade students, and composed by W.
Otto Miessner. The cantata will be performed
for the first time.
MILWAUKKE,
George G. Wille Go.
Leases Larger Quarters
CANTON, O., March 19.—The George C. Wille
Co., one of the oldest and best-known music
houses here, located now at 410 Market avenue,
N, has obtained an extended lease on the
Paqulet building at Cleveland and Sixth street,
NW, and will move to the new quarters March
28, according to an announcement by George C.
Wille, head of the company.
Extensive changes are being made to the
building to improve the facilities of the com-
pany. There will be approximately 15,000 feet
of floor space, which is a much greater area
than at the old store. With the added space,
tlie Wille Co. will carry an even larger selec-
tion of radios and the same extensive line of
pianos, talking machines and sheet music than
in the old store.
Mr. Wille came to Canton from Dunkirk,
N. Y., in 1916. There he had been engaged in
the music business. He purchased the E. E.
Powell Music Co. and from 1916 the business
lias increased until to-day the store ranks with
the largest in the State.
The Music Trade Review
School Band Contests to Be Taken
Up by Seven More States in 1929
A CCORDING to reports made to the Na-
tional Bureau for the Advancement of Mu-
sic, seven new States will be added this year
to the list of those conducting school band
contests held in cooperation with the Bureau.
These are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, West Virginia, Oregon, Eastern
Washington and Idaho. Together with the
thirty States in which the contests were held
last year, and with one or two others with
which arrangements are pending, they will
bring the total to nearly or quite forty States
organized to date.
Nor does this total give adequate idea of the
growth of the movement. As pointed out by
C. M. Tremaine, director of the Bureau, a fact
of equal significance with the growth in the
number of States is the development of pre-
liminary district contests in many of the States
already organized, bringing in a much larger
number of entries than could ever come to the
State finals alone. In some cases the establish-
ment of the district contests has increased the
totals of the groups participating from 200 to
300 per cent, but there has also been a steady
if slower growth in those which have not yet
added district meets.
The fourth national school band contest will
be held in Denver, Colorado, May 23-25, under
the auspices of the local school system, Cham-
ber of Commerce and other civic organiza-
Ward-Brodt Music Go.
Buys Hook Bros. Piano Go.
The Ward-Brodt Music Co., Madison, Wis.,
has bought out the Hook Bros. Piano Co., that
city, and will move its stock to the Hook Bros.
Building, at 101 Main street. The Hook Bros,
store has been established in Madison for many
years and Floyd Hook will continue with the
new owners as manager of the piano depart-
ment. Cecil Brodt and T. Lane Ward, owners
of the Ward-Brodt Co., were formerly as-
sociated with Hook Bros., and established their
present business on April 1, 1927. They handle
prominent lines of pianos, Brunswick phono-
graphs and records, Holton band instruments,
and Gibson string instruments.
Laundry Service Band
Occupies Its Own Home
NEW ORLEANS, LA., March 18.—The Laundry
and Dry Cleaning Service Band, which was re-
cently organized and purchases its instruments
exclusively from Philip Werlein, Ltd., has
moved into its own home at 611 Common street.
Harry Mendelson is the director of the band.
New Line of Clarinets
The music concern of Waters & Ross, San
Francisco, Cal., has just been appointed agent
for the line of metal clarinets made by Penzel,
Mueller & Co., Long Island City. George Ross,
of the firm, was very enthusiastic over the new
acquisition and feels that there is a big poten-
tial demand for them hereabouts. These in-
struments are equipped with a double tube and
have a platinum finish.
Celebrates Anniversary
The Bates' Music House, Meadville, Pa., of
which Alfred J. Bates is proprietor, recently
celebrated the forty-ninth anniversary of the
establishment of the business through the medi-
um of a special sale and is already laying plans
for an imposing celebration when the business
passes the half-century mark.
tions. From present indications there will be
thirty-five or more picked bands representing
all parts of the country, and each a winner in
its State over from ten to forty or more par-
ticipating groups. The estimated number of
entries in the State contests will be between
600 and 700 bands, as compared with 500 last
year and 150 in 1923.
In more than half the States holding band
contests orchestra contests will also take place,
and there will be a national contest at Iowa
City, May 17-18. The Bureau has been co-
operating in the orchestra contests only since
1928, but the development of the movement
since that time has been relatively as great as
with the band contests.
0
OLIVER DITSON CQ
BOSTON. MASS
0
Manufacturers
Importer* and Jobber* of
MUSICAL
MERCHANDISE
Attractive
Modern
Specialties
Service
ESTABLISHED 1884
DURRO
VIOLINS
BOWS
STRINGS
AND
STEWART
BANJOS
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
Largest Wholesale
Musical Merchandise
House in America
Buegeleisen & Jacob son
NEW YORK
5-7-9 Union Square
You have tried the rest
—Now use the BEST
Joseph Rogers' Son
"XXX" and "STANDARD" Brand
Drum and Banjo Heads
Made from Genuine Calfskin
The Frederick Rogers Co.
17 Jackson Ave.
Middletown, N. Y.
Black Diamond
Strings
THE WORLD'S BEST
National Musical String Co.
New Brunswick, N. J.
GoldMedalStrings
for musical instruments
Gold-plated Steel and
Wound Strings
Gibson Musical String Co.
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