Music Trade Review
Issue: 1929 Vol. 88 N. 20 - Page 11
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CHICAGO AND THE MIDDLE WEST
Frank W. Kirk, Manager, 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Nelson-Wiggen Plant
Moving to Rockford, 111.
Bremer-Tully in Improved Position
Through Its Purchase by Brunswick
One of the latest changes in the local trade
is the removal of the Nelson-Wiggen Piano Co. T) APID strides are being made at the plant
from their present plant on Belmont avenue,
of the Bremer-Tully Mfg. Co., Chicago,
Chicago, to 1900 Harrison avenue, Rockford,
for a greatly expanded production to ;urc>mm<>-
111. It is planned to take the entire working
organization to Rockford and it is expected that
all the material, workmen and records will be
established in Rockford by May 25.
The change will enable President Oscar Nel-
son to devote most of his time to personally
selling the Nelson-Wiggen coin-operated pianos,
talking machines and organs on the road.
contact distributors, among whom he numbers
many friends,
The advertising, which will be national in
Rex Hyre Named Receiver
of Mitten Piano Go.
AKRON, O., May 11.—Petition asking for the dis-
solution of the Mitten Piano Co., 239 East Mill
street, and the appointment of a receiver was
Hied last week in common pleas court by Carr
A. Mitten, 71 Everett avenue, who says he is
owner of a majority of the stock in the com-
pany. The company is being reorganized.
Judge E. H. Boylan appointed Rexford C.
GILMAN ANDERSON
Hyre receiver to manage the affairs of the com-
ASST SALES
pany until further order of the court. Mitten
Vlc.t SLEININGER
alleges, in his petition, that the piano company
\\
ADVERTISING
|\
MANAGER
is solvent and shows a surplus of $2,486.61 as of
March 31, 1929, but that the condition of the
business and the fact that most of its quick as-
Bremer-Tully Factory in Chicago and Executives of Company
sets are now pledged renders its continuance
scope and much more extensive than hereto-
date the rapidly increasing demand for Bremer-
impracticable.
fore, will continue under the direction of C.
Tully receiving sets.
L. Sleininger, who has been connected with
A pretentious marketing program is planned
Krcmer-Tully for some time.
and the organization of an increased sales
A greatly augmented engineering personnel,
force is well under way.
Heading the new organization is R. T. Pier- comprising many men of specialized ability and
long experience, is busily engaged in new de-
son, who was recently elected president, and
The net profit of the Columbia Phonograph
velopments for the future, while the factory
R. K. Smiley, vice-president, who will have
Co.,
Inc., including the Okeh Phonograph
is going at top speed to insure sufficient pro-
charge of sales.
Corp., in the fiscal year ended February 28, was
Oilman Anderson, with the Bremer-Tully duction of the new 1929-30 models to meet the
$781,306 after all charges and provision for
staff for a number of years, has been appointed ever-increasing demand for high-class sets that
Federal income taxes. This compares with
assistant sales manager and will continue to is country-wide.
$760,139 in the preceding twelve months. The
consolidated balance sheet as of February 28
shows profit and loss surplus of $1,309,578,
against $857,551 on February 29, 1928, while
total assets were $7,274,126, against $6,807,125 at
the close of the previous fiscal year. Current
The Q R S Dc Vry Co., formerly the Q R S
MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 13.—The foreign rec-
assets on February 28 totaled $5,920,765, com-
Co.,
has added considerable additional space to
ord
department
started
in
the
basement
of
Gim-
paring with current liabilities amounting to
its present quarters at 333 North Michigan
bel Brothers store here is doing an excellent
business, according to George J. Schneider, boulevard. All of the executive departments
of the De Vry Co. have now been moved from
manager of the phonograph and record section
of the store. Gimbel Brothers is located con- the company's plant at 1111 Center street to 333
veniently near the Italian district of Milwau- North Michigan boulevard, an ideal business
location in Chicago.
CANTON, O., May 11.^George C. Willc, promi-
kee and the Italians are enthusiastic patrons of
nent Canton music merchant, was honored at
the Gimbel "bargain basement." This fact has
the recent annual meeting of the Retail Mer-
helped greatly to stimulate the sale of records
chants division of the Chamber of Commerce
in the foreign record section, which has only
by being elected a director for the coming year.
recently been inaugurated, Mr. Schneider re-
ALTOONA, PA., May 4.—Arthur E. Winter, the
Mr. Wille has long been active in affairs of
ports.
well-known piano dealer of- Altoona and a
the organization and in recent years has served
"The Italians buy a great many of the old- prominent member of the Rotary Club, repre-
on important legislative committees.
time foreign records a.s well as the later ones,'
sented the local club at the 34th district con-
said Mr. Schneider. "Then they tell their ference of Rotary International at Cumberland,
Radio Laboratories, Inc., has been organized
friends, most of whom compose the foreign ele- Md. Mr. Winter is the Steinway dealer here
at Milwaukee to manufacture and sell radios ment in the city, and it isn't long before we
and is widely known in music circles in Penn-
and radio apparatus. The firm is incorporated
work up a favorable clientele. We have found sylvania.
for $10,000 by Arnold Kaliebe, Elmer W. Ka- that the foreign element nearly always have
liebe and Dorothy Kaliebe.
cash and are willing to spend it for whatever
suits their fancy."
AMERICAN
Reproducing (Welte Lic'e) Grand and Up-
right Pianos are pianists' and tuners' favor-
Ray Peters, manager of a music store at Nee-
ites for Quality and Durability. Est. 1837.
nah, Wis., has purchased a half-interest in the
"Perfected"
"Crown"
Art Stylet a Specialty—Send for Catalog
Western
Elevator
Co.,
of
Appleton,
Wis.
Mr.
AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY
Factory and Warrrearns
Peters will continue his music store for the
Subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation
7, 9 & 11 Jay St., Albany, N. Y.
Chicago—New York—and all Principal Cities
time being.
Columbia Phonograph Go.
Report Shows Large Gain
Q R S De Vry Headquarters
Gimbel Bros. Doing Well
Now on Michigan Blvd.
With Foreign Records
G. G. Wille Honored
Rotarians Honor Winter
BOARDMAN «c GRAY
PIANO WIRE
n
CHICAGO AND THE MIDDLE WEST
Frank W. Kirk, Manager, 333 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Nelson-Wiggen Plant
Moving to Rockford, 111.
Bremer-Tully in Improved Position
Through Its Purchase by Brunswick
One of the latest changes in the local trade
is the removal of the Nelson-Wiggen Piano Co. T) APID strides are being made at the plant
from their present plant on Belmont avenue,
of the Bremer-Tully Mfg. Co., Chicago,
Chicago, to 1900 Harrison avenue, Rockford,
for a greatly expanded production to ;urc>mm<>-
111. It is planned to take the entire working
organization to Rockford and it is expected that
all the material, workmen and records will be
established in Rockford by May 25.
The change will enable President Oscar Nel-
son to devote most of his time to personally
selling the Nelson-Wiggen coin-operated pianos,
talking machines and organs on the road.
contact distributors, among whom he numbers
many friends,
The advertising, which will be national in
Rex Hyre Named Receiver
of Mitten Piano Go.
AKRON, O., May 11.—Petition asking for the dis-
solution of the Mitten Piano Co., 239 East Mill
street, and the appointment of a receiver was
Hied last week in common pleas court by Carr
A. Mitten, 71 Everett avenue, who says he is
owner of a majority of the stock in the com-
pany. The company is being reorganized.
Judge E. H. Boylan appointed Rexford C.
GILMAN ANDERSON
Hyre receiver to manage the affairs of the com-
ASST SALES
pany until further order of the court. Mitten
Vlc.t SLEININGER
alleges, in his petition, that the piano company
\\
ADVERTISING
|\
MANAGER
is solvent and shows a surplus of $2,486.61 as of
March 31, 1929, but that the condition of the
business and the fact that most of its quick as-
Bremer-Tully Factory in Chicago and Executives of Company
sets are now pledged renders its continuance
scope and much more extensive than hereto-
date the rapidly increasing demand for Bremer-
impracticable.
fore, will continue under the direction of C.
Tully receiving sets.
L. Sleininger, who has been connected with
A pretentious marketing program is planned
Krcmer-Tully for some time.
and the organization of an increased sales
A greatly augmented engineering personnel,
force is well under way.
Heading the new organization is R. T. Pier- comprising many men of specialized ability and
long experience, is busily engaged in new de-
son, who was recently elected president, and
The net profit of the Columbia Phonograph
velopments for the future, while the factory
R. K. Smiley, vice-president, who will have
Co.,
Inc., including the Okeh Phonograph
is going at top speed to insure sufficient pro-
charge of sales.
Corp., in the fiscal year ended February 28, was
Oilman Anderson, with the Bremer-Tully duction of the new 1929-30 models to meet the
$781,306 after all charges and provision for
staff for a number of years, has been appointed ever-increasing demand for high-class sets that
Federal income taxes. This compares with
assistant sales manager and will continue to is country-wide.
$760,139 in the preceding twelve months. The
consolidated balance sheet as of February 28
shows profit and loss surplus of $1,309,578,
against $857,551 on February 29, 1928, while
total assets were $7,274,126, against $6,807,125 at
the close of the previous fiscal year. Current
The Q R S Dc Vry Co., formerly the Q R S
MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 13.—The foreign rec-
assets on February 28 totaled $5,920,765, com-
Co.,
has added considerable additional space to
ord
department
started
in
the
basement
of
Gim-
paring with current liabilities amounting to
its present quarters at 333 North Michigan
bel Brothers store here is doing an excellent
business, according to George J. Schneider, boulevard. All of the executive departments
of the De Vry Co. have now been moved from
manager of the phonograph and record section
of the store. Gimbel Brothers is located con- the company's plant at 1111 Center street to 333
veniently near the Italian district of Milwau- North Michigan boulevard, an ideal business
location in Chicago.
CANTON, O., May 11.^George C. Willc, promi-
kee and the Italians are enthusiastic patrons of
nent Canton music merchant, was honored at
the Gimbel "bargain basement." This fact has
the recent annual meeting of the Retail Mer-
helped greatly to stimulate the sale of records
chants division of the Chamber of Commerce
in the foreign record section, which has only
by being elected a director for the coming year.
recently been inaugurated, Mr. Schneider re-
ALTOONA, PA., May 4.—Arthur E. Winter, the
Mr. Wille has long been active in affairs of
ports.
well-known piano dealer of- Altoona and a
the organization and in recent years has served
"The Italians buy a great many of the old- prominent member of the Rotary Club, repre-
on important legislative committees.
time foreign records a.s well as the later ones,'
sented the local club at the 34th district con-
said Mr. Schneider. "Then they tell their ference of Rotary International at Cumberland,
Radio Laboratories, Inc., has been organized
friends, most of whom compose the foreign ele- Md. Mr. Winter is the Steinway dealer here
at Milwaukee to manufacture and sell radios ment in the city, and it isn't long before we
and is widely known in music circles in Penn-
and radio apparatus. The firm is incorporated
work up a favorable clientele. We have found sylvania.
for $10,000 by Arnold Kaliebe, Elmer W. Ka- that the foreign element nearly always have
liebe and Dorothy Kaliebe.
cash and are willing to spend it for whatever
suits their fancy."
AMERICAN
Reproducing (Welte Lic'e) Grand and Up-
right Pianos are pianists' and tuners' favor-
Ray Peters, manager of a music store at Nee-
ites for Quality and Durability. Est. 1837.
nah, Wis., has purchased a half-interest in the
"Perfected"
"Crown"
Art Stylet a Specialty—Send for Catalog
Western
Elevator
Co.,
of
Appleton,
Wis.
Mr.
AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY
Factory and Warrrearns
Peters will continue his music store for the
Subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation
7, 9 & 11 Jay St., Albany, N. Y.
Chicago—New York—and all Principal Cities
time being.
Columbia Phonograph Go.
Report Shows Large Gain
Q R S De Vry Headquarters
Gimbel Bros. Doing Well
Now on Michigan Blvd.
With Foreign Records
G. G. Wille Honored
Rotarians Honor Winter
BOARDMAN «c GRAY
PIANO WIRE
n
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