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Musical Merchandise Events
at the Music Industries
National Convention in Chicago
HIS year's music industries convention
at the Hotel Drake, Chicago, is ex-
pected to bring a representative attend-
ance of musical merchandise men, not only be-
cause of the general interest centering on trade
conditions to-day, but also because of the new
feature of the joint sessions for all branches of
the music and radio industries. Manufacturers
of musical merchandise, jobbers, importers and
dealers are justifiably keyed up for the various
business sessions in the hope of taking away
new and beneficial suggestions for the broaden-
ing of the music industry in general, and for
the expansion of their own businesses in par-
ticular.
On the basis of the splendid program planned
for this year's sessions, there will be no disap-
pointment on this score. Among the interest-
ing talks will be an address by Joseph Maddy,
chairman of the Committee on Instrumental
Music of the Music Supervisors' National Con-
ference, on the subject of music in the schools.
Other prominent speakers, among them Jay
Grinnell of Grinnell Bros., Detroit, will outline
the various promotional activities that are now
in operation to stimulate public interest in
music. The topic of the new type of competi-
tion and what to do to meet it will also come
in for a big share of discussion.
The first event of interest will be the dinner
and annual meeting of the National Association
of Musical Instrument and Accessories Manu-
facturers on Monday, June 3 at 6 o'clock. The
meeting will be held in Room C of the Hotel
Drake and H. C- Lomb, who has completed his
first term as president, will be in the chair. A
matter of special interest will be the report
from the (National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music on fretted instrument clubs.
On Tuesday morning, June 4, the joint meet-
ing of music and radio industries will be held
in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Drake at
9.30. As this is the first time such a joint meet-
ing has been arranged, it is expected that the
musical merchandise field will be well repre-
sented. Topics bearing on the relationship be-
tween the music and radio industries will be
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threshed out at this session, and should prove
of particular interest to musical merchandise
men.
The annual meeting of the National Musical
Merchandise Association will be held on Tues-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock in Room G of the
Drake Hotel. In the absence of William J.
Haussler, president, who is making an Euro-
pean trip at the present time, F. C. Howard,
of Kansas City, first vice-president, is expected
to take the chair. The matter of the success
FULL list of the Musical Merchan-
dise Exhibitors at the National
Music Industries Convention as well as
complete details of the meetings of the
various musical merchandise associa-
tions will be found in the general ac-
counts of the convention in the forward
part of this issue of The Review.
of the slogan contest and the tie-ups being
made with the adopted slogan by members of
the Association will be discussed as well as the
progress being made in organizing school
bands and orchestras.
Although the number of scheduled events is
smaller than usual this year, a great many in-
formal conferences and luncheons are being
arranged for various divisions of the musical
merchandise field. One of the advantages of
this arrangement will be the increased oppor-
tunity of visiting the large musical merchandise
establishments, both in the retail and manu-
facturing fields in the Chicago zone. The argu-
ment that official sessions kept many individuals
from making real personal trade contacts dur-
ing the convention will not apply this year, and
it is contemplated that many will make the best
of the opportunity.
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Chicago is a great musical merchandise mart,
being propitiously located near the nation's
trade center. Many of the largest manufac-
turers and jobbers of small instruments and
accessories are situated within its environs, and
a trip to these plants for comparative observa-
tion should be well worth making. Those visi-
tors who are unable to leave the hotel, how-
ever, will find many important musical mer-
chandise exhibits right on the convention scene.
A full list of these exhibitors is given elsewhere
in this issue.
Old Medical Corps Chests
Used in Stockroom
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., May 17.—Waters & Ross
have recently purchased a number of old Medi-
cal Corps chests for their stockroom, which
they are using to store small goods accessories.
These little chests are square and have hanging
doors on hinges. They are excellently con-
structed and most inexpensive; also, they are
portable. On the exterior of each door is the
name of the accessory and also a sample, so
that the contents can be known at an immediate
glance.
Pauline Dugart, popular violinist, has taken
charge of the band and orchestra music depart-
ment of Waters & Ross. They give consider-
able attention to this music and have a special
room for it. Miss Dugart has devised a sys-
tem for arranging the band and orchestra
scores in a way that enables a conductor to
pick out the scores he wants in a minimum of
time.
A letter has been received from the Holton
factory by Waters & Ross, Holton dealers,
stating that Paul Whitcman and his orchestra
will be at the Pantages Theatre here next
month.
The Blakkestad Music Co., for twenty-five
years located on Marquettc avenue, Minneap-
olis, Minn., has moved to new quarters at 23
South Eighth street, that city.