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Lyon & H e a l y Presents
Boris Godounoff" Album
Records to H o s p i t a l s Released by RCA Victor
Packaged in a handsomely illustrated
Recordrama set, Victor's top-line al-
bum of "Boris Godounoff"—the first
American recording in Russian and
which stars the great basso, Alexan-
der Kipnis—has been announced for
immediate release, according to Jack
Hallstrom, RCA Victor record mer-
chandise manager.
Four months in preparation and
technically one of Victor's most im-
posing recording achievements, accord-
ing to those in the trade who have
heard advance pressings, it serves to
mark a milestone in Victor's album
history. It is Victor's 1000th Red Seal
album.
An extensive campaign is planned
to promote this album.
Barker Bros, to Handle
Meissner Combinations
K. G. L,a>lair. Prcs., I,yon & Healy, Inc., present* records to Gardner General Hospital
In observing National Music Week,
Lyon & Healy, Inc., Chicago, ran a
series of advertisements in the Chica-
go daily newspapers urging people to
send records to hospitalized veterans.
These ads were headed with "You Can
Help GI Joe's 'Road Back' with Music"
and "How YOU Can Make Wings
MUSICMASTER
(PATENTED)
a name which after
V-J Day will become
famous on
Pianos
Phonographs
Radios.
Radio-Phonographs
For further information
write
S . L .
C U R T I S
240 W. 55th St.
22
New York
Grow on a Yank's Wheel Chair During
Music Week." In addition to this the
company donated records to five veter-
an hospitals. In the accompanying
photograph Louis G. LaMair, presi-
dent of Lyon & Healy, Inc., is shown
presenting records to the Gardner Gen-
eral Hospital in Chicago. Those shown
in the group from left to right are:
F. Webber of Evansville, Indiana; J.
Czajek of Toledo, Ohio; Miss Helen
Hines, in charge of Red Cross Recre-
ation; and L. G. LaMair, president
of Lyon & Healy, Inc.
The other hospitals which received
records were: Mclntyre Hospital at
Great Lakes, Illinois; Vaughan Gen-
eral and Hines Hospitals at Hines,
Illinois, and Marine Hospital, Chicago.
R. E. Kane. Philadelphia
Capehart Manager
I. C. Hunter, sales manager of the
Capehart division of the Farnsworth,
Television & Radio Corp., has an-
nounced the appointment of R. E.
"Bob" Kane, pre-war district manager
of Farnsworth's Chicago territory, as
Capehart district manager in the
Philadelphia area. His appointment
brings to three the number of recent
Capehart postwar sales assignments,
W. R. McAllister and Frank H. Mer-
ritt having been previously announced
as district heads in the New York
and southeastern areas respectively.
Oden J. Jester, vice president of the
Meissner Manufacturing Co., Mt. Car-
(>. It. < oltlenty, of Barker Hriis., I/ON
Annele*; I.. II. llritain, consultin*; radio
enitineer for Marker Ifros.. st.-iiitliim, and
Oden K. Jester, vice president of the
•MefsNiier >ffjj. On.
mel and Chicago, 111., has announced
that Barker Bros, will handle the
Meissner radio-phonograph combina-
tion in Los Angeles and the Southern
California area.
Final arrangements whereby Bark-
er Brothers will carry the Meissner
as their only top-bracket radio-uhono-
graph line were completed in Chicago
early this month, when O. R. Coblentz,
manager of the Barker Bros, radio
division, and L. B. Brittain, consulting
radio engineer for the same firm, jour-
neyed East to inspect the Meissner
plant at Mt. Carmel and to visit Meiss-
ner national sales headquarters in Chi-
cago, Mr. Jester said.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JUNE, 1945