Presto

November 27, 1920.
27
PRESTO
and is provided with ten new soundproof booths.
Q R S music rolls are big sellers with the firm.
C. J. Jacoby & Co., Alton, 111., advertises a "special
club plan" for talking machine customers.
A display of Victrolas with and without cabinets
was an attraction last week in the show window of
the Cable Piano Company, Elgin, 111.
Lehman's Music House, East St. Louis, 111., says
in its advertising that the store at 309-11 Collinsville
avenue, is "the only place in East St. Louis where
you can get the genuine Victrolas and Victor
records."
POWER OF THE RECORDS.
That the records have proved a vast source of
benefit is convincingly told by Mme. Galli-Curci in
a recent number of the. Delineator. That they have
spread music everywhere in America and have
reached the most distant sections of the country, is
acknowledged by the great artist, who adds:
"I value them as one of the greatest things ever
invented. It is an easy matter for artists to make
up a concert program in America, no matter where
it is to be sung. The records have served as prep-
aration for the artist, bringing the greatest music
and the greatest voices into every home. As a treas-
ury of the musical history of today, the records are
invaluable. Artists now singing them should deeply
appreciate this fact; what those artists can do in
the height of their achievement remains for all pos-
terity to enjoy in the records. Unfortunately it is
that we did not possess this great invention earlier,
for then we should also have the great ones of the
past to listen to and profit by in our study of sing-
ing."
USES THE MAGNAVOX.
Byron Mauzy, San Francisco, has taken the agency
for the Magnavox, or the great voice distance mega-
fone which has materialized the dreams of the im-
aginative writers. The Magnavox instruments will
pick up music, voice or any other desired sound and
fling it forth in practically limitless volume. It is
not a new and untried instrument, having been used
successfully by some of the most prominent men
and women of the world. President Wilson, facing
a vast outdoor audience in the huge stadium in San
Diego, Calif., with Magnavox Telemegaphones, eas-
ily talked to 50,000 people on September 19, 1919.
This gathering of 50,000 was by far the largest num-
ber of people ever brought within actual hearing
range of a single human voice. By the aid of this
instrument and a hundred-foot cable, Byron Mauzy
is playing the record "Whispering" inside the store
and having it reproduced on the street for the ben-
efit of the public.
THE BUYER'S OPPORTUNITY.
The Pearson Piano Company, Indianapolis, needs
the space now occupied by an unusually big stock
of talking "machines and this is given as the chance
of'the prospective buyer. This is the statement
printed this week: "Your opportunity to get the
phonograph you want at a price you have never
seen equaled. We must have the room these instruc-
tors occupy, and you get the benefit. The instru-
ments in the sale are all of standard makes; if we
could name the makes and the prices the fifty-two
instruments wouldn't last more than an hour or two
tomorrow morning. Many of these phonographs
have never left our store—are only the slighest bit
shopworn. Others have been used, but great care
has been taken to make these used instruments just
like new. There is scarcely one in the lot that you
wtfuld suspect of being anything but brand new."
AFTER HESITANT ONES
Lehman's Music House, East St. Louis, 111., tells
the hesitating phonograph prospect this week: "It's
merely a matter of making up your mind whether
or not you're going to buy this Christmas," and
gives this advice: "First, let's see what obstacle
you may have to overcome. 'Can't Afford' is the
grim guardian who turns many people back from
the enjoyment of the good things of life. But 'Can't
Afford' isn't as bad as he looks. He's pretty much
of a bluff, and he steps aside when he's faced with
a little real determination. We'll show you an easy
way to get around him. Just use our Club Plan of
buying. It will enable you to get a Player-Piano or
Victrola before Christmas and to pay for it on such
easy terms that you'll wonder why you didn't make
up your mind to have one long ago. Come in and
we'll give you a full explanation of the Club Plan.
Or, if you can't come it, just telephone or write
to us."
COLUMBIA SHARES.
Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Company
for the six months ended June 30, 1920. reports net
after charges and Federal taxes, $2,809,375, equiva-
lent, after preferred dividends, to $2.13 a share on
the 1,150,151 shares of common of no par value.
New York Stock Exchange has admitted to list 60,-
492 shares of this company's common stock, on no-
tice of issuance of stock dividend.
CHOICE OF SONGS FOR HOME
The Vital Influence of Those Heard by the Growing
Child Pointed Out by Great Singer.
DEATH OF MUSIC BOOK AUTHOR.
James W. Buel, widely known author and editor,
whose name is on the title pages of 54 works, some
of which contain from ten to fifteen volumes each,
died November 16 at San Diego, Calif. His books
cover a wide range, from "Legends of the Ozarks"
to a work on the history and mythology of music.
He was born in Golconda, 111., in 1849. Mr. Buel
was a member of the Authors' Club of London and
of the Publishers' Club of Philadelphia.
The songs heard in the home have a vital influ-
ence in the creation of taste in children and in the
formation of character, according to Mme. Schu-
mann-Heink, who contributes an article on music
in the home in the current number of the Delineator
MORE COMMUNITY SINGING.
"Children are sensitive and impressionable; the
Community singing will be a more important part
songs they sing fasten themselves unalterably in
memory. That is why from the very start such care of the activities in community service following the
should be taken in finding the right kind of music merger of the Brooklyn Section of New York Com-
for them," writes the great artist. "All these sur- munity Service with the People's Institute and the
rounding influences in child-life mean such a deal .United Neighborhood Guild effected last week. The
in shaping character. There is always a reason for joint organizations started a campaign this week
the going wrong of any in this world of ours. And to organize community centers throughout Brooklyn.
that reason is often, I fear, to be found far back in
SONG WRITER HELPED.
life's beginnings.
Cliff Hess, song writer, who composed "Home-
"There is no greater influence for good in the sickness Blues" and "Freckles," and Pat Barnes,
home than music. Every devoted mother who enteftaiiier, were at Weisbrod's music store, Rich-
teaches songs to her children knows what mem- mond, Ind., last week as a special feature introduc-
ories those songs, through bygone associations, ing playerpiano rolls. The floor of the store was
arouse in her heart. She knows, too, that her own cleared and arrangements made for the comfort of
little ones will remember those same songs long those visiting the store to hear these entertainers.
after she is gone. And with the memory of them
there will linger other memories of the good training
MUSIC COMPANY ASSIGNS.
that she endeavored so hard to instil."
Cedric H. Garton (Ted Music Co. and Eastern
In the choice of songs the matter resolves itself Music Supply Co.), has made an assignment for the
into the right selection, according to Mme. Schu- benefit of creditors to Edward M. Dangel, Boston,
mann-Heink, who suggests the simple good things Mass.
the children will understand:
First of all, I would recommend the dear old
If you are not handling the
songs that are American—there are so many of
them; songs that we older ones know and love.
Under the same head come other folk-songs that also
rank as classics, for all folk-songs are classics, other-
wise they would never be so popular 1 nor so deeply
touch the hearts of those who sing them steadily,
generation after generation. Among these are the
old Scotch and Irish songs that are familiar, charm-
Comprising Standard,
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And do not let us forget American songs of pa-
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triotism, we have so many and such stirring ones
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