Presto
Issue: 1924 1990 - Page 5
September 13, 1924.
PRESTO
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells"
PIANO DEALERS
who are posted in their business know that
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
has won its fame by its unique chal-
lenge of all larger Grands in tone vol-
ume, richness of quality and beauty
of case outline.
CABLE PIANO FOR UNIVERSITY
The Taylor Music Company,
Columbia, Mo., has just supplied
the new School of Fine Arts of
the University of Missouri, situ-
dated in that city, with twenty-
two pianos made by The Cable
Company, Chicago.
The School of Fine Arts, which
will open this month, is being
launched under the personal direc-
tion of the new president of the
University,
Dr.
Stratton
D.
Brooks. Headed by Dean James
T. Quarles and manned by an un-
usually brilliant faculty, the new
school should do much to advance
the standards of music and art in
the middle west. A degree of
bachelor of fine arts in music is
to be offered for a four-year
course in pianoforte, violin, voice
and theory. A degree of bachelor
MUSTC SECTION OF UNIVERSITY OK MISSOURI.
of science in education will be
given to those wishing to do work
in public school music.
state and credit will be given for work in music done
In addition to training musicians for the profes- before entering the university.
When making this purchase, Dean Quarles and
sion, Dean Quarles plans to emphasize the place of
the purchasing committee of the university made a
careful analysis of all the well-known makes of
pianos and finally decided upon the Cable-made in-
struments. Cable-made pianos are favorites for
music schools all over the country. They are so
built as to be able to withstand the hard test to which
practice pianos in use from eight to ten hours a day
are subjected and still retain their clear, beautiful
tone and responsive action.
CONGRESS TO CONSIDER
PRICE STANDARDIZATION
American Fair Trade League Appeals to Busi-
ness Men to Urge Congressmen to
Support Bills.
DEAN JAMES T. QUARLES.
The
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
has attained to a place preeminent be-
cause of its absolute dependability,
precise reproduction of the playing of
the world's artists and beauty of con-
struction.
If you have sold this instrument you
prefer to sell it to all others. And you
know, too, that
No ambitious Piano Merchant can
be sure that he has the best, most
profitable and satisfactory Line until
he has examined the Christman and
compared it with whatever competitor
may be winning local trade.
((
The First Touch Tells"
Reg. U S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
music as a part of the cultural life of every college
man and woman, for he says they are the ones to
whom we must look for artistic leadership. An effort
will be made to co-operate with teachers all over the
GALAXY OF STARS
ENTERTAINS PIANO MEN
The
Dennis Sisters, Famous Vaudeville Artists,
Appear at Chicago Piano Club Luncheon.
At the weekly luncheon of The Piano Club of
Chicago at the Illinois Athletic Club, on Monday
of this week, Joe Lyons presented the Dennis Sisters
and several additional stars from the Balaban and
Katz circuit. It was a surprise program featuring
the best entertainment in Chicago.
The annual meeting and election of officers, fol-
lowed by the usual big entertainment bill will be held
on the evening of October 8, 1924, the place of meet-
ing to be announced soon.
"Begin the fall season right—attend these interest-
ing noon meetings regularly," is the advice of John
McKenna, president, in a type-written message to
members.
NEW VIRGINIA FIRM.
Pianos, phonographs, musical merchandise and
radio are handled by the Coleman-Bryan Music Co.,
a new business in Martinsville, Va. E. G. Coleman,
one of the partners in the new company, had had a
long experience in the music trade and is widely
known to music goods buyers in that section. The
other partner is J. H. Bryan, head of the Bryan De-
partment Store of Staunton, Va.
A new retail store has been opened by the Kurtz-
mann Piano Co. at 38 Main street, Batavia, N. Y.
Whatever results may come from the national elec-
tion the way seems clear for the advance 'of price
standardization legislation when Congress recon-
venes, according to the American Fair Trade League,
71 West Twenty-third street, New York, which
states in a circular: "These measures were subject
to the legislative paralysis of the last session, due
to the sensational congressional investigations, which
preceded the summer recess, and even prevented
passage of some regular departmental measures. Their
supporters, however, have not been idle, and prep-
arations are being made for promised hearings be-
fore the committees which have them in charge.
The American Fair Trade League, which has led
the fight to crystallize sentiment behind these "Bet-
ter Business" measures, calls attention to the fact
that "the standard price movement is in no respect a
campaign issue. The non-partisan character of its
support is indicated by letters received from con-
gressmen of all shades of political opinion in reply
to inquiries from constituents engaged in various
lines of trade and established in many different
states."
Four of these price standardization bills were intro-
duced in the present Congress and all are likely to
be pressed for passage as soon as the legislators
return to the national capital and the country settles
down after the upheaval of the presidential election.
Although differing in detail, the bills are alike in prin-
ciple. They seek to restore to manufacturers of
branded, well known goods the legal right to desig-
nate fair, uniform, living-profit prices at which such
products shall be resold. The Fair Trade League
says:
"This question has been fought out in the courts
and the law has become so muddled by conflicting
decisions that the opponents of unfair price cutting
realize that no more hope lies in that direction.
Congressional legislation is the only remedy. The
issue lies in the hands of the business men of the
country. Their task is to impress upon their repre-
sentatives at Washington the fact that these Better
Business Bills are essential to the prosperity of our
domestic commerce and earnestly desired by a vast
majority of merchants and manufacturers, as well as
consumers, as indicated in favorable expressions of
representative women's clubs and housewife leagues
throughout the country."
One of the attractive music stores in Chicago is
that of the Aug. Grass Piano Co., 3933 North Kedzie
avenue. The store carries a special line of Haddorff
and Clarendon upright and grand pianos. It is a
complete music store with all musical features.
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PRESTO
CHRISTMAN
"The First Touch Tells"
PIANO DEALERS
who are posted in their business know that
The Famous
Studio Grand
(only 5 ft. long)
has won its fame by its unique chal-
lenge of all larger Grands in tone vol-
ume, richness of quality and beauty
of case outline.
CABLE PIANO FOR UNIVERSITY
The Taylor Music Company,
Columbia, Mo., has just supplied
the new School of Fine Arts of
the University of Missouri, situ-
dated in that city, with twenty-
two pianos made by The Cable
Company, Chicago.
The School of Fine Arts, which
will open this month, is being
launched under the personal direc-
tion of the new president of the
University,
Dr.
Stratton
D.
Brooks. Headed by Dean James
T. Quarles and manned by an un-
usually brilliant faculty, the new
school should do much to advance
the standards of music and art in
the middle west. A degree of
bachelor of fine arts in music is
to be offered for a four-year
course in pianoforte, violin, voice
and theory. A degree of bachelor
MUSTC SECTION OF UNIVERSITY OK MISSOURI.
of science in education will be
given to those wishing to do work
in public school music.
state and credit will be given for work in music done
In addition to training musicians for the profes- before entering the university.
When making this purchase, Dean Quarles and
sion, Dean Quarles plans to emphasize the place of
the purchasing committee of the university made a
careful analysis of all the well-known makes of
pianos and finally decided upon the Cable-made in-
struments. Cable-made pianos are favorites for
music schools all over the country. They are so
built as to be able to withstand the hard test to which
practice pianos in use from eight to ten hours a day
are subjected and still retain their clear, beautiful
tone and responsive action.
CONGRESS TO CONSIDER
PRICE STANDARDIZATION
American Fair Trade League Appeals to Busi-
ness Men to Urge Congressmen to
Support Bills.
DEAN JAMES T. QUARLES.
The
CHRISTMAN
Reproducing Grand
has attained to a place preeminent be-
cause of its absolute dependability,
precise reproduction of the playing of
the world's artists and beauty of con-
struction.
If you have sold this instrument you
prefer to sell it to all others. And you
know, too, that
No ambitious Piano Merchant can
be sure that he has the best, most
profitable and satisfactory Line until
he has examined the Christman and
compared it with whatever competitor
may be winning local trade.
((
The First Touch Tells"
Reg. U S. Pat. Off.
Christman Piano Co.
597 East 137th St.
New York
music as a part of the cultural life of every college
man and woman, for he says they are the ones to
whom we must look for artistic leadership. An effort
will be made to co-operate with teachers all over the
GALAXY OF STARS
ENTERTAINS PIANO MEN
The
Dennis Sisters, Famous Vaudeville Artists,
Appear at Chicago Piano Club Luncheon.
At the weekly luncheon of The Piano Club of
Chicago at the Illinois Athletic Club, on Monday
of this week, Joe Lyons presented the Dennis Sisters
and several additional stars from the Balaban and
Katz circuit. It was a surprise program featuring
the best entertainment in Chicago.
The annual meeting and election of officers, fol-
lowed by the usual big entertainment bill will be held
on the evening of October 8, 1924, the place of meet-
ing to be announced soon.
"Begin the fall season right—attend these interest-
ing noon meetings regularly," is the advice of John
McKenna, president, in a type-written message to
members.
NEW VIRGINIA FIRM.
Pianos, phonographs, musical merchandise and
radio are handled by the Coleman-Bryan Music Co.,
a new business in Martinsville, Va. E. G. Coleman,
one of the partners in the new company, had had a
long experience in the music trade and is widely
known to music goods buyers in that section. The
other partner is J. H. Bryan, head of the Bryan De-
partment Store of Staunton, Va.
A new retail store has been opened by the Kurtz-
mann Piano Co. at 38 Main street, Batavia, N. Y.
Whatever results may come from the national elec-
tion the way seems clear for the advance 'of price
standardization legislation when Congress recon-
venes, according to the American Fair Trade League,
71 West Twenty-third street, New York, which
states in a circular: "These measures were subject
to the legislative paralysis of the last session, due
to the sensational congressional investigations, which
preceded the summer recess, and even prevented
passage of some regular departmental measures. Their
supporters, however, have not been idle, and prep-
arations are being made for promised hearings be-
fore the committees which have them in charge.
The American Fair Trade League, which has led
the fight to crystallize sentiment behind these "Bet-
ter Business" measures, calls attention to the fact
that "the standard price movement is in no respect a
campaign issue. The non-partisan character of its
support is indicated by letters received from con-
gressmen of all shades of political opinion in reply
to inquiries from constituents engaged in various
lines of trade and established in many different
states."
Four of these price standardization bills were intro-
duced in the present Congress and all are likely to
be pressed for passage as soon as the legislators
return to the national capital and the country settles
down after the upheaval of the presidential election.
Although differing in detail, the bills are alike in prin-
ciple. They seek to restore to manufacturers of
branded, well known goods the legal right to desig-
nate fair, uniform, living-profit prices at which such
products shall be resold. The Fair Trade League
says:
"This question has been fought out in the courts
and the law has become so muddled by conflicting
decisions that the opponents of unfair price cutting
realize that no more hope lies in that direction.
Congressional legislation is the only remedy. The
issue lies in the hands of the business men of the
country. Their task is to impress upon their repre-
sentatives at Washington the fact that these Better
Business Bills are essential to the prosperity of our
domestic commerce and earnestly desired by a vast
majority of merchants and manufacturers, as well as
consumers, as indicated in favorable expressions of
representative women's clubs and housewife leagues
throughout the country."
One of the attractive music stores in Chicago is
that of the Aug. Grass Piano Co., 3933 North Kedzie
avenue. The store carries a special line of Haddorff
and Clarendon upright and grand pianos. It is a
complete music store with all musical features.
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).