Presto
Issue: 1925 2009 - Page 4
January 24, 1925.
PRESTO
folk songs just made by Rudolph jeannette Perdan,
who resides at East 185th street, Cleveland.
One of Edison's artists is Rae Eleanor Ball, violin-
ist, of Cleveland, and another Pathe recorder is Mike
Speciale's Carlton Terrace Orchestra.
Miss Rene Burdette, manager of the roll depart-
ment of the Starr Piano Co., will broadcast Indian
Recent Combination of Automobiles and songs and legends, in connection with other artists,
January 31, at 2 a. m. The concept has been spe-
Radio in Exposition Did Not Prove
cially arranged for a club meeting in San Francisco.
Largely Successful for Reasons
Phonograph Agencies.
Another downtown distributor for the Brunswick
Given.
line is the Knabe warerooms, Euclid avenue and
East Fourteenth street. They will feature all models
and advertise extensively.
The Cheney Phonograph Sales Co. has secured ex-
Phonograph Trade Is Good in the Ohio City, as clusive agency for Ohio for the Sleeper Corporation's
radio receiving set, which has the special feature of
Indicated by the Representatives of Pronrnent
being particularly adapted to upright models of pho-
Manufacturers.
nographs, inasmuch as it can be slid into the record
Phillip Spitalny, director of the orchestra at the compartment, and drawn out sufficiently far to make
Allen Theater, has written a fox trot which was sug- tuning an easy matter. A good sized advertising ap-
gested through reading "Chickie," a serial now run- propriation will be expended for local and other ad-
ning in the Cleveland Press. He has named it "My vertising. I believe that the name of the set is the
"Monotrol."
Name Is Chickie/' and it was featured Sunday night
ARTHUR E. DIHM.
at the Allen, and is also heing played at the Music
Box for dancing. Spitalny records for Victor.
The Cleveland Conn Co. opened their music school,
known as the Conn School of Music, January 19.
The faculty of the school consists of twenty teachers
and assistants, all of the former being members of
the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. The director of
Changes, Renewals and New Enterprises in Different
Parts of the Country.
faculty is A. E. Clark. The Conn Co. recently com-
pleted a broadcasting studio which is to be used in
The department store of Harned & Von Mauk,
connection with the school. R. R. Story is manager
Iowa City, Iowa, has added a music section.
of the Cleveland Conn Co.
The Patterson Music Shop recently opened for
business at 18 North Third street, Vincennes, Ind.
Not a Radio Show.
The Haddorff .Piano Co , Rockford, 111., has moved
Although widely advertised as a radio show as to larger quarters at 220 North Main street.
well as an automobile show, the Cleveland Auto-
Edward O'Neil has opened a music store at 1408
mobile Show, had but few radio exhibitors. The Thirty-fourth avenue, Seattle, Wash.
opinion, as expressed by Cleveland firms in general,
Frederick & Nelson's, Seattle, has increased the
was that it was not the psychological place to exhibit
floor space in its music department for the holiday
radios.
trade.
It is the dealers' conclusion that at the automobile
A new store was opened recently in Crowley, Tex.,
shows visitors' minds are concentrated on automo- by Charles R. Gray.
biles, which at the Cleveland exposition comprised
Arnold Arn & Son has succeeded John B. Hayden
about ninety-five per cent of the show. The Work- in the music business in McAlister, Okla.
rite Mfg. Co. were the largest exhibitors of radio
A. L. Niles has opened a music shop in the Strand
sets. Some auto accessory dealers who handle radio, Building, Salamanca, N. Y.
also exhibited, but the show was far from being a
Frank Vierra has opened a music store at Hender-
radio exhibition.
son and East Main streets, Lock Haven, Pa.
The Bradshaw Music Co., of Fitzgerald, Ga., has
A Broadcast Center.
opened a branch in Douglas, Ga.
Cleveland is building herself a hue reputation in
The De Steiger Music Co., Mount Clemens, Mich.,
musical circles on account of the large number of
has moved to new and larger quarters from 82
singers, players and orchestras having their homes Macomb street to 26 New street.
here, who make phonograph records. The Cleveland
A music store was recently opened in the Thomp-
Symphony Orchestra of which Nickolai Sokoloft is son Building, Paula Valley, Okla., by R. and T. P.
director, naturally heads the list. It records exclu- Morehead.
sively for Brunswick.
Austin Wylie band, now at the Golden Pheasant,
A. M. WRIGHT ENJOYING REST.
and Ivan Francisci's Cleveland Hotel Orchestra have
Just now Florida is in its glory. And the beauti-
made several records.
ful city of St. Petersburg, on the West Coast, is
The Gennet record ace, Guy Lombardi's Claremont teeming with northerners—a metropolis in popula-
Orchestra, has been so long in Cleveland, that its tion and activity. And there A. M. Wright is enjoy-
members are looked upon as adopted sons. Then ing his sunny southern home. He has been there for
there is Janos Brenkacs Gypsy Orchestra, who re- six weeks, and writes that the windows of his house,
cord for Columbia.
on Sixth avenue, North, are all kept open and that
not a thing interferes with every day happiness, un-
Cliff Edward, who sings and accompanies himself
on the ukulele, for Pathe, is a Clevelander, as is also less it be a little too much rain. Mr. Wright cer-
Raoul Bannanno, Italian baritone, who records for tainly deserves his rest, and his friends in the trade
Victor. Columbia reports large sales of Slovenian everywhere are glad to know that lie is enjoying it.
TRADE DOINGS
IN CLEVELAND
MANY BROADCASTERS
NORWICH, CONN., MUSIC FIRM
BUYS VALUABLE BUILDINGS
The Plaut-Cadden Co. Secures by Purchase 160,000
Square Feet of Floor Space.
The Plaut-Cadden Co., Norwich, Conn., which has
a large music department, has bought from the Henry
Bill estate the Quinebaug Building on Main street
and the Bill Block on Shetucket street, the two struc-
tures being on adjoining lots with separate street
frontages.
The company plans to expand the business and to
use the 160,000 square feet of floor space included in
the buildings. More departments will be added to
the progressive ones now constituting the business.
The Plaut-Cadden was formed in 1899, when the
jewelry business of the late Abraham Plaut was con-
solidated with the Cadden Cycle Co. The musical
interests of the company have grown wonderfully in
the past five years and the purpose of the manage-
ment is to make the music goods sections of still
greater importance in the future.
The officers of the company are: President, Ruther-
ford C. Plau-t; vice-president, Adelard Morin; secre-
tary and treasurer, Julius W. Cadden.
SOME OF THE LATE CHANGES
FINE PROGRESS OF THE
IN RETAIL PIANO TRADE
STRAUBE PIANO COMPANY
President E. R. Jacobson, Back from an Extended
Trip, Tells of Enthusiastic Trade.
E. R. Jacobson, president of the Straube Piano
Company, Hammond, Indiana, has just returned from
a trip through the east and south, calling on the trade.
Mr. Jacobson reports the greatest enthusiasm for the
Straube line and says his company is anticipating the
greatest year in its history.
The Straube Company held its annual sales meet-
ing recently and presented the advertising and mer
chandising plans for the following year to the sales
force. Whole pages in the Saturday Evening Post
will be used this year to tell the public about Straube
products.
NOW IT'S "RADIO FACE."
The beauty doctors have discovered the radio
face which they claim is fatal to the pulchritude oi
those who perform long vigils with the receiving set
The face fixers declare that lovely women acquire
strained expressions from trying to get evasive sta-
tions and that all the funny little crowsfeet about the
eye are traceable to saxophone solos and harmonica
artists who appear at the broadcasting stations. "We
positively guarantee to cure the most obstinate case
of 'radio face' in six treatments," declares the beaut>
culturist's advertisement in a Chicago newspaper.
CANADA'S MUSIC WEEK.
Music Week promoters in Canada have decided or
May 3 to 9 as the period of observance, days coinci-
dent to the holding of Music Week in the Unitec
States. The plans of the Canadian Bureau for thi
Advancement of Music extend to all the cities of im-
portance in the Dominion.
F. P. BASSETT IN CLEVELAND.
F. P. Bassett, secretary and treasurer of the M
Schulz Piano Co., 711 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago
111., left the office of that company late last week fo
a short business trip to Cleveland, Ohio.
THE BOWEN LOADER
makes of the Ford Roadster the Ideal piano truck,—most Convenient, most Economical and most Efficient.—Goes anywhere, over any
kind of roads, and distance makes no difference.
It will greatly assist any energetic Salesman, City or Country, but is indispensable for successful country work.
It's the best outfit for making collections and repossessions.
Our latest model is fool-proof and indestructible, and the price has been reduced to $95.00 including an extra good water-proof
moving cover. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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PRESTO
folk songs just made by Rudolph jeannette Perdan,
who resides at East 185th street, Cleveland.
One of Edison's artists is Rae Eleanor Ball, violin-
ist, of Cleveland, and another Pathe recorder is Mike
Speciale's Carlton Terrace Orchestra.
Miss Rene Burdette, manager of the roll depart-
ment of the Starr Piano Co., will broadcast Indian
Recent Combination of Automobiles and songs and legends, in connection with other artists,
January 31, at 2 a. m. The concept has been spe-
Radio in Exposition Did Not Prove
cially arranged for a club meeting in San Francisco.
Largely Successful for Reasons
Phonograph Agencies.
Another downtown distributor for the Brunswick
Given.
line is the Knabe warerooms, Euclid avenue and
East Fourteenth street. They will feature all models
and advertise extensively.
The Cheney Phonograph Sales Co. has secured ex-
Phonograph Trade Is Good in the Ohio City, as clusive agency for Ohio for the Sleeper Corporation's
radio receiving set, which has the special feature of
Indicated by the Representatives of Pronrnent
being particularly adapted to upright models of pho-
Manufacturers.
nographs, inasmuch as it can be slid into the record
Phillip Spitalny, director of the orchestra at the compartment, and drawn out sufficiently far to make
Allen Theater, has written a fox trot which was sug- tuning an easy matter. A good sized advertising ap-
gested through reading "Chickie," a serial now run- propriation will be expended for local and other ad-
ning in the Cleveland Press. He has named it "My vertising. I believe that the name of the set is the
"Monotrol."
Name Is Chickie/' and it was featured Sunday night
ARTHUR E. DIHM.
at the Allen, and is also heing played at the Music
Box for dancing. Spitalny records for Victor.
The Cleveland Conn Co. opened their music school,
known as the Conn School of Music, January 19.
The faculty of the school consists of twenty teachers
and assistants, all of the former being members of
the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. The director of
Changes, Renewals and New Enterprises in Different
Parts of the Country.
faculty is A. E. Clark. The Conn Co. recently com-
pleted a broadcasting studio which is to be used in
The department store of Harned & Von Mauk,
connection with the school. R. R. Story is manager
Iowa City, Iowa, has added a music section.
of the Cleveland Conn Co.
The Patterson Music Shop recently opened for
business at 18 North Third street, Vincennes, Ind.
Not a Radio Show.
The Haddorff .Piano Co , Rockford, 111., has moved
Although widely advertised as a radio show as to larger quarters at 220 North Main street.
well as an automobile show, the Cleveland Auto-
Edward O'Neil has opened a music store at 1408
mobile Show, had but few radio exhibitors. The Thirty-fourth avenue, Seattle, Wash.
opinion, as expressed by Cleveland firms in general,
Frederick & Nelson's, Seattle, has increased the
was that it was not the psychological place to exhibit
floor space in its music department for the holiday
radios.
trade.
It is the dealers' conclusion that at the automobile
A new store was opened recently in Crowley, Tex.,
shows visitors' minds are concentrated on automo- by Charles R. Gray.
biles, which at the Cleveland exposition comprised
Arnold Arn & Son has succeeded John B. Hayden
about ninety-five per cent of the show. The Work- in the music business in McAlister, Okla.
rite Mfg. Co. were the largest exhibitors of radio
A. L. Niles has opened a music shop in the Strand
sets. Some auto accessory dealers who handle radio, Building, Salamanca, N. Y.
also exhibited, but the show was far from being a
Frank Vierra has opened a music store at Hender-
radio exhibition.
son and East Main streets, Lock Haven, Pa.
The Bradshaw Music Co., of Fitzgerald, Ga., has
A Broadcast Center.
opened a branch in Douglas, Ga.
Cleveland is building herself a hue reputation in
The De Steiger Music Co., Mount Clemens, Mich.,
musical circles on account of the large number of
has moved to new and larger quarters from 82
singers, players and orchestras having their homes Macomb street to 26 New street.
here, who make phonograph records. The Cleveland
A music store was recently opened in the Thomp-
Symphony Orchestra of which Nickolai Sokoloft is son Building, Paula Valley, Okla., by R. and T. P.
director, naturally heads the list. It records exclu- Morehead.
sively for Brunswick.
Austin Wylie band, now at the Golden Pheasant,
A. M. WRIGHT ENJOYING REST.
and Ivan Francisci's Cleveland Hotel Orchestra have
Just now Florida is in its glory. And the beauti-
made several records.
ful city of St. Petersburg, on the West Coast, is
The Gennet record ace, Guy Lombardi's Claremont teeming with northerners—a metropolis in popula-
Orchestra, has been so long in Cleveland, that its tion and activity. And there A. M. Wright is enjoy-
members are looked upon as adopted sons. Then ing his sunny southern home. He has been there for
there is Janos Brenkacs Gypsy Orchestra, who re- six weeks, and writes that the windows of his house,
cord for Columbia.
on Sixth avenue, North, are all kept open and that
not a thing interferes with every day happiness, un-
Cliff Edward, who sings and accompanies himself
on the ukulele, for Pathe, is a Clevelander, as is also less it be a little too much rain. Mr. Wright cer-
Raoul Bannanno, Italian baritone, who records for tainly deserves his rest, and his friends in the trade
Victor. Columbia reports large sales of Slovenian everywhere are glad to know that lie is enjoying it.
TRADE DOINGS
IN CLEVELAND
MANY BROADCASTERS
NORWICH, CONN., MUSIC FIRM
BUYS VALUABLE BUILDINGS
The Plaut-Cadden Co. Secures by Purchase 160,000
Square Feet of Floor Space.
The Plaut-Cadden Co., Norwich, Conn., which has
a large music department, has bought from the Henry
Bill estate the Quinebaug Building on Main street
and the Bill Block on Shetucket street, the two struc-
tures being on adjoining lots with separate street
frontages.
The company plans to expand the business and to
use the 160,000 square feet of floor space included in
the buildings. More departments will be added to
the progressive ones now constituting the business.
The Plaut-Cadden was formed in 1899, when the
jewelry business of the late Abraham Plaut was con-
solidated with the Cadden Cycle Co. The musical
interests of the company have grown wonderfully in
the past five years and the purpose of the manage-
ment is to make the music goods sections of still
greater importance in the future.
The officers of the company are: President, Ruther-
ford C. Plau-t; vice-president, Adelard Morin; secre-
tary and treasurer, Julius W. Cadden.
SOME OF THE LATE CHANGES
FINE PROGRESS OF THE
IN RETAIL PIANO TRADE
STRAUBE PIANO COMPANY
President E. R. Jacobson, Back from an Extended
Trip, Tells of Enthusiastic Trade.
E. R. Jacobson, president of the Straube Piano
Company, Hammond, Indiana, has just returned from
a trip through the east and south, calling on the trade.
Mr. Jacobson reports the greatest enthusiasm for the
Straube line and says his company is anticipating the
greatest year in its history.
The Straube Company held its annual sales meet-
ing recently and presented the advertising and mer
chandising plans for the following year to the sales
force. Whole pages in the Saturday Evening Post
will be used this year to tell the public about Straube
products.
NOW IT'S "RADIO FACE."
The beauty doctors have discovered the radio
face which they claim is fatal to the pulchritude oi
those who perform long vigils with the receiving set
The face fixers declare that lovely women acquire
strained expressions from trying to get evasive sta-
tions and that all the funny little crowsfeet about the
eye are traceable to saxophone solos and harmonica
artists who appear at the broadcasting stations. "We
positively guarantee to cure the most obstinate case
of 'radio face' in six treatments," declares the beaut>
culturist's advertisement in a Chicago newspaper.
CANADA'S MUSIC WEEK.
Music Week promoters in Canada have decided or
May 3 to 9 as the period of observance, days coinci-
dent to the holding of Music Week in the Unitec
States. The plans of the Canadian Bureau for thi
Advancement of Music extend to all the cities of im-
portance in the Dominion.
F. P. BASSETT IN CLEVELAND.
F. P. Bassett, secretary and treasurer of the M
Schulz Piano Co., 711 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago
111., left the office of that company late last week fo
a short business trip to Cleveland, Ohio.
THE BOWEN LOADER
makes of the Ford Roadster the Ideal piano truck,—most Convenient, most Economical and most Efficient.—Goes anywhere, over any
kind of roads, and distance makes no difference.
It will greatly assist any energetic Salesman, City or Country, but is indispensable for successful country work.
It's the best outfit for making collections and repossessions.
Our latest model is fool-proof and indestructible, and the price has been reduced to $95.00 including an extra good water-proof
moving cover. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
BOWEN PIANO LOADER CO.,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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).