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PRESTO
August 15, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
VOCALSTYLE RECITALS
Lillian Tyler Plogstedt, Vocalstyle Recording
Artist and Cincinnati May Festival Organ-
ist, Dedicates Organ with Series of Recitals.
The Orpheum, leading hilltop theater, and one of
the most beautiful in Cincinnati, recently finished the
installation of a wonderful new pipe organ—quite the
largest in that part of the country—built by Richard
Mathers. The organ contains every known device
for producing the myriad effects so essential to the
showing of the finest pictures, and has been acclaimed
the "last word" by the public and those engaged in
the production of the best photo drama.
Lillian Tyler Plogstedt, famous Cincinnati May
Festival organist, and nationally known as a con-
cert pianist and by her beautiful recordings in Vocal-
style Song Rolls, is giving a special series x>i recitals
every evening this week, preceding the regular per-
formance, and dedicating the new instrument to the
musical Cincinnati public.
Her appearances have made the week at the Or-
pheum one of a "Musical Festival Jubilee," and also
of great educational value in promoting interest in
the best and most inspiring music.
MAY CAN THE CAN-CAN
Absurd Proposition from Washington to Put a Ban
Upon the "Indecent" Music.
An item in the newspapers last week told of a new
move in the line of "reform." It is probably the
latest "practical joke" of some Washington corre-
spondent, but it is interesting nevertheless. The dis-
patch read as follows:
The Washington police have found still another
"don't" in the official records and are preparing to
enforce it if they can agree on what it prohibits.
From a musty file of police records someone un-
earthed a regulation forbidding "indecent music."
Evidently "indecent" music without words is meant.
Some authorities say there's no such thing, while
those who take the contrary view are far apart in de-
fining a standard of decency.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Hart held today that
words are wholly unnecessary to make music inde-
cent.
"You know what I mean," he said, "that hootchy-
kootchy sort of intonation."
Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, head of the policewomen,
had another definition.
"I refer," she said, "to that tom-tommy sort of
oriental music that makes men forget home and
babies."
ENCOURAGING SACRED MUSIC.
On Wednesday evening, August 13, comes the
great climax of 1925 Artist Series and Chautauqua
Season at the Winona Assembly and Bible Confer-
ence at Winona Lake, Ind., when Albert Spalding,
America's greatest violinist, and Alberto Salvi, the
world's greatest harpist, appear in a duo concert.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
On August 27 is the Sacred Music Contest, open to
all. The aim of the contest is to encourage all who
are interested in sacred music. Prize winning is not
the object but rather to make possible an opportunity
to "pace each other on the road to improvement" in
developing the spiritual possibilities of music.
FAVORITES IN REMICK LIST
Analysis of Sales for Country at Large Discovers In-
teresting Facts About Song Buyers' Tastes.
"Don't Bring Lulu" is a hit of Jerome J. Remick
& Co., which is having big sales in the greatest num-
ber of places at the present time. It is one of the in-
teresting discoveries in an analysis of sales for the
country at large. "Me and My Boy Friend" and
"My Best Girl" are two other winners of the publish-
ers which have no territorial limitations in calls by
customers. They are profit-makers everywhere, but
the predominance of favor for the numbers is ad-
mittedly in the states west of the R6cky Mountains.
In Milwaukee for the past four weeks the Remick
number "By the Light of the Stars" is reported a
best seller at the sheet music counters. Two Port-
land, Ore., stores consider the same number among
the four best sellers. In San Francisco sheet music
buyers give a preference to "Don't Bring Lulu" and
"Dreams," another favorite on the Remick list.
BROADCASTS' BIG BLOW=OUT
E. G. Brown, Secretary, Tells Why Live Ones
Should Not Pass Up the Pic-Nic.
Three-quarters of the successes of life are gained
by confidence, writes E. G. Brown of the Phono-
graph and Radio Association. A man with a shat-
tered morale cannot win victories. The season of
1925-26 will find the allied trades facing a new deal,
which we believe will mean a stabilization of the
business and a placing of it on a firm footing, but
we, the Association, must do our part to help the
manufacturers in the work which must be done, and
we must do our share by wiping out the past and
bucking in with renewed confidence and vigor.
Your first chance to show that you have confi-
dence and that you are ready for the battle, will be
at the gathering to be held by your association Sep-
tember 2. Come, bring your clerks, see to it that
your fellow phonograph and radio dealers also come,
and that the entire trade starts the fight with a tre-
mendous burst of enthusiasm.
SONG BOOKS FOR ADVERTISING.
Song books are among the most effective means of
advertising by local merchants during the continu-
ance of fairs or other events which attract people in
large numbers to a given point. Promoters of
county, state and other kinds of fairs, Rotarians,
Kiwanis, Lions, and organizations of that nature
which are prominent in the encouragement of civic
events find song books an interesting means for fur-
thering their efforts. When occasion requires dealers
would do well to write to the Illinois State Register,
Dept. P, Springfield, 111., for particulars about the
best line of advertising song books available for any
occasion.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
END OF "FREE TRIALS"
Dealers at Meeting in Los Angeles Hear
Radio Industry Official Give Assurances
of Bugaboo's End.
Radio dealers carrying receivers manufactured and
guaranteed by the leading companies need entertain
this year no fear of the "free trial" bugaboo which
cost these dealers heavily in the past in time, energy
and patience consumed in the installation of appa-
ratus, according to N. D. Patti of the Freed-Dise-
mann Radio Corporation, addressing the dealers of
Southern California recently, at a dinner in the Elite
restaurant, Los Angeles. Mr. Patti is a veteran in
radio merchandising and furnished the trade with
interesting data on conditions within the radio in-
dustry.
J. W. Booth of the Barker Brothers Company, Los
Angeles, made the statement that several hundred
million dollars of radio apparatus had been sold the
preceding year with little or no profit to the dealers,
and Mr. Patti explained what processes had cut into
profits. "The chief error," he declared, "was the
handling of too many lines, with many sets made by
little known companies, and these sets constantly
being serviced at cost and inconvenience to dealers.
The public has been bewildered by displays of all
kinds of sets at about the same range of price, con-
tended M. Patti. He argued that the selling of a few
guaranteed lines backed by sound sales policies and
national advertising, would insure the dealers excel-
lent profits and no ensuing nervous agonies. In
fact, continued Mr. Patti, the public within recent
months has become familiar with the situation pre-
vailing in the radio industry and now knows the re-
spective merits of the principal lines. "Very few
persons will ask for installations 'on trial' this year.
Sets of these leading makes will sell on reputation,"
said he.
Mr. Patti called attention to the increasing effi-
ciency, the better workmanship and the finer design
of the new receivers, with moderate prices made pos-
sible by large production, but made it clear that no
really new circuits had been devised, and from the
engineering standpoint no revolutionary changes had
been made. This fact, he held, should be empha-
sized in all the sales arrangements of the dealers, as
a considerable proportion of the public was holding
off in purchasing in the anticipation of "something
AN OLIVER DITSON CO. PURCHASE.
The Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, has purchased a
five-story and basement concrete building at 166-168
Terrace, corner of New Heath street, Roxbury, Mass.,
at an assessed valuation of $154,800. After the com-
pletion of alterations the company will occupy the
greater part of the building. The John Worley Co.,
a firm of music printers, will occupy one floor.
The music department of A. F. Beyer, a depart-
ment store of San Antonio, Tex., has added a sheet
music department.
REMICK SONG HITS
By the Light of the Stars
Sometime
Got No Time
Oh Say Can I See You Tonight
Sweet Georgia Brown
Swanee Butterfly
Old Pal
Don't Bring Lulu
We're Back Together Again
If I Had a Girl Like You
Everyone Home Is Asking for You
I'm Going to Charleston, Back to
Charleston
When Eyes of Blue Are Fooling You
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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PRESTO
August 15, 1925.
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
VOCALSTYLE RECITALS
Lillian Tyler Plogstedt, Vocalstyle Recording
Artist and Cincinnati May Festival Organ-
ist, Dedicates Organ with Series of Recitals.
The Orpheum, leading hilltop theater, and one of
the most beautiful in Cincinnati, recently finished the
installation of a wonderful new pipe organ—quite the
largest in that part of the country—built by Richard
Mathers. The organ contains every known device
for producing the myriad effects so essential to the
showing of the finest pictures, and has been acclaimed
the "last word" by the public and those engaged in
the production of the best photo drama.
Lillian Tyler Plogstedt, famous Cincinnati May
Festival organist, and nationally known as a con-
cert pianist and by her beautiful recordings in Vocal-
style Song Rolls, is giving a special series x>i recitals
every evening this week, preceding the regular per-
formance, and dedicating the new instrument to the
musical Cincinnati public.
Her appearances have made the week at the Or-
pheum one of a "Musical Festival Jubilee," and also
of great educational value in promoting interest in
the best and most inspiring music.
MAY CAN THE CAN-CAN
Absurd Proposition from Washington to Put a Ban
Upon the "Indecent" Music.
An item in the newspapers last week told of a new
move in the line of "reform." It is probably the
latest "practical joke" of some Washington corre-
spondent, but it is interesting nevertheless. The dis-
patch read as follows:
The Washington police have found still another
"don't" in the official records and are preparing to
enforce it if they can agree on what it prohibits.
From a musty file of police records someone un-
earthed a regulation forbidding "indecent music."
Evidently "indecent" music without words is meant.
Some authorities say there's no such thing, while
those who take the contrary view are far apart in de-
fining a standard of decency.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Hart held today that
words are wholly unnecessary to make music inde-
cent.
"You know what I mean," he said, "that hootchy-
kootchy sort of intonation."
Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, head of the policewomen,
had another definition.
"I refer," she said, "to that tom-tommy sort of
oriental music that makes men forget home and
babies."
ENCOURAGING SACRED MUSIC.
On Wednesday evening, August 13, comes the
great climax of 1925 Artist Series and Chautauqua
Season at the Winona Assembly and Bible Confer-
ence at Winona Lake, Ind., when Albert Spalding,
America's greatest violinist, and Alberto Salvi, the
world's greatest harpist, appear in a duo concert.
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
On August 27 is the Sacred Music Contest, open to
all. The aim of the contest is to encourage all who
are interested in sacred music. Prize winning is not
the object but rather to make possible an opportunity
to "pace each other on the road to improvement" in
developing the spiritual possibilities of music.
FAVORITES IN REMICK LIST
Analysis of Sales for Country at Large Discovers In-
teresting Facts About Song Buyers' Tastes.
"Don't Bring Lulu" is a hit of Jerome J. Remick
& Co., which is having big sales in the greatest num-
ber of places at the present time. It is one of the in-
teresting discoveries in an analysis of sales for the
country at large. "Me and My Boy Friend" and
"My Best Girl" are two other winners of the publish-
ers which have no territorial limitations in calls by
customers. They are profit-makers everywhere, but
the predominance of favor for the numbers is ad-
mittedly in the states west of the R6cky Mountains.
In Milwaukee for the past four weeks the Remick
number "By the Light of the Stars" is reported a
best seller at the sheet music counters. Two Port-
land, Ore., stores consider the same number among
the four best sellers. In San Francisco sheet music
buyers give a preference to "Don't Bring Lulu" and
"Dreams," another favorite on the Remick list.
BROADCASTS' BIG BLOW=OUT
E. G. Brown, Secretary, Tells Why Live Ones
Should Not Pass Up the Pic-Nic.
Three-quarters of the successes of life are gained
by confidence, writes E. G. Brown of the Phono-
graph and Radio Association. A man with a shat-
tered morale cannot win victories. The season of
1925-26 will find the allied trades facing a new deal,
which we believe will mean a stabilization of the
business and a placing of it on a firm footing, but
we, the Association, must do our part to help the
manufacturers in the work which must be done, and
we must do our share by wiping out the past and
bucking in with renewed confidence and vigor.
Your first chance to show that you have confi-
dence and that you are ready for the battle, will be
at the gathering to be held by your association Sep-
tember 2. Come, bring your clerks, see to it that
your fellow phonograph and radio dealers also come,
and that the entire trade starts the fight with a tre-
mendous burst of enthusiasm.
SONG BOOKS FOR ADVERTISING.
Song books are among the most effective means of
advertising by local merchants during the continu-
ance of fairs or other events which attract people in
large numbers to a given point. Promoters of
county, state and other kinds of fairs, Rotarians,
Kiwanis, Lions, and organizations of that nature
which are prominent in the encouragement of civic
events find song books an interesting means for fur-
thering their efforts. When occasion requires dealers
would do well to write to the Illinois State Register,
Dept. P, Springfield, 111., for particulars about the
best line of advertising song books available for any
occasion.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
END OF "FREE TRIALS"
Dealers at Meeting in Los Angeles Hear
Radio Industry Official Give Assurances
of Bugaboo's End.
Radio dealers carrying receivers manufactured and
guaranteed by the leading companies need entertain
this year no fear of the "free trial" bugaboo which
cost these dealers heavily in the past in time, energy
and patience consumed in the installation of appa-
ratus, according to N. D. Patti of the Freed-Dise-
mann Radio Corporation, addressing the dealers of
Southern California recently, at a dinner in the Elite
restaurant, Los Angeles. Mr. Patti is a veteran in
radio merchandising and furnished the trade with
interesting data on conditions within the radio in-
dustry.
J. W. Booth of the Barker Brothers Company, Los
Angeles, made the statement that several hundred
million dollars of radio apparatus had been sold the
preceding year with little or no profit to the dealers,
and Mr. Patti explained what processes had cut into
profits. "The chief error," he declared, "was the
handling of too many lines, with many sets made by
little known companies, and these sets constantly
being serviced at cost and inconvenience to dealers.
The public has been bewildered by displays of all
kinds of sets at about the same range of price, con-
tended M. Patti. He argued that the selling of a few
guaranteed lines backed by sound sales policies and
national advertising, would insure the dealers excel-
lent profits and no ensuing nervous agonies. In
fact, continued Mr. Patti, the public within recent
months has become familiar with the situation pre-
vailing in the radio industry and now knows the re-
spective merits of the principal lines. "Very few
persons will ask for installations 'on trial' this year.
Sets of these leading makes will sell on reputation,"
said he.
Mr. Patti called attention to the increasing effi-
ciency, the better workmanship and the finer design
of the new receivers, with moderate prices made pos-
sible by large production, but made it clear that no
really new circuits had been devised, and from the
engineering standpoint no revolutionary changes had
been made. This fact, he held, should be empha-
sized in all the sales arrangements of the dealers, as
a considerable proportion of the public was holding
off in purchasing in the anticipation of "something
AN OLIVER DITSON CO. PURCHASE.
The Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, has purchased a
five-story and basement concrete building at 166-168
Terrace, corner of New Heath street, Roxbury, Mass.,
at an assessed valuation of $154,800. After the com-
pletion of alterations the company will occupy the
greater part of the building. The John Worley Co.,
a firm of music printers, will occupy one floor.
The music department of A. F. Beyer, a depart-
ment store of San Antonio, Tex., has added a sheet
music department.
REMICK SONG HITS
By the Light of the Stars
Sometime
Got No Time
Oh Say Can I See You Tonight
Sweet Georgia Brown
Swanee Butterfly
Old Pal
Don't Bring Lulu
We're Back Together Again
If I Had a Girl Like You
Everyone Home Is Asking for You
I'm Going to Charleston, Back to
Charleston
When Eyes of Blue Are Fooling You
Isn't She the Sweetest Thing
J. H. REMICK & CO.
New York
Chicago
Detroit
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).