Presto
Issue: 1925 2040 - Page 25
August 29, 1925.
PRESTO
25
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
J. X. HEARST ARRESTED
Former Head of Defunct Music Publishing
House Faces Charges of Various Kinds
by Canadian Authorities.
Joseph X. Hearst, former head of the defunct
Hearst Music Publishing Co., of Canada, for whom
a warrant to arrest has been awaiting service for
some months, recently surrendered to the Winnipeg
authorities. Hearst has been missing since Decem-
ber, 1924, when an investigation of his affairs re-
vealed a complete financial collapse of the corpora-
tion. Hearst faces charges of misappropriation of
funds, with obtaining $40,000 by false pretence and
in a civil action with negligence, malfeasance and
breach of duty as an officer of the company.
In a statement given out by Hearst before he
surrendered he said he "can account for every cop-
per received by the company," and also tell where it
went, and added, "It will be difficult to find where
there has been any personal gain for Joe Hearst."
A statement issued by a firm of accountants after
the crash of the Hearst Music Publishing Co. stated
that the huge business reported as having been done
by the company was almost wholly fictitious. The
books set the business for 1924 at $583,000, of which
$542,000 was bogus. The assets of the company
were placed at $30,023 and the liabilities at $46,854.
REMICK SONGS IN PORTLAND
Clever Arrangements of Recent Hits for Production
on Theater Organs Increases the Sales.
Ernie Russell, organist of the Liberty Theater,
Portland, Ore., is making the house more popular by
his playing of three Remick songs in arrangements
following his own effective style. At the same time
the Remick numbers, "Sometime," "Oh, Can I See
You Tonight," and "By the Light of the Stars," are
being increased in sale at the sheet music counters.
At the Rivoli Theater in the same city, Liborius
Hauptmann, the music director, is producing his
arrangement of Remick's "Sometime," with which he
uses slides. "Sometime" is the best seller at the sheet
music counter of the Sieberling-Lucas Music Co.,
according to Maybell Elliott, the manager.
RAISE RATE ON RADIO SETS
Freight Tariffs Increased from 20 to 50% by Com-
merce Board at Washington.
Radio receiving sets acquired a definite place in
railroad freight schedules and became subject to
higher freight rates in a decision by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The decision increased the rates on radio sets and
talking machines combined in less than carload lots
from first-class rate to one and one-half times the
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
first-class rate. In many cases the increase would
be 50 per cent. When shipped in carload lots the in-
crease would be about 20 per cent. The commission
held that the practice of shipping radio sets and talk-
ing machines combined as second-class with a mini-
mum weight of 16,000 pounds per carload should
remain unchanged.
The case was brouht before the commission when
carriers published new freight schedules raising the
radio classification. Operation of the schedules was
suspended on protest of the Radio Corporation of
America, the Radio Manufacturers' Association of
Chicago, the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
and others. Today's decision ordered these new
schedules canceled.
Radio receiving sets heretofore have been shipped
as electric appliances and musical instruments.
ARTISTIC RADIO CABINETS
New Catalog of Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.,
Elgin, 111., Filled with Suggestions for Dealer.
An important feature of the present business of the
Elgin Phonograph and Novelty Co., Elgin, 111., is the
interest of the trade in the company's fine line of radio
tables, cabinets and consoles. These commodities,
manufactured in a large way, are remarkable for
artistic novelty in design as well as for their thor-
oughness in construction.
The designers of the Elgin Phonograph & Novelty
Co. closely follow the requirements of the radio
manufacturers as to form and measurements and the
tastes of the radio buyers as discovered by continu-
ous inquiry in the trade. The cabinet work of the
craftsmen in the factory of the Elgin industry is
acknowledged to be of a superior kind by prominent
manufacturers of radio and by representative dealers
in all parts of the country. A very desirable line of
cabinets, consoles and tables for sale to amateur
builders of radio receiving sets is manufactured by
the Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co., whose new
catalog is filled with suggestions for the alert music
dealer.
AMERICAN COPYRIGHT INFRINGED.
A judgment for infringement of four American
songs was handed down by Justice Roche in the
King's Bench Division, London, recently.
The
action was by Francis Day & Hunter vs. Lewis
Citron and the Graphophone Record Accessories.
The infringement complained of was offering for
sale records of the works in question, "O Katharina,"
"Haunting Melody," "Follow the Swallow," "Let it
Rain, Let it Pour. The court granted an injunction
restraining the defendants from selling or distrib-
uting any of the records that infringed the plaintiff's
copyright, ordered an inquiry as to damages, and
delivery up of all records in question.
FAVORS LAW LICENSING TEACHERS.
The Michigan Music Teachers' Association, which
concluded its annual convention in Detroit last week,
after a three-day session, declared itself unanimously
in favor of a state law requiring the licensing of
music teachers in Michigan and appointed a com-
mittee to consider the best means of promoting such
legislation.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
V
est /
Music Printers (
Gladly Furnished
yon Any thing in Music
WestbfNewYorkV
ANY PUBLISHER
OUR REFERENCE
^^
>/
. WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
2054-2060 W.Lake St.,Chicago,Ill.
NEW RADIOTRON TYPES
Radio Corporation of America Describes
Three New Numbers to Line of Radio-
trons and Two Rectifier Tubes.
The Radio Corporation of America announces the
introduction of three new types of Radiotrons de-
signed especially for audio-frequency amplification
and two new types of rectifier tubes to be marketed
under the trade-name "Rectron," the latter intended
for use in "B" Battery Eliminators and other similar
devices for obtaining filament grid and plate voltages
from A. C. lighting circuits.
Radiotron UX-120 is a new dry battery amplifier
tube designed to provide increased loud speaker vol-
ume and improved quality of reproduction from dry
battery operated sets.
Through the use of a special adapter shortly to be
put on sale, UX-120 may be employed in the last
audio stage of RCA Super Heterodyne and Super
VIII and other sets using the UV-199 Tube.
Radiotron UX-112 has been developed to meet a
demand for increased loud speaker volume and im-
proved quality of reproduction from radio sets oper-
ated by storage batteries, where UV-201-A is now
used in the last audio stage. As an audio-amplifier,
UX-112 occupies a position midway between the dry
battery pow r er amplifier, UX-120, and the A. C power
amplifier, UX-210.
Radiotron UX-210 is a super-power amplifying
tube of exceptional merit designed to produce loud
speaker volume considerably in excess of that ob-
tainable with present types of tubes and to give un-
distorted output at such volume.
Radiotron UX-210 is a power tube of exceptional
long life and of such characteristics that it may also
be used for amateur radio transmission.
Rectron UX-216-B is a high power (60 milliani-
pere output) single wave rectifier, a new develop-
ment which will be employed in the new rectifier-
amplifier units for the operation of high power loud
speakers. A tube of the general characteristics, con-
struction and operating life of UX-216-B is not to be
confounded with certain inferior types of rectifier
tubes which have appeared on the market and which
have been found to have extremely short operating
life, under the strain imposed by "B" battery elimi-
nators.
Rectron UX-213 is a double-way rectifier giving
outputs of approximately 50 milliamperes.
Radiotron UX-874, UV-876, UV-877. This group
of tubes are of a special type for regulation of line
voltage, plate voltage and for protection of the plate
circuits in certain new additions to the Radiola line
to be announced in the near future the announcement
states.
Edgar F. Heffner recently engaged in the music
business in Lock Haven, Pa., as the successor to
Hilton & Heffner.
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
25
SHEET MUSIC AND RADIO
J. X. HEARST ARRESTED
Former Head of Defunct Music Publishing
House Faces Charges of Various Kinds
by Canadian Authorities.
Joseph X. Hearst, former head of the defunct
Hearst Music Publishing Co., of Canada, for whom
a warrant to arrest has been awaiting service for
some months, recently surrendered to the Winnipeg
authorities. Hearst has been missing since Decem-
ber, 1924, when an investigation of his affairs re-
vealed a complete financial collapse of the corpora-
tion. Hearst faces charges of misappropriation of
funds, with obtaining $40,000 by false pretence and
in a civil action with negligence, malfeasance and
breach of duty as an officer of the company.
In a statement given out by Hearst before he
surrendered he said he "can account for every cop-
per received by the company," and also tell where it
went, and added, "It will be difficult to find where
there has been any personal gain for Joe Hearst."
A statement issued by a firm of accountants after
the crash of the Hearst Music Publishing Co. stated
that the huge business reported as having been done
by the company was almost wholly fictitious. The
books set the business for 1924 at $583,000, of which
$542,000 was bogus. The assets of the company
were placed at $30,023 and the liabilities at $46,854.
REMICK SONGS IN PORTLAND
Clever Arrangements of Recent Hits for Production
on Theater Organs Increases the Sales.
Ernie Russell, organist of the Liberty Theater,
Portland, Ore., is making the house more popular by
his playing of three Remick songs in arrangements
following his own effective style. At the same time
the Remick numbers, "Sometime," "Oh, Can I See
You Tonight," and "By the Light of the Stars," are
being increased in sale at the sheet music counters.
At the Rivoli Theater in the same city, Liborius
Hauptmann, the music director, is producing his
arrangement of Remick's "Sometime," with which he
uses slides. "Sometime" is the best seller at the sheet
music counter of the Sieberling-Lucas Music Co.,
according to Maybell Elliott, the manager.
RAISE RATE ON RADIO SETS
Freight Tariffs Increased from 20 to 50% by Com-
merce Board at Washington.
Radio receiving sets acquired a definite place in
railroad freight schedules and became subject to
higher freight rates in a decision by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The decision increased the rates on radio sets and
talking machines combined in less than carload lots
from first-class rate to one and one-half times the
Manufacturers of
RADIO
Tables
Cabinets
Consoles
Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.
Elgin, 111.
first-class rate. In many cases the increase would
be 50 per cent. When shipped in carload lots the in-
crease would be about 20 per cent. The commission
held that the practice of shipping radio sets and talk-
ing machines combined as second-class with a mini-
mum weight of 16,000 pounds per carload should
remain unchanged.
The case was brouht before the commission when
carriers published new freight schedules raising the
radio classification. Operation of the schedules was
suspended on protest of the Radio Corporation of
America, the Radio Manufacturers' Association of
Chicago, the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
and others. Today's decision ordered these new
schedules canceled.
Radio receiving sets heretofore have been shipped
as electric appliances and musical instruments.
ARTISTIC RADIO CABINETS
New Catalog of Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co.,
Elgin, 111., Filled with Suggestions for Dealer.
An important feature of the present business of the
Elgin Phonograph and Novelty Co., Elgin, 111., is the
interest of the trade in the company's fine line of radio
tables, cabinets and consoles. These commodities,
manufactured in a large way, are remarkable for
artistic novelty in design as well as for their thor-
oughness in construction.
The designers of the Elgin Phonograph & Novelty
Co. closely follow the requirements of the radio
manufacturers as to form and measurements and the
tastes of the radio buyers as discovered by continu-
ous inquiry in the trade. The cabinet work of the
craftsmen in the factory of the Elgin industry is
acknowledged to be of a superior kind by prominent
manufacturers of radio and by representative dealers
in all parts of the country. A very desirable line of
cabinets, consoles and tables for sale to amateur
builders of radio receiving sets is manufactured by
the Elgin Phonograph & Novelty Co., whose new
catalog is filled with suggestions for the alert music
dealer.
AMERICAN COPYRIGHT INFRINGED.
A judgment for infringement of four American
songs was handed down by Justice Roche in the
King's Bench Division, London, recently.
The
action was by Francis Day & Hunter vs. Lewis
Citron and the Graphophone Record Accessories.
The infringement complained of was offering for
sale records of the works in question, "O Katharina,"
"Haunting Melody," "Follow the Swallow," "Let it
Rain, Let it Pour. The court granted an injunction
restraining the defendants from selling or distrib-
uting any of the records that infringed the plaintiff's
copyright, ordered an inquiry as to damages, and
delivery up of all records in question.
FAVORS LAW LICENSING TEACHERS.
The Michigan Music Teachers' Association, which
concluded its annual convention in Detroit last week,
after a three-day session, declared itself unanimously
in favor of a state law requiring the licensing of
music teachers in Michigan and appointed a com-
mittee to consider the best means of promoting such
legislation.
To Piano Makers
and Dealers/
For best advertising Song Books for
Fairs, etc., write to the Illinois State
Register, Dept. P, Springfield, Illinois
V
est /
Music Printers (
Gladly Furnished
yon Any thing in Music
WestbfNewYorkV
ANY PUBLISHER
OUR REFERENCE
^^
>/
. WORK DONE BY
ALL PROCESSES
2054-2060 W.Lake St.,Chicago,Ill.
NEW RADIOTRON TYPES
Radio Corporation of America Describes
Three New Numbers to Line of Radio-
trons and Two Rectifier Tubes.
The Radio Corporation of America announces the
introduction of three new types of Radiotrons de-
signed especially for audio-frequency amplification
and two new types of rectifier tubes to be marketed
under the trade-name "Rectron," the latter intended
for use in "B" Battery Eliminators and other similar
devices for obtaining filament grid and plate voltages
from A. C. lighting circuits.
Radiotron UX-120 is a new dry battery amplifier
tube designed to provide increased loud speaker vol-
ume and improved quality of reproduction from dry
battery operated sets.
Through the use of a special adapter shortly to be
put on sale, UX-120 may be employed in the last
audio stage of RCA Super Heterodyne and Super
VIII and other sets using the UV-199 Tube.
Radiotron UX-112 has been developed to meet a
demand for increased loud speaker volume and im-
proved quality of reproduction from radio sets oper-
ated by storage batteries, where UV-201-A is now
used in the last audio stage. As an audio-amplifier,
UX-112 occupies a position midway between the dry
battery pow r er amplifier, UX-120, and the A. C power
amplifier, UX-210.
Radiotron UX-210 is a super-power amplifying
tube of exceptional merit designed to produce loud
speaker volume considerably in excess of that ob-
tainable with present types of tubes and to give un-
distorted output at such volume.
Radiotron UX-210 is a power tube of exceptional
long life and of such characteristics that it may also
be used for amateur radio transmission.
Rectron UX-216-B is a high power (60 milliani-
pere output) single wave rectifier, a new develop-
ment which will be employed in the new rectifier-
amplifier units for the operation of high power loud
speakers. A tube of the general characteristics, con-
struction and operating life of UX-216-B is not to be
confounded with certain inferior types of rectifier
tubes which have appeared on the market and which
have been found to have extremely short operating
life, under the strain imposed by "B" battery elimi-
nators.
Rectron UX-213 is a double-way rectifier giving
outputs of approximately 50 milliamperes.
Radiotron UX-874, UV-876, UV-877. This group
of tubes are of a special type for regulation of line
voltage, plate voltage and for protection of the plate
circuits in certain new additions to the Radiola line
to be announced in the near future the announcement
states.
Edgar F. Heffner recently engaged in the music
business in Lock Haven, Pa., as the successor to
Hilton & Heffner.
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).