Presto
Issue: 1927 2126 - Page 4
April 30, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
LATEST PLANS FOR
JUNE CONVENTION
Golf Tournament at Olympia Fields, Big
Luncheon on Opening Day and Provisions
for Great Audience at Children's
Piano Contest Provided for.
PIANO CLUB ACTIVITIES
Plans of Chicago Committee of Arrangements Give
Promise of Week of Surprising Interest at Mer-
chants and Industries Convention.
The activities of the Piano Club of Chicago Com-
mittee of Arrangements for the June convention are
accumulating week by week. This committee, ap-
pointed by President Gordon Laughead of the club, is
composed of the following members, with the presi-
dent of the club as chairman: Harry Bibb, Roger
O'Connor and G. R. Brownell, with advisory com-
mittees ad. lib. from time to time.
The Piano Club, therefore, which, through this
committee, sponsors the local arrangements for con-
vention week, now meets every Monday just after
the noonday luncheons at its Illinois Athletic rooms.
At these sessions plans for every phase of conven-
tion activity and entertainment is brought out. dis-
cussed, and so far as possible, decided upon.
to one of the test exhibitions, made the remark to one
of the "committee of three," who, himself, was con-
nected with the piano department of Lyon & Healy,
that if his boy was so fortunate as to be voted a gold
medal winner he would at once purchase for him a
certain small Steinway grand piano which the sales-
man had been showing him.
The boy, a really talented youngster, won the
coveted gold medal, and Monday morning, true to his
word, the father ordered the instrument delivered.
A Contest Exhibition.
The club was again given an opportunity to hear
one of the gold medal winners go through the pre-
scribed piano pieces required of contestants, and also
the piece selected by the contestants to play for the
jurors. This little girl was Jeanette Shearer, who
was passed by the jurors at one of the tests in the
second grade exhibition last week. The girl was
complimented by her listeners and given the usual
wishes for her final success at later elimination tests
and finals.
Flowers for Mrs. Bent.
Learning that the fifty-first anniversary of the mar-
riage of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Bent was on that
( Monday) day. it was proposed to send flowers but
later a member suggested that the flowers be sent
to Mrs. Bent, at the Bent home in Los Angeles, and
accordingly a wire for flowers was at once dis-
patched.
Events in Stevens Ball Room.
At a meeting of the Supervising Committee of the
Playing Tournament recently held at the offices of
Chas. E. Byrne, of Steger & Sous, the suggestion of
having the Grand Final of the tournament staged at
the Stevens Hotel was approved. This event will,
The Golf Tournament.
therefore, be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Stev-
At the meeting last Monday it was practically
ens Wednesday evening, June 8, instead of at the
decided to have a golf tournament at Olympia Fields,
Coliseum, as originally planned.
with a luncheon. James T.- Bristol was made chair-
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce has
man of the golf committee and to him and his com- sanctioned the use of the Stevens Hotel ballroom, and
mittee is left the matter of prizes' and other details
the hotel management has also O.K.'d the proposi-
of the game, which will take place on Friday, June 9.
tion, thus settling this rather important problem. The
The opening of convention week will be the occa-
Grand Ballroom of the Stevens has a normal seating
sion of a luncheon Monday noon, at the Stevens
capacity of 3,600, but the Stevens management has
Hotel, at two dollars a plate. Tables may be reserved
agreed to supply some two thousand more seats,
for this luncheon and, as it will be an important event
so at least five thousand persons will be able to wit-
in the way of speeches and entertainment, there will ness the Grand Finals of the Children's Piano Play-
be a rally to secure reserved tables and good loca- ing Contest, on the night of Wednesday, June 8.
tions.
For the convenience of delegates to the big con-
Big Attendance Assured
vention, and their friends and relatives a special block
Gordon Laughead, chairman of the committee- of
of 400 seats will be reserved. There will be no ad-
arrangements, spoke of the great interest manifested
mission charge to anybody, but all those who are
in the convention from all over the country. Cali- admitted will have received in advance their quota
fornia promises a good-sized delegation: New York-
of special invitation tickets.
is going to respond well, and a letter from Parnhaui
The thirty children (ten in each classification) who
Werlein, New Orleans, is filled with enthusiasm
win the semi-finals the third or fourth week in May
over the prospects of a good attendance from that
will participate in the grand finals.
section, which, he trusts, conditions will permit.
Medals Instead of Rings.
It is urged that persons intending to be at the con-
Another ruling made this week was that the semi-
vention make reservations early, if they desire to
stop at the Stevens, especially if they want one of final winners, instead of getting diamond rings, would
be presented with diamond medals. And with the
the $3.50 per day rooms, as there is only a limited
medal goes the privilege of competing in the grand
number of accommodations at that rate.
finals.
Piano Playing Tournament.
It is urged that every one who can get to the
But the Piano Club's immediate interest, and which
Piano Club next Monday be there, as Joe E. Brown
President Laughead says should be first in the heart
of "Twinkle, Twinkle," the Erlanger musical farce,
of every club member, centers in the goings-on in
will be the guest of honor and a rare treat is prom-
connection with the Children's Piano Playing Tour-
ised.
nament in Chicago. The committees for each week
are now made up; in fact there were more offerings
last Monday than were required to take care of this
week's recitals.
The committees find it a pleasant occasion to take
part in an affair so close to the piano business. Nu-
merous "prospects" are being secured at these gath-
erings and acquaintances made there.
One tangible result was related last Monday where
the father of a ten-year-old son whom lie had brought
CHRISTMAN
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
AND REPRODUCING
PIANOS
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO., Inc.
597 East 137th Street.
NEW YORK
CHASE=HACKLEY CO.
- STOCK INCREASE
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3:7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Office*:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
932 Republic Bldgr.
HEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bid*.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
A New Issue of Securities is Planned for the Old
Piano Industry at Muskegon, Mich.
The Chase-Hackley Piano Company of Muskegon,
Mich., has filed notice with Oscar Berg, county clerk
at that place, of an increase of $50,000 in the capital
stock of the corporation. The action was taken at a
meeting held April 12 at which time upwards of
two-thirds of the capital stock was represented. Most
of the stock in the company is owned or controlled
by William Mann, president of the company, who
resides in Pasadena, Cal.
The $50,000 issue is to be stock of non par value
and brings the total capitalization of the company
to $260,000. Of the $210,000 preferred stock. $38,000
is placed in Class A, $72,000 in Class B. and $100,000
in Class C. The Class C preferred stock is subject
to redemption at par value January 15, 1935.
THE JEWETT PIANOS
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston
Factories: Leominster, Mass.
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
formation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing Pianos.
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PRESTO-TIMES
LATEST PLANS FOR
JUNE CONVENTION
Golf Tournament at Olympia Fields, Big
Luncheon on Opening Day and Provisions
for Great Audience at Children's
Piano Contest Provided for.
PIANO CLUB ACTIVITIES
Plans of Chicago Committee of Arrangements Give
Promise of Week of Surprising Interest at Mer-
chants and Industries Convention.
The activities of the Piano Club of Chicago Com-
mittee of Arrangements for the June convention are
accumulating week by week. This committee, ap-
pointed by President Gordon Laughead of the club, is
composed of the following members, with the presi-
dent of the club as chairman: Harry Bibb, Roger
O'Connor and G. R. Brownell, with advisory com-
mittees ad. lib. from time to time.
The Piano Club, therefore, which, through this
committee, sponsors the local arrangements for con-
vention week, now meets every Monday just after
the noonday luncheons at its Illinois Athletic rooms.
At these sessions plans for every phase of conven-
tion activity and entertainment is brought out. dis-
cussed, and so far as possible, decided upon.
to one of the test exhibitions, made the remark to one
of the "committee of three," who, himself, was con-
nected with the piano department of Lyon & Healy,
that if his boy was so fortunate as to be voted a gold
medal winner he would at once purchase for him a
certain small Steinway grand piano which the sales-
man had been showing him.
The boy, a really talented youngster, won the
coveted gold medal, and Monday morning, true to his
word, the father ordered the instrument delivered.
A Contest Exhibition.
The club was again given an opportunity to hear
one of the gold medal winners go through the pre-
scribed piano pieces required of contestants, and also
the piece selected by the contestants to play for the
jurors. This little girl was Jeanette Shearer, who
was passed by the jurors at one of the tests in the
second grade exhibition last week. The girl was
complimented by her listeners and given the usual
wishes for her final success at later elimination tests
and finals.
Flowers for Mrs. Bent.
Learning that the fifty-first anniversary of the mar-
riage of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Bent was on that
( Monday) day. it was proposed to send flowers but
later a member suggested that the flowers be sent
to Mrs. Bent, at the Bent home in Los Angeles, and
accordingly a wire for flowers was at once dis-
patched.
Events in Stevens Ball Room.
At a meeting of the Supervising Committee of the
Playing Tournament recently held at the offices of
Chas. E. Byrne, of Steger & Sous, the suggestion of
having the Grand Final of the tournament staged at
the Stevens Hotel was approved. This event will,
The Golf Tournament.
therefore, be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Stev-
At the meeting last Monday it was practically
ens Wednesday evening, June 8, instead of at the
decided to have a golf tournament at Olympia Fields,
Coliseum, as originally planned.
with a luncheon. James T.- Bristol was made chair-
The Music Industries Chamber of Commerce has
man of the golf committee and to him and his com- sanctioned the use of the Stevens Hotel ballroom, and
mittee is left the matter of prizes' and other details
the hotel management has also O.K.'d the proposi-
of the game, which will take place on Friday, June 9.
tion, thus settling this rather important problem. The
The opening of convention week will be the occa-
Grand Ballroom of the Stevens has a normal seating
sion of a luncheon Monday noon, at the Stevens
capacity of 3,600, but the Stevens management has
Hotel, at two dollars a plate. Tables may be reserved
agreed to supply some two thousand more seats,
for this luncheon and, as it will be an important event
so at least five thousand persons will be able to wit-
in the way of speeches and entertainment, there will ness the Grand Finals of the Children's Piano Play-
be a rally to secure reserved tables and good loca- ing Contest, on the night of Wednesday, June 8.
tions.
For the convenience of delegates to the big con-
Big Attendance Assured
vention, and their friends and relatives a special block
Gordon Laughead, chairman of the committee- of
of 400 seats will be reserved. There will be no ad-
arrangements, spoke of the great interest manifested
mission charge to anybody, but all those who are
in the convention from all over the country. Cali- admitted will have received in advance their quota
fornia promises a good-sized delegation: New York-
of special invitation tickets.
is going to respond well, and a letter from Parnhaui
The thirty children (ten in each classification) who
Werlein, New Orleans, is filled with enthusiasm
win the semi-finals the third or fourth week in May
over the prospects of a good attendance from that
will participate in the grand finals.
section, which, he trusts, conditions will permit.
Medals Instead of Rings.
It is urged that persons intending to be at the con-
Another ruling made this week was that the semi-
vention make reservations early, if they desire to
stop at the Stevens, especially if they want one of final winners, instead of getting diamond rings, would
be presented with diamond medals. And with the
the $3.50 per day rooms, as there is only a limited
medal goes the privilege of competing in the grand
number of accommodations at that rate.
finals.
Piano Playing Tournament.
It is urged that every one who can get to the
But the Piano Club's immediate interest, and which
Piano Club next Monday be there, as Joe E. Brown
President Laughead says should be first in the heart
of "Twinkle, Twinkle," the Erlanger musical farce,
of every club member, centers in the goings-on in
will be the guest of honor and a rare treat is prom-
connection with the Children's Piano Playing Tour-
ised.
nament in Chicago. The committees for each week
are now made up; in fact there were more offerings
last Monday than were required to take care of this
week's recitals.
The committees find it a pleasant occasion to take
part in an affair so close to the piano business. Nu-
merous "prospects" are being secured at these gath-
erings and acquaintances made there.
One tangible result was related last Monday where
the father of a ten-year-old son whom lie had brought
CHRISTMAN
UPRIGHTS, GRANDS, PLAYERS
AND REPRODUCING
PIANOS
THE FAMOUS "STUDIO GRAND"
"The First Touch Tells"
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
CHRISTMAN PIANO CO., Inc.
597 East 137th Street.
NEW YORK
CHASE=HACKLEY CO.
- STOCK INCREASE
SCHILLER
A GREAT NAME—A GREAT PIANO
THE SCHILLER
Makes Friends, Makes Customers, Makes
Money, for the Dealer
Super-Grands, Medium Grands, Small
Grands. Full Plate Uprights; Medium
Uprights; Small (3:7) Uprights.
Reproducing Grands, Uprights and
Players
Grands with the Famous Bauer
Patented Construction
The SCHILLER PIANO challenges
superiority in tone quality as in construc-
tion, workmanship, finish and appearance.
For Agency Proposition and All
Particulars, address
SCHILLER PIANO COMPANY
Factory and General Office*:
OREGON, ILLINOIS
CHICAGO OFFICE:
State and Adams Sts.
932 Republic Bldgr.
HEW YORK OFFICE:
130 W. 42nd St.
Bush Terminal Bid*.
STRICH & ZEIDLER, Inc.
GRAND, UPRIGHT and PLAYER
AND
HOMER PIANOS
740-742 East 136th Street
NEW YORK
BRINKERHOFF
Grands - Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
A New Issue of Securities is Planned for the Old
Piano Industry at Muskegon, Mich.
The Chase-Hackley Piano Company of Muskegon,
Mich., has filed notice with Oscar Berg, county clerk
at that place, of an increase of $50,000 in the capital
stock of the corporation. The action was taken at a
meeting held April 12 at which time upwards of
two-thirds of the capital stock was represented. Most
of the stock in the company is owned or controlled
by William Mann, president of the company, who
resides in Pasadena, Cal.
The $50,000 issue is to be stock of non par value
and brings the total capitalization of the company
to $260,000. Of the $210,000 preferred stock. $38,000
is placed in Class A, $72,000 in Class B. and $100,000
in Class C. The Class C preferred stock is subject
to redemption at par value January 15, 1935.
THE JEWETT PIANOS
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
Reliable Grand, Upright and Player Pianos
JEWETT PIANO CO., Boston
Factories: Leominster, Mass.
Refer to Presto Buyers' Guide for in-
formation about all Pianos, Players and
Reproducing Pianos.
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).