Presto

June 16, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
KNABE PIANO FOR BIG THEATER
Comprehensive Display of Art and Period
Pianos and Ensembles at Belmont Was a
Most Attractive Feature of Convention.
A wonderful display of period designs was made by
the Jesse French & Sons Piano Co. of New Castle,
lnd., at the Hotel Be'mont the week of the convention
in New York. H. Edgar French was in charge, and
an interesting piano man encountered there was Ra-
mon G. Yalazquez, of Mexico City, Mex., represent-
ing the Jesse French line as well as the Knabe,
Mason & Hamlin, Chickering, Haines, Franklin, Mar-
shall & Wendell and Foster instruments.
"There are no insurrections in Mexico now." said
Mr. Yalazquez to the Presto-Times man, "and I find
I hat conditions are improving. The whole situation
in Mexico is one of very rapid improvement with re-
gard to building fine roads and a tremendous im-
provement in the school system.
"We are not wild people down there, as may have
been falsely reported at times in press dispatches. Up
here you use armored cars to move cash in bulk from
one bank to another, do you not? Well, down home
it is no uncommon sight to see a man carrying a
sack of money over his shoulder as a northerner
might carry a bag of potatoes. That right on the
streets of Mexico City, too."
Styles Shown.
To get back to this wonderful exhibit: It included
UPPER LiEKT: Ktf ITU'S HIPPODItOME THKATEK, NEW YOliK CTTY. UPPER RIGHT: E. V. ALBEE TlfEA-
a Louis XVI suite, furniture and all—everything
TKR, HUOOKLYN, N. Y. LOWER LEKT : F. F. PROCTOR'S S6TH STREET THEATER. NEW YORK CITY.
made to match in the Jesse French plant. In fact,
LOWER RTGHT: V. F. PROCTOR'S THEATER. NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. CENTER.: KEITH-ALBEE THEATER,
there were three of these suites—a Queen Anne, a
WHITE PLAINS. N. Y. •
Louis XVI, and a Spanish. These suites are made
The Knabe piano is used exclusively in five of the York City, contains three Knabe grand pianos. The with a uniformity—everything in the same style as
E. F. Albee Theater, Brooklyn, N. Y., has four Knabe the piano, made as a whole, everything that goes
most representative houses in the New York metro-
with the piano. This ought to have a tremendous
politan district featuring Keith Vaudeville. The five grand pianos. K. F. Proctor's 96th Street Theater, appeal to persons of taste who want a suite of this
New York city, has four Knabe grand pianos. The
houses pictured above have a combined seating capac-
Keith-Albee Theater in White Plains, N. Y., and kind. It saves shopping around for styles to match
ity of 19,047, the famous Hippodrome alone providing
and then not matching them exactly.
E. F. Proctor's Theater at New Rochelle, N. Y., each
seats- for 6,100 persons. Keith's Hippodrome, New use one Knabe grand piano.
Besides these suites with the period grand as the
masterpiece, were a Lagonda grand and the Italian
grand, the modified Heppelwhite period style. Mr.
being very competent salesmen.
French had his show on the mezzanine floor, easy of
Thor's Music Shop has surprised the piano manu- access, and it drew well.
facturers by the large number of pianos sold in this
A Noncommittal Answer.
territory. Thor's Music Shop finds heavy sales in
N.
R.
Luther,
of Wood & Brooks, Buffalo, N. Y.,
smaller communities by going out after the business.
was met in the Jesse Franch & Sons Piano Co.'s
Energetic Methods of Manistee, Mich., Dealer Result
showrooms in the Belmont Hotel. He is as full of his
KIMBALL BRANCH IN BALTIMORE.
in B!gger Sales in Territory.
The W. \Y. Kimball Company, Chicago, will open jokes as ever, and when he was asked about trade
From a small beginning eight years ago, Thor's a branch store at 535 North Howard street, Balti- conditions, said: "Trade in the action business is the
Music Shop, Manistee, Mich., has grown into a chain more, Md. The Chicago company has leased, for a same as in the piano business." He was not asked
of stores, one being opened May 1 at 316 South
term of i'we years, the three-story building at the to elaborate on this non-committal answer, but he
James street, Ludington, and one will be opened in above address, which has just been completely re- was understood.
the very near future at Traverse City.
modeled. The entire building, according to available
VOSE FOR BROADCASTING.
These stores handle the Hobart M. Cable, Haldwin. information, will be used for the Baltimore branch
W. W. Kimball, and Gu'.bransen pianos, also Bruns- store, and a complete line of the company's products
Radio Station VVKBE, Webster, Mass., recently
wick phonographs and records. Each store carries a will be carried. This will give Baltimoreans, for the purchased a Vose grand piano made by the Vose &
first time, an opportunity to make selections of
complete line of band instruments, sheet music and
Sons Piano Co., Boston, for their broadcasting. The
Kimball instruments from a wide assortment of
musical accessories. The Ludington store is managed
piano was bought from the Pearson Piano Co. of
by John Matson, assisted by Joseph Tennant, both models.
Worcester.
THOR'S MUSIC SHOP EXTENDS
ENERGY TO BRANCHES
JACOB BROS. CO.
Manufacturers of "Pianos of Quality
Established 1878
We have a financing proposition worthy
of your investigation.
JACOB BROS. CO.
3O6 East 1 3 3 rd St.
NEW YORK
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