Presto
Issue: 1929 2227 - Page 6
May 15, 1929
P R E S T 0-T I M E S
And Another Small Grand
m/ios
Style R Grand—A feet,
7 inches long. Popular
size, beautiful case.
Real Packard Quality.
Finished in mahogany.
by a T{ealSalesTHanf
AGAIN Packard points the way in increased volume in Grand Piano
-**• sales. The Style R Small Grand, at a particularly low price, offers
Packard dealers unusual sales advantages that can be used to develop
new business. It is in the extremely popular 4 foot 7 inch size but
with all the full rounded tone beauty and volume you expect of Packard
instruments. The mahogany case is splendidly built, beautifully finished.
Get Packard plan behind you-get Packard values on your floors. Write us.
THE PACKARD
COMPANY
3335 Packard Avenue
Fort Wayne, Indiana
(Continued from page 5.)
Mr. Grinnell has been closely identified with the
wonderfully successful development of Grinnell
Brothers which for more than half a century has been
associated with Michigan's business history and is
admirably qualified to speak authoritatively upon sub-
jects which are of paramount importance to every re-
tail merchant in this country. Mr. Grinnell will be
the last speaker at the Tuesday joint session and his
address will have the effect of rounding out the pro-
gram in a manner which cannot fail to be of the
greatest possible interest to every person attending
the convention.
EXHIBITORS TAKE SPACE AT DRAKE
The following exhibitors have already made reser-
vation at the Drake Hotel for the Music Trades Con-
vention: Grigsby-Grunow Co., Atwater Kent Mfg.
Co., Auto Pneumatic Action Co., Baldwin Piano Co.,
Buescher Band Instrument Co., Capehart Automatic
Phonograph Co., Commercial Investment Trust Co.,
Cable-Nelson Piano Co., Hobaft M. Cable Co., Ev-
erett Piano Co., Walter M. Gotsch Co., Gibson, Inc.,
Gulbransen Co., Frank Holton & Co., Geib &
Schaefer Co., Kohler Industries, C. Kurtzmann & Co.,
Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co., Lester Piano Co., Lud-
wig & Ludwig, M. Schulz Co., Standard Pneumatic
Action Co., J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Steinway &
Sons, Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc.. Stromberg-Carl-
son Telephone Mfg. Co., Slingerland Banjo & Drum
Co., Simson & Frey, Inc., Vego Co., Tonk Bros. Co.,
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., Winter & Co., H. N.
White Co., Regal Musical Instrument Co., Bruns-
wick-Balke-Collender Co., Schumann Piano Co., S.
Simon. Haddorff Piano Co.
TEXANS TO ATTEND SHOW.
The readers of the Presto-Times in the Southwest,
from St. Louis to the Gulf, writes Elmer Armstrong
of Dallas, have been greatly interested in what it has
published relative to the National Association gath-
ering in Chicago.
Mr., Armstrong says: "There is a deep interest
manifested by the music merchants in the coming
Convention. A vast army of Texas radio merchants
are going to the Convention to see everything new
that is to be seen. Chicago will have the largest
gathering of music merchants ever held."
"Many of the merchants have been figuring costs
of sales, and there is a sentiment that is generating
among the radio merchants to ask better discounts
than have been offered. When all expenses incident
to the sale of a radio, such as freight, drayage. ad-
vertising, salaries to salesmen, services, collection ex-
penses, and other items are figured, the margin left
for a dealer's profit is too small at the discounts that
radio distributors are giving."
DENVER GETS U. S. BAND CONTEST.
The fourth annual national band contest will be
held in Denver, May 23 to 25. Bands competing in
this contest will be the pick of 35 or more states in
which state and sectional contests are being held.
Nearly 700 bands will compete this year as against
500 last year and 150 in 1923. One of six judges will
he John Philip Sousa.
Paul L. Schaaf, manager of the Cable Piano Store.
Kenosha, has returned from a trip through the clinic
at the Mayo Brothers' Sanitarium at Rochester, Minn.
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM EAST
COMING TO CHICAGO CONVENTION
N E W NAME FOR WICHITA DEALER.
The Adams-Bennett Music Company is the new
name of The J. (). Adams Music Company, Wichita.
The change is a tribute to Merle K. Bennett, treas-
Cut Rates on Railroads Will Help to Keep Down
Expenses of the Round Trip.
A special convention train, bound for the Music
Industries Convention in Chicago, will leave Grand
Central Station, New York, on Saturday, June 1. at
1:00 p. m. Eastern Standard Time and 2:00 p. m. Day-
light Saving Time. Rate, one and one-half fare,
which means that the return trip is just one-half of
the normal rate on the certificate plan.
The rates from New York are: Fare, including
lower berth, $45.30; fare, including upper berth, $43.50;
compartment for two, $61.80; drawing room for two,
$67.80. This train is scheduled to stop at Albany,
leaving at 4:22 p. m. Eastern Standard Time, or 5:22
Daylight Saving Time. Those taking the train at
Albany or New York, may secure their reservations
from Albert Behning, care of Behning & Chinnock,
105 West 40th street, New York city.
For those in Boston and vicinity, there is a train
—No. 39 B. & A.—which is to leave Boston June 1,
at 9:30 a. m. Eastern Standard Time, or 10:30 a. m.
Daylight Saving Time. This train stops at Worces-
ter, Springfield, Pittsfield, and connects with the New
York train at Albany, leaving Albany at 4:22 p. m.
Eastern Standard Time, or 5:22 p. m. Daylight Sav-
ing Time. Further information about the Boston
train will be given by William F. Merrill, 258 Boyls-
ton street, Boston, Mass.
DEATH OF J. F. O'RYAN
CAUSES DEEP SORROW
Man
Whose Presto-Times Cartoons and
Stories Made Many Laugh Passes
to His Reward.
It is with profound regret that Presto-Times re-
ports the death of John Fergus O'Ryan, managing
editor of this paper for more than twenty years past.
The immediate cause of death was cardiac asthma
accompanied by complications.
Mr. O'Ryan w r as a native of Cashel, Ireland. He
distinguished himself in this country as an artist and
cartoonist on the dailies oi both San Francisco and
Chicago. He was widely known throughout the piano
trade and famous as a wit and raconteur. Both as a
friend and an editor he was loyal and true and he
will be missed in many places.
Mr. O'Ryan is survived by his wife, Mrs. Idele
O'Ryan, nee Hart, and their daughter, Miss Evelyn,
and son, Fergus O'Ryan. Another daughter, Maud
Helen, died some years ago. The funeral was held
from the O'Ryan residence, 626 Wisconsin avenue,
Oak Park, on May 15. to St. Bernadine's Church, and
interment at Mount Carmel.
Notice has been served to creditors of H. C. Bay
Co., Chicago, bankrupt piano dealers. A meeting of
creditors will be held at the court room of Harry'A.
Parkin, referee in bankruptcy, room 620, 137 South
LaSalle street, Chicago, 111., on May 13th, at 11 a. m.
MKRLK K. BKNNETT.
urrr and general manager, who has actively managed
the business for the past eight years. This concern
is one of the outstanding music firms in the South-
west and handles everything in music. There is no
change in stockholders or in the policy of the firm.
SCHILLER PROPHECY FULFILLED.
In the "Thirty-five Years Ago" column of Presto-
Times, current issue, appears a fac simile reproduc-
tion of a Schiller piano advertisement, reduced from
its original half-page to column size. The thought
it brings is aroused by the line—"For the Money, the
Best in the United States: Schiller Pianos." That
expression not only applies to the Schiller piano to-
day, but the 35 years that have intervened have each
proved a verification of the prophecy which has been
fulfilled to the letter, as evidenced by thousands of
Schiller purchasers and hundreds of enthusiastic
Schiller dealers.
MRS.
HOOVER CHOOSES STEINWAY FOR
FETES.
Steinway & Sons have been honored with the dis-
tinction of having Henry Junge of their organization
intrusted by Mrs. Hoover with pertinent details in
connection with White House musical functions.
Under Mr. Junge's guidance, and with Stewart
Wille at the Steinway accompanying Lawrence Tib-
bett, baritone, of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
the first musical matinee of the Hoover administra-
tion, held April 19 at the White House, successfully
inaugurated the series of musical affairs which will
bring added lustre to the name of Steinway.
Among the 200 guests were members of the diplo-
matic corps and the official circle and their wives, as
well as personal friends of Mrs. Hoover.
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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
And Another Small Grand
m/ios
Style R Grand—A feet,
7 inches long. Popular
size, beautiful case.
Real Packard Quality.
Finished in mahogany.
by a T{ealSalesTHanf
AGAIN Packard points the way in increased volume in Grand Piano
-**• sales. The Style R Small Grand, at a particularly low price, offers
Packard dealers unusual sales advantages that can be used to develop
new business. It is in the extremely popular 4 foot 7 inch size but
with all the full rounded tone beauty and volume you expect of Packard
instruments. The mahogany case is splendidly built, beautifully finished.
Get Packard plan behind you-get Packard values on your floors. Write us.
THE PACKARD
COMPANY
3335 Packard Avenue
Fort Wayne, Indiana
(Continued from page 5.)
Mr. Grinnell has been closely identified with the
wonderfully successful development of Grinnell
Brothers which for more than half a century has been
associated with Michigan's business history and is
admirably qualified to speak authoritatively upon sub-
jects which are of paramount importance to every re-
tail merchant in this country. Mr. Grinnell will be
the last speaker at the Tuesday joint session and his
address will have the effect of rounding out the pro-
gram in a manner which cannot fail to be of the
greatest possible interest to every person attending
the convention.
EXHIBITORS TAKE SPACE AT DRAKE
The following exhibitors have already made reser-
vation at the Drake Hotel for the Music Trades Con-
vention: Grigsby-Grunow Co., Atwater Kent Mfg.
Co., Auto Pneumatic Action Co., Baldwin Piano Co.,
Buescher Band Instrument Co., Capehart Automatic
Phonograph Co., Commercial Investment Trust Co.,
Cable-Nelson Piano Co., Hobaft M. Cable Co., Ev-
erett Piano Co., Walter M. Gotsch Co., Gibson, Inc.,
Gulbransen Co., Frank Holton & Co., Geib &
Schaefer Co., Kohler Industries, C. Kurtzmann & Co.,
Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co., Lester Piano Co., Lud-
wig & Ludwig, M. Schulz Co., Standard Pneumatic
Action Co., J. P. Seeburg Piano Co., Steinway &
Sons, Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc.. Stromberg-Carl-
son Telephone Mfg. Co., Slingerland Banjo & Drum
Co., Simson & Frey, Inc., Vego Co., Tonk Bros. Co.,
Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., Winter & Co., H. N.
White Co., Regal Musical Instrument Co., Bruns-
wick-Balke-Collender Co., Schumann Piano Co., S.
Simon. Haddorff Piano Co.
TEXANS TO ATTEND SHOW.
The readers of the Presto-Times in the Southwest,
from St. Louis to the Gulf, writes Elmer Armstrong
of Dallas, have been greatly interested in what it has
published relative to the National Association gath-
ering in Chicago.
Mr., Armstrong says: "There is a deep interest
manifested by the music merchants in the coming
Convention. A vast army of Texas radio merchants
are going to the Convention to see everything new
that is to be seen. Chicago will have the largest
gathering of music merchants ever held."
"Many of the merchants have been figuring costs
of sales, and there is a sentiment that is generating
among the radio merchants to ask better discounts
than have been offered. When all expenses incident
to the sale of a radio, such as freight, drayage. ad-
vertising, salaries to salesmen, services, collection ex-
penses, and other items are figured, the margin left
for a dealer's profit is too small at the discounts that
radio distributors are giving."
DENVER GETS U. S. BAND CONTEST.
The fourth annual national band contest will be
held in Denver, May 23 to 25. Bands competing in
this contest will be the pick of 35 or more states in
which state and sectional contests are being held.
Nearly 700 bands will compete this year as against
500 last year and 150 in 1923. One of six judges will
he John Philip Sousa.
Paul L. Schaaf, manager of the Cable Piano Store.
Kenosha, has returned from a trip through the clinic
at the Mayo Brothers' Sanitarium at Rochester, Minn.
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM EAST
COMING TO CHICAGO CONVENTION
N E W NAME FOR WICHITA DEALER.
The Adams-Bennett Music Company is the new
name of The J. (). Adams Music Company, Wichita.
The change is a tribute to Merle K. Bennett, treas-
Cut Rates on Railroads Will Help to Keep Down
Expenses of the Round Trip.
A special convention train, bound for the Music
Industries Convention in Chicago, will leave Grand
Central Station, New York, on Saturday, June 1. at
1:00 p. m. Eastern Standard Time and 2:00 p. m. Day-
light Saving Time. Rate, one and one-half fare,
which means that the return trip is just one-half of
the normal rate on the certificate plan.
The rates from New York are: Fare, including
lower berth, $45.30; fare, including upper berth, $43.50;
compartment for two, $61.80; drawing room for two,
$67.80. This train is scheduled to stop at Albany,
leaving at 4:22 p. m. Eastern Standard Time, or 5:22
Daylight Saving Time. Those taking the train at
Albany or New York, may secure their reservations
from Albert Behning, care of Behning & Chinnock,
105 West 40th street, New York city.
For those in Boston and vicinity, there is a train
—No. 39 B. & A.—which is to leave Boston June 1,
at 9:30 a. m. Eastern Standard Time, or 10:30 a. m.
Daylight Saving Time. This train stops at Worces-
ter, Springfield, Pittsfield, and connects with the New
York train at Albany, leaving Albany at 4:22 p. m.
Eastern Standard Time, or 5:22 p. m. Daylight Sav-
ing Time. Further information about the Boston
train will be given by William F. Merrill, 258 Boyls-
ton street, Boston, Mass.
DEATH OF J. F. O'RYAN
CAUSES DEEP SORROW
Man
Whose Presto-Times Cartoons and
Stories Made Many Laugh Passes
to His Reward.
It is with profound regret that Presto-Times re-
ports the death of John Fergus O'Ryan, managing
editor of this paper for more than twenty years past.
The immediate cause of death was cardiac asthma
accompanied by complications.
Mr. O'Ryan w r as a native of Cashel, Ireland. He
distinguished himself in this country as an artist and
cartoonist on the dailies oi both San Francisco and
Chicago. He was widely known throughout the piano
trade and famous as a wit and raconteur. Both as a
friend and an editor he was loyal and true and he
will be missed in many places.
Mr. O'Ryan is survived by his wife, Mrs. Idele
O'Ryan, nee Hart, and their daughter, Miss Evelyn,
and son, Fergus O'Ryan. Another daughter, Maud
Helen, died some years ago. The funeral was held
from the O'Ryan residence, 626 Wisconsin avenue,
Oak Park, on May 15. to St. Bernadine's Church, and
interment at Mount Carmel.
Notice has been served to creditors of H. C. Bay
Co., Chicago, bankrupt piano dealers. A meeting of
creditors will be held at the court room of Harry'A.
Parkin, referee in bankruptcy, room 620, 137 South
LaSalle street, Chicago, 111., on May 13th, at 11 a. m.
MKRLK K. BKNNETT.
urrr and general manager, who has actively managed
the business for the past eight years. This concern
is one of the outstanding music firms in the South-
west and handles everything in music. There is no
change in stockholders or in the policy of the firm.
SCHILLER PROPHECY FULFILLED.
In the "Thirty-five Years Ago" column of Presto-
Times, current issue, appears a fac simile reproduc-
tion of a Schiller piano advertisement, reduced from
its original half-page to column size. The thought
it brings is aroused by the line—"For the Money, the
Best in the United States: Schiller Pianos." That
expression not only applies to the Schiller piano to-
day, but the 35 years that have intervened have each
proved a verification of the prophecy which has been
fulfilled to the letter, as evidenced by thousands of
Schiller purchasers and hundreds of enthusiastic
Schiller dealers.
MRS.
HOOVER CHOOSES STEINWAY FOR
FETES.
Steinway & Sons have been honored with the dis-
tinction of having Henry Junge of their organization
intrusted by Mrs. Hoover with pertinent details in
connection with White House musical functions.
Under Mr. Junge's guidance, and with Stewart
Wille at the Steinway accompanying Lawrence Tib-
bett, baritone, of the Metropolitan Opera Company,
the first musical matinee of the Hoover administra-
tion, held April 19 at the White House, successfully
inaugurated the series of musical affairs which will
bring added lustre to the name of Steinway.
Among the 200 guests were members of the diplo-
matic corps and the official circle and their wives, as
well as personal friends of Mrs. Hoover.
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).