Presto
Issue: 1929 2228 - Page 7
June 1, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
RADIO MEN'S CONVENTION
(Continued from page 6.)
annual R. M. A. Banquet at the Stevens Hotel, Chi-
cago. The program will be broadcast through the
courtesy of the National Broadcasting Company and
about sixty-five associated stations on a National
hook-up from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts,
through the key station of WJZ.
The broadcast will be from 9:30 p. m. Chicago day-
light saving time (8:30 p. m. Central Standard Time),
until 11 p. m. Chicago time on Wednesday evening,
June 5.
The program and announcements will be in charge
of the broadcasting favorite, Phillips Carlin of New
York, of the staff of the National Broadcasting Com-
pany.
The R. M. A. banquet at the Stevens Hotel will be
attended by about 2,500 to 3,000 persons. It is a fea-
ture of the great annual gathering of the radio indus-
try, the largest industrial assemblage of the year, for
the annual R. M. A. convention, about 25,000 per-
sons interested in the manufacture and distribution of
radio products being expected at Chicago during the
week of June 3.
R. M. A. special trains from New York, New Eng-
land, Texas and the southwest and also from the
Pacific Coast will be run to Chicago.
SPECIAL TRAINS GALORE
TO RADIO GATHERING
Nineteen Cars in the Special From New York
—Observation Cars From New
England.
Railroad facilities and schedules will be taxed to
carry the 25,000 radio visitors expected at the annual
convention of the Radio Manufacturers' Association
and related industrial organizations at Chicago,
June 3-7.
From both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and
the south as well as from near-by .central and north-
ern cities, special de luxe trains are being organized
to carry throngs to the radio industrial events and
during the same week, June 3, the music industry will
hold its annual convention in Chicago.
The New England Special train starting at Boston
and picking up radio and tpusic industry travellers to
Chicago from Worcester, Springfield, Pittslield, Mas-
sachusetts and Albany, New York, is being organized
by C. C. Colby of Canton. Mass., former president
of the Radio Manufacturers' Association, and W. F.
Merrill, secretary of the New England. Trade Asso-
ciation.
This New England Special of the Boston and
Albany Railroad will have club, observation and pri-
vate dining cars with entertainment en route for
the radio and music travellers. It will leave Boston
Saturday, June 1, at 9:30 a. m. standard Eastern time,
arriving at Chicago at 9:00 a m. daylight saving time,
on Sunday, June 2.
The New England Special and also the R. M. A.
special train from New York on the New York Cen-
tral and another special train on the Pennsylvania
line, and other spec'al trains to the radio and music
center at Chicago, will be welcomed upon arrival by
the R. M. A. and other reception committees.
The R. M. A. Special from New York, in charge
of Leonard C. Welling and Dudley H. Cohen, is
expected to be the largest train, of nineteen cars, ever
run on the New York Central.
Other special trains to the R. M. A. and music in-
dustrial events at Chicago are being arranged at Los
Angeles. San Francisco, from the Pacific Northwest,
Denver and Texas.
A FRIENDLY INVITATION
STIMULATING PUBLIC
INTEREST IN MUSIC
ffi. Cable (Umnpaiitj
Sheet Music Dealers Also Hold Their Conven-
tion Next Week in Chicago and Are
Enthusiastic About It.
announce i\\t afjofcring of
The annual convention of the National Music In-
dustries during the week of June 3rd, at the Drake
Hotel, Chicago, will mark a departure from the old
method of procedure. This year all the branches of
the music industry will convene in a joint session.
Prominent speakers will outline the promotional
activities that are now in operation. New projects
will be considered with a view to further stimulating
the public interest in music. Jay Grinnell, of Grinnell
Brothers, Detroit, will give an illuminating summary
to demonstrate how these activities may be success-
fully turned into sales.
Superintendent William J. Bogan of the Chicago
Board of Education, and Joseph Maddy, chairman of
the Committee on Instrumental Music of the Music
Supervisors' National Conference, will deliver ad-
dresses on music in the public schools. Music is
coming into its own as a factor in education.
Louis A. Crittenton. a sales expert, will speak on
"The Sunny Side of Selling." Homer J. Buckley,
one of the country's greatest advertising men, will
speak on "What Must I Do to Stay in Business and
Meet the New Competition" There will be a gen-
eral open discussion on important trade topics.
The above-mentioned events are scheduled for
Tuesday and Wednesday. The Nat : onal Association
of Sheet Musx Dealers will open its convention on
Monday morning at 9 o'clock and will continue all
day. On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings there
will be meetings at which will be considered ways
and means whereby the fullest cooperation can be
rendered by the sheet music trade towards the pro-
motion of music in all its branches.
OLD NEW YORK STORE SOLD.
McCombcrs, Inc., Fulton, N. Y., has purchased the
Schilling Music Store at 158 West First Street,
Oswego, N. Y. The Schilling store is the oldest
music store in northern New York and has been in
the Schilling family for more than fifty years. It
was founded by the late Frank Schilling, in his day
a fine musician and leader of the famous Kingsfords
Band, the pride of Thomson Kingsford, the million-
aire starch manufacturer. It is understood that after
the present stock is auctioned off McCombers, Inc.,
will continue the store in Oswego.
And Another Small Grand
mnm
by a Real Sales Plan/
PIANO CLUB HEARS REPORTS.
Carl Weber, chairman of the banquet committee,
told the Piano Club of Chicago at its noonday lunch-
eon on May 20 of its plans. He said they had
secured Charles Milton Newcomb, a very humorous
speaker, for the occasion, who would interest the
women as well as the men on "The Psychology of
Laughter." Miss Nina Morgano of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, would sing, and through the cour-
tesy of the Steinways and Mr. Brownell they would
®Iieir Complete J^Iuc ^tbbmt Jihxt
^
a ^Beautiful Netu ^
©wring (Emtuenttcm JUbek nf
ao, 3|mte Wyxb to <3June j&xth
at i\\t Brake ^otd,
$
401-402
$ u b a r t %\.
foelcmue ooit nub appreciate ymir frisit
have Rudolf Ganz on the program. From 10:00 p. m.
until 2:00 a. m. the Victor Recording Orchestra
vocal numbers would be broadcasted. The dinner
would start promptly at 7:00 so as to be through
eating at 8:30 when the general program would be-
gin. This great banquet is to be served Thursday
night, June 6; price, $7.50 a plate. Henry Hewitt,
chairman of the reservation and display committee,
said the personal reservations were up to normal at the
Drake Hotel and arrangements had also been made
for the overflow at the Knickerbocker and the Pear-
son hotels, these three hostelries giving reasonable
rates to the conventioners.
NAME CHANGED AT GREEN BAY, WIS.
"Green Bay's Music Center," known as the Tem-
ple Music Company, Inc., since its foundation on
May 1, 1926, will be known in the future as "Vanden-
berg's Temple of Music." Frank A. Vandenberg is
president, Anton Stiller, Jr., treasurer, and A. Mai-
gatter general manager.
Style. R Grand—4 feet,
7 inches long. Popular
size, beautiful case.
Real Packard Quality.
Finished in mahogany.
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 PIANO COMPANY
3335 Packard Avenue
govern
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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PRESTO-TIMES
RADIO MEN'S CONVENTION
(Continued from page 6.)
annual R. M. A. Banquet at the Stevens Hotel, Chi-
cago. The program will be broadcast through the
courtesy of the National Broadcasting Company and
about sixty-five associated stations on a National
hook-up from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts,
through the key station of WJZ.
The broadcast will be from 9:30 p. m. Chicago day-
light saving time (8:30 p. m. Central Standard Time),
until 11 p. m. Chicago time on Wednesday evening,
June 5.
The program and announcements will be in charge
of the broadcasting favorite, Phillips Carlin of New
York, of the staff of the National Broadcasting Com-
pany.
The R. M. A. banquet at the Stevens Hotel will be
attended by about 2,500 to 3,000 persons. It is a fea-
ture of the great annual gathering of the radio indus-
try, the largest industrial assemblage of the year, for
the annual R. M. A. convention, about 25,000 per-
sons interested in the manufacture and distribution of
radio products being expected at Chicago during the
week of June 3.
R. M. A. special trains from New York, New Eng-
land, Texas and the southwest and also from the
Pacific Coast will be run to Chicago.
SPECIAL TRAINS GALORE
TO RADIO GATHERING
Nineteen Cars in the Special From New York
—Observation Cars From New
England.
Railroad facilities and schedules will be taxed to
carry the 25,000 radio visitors expected at the annual
convention of the Radio Manufacturers' Association
and related industrial organizations at Chicago,
June 3-7.
From both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and
the south as well as from near-by .central and north-
ern cities, special de luxe trains are being organized
to carry throngs to the radio industrial events and
during the same week, June 3, the music industry will
hold its annual convention in Chicago.
The New England Special train starting at Boston
and picking up radio and tpusic industry travellers to
Chicago from Worcester, Springfield, Pittslield, Mas-
sachusetts and Albany, New York, is being organized
by C. C. Colby of Canton. Mass., former president
of the Radio Manufacturers' Association, and W. F.
Merrill, secretary of the New England. Trade Asso-
ciation.
This New England Special of the Boston and
Albany Railroad will have club, observation and pri-
vate dining cars with entertainment en route for
the radio and music travellers. It will leave Boston
Saturday, June 1, at 9:30 a. m. standard Eastern time,
arriving at Chicago at 9:00 a m. daylight saving time,
on Sunday, June 2.
The New England Special and also the R. M. A.
special train from New York on the New York Cen-
tral and another special train on the Pennsylvania
line, and other spec'al trains to the radio and music
center at Chicago, will be welcomed upon arrival by
the R. M. A. and other reception committees.
The R. M. A. Special from New York, in charge
of Leonard C. Welling and Dudley H. Cohen, is
expected to be the largest train, of nineteen cars, ever
run on the New York Central.
Other special trains to the R. M. A. and music in-
dustrial events at Chicago are being arranged at Los
Angeles. San Francisco, from the Pacific Northwest,
Denver and Texas.
A FRIENDLY INVITATION
STIMULATING PUBLIC
INTEREST IN MUSIC
ffi. Cable (Umnpaiitj
Sheet Music Dealers Also Hold Their Conven-
tion Next Week in Chicago and Are
Enthusiastic About It.
announce i\\t afjofcring of
The annual convention of the National Music In-
dustries during the week of June 3rd, at the Drake
Hotel, Chicago, will mark a departure from the old
method of procedure. This year all the branches of
the music industry will convene in a joint session.
Prominent speakers will outline the promotional
activities that are now in operation. New projects
will be considered with a view to further stimulating
the public interest in music. Jay Grinnell, of Grinnell
Brothers, Detroit, will give an illuminating summary
to demonstrate how these activities may be success-
fully turned into sales.
Superintendent William J. Bogan of the Chicago
Board of Education, and Joseph Maddy, chairman of
the Committee on Instrumental Music of the Music
Supervisors' National Conference, will deliver ad-
dresses on music in the public schools. Music is
coming into its own as a factor in education.
Louis A. Crittenton. a sales expert, will speak on
"The Sunny Side of Selling." Homer J. Buckley,
one of the country's greatest advertising men, will
speak on "What Must I Do to Stay in Business and
Meet the New Competition" There will be a gen-
eral open discussion on important trade topics.
The above-mentioned events are scheduled for
Tuesday and Wednesday. The Nat : onal Association
of Sheet Musx Dealers will open its convention on
Monday morning at 9 o'clock and will continue all
day. On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings there
will be meetings at which will be considered ways
and means whereby the fullest cooperation can be
rendered by the sheet music trade towards the pro-
motion of music in all its branches.
OLD NEW YORK STORE SOLD.
McCombcrs, Inc., Fulton, N. Y., has purchased the
Schilling Music Store at 158 West First Street,
Oswego, N. Y. The Schilling store is the oldest
music store in northern New York and has been in
the Schilling family for more than fifty years. It
was founded by the late Frank Schilling, in his day
a fine musician and leader of the famous Kingsfords
Band, the pride of Thomson Kingsford, the million-
aire starch manufacturer. It is understood that after
the present stock is auctioned off McCombers, Inc.,
will continue the store in Oswego.
And Another Small Grand
mnm
by a Real Sales Plan/
PIANO CLUB HEARS REPORTS.
Carl Weber, chairman of the banquet committee,
told the Piano Club of Chicago at its noonday lunch-
eon on May 20 of its plans. He said they had
secured Charles Milton Newcomb, a very humorous
speaker, for the occasion, who would interest the
women as well as the men on "The Psychology of
Laughter." Miss Nina Morgano of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, would sing, and through the cour-
tesy of the Steinways and Mr. Brownell they would
®Iieir Complete J^Iuc ^tbbmt Jihxt
^
a ^Beautiful Netu ^
©wring (Emtuenttcm JUbek nf
ao, 3|mte Wyxb to <3June j&xth
at i\\t Brake ^otd,
$
401-402
$ u b a r t
foelcmue ooit nub appreciate ymir frisit
have Rudolf Ganz on the program. From 10:00 p. m.
until 2:00 a. m. the Victor Recording Orchestra
vocal numbers would be broadcasted. The dinner
would start promptly at 7:00 so as to be through
eating at 8:30 when the general program would be-
gin. This great banquet is to be served Thursday
night, June 6; price, $7.50 a plate. Henry Hewitt,
chairman of the reservation and display committee,
said the personal reservations were up to normal at the
Drake Hotel and arrangements had also been made
for the overflow at the Knickerbocker and the Pear-
son hotels, these three hostelries giving reasonable
rates to the conventioners.
NAME CHANGED AT GREEN BAY, WIS.
"Green Bay's Music Center," known as the Tem-
ple Music Company, Inc., since its foundation on
May 1, 1926, will be known in the future as "Vanden-
berg's Temple of Music." Frank A. Vandenberg is
president, Anton Stiller, Jr., treasurer, and A. Mai-
gatter general manager.
Style. R Grand—4 feet,
7 inches long. Popular
size, beautiful case.
Real Packard Quality.
Finished in mahogany.
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 PIANO COMPANY
3335 Packard Avenue
govern
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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/
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