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P R E S T O-T I M E S
August 1. 1929
R A D I O
ATWATER KENT FOUNDATION
The Atwater Kent Foundation of Philadelphia has
announced that another National Radio Audition
would be held along the lines of the successful audi-
tions held in 1927-28. Plans for this year's audition
provide additional scholarships as well as increased
awards. The prizes are:
Winners of first place (one boy and one girl),
$5,000 each and two years' tuition in an American
conservatory; winners of second place, $3,000 each
and one year's tuition; winners of third place, $2,000
each and one year's tuition; winners of fourth place,
$1,500 each and one year's tuition, and winners of
fifth place, $1,000 each and one year's tuition.
During the summer and early fall local contests
will be held in the cities and towns of every state.
State auditions will follow and will be broadcast from
a central point in each state. Two winners, one boy
and one girl, will be selected to represent each state
in district contests. The ten finalists (one boy and
one girl from each district) will be put on the air
over a coast-to-coast network in December, for final
rating by a board of musicians of national standing.
FOUR ADDITIONAL COMPANIES.
The Hazeltine Corporation has granted licenses to
four additional companies manufacturing and selling
radio receiving apparatus under the Hazeltine and
Latour patents. This makes a total of nineteen com-
panies now licensed to operate under these patents.
New licenses comprise the Bremer-Tully Manufac-
turing Company of Chicago, the Colin B. Kennedy
Corporation of South Bend, Ind., and the Wells Gard-
ner Company of Chicago.
Formation of the Schickerling Radio Tube Cor-
poration to acquire business and assets of the manu-
facturing company of the same name has been an-
nounced. The corporation will have jan authorized
issue of 125,000 shares of no-par capital stock, of
which 120.000 shares will be outstanding.
MICRO-SYNCHRONOUS VICTOR RADIO.
Lyon & Healy, Chicago, in announcing a Victor
radio product, have this to say: "Your whole fam-
ily are invited to hear the new Micro-Synchronous
Victor radio, which for the first time reproduces with
acoustic symmetry and perfection of tone fidelity at
every point on the scale. A radio wtfich has taken
years to build, a radio that is Victor's exclusive own
—presented by Lyon & Healy, for more than twenty-
five years the foremost Victor dealer in Chicago
and vicinity."
EDISON AS EXAMINER.
Thomas A. Edison will take personal charge of the
contest for the selection of a protege. July 31 has
been fixed as the date when 48 young men will meet
at West Orange, N. J., to take the examinations.
One is coming from the District of Columbia and
one from each of the states except Kansas, which has
refused to cooperate in the scholarship plan.
A GIGANTIC MOHAWK SET.
The All-American Mohawk Radio Corporation,
Chicago, has constructed a radio receiving set so
large that it could not be taken through the doors
of the Stevens Hotel to be included in the display
of the Lyric receivers. A young woman of normal
size lying on the top of the console was unable to
reach the tuning dial. The console stands twelve
feet in height and is equipped with four of the Lyric
speakers.
EQUIPS BUILDINGS WITH RADIO.
The Marti Electric Company, which has manu-
factured Marti radio receiving sets since the early
days of radio, has withdrawn from the national dis-
tribution field of all-purpose radio sets and is now
equipping new apartment buildings and homes with
.radio apparatus. Mr. Marti, visiting at the Stevens
Hotel, during the trade show, stated that he had
secured the services of an acoustical engineer to
assist in designing the buildings to meet the demand
for higher grade musical reproduction.
TO CHANGE FRESHMAN NAME.
A special stockholders' meeting has been called for
the purpose of changing the name of the Charles
Freshman Co., Inc., to Earl Radio Corporation. The
company's sales of C. A. Earl and Freed radios ex-
ceeded $1,000,000 for June, ordinarily a dull month
in the radio business, with prospects for a heavy fall
demand most promising.
RADIO TALKIE MANUFACTURERS BUSY.
According to K. A. Hathaway, radio editor of the
Chicago Daily News, manufacturers who have been
devoting their attention almost exclusively to radio
products have found that their specialized knowledge
in radio has placed them in a commanding position
in a new field—the "talkie." The same concerns
which were working a year or two ago on the devel-
opment of a phonograph hookup for radio receivers
now find themselves busy in the production of ap-
paratus for motion-picture theaters, which are aband-
oning the "silent drama" classification.
THE JESSE FRENCH BARCELONA.
The Barcelona radio, manufactured by the Jesse
French & Sons Piano Co., New Castle, Ind., is a
heavily designed cabinet, reminiscent of the best in
Spanish design. Delicately turned moulding panels
each door and is carried along the outer edges of the
face. Beautifully figured walnut, hand-rubbed, gives
the cabinet a warm, rich finish unequaled in radio
cabinet work. The Barcelona is built to give the
utmost in satisfaction and nothing is spared to make
it supreme among radios.
A NEW RADIOLA.
A new Radiola designed to meet the demand in
certain areas for receivers to be operated from direct
current has just been announced by E. A. Nicholas,
vice-president of the Radio-Victor Corporation or
America. The new receiver is called Radiola M DC
and in external appearance, dimensions and general
characteristics of the circuit it is identical with
Radiola ^ AC.
A RADIO VICTOR APPOINTMENT.
The appointment of J. Mauran as eastern district
service manager of the Radio-Victor Corporation of
America has just been announced. Mr. Mauran
has been with the Radio Corporation of America for
several years and prior to his appointment as eastern
district service manager was service manager in the
Pacific district.
ROCHESTER'S NEW RADIO STORE.
A splendid new display and radio service depart-
ment has been opened by the Meier Furniture Com-
pany at 21 East avenue near Main street, Rochester,
N. Y., under the personal supervision of A. E. Bab-
cock, Jr. Philco, Majestic, Earl and Kellogg radios
are carried in a splendid assortment.
FREED-EISEMANN MAKES CHARGES.
Fifty-six radio manufacturers have been notified
by the Freed-Eisemann Radio Corporation of New
York, of an alleged infringement of a radio patent
owned by the company Steps will be taken to pre-
vent its unlicensed use, according to a representative
of the radio concern.
RADIO TO FAR PLANETS.
President Gaston Doumerge, of France, in an in-
terview with Joseph E. Sharkey of the Associated
Press, last week intimated that perhaps some day by
mysterious forces harnessed by radio we may estab-
lish communication with other planets, other worlds
of the great beyond.
KOLSTER FOREIGN TRADE.
The Kolster Radio Corporation will expand its
foreign business following new financing for its Brit-
ish subsidiary, Kolster-Brandes, Ltd., Ellery W.
Stone, president, said at New York recently. Kolster
will take a ten-year lease on an additional plant ad-
joining its present plant at Sidcup, England, and
market several new models, including a combined
radio and electric phonograph.
TO EXPAND PULASKI BUSINESS.
An option has been given by Charles Tollner's
Sons Company, Pulaski, N. Y., manufacturers of
radio and phonograph .cabinets, to E. R. Warner for
$125,000. Mr. Warner represents a group of promi-
nent Pulaski business men who plan to rehabilitate
the business, which was started there in 1864. The
option given Mr. Warner expires September 1.
The Thad J. Moore Company, 1600 Sylvania ave-
nue, Toledo, Ohio, is handling the Micro-Synchon-
ous new Victor-Radio.
The United Swedish Singers of America have de-
cided to hold their convention in Chicago during the
1933 World's Fair, and singing by a chorus of 5,000
voices is to be one of the features of Swedish Day.
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
INSTRUCTING SERVICE MEN
An instruction course for radio servicemen has
been compiled by the Radio Division of the National
Electrical Manufacturers' Association. The course is
said to he the answer of national set makers to the
problem of giving adequate service to set owners. It
was prepared in cooperation with the Radio Institute
of America. The course comprises four textbooks.
Examination papers are provided for each, which
may be submitted to the institute for correction and
rating. Technicalities have been avoided as far as
possible, but diagrams and principles have been
treated in a manner to give the radio dealer and his
servicemen an adequate understanding of the essen-
tial parts of service work, according to the announce-
ment.
VARIED VICTOR PROGRAMS.
What is probably the most varied program ever
put on the air will be the initial series of twelve new
weekly broadcasts to be inaugurated by the Victor
Talking Machine Division of the Radio-Victor Cor-
poration from Station WEAK over the coast-to-coast
system of the NBC on Thursday evening, July 18.
This regular weekly program will be devoted exclu-
sively to a half hour of popular dance music inter-
preted by the most noted dance orchestras of the day.
Incidental to the dance numbers, will be vocal re-
frains and the singers as well as the musicians and
conductors will all be exclusive Victor recording
artists. During the twelve weeks from July 18 to
October 3 there will be a different orchestra on the
air each Thursday evening. When this new Victor
feature makes its debut on July 18 Nat Shilkret and
the Victor Orchestra will hold swav.
RADIO AN ASSIMILATION.
Radio is an application—not so much the perfection
of a machine by an all-assimilating genius who de-
rived his pabulum from the clumsy productions of
earlier inventors or experimentors as it is an adapta-
tion or swerving of elemental sounds to the compre-
hension of the human ear—or a dog's ear, for that
matter. It is the capturing and corraling of vibra-
tional energy, concentrating it and tuning it into a
radiating center for redistribution as divine piano
music in the parlor from the hands of a great artist,
or in some cases as cheap dialogue and rotten jokes
from a squawky, nerve-racking loud speaker projected
over an otherwise pleasant sidewalk.
A HUM-FREE DYNAMIC SPEAKER.
When President Severson of the Operators Piano
Company, 715 North Kedzie avenue, Chicago, exer-
cises his inventive talent he produces improvements
worth while. The Reproduco Radio Company in his
plant is now manufacturing a true electric dynamic
speaker that Mr. Severson declares is a hum-free
speaker. The hum is eliminated by a newly-perfected
equalizing system. This speaker is capable of carry-
ing the entire load of a powerful amplifier without
chatter or blast, rich and sweet in tone, made for
manufacturer, jobber and dealer.
CARE IN BUILDING VICTOR SETS.
The new Victor instruments are not merely a col-
lection of assembled parts. Every item, down to the
smallest screw, was designed expressly for its use in
the Victor set, according to the latest announcement,
and in no other. Every detail is simplified and co-
ordinated with every other detail. And everything
that enters into the set (excepting Radiotrons), in-
cluding the cabinet itself, is designed and made in
Victor's own famous plant at Camden, N. |. The
same engineers that have pioneered the development
of reproduced sound, the same skill that has estab-
lished Victor's thirty-year-old supremacy, produced
this world's champion instrument.
ZENITH SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTOR.
James K. Polk Company, Inc., of Atlanta, Ga . has
been appointed distributor for Zenith Radio in that
part of the country south of the Mason-Dixon line.
This territory includes the southern part of Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and the eastern part
of Arkansas. The James K. Polk Company has
branches in Richmond, Virginia, and Memphis, Ten-
nessee.
The Rochester, N. Y., Radio Times. Inc., to the
number of 150 and their friends attended the picnic
and Ladies' Day of the Rochester organization on
July 17 at Springbrook Inn, Caledonia, N. Y. A
delegation of about thirty Buffalo dealers were guests
of the Rochester radio dealers.
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