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PRESTO-TIMES
August 15, 1929
ZENITH DEALER=THEATRE
TIE=UP AIDS SALES
Miss Alice White, Who Sings "Broadway Baby
Dolls," in Zenith Hour Broadcast.
The theme song, "Broadway Baby Dolls," which is
sung and featured by Alice White, who is starred
in the picture, was broadcast recently for the first
radios and requested everyone present to dance to
the song hit of her latest picture. So enthused at the
broadcast in her honor and by the performance of
her Zenith set, Miss White immediately dispatched a
wire of appreciation which was telephotogramed
to the Zenith Radio Corporation in Chicago and re-
ceived just six minutes after the broadcast.
Attractive newspaper ads and two-color window
posters carrying Miss White's picture and testimonial
are being used by Zenith dealers throughout the
BAND NEWS
The Monahan Post American Legion Band has
brought international recognition to Sioux City, Iowa,
Included in their laurels is the first prize at the Paris
convention in 1927.
DuQuoin, 111., is talking of reorganizing its band,
under the leadership of Charles Archibald. He is
ready to organize a band also at Elkville, 111.
Lester Kachenmeister. Toledo music : an, is forming
a band at each of the 22 municipal recreation centers
in Toledo, Ohio.
A 15-piece drum corps, composed of former service
men, is being organized at Cooksville, Ohio.
An orchestra known as the University of Michigan
"Wolverines" has been playing at South Haven,
Mich.
A bugle and drum corps has been organized by
Merle Guild post of the American Legion at Arling-
ton Heights, 111.
Director Percy G. Snow is giving band concerts
every Thursday night during the summer at Liberty-
^ 111.
NATIONAL BAND CONTEST.
The Committee on Instrumental Affairs of the
Music Supervisors' National Conference has compiled
and issued the list of required and selective numbers
for the 1930 national school band and school orchestra
contests.
For the band contest the required numbers are:
Class A: Beethoven, Egmont. (Full conductor's
score published.) Oliver Ditson. (New.)
Class B: Saint-Saens, Princess Jaune. (Full con-
ductor's score published.) Carl Fischer.
And for the orchestra contest:
Class A: Meistersinger.
MISS ALICE WHITE.
Class B: Unfinished Symphony (first movement,
time on the regular Zenith hour over Station WOR, country wherever the picture is shown. Theaters are no repeats), Franz Schubert. G. Schirmer.
New York. In the midst of a party in her Los Ange- co-operating by displaying "Fifteenth Anniversary"
The number of orchestra contests has increased
les home, Miss White surprised her guests by tuning Zenith sets in their lobbies and by carrying Zenith
from 15 to 31 in two years. This total includes a
in WOR on one of the "Fifteenth Anniversary" Zenith copy on the screens.
number of states in which orchestra contests are be-
ing held for the first time. The first national con-
test was held this year in Iowa City, May 17-18.
on an advanced commercial basis and which also was under the auspices of the University of Iowa.
MAY EDWARDS, MUSIC TEACHER, DIES.
A complete list of state orchestra contests for
Miss May L. Edwards, head of the music depart- to become important in radio broadcasting. He in-
1929 may be had from the National Bureau upon re-
ment of the Parker Junior High School, near Chi- vented the gramaphone in 1887 and this discovery
cago, died on Aug. 8. Miss Edwards was a graduate placed his name in the forefront of inventors. His quest
of the Chicago Music College and had taught in the talking machine used disc records. The present
method of duplicating disc records was evolved by
public schools for many years.
COMPOSER KILLED HIMSELF.
him also.
Romilly Johnson, composer of the music for several
DISC PHONOGRAPH INVENTOR DIES.
Broadway shows, committed suicide by stabbing
The Whitney-Blaine-Wildermuth Company, Toledo, himself in the heart with a breadknife at the home of
Emile Berliner, aged 79 years, inventor of the disc
record talking machine and the telephone transmitter, Ohio, is closing out as a corporation, with David W. his father at Lynn, Mass., on Aug. 7.
died at his home in Washington, D. C , on August 3. Blaine as receiver. Mr. Blaine and Henry C. Wil-
dermuth own a majority of the company's $50,000
Dr. Charles A. E. Harriss, 67, leading Canadian
Some three years before Bell and Watson invented
the telephone, Berliner evolved the idea of the loose common capital stock. Assets of $108,820.91 and lia- composer and impresario, died at his home in Ot-
tawa July 31.
contact transmitter which was to place the telephone bilities of $89,647.46 are listed.
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