Presto

September 1, 1929
PROGRAM OF OHIO
MUSIC MERCHANTS
Convention to Be Held Sept. 9, 10 and 11 at
Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus—
Exhibits Include Pianos and Other
Musical Instruments.
The Music Merchants' Association of Ohio will
hold its twentieth annual meeting September 9th, 10th
and 11th, 1929, in the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, High
and Broad streets, Columbus, Ohio. All meetings are
to be held in the Deshler-Wallick Hotel and on
Columbus time.
PROGRAM.
Monday, September 9th, 1929.
9:00 A. M. (Columbus Time)—Registration in
Room 221, second floor, Deshler-Wallick Hotel.
Every person attending the convention should register
at the Secretary's desk. There is no registration fee.
All those who register will receive free of charge the
beautiful official badge of the meeting.
The Exhibits are to be located on the third and
fourth floors.
Tuesday, September 10th—Noonday Luncheon—
Crystal Room on lobby floor of Deshler-Wallick
Hotel. Speakers and entertainment. Tickets $2 per
person.
Wednesday, September 11th—Informal Dinner—
Ball Room on second floor. Speaker, entertainment
and dancing. Tickets $5.50 per person.
The ladies are invited and are most welcome at all
social functions and business meetings.
1:30 P. M. (Columbus Time)—Round Table Dis-
cussion. Parlor A, second floor, Deshler-Wallick
Hotel.
1. "Legal and Collection Problems." Led by
Attorney Rexford C. Hyre, secretary of the associa-
tion.
2. Appointment of Resolutions Committee.
4:00 P. M. (Columbus Time). Adjournment.
Tuesday, September 10th, 1929.
9:30 A. M. (Columbus Time)—Round Table Dis-
cussion. Parlor A, second floor, Deshler-Wallick
Hotel.
3. "Overhead." Executives of retail stores only
will be admitted. Led by Chas. H. Yahrling of
Youngstown, past-president of the association.
11:30 A. M. (Columbus Time)—Adjournment.
12:00 Noon (Columbus Time), Luncheon, Crystal
Room, lobby floor, Deshler-Wallick Hotel; $2 per
cover. Chairman, Arthur L. Roberts.
4. Address of Welcome—Hon. James J. Thomas,
mayor of Columbus.
5. Response—Claude M. Alford of Canton, presi-
dent of the association.
6. Greetings—Hon. Myers Y. Cooper, Ohio's
Governor. Entertainment by Dr. Cecil Fanning, bari-
tone of international reputation and a resident of
Columbus.
2:00 P. M. (Columbus Time)—Official photograph
of the convention.
2:30 P. M. (Columbus Time)—Open Session. Ball
room, second floor, Deshler-Wallick Hotel. Presi-
dent C. M. Alford, presiding. A demonstration
and explanation of the latest and best in musical
merchandise. (Each exhibitor at the convention will
be allowed from 15 to 20 minutes, according to the
number present, to demonstrate or talk about his
merchandise. The order of appearance will be deter-
mined by lot.)
Among those who have signified their intention to
be present, are: I. C. Hunter of the Capehart Cor-
poration of Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Philip Wyman of the
Baldwin Piano Co., of Cincinnati; C. G. Conn, Ltd.,
of Elkhart, Ind., with a demonstrating artist; James
De Pree of Bush & Lane Piano Co., of Holland, Mich.
5:00 P. M. (Columbus Time)—Adjournment.
To Entertain the Ladies.
2:30 P. M. (Columbus Time)—Automobile sight-
seeing trip of city. Visiting Port Columbus, where
train and aeroplane meet. Under the direction of
Miss Irma Noethlich of the Columbus C. of C. Con-
vention Division. Promptly at this hour the ladies
will assemble at the Broad street entrance of the
Deshler-Wallick Hotel, where they will find a bus
waiting.
The manufacturers and jobbers of the United
States have brought their latest and best to the con-
vention. The exhibits await attention and inspection.
These exhibits help make the convention possible.
Help yourself and them by looking over what they
have to sell.
Wednesday, September 11th, 1929.
9:30 A. M. (Columbus Time)—Round Table Discus-
sion. Parlor A, second floor, Deshler-Wallick Hotel.
'"Best Merchandise Methods." Executives of retail
stores only will be admitted. Led by Otto B. Heaton
of Columbus, vice-president of the association.
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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
11:30 A. M. (Columbus Time)—Adjournment.
1:30 P. M. (Columbus Time)—Annual Business
Session. Ball room, second floor, Deshler-Wallick
Hotel. Roll Call (dispensed with because of regis-
tration); reading of minutes of previous meetings;
report of president, C. M. Alford; report of treasurer,
A. L. Maresh; report of secretary, Rexford C. Hyre;
report of advertising advisory committee, Carl E.
Summers, chairman; report of advancement of music
committee, F. B. Beinkamp, chairman; report of
mutual insurance committee, Ernest M. Harbaugh,
chairman; report of legislative committee, Arthur L.
Roberts, chairman; report of membership committee,
Clark F. Gross, chairman; admission of new members;
remarks by: Mark P. Campbell of New York city,
president of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce; Parnham Werlein of New Orleans, president
of the National Association of Music Merchants; New
Business; Report of Resolutions Committee; Good
of the Organization; Unfinished Business; Election
of Officers; Adjournment.
Attention, Visiting Ladies.
2:00 P. M. (Columbus Time)—"Tour Behind the
Scenes" and Style Show. Refreshments, F. R.
Lazarus & Co., High and Town streets. The ladies
should meet promptly at this hour at the secretary's
desk, Room 221, second floor of the hotel. This treat
has been arranged by the Columbus Chamber of
Commerce with the cooperation of the Lazarus store
and the Columbus music dealers. It is a wonderful
store and the "Tour behind the scenes" will be most
interesting.
6:45 P. M. (Columbus Time)—Informal Annual
Dinner and Dance. $5.50 per cover. Ball room, sec-
ond floor, Deshler-Wallick Hotel. President Claude
M. Alford, toastmaster. "The Richest Child Is Poor
Without Musical Training"—An address by E. F.
Arras of Columbus, Past International President of
Kiwanis. Entertainment. Dancing.
Golf Tournament.
The tenth annual golf tournament in connection
with the twentieth annual convention of the Music
Merchants' Association of Ohio will be conducted by
and under the auspices of the Ohio Music Merchants'
Golf Association. Chester D. Anderson, president;
C. G. Lydrickson, vice-president; Otto B. Heaton,
treasurer; Henry C. Wildermuth, secretary. This
tournament is to be held at the Scioto Country Club,
Upper Arlington.
Scioto is where "Bobby" Jones won his first cham-
pionship, so it is most fitting that the Ohio Music
Merchant Experts should play here of all clubs in
the Columbus district, to show their true champion-
ship form. The club (one of Columbus' finest and
most exclusive) has a dandy 18 hole course.
Baldwin's Representation.
The Cincinnati Division of the Baldwin Piano Com-
pany will be well represented at the Convention of
the Ohio Music Merchants' Association to be held at
Columbus, September 9 to 11. A representative
exhibit of new models of Baldwin and Baldwin-built
pianos will be shown at the Deschler-Wallick Hotel.
E. P. Hagemeyer, manager of the Cincinnati Division,
and two of his well-known travelers, Clark F. Gross
and W. E. Brown, will be on hand to meet the
dealers. Philip Wyman, national sales promotion
manager, is on the convention program for the after-
noon of the tenth. Mr. Wyman, with his long ex-
perience in the piano business, will have some interest-
ing matters to bring to the attention of the dealers.
Among other things he will tell of the benefits to the
entire piano industry of the Baldwin radio programs.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
A M U S E M E N T CENTERS
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FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
TO
STUDY IN NEW YORK SCHOOLS.
G. H. Gartland told New Yorkers recently of his
plans for developing piano classes in the schools of
New York city, where the work is now being organ-
ized for the first time. He said he had been studying
the movement for several years. One of the reasons
for his interest was that the group method would
educate the parents away from mere interest in the
technical progress of their children and get them to
understand that the primary objective of the instruc-
tion was arousing juy in music for its own sake and
desire to participate in producing music, as a means
of self-expression and as an asset to be retained
through life.
All those present agreed that the piano class
movement held great possibilities for the private
teacher who was progressive enough to look into it
and relate himself to it. They pointed out the in-
creasing number of classes and the demand for trained
teachers in the schools, as well as the pedagogical
advantages to be derived by use in the private studio.
Among those present at the meeting beside the
committee members were Miss Ella H. Mason, direc-
tor of the piano classes in the schools of Rochester,
N. Y.; Franklin Dunham of the Aeolian Company,
and Kenneth S. Clark of the National Bureau.
James Elliott, president of Underwood & Under-
wood, Inc., which firm made many photographs for
Presto-Times, died in Poland Springs, Me., on
August 14.
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