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December 1, 1929
SYLVANIA ADDS ANOTHER
NEW FACTORY BUILDING
New Building Now in Full Operation in Sylvania's
Home Town, Emporium, Pa.
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distribution and manufacture. This is the prediction
of B. G. Erskinc, a director of the Radio Manufac-
turers' Association, and president of the Sylvania
Products Company.
Mr. Erskine says all indications point to a total
tube output that will probably exceed one hundred
million single units.
Another new plant—in step with
the constantly growing demand for
the product—has been completed at
Sylvania's home town, Emporium,
Pa., and is in full operation for Syl-
vania radio tubes.
The newest factory building of
concrete, brick, and steel, to be
known as Number One, dwarfs the
other members of Sylvania's produc-
tive family, being more than three
times the size of the huge Sylvania
NEW SY/TWANTA BUILDING AT EMPORIUM, PA.
screen grid plant at Lock Haven, Pa.
;
"The present year's expenditure for radio tubes
Three stories in he ght, with over 100,000 square
feet of space, this latest physical adjunct of the pro- will probably involve a national expenditure of one-
quarter billion dollars," says Mr. Erskine, "and the
present outlook can be considered a very favorable
barometer reading for the radio industry throughout
the approaching year."
DUEL DANGER IS AVERTED.
B. G. ERSKINE.
duction department houses a thousand employees.
Begun only in June of this year, the plant today is
complete, and manufacturing 45,000 tubes a day.
The year 1930 will break all records in radio tube
SELLING HIGH GRADES
AT INDIANAPOLIS
Sales Include Apollos, Jesse French & Sons, Schu-
manns and Other Makes of Grands.
Business at the Pearson Piano Company's store,
Indianapolis, is reported good to fair, and high grade
pianos constituting the bulk of the sales. Prospects
are reported good, and the Christmas outlook is prom-
ising.
The Wilking Music Company recently sold an
Apollo grand, style N, to the Indianapolis Teachers'
College. One of the outstanding sales during the
past week was two grand pianos to the Anderson
Theater Company. Anderson, Ind. A Chinese Chip-
pendale made by the Jesse French & Sons Piano Co.,
of New Castle, Ind., and finished in Chinese red and
black will occupy the roof of the Anderson Theater,
and one of the plain styles will be used in the theater
proper. The company reports activity in the repro-
ducing instruments.
The E. L, Lennox Piano Company, and the C. G.
Conn Company, Ltd., held their formal opening on
Saturday, November 23. The store was beautifully
decorated and a continuous musical program was
rendered during the afternoon. Several hundred visi-
tors were presented with roses as souvenirs. As a
special attraction an unusual display of band instru-
ments occupied the spacious show window, which at-
tracted more than usual attention. The upper floors
where the product of the American Piano Company
is on display, were very attractive, and visitors were
escorted through the building by the sales force of
the E. L. Lennox Piano Company.
An unusual sale during the past week was that of
a Schumann grand, plain Colonial style in mahogany,
to Public School 66, known as the Henry Coburn
School. Two members of the Orlofif Trio, one of the
musical organizations of the city, called at the various
houses and made their selection. They in turn re-
ported their selection to the Parent Teachers Associa-
tion of the school who made the purchase.
Recent visitors in Indianapolis included Paul Fink
of The Aeolian Company, New York City. Mr. Fink
called at the Pearson Piano Company, and said that
conditions in territory recently covered by him were
much improved.
Mark Mayer, of the Brinkerhoff Piano Company,
Chicago, was a caller at the Marion Music Company,
local distributors for the Brinkerhoff pianos.
Edwin Ash, representing the Tonk Manufacturing
Company, Chicago, called on the Indianapolis dealers
recently.
Count Hay DuBarry, piano dealer of Seattle, Wash.,
who is defendant in a suit brought against him by
P. S. Wick, piano manufacturer of St Paul, Minn.,
is making light of his troubles and worries, and even
has given a photograph of himself to one of the
Seattle dailies showing his dexterity in dueling, the
facetious purport of which is to show the method
his ancestors used in France when questions of honor
were settled with the rapier before referees and sec-
onds. The suit is for the return of a quantity of
pianos consigned to the redoubtable count, who jokes
by saying, "I realize that affaires d'honneur are no
longer quite the thing in this country." The matter
has been in court at Seattle and Judge Hall announced
he would allow DuBarry $15,000 for his claim against
Wick, allow Wick to recover 101 pianos consigned to
DuBarry, and that the parties should share propor-
tionately the profits from pianos already sold on con-
ditional sales contracts.
AL. LUCAS RESIGNS.
Al. Lucas, formerly of the sales department of the
Gulbransen Company, Chicago, has severed his con-
nection with that house, but he makes no definite
statement as to his future activities beyond his inten-
tion to remain at his home address, 5970 Adams
street, Chicago, for a t'me before accepting any other
position. Mr. Lucas began his career in the piano
business in 1907 with the Aeolian Company, later on
becoming associated with Price & Teeple and then
the Weaver Piano Company. He is very well-known
among the trade throughout the country, having
traveled extensively for a period of seventeen years.
DISPLAYS SETTERGREN GRAND.
A window at the Du Pont Products Exhibit on
the Boardwalk at Atlantic City was devoted last
week to the display of a grand piano. The instrument
shown was a standard model in brown mahogany
with Duco finish. It was manufactured by B. K.
Settergren Company, Bluffton, Ind.
1930 KNABE LOUIS XV
Ampico Halls throughout the country are conduct-
ing the first showing of the latest 1930 model Knabe
Louis XV baby grand. It is an exquisite example
of the most popular of all French Periods of decora-
tion, being authentic in every line, perfect in propor-
tion, delicately "chiseled" in every charming curve
and detail of ornament, painstakingly hand carved
by master craftsmen on the finest of beau-
tifully figured French walnut. And, but one
touch on the keyboard reveals that the in-
strument is a Knabe with that glorious alluring
tone that has won for Knabe its designation as the
official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Only 5 feet 3 inches in length, truly a baby grand,
this instrument is particularly appropriate for rooms
of limited size. It is also ava ; lable with the Ampico.
FRITZ LEIBER ACCLAIMED.
West Wacker Drive, Chicago, came into its own
with the opening of the new Civic theater. It was
something of a surprise, yet it should have been
expected that the Civic theatre would be an exact
replica of the new Opera House. The same lovely
salmon rose velvet hangings and comfortable chairs;
the same modernistic lighting fixtures along the sides;
the same soft tones of rose and silver giving an
atmosphere of ease and luxury and the production
so magnificently costumed, so pleasing to the eye
that it enthralled and held one in tense interest-
hence one opines this Shakespearean effort has come
to stay. In the role of Marc Antony, Fritz Leiber,
in the play, "Julius Caesar." last week again demon-
strated his extraordinary ability to harmonize Shakes-
pearean characters. His Antony is essentially the
skillful politician and shrewd demagogue in whom
loyalty to his fallen friend is blended with an eye to
personal advantage.
NOTHING WRONG WITH BUSINESS.
That the United States is as rich as before the
stock market crash is the declaration of Edward N.
Hurley, who was chairman of the United States
Shupping Board in the time of the W r orld's War. In
an address to the Illinois Manufacturers' Cost Asso-
ciation at the Palmer House, Chicago, on November
26, Mr. Hurley said: "There is nothing wrong with
American business and the outlook for 1930 is most
encouraging. We have everything today that we had
on September 1 in the way of brains, wealth and
earned income. Nothing is gone except some delu-
sions as to the amount of profits which American
inudstries might earn in years to come. The deflation
of so-called stock values from about 90 billions of
dollars on September 1 to some 71 billions now does
not represent the disappearance of one ounce of ma-
terial wealth. Managers and workers of American
industry have sound horse sense—a good medicine
for a situation like this. Why not start planning now
for the increased volume of business which is sure
to come in 1930?"
MEXICO'S SINGING SOLDIERS.
Believing that singing helps the soldier on his
marches and in his work, the war department of Mex-
ico has set aside part of its 1930 budget for teachers
to train Mexico's troops in vocal arts.
ONE MAN RADIO TRUCK
With this Truck, one man can deliver and Demonstrate the popular
makes and sizes of Radios. $15.00 F. O. B. Factory.
Truck just for Victor R-32 and RE-45, $12.50 F. O. B. Factory.
Manufactured by
SELF LIFTING PIANO TRUCK CO.
Findlay, Ohio
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