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Issue: 1930 2242 - Page 15
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
January, 1930
HOLIDAY GREETINGS.
(Continued from page 13)
Thanks for Many Others.
Presto-Times thanks the many others who sent
appropriate holiday sentiments but for want of space
are not mentioned here. Any well-conducted trade
paper makes thousands of friends, and we recognize
and feel the worth of all these friendships. Hurrah
for the new year!
President J. J. Bernet of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway says: "A good New Year resolution would be
not to start anything one cannot finish."
FEAR AMERICAN MUSICAL TASTE.
Giving Prof. Olallo Morales, secretary of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Music, as authority, the Music
Art and Trade Journal of London says: "Screen
music has now been totally mechanized in the tone
films, and the aridity of American musical taste will
thus dominate the world The radio might help if
its leaders would prove strong enough to oppose the
passing musical fashions of the day, and the taste
of the ignorant and untaught." What class of Amer-
icans have this "aridity of musical taste?" Even
the "ignorant and untaught" in any country have
some appreciation of good music.
REPUTATION FOR WEALTH.
Tom Pletcher in his address at the Chicago Piano
Club last week mentioned in his reminiscences the
incident of his being half owner in Lee Roberts' great
and popular song, "Smiles." If Mr. Pletcher's inter-
est has continued in that song his share of profits
must have gone a considerable distance in establishing
his reputation as "Millionaire Pletcher."
LAUGHEAD TO RETURN SOON.
Gordon Laughead, sales manager for the Wur-
litzer Grand Piano Co., De Kalb, 111., expects to
return to his Chicago office January 15 from an ex-
tensive tour of Pacific Coast states. Mr. Laughead is
certainly one of the most active men in the trade
these days. Only recently he completed a survey of
the trade in the Southwest.
A MUSICAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Stoughton high school, Stoughton, Wis., is spon-
soring nine musical organizations at present. The
outfits included are two bands, an orchestra, a boys'
quartette, a boys' glee club, two girls' glee clubs, a
girls' sextette, and a class in stringed instruments.
Each organization is under the direct supervision of
the school and is made up entirely of school members.
GERMAN OPERA IN CHICAGO.
IN GOOD VOICE
Chicago is to have a short season of grand opera
in German. The German Grand Opera Company, in
a repertoire of master works of Richard Wagner, is
to be heard one week only, February 2 to 8, inclusive.
A brakeman arrived before the heavenly gates and
found that things aloft were as fine as he had been
led to believe. One of the receiving angels took him
in charge and asked if there was anything in partic-
ular he wanted.
"Yep, I always did like choir music," said the brake-
man. "Get me ten thousand soprano singers!"
"An unusual request," commented the angel, "but
you shall have them—anything else?"
"Ten thousand alto singers."
"And ten thousand tenors," ordered the brakeman
—"an' that'll be all for the present."
"Well—er—how about the bassos?" inquired the
angel.
"I'll sing bass."—The International Musician.
RE-POPULARIZING
PHONOGRAPH
RECORDS.
The manufacturers of phonograph records must be
fearful of attacks of heard failure, for just now they
are attempting to bring about a renaissance of the
popularity of these devices by having the broadcast-
ing stations announce the character of the mechanical
reproductions, immediately preceding the playing of
the pieces. The Radio Commission of the govern-
ment has issued orders to that effect and is bringing
announcers up with a jerk when they disobey by
neglecting to do it.
WARNING TO INVENTORS.
STROMBERG-CARLSON BUSINESS MEETING.
Thomas A. Edison has been conducting experi-
ments which prove that rubber may be produced from
the goldenrod.
Let us ever hope and pray
That professors in their "tech,"
With the " 'rod" upon their tray
Ne'er produce a rubber-neck.
—HENRY MacMULLAN.
Thirty-five branch managers and representatives of
the Stromberg-Carlson Company of Rochester, N. Y.,
representing the United States from coast to coast,
gathered recently at Rochester for their business
meeting. W. Roy McCanne, president and general
manager, and other executives of the company, were
present at the d'nner served the guests at Genesee
Vallev Club.
MIDDLETOWN WURLITZ.ER STORE.
Imagination is a valuable human asset.—The In-
ternational Musician, Newark, N. J.
George Yelton, manager of the Wurlitzer store at
Middletown, Ohio, says trade was good during the
holiday week in pianos, radios and small musical in-
struments. The store on Main street is a credit to
Middletown. "More people than ever before seem
to realize the true appropriateness of a musical gift
for the home, whether it be piano, radio, violin or
trumpet," said Mr. Yelton.
CONFIDENCE IS RESTORED.
Confidence in the general business situation has
been revived at least to the point where vague fears
have been checked, and it remains to be seen what
real work will accomplish.—New York World.
BALDWIN RETAIL MANAGER.
L. C. Wagner
retail piano sales
of The Baldwin
effective January
has been appointed manager of the
department of the Chicago division
Piano Co. The appointment was
2.
HUNT FOR MUSICAL THIEF.
EXTEND LEASE ON PLANT.
Its business has increased to such an extent during
the past year that the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone
Manufacturing Company has extended its lease on
the old plant at Rochester for another year.
A burglar who took musical instruments is being
sought by the police of Evanston, 111. From the
Nichols school, at Greenleaf street and Elmwood ave-
nue, the thief took one clarinet and one oboe, and at
St. Luke's Church, Hinman avenue and Lee street, he
stole one bass drum, one snare drum, cymbals, and
other equipment of a drummer.
WIRE COMPANY ENLARGES PLANT.
An improvement program, including additions to
two of the American Steel & Wire Co.'s three plants
at Donora, near Pittsburgh, Pa., will be carried out
soon. The improvements will cost $6,000,000. Work
is to be started Jan. 1.
J. BRECKWOLDT, President
COMPOSING
ARRANGING
Straight and Commercial Orchestrations
of every description.
Vocal Orchestration
$10.00
Special Dance Orch
$20.00
Music set to song poem and ar-
ranged for piano
$8.00
Copying Done, Transpositions Made
Satisfaction Guaranteed
(Special Composition to Order)
Remit by American Express Money Order.
For reply enclose International reply coupon.
MAX E. HASENBEIN
Composer and Arranger
Dept. P. Hastedter—Heer str., 96.
Bremen, Germany
(Correspondence in English Invited)
W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec'y and Treas.
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, Inc.
DOLGEVILLE, N. Y.
Make a Specialty of Manufacturing
PIANO BACKS,
SOUNDING BOARDS,
BARS, BRIDGES,
TRAP LEVERS AND
HAMMER MOULDINGS
Main Factory and Office
DOLGEVILLE,
NEW YORK
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
January, 1930
HOLIDAY GREETINGS.
(Continued from page 13)
Thanks for Many Others.
Presto-Times thanks the many others who sent
appropriate holiday sentiments but for want of space
are not mentioned here. Any well-conducted trade
paper makes thousands of friends, and we recognize
and feel the worth of all these friendships. Hurrah
for the new year!
President J. J. Bernet of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway says: "A good New Year resolution would be
not to start anything one cannot finish."
FEAR AMERICAN MUSICAL TASTE.
Giving Prof. Olallo Morales, secretary of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Music, as authority, the Music
Art and Trade Journal of London says: "Screen
music has now been totally mechanized in the tone
films, and the aridity of American musical taste will
thus dominate the world The radio might help if
its leaders would prove strong enough to oppose the
passing musical fashions of the day, and the taste
of the ignorant and untaught." What class of Amer-
icans have this "aridity of musical taste?" Even
the "ignorant and untaught" in any country have
some appreciation of good music.
REPUTATION FOR WEALTH.
Tom Pletcher in his address at the Chicago Piano
Club last week mentioned in his reminiscences the
incident of his being half owner in Lee Roberts' great
and popular song, "Smiles." If Mr. Pletcher's inter-
est has continued in that song his share of profits
must have gone a considerable distance in establishing
his reputation as "Millionaire Pletcher."
LAUGHEAD TO RETURN SOON.
Gordon Laughead, sales manager for the Wur-
litzer Grand Piano Co., De Kalb, 111., expects to
return to his Chicago office January 15 from an ex-
tensive tour of Pacific Coast states. Mr. Laughead is
certainly one of the most active men in the trade
these days. Only recently he completed a survey of
the trade in the Southwest.
A MUSICAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Stoughton high school, Stoughton, Wis., is spon-
soring nine musical organizations at present. The
outfits included are two bands, an orchestra, a boys'
quartette, a boys' glee club, two girls' glee clubs, a
girls' sextette, and a class in stringed instruments.
Each organization is under the direct supervision of
the school and is made up entirely of school members.
GERMAN OPERA IN CHICAGO.
IN GOOD VOICE
Chicago is to have a short season of grand opera
in German. The German Grand Opera Company, in
a repertoire of master works of Richard Wagner, is
to be heard one week only, February 2 to 8, inclusive.
A brakeman arrived before the heavenly gates and
found that things aloft were as fine as he had been
led to believe. One of the receiving angels took him
in charge and asked if there was anything in partic-
ular he wanted.
"Yep, I always did like choir music," said the brake-
man. "Get me ten thousand soprano singers!"
"An unusual request," commented the angel, "but
you shall have them—anything else?"
"Ten thousand alto singers."
"And ten thousand tenors," ordered the brakeman
—"an' that'll be all for the present."
"Well—er—how about the bassos?" inquired the
angel.
"I'll sing bass."—The International Musician.
RE-POPULARIZING
PHONOGRAPH
RECORDS.
The manufacturers of phonograph records must be
fearful of attacks of heard failure, for just now they
are attempting to bring about a renaissance of the
popularity of these devices by having the broadcast-
ing stations announce the character of the mechanical
reproductions, immediately preceding the playing of
the pieces. The Radio Commission of the govern-
ment has issued orders to that effect and is bringing
announcers up with a jerk when they disobey by
neglecting to do it.
WARNING TO INVENTORS.
STROMBERG-CARLSON BUSINESS MEETING.
Thomas A. Edison has been conducting experi-
ments which prove that rubber may be produced from
the goldenrod.
Let us ever hope and pray
That professors in their "tech,"
With the " 'rod" upon their tray
Ne'er produce a rubber-neck.
—HENRY MacMULLAN.
Thirty-five branch managers and representatives of
the Stromberg-Carlson Company of Rochester, N. Y.,
representing the United States from coast to coast,
gathered recently at Rochester for their business
meeting. W. Roy McCanne, president and general
manager, and other executives of the company, were
present at the d'nner served the guests at Genesee
Vallev Club.
MIDDLETOWN WURLITZ.ER STORE.
Imagination is a valuable human asset.—The In-
ternational Musician, Newark, N. J.
George Yelton, manager of the Wurlitzer store at
Middletown, Ohio, says trade was good during the
holiday week in pianos, radios and small musical in-
struments. The store on Main street is a credit to
Middletown. "More people than ever before seem
to realize the true appropriateness of a musical gift
for the home, whether it be piano, radio, violin or
trumpet," said Mr. Yelton.
CONFIDENCE IS RESTORED.
Confidence in the general business situation has
been revived at least to the point where vague fears
have been checked, and it remains to be seen what
real work will accomplish.—New York World.
BALDWIN RETAIL MANAGER.
L. C. Wagner
retail piano sales
of The Baldwin
effective January
has been appointed manager of the
department of the Chicago division
Piano Co. The appointment was
2.
HUNT FOR MUSICAL THIEF.
EXTEND LEASE ON PLANT.
Its business has increased to such an extent during
the past year that the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone
Manufacturing Company has extended its lease on
the old plant at Rochester for another year.
A burglar who took musical instruments is being
sought by the police of Evanston, 111. From the
Nichols school, at Greenleaf street and Elmwood ave-
nue, the thief took one clarinet and one oboe, and at
St. Luke's Church, Hinman avenue and Lee street, he
stole one bass drum, one snare drum, cymbals, and
other equipment of a drummer.
WIRE COMPANY ENLARGES PLANT.
An improvement program, including additions to
two of the American Steel & Wire Co.'s three plants
at Donora, near Pittsburgh, Pa., will be carried out
soon. The improvements will cost $6,000,000. Work
is to be started Jan. 1.
J. BRECKWOLDT, President
COMPOSING
ARRANGING
Straight and Commercial Orchestrations
of every description.
Vocal Orchestration
$10.00
Special Dance Orch
$20.00
Music set to song poem and ar-
ranged for piano
$8.00
Copying Done, Transpositions Made
Satisfaction Guaranteed
(Special Composition to Order)
Remit by American Express Money Order.
For reply enclose International reply coupon.
MAX E. HASENBEIN
Composer and Arranger
Dept. P. Hastedter—Heer str., 96.
Bremen, Germany
(Correspondence in English Invited)
W. A. BRECKWOLDT, Sec'y and Treas.
JULIUS BRECKWOLDT & SON, Inc.
DOLGEVILLE, N. Y.
Make a Specialty of Manufacturing
PIANO BACKS,
SOUNDING BOARDS,
BARS, BRIDGES,
TRAP LEVERS AND
HAMMER MOULDINGS
Main Factory and Office
DOLGEVILLE,
NEW YORK
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/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).