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P R E S T O-T I M E S
July, 1931
R A D I O
ANNUAL RADIO TRADE
SHOW AND CONVENTION
Radio showed its growing strength at the recent
fifth annual trade show and convention held at the
Stevens Hotel, Chicago, June 8th to 12th inclusive.
More enthusiasm was shown than at the Atlantic
City convention last year and the manufacturers re-
ceived many orders for their products—the total
volume of orders exceeding anticipations by a sub-
stantial percentage. Despite rumors of impending
disaster for everybody's business and the substantia-
tion of the anti-evolution law in Tennessee, the radio
men kept right on progressing in the belief that no
scientific man must be kept permanently handcuffed
and locked in the ice-box. Perhaps that's one reason
why the refrigerator as a line of manufacture has been
added to making radio sets by several of the radio
manufacturers. Anyway, radio men, whose devices
ride the ether and defy the storms, are progressive
enough to appreciate the circumstances that arise and
plan to overcome obstructions, if not chronic obstruc-
tionists, and grannified people who are set in their
ways. The refrigerator and the radio seem to be nat-
urally and necessarily co-existent. The faculty of in-
vention, to which are due such creations, exists in
minds that are nothing if not critical.
The address of welcome, delivered by Mayor Cer-
mak, formally opened the convention on June 8. The
main exhibition hall in the basement is one of the
largest permanent exhibition places ever established
in an immense hotel, and it was completely occupied
by the radio shows. There was considerable space
also occupied on upper floors of the hotel for demon-
stration purposes mainly, particularly by the Starr,
the Gulbransen and the Jesse French people.
Featured among the many interesting exhibits in the
vast show was radio equipment of almost every known
description and a few things that are almost inde-
scribable. Television sets, batteries, tubes, radio
receivers for automobiles, radio furniture, short wave
apparatus for the reception of foreign broadcasts, and
a thousand and one designs of latest mechanism and
import were among the things seen and studied.
Credit Committee's Report
While the radio industry was among the first to feel
the effects of the down-swing that started late in
1929, its ability to quickly adapt itself to the new con-
ditions holds out a promise of cheer for the near
future, L. F. Muter, Chicago, chairman of the credit
committee of the Radio Manufacturers' Association,
asserted in his report. Measured in the amounts in-
volved in failures for the year, the total has been con-
siderably below the average for all other industries, he
stated.
Gulbransen President Was Pleased
A. S. Wells, president of The Gulbransen Co., Chi-
cago, said: "Our entire staff was agreeably surprised
with the business transacted at the radio show, as
well as for prospects in the future. Our distributing
organization is intact, and confident of a fall business
of considerable magnitude."
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
Radio Gives Absent Ones the Banquet Program
A well-known piano trade paper man who could
not attend the big banquet, owing to an anniversary
dinner given in honor of a member of his family at
the Baker Hotel, St. Charles, 111. made the event
extremely interesting by turning tin a radio which had
been placed in the individual dining room occupied by
the party. Thus, the entire program at the Palmer
House was enjoyed by the dinner party. Here some
fifty miles west of Chicago, they were enabled to
hear the addresses of Otto B. Heaton, Mayor Cer-
mak, Delbert L. Loomis, the singing of the soloists
and all the radioed proceedings of the Tuesday night
event.
The June issue of "The Voice of the Majestic,"
which took the place of "The Voice of the Air" as the
house organ of the Grigsby-Grunow Co., Chicago, is
The no-fall board grand was quite noticeable at the
a beautiful number. It is replete with illustrations, convention exhibits of several of the manufacturers.
including a picture of Mme. Schumann-Heink, who
was 70 this month; Efram Zimbalist, and Ted Husing,
popular Columbia announcer.
Morris Metcalf, president of the Radio Manufac-
turers' Association, in an address at the convention
predicted a continuance of overproduction to cause
worry until the manufacturers would be willing to
furnish and be guided by statistical information pro-
vided by the whole industry.
Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce,
" R a d i o without the service headache"
said in an address at the Radio Trade Show that the
radio industry is in a position to take the leadership
in climbing out of the abyss of business depression.
He claimed that the bottom of the depression was hit
in January and that "much of the present crape-hang-
NEW
ing should be historical."
GULBRANSEN
W. F. Merchant, district manager for the Cape-
Model 335
hart Corporation in the home territory, lives in Fort
10 - Tube
(Four
Wayne, Ind., where he was born. His territory is
'35 Vari-mu, two
•47
Pentode
in
northern Indiana and Michigan.
push
pull).
Superheterodyne. 1
The Capehart Corporation, pioneers and leaders in
•Oompens a t i ng
automatic record changing devices, produce for their
Dynamic Speak-
e
r.
Tuning
customers a list of accessories which include ampli-
Meter, Automatic
fiers, converters, microphone equipment, mixing
Volume Control,
P u l l - floating
panels, needles, speaker units and speakers.
Variable
C o n-
(iensers.
Power
Nearly 600 dealers and distributors of the Philadel-
Switch.
No
phia Storage Battery Co., manufacturers of Philco
"blasting,"
no
lulling, no cross-
radios, arrived on the opening day of the conven-
talk. Price, less
tubes, $!I7.5O.
tion on a chartered Detroit and Cleveland boat from
Buffalo to attend the National Radio Trade show.
They held a sales convention at Buffalo on the way
out.
G I MUr\\SE\
SUPEUI1ETEIIOI»YNES
SLOW PROGRESS OF T E L E V I S I O N
F. A. Schoenberg. proprietor of the St. Joseph
Music House, St. Joseph, Mich., after his return from
the annual radio exposition in Chicago, said he was
not greatly encouraged over the progress of television,
and he expressed the belief that its general use in
homes was still a long way ahead. He said: "Short
waves are required for television. That means that
anyone purchasing television equipment must also
purchase a low-wave receiving set, as present high-
wave receiving sets are useless in television opera-
tions." He was accompanied to Chicago by Ray
Swigert, of the St. Joseph Radio Service.
ONE MAN
RADIO TRUCK
With this truck one man can deliver
the popular makes and sizes of Radios
from the show room, on and off the
delivery truck, up the steps or stairs
and into the house or apartment.
$15.00. This same truck not adjust-
able but made for the Victor R-32 and
R-E 45. $12.50. F. O. B. Findlay,
Ohio.
SELF-LIFTING PIANOTRUCKCO.
Findlay, Ohio
MANTEL
RECEIVER
Model ISO
Seven - t>ube Super-
heterodyne (two '35
Vari-mus, one '47
Pentode). 10 kilo-
cycle
separation.
I^irge enough to in-
sure excellent tone.
Finest cabinet work.
Price,
less
tubes,
$58.00.
CONSOLE
RECEIVER
.•Model 135
Seven - tube
Super-
heterodyne,
same
chassis as Model 130,
in beautifully de-
signed cabinet, 40"
high. 2 to 4 micro-
volt sensitivity per
m e t e r . No l u b e
noises or crosw-talk.
Price.
less
tuboo,
$68.00.
Write or wire for
full particulars
LPULBRANSEN
Co
Hl« V. Kotlzlc Ave.
Chicago, III.
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
July, 1931
R A D I O
ANNUAL RADIO TRADE
SHOW AND CONVENTION
Radio showed its growing strength at the recent
fifth annual trade show and convention held at the
Stevens Hotel, Chicago, June 8th to 12th inclusive.
More enthusiasm was shown than at the Atlantic
City convention last year and the manufacturers re-
ceived many orders for their products—the total
volume of orders exceeding anticipations by a sub-
stantial percentage. Despite rumors of impending
disaster for everybody's business and the substantia-
tion of the anti-evolution law in Tennessee, the radio
men kept right on progressing in the belief that no
scientific man must be kept permanently handcuffed
and locked in the ice-box. Perhaps that's one reason
why the refrigerator as a line of manufacture has been
added to making radio sets by several of the radio
manufacturers. Anyway, radio men, whose devices
ride the ether and defy the storms, are progressive
enough to appreciate the circumstances that arise and
plan to overcome obstructions, if not chronic obstruc-
tionists, and grannified people who are set in their
ways. The refrigerator and the radio seem to be nat-
urally and necessarily co-existent. The faculty of in-
vention, to which are due such creations, exists in
minds that are nothing if not critical.
The address of welcome, delivered by Mayor Cer-
mak, formally opened the convention on June 8. The
main exhibition hall in the basement is one of the
largest permanent exhibition places ever established
in an immense hotel, and it was completely occupied
by the radio shows. There was considerable space
also occupied on upper floors of the hotel for demon-
stration purposes mainly, particularly by the Starr,
the Gulbransen and the Jesse French people.
Featured among the many interesting exhibits in the
vast show was radio equipment of almost every known
description and a few things that are almost inde-
scribable. Television sets, batteries, tubes, radio
receivers for automobiles, radio furniture, short wave
apparatus for the reception of foreign broadcasts, and
a thousand and one designs of latest mechanism and
import were among the things seen and studied.
Credit Committee's Report
While the radio industry was among the first to feel
the effects of the down-swing that started late in
1929, its ability to quickly adapt itself to the new con-
ditions holds out a promise of cheer for the near
future, L. F. Muter, Chicago, chairman of the credit
committee of the Radio Manufacturers' Association,
asserted in his report. Measured in the amounts in-
volved in failures for the year, the total has been con-
siderably below the average for all other industries, he
stated.
Gulbransen President Was Pleased
A. S. Wells, president of The Gulbransen Co., Chi-
cago, said: "Our entire staff was agreeably surprised
with the business transacted at the radio show, as
well as for prospects in the future. Our distributing
organization is intact, and confident of a fall business
of considerable magnitude."
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
Radio Gives Absent Ones the Banquet Program
A well-known piano trade paper man who could
not attend the big banquet, owing to an anniversary
dinner given in honor of a member of his family at
the Baker Hotel, St. Charles, 111. made the event
extremely interesting by turning tin a radio which had
been placed in the individual dining room occupied by
the party. Thus, the entire program at the Palmer
House was enjoyed by the dinner party. Here some
fifty miles west of Chicago, they were enabled to
hear the addresses of Otto B. Heaton, Mayor Cer-
mak, Delbert L. Loomis, the singing of the soloists
and all the radioed proceedings of the Tuesday night
event.
The June issue of "The Voice of the Majestic,"
which took the place of "The Voice of the Air" as the
house organ of the Grigsby-Grunow Co., Chicago, is
The no-fall board grand was quite noticeable at the
a beautiful number. It is replete with illustrations, convention exhibits of several of the manufacturers.
including a picture of Mme. Schumann-Heink, who
was 70 this month; Efram Zimbalist, and Ted Husing,
popular Columbia announcer.
Morris Metcalf, president of the Radio Manufac-
turers' Association, in an address at the convention
predicted a continuance of overproduction to cause
worry until the manufacturers would be willing to
furnish and be guided by statistical information pro-
vided by the whole industry.
Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce,
" R a d i o without the service headache"
said in an address at the Radio Trade Show that the
radio industry is in a position to take the leadership
in climbing out of the abyss of business depression.
He claimed that the bottom of the depression was hit
in January and that "much of the present crape-hang-
NEW
ing should be historical."
GULBRANSEN
W. F. Merchant, district manager for the Cape-
Model 335
hart Corporation in the home territory, lives in Fort
10 - Tube
(Four
Wayne, Ind., where he was born. His territory is
'35 Vari-mu, two
•47
Pentode
in
northern Indiana and Michigan.
push
pull).
Superheterodyne. 1
The Capehart Corporation, pioneers and leaders in
•Oompens a t i ng
automatic record changing devices, produce for their
Dynamic Speak-
e
r.
Tuning
customers a list of accessories which include ampli-
Meter, Automatic
fiers, converters, microphone equipment, mixing
Volume Control,
P u l l - floating
panels, needles, speaker units and speakers.
Variable
C o n-
(iensers.
Power
Nearly 600 dealers and distributors of the Philadel-
Switch.
No
phia Storage Battery Co., manufacturers of Philco
"blasting,"
no
lulling, no cross-
radios, arrived on the opening day of the conven-
talk. Price, less
tubes, $!I7.5O.
tion on a chartered Detroit and Cleveland boat from
Buffalo to attend the National Radio Trade show.
They held a sales convention at Buffalo on the way
out.
G I MUr\\SE\
SUPEUI1ETEIIOI»YNES
SLOW PROGRESS OF T E L E V I S I O N
F. A. Schoenberg. proprietor of the St. Joseph
Music House, St. Joseph, Mich., after his return from
the annual radio exposition in Chicago, said he was
not greatly encouraged over the progress of television,
and he expressed the belief that its general use in
homes was still a long way ahead. He said: "Short
waves are required for television. That means that
anyone purchasing television equipment must also
purchase a low-wave receiving set, as present high-
wave receiving sets are useless in television opera-
tions." He was accompanied to Chicago by Ray
Swigert, of the St. Joseph Radio Service.
ONE MAN
RADIO TRUCK
With this truck one man can deliver
the popular makes and sizes of Radios
from the show room, on and off the
delivery truck, up the steps or stairs
and into the house or apartment.
$15.00. This same truck not adjust-
able but made for the Victor R-32 and
R-E 45. $12.50. F. O. B. Findlay,
Ohio.
SELF-LIFTING PIANOTRUCKCO.
Findlay, Ohio
MANTEL
RECEIVER
Model ISO
Seven - t>ube Super-
heterodyne (two '35
Vari-mus, one '47
Pentode). 10 kilo-
cycle
separation.
I^irge enough to in-
sure excellent tone.
Finest cabinet work.
Price,
less
tubes,
$58.00.
CONSOLE
RECEIVER
.•Model 135
Seven - tube
Super-
heterodyne,
same
chassis as Model 130,
in beautifully de-
signed cabinet, 40"
high. 2 to 4 micro-
volt sensitivity per
m e t e r . No l u b e
noises or crosw-talk.
Price.
less
tuboo,
$68.00.
Write or wire for
full particulars
LPULBRANSEN
Co
Hl« V. Kotlzlc Ave.
Chicago, III.
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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/
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