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P REST O - T I M E S
October, 1
R A D I O
VISIT TO AN ACTIVE RADIO
INDUSTRY
PARTY FROM ABROAD VISITS THE
GULBRANSEN PLANT
In company witb the head of a prominent music
house of Great Britain, a representative of Presto-
Times had the good fortune to go through the radio
manufacturing department of the Gulbransen com-
pany where the Gulbransen radios are entirely manu-
factured; where, as the Gulbransen slogan goes, the
entirely Gulbransen-built radios are made, and where
we viewed the process of construction from start to
finish. The visit proved to be a revelation for in
these times it is quite unusual to find a factory,
whether it be making buttonholes or radios, that is
not partially if not totally idle. The Gulbransen plant,
however, seemed to be working "full blast," not on
a par with the subnormal activity of today but on a
one hundred per cent basis. Every assembling bench,
every machine, was occjpied by busy workers, about
eighty per cent of whom were women. One feature
of the activity that particularly impressed the visitors
was the fact that there were many more of the large
console cabinet sets under construction than there
were of the midget or mantel sets. This fact alone
speaks well for the Gulbransen house as it shows that
many people who are buying the more expensive and
de luxe models are choosing the Gulbransen. Any
dealers seeking a connection for the fall and winter
months will do well to investigate this complete line
of radios.
Z E N I T H PRESENTS 14-TUBE RECEIVER,
NEW HYPER-HETERODYNE CIRCUIT
One of the outstanding receivers of the new season
is the Zenith Model 103, a fourteen-tube set that em-
ploys a new circuit called the hyper-heterodyne,
claimed to be a distinct advancement over the well-
known super-heterodyne circuit.
In addition to the many engineering advancements
which govern the performance of this deluxe radio
are many new and revolutionary devices designed to
safeguard and maintain its operating efficiency. A
foolproof tuning meter to insure scientifically accurate
tuning and an automatic line voltage regulator that
takes care of any fluctuation in the house current.
With line voltage conditions varying in every section
of the country, it is almost needless to point out the
variances in quality of reception. Many times it is
a question as to whether the line voltage is too high
for safe use on the receiver, or whether it is too low 7
to obtain efficient operation. In many localities great
fluctuations of current occur during the best periods
of broadcasting, causing poor reception or wiping it
out entirely. No such annoyance can confront the
owner of the Zenith fourteen-tube hyper-heterodyne.
Actually, fluctuations in house current mean nothing
to this radio receiver. They may vary from 85 to 135
volts, which are the extreme limits in use, yel it
makes no difference to this new Zenith.
LARGE CLARION ORDER COMES BY TRANS-
ATLANTIC TELEPHONE
The Clarion receiving set, manufactured by the
Transformer Corporation of America, certainly has
caught the Italian market, for the Chicago concern
recently received a trans-Atlantic telephone order
from their distributors, Societa Anonima Brunei,
Milano, Italy, for two carloads to be shipped im-
mediately, to till part of a list of orders on hand.
There is special significance in this order, for the
Clarion has to fight its way through a maze of other
lines turned out in Italy through special government
fostering and naturally having their own followings.
However, the Chicago product has more than dem-
onstrated its efficiency, and the Clarion is steadily
gaining in all parts of Italy.
To quote, in part, from a letter from R. D. Sira-
gusa, president of the Transformer Co.:
"While distribution in foreign territory has been
extremely good, we continue to believe that the sur-
face has hardly been scratched and this season's busi-
ness should prove the largest and most profitable to
all concerned. Nothing short of complete success
would do justice to our distributor's efforts and
Clarion merchandise."
The Brown Electric Co., Oklahoma distributor for
the Atvvater Kent line, has appointed the Edgar
Music Co. representative at Tulsa, Okla.
An interesting convention of RCA-Victor dealers
tor the state of Arkansas was recently held at the
Hotel Lafayette, Little Rock, Ark.
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
AN INTERESTING GATHERING
An interesting and important convention of Ma-
jestic radio and refrigerator dealers took place at the
Ponce de Leon Hotel, Miami, Fla., recenth'.
Harry Lever, president of the Southern Hardware
& Bicycle Co., Jacksonville, state distributors for
Majestic radios and electric refrigerators, introduced
the new sets to the dealers. G. G. Williams, travel-
ing representative, assisted in the demonstration. A
Majestic electric refrigerator was also displayed.
Nine models were shown, including the new auto-
mobile radio. A buffet luncheon was served.
Those attending were: S. E. Wilkinson, Jack Wal-
lace and J. W. Hamilton of the West Side Radio &
Electric Co., Miami; Marshall S. Philpitt, Albert J.
Boden, Roy Creager, N. C. Hendry and N. D. Loud
of S. Ernest Philpitt & Son, Miami; D. H. Gahr,
Burdine's; A. L. Stein and E. D. Merlin of the Twin
Radio Co., Miami; D. J. Hawkins of the Florida
Automotive Co., Miami; Guy Severance of the Radio
Shop, Miami; C. B. Johnston and A. L. Anderson of
the C. B. Johnston Co., Coral Gables; Fred T. Kerr
and J. G. Kerr of the Fred T. Kerr Co., Lake Worth;
J. J. Cater and Jack Delaney of the J. J. Cater Furni-
ture Co., West Palm Beach.
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co., Omaha, Nebr., has
taken the state agency for Nebraska and for western
Iowa for the Howard radio, manufactured at South
Haven, Mich. The headquarters and distribution
plant will be at 1516 Dodge street. There are ten
or twelve Schmoller & Mueller retail stores in Ne-
braska and Iowa, which means a lively business for
this instrument.
Mr. C. C. May of the Schmoller & Mueller com-
pany, in speaking of the new Howard radios, said:
"Howard was one of the earliest to enter radio.
Howard belongs to the small group of distinguished
makers whose products have been judged by their
intrinsic worth, rather than by numbers produced.
The utility of its radio receivers has been known to
discriminating buyers in every country for the past
ten years—a utility, the value of which has reached
its highest acquirements in the new Howard super-
heterodyne circuit,"
Commenting on the announcement that a number
of tube suits against the Majestic Corporation had
been settled, Mr. D. M. Compton of the Majestic
company, said the $30,000,000 suit of his organization
against the corporation would be pressed. Mr. Comp-
ton commented:
"The government's suit to dissolve the radio trust
and the $30,000,000 tube suit of the Grigsby-Grunow
Co. are still pending and are being actively pressed.
Thus, two of the most important anti-trust radio suits
are yet to be disposed of."
A decision in the United States District Court for
the Southern District of New York, Judge John M.
Woolsey presiding, holds that radio receivers known
as Radiola 16 and Radiola 17 sold by the Radio Cor-
poration of America infringe on the Hazeltine Cor-
poration's patent No. 7,535,853. The decision awards
to Hazeltine Corporation the right for an account as
to profits and damages.
The Piano, Radio and Music Exchange has started
business at 805 Walnut street, Des Moines, Iowa. The
manager of this business is J. W. MacLean, who has
been engaged in the music business for many years.
The business is a newly incorporated concern, with
C. B. Ritz, president; J. S. Wilson, vice-president;
Robert Lawson, secretary and treasurer.
EMINENT ARTISTS RECENT
PURCHASERS
KNABE
Among the distinguished artists who visited Knabe
warerooms, New York, for the purchase of pianos
for their personal use recently was Mme. Galli Curci,
eminent vocalist, as, also, Mme. Florence Easton and
Mme. Ina Bourskaya of the Metropolitan Opera.
Mms. Easton selected an Ampico Grand, together
with a large collection of Ampico recordings of her
contemporaries and acquaintances among the great
pianists.
STRICH & ZEIDLER ANNOUNCEMENT
The announcement is made that the Strich & Zeid-
ler name has been purchased by S. L. Curtiss 117
West 57th street, New York city, and that he will
keep the piano on the market. The Strich & Zeidler
name and reputation are good and the instrument
ought to continue with success which it can do with
maintaining the fine qualities on which the instru-
ment was established.
NEW RADIO AND TELE=
VISION ORGANIZATION
INCORPORATED IN OHIO
From the advertising manager of the American
Radio and Television Association, Findlay, Ohio,
Presto-Times is in receipt of a "news story" detail-
ing some of the projects which this newly chartered
organization has as its objective work. The business
is an Ohio corporation and their articles of incorpora-
tion permit them to organize nationally all listeners
and dealers, to divide the national organization into
state, county and city groups and maintain local clubs
in each community.
The news sheets received say that radio dealers
throughout the country have been advised of their
plans, aims and ambitions, and excellent cooperation
is being afforded them from every source. At the
present time main offices are established at Findlay,
Ohio, and other offices to be opened within thirty
days include New York City, Chicago and Los
Angeles.
What American Radio and Television Association,
Inc., does for listener members is summarized as fol-
lows: Representation on all legislative problems, as-
sistance in elimination of both local and national
interference, a clearing house for the expression of
criticisms; suggestions and general ideas of all lis-
teners, a closer relationship between the listener and
the dealer who sold the individual his radio. The
national association maintains both an engineering
and legal department for the benefit of its members.
When membership in a particular community reaches
a certain number, a local radio club is chartered with
a permanent secietary and offices, and this club will
play an important part in improving local conditions.
Presto-Times is advised that the individual endorse-
ments given the association include such well-known
names as Hon. George White, Governor of Ohio;
Hon. Robert J. Bulkley, United States Senator; Hon.
Grant E. Mouser, Jr., Congressman; Hon. Thad H.
Brown, General Council, Federal Radio Commission;
Robert T. Bonham, Washington Herald, and scores
of others.
Officers of American Radio and Television Asso-
ciation, Inc., are W. H. Brown, president and pub-
licity and advertising manager, newspaperman, for-
merly in government diplomatic service; first vice-
president and comptroller, W. R. Rowland, business
man and formerly connected with theatrical profes-
sion; second vice-president and general sales mana-
ger, E. B. Arnsberger, former general divisional sales
manager of the Willys-Overland Corporation; general
counsel, Jacob F. Burket, prominent Ohio attorney;
L. C. Gamertsfelder, former district sales manager of
Reo-Adams Automobile Co.; N. B. Shields, former
district manager of the Defiance Spark Plug Co., and
Hal G. Dunkin, former California distributor of the
Jackson-Bell Radio Corporation.
DUANE WANAMAKER,
EFFICIENT WORKER
The great degree of recognition the Majestic radio
and Majestic refrigerators have met with, while due
in the main to the excellence of the products, is also
due in a considerable measure to the skill of the
brain-workers in the Grigsby-Grunow company's
offices, 5801 Dickens avenue, Chicago. Of these, of
course, President B. J. Grigsby is the chief, but there
are several others.
Notable among these is Duane Wanamaker, vice-
president in charge of advertising, who has been in
the company's service almost from the days of its
infancy. His extensive experience in the music in-
dustries advertising fields, his intimate knowledge of
the piano, radio and furniture lines and his acquaint-
ance with the leaders of all these branches of manu-
facture, eminently qualify him for the position he has
tilled so long at Grigsby-Grunow's. While Mr. Wan-
amaker's decisions are quick, he is always careful to
analyze afresh and probe to the depths all of the
problems hinging upon such decisions.
Restless activity and the incessant changes it pro-
duces are to be expected around the headquarters of
a great and up-to-date factory office iike that of the
Grigsby-Grunow Company, a company which has
taken a big part in the recent advances of humanity,
and it takes mental alertness to keep the advertising
tree blossoming and bearing fruit at the same time.
This Mr. Wanamaker seems able to do, much to the
satisfaction of the Grigsby-Grunow Company and its
numerous customers.
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