Presto
Issue: 1935 2276 - Page 3
PRESTO TIMES
Established 1884
AMERICAN
MUSIC TRADES-INDUSTRIES
1 Year
91.00. 6 Months
60 cento
CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE-JULY, 1935
Console Pianos
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT SPACE
IN THIS ISSUE
BALDWIN (PIANOS)
Will Be Exhibited at the
(Announcement on Convention)
ESTEY (PIANOS)
Music Trade
Convention
July 22-24
These New Models, conforming to
new piano architecture of the fast
moving drama of new piano sales
possibilities
will be the first showing of their
New Console Models
At The Story & Clark Exhibit Rooms
505A and 509, Stevens Hotel, deal-
ers may hear distinct progress in
small grand tone and tone produc-
tion and see a variety of models of
newest and latest designs in verti-
cally constrvicted pianos.
This Exhibit Will Show Console
Models ENTIRELY ORIGINAL AND
RADICALLY DIFFERENT IN DE-
SIGN AND TREATMENT FROM
ALL OTHERS.
Also a General Showing of
STORY & CLARK
PIANOS
Grands, Uprights, Console Type at
Story & Clark Building
(General Office Headquarters)
175 North Michigan Blvd.
Chicago, 111.
JOURNAL
Fifteenth of Publication Montfa
THE DRAFTING OF A BILL FOR
SECRETARY OF MUSIC, ART AND
LITERATURE IN THE PRESI-
DENT'S CABINET
The
Story & Clark
Established 1881
(Convention Announcement)
GULBRANSEN (PIANOS)
(Gulbransen Super-Scale Pianos)
MATHUSHEK-SPINET (PIANOS)
(The Piano Sensation of the Decade)
STEINWAY (PIANOS)
(Special on the New Accelerated Action)
STORY & CLARK (PIANOS)
(Special Announcements)
JESSE FRENCH (PIANOS)
(Diamond Jubilee)
McMACKIN (KEY REPAIRS)
STRAUBE (PIANOS)
(Reorganization Announcement)
WURLITZER (PIANOS)
FROESS BROS. (KEY-NU)
YORK (BAND INSTRUMENTS)
NATIONAL PIANO MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Report of the President
At the Annual Meeting of the National Piano
Manufacturers' Association held in New York June
4, the following officers were re-elected: President,
Lucien Wulsin; vice-president, W. G. Heller; treas-
urer, C. Albert Jacob, Jr. W. A. Mennie was elected
secretary, succeeding Henry Meixell. L. P. Bull,
vice-president of the Story & Clark Piano Company,
and George C. Seeley, vice-president of Comstock
Cheney & Company, were placed on the Executive
Committee, succeeding W. H. Alfring and David W.
Kimball, respectively.
At this meeting the members present approved the
recommendation of the Executive Committee as to
the association's activities for the coming year which
plan of work consists mainly of three items relating
(a) to furnishing members with monthly reports
covering factory shipments, (b) number of employees,
hours work and average wages of employees. The
monthly reports on credit delinquencies and other
activities have reference to continued maintenance of
the organization.
Preparation of a Bill Covering Congressman
Sirovich's Resolution
H E proposed Congressional Bill
providing for a Minister of Science,
Art, Music and Literature to be
a member of the President's
Cabinet is well under way. It is
now about a year and a half ago
that P R E S T O - T I M E S brought
this matter of governmental rec-
ognition of music to its readers
and others that it might interest. This was an edi-
torial suggested by views on the subject of "Federal
Action for Disposal of Leisure Time" which Harry
Edward Freund had submitted to President Franklin
D. Roosevelt and which it was suggested might be car-
ried out "when the New Deal is in full swing." This
letter was acknowledged by the President's secretary
who stated that it interested Mr. Roosevelt and was
appreciated by him.
The name for a cabinet portfolio suggested by
PRESTO-TIMES, "Minister of Fine Arts," has been
enlarged by the committee which is to prepare a Bill,
so that the proposed title is "Minister of Science, Art,
Music and Literature."
At one of the committee hearings several indi-
viduals prominent in music were called upon for in-
formation, among them Lawrence Tibbett, eminent
vocalist who, in his reply to the chairman's inquiry
said: "It seems to me as long- as literature is men-
tioned specifically, and literature is a branch of art as
well as music, when the term 'art' is used inclusively,
music should also be mentioned specifically." After
several other questions were answered the chairman
remarked: "Everybody understands the emotion of
crying; they know what it symbolizes. So it is with
music, which is the language of the soul and which
portrays every human emotion you can think of. So
it is the highest form under the subject of art and we
will include it in the bill."
Thus the bill as it now stands will read Minister
of Science, Art, Music and Literature.
When this matter was discussed in PRESTO-
TIMES many congratulations came to the paper. Let-
ters were received from Walter Damrosch, Harry J.
Sohmer, Steinway & Sons, RCA-Victor Company,
Inc., E. E. Forbes, Edward H. Droop, Paul B.
Klugh, Karl B. Shinkman, Dr. Herbert J. Tily, Ed-
mund Gram, Gene Redewell, William H. Schmoller,
the late A. G. Gulbransen, the late Arthur Bissell and
others. Some of these correspondents said that they
had written their representatives in Congress asking
the support of such a measure, if one should ma-
terialize. Gene Redewell wrote a letter of this kind
and Mr. Schmoller of Schmoller & Mueller, Omaha,
said he would urge that such a bill be introduced.
And now it looks as if these among many whose
hearts have been in this work will have cause to
rejoice.
The joint resolution introduced by Congressman
William I. Sirovich provides for a new department
in the government with a secretary who shall have a
seat in the Cabinet of the President under the juris-
diction of which and direction of whom the various
offices, bureaus and sections dealing with science,
art, music and literature in their various forms now
scattered through other departments, as well as in
independent offices, ought to lie gathered in order to
promote the general welfare. And to specify claims
for such action the resolution further says:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the United States in Congress as-
sembled, that there shall be established and main-
tained as part of the government of the United States
of America, a department of science, art, music and
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Established 1884
AMERICAN
MUSIC TRADES-INDUSTRIES
1 Year
91.00. 6 Months
60 cento
CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE-JULY, 1935
Console Pianos
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT SPACE
IN THIS ISSUE
BALDWIN (PIANOS)
Will Be Exhibited at the
(Announcement on Convention)
ESTEY (PIANOS)
Music Trade
Convention
July 22-24
These New Models, conforming to
new piano architecture of the fast
moving drama of new piano sales
possibilities
will be the first showing of their
New Console Models
At The Story & Clark Exhibit Rooms
505A and 509, Stevens Hotel, deal-
ers may hear distinct progress in
small grand tone and tone produc-
tion and see a variety of models of
newest and latest designs in verti-
cally constrvicted pianos.
This Exhibit Will Show Console
Models ENTIRELY ORIGINAL AND
RADICALLY DIFFERENT IN DE-
SIGN AND TREATMENT FROM
ALL OTHERS.
Also a General Showing of
STORY & CLARK
PIANOS
Grands, Uprights, Console Type at
Story & Clark Building
(General Office Headquarters)
175 North Michigan Blvd.
Chicago, 111.
JOURNAL
Fifteenth of Publication Montfa
THE DRAFTING OF A BILL FOR
SECRETARY OF MUSIC, ART AND
LITERATURE IN THE PRESI-
DENT'S CABINET
The
Story & Clark
Established 1881
(Convention Announcement)
GULBRANSEN (PIANOS)
(Gulbransen Super-Scale Pianos)
MATHUSHEK-SPINET (PIANOS)
(The Piano Sensation of the Decade)
STEINWAY (PIANOS)
(Special on the New Accelerated Action)
STORY & CLARK (PIANOS)
(Special Announcements)
JESSE FRENCH (PIANOS)
(Diamond Jubilee)
McMACKIN (KEY REPAIRS)
STRAUBE (PIANOS)
(Reorganization Announcement)
WURLITZER (PIANOS)
FROESS BROS. (KEY-NU)
YORK (BAND INSTRUMENTS)
NATIONAL PIANO MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Report of the President
At the Annual Meeting of the National Piano
Manufacturers' Association held in New York June
4, the following officers were re-elected: President,
Lucien Wulsin; vice-president, W. G. Heller; treas-
urer, C. Albert Jacob, Jr. W. A. Mennie was elected
secretary, succeeding Henry Meixell. L. P. Bull,
vice-president of the Story & Clark Piano Company,
and George C. Seeley, vice-president of Comstock
Cheney & Company, were placed on the Executive
Committee, succeeding W. H. Alfring and David W.
Kimball, respectively.
At this meeting the members present approved the
recommendation of the Executive Committee as to
the association's activities for the coming year which
plan of work consists mainly of three items relating
(a) to furnishing members with monthly reports
covering factory shipments, (b) number of employees,
hours work and average wages of employees. The
monthly reports on credit delinquencies and other
activities have reference to continued maintenance of
the organization.
Preparation of a Bill Covering Congressman
Sirovich's Resolution
H E proposed Congressional Bill
providing for a Minister of Science,
Art, Music and Literature to be
a member of the President's
Cabinet is well under way. It is
now about a year and a half ago
that P R E S T O - T I M E S brought
this matter of governmental rec-
ognition of music to its readers
and others that it might interest. This was an edi-
torial suggested by views on the subject of "Federal
Action for Disposal of Leisure Time" which Harry
Edward Freund had submitted to President Franklin
D. Roosevelt and which it was suggested might be car-
ried out "when the New Deal is in full swing." This
letter was acknowledged by the President's secretary
who stated that it interested Mr. Roosevelt and was
appreciated by him.
The name for a cabinet portfolio suggested by
PRESTO-TIMES, "Minister of Fine Arts," has been
enlarged by the committee which is to prepare a Bill,
so that the proposed title is "Minister of Science, Art,
Music and Literature."
At one of the committee hearings several indi-
viduals prominent in music were called upon for in-
formation, among them Lawrence Tibbett, eminent
vocalist who, in his reply to the chairman's inquiry
said: "It seems to me as long- as literature is men-
tioned specifically, and literature is a branch of art as
well as music, when the term 'art' is used inclusively,
music should also be mentioned specifically." After
several other questions were answered the chairman
remarked: "Everybody understands the emotion of
crying; they know what it symbolizes. So it is with
music, which is the language of the soul and which
portrays every human emotion you can think of. So
it is the highest form under the subject of art and we
will include it in the bill."
Thus the bill as it now stands will read Minister
of Science, Art, Music and Literature.
When this matter was discussed in PRESTO-
TIMES many congratulations came to the paper. Let-
ters were received from Walter Damrosch, Harry J.
Sohmer, Steinway & Sons, RCA-Victor Company,
Inc., E. E. Forbes, Edward H. Droop, Paul B.
Klugh, Karl B. Shinkman, Dr. Herbert J. Tily, Ed-
mund Gram, Gene Redewell, William H. Schmoller,
the late A. G. Gulbransen, the late Arthur Bissell and
others. Some of these correspondents said that they
had written their representatives in Congress asking
the support of such a measure, if one should ma-
terialize. Gene Redewell wrote a letter of this kind
and Mr. Schmoller of Schmoller & Mueller, Omaha,
said he would urge that such a bill be introduced.
And now it looks as if these among many whose
hearts have been in this work will have cause to
rejoice.
The joint resolution introduced by Congressman
William I. Sirovich provides for a new department
in the government with a secretary who shall have a
seat in the Cabinet of the President under the juris-
diction of which and direction of whom the various
offices, bureaus and sections dealing with science,
art, music and literature in their various forms now
scattered through other departments, as well as in
independent offices, ought to lie gathered in order to
promote the general welfare. And to specify claims
for such action the resolution further says:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the United States in Congress as-
sembled, that there shall be established and main-
tained as part of the government of the United States
of America, a department of science, art, music and
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).
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