Presto

P R E S T O-T I M E S
Sept.-Oct.. 1936
PUBLISHERS
COMPOSERS
PIANO PUBLICITY ENTERPRISE
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MUSIC-
INVITATION TO SHEET MUSIC DEALERS
Sheet music dealers and other music merchants who
contemplate adding a line of popular music are in-
vited to visit the National Music Company.
Get some of our samples and catalogs.
Dealers not visiting the city should send for our
hulk-tins and latest propositions.
The sale of our publications will help you to add
extra profits to your business.
For
PRINTING AND ENGRAVING
Your Compositions and All Classes
of Musical Publications Send to
ZIMMERMAN & SON
ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS OF MUSIC
Of All Types, Sizes and Varieties
NATIONAL MUSIC COMPANY
KIMBALL BUILDING
Wabash Avenue and Jackson Boulevard
CHICAGO
Correspondence Solicited
OTTO ZIMMERMAN & SON
Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S. A.
OUR LINE OF PUBLICATIONS
Will Bring Business to You
TWO EXCELLENT SONGS
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
"Beautiful Campfire Nights"
Music for Bands, Orchestras, Drum Corps.
VOCAL MUSIC IN GREAT VARIETY
Let Us Tell You How to Sell Music and
Make Money.
E'.ery Dealer Should Sell Musical Publications
A Song That Will Be Appropriate for Many Occasions
Through the Coming Summer and Autumn Season.
M. WITMARK & SONS
"What Is This Magic Spell"
619 West 54th Street
New York City
Suite 600 Lyon & Healy Bldg.,
Chicago, Illinois
A Composition Always Appropriate
THESE ARE TWO EXCELLENT COMPOSITIONS
EXCELLENT TEXT AND GOOD MUSIC
Order One or Both and Verify the Statement
A Song of the Open
A Song of the Wild
"COLORADO'S CALLING"
Music by Dorothy Canon;
Words by Mason O. Brouse
Address:
ANNE WISH
P. O. Box G2
STEVENS POINT
WIS.
ALSO A TOPICAL SONG OF THE DAY:
The Dance Sensation of N. W . Colorado,
"BROADWAY SWEET-
HEART"
Home-Study Course
WALTZ
Your Spare TIME, and at a trifling Cost, and in Your
Own Home.
You Can Gain a Musical Training That Will Later
Be a Most Profitable Investment,
OTHER GOOD SELLERS to be brought
out in the near future. Watch for them.
Melodies Composed, Revised and Orchestrated at a
Very Small Cost.
WRITE TODAY
LIBERAL DISCOUNTS TO THE TRADE
and PROFESSION
25c each—2 for 40c
BROUSE & CANON, Publishers
CRAIG, COLORADO
ZYGMUND RONDOMANSKI
GROTON, CONNECTICUT
WORDS FOR MUSIC
Tin's advertiser has a choice selection of
LYRICS FOR MUSIC
\\ ill cooperate with composers for production of
ha'lads and various forms of songs, choruses, etc.
Mr. Harold K. Rainville of the Lawrence H. Selz
Publicity Bureau, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, says
that many personal clippings continue to come in in
response to the publicity efforts put out in behalf of
the Music Merchants' Association and the Piano Man-
ufacturers' Association during the July convention.
Mr. Rainville recently showed a representative of
Presto-Times clippings lately received from many
parts of the country; Amityville, N. Y., Columbus, Ga.,
Jackson, Miss., Erie, Pa., Salem, Ore., El Paso, Tex..
Topeka, Kans., Tacoma, Wash., Mason City, la., Enid,
Okla., were among the list.
An interesting line of fillers for newspapers is sent
out by Mr. Selz; items concerning the piano, such as:
"The average string tension of a grand piano is equiv-
alent to a dead weight of eighteen tons," and another,
"Piano manufacturers are the largest users of ivory;
300.000 pounds are imported into the United States
annually," another: "An elephant's tusks produce 30
pounds of ivory; enough to make 20 sets of piano
keys." There are something like fifty items similar
to this which make good reading and are splendid
"fillers-in" for newspapers and all kinds of magazines
and periodicals.
The Selz organization is doing a remarkably excel-
lent job in behalf of music in general and the piano
in particular.
MR. FREUND ADDRESSES A CIVIC
ORCHESTRA ORGANIZATION
Harry Edward Freund, eminent literateur, scholar
and promoter of civic movements for music, delivered
a notable address to the members of the Woodstown,
X. J., Orchestra. An event which must have been de-
lightful to Mr Freund were the introductory remarks
by YVilbert l>. Hitchner. conductor of the orchestra,
and the reference to the appointment of a minister of
arts, science and music in the federal cabinet. Mr.
Hitchner said, in introducing the speaker:
"The national administration at Washington ha.-,
under consideration the appointment of a minister of
science, art, music and literature with a seat in the
President's cabinet, and the joint resolution for the
bill for the new department for a Secretary of the
Fine Arts was introduced in the last session of Con-
gress.
"Representative leaders and influential friends in
several sections of the country of Harry Edward
Freund have proposed his name for this important
position. "
Mr. Freund was one of the first men identified with
music to propose a cabinet official for music, art and
literature in the President's cabinet, and it is exceed-
ingly gratifying to him to see the progress being made
in this movement.
Mr. Frcund's address, which Presto-Times regret-;
exceedingly cannot be reproduced in this issue, was
of marked interest.
THE JANSSEN-WISSNER
CONSOLIDATION
Announcement is made of the consolidation of the
Janssen Piano Company and Wissner & Sons, Inc.,
or, rather, that the Janssen Piano Company through
the president of that corporation, Webster E. Janssen.
to have control of the Wissner & Sons business. The
Janssen factory at 82 Brown place, just off Southern
boulevard, New York, has been moved to the Wissner
factory location at 1078 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn.
The officers of this new combination are: Otto R.
Wissner, president; Charles Wissner. vice-president;
William B. Schultz, vice-president; Webster E. Jans-
sen. treasurer, and Louis Bromberg, secretary.
Address: Lyrics for Music, Curt' of Presto-Times
PIANO FACTORY NEEDS WORKMEN
The Gulbranscu Company is advertising in the Chi-
cago papers for grand action finishers, side gluers.
patchers,
rubbers and oilers. This advertisement in
Have
you
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T» many readers of Presto-Times comes the query: any second-hand instrument? Advertise for it L the the Chicago
Tribune was referred to on the Tribune's
Where is a reliable plaee to have music printing and PRESTO-TIMES classified columns.
broadcast, known as "Tomorrow Morning's Tribune."
engraving done? Where can I have my compositions
Good sign of the times, this.
made ready for the market and to the public at tin-
least expense for good work?
There is so much deception going on in producing
music for publishers and individuals not posted on
ENGRAVERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS
the gyp games that prevail that it is well for such
PRINT A N Y T H I N G IN MUSIC - BY ANY PROCESS
persons to know of a sound, honest, reliable concern
ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED
that will do music printing and- engraving at a fair
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RE F E RE NC E S , ANY PUBLISHER
rate. Such a house is the Otto Zimmerman & Son
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. These people will do
THE OTTO ZIMMERMAN 6-SON CO., INC.
your work in a perfect manner and advise you where
CINCINNATI
•
OHIO
advice is needed.
WHERE TO HAVE YOUR MUSIC
PRINTING DONE
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