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The Talking Machine World, New York, February, 1928
SYMBOL OF QUALITY
Adaptable for Portables and Upright Machines
Lyrephonic Tone Arm No. 2
Lyrephonic Junior
Lyrephonic Products
Will provide increased profits for 1928 Write for full details
ANDREW P. FRAN GIP ANE & CO., Inc.
Factory and offices: 261 Warren St., Lyndhurst, N. J. Western factory representative: Max Targ, 229 W. Randolph St., Chicago. I1L
James E. Hahn Is Now a
Director of Grosley Corp.
Cincinnati, O., February 3. — The Crosley Radio Corp., of this city, has announced the appointment of James E. Hahn as a director. Major
Major James E. Hahn
Hahn is president of the DeForest Crosley Corp. of Canada and president of the Amrad Corp. of Boston, Mass., of which Powel Crosley, Jr., is chairman of the board.
Huge Shipment of Steinite Electric Radio Receivers
The accompanying picture shows the fifth carload of Steinite electric radio receivers shipped to Hamburg Bros., exclusive dis
Big Steinite Shipment
tributors of Steinite sets in the Pittsburgh, Pa., territory, during December, 1927.
Reading from left to right are Robert Gray, representative of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.; J. Harr, E. A. Hamburg and L. Ham
burg, of Hamburg Bros., and W. J. Herlihy, of the William R. McElroy Co., district sales manager for the Steinite Laboratories Co. This attests to the popularity achieved by Steinite sets in the Pittsburgh territory and the industrial sales promotion work done by Hambur? Bros.
Death of Clifford K. Burton
Clifford K. Burton, general sales manager of the Carryola Co. of America, died Friday, January 13, as a result of complications arising from pneumonia which he contracted a year ago. Mr. Burton had been connected with the Carryola Co. since July, having been previously with the advertising firm of Klau, Van Pietersom, Dunlap, Younggreen, Inc., where he was an account executive. He was a member of the Milwaukee Advertising Club and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He is survived by his widow and two children. While Mr. Burton had been active in the phonograph industry for only a short period of time he had made the acquaintance and gained the friendship of many people throughout the trade who were shocked to hear of his death.
H. E. Metcalf in New Post
Herbert E. Metcalf, chief engineer of the Magnavox Co. of Oakland, Cal., manufacturer of Electro-dynamic loud speakers, has resigned his position with that firm effective February 1, 1928, to become identified with the Wonderlite Co. of America, Inc., as president and chief engineer, with headquarters in Oakland, Cal.
Mr. Metcalf will continue his teaching of radio in the University of California extension division and will be available for consulting work in the field of radio, television, etc., in which fields he has had nearly forty patents granted and pending.
New Fada Distributors
F. A. D. Andrea, Inc., announces the appointment of four distributors in the West Indies, as follows: Cuba Electrical Supply Co., Havana; Dominican Trading Co., Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Compania d'Eclairage Electrique, Port au Prince, Haiti, and Gonzales Padin Co., Inc., San Juan, Porto Rico. J. W. deHaas, Fada export representative, reports considerable interest in radio in the West Indies following a recent trip in that section of the world.
Boom Artists for President
A columnist in the New York Evening Post has started a boom for Moran and Mack for President. The idea has won the support of many of the column's readers.
Finding Shamrock Line
of Radio Receivers Popular
John D. Todd, vice-president and secretary of the Missouri Valley Electric Co., Kansas City, Mo., distributor of Shamrock receivers,
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John D. Todd
is a versatile individual. Witness the illustration herewith. Mr. Todd has three hobbies, golf, motoring and selling Shamrock sets. According to reports received by Nate Hast, general sales manager of the Shamrock Mfg. Co., Newark, N. J., Mr. Todd's organization is enjoying a large measure of success with the Shamrock line throughout the Missouri Valley territory.
Louis Graveure Is Tenor
Louis Graveure, exclusive Columbia artist, admired for thirteen years as a concert baritone, appeared on Sunday, February 5, in Town Hall, New York City, as a tenor and won the unstinted praise of the press and public. He left shortly after to make his debut in grand opera in Berlin.
So wide is the fame of Moran and Mack, Columbia recordings stars, that a letter addressed to them as "comedians, New York City, the Two Black Crows," was promptly delivered to the Columbia Phonograph Co.