Catalogue of Victor Records (1930)

dance record, for example, may be found in several ways. You will find it listed alphabetically under its title. Again, it can be found by referring to the name of the orchestra which made it, in connection with the general heading “Dance Records.” Thus a record is easy to find whether you know only its name, or only the name of the artist who made it, or under a general description with cross references, such as Opera, Dance, Symphony, etc. For Organ records, look under Organ. For Piano records, look under Piano. For Violin records, look under Violin. For Quartets, look under Quartets—Male, Instrumental, etc. Operatic record listings have the following helps: Almost every opera from which we make records is listed with the place and date of its first performance; many have sketches of their plots; every record is listed under the title of the opera, and arias are also listed under the heading, “Opera Arias,” so that when only the title of an aria is known it may easily be found. You will find, also, portraits of many artists and sketches of their careers. The Red Seal records, beside being listed in the alphabetical section of the Catalog, are grouped together into a special “‘Red Seal Section” with light red pages. Every one fond of music should have some of the Victor “Musical Masterpiece” albums. These include complete works by the great composers. Time will never exhaust their beauty. All of them are accompanied by explanatory booklets or folders, and some of the orchestral works have an additional spoken record by the conductor. It seems almost unnecessary, but we say again to Victor customers: “Use only Victor needles,” “don’t play records at various speeds,” and “don’t use a steel needle more than once.” Set the regulator so that the turntable of your Victor instrument revolves seventy-eight times a minute, and never