The talking machine world (July-Sept 1921)

134 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD September IS, 1921 WORKING HARD FOR SALES IN ST. LOUIS AND VICINITY Wholesalers and Retailers Who Are Showing Proper Effort Are Getting Results— New Quarters for Lehman Co.— New Dealers Who Have Entered the Field Recently— General News ally C0II month to whal Fall bus speaking, the St. is uneven, but it is fair signs of further improven ing better business than plana! ion suggested ter in the city Ihan i have been carrying are still carrying the arc of the more cxpi ember 10.— September, gener rtiimn month, is ;i Summa s, with the temperature h in July and August, so itl'ons arc not a fair index is going to be. Generally dislribul lecturer. j-opcralcd with him in furnishing ; is of the listributor, of Ilia Mo a while the models run; gi i IHc average fairly high. When Figures Count It w& Arbuckle, manager of Wit long ago took the Granb; competitor from across the languidly, just to be maki business was, and came It Arbuctclc said he did a foi day before. The competit Arbucklc showed him the him. Of course, foitr-ligtir every day, but a fev Arbucklc says the ( going very well. Edw in Illinois and souther line and is lining up Sc ■ skeptical, but the sales am] convinced gure sales are not made of them help out, Mr. in by period models arc d Schumakcr is traveling Missouri for the Granby ic very good business. Lehman Piano Co. Leases New Quarters The Lehman Piano C ich handle! alking ! display chines Columbia and Vocali taken a ten years' leas at the northwest corn streets and will take p itig from 1107 Olive si unusual facilities for ti tion of talking machi greater attention will h machine branch of the I furniture and .talking m; 1109 Olive street, will spread out both 1107 and 1109. Motion picture theatres in St. Lou featuring events connected with t Caruso. In one of the largest houst XVII was used to give the "Vcsti la giubba" of Caruso with the orchestra joining jn the accompaniment, In another a local singer in the costume of Caruso impersonated Caruso and sang the same number. W. D. Wiley, of Anna, III., recently opened a Victor department in his book store One of the first things Mr. Wiley did was to secure an educational representative 1o give daily lectures "t the Teachers' Institute in that town on August <ocrber-Hrenner Co., Mr. Wiley's building nd Olive r I, mov location monst raided and ! talking a Victrola Robert Cone Files Suit Roborl Cone, Jr., founder and former president of the Artophone Co., has filed suit in the Circuit Court against Edwin Schiele and Jesse G. Kramer, officers of the reorganized Artophone Corporation, alleging that $9,900 of the claim was due him for stock in the company not now in his possession, $5,100 was due him for salary for fifty-one weeks under an agreement, and asking for $15,000 as damages. . A new St. Louis neighborhood Victrola shop opened its doors August 26 at 2017 East Grand avenue. Situated in a very busy shopping district, the Dceken Music Co. anticipates a lively business tJiis Winter. The store is equipped with booths, racks and counter finished in ivory with gray wicker and cretonne furniture, and is a credit to the business. Miss Lorraine Mcrritt, manager of the Victrola department of ScruggsVandervoort & Barney department store, has returned from a vacation spent motoring among the Northern lakes. Miss Blanche Rosebrougb, of the Victor educational department, has also returned from her vacation at Lincoln, 111. Helping ex-Service Men The Silverstonc Music Co. is putting into operation a plan (or helping former service men who arc out of employment. Edison owners ire being asked by circular letter to permit recreation concerts and "mood parties" in their ionics. All that is required is that the owner nvile at least ten friends to the concert. The iOmpany will hire the ex-service men to conduct he concerts, having set aside $5,000 for that expected that some of the men show themselves sufficiently capable to be led permanently. ivas incorrectly stated in last month's World G. H. Downey, formerly of ihc Musical umeilt Sales Co.. had joined the Silverstonc lization and that Culp Bros. Piano Co., Fori Smith, Ark., Hartshorn, Okla., and Russellvillc, Ark., had taken on the Edison line. Mr. Downey is with the Brunswick organization and the Culp Bros, have taken on the Brunswick line. Finds the Dealers Optimistic Manager E. M. Morgan, of the Columbia Graphophone Co., has made several business Ir;p3 t: Missouri ar.j IU-cic teints and fcund an increasingly optimistic attitude among dealers. Farmer trade is reviving encouragingly, with a consequent improved business outlook, similarly encouraging is the viewpoint expressed >y leading Columbia dealers who have been re-cnt visitors at branch headquarters, among theni Retail Experience In order to be of the greatest possible assistance to the Victor dealers whom we serve, we have built an organization, every member of which has had considerable retail sales experience in the Talking Machine business. Our recommendations are made only after thorough consideration from a retail viewpoint. Someone in our organization can help solve your particular problem. C.C. MELL0RC0. Victor Wholesalers 1152 Penn Avenue PITTSBURGH, PA. pnrposi orgai L. A. Witherspoon, manager of the Haverty Furniture Co.'s store at Memphis, Tenu.; J. H. Rudy, of J. A. Rudy & Sons' department store. Paducah, Ky., the largest department store in that city, and G. F. H. Coy, proprietor of the Coy Drug Co., Fornfelt, Mo. The business of the St, Louis branch for the month of August showed a very substantial increase over that of July, amounting to approximately 25 per cent. Opening of New Victor Store On August 12 the J. E. Rice Music Co., new Victor dealer of Mt. Olive, III., held its opening. .Mr. Rice has added booths, record racks and counter to his already prosperous music shop, and bids fair to be the most optimistic Victor dealer of the vicinity. The Victor opening was on 'the fourth anniversary of the opening of the Rice music store. Miss Aunabelle Weiblc, of the Wcinel Hardware Co., Columbia, III., recently showed her interest in the Monroe County Teachers' Institute by a very attractive window. It contained school desk and chair occupied by a huge doll as a kindergartener, the figure of a lady for teacher, maps, etc., -and of course a portable Victrola for the country school, for rural teachers predominated in tins meeting. Miss Golda Airy, of the Kocrber-Brenncr service department, appeared before the teachers with a demonstration of music in the rural school. New Quarters for Hub Furniture Co. The Hub Furniture Co., of this city, has just moved into its new store at Seventh street and Washingtoi FROM FACTORY to DEALER^DIRECT TALKING MACHINE PARTS FOR EVERY MAKE V*E MANUFACTURE— H^S1 A^M°t0rS' S5ringS' Tone,Armf. Sound Boxes, Attachments, Cabinet FOR Acce^or,es and parts for all makes of Phonographs and Motors Victor, Columbia, Brunswick, Heineman, Meisselbach, Krasberg Saal, etc. C, New C.I.I., „„d p,i.. U.t U ™dr-W,ll. b, ,„„, SUPERIOp PHONO PARTS CO. 1\ S56 Grand Street I^J PHONO PARTS CO. J. X Brooklyn, New York "FROM FACTORY TO DEALER DIRECT TALKING MACHINE PARTS FOR ALL MAKES '