The talking machine world (July-Dec 1918)

76 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD July IS, 1918 Another Seeburg Triumph!! The Phono-Grand Height 55 inches. Width 34 inches NOT much larger than an ordinary talking machine cabinet but a combination of both a player piano and a talking machine. The case design of the PHONOGRAND is highly artistic and made in a number of beautiful designs to harmonize with the most artistic parlors and music rooms. The player piano of the PHONO-GRAND is remarkable for its tone quality. It plays all regular 88-note player rolls andis especially adapted for the Q. R. S. Expression Rolls. The talking machine of the PHONO -GRAND is of the highest type and plays all standard records either lateral or vertical cut. Both instruments are controlled by separate electric motors. The compactness of the PHONO-GRAND permits its use in places that do not allow space enough for both a player piano and talking machine. The PHONO-GRAND is not an experiment but a demonstrated success. J. P. SEEBURG PIANO CO. Leader in the Automatic Field REPUBLIC BLDG. CHICAGO BRUNSWICK ADVERTISING SERVICE Unusually Artistic Posters Just Gotten Out for Trade Which Should Prove of Value FROM OUR CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS— (Continued from page 75) ing signs numerous requests have been made for samples, and quite a number have alreadybeen sold. Orders for five hundred of the Brunswick Girls have already been received and sent out. This cut-out is a portrait of a very beautiful, life-sized young lady, in an attitude of rapture with hands clasped and so made that when used as "a window decoration and placed before a Brunswick phonograph she appears to be looking down on the machine and listening. It is in colors and size five feet three inches tall and the appearance is very life-like and startling. The Brunswick Co. has made arrangements with the printers of the Brunswick Girl so that the dealer may have them for three dollars, which, by the way, is but half the price, the Brunswick Co. paying the other three dollars. The big steel signs, ten by twenty-eight inches, which are offered to the dealer at a price of twenty-five dollars a hundred, are also in demand and orders have been taken for seventyfive hundred of these at present. These signs are steel backed and lithographed, not painted, in colors with embossed lettering. The colors are baked on, thereby making the signs weatherproof and permanent. The big sign has holes punched in it so that it can be nailed on any suitable surface or fastened to a wire fence. The type is bold and can be easily read more Chicago, III., July 10. — The advertising department of the phonograph division of the Brunswick BalkeCollender Co. is working full capacity in turning out new advertising service for their dealers. The latest addition to this service is a folder which contains cuts and list prices of the entire well -known Brunswick line, as well as several cuts showing the Brunswick Girl Poster new Ultona reproducer and Brunswick new allwood tone amplifier. This is printed on a large sheet of paper on one side only and in such a that when way unfolded everything will be before the reader's eye without the bother of turning the folder either around or upsidedown while being read. Since the announcement was made some time One of the Brunswick Steel Signs ago that the Brunswick Co. was preparing for than one hundred feet away. The dealer's name its dealers some large steel outdoor advertis and location is printed in black at bottom. Plays All Records OUST YOU HEAR ALL PHONOGRAPHS IN ONE DEALERS NAME AND TOWN SALESWOMAN GUESSED WRONG Stuttering Customer Was Not Impressed With Rendition of "K-K-K-Katie" Portland, Ore., July 5. — The other day a man and a woman entered the talking machine department of the Wiley B. Allen store and when Mrs. Olga Binder, in charge of the record department, approached them the woman said they wanted some records, but would first like to hear some before making selections. The man, meantime, remained silent. Mrs. Binder asked what was preferred and the woman replied: "Something funny." So Miss Binder put the popular trench stuttering song "K-K-K-Katie" on the machine. An ominous, disappointing silence followed the rendition of the song for a few moments. Then the man said: "I-I-I d-d-d-don't 1-1-like tha-that re-re-rerecord." They bought some others, however, but no stuttering ones. TAKES CHARGE IN SPRINGFIELD Manager Hornberger, formerly of the "talkingmachine department at the McAlpin department stores in Cincinnati, has resigned to accept the management of the Columbia department recently installed in the Wren department store at Springfield. Mr. Hornberger is well known in talking machine circles, and has every prospect of making a good showing at Springfield. The Edw. Wren Co. conduct the largest department store in Springfield and one of the best equipped in the State. Mary Pickford has provided eight talking machines for Y. M. C. A. huts and two for the K. of C. clubhouse at Camp Kearney, Cal. — gifts which are much appreciated. The OROTUND and SUPERIOR Attachments, Tone Arms and Velvet Running Jewel Points If you want to play the wonderful new Edison and Pathe records with the least amount of surface sounds and produce the best quality of music, you should use the Superior and Orotund attachments made to fit the Edison, Victor and Columbia machines. Do not forget our attachments will not damage records when operated according to instructions. The cut shows our universal attachment used to play all makes of records on the Victor machine. IMPORTANT In ordering samples please state the kind of finish wanted, viz.: nickel or gold, also describe the tone arm, old or new. Write Jot quantity prices and descriptive circulars. Combination Attachment Co. 20 Jackson Boulevard, East, Chicago, 111.