The talking machine world (July-Dec 1920)

176 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD July 15, 1920 STOCKS IN GOOD SHAPE IN ST. LOUIS STORES Trade Has Very Little Complaint to Make Regarding Existing Situation, Although Business Has Dropped Slightly — Columbia Dealers Form Club — More Space for Val's Store — Trade Happenings in General Show Progress St. Louis, Mo., July 3. — There have been worse months than the past month in the talking machine business in St. Louis but there have also been better months, for the clearly discernible but not alarming decline that set in the month before continued last month. Talking machines, which had continued to sell well long after the selling of pianos became difficult, came at last to be implicated in the general reaction and the degree of its implication has increased during the past month. Records have not suffered as much from the situation as the machines, but sales of these have not been as brisk as formerly. The opening of the Municipal opera season has stimulated the record sales to some extent. There has also been a fair demand for small machines and records for outing purposes. Stocks are in better shape than at any time during the past year. Shipments were badly interfered with for a time owing to the railroad men's strike, but that condition has improved. The prospects are that jobbers and retailers will enter upon the Fall business with adequate stocks of both machines and records. Val Kusnitz, proprietor of Val's Phonograph Accessory House, has leased additional space adjoining his retail store at Tenth and Pine streets, for his wholesale business, where he carries a complete stock of repair parts, main springs, needles, repeatographs and various accessories for his rapidly growing wholesale trade. He has just added a large stock of sapphire points. J. J. Buehlman, for eight years office manager of the Aeolian Co.'s St. Louis branch, has joined the Tri-Sales Co. of this city as sales manager, enabling Messrs. Phelps and Mayer, the heads of the business, to spend more time on the road. G. H. Phelps has returned from a trip to the Pacific Coast, where he secured excellent business on the Portophone and also the new "Comedies," the attractive turntable noveltj which the company has recently placed on the market. M. J. Mayer has returned from a trip through Canada and to the East and also reports good contracts on both specialties. When Columbia dealers of St. Louis were on their trip East last month they formed a club with the purpose of having something or other of a social nature each month. The charter members were A. Rummler, E. Geitz, F. Schanzle. D. Gregson, A. Roesch, C. R. Salmon and J. McKenna. Their first something or other was a dinner at Bevo Mill. Other dealers were invited and about thirty dealers and their wives attended. It was a pay-your-own-way affair, as all the something or others are to be. After the eatings they talked shop and exchanged ideas and the dealers had a chance to tell the Columbia organization men their side of the merchandising story. The next ojie will be a picnic. The details have not been arranged. H. P. Victor, of the Columbia auditing department, and J. V. Schuyler, of the International Record Department, have been in St. Louis recently. Mr. Victor has been doing a little auditing and Mr. Schuyler has been going over International records with the dealers. C. R. Salmon, city salesman of the Columbia Co., is putting over a billboard campaign. The idea is to have a billboard company put up painted boards in various localities, the dealer of each locality to pay for his own boards and get all the benefits of them. The paint is to be changed every six months. Manager Jackson, of the Brunswick Co., an♦ nounces that it has been settled that the Baldwin Co. is to handle the Brunswick line of talking machines in St. Louis. Some stock has already been delivered to the Baldwin store, although the talking machines are not to be AUGUST, 1920 POPULAR VOCAL {In My Gardeh of Yesterday (Ash-Ring-Hager). Tenor, Orch. Accomp. .Sam Ash Le Wanna (Bernard). Baritone, Orch. Accomp Ernest Hare ,.„ ( Some Pretty Day (Lewis-YoungAhlert). Contralto and Tenor Duet, Orch. iwii } Accomp Helen Burke and Charles Knapo ( Shadows (Brennan-Rute). Orch. Accomp Peerless Quartet , Profiteering Blues (Wilson-Bibe). Tenor, Orch. Accomp Billy Murray 21 173 j $1.00 \ I Want a Jazzy Kiss (Ring-Hager). Comedians, Orch. Accomp. .Collins and Harlan ( Rose of Washington Square (MacDonald-Hanley. Baritone, Orch. Accomp., 21174 ) Sidney Phillips $1.00 1 There's a Typical Tippcrary (Gerber-Silver). Orch. Accomp., ^ Melodious Four Male Quartet I I'd Like to Know Why I Fell in Love With You (Timberg). Tenor, Orch. 21175 \ Accomp Lewis James I Who'll Take the Place of Mary? (Dubin-Gaskill-Mayo). Male Trio, <. Orch. Accomp Orpheus Trio DANCE 31150 ^ ""se of ttic Orient (Johnston-Arthur). Fox-trot Nonpareil Novelty Band SI. 00 \ Dance-O-Mania (Gilbert-Cooper). Fox-trot Nonpareil Novelty Band 31 151 f^''^''''' (Toddard-Franklin). Fox-trot Sam Rosner's Dance Orchestra (vanity (Schanes). Waltz Sam Rosner's Dance Orchestra 31152 (■'^''^ '■^''^ (Webb). One-step Novelty Dance Orchestra S'10 (oj You Know? (McNamara-Fitzgibbon). Fox-trot. Sam Rosner's Dance Orchestra 31153 (^'S*^'" (Samuels). Fox-trot Sam Rosner's Dance Orchestra (Manyana (Fier). Fox-trot Sam Rosner's Dance Orchestra INSTRUMENTAL 51137 f^^"^"^" Twilight (SherwoodVandersloot) Hawaiian Instrumental Duet Isome of the Time I'm Lonely (Hatch) Fred Roland Saxophone Solo OPERATIC ( Carmen (Bizet). "Micaela's Air," in French. 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