The talking machine world (July-Dec 1923)

August 15, 1923 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 51 Rich staccato chords and dreamy waves of full-throated harmony follow each other in closely marshaled procession when the Shannon Four sing "Swingin' Down The Lane" and "Underneath The Mellow M oon "—Record A-3938. perfectly a perfect With their booming bass and ringing tenor notes blended, these numbers are all you could ask for in male quartet record. COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE CO New York COLUMBUS Great Activity in Local Trade — Store Changes, Remodeling and Other Important Trade News Columbus, O., August 7.— A feature of business in this city is the excellent demand for records of popular numbers. Forest Cheney, inventor of the Cheney phonograph, spent three days in Columbus last week. He claims two cities as his residence now, Grand Rapids, Mich., where his factory is located, and Columbus, where his wife and daughter recently moved to live with his son, F. Marion Cheney, because of the inventor haying to be away from home so frequently. During his stay here he spent considerable time at the Robert L. Seeds Co., Cheney dealer, with which firm Mr. Cheney's son is connected. In order to make it easier for patrons to own a Victrola and build up a record library, the Z. L. White Co. has worked out a special Victrola club plan of payments, which is resulting in good business. The six weeks' course in music for super REVOLUTIONARY ! Automatic DUR-A-PRESS 1 Girl Does the Work of 4 Men 4 Perfect Records per Minute DUR-A-PRESS CORPORATION 15 West Park Street Newark, N. J. visors of music at Ohio State University was so successful that plans for a school of music at the Ohio State University are now under consideration. This move is particularly satisfactory to Mrs. Esther Reynolds Beaver, educational director of the Perry B. Whitsit Co., Victor distributor, who has been co-operating in the movement. Miss Ethel Boyl, formerly of Zanesville, is now in charge of the Victor record department of the Stewart Bros. Furniture Co. J. G. Hobson has taken over the music store in Chillicothe, formerly owned and operated by Martin G. Chandler. He will handle Victrolas and Victor records. The Robert L. Seeds Co., Cheney and Columbia dealer, has secured a twenty-year lease of new and more commodious quarters at 112 South High street. The property, to be occupied about September 1, consists of four stories and a basement. After extensive remodeling it will be one of the finest phonograph and record establishriients in the city. Victor dealers are happy over the fact that another popular Victor artist will visit Columbus during the coming concert season. This artist is Mme. Schumann-Heink, who has always had a big following here. Her concert is scheduled for the evening of November 7. Other Victor artists scheduled to appear here are Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso; Erika Morini, violinist, and Salvi, harpist. The special list of "blues," recently released by the Victor Co., was featured in a window display at the Elite Music Store and resulted in a good many sales of those records. E. M. Levy, manager of the Victrola department of the Otto B. Heaton Co., reports good sales of the Victrola portable and the one hundred dollar console. Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Francis White have just returned from a three weeks' honeymoon motor trip and are now making their home at 844 Franklin avenue. Mr. White is associated as traveling representative with the Perry B. Whitsit Co., wholesale Victor distributor. As a result of the State Music Memory Contest held here last Spring, a series of concerts will be held in Lancaster during the coming Fall and next Spring, under the auspices of the Quota Club. The first concert will be held in the City Hall .Auditorium on' the evening of November 5. Sophie Braslau, contralto, and Victor artist, will be the attraction. The other concert will be held at the same place on March 10 and Lambert Alurphy, tenor and also a Victor artist, will appear. The seat sale for this series will be held at the Welton Music Co., Victor dealer. Miss Mary Welton, of this firm, is on the publicity committee. Assisting the Quota Club in this undertaking is Mrs. Esther Reynolds Beaver, educational director of the Perry B. Whitsit Co., who worked very enthusiastically during the State Music Memory Contest and is happy over the fact that this concert course has resulted from it. NEW OKEH RECORD CLEANER Service Item Has Many Practical Merits — Pictures of Okeh Artists Make Cleaners Unusually Attractive — Will Appeal to Buyers The advertising department of the General Phonograph Corp., New York, has issued a new service to its dealers in the form of a novelty record cleaner, which is the exact size and color of the well-known Okeh label, featuring a picture of a prominent Okeh artist with the name of the dealer embossed in gold. As an advertising medium this cleaner has a threefold purpose, in that it keeps the Okeh trade-mark, the name of the Okeh artist and the name of the dealer constantly before the public. Dealers may obtain assortments of pictures or the picture of any particular artist, and among the Okeh artists whose photographs are furnished with these new cleaners are the following: Vincent Lopez, Michael Markels, Sophie Tucker, Mamie Smith, Rega Dance Orchestra, Gerald Griffin, Crescent Trio, Aileen Stanley, Ernest Hare and Virginia Burt. THESE BURGLARS MUSICALLY INCLINED As evidence of the universal demand for the Davega stock of talking machines, records and sporting goods, Abram Davega, vice-president of Davega, Inc., reports that burglars again broke into the 125th street store of the company and took away on memo a considerable portion of the merchandise. BRANCATI CHANGES NAME O. M. Brancati, who operates a musical merchandise store in the Harlem section of New York City, has announced that beginning next month the store, which was formerly known as Brancati's Music Store, will be called the Royal Music & Instrument Co. A large sheet music department is maintained in the store, as well as a full line of small goods. TheA/^tx5en$a|jn for IKis Baby i GROW! ? "YQU can't wron^With any 'KEiST',so-njS."