The talking machine world (July-Dec 1928)

72 The Talking Machine World, New York, December, 1928 a prophecy ' ' and a promise concerning BRIGHT STAR J5MPLI POWER. THE PROPHECY: Radio will always need the drycell "B" battery. Radio experts agree that for thoroughly satisfactory reception, the ideal "B" current is the pure direct current obtainable only from dry batteries. Radio owners realize this — and large numbers of them are still using their good battery-operated sets. Television, too, requires the same unvarying direct current which can be obtained only from dry batteries. And after television, what? No man knows, and few can guess — but all agree that for the most delicate, accurate electrical work the dry battery is the ideal source of current. THE PROMISE: The Bright Star Amplipower— itself the perfected development of two decades of experience in battery making — will be still further improved in accord with scientific progress. AMPLIPOWER IS GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTORY SERVICE FOR 12 MONTHS FROM DATE OF PURCHASE, WITH ANY TUBES OF STANDARD TYPE. The Bright Star Battery Co. is the only manufacturer of dry batteries having enough confidence in its product to cover it with a binding 12-month guarantee— and the full resources of this company stand squarely behind the battery and the guarantee. BRIGHT STAR RATTERY CO. HOBOKEN, \. J. Chicago San Francisco TWENTY YEARS BUILDING THE QUALITY LINE* Cincinnati Music-Radio Dealers Said to Violate Anti-Noise Law Eight Retailers Cited to Appear in Court — If Not Acquitted Cases Will Be Carried to Higher Courts — Chubb-Steinberg Co. Opens New Store — Other Trade News Cincinnati, 0., December 10.— Holiday buying is well under way and the demand is growing greater day by day, report dealers. Eight talking machine and radio dealers have been cited to appear in the City Court, the charge being that they have been violating an anti-noise ordinance. Unless there is an acquittal, it is stated, the matter will be carried to a higher court. The first defense is that the ordinance is not valid. If the court holds that the ordinance is valid, then will come up the question of whether music is noise. Then if it is decided that all music is not a noise, to the extent of being a nuisance, up will bob the very perplexing question: Where is the line between the two kinds of music? Another question involved is whether demonstrations could be made in a store, in case any of the sound could penetrate to the street. The Chubb-Steinberg Co. has opened up another fine store, this being at 905 East McMillan street, Walnut Hills, one of the city's largest residential suburbs. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. celebrated its seventy-third birthday the past month. Morris Krauss, who operates four stores under the name of "Krauss, the Radio Man," is opening up a fifth place of business at 111 East Fifth street, opposite the post office. District Judge Smith Hickenlooper has appointed United States Marshal Stanley Borthwick custodian of the assets of Leo J. Becht, dealer in talking machines and small goods, doing business in Wyoming, a prosperous suburb of Cincinnati. The Miami Music Co. has opened up a store at 1208 Main street, with M. Levine in charge. This is affiliated with the A. & N. Music Co., dealers in talking machines and records, of which William Apple is the head and which has six other stores in various sections of the city. The new store is most attractive. The E. M. Abbott Piano Co., which now is specializing on talking machines and records, has finished the work of rearranging and remodeling its store, and as a result it has con siderably more display space than it had before and a much finer establishment. Ray Lammers, dealer in small goods, has added a radio department, in which he will handle the Zenith, Brunswick and Steinite lines. He plans a vigorous sales drive. At the local branch of the Brunswick Co. it was reported by H. H. Sellers, manager, that although the peak has not been reached at this writing, the holiday demand is excellent. "Our new models are moving rapidly, and the demand is increasing steadily as the holiday season gets nearer," said W. H. North, vicepresident of the Ohio Talking Machine Co , Victor distributor. "We are fairly flooded with orders for our different models," said Miss Rose Helberg, manager of the local branch of the Columbia Phonograph Co. "And as to records, they are selling in a way that is phenomenal." Stockton Music-Radio Trades Ass'n Formed First Move of New Organization Will Be to Secure Better Radio Reception — Trouble Shooter to Be Engaged Stockton, Cal., December 3.— The Stockton Music & Radio Trades Association was organized here recently with some fourteen local firms listed as members. Ray Durk, of Sherman, Clay & Co., was elected president; L. J. Kitt, treasurer, and Geo. Turner, KWG, and A. H. Green, KGDM, publicity committeemen. The Association voted as its first step towards comprehensive service to all radio owners in the city the employment of a permanent trouble shooter who will be on hand to answer all calls connected with improper reception. His chief duty will be to locate electrical interference such as shorted power lines, improper dynamo brushes and the like, and the Association will aid set owners in gaining the necessary adjustment. The newly formed organization voted to invite G. T. Lundlee, Ellis Marks and Stewart Upson, of Kimball & Upson, officers of the Sacramento Music & Radio Trades Association, to meet with the ,local Association at a dinner meeting November 27 to aid the Stockton body in perfecting by-laws and other details. Those present at the first meeting were R. E. Durk, Sherman, Clay & Co.; J. E. McCarty, Bright Spot Electrical Co.; A. H. Green, Peffer Music Co.; S. Chabin, Montgomery Ward, Stockton; J. W. Reed, Radio Exchange; G. A. Turner, KWG; L. J. Kitt, L. J. Kitt; F. H Blewett, F. H. Blewett Co.; L. Abrams, Stockton Dry Goods; C. L. Gould, Gould's Radio & Electric Shop; V. J. Derwin, Wilson-Schultz & Co.; G. R. Wishart, Yost-Dohrmann Co.; W. E. Yost, Yost-Dohrmann Co.; L. R. Shipley, John Breuner Co.; O. R. Bowman, Sherman, Clay & Co.; W. K. Lark, Lauxen & Catts. The Perry Music Co. has opened warerooms in the Pattee Hotel block, Perry, la.