The talking machine world (July-Dec 1928)

110 The Talking Machine World, New York, December, 1928 QRS Still Projector Introduced to Trade Close on the heels of the introduction by the QRS Co., Chicago, of the QRS 35 m. m. instantaneous Kamra, comes the announcement of important and unique accessories which will be supplied to the dealer trade, to be sold in conjunction with the Kamra. Foremost among these new products is the QRS still projector, Model K-2, which introduces new and simpler principles in construction and amazing performance on the screen. This projector will throw a picture on the screen in clear detail ranging from the small size of 10 x 4 inches up to that covering a wall 10 x 14 feet. The electric bulb is not of the usual high voltage high candle power pro7r S Still ProjectorModel Jector type, — but is K-2 Shown Without the merely an ordinary 6-8 Kamra Attached volt standard single contact automobile headlight bulb. The amplification of screen illumination is accomplished through the QRS condenser system. The projector is free of confusing complicated operative mechanism, and is without fire hazard dangers. The Kamra supplies the lens for the projector and mechanism for propelling the film through as it is being projected. The projector is priced at $15, and the user may thus secure a complete outfit, Kamra and projector, for a total of $37.50. The Kamra lid is removed, the Kamra fastened to the front of the projector, becoming an integral part of it, the lamp cord connected and it is ready for operation. The Kamra may be fastened in either an upright or horizontal position, depending upon the position used when the pictures were "shot." Another new product is the Kamra rack, used in "close-up" still photography, upon which the Kamra may be placed to safeguard against vibration, and to predetermine the correct focus. A Kamra Lens Kit, comprising three lenses for sharp focusing and portrait work, and pocket carrying case, and the "Reelo" tank for developing films are other new devices now World's Classified Advertising Any member of the trade may forward to this office a ■ "Situation" advertisement intended for this Department to occupy a space of four lines, agate measure, and it will be inserted free. Replies will also be forwarded without cost. Additional space will be at the rate of 25c per line. If bald-faced type is desired the cost of same will be 25c per line. Rates for all other classes of advertising on application. SALES MANAGER WANTED.— One of Brooklyn's large radio concerns, due to expansion of its business, has an opening for a sales manager. Exceptional opportunity with good proposition for the right party. Do not call but write confidentially to Mr. M. Udko, M. Udko & Co., Inc., 224 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. LINES WANTED.— Desire to represent either radio manufacturer or jobber in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Well acquainted with both radio and music dealers. Experienced in dealers' sales promotion work. Twelve years selling to dealers only. Highest references. Open for position January 1. Address replies to Box No. 1673, care of The Talking Machine World, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. POSITION WANTED— Recording engineer with twenty years' experience would like to connect with a "talking picture" company. Address replies to Box No. 1674. care of The Talking Machine World, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. being introduced. By using the "Reelo" tank the exposed film can be developed by the user in less than 30 minutes and at a cost of less than 12 cents a roll. Certificate for All Edison Radio Sets Each Edison receiver that leaves the factory has attached to it a special "Certificate of Performance" to indicate to the purchaser that it has undergone exhaustive tests in the Edison laboratories at the hands of the staff of Edison radio technicians— tests more exacting than those demanded under normal operating conditions. Each Edison receiver must equal the performance of the master receiver at the laboratories in every particular before the Cer || (Certiorate of Performance f| 5 ^ £ This Edison Receiv. most thorough facto, given an exactin by Edison Rad We hene&ySc equals i Master R to er undergoing the n, has also been ison Laboratories t this Edison Receiver erformance the Edison ned in the Edison Laborastandard of comparison. w -77 /e. RADIO Edison Certificate of Performance tificate of Performance is attached to it and receives the endorsement of the technical inspector and chief engineer. Dealers as well as the public have shown much interest in this Certificate of Performance, always reflecting the fact that for many years past products of the Edison laboratories have been recognized as reflecting quality and care and skill in their production. Jack Kapp Uses Portable Labs, in Recording Work Unique recording laboratories were set up by Jack Kapp, head of the Chicago recording Sonora Announces a Record Radio Tie-Up The largest radio hook-up ever to be used for a commercial program will carry the Sonora broadcast over the Columbia chain, according to an announcement by P. L. Deutsch, president of the Sonora Phonograph Co., with headquarters in New York. "Up to the present time," says Mr. Deutsch, "we have been using some twenty of the Columbia chain's stations, owned and operated by the United Independent Broadcasters in the East and Middle West. But under the new contract which was signed yesterday we shall be using forty-three stations stretching literally from coast to coast, and from North to South, and bringing the Sonora weekly program with in the range of every radio receiver in the country. "This hook-up, the Columbia people tell us, will be the largest ever employed for any commercial broadcast. There have been larger hook-ups, of course, for the broadcasting of speeches and descriptions of events of national importance, but our new contract with the Columbia chain calls for the biggest aggregation of stations ever used outside of such important national occasions. "It was stated that Sonora's original contract, which provided for a weekly broadcast over a period of three years, represented a probable expenditure of more than a million dollars for time and talent. This new contract will nearly double our expenditure for time alone." The first broadcast over this huge network of forty-three stations will take place at 9.30 Eastern Standard Time, on Thursday, December 27, and, as hitherto, the Sonora program will originate in the Sonora recording laboratories in New York City, being carried by remote control to the key stations of the Columbia chain for transmission, to every part of the country. Technical Insnfedtor )MMITTEF. Brunswick Portable Recording Laboratory laboratories of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., on a recent tour of the South. One of these pictured here is of rough-and-ready "makeshift" construction, and not because of, but in spite of, these conditions Mr. Kapp claims that he has recorded and will have read)' for dealers in the early part of 1929 a large number of very excellent recordings for the "Hill-Billy" section of the Vocalion record catalog. Pictured with Mr. Kapp are Harry Smith, Brunswick electrical engineer, and Harry Goldsmith, general sales manager of the Artophone Corp., Memphis, Tenn. D. W. May, Inc., Has House Warming in New Home Thursday and Friday, December 6 and 7, were the days devoted by D. W. May, Inc., radio distributors, to a housewarming party on the occasion of the opening of their new building at 393-395 New Street, Newark, N. J. The new building is in the rear of their old location at 380 Central avenue. A host of dealers in the northern New Jersey territory inspected the new and improved facilities which the May organization has provided for their benefit. Buffet luncheons and suppers, with other refreshments, were -served on both days. D. W. May, Inc., are distributors for Crosley and Amrad receivers, RCA Radiotrons, Sandar speakers, Ray-O-Vac batteries, Daven television products, Brach accessories, Raytheon tubes, Sterling A and B eliminators and the Radio Lite-Tenna. Successful Week-End Shooting Twenty-nine plump ducks were the trophies exhibited by Mac Harlan, advertising manager of the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., upon his return from a week-end hunting trip along the Illinois River. C. C. Fogarty, of Matteson, Fogarty, Jordan Co., advertising counsel of the Kellogg Co., accounted for an equal number in two days of shooting.