The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1914)

THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD. 45 EDISON SIXTY=SJEVEN YEARS OLD. Time Has Dealt Gently with the Great Inventor After Forty-Five Years Spent in Laboratory Work — His Latest Portrait — Planning to Spend Vacation in His Home in Florida. Sixty-seven years old and working steadily for 120 to 140 hours a week on occasions, an exhibition of energy that would break the health and spirit of a far younger man, is the record that still maintains Thomas A. Edison on a pedestal as one of the foremost figures, if not the foremost figure, in the field of electrical and mechanical invention and development to-day. Mr. Edison's work is indicated by his time card, which he punches just the same as would the ordinary employe, and the results are shown in numerous his work in the past has entitled him to an occasional vacation without necessitating apologies, and consequently late this month he will leave home for a seven weeks' vacation in Florida in company with Henry Ford, the well-known automobile manufacturer, and John Burroughs, two close friends. The anniversary of Mr. Edison's sixty-seventh birthday fell on February 11, and the accompanying portrait, his latest, shows that the years have dealt lightly with "The Wizard" and that he still appears to be fit to develop fresh surprises for the scientific and mechanical world. Latest Photograph of Thomas A. Edison. SUCCESSFUL IN CONCERT WORK. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) Keokuk, Ia„ February G. — C. H. Wolfe, an enterprising Victor dealer in this city, is closing an excellent business through the medium of original ideas in both his publicity and his sales methods. Mr. Wolfe is a great believer in offering the public something different from the average advertising and he also presents the Victor ' products by means of concerts held in various parts of the city. On a recent occasion Mr. Wolfe prepared an elaborate program for a Victrola concert at St. Paul's German Evangelical Church, at which sacred music was featured exclusively. The extent of the Victor record library was well evidenced by the splendid list of sacred records which was offered by Mr. Wolfe. This concert is but one of a series that Mr. Wolfe is planning to offer during the next few months, for the experiment has proven a decided success in increasing sales. ways, most recently by the perfection of the disc phonograph. No better proof of the energy of the man is to be desired than his remark upon his return from a recent vacation, enforced by a slight illness, to the effect that forty-five years in the laboratory had so tuned him to hard workthat he was sick if away from it. Mr. Edison is beginning to feel, however, that LATEST RECORD BY MAGGIE TEYTE Announced by Columbia Co. in Special Letter Sent to Dealers — Sings Her Big Hit. PHONOGRAPHISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT BERLIN W. 30, GERMANY The oldest and most up-todate trade paper covering the talking machine line published in the German Language. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. FOUNDED 1900 Circulates all over the world. SPECIAL EXPORT NUMBERS appear in four different languages at regular intervals. Subscriptions for this talking machine publication 10 Marks yearly. Sample copies sent free. The Columbia Graphophone Co. sent out to its dealers this week a special letter announcing another record sung by Maggie Teyte, the famous English soprano, in addition to those featured in the regular March list of records. The company had originally planned to issue this third record in April, .but as Maggie Teyte is scoring a most impressive success in her present tour of the country it" was deemed to the best interests of Columbia dealers to release the third record by Miss Teyte at the earliest possible date. This record contains Miss Teyte's famous hit, "Mifanwy," which is considered the most popular song in her repertoire. The ; issuance of this song in record form should J^rove very popular with Columbia dealers. "TALKING MACHINE SPECIALISTS." Burley & Biesinger;""the talking machine specialists," who opened a new store last October, at 278 West Ferry street, Baffalo, N. 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