The talking machine world (Jan-Dec 1914)

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They are also bound in imitation leather. Write for sample and prices of our Albums, which are superior to all others. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., 235 South American St., Philadelphia, Pa. TWIN CITIES DANCE MAPT Talking Machine Dealers Hard Put to Fill Demand for Dance Records — Tango Dancers Prove Strong Attraction at Cable Piano Co. Store — Records by Margaret Wilson Make Big Hit — Advance Demand Was Very Large. particularly in the matter of selling records. On the whole, there is a marked tone of satisfaction when the twin city dealers discuss local conditions. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) St. Paul, Minn., May 5. — St. Paul and Minneapolis have gone mad over dance music, and the dealers, whether they handle Victor, Columbia or Edison goods, hardly can supply the demand for terpsichorean records. The tango craze probably is responsible for 'the public craving for ■dance music, but, whatever the psychology of the condition may be, it is a gratifying one to the dealers. One half of the Cable Piano Co.'s store in St. Paul is given up every afternoon to a pair of clever tango dancers, who draw capacity houses at each performance. Interest in the tango also is highly intensified by the appearance this week of the renowned Castles, both in Minneapolis and St. Paul. After their local engagements, it is fair to assume that the cities will be in an ecstacy of dance madness — and, at any rate, the dealers will try to help it along. Columbia dealers receive many inquiries for the Margaret Wilson records, and C. P. Herman, manager of the St. Paul store, is looking for a big rush of sales. He reports the April sales as very satisfactory on the whole, though there was a falling off in business at the close of the month. His Dictaphone department is doing well, and the machine is making steady inroads in the business offices of St. Paul. Archie Mathies, of the Talking Machine Co., handling Victor and Edison instruments, has discontinued the recitals for the summer season, but will resume the programs in the fall when people can be prevailed to come inside. Now they prefer the great outside. The grand opera season, true to all predictions, helped the talking machine dealers considerably, HELD PARADE OF V1CTR0LAS. W. H. Reynalds, of Mobile, Ala., Takes That Means of Impressing Local Residents with the Extent of His Victor Business and Stirs Up Much Interest and Good Business. (Special to The Talking Machine World.) -McfeiLE, Ala., May 8.— W. H. Reynalds, the well-known Victor distributer, recently received two carloads of Victrolas and decided to impress upon the music loving public of Mobile just what this large shipment signified, thro.ugh the medium of a parade through the streets of the city before the Victrolas were placed in his store. This unique parade attracted general attention and comment, a number of newspapers mentioning it and referring to the rapidly growing popularity of the Victrola in this territory. WANTED CARUSO IN "MISERY." Geo. M. Richter, Jr., manager of the talking machine department of the Clark Music Co., Syracuse, N. Y., writing to The World under recent date, says : "Gentlemen — Your comment in the April issue about salesmen having to be quick-witted at times, reminds me that very often we have such instances occur in our department. A few days ago a lady came in the store, and asked one of our salesladies if she had 'Caruso in Miserere' — but what she actually said was 'Have you Caruso in Misery?' To avoid embarrassment our clerk quickly handed her record No. 89,030, sung by Caruso and Alda. This suited her and she left contented and satisfied that she had it." A SUMMER SENSATION! Two Dazzling Chicago Blondes Plan Unique Descent Upon Eastern Resorts — To Teach the Tango by Phonograph on the Beach. Two beautiful blondes have arrived from Chicago to do something new in tango teaching. Tall, lithe and fair, and with blue eyes, and Ethel Sykes and Dorothy Coffee by name, they were the tango sensations in the Windy City's lobster district all winter. Their ultimate object in descending upon New York is to get speaking parts in stage plays. Heretofore their efforts in the uplift of the drama having been confined to motion pictures. To keep their motor car in gasoline until September, the Misses Sykes and Coffee are going to take their tango scheme to the summer hotels along the Atlantic Coast. ' These dazzling beauties purchased a Victrola on the instalment plan and thus will carry their own music with them. They will put up at the Nassau Hotel at Long Beach, the Oriental at Manhattan Beach and the Marlborough-Blenheim at Atlantic City, and be ready at a moment's notice to teach the tango to anyone who may have the price, and their charges will be on a sliding scale, depending upon what the applicant has. When they go in the surf, they will use alluring bathing suits, especially adapted to purposes of the turkey trot, and the Victrola will accompany them to the beach, and the sands will be turned into a ballroom. Those who have seen Miss Sykes and Miss Coffee in their bathing togs predict for them an overwhelming class when they teach on the beach, unless Anthony Comstock happens to wander along that way, when, well, you know what happened to September Morn! Diogenes didn't find the honest man because honest men haven't any great desire to be held up before the populace as worthy examples. An arbitrator is sometimes one who hears both sides of a quarrel and then decides to call the police.