The talking machine world (Jan-June 1919)

May 15, 1919 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 53 GOLD SEAL EMERSON RECORDS LARGE SIZE ( ( 9148 1 9158 Don't Cry, Frenchy, Don't Cry — Haritone Solo Arthur Fields I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles — Tenor Solo George Gordon How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm — (Instrumental) One Step Emerson Military Band Egyptian Nights — Waltz, Emerson Military Band Qi Ki i Wait and See — Tenor Solo Sam Ash yiO't I Tears of Love— Tenor Solo.. Henry Burr 9155 9157 Mickey — Baritone Solo Arthur Fields 9153 ■ Heart of Wetona— Baritone Solo, Arthur Fields How Are You Goin' to Wet Your Whistle? — Character Song, Billy Murray Heart Breaking Baby Doll— Character Song Billy Murray Laughing Blues (Instrumental) — "Blues" Fox Trot. .. Louisiana Five A Good Man Is Hard to Find— I "Blues" Fo.x Trot. ... Louisiana Five If you haven't these Popular Hits on records in your store YOU are losing sales. If you are losing sales on these, or perhaps many others in the Emerson list, write, wire or 'phone us and we will stop your losses within twenty-four hours. Fmerjon New Fng)landiNc 68 Essex Street Distributors for Emerson Records, Q R S Plaver Rolls and Brilliantone Steel Needles throughout New England THE TRADE IN BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND— (Continued from page 52) death occurred on the fifth anniversary of their marriage, and Mr. Ott was unable to reach her bedside before she passed away. Call on Western Massachusetts Trade Toward the latter part of April Manager Fred E. Mann, of the Columbia, spent a week among some of the company's dealers in western Massachusetts, and on his return to the city pronounced the condition of the Columbia business in that territory as excellent. Iver Johnson Co. and the Steger In the hands of the Iver Johnson Co. the Steger line is making rapid advances. A carlead of instruments has been delayed en transit from Chicago, which has somewhat handicapped the house in getting under way, but dealers who have seen the samples which Mr. Munroe has been carrying around through the New England territory have found them all that was claimed for them, so that the prospects are good for a large delivery when the goods arrive. The talking machine department of the Iver Johnson Co. has made such rapid strides under the management of Arthur Chamberlain that larger and more convenient quarters have had to be secured. The house has taken a lease of a large ground floor store next to the present building, and numbered 163 Washington street. Already a large sign on the outside makes the announcement that the Iver Johnson Co. is about to occupy it, owing to growth of business. John Alsen Kept in Touch Through The World John Alsen, who has been finally discharged from service after more than eighteen months in uniform, and who before going overseas with the 101st Engineers was in charge of the talking machine department of George Lincoln Parker, says that among the most welcome things he received while in France were the copies of The Talking Machine World, which reached him at several places. The first copy that came to him was on February 9, 1918, when he had been at Chemin des Dames three days, and he lost no time in perusing its contents because it gave him the news of the Boston trade. At that time his unit was billeted in caves with the French engineers at Mont de Leuilly, and he found more than one man who enjoyed reading the newsy contents, first from one large phonograph center, then another. When Alsen was in the Toul sector on the 31st of March another copy reached him, and again he pored over it and shared it with his comrades. The last copy he received on July 8 at ChateauThierry, three days before he was wounded, and there wasn't a word from cover to cover that {Continued on page 54) ALL PHONOGRAPHS IN ONE KRAFT, BATES & SPENCER, INC. 156 BOYLSTON ST. BOSTON, MASS. AN EXCEPTIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH EXCEPTIONAL DEALER SERVICE