The talking machine world (Jan-June 1920)

May 15, 1920 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 127 ST. LOUIS A BUSY TRADE CENTER {Continued from page 125) taken on. Several carloads of machines are hung up somewhere between St. Louis and the factory. The territory served from here is the east half of Missouri, Southern Illinois, Louisiana, part of Tennessee and part of Arkansas. Mr. Jackson says the demand for the Brunswick records is growing apace. L. M. Saul has been appointed retail manager of the Silverstone Music Co., succeeding J. A. Schlichter, who was promoted to assistant to general manager Myron Goldberg. The Silverstone Music Co., Edison distributors, reports that there has been a good recovery from the interruption of transportation caused by the switchmen's strike and that shipments are coming through in good shape. Mark Silverstone, manager of the Silverstone Music Co., is out of St. Luke's Hospital, where he spent a week following an operation for tonsilectomy. Louis Nachman, formerly a city salesman for the Silverstone Music Co., is manufacturing the V-tone talking machine at 6129 Page boulevard under the name of the H. Victor Phonograph Co. H. Victor is associated with him in the business. Mr. Nachman was married recently to Miss Norma Greenwald and the couple have been spending their honeymoon at Hot Springs, Ark. 1'he Vocalion department of the Aeolian Co. was lucky enough to get a good shipment of machines in before the strike and some have been coming through during the strike. The suppl}' of records is better than for more than a year past, according to F. H. Brandt, retail manager. The Trorlicht-Duncker Carpet Co., at Twelfth and Locust streets, announces the addition of a phonograph department, handling the Brunswick. Manager W. H. Heiner, of the Pathe department of the Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co., has returned from a ten days' trip to the Pathe factory at Brooklyn in the interest of facilitated shipments. The cheaper Pathe instruments have been coming through pretty well, but the higher priced instruments have been coming slowly. Manager J. B. Morgan, of the Wurlitzer Co., was certainly sitting on top of the world on May 1. His was the only store in St. Louis that had Victor May records. The switchmen's strike and the balled up condition of freight and express was the cause. The St. Louis consignment of records to the Koerber-Brenner Music Co., distributors, was held up "on the way. Manager Moran gets his supply through the wholesale Wurlitzer department at Cincinnati and the shipment reached there all right and Moran's allotment was shot on to St. Louis by parcel post. He was sold out .before the day was half over and hankering for more. Mark Silverstone, president of the Silverstone Music Co., and Val Kusnitz, proprietor of Val's Phonograph & Record Shop, are listed among HAAG RECORD FILES WHY ARE THEY BETTER? Partitions scientifically set. Will not warp or bind. 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One way is to put them in a trunk and check them through. That was the way that E. E. Fay, manager of the Connorized Music Co., brought a few hundred Gennett "Dardanella" records from the Starr Piano Co. factory at Richmond, Ind. He was on there looking after his initial order of Starr talking machines, for which the Connorized Co. has taken the distribution for this territory, and checked the records through. They were soon snapped up. He left 6,000 records at the factory ready to be shipped. When he was at the factory he ordered $4,000 worth of machines and records to be shipped direct to customers and several thousand dollars worth for the St. Louis house. He expects to be in his enlarged quarters by the end of May. He has closed contracts for Starrs with the Rhodes-Burford Furniture Co., Broadway and St. Charles street, and the J. H. Kirkland Music Co., 2024 East Grand avenue. Manager J. F. Ditzell, of the Famous & Barr music department, is displaying a duplicate of the Cheney Talking Machine exhibit at the National Music Show in New York. It consists of an assortment of art machines. Manager Ditzell announces that he has a good stock of Cheneys, with a shortness in only a few styles. The new. St. Louis Cheney warehouse is in operation and is proving to be a tremendous advantage. J. W. Medairy, manager of. the Stix, Baer & Fuller Talking Machine Co., has given up his Edison agency, after having had it for seven years. He says he found it inconvenient with a jobbing retailer in the same city. His lines now are Victors and Sonoras. The former, he says, have been coming through pretty well. He gets his Sonoras from the G. D. Smith Drug Co., St. Joseph, Mo. Shipments have not been disturbed much by the strike. When the new addition to the Stix, Baer & Fuller store is completed the talking machine department will have twenty-five booths. The department will be a store within a store. It will be walled with plate glass and have three display windows just as if it was facing the sidewalk. All visitors to the fourth floor will pass the talking machine store, as it will be between the two groups of elevators. Theodore Maetten, manager of the Victrola department of Kieselhorst Piano Co., during the week that a grand opera company was appearing, advertised each morning a list of records which he had in stock of the opera given the night before. He offered a ticket to Saturday night's performance to the sales person selling the most of these records. The honor and incidentally the ticket fell to Miss Cartwright. "OH! 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