The talking machine world (Jan-Mar 1921)

March 15, 1921 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 41 NEW CLUETT PHONOGRAPH MANAGER JAZZ INVADES SOUTH SEA ISLANDS Raymond H. Clarke Takes Important Post With Cluett & Sons in Troy, N. Y. Troy, N. Y., March 7. — Cluett & Sons have just appointed Raymond H. Clarke as manager of their phonograph department and he has already taken up his new work. Mr. Clarke is well qualified for this position, inasmuch as he Raymond H. Clarke has had considerable experience in phonograph merchandising, having been associated with the Aeolian Co. both in New York and Boston. He is a native of New Haven, Conn., and is quite well known through that section as a tenor soloist. He also played a prominent part in "Goodbye Bill," one of the soldier shows that was presented in New York during the war. HOPKINS BACK FROM THE WEST General Sales Manager of the Columbia Co. Reports Improving Conditions in That Territory— O. F. Benz; Visits Boston Geo. W. Hopkins, general sales manager of the Columbia Graphophone Co., returned a few days ago from a Western trip, which included a visit to the Columbia branches in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Mr. Hopkins states that business conditions in this territory are steadily improving and that the dealers are optimistic to a marked degree in their predictions for Spring business. O. F. Benz, record sales manager of the Columbia Graphophone Co., spent a few days in Boston last week in conference with Fred E. Mann, manager of the Boston branch. On Saturday Mr. Benz addressed a meeting of the sales staff of this branch, giving them interesting data regarding record sales plans for the coming year. W. H. Lawton, manager of the Buffalo branch of the Columbia Graphophone Co., was a visitor to the Columbia executive offices in New York this week.* ARTHUR D. GEISSLER RETURNS Arthur D. Geissler, president of the New York Talking Machine Co., New York, and the Chicago Talking Machine Co., Chicago, Victor wholesalers, returned to New York a few days ago after spending a month in Chicago. According to his present plans Mr. Geissler will spend quite some time at the executive offices of the New York Talking Machine Co., keeping in touch with Chicago activities. P. J. Mann, Victor dealer at Worcester, Mass., was a caller recently at the offices of the New York Talking Machine Co. The Brunswick phonograph is now handled by the Anderson Piano Co., 291 Livingston street, Brooklyn, N. Y. The arrangement was consummated by Edward N. Strauss, manager of the phonograph division of the New York house of Brunswick. Silent Bliss of Mystic Tropics Broken by the Music of Broadway on the Talking Machine The South Sea Islands are no longer the home of quiet and blissful solitude. Talking machines equipped with jazz records have invaded the silences of the cocoanut groves and vie with the ukulele in the mystic moonlight on the beach at Waikiki and parts west and south. American sailors are said to have introduced the "talker" in Tahiti, the island of Yap and other places where Uncle Sam's fleet touches. They made a big hit with the natives and talking machine house drummers who followed found a ready market for their wares. Every native that could scrape together the wherewithal invested in one of the musical instruments. Bananas and yams and other tropical fruits flooded the markets in the search of the elusive peso to buy the machines. Planters found the brown-skinned natives willing to work at least three days a week in order to lay up enough to make a first payment on a "talker." So now the peaceful silences, broken heretofore only by the wash of the sea on the beach or the boom of the breakers over the coral reef, are disturbed by a version of the "Memphis Blues" as interpreted by a Broadway cabaret's orchestra or by the siren voice of the current vaudeville favorite. NEW CORPORATION IN OLEAN, N. Y. The Houghton & Rungle Music Co., Olean, N. Y., has been incorporated under the laws of New York State to do business in talking machines and other musical instruments. The capital is $10,000 and the incorporators are J. V. and L. A. Houghton and H. P. Rungle. NEW RECORD ALBUM COMPANY The Two-Size Record Album Corp., New York, has been incorporated to manufacture record envelopes. The capital is $100,000 and the incorporators are J. W. Johnson, H. S. Wisner and G. C. Luebbers, 574 West End avenue. MAIN SPRINGS AT LAST Packed in RUST-PROOF, DUST-PROOF INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED CONTAINERS indicating their use, at no advance in price. We want a portion of your business. 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