The talking machine world (Jan-June 1922)

20 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD February IS, 1922 NOTED ARTISTS VISIT EDGAR SHOPPE Eight Famous Victor Artists on Visit to Tulsa, Okla., Are Photographed at Attractively Arranged Victor Store in That City Tulsa, Oklav February 1. — When the Eight Famous Victor Artists visited this city early last month and played to a packed house, they made their headquarters at the Edgar Shoppe, a new Victor store, which has the distinction of being the only all-Victor store in Oklahoma. There are lots of stores in Oklahoma carrying the Victor line exclusively as a talking machine, but most of them are general music stores. The Edgar Shoppe is, perhaps, the most complete Victor store in the Southwest, and the equipment and furnishings, which include Unico booths and counters, cost upward of $20,000, exclusive of merchandise. The group photograph shows, from left to right: Morton Engle, manager of the repair department, the Edgar Shoppe; John Meyer, Frank Croxton, Thos. J. Edgar, president and general manager of the Edgar Shoppe; Billy Murray, ETCHED METAL NAME-PLATES FOR MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS SAUTHOLA DMADE BY dOHN SMITH & CO. ( NEW YORK, U.S.A. MODEL SERIAL N0.I Write for prices stating quantity desired SOLD BY | HENRY JONES ® CO. { 81 UNION ST. ™ ALLEGHENY. PA. EVERLASTING NEAT IN APPEARANCE ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ENGRAVING CO., Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, N. Y. ASTORIA MAHOGANY CO. REORGANIZE Friendly Receivership Proceedings Brought — Arrangements Made to Carry on the Business The Eight Famous Victor Artists in the Lester Burchfield, wholesale manager Sanger Bros.' Victrola department; A. T. Bown, sales department, the Edgar Shoppe; Otto Kluber, tour manager for the Famous Eight in the Southwest; A. H. Renner, assistant manager, the Edgar Shoppe; William Junkins, representative, the Schmelzer Co., Kansas City. Seated: Al Campbell, Miss Elizabeth Day, manager record department, the Edgar Shoppe; Monroe Silver and Frank Banta. Negotiations have been going on for some time looking toward a reorganization of the Astoria Mahogany Co., Inc., a New York corporation, having its executive offices and manufacturing plant in Astoria, L. I., under a plan of reorganization which /will place the company on a sound financial basis and provide new working capital. In order to enable a continuance of the company's operations and also to conserve the assets of the company pending such reorganization, friendly receivership proceedings have been brought in equity. Douglas H. Allen, who has been appointed, with Edward W. McMahon, a member of the law Edgar Shoppe firm of Graham, Mc Mahon, Buell & Knox, with offices at Manhattan, as one of the receivers by Judge Garvin of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, is familiar with the operations of the company, having acted for the past six months as representative of the principal creditors in connection with the company's af-' fairs. The receivers have been authorized by the Court to carry on the business as heretofore, and 99 "FACILITIES To Our Customers We Owe All— To Them We Give All Without proper facilities good intentions count for nothing. We have the facilities to back up our efforts with actual performance. COHEN & HUGHES Wholesale Exclusively BALTIMORE WASHINGTON arrangements have already been made with the principal creditors for financing the raw material requirements of the company during the term of the receivership. As a going concern the assets of the company, having a book value of approximately four and a half million dollars, exceed its liabilities by a substantial amount, and the proposed plan of reorganization contemplates payment of all trade creditors in full upon discharge of the company from receivership. The appointment of receivers for the Astoria Mahogany Co. will not afreet the company's tropical subsidiaries, the Nicaragua Mahogany Co. and the Compania Mexicana de Caoba y Godro. gHlllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllM I Phonographic Epigrammatics j By HAYWARD CLEVELAND Do not condemn rival goods. 'Twere j 1 better to admit their worthiness and | I say, " 's machines (or records) are | 1 good but ours are better." Then prove it! j "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast." By that token, then, we are all savages, and it logically follows that the talking machine, the universal music purveyor, is the greatest of savage tamers! It is the privilege of most men to have some choice of occupation. Choose that, therefore, that drags no man down, but uplifts. Of such is the talking machine trade ! "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." This might be commercially adapted to read, "Eternal vigilance is the price of success." Once a prospect always a prospect, until dead or departure for parts unknown! Regard your buyers as juries. Emulate Lincoln. Admit the merit in the opposition's arguments and cap with better. Take a shot at the moon! You may hit it! Take a try at a remote prospect! You may land it! No one human invention has contributed more toward the "Gaiety of Nations" than the talking machine. No one product of man's ingenuity has gone further toward "Making all the world akin" than the talking machine. Let not the day go by in which you do not, to some extent, progress a worthy cause. Music is the rhythmic expression of that which is noblest and best in the human. Optimism costs no more than pessi | | mism and brings better results. *iiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiira