The talking machine world (Jan-June 1925)

66b THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD May 15, 1925 CTforee 'LET ME LINGER LONGER IN YOUR ARMS A fascinating FaxTrot loy Cliff Friend and Abel Baer K~ Writers of .It S> I I I M C I X\)UNE NIGHT Hits/// *You Can!t Oo Wrong With Any 'FEIST' Song' Important Trade Activities Boost Sales Volume of Los Angeles Retail Dealers Dealers and Members of Their Sales Organizations Entertained at Sherman, Clay & Co. Banquet as Preliminary to Launching Sales Drive — Convention Plans — Portable Radio Show Los Angeles, Cal., May 4. — About one hundred and thirty dealers, sales managers and salesmen were entertained at a banquet last month by the Victor Co. and Sherman, Clay & Co., Victor distributors, the manufacturer and jobber acting thus as joint hosts. The occasion was the launching of the great sales campaign of Victrolas throughout Los Angeles. Otto May, of the Victor Co., occupied the chair and Philip T. Clay, president of Sherman, Clay & Co., traveled to Los Angeles especially to attend the meeting. Philip T. Clay Draws Analogy Philip T. Clay, president of Sherman, Clay & Co., said that the attitude of some dealers reminded him in many ways of the Children of Israel and the Golden Calf, who, after a lifetime devotion to the God of their fathers, were suddenly attracted to a new form of religion and bowed down and worshiped the Golden Calf;' dealers and salesmen, after years of training and experience in the sale of talking machines — an enviable and remarkable attainment — had suddenly switched over to that which fhev regard ed as the line of least resistance, and put forth all their energies toward the sale of radio, neglecting talking machine sales almost entirely. He believes that the talking machine and records are just as necessary in the home with or without a radio as are books and a library. Music Trades Convention Plans The Western Music Trades Convention will take place at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, June 23, 24, 25 and 26. The committees of attendance, program, finance, publicity and others are busily engaged in arranging plans for a succesful second annual convention which will at least equal that which was held in San Francisco last year. Subjects for debate and discussion are being carefully "selected and radio promises to occupy a considerable period of the sessions. E. R. Potter, chairman of the exhibitors' committee, has sent out the following letter to manufacturers and others who may desire to exhibit samples during the Convention: Gentlemen — The Western Music Trades will hold their Second Annual Convention in Los Angeles, June 23, 24, 25 and 26, at the liiltmore Hotel. 9NES T RAD E MAR K STANDARDIZED, PRECISION-MADE RECEIVERS Adapted to All Makes of TALKING MACHINE CABINETS These Receiving Sets meet the insistent demand of Talking Machine owners. Model J-80 (illustrated) is a 4-tube, non-oscillating, tuned radio frequency receiver, completely enclosed in drawer-shaped cabinet. Fits into the space occupied by two record shelves. List price, without accessories $80 Model JW-90 Phonograph Panel Type is a 5-tube tuned radio frequency receiver which can be fitted into any console phonograph cabinet. List price, without accessories $90 All Jos. W. Jones Receivers are built of the celebrated Jones Precision Parts, unexcelled for quality, tone, volume, selectivity and endurance. JOS. W. JONES RADIO MFG. CO., Inc. 40.46 West 25th Street New Yort clty Last year's convention held in San Francisco owed its success to the splendid attendance at the business sessions and this was due to the exhibitors' co-operation by keeping their rooms closed until these meetings adjourned. We are asking you, therefore, to follow a similar procedure this year. The hours for meetings aie 9:30 till 12 noon and from 2 till 3:30 p. m., affording ample opportunity for visiting the exhibits thereafter. Also exhibitors are requested to refrain from arranging for any form of entertainment during the hours of business meetings of the convention. The business meetings and banquet will be held on the first floor of the liiltmore Hotel, the third floor being reserved for the accommodations of those who may desire to stop at the Biltmore. The exhibits will be on the second floor, which is specially adapted for this purpose. The size of these rooms vary a little, but approximately all are 15'x26'. The prices are $6, $7 and $8 per day. Many • of these rooms are connecting so that two or three may be engaged; each has a private shower bath, also a disappearing bed which does not occupy any of the room space during the daytime. From the present indications a large attendance is promised and we hope that you are interested and will make reservations with the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, direct. However, as chairman, of the exhibitors' committee, it will lie a pleasure to co-operate with you in any possible manner by your addressing the writer at 711 So. St. Andrews place, Los Angeles, Cal. Yours very tru'y E. R. Botter. Portable Radio Show in Los Angeles The second annual Portable Radio Show was held at the Paul G. Hoffman Co.'s salesrooms April 20 to 25 inclusive. The Paul G. Hoffman Co. is the great Studebaker dealer and distributor of Los Angeles and Southern California and arranged for a similar show last year which was attended by 20,000 people. The gate this year amounted to 29,300 and the resultsobtained are declared to have been most satisfactory.. Although the booths were put in and supported by the jobbers, they arranged with their dealers so that the latter made the actual sales. Among the exhibitors were: Listenwalter & Gough, Sherman, Clay & Co., Munson, Rayner Corp., Fitzgerald Music Co. The following lines were shown: Ereed-Eisemann, Crosley, Colin B. Kennedy, Crosley radio, Zenith, Fada] Thompson neutrodyne, Federal, Mohawk', Lathe, Marwol, Radiolas, . Gilfillan, DeForest! Atwater Kent, Whitestone & Kodel, Operadio! Brunswick Artists Score When one of the world's greatest dance orchestras plays in the world's largest arcade building in one of the world's greatest cities it is a positive certainty that the affair will turn out a huge success. That is exactly what happened with Herb Wiedoeft and His Brunswick Recording Orchestra appeared in the spacious promenade of the famous Los Angeles Arcade Building. An enormous noonday crowd filled tins shopping lane to overflowing and cheered at first hand the music which thrills hundreds of dancers at the Cinderella Roof, Los Angeles. Miss Anna M. Osterhout was married to Theodore Edison, son of Thomas A. Edison, on April 25 in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Edison plan to make their home in Orange, where the former is actively associated with the Thomas A. Edison, Inc., industries.