The talking machine world (Jan-June 1928)

50b The Talking Machine World, New York, February, 1928 Brunswick Co. Cleveland Branch Has Attractive Studio for Panatrope Displays Finished in Stucco With Stained Glass Windows and Artistic Lighting System — Cleveland Music Trades Association Holds Annual Banquet — Business Shows a Steady Gain Clevf.land, 0., February 9. — With employment on the increase on account of growing production in the automobile industry, business has shown a fairly steady gain throughout the month and gives every indication of continuing, according to reports of dealers. The annual banquet of the Cleveland Music Trades Association took place on February 8, and was well attended. This year the ladies were invited and the affair proved a very enjoyable one. .A. L. Maresh presided and gave a short speech in which he thanked the members for the honor bestowed upon him of being elected to a third term of office. There were several other speakers and vocal and instrumental numbers to round out the evening. Morris Mattlin, father of M. O. Mattlin, of the Knabe warerooms, and I. J. Mattlin, of the Reliable Music Co., passed away at his home after a short illness. He had recently returned from California where he had gone for his health. Others surviving him are his widow, and 'two daughters, who are the wives of Sam Mintz and M. Rosen, both in the music business. The Cleveland branch of the Brunswick Co. has just completed a new Panatrope display studio which makes a beautiful setting for the various models. The studio is finished in stucco and has stained glass windows and a very artistic lighting system. Beautiful furnishings add to the attractiveness of the room. E. S. Germain, district manager, states that there has been an acute shortage of the new PanatropeRadiola, combination model 17-8, and, as a result, quite a large number of back orders have accumulated. Brunswick record sales for January, 1928, were far beyond the expectations of Cleveland branch officials and show an increase of over 100 per cent as compared to January, 1927, it is declared. The management of the Euclid Music Co.'s Superior avenue store has been placed in the hands of Randall Miller, who came here from the East, where he was well known in talking machine trade circles. The radio and phonograph credit exchange group of the Cleveland Retail Merchants' Board is holding a meeting every two weeks for the discussion of various retail accounts, with the result that help is being extended to those in need of it, and the chronic bad account is being forced to reform or discontinue business. There has been a very marked improvement in credit conditions since the formation of this group. The Cleveland Talking Machine Co., distributor of the Victor line, reports a heavy run on Victor Herbert records since the National Broadcasting Co. has been featuring this composer's operettas. Dealers report a considerable number of sales of album sets of these records. The company is continuing its regular monthly meetings for dealers' sales ladies which are proving more popular than ever. The Carro Accordion Co. has been incorporated to do business in Cleveland by Jules Eshener and others. The George Worthington Co., distributor of Fada radio, has received the three new AC models and is receiving quite a number of orders from dealers throughout the territory. The new Atwater Kent AC receiver has proved very popular in Cleveland and northern Ohio, and the distributor, the Cleveland Ignition Co., has had considerable difficulty in securing enough sets to take care of the demand for them. The Metropolitan Grand Opera Company is to play a week's engagement here from April 30 to May 5, according to announcement made by Robert J. Bulkley, chairman of the Cleveland committee of the opera. The visit of the Metropolitan is invariably followed by a big. increase in sales of operatic records, dealers featuring them in both window displays and newspaper advertising. Neil D. Bell, who was general manager of the Wolfe Music Co., located at the Prospect entrance of the Taylor Arcade, has resigned and is spending a few months in Florida with Mrs. Bell on a vacation. The Columbia branch has been busy filling orders for "Two Black Crows" records throughout the month. Moran and Mack, the originators of these dialogues, played a very successful engagement at the Ohio Theatre for two weeks. The Wflliam Taylor Co. has put on several special demonstrations of these records, and so great have been the crowds that the demonstrator and machine had to be moved into a specially, prepared space on the side of the arcade so as to permit passageway. A. L. Maresh is remodeling his store and putting in some demonstration booths. Utah Radio Products Go. a Lektophone Licensee . | The Utah Radio Products Co., Chicago, maker of Utah loud speakers, has acquired a Lektophone license, according to an. announcement made a few weeks ago by Henry Forster, treasurer of the Utah organization. New models of the Utah loud speaker are now being introduced to the trade, and among the featured products are speakers equipped with both a cone and an exponential horn. The Jackson Heights Battery & Radio Co., Long Island City, New York, was recently incorporated with a capital stock of 9,000 shares of common. 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