The talking machine world (Jan-June 1928)

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The Talking Machine World, New York, June, 1928 157 The New "Excello" Combination PhonO'Radio Console Model R 44 Closed Meets the most exacting demand for Beauty and Quality The very attractive model illustrated, No. R 44, is of highest grade cabinet work with selected matched butt walnut doors and rich piano finish. Sliding drawer accommodates any radio set up to twenty-four inches long. Equipped with G E Electric Phonograph motor, switch and adapter, volume control, electric pick-up with tone-arm and automatic shut-off attachment. Also Cone or Dynamic speaker. Write for catalog illustrating complete line and franchise proposition. See the Excello display at the RMA Trade Show, Hotel Stevens. Chicago. EXCELLO PRODUCTS CORP. 4824 W. 16th St., Cicero, 111. (Suburb of Chicago) Model R 44 Ooen Pacific Coast Representative — Pacific Sales Corporation, 426 Larkin St., San Francisco, (.alit. N. P. Bloom Elected Adler Mfg. Co. Head Succeeds C. L. Adler, Deceased, as President of Phonograph and Radio Manufacturing Company Louisville, Kv., Tunc 1. — N. P. Bloom, for the past several years secretary of the Adler Mfg. Co., of this city, manufacturer of radio and Automatic Radio Station Selector lected is tuned in. If there are stations desired other than those indicated on the metal strips a special arrangement allows tuning the set just An automatic radio station selector is the first of the new developments that come from the combined research laboratories of the Mohawk Corp. of Illinois and the All-American Radio Corp. From the information available this automatic station selector, for which the AllAmerican Mohawk Corp. has basic rights, is unusually simple. To take the place of the tuning knob or dial will be a thin strip of lightweight metal lyi inches wide, which has the call-letters of the various stations stamped upon it. Inasmuch as it is impossible to place on onestrip all the stations, there will be several strips comprising a set. These are interchangeable. Across the top of this metal strip is a "traveling" indicator. . Operating this particular automatic station selector is extremely simple. The indicator is merely placed at the station wanted as indicated on the marked metal strip, and the station se Examining the Automatic Station Selector like any single control receiver. It is understood that this new feature will be incorporated in the All-American Mohawk Corp. receivers. N. P. Bloom phonograph products, has been elected president of the company succeeding C. L. Adler, who passed away a few weeks ago. Mr. Bloom needs no introduction to the radio and phonograph trade throughout the country, for he has been in close touch with manufacturers, jobbers and dealers for several years and is thoroughly lamiliar with the merchandising and manufacturing problems of the trade as a whole. The Adler Mfg. Co. has been very successful the past few years in developing a line of radio cabinets that have met with a very favorable reception from the trade. Under Mr. Bloom's direction important negotiations have been closed with several prominent radio receiver manufacturers who have declared Adler cabinets as ideally adaptable to their product for the coming season. The 1928-29 Adler line includes a number of original cabinet designs which, judging from the comments of jobbers who have visited the factory the past month, will meet with the approval of the trade. DECATUR NEW MODEL Enclosed Power Speaker Companion of the Power Tube for Clarity and Volume Reception 5 Reasons Why Jobbers and Dealers will handle This Exquisite Speaker 1. Most Artistic Design 2. Superior Tonal Quality 3. Greatest Eye and E.ir Value 4. Most profitable Speaker to Handle RESULTING IN 5. Easiest Speaker In Sell ! Emerson Gill, new exclusive Columbia record artist and Cleveland's favorite dance leader, presented his first record to the Mayor of Cleveland, John D. Marshall. Sales of the first Gill orchestra recording led the Columbia Co. to issue another immediately. Prove it for yourself — See and hear the Decatur on exhibition at the Stevens Hotel during the Chicago Radio Show. DECATUR MFG. CO., Inc. 45 Harman St. Brooklyn, N. Y.