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...Soviet Justice caught up last week with eleven phonograph record speculators, the suddenly notorious "SPECTOR AND MYZNIKOV AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES," as Moscow called them. Spector & Myznikov, well knowing that the State Music Stores have nothing like enough phonograph records to supply the wants of Moscow's phonograph addicts, neglected to stay away from those stores as the State desires patriots to do in order that some records may always be "offered for sale" and appearances kept...
When daring Spector & Myznikov went so far as to enter the stores singly and have relatives and friends do the same and insist on buying records, alert Stalin Secret Police were soon on the miscreants' trail. They were accused in court last week of reselling their phonograph records privately to more timid Moscow music lovers who make their purchases in the safety of dark alleys rather than in the State Music Stores. The court sentenced Spector & Myznikov to seven years each in jail, gave their accomplice's from six to five years each...
...American name began to fiddle his way into the big money. Critics on two continents praised young Alexander ("Sasha") Culbertson for his silky tones, liked him best in Bach. But Sasha was not satisfied with himself. In 1926 he canceled 31 U. S. engagements, broke a contract to make phonograph records, sailed for Europe. In Paris he settled down with his bride of two years to study all over again. There and in Berlin he worked hard, eked out a meager living from music lessons. Last week he walked timidly onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
Most cause for catcalls had old, famed Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., one of the world's largest music houses, best known exhibitor at the show. Two years ago, to recoup Depression losses on organs, pianos, violins, Wurlitzer broke into the coin machine market with nickel operated phonographs, Skee-ball games. Last year it is supposed to have grossed about $8,000,000 on these items alone. Last summer Rock-Ola, which had acquired patents on the coin phonograph from the old Deca-Disc Co., sued Wurlitzer for patent infringement. If this case goes against it, Wurlitzer may lose...
...Coin phonographs retail at $235, $340, and up, are very popular in the Deep South, are sold to lunch parlors, roadside diners and social clubs, often may be paid for in installments out of the proceeds. A third big phonograph maker is J. P. Seeburg Corp. of Chicago, whose tall, polished President Noel Marshall Seeburg was chairman of the coin men's convention last week for the third time...