DECEMBER, 1973 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE ORGAN SOCIETY The .~) greats' one. THEWURLITZER ELECTRONICPIANO. The one electronic piano chosen by so many all-time greats. The overwhelming choice of talented musicians like Richard Carpenter, A&M record­ ing artist Pete Jolly, Pete Fountain's pianist Godfrey Hirsch, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington, Ario Guthrie, David Clayton-Thomas, Marian McPartland, Paul Revere and the Raiders. What makes the Wurlitzer Electronic Piano the greats' one? The unusual effects that come from built-in vibrato and volume control. Portability And, most important, that dependable Wurlitzer sound. It's something you can share with these all-time greats. Simply visit your Wurlitzer dealer and ask for the greats' one. WURLllZER leads the way DECEMBER, 197 3 COMPILED BY LLOYD E. KLOS Month Page This index refers to major items which have appeared in Harold Lloyd Museum Plans Ben Hall Memorial ....... June 4 THEATRE ORGAN during 1973. No attempt has been made Introducing the 1972 Rodgers-Morton ............. June 39 to list the thousands of Chapter Items, Concert Reviews, Howard Vollum's Wurlitzer ...................... Feb. 27 Nuggets, Vox Pops etc. INSTALLATIONS(Other Than Homes & Studios) ATOS MISCELLANEOUS Month Page Birmingham's Alabama Theatre ................... Dec. 5 A Member's Tribute to ATOS .................... Oct. 51 First Pizza Organ Built ........................ June 23 A Few Words From Our Attorney ................. Dec. 11 Hammond Castle's Austin .........•............. Apr. 13 Are You Represented? ................•........ Dec. 10 List of Scotland Installations ..................... Feb. 38 Chapter Chairmen and Secretaries ................. Apr. 51 Good News From Louisiana .................... Aug. 15 Davenport Premiere a Sellout ............. ..... Aug. 47 Theatre Organ Restored in New Mexico School ........ June 28 Hall of Fame Procedure ....................... Aug. 40 New Mexico Military Institute .................... Dec. 49 Hall of Fame Roster ......................... Aug. 41 San Francisco Orpheum's Morton Sings Again ......... Oct. 49 How to Get Information For ATOS Library ........... Feb. 9 The San Sylmar Museum ....................... Feb. 13 Lists of ATOS Library Books and Music ............. Feb. 10 Schnitzelhaus Mit Wurlitzer! ..... : •............. June 31 1973 ATOS Convention in Portland ............... Aug. 23 State Theatre in Springfield, Ohio ................. Dec. 35 Theatre Organ Magazine Circulation ............... June 26 Times Square Paramount Dedicated in Wichita ......... Apr. 23 West Penn Chapter Event in Maryland ............... Feb. 21 MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL Status of Four Canadian Organs ..•............ .. June 11 Charles, Milton - Part 1 ....................... June 14 How to be a Critic .. , ..........•............. June 25 Charles, Milton - Part 2 ...........•........... Aug. 12 Dramatic Value of the Theatre Organ .............. Aug. 10 Clubb, Mildred G •............................ Oct. 11 Home Organ Festival .......................... Dec. 14 Dodge, Hugh J............................... Dec. 18 Keeping the Record Straight ..................... Apr. 18 Fitzpatrick, Mildred M. ....................... Apr. 4 Pipe Pipe~ List of Organs in Public Places ............. Apr. 52 Hope-Jones, Robert - Part 1 ..................... Dec. 21 The Pizza Organ (Humorous) ..................... Dec. 49 Torch, Sidney - Part 2 ......................... Feb. 31 Radio Announcers Spread Theatre Organ Gospel ........ Oct. 26 Torch, Sidney - Part 3 ......................... Apr. 46 Silent Film Music in Talking Picture ................ Apr. 45 Wickham, Luella E ............................ Oct. 32 The Social Bond .....••...................... Dec. 36 BOOK REVIEWS Too Much Success? ........................... Oct. 35 Wichita Ends First Season With a Sellout ............. Oct. 36 The American Ree<tlOrgan ...................... Dec. 46 Woody Wise to Manage Harold Lloyd Estate ........... Apr, 16 Early English Organ Music ...................... Dec. 46 Wurlitzer List Ready ...................•..... June 18 How to Build a Two-Manual Chamber Pipe Organ ....... Apr. 44 Player Piano Treasury (Second Edition) ............. Aug. 41 Wurlitzer Revised Installation List ................. Oct. 37 OBITUARIES(Closing Chord) Abel, Earl ...... .' .......................... Apr. 45 HISTORICAL Arndt, Leo F ................................ Feb. 11 The Crawford Style .•......................... Oct. 21 Codd, George E..•.......................... Aug. 51 Del Castillo's Organ School ...................... Oct. 13 Garretson, Bob . ............•..... ........... Oct. 10 Department of Coincidentals ..................... Dec. 20 Gaumer, Viloma ............................ June 27 Opus No. 6690 - The Traveling Moller ....... .. .... Oct. 5 Grierson, Mabel B ............................ Aug. 51 Theatre Organists on Radio •..................... Dec. 26 Hammond,Laurens ......•.....•............. Aug. 51 Holywell, John A ••..•....•................... Dec. 20 HOME& STUDIO INSTALLATIONS Kerr, Avelyn M •............................ June 27 Paul Abernethy's Robert Morton .•................ Oct. 45 Peterson, Howard L. ......................... June 27 Lee Haggart's Moving of His Smith ................ Aug. 4 Rice, Mildred .............................. June 27 John Kuczinski's Wurlitzer ..•.•...•............. Dec. 4 7 Rupf, Harry .•..............•.•............. Oct. 10 "Little Mother" Makes the Trip ................•.. Feb. 23 Ward, Jack ..........•..................... Aug. 51 FEBRUARY 1974 ( over) THEATRE ORGAN SUPPLEMENT ORGANISTS'ACTIVITIES Month Page Month Page Colin Cousins Tapes Odeon Carlton Farewell .......... Dec. 17 Larsen, Lyn - At the Organ Loft ................. Aug. 44 Lee Erwin Discovers Little Known Morton ............ Dec. 13 Liversidge, Reginald & Peter Jebson - Double Touch, Vol. 2 Feb. 36 Shirley Hannum Goes West ...................... Apr. 26 MacDonald, Robert - Noel ...................... Dec. 39 In Search of the Phantom With Tom Lockwood ........ Oct. 18 May, Ed & Carol - Take Back My Heart, I Ordered Liver (E)Apr. 20 Dr. Parmentier Returns to Pipes .................. June 12 McClain, Leonard - Golden Years of the Theatre Organ ... Apr. 19 Yamaha Winner Ronald Pedley Bound for Japan ....... Aug. 51 Million, Bill - Once in a Million (E) ••.•••.•....• Apr. 21 "Our David" Scrimenti ......................... Apr. 34 Nourse, Everett - Memories of the Fabulous Fox ....... Oct. 23 George Wright's First British Concert ............... Oct. 30 Pearl, Hal - Memories of the Aragon ............... Oct. 24 Phantom of the Organ at Monster Catacombs ......... Aug. 45 PLAYING INSTRUCTIONS Ralston, Bob - Playing Movie & Show Themes (E) ...... Oct. 25 Rapf, Kurt - Classic Organ Bach in Linz Cathedral ..... June 21 "Alles Was Dubist" Review ...................... Apr. 30 Simmons, Don - Swingin' Pipes ................... Oct. 24 Care and Feeding of Organ Soloists ................. Feb. 12 Smith, Dick - Velvet Sounds .................... Dec. 38 Cueing a Silent Movie .......................... Feb. 5 Swinnen, Firmin - The Art of FS in Longwood Gardens . Aug. 43 Lists of ATOS Library Material ................... Feb. 10 Torch, Sidney - At the Theatre Organ .............. Feb. 35 Playing in the Picture Houses ..................... Feb. 11 Watters, Clarence - Trinity College Chapel Organ ....... Dec. 40 Registration and Relativity ..................... Aug. 42 Wright, Simon & Gerald Shaw - A King & Queen ...... June 20 RECORD REVIEWS(E=electronic) STOP LISTS AND CHAMBER LAYOUTS Baker, Don - Returns to Brooklyn Paramount ......... Dec. 37 Tom Hamilton's Rodgers-Morton ................. June 41 Briggs, Noel - Opposite Ranks ................... Oct. 25 San Sylmar's Wurlitzer ......................... Feb. 20 Carter, Gaylord - Fifty Years of Chasing ............. Feb. 36 Howard Vollum's Wurlitzer ...................... Feb. 29 Cole, Karl - This is Karl Cole ................... Aug. 44 Del Castillo, Lloyd - Salute to America ............. Apr. 19 TECHNICAL Der Wurlitzer Orgels .......................... Apr. 36 Positive Control for Wurlitzer Tremulant ............. Apr. 15 Dumser, Peter - Theatre Organ Encores (E) .......... June 21 Erwin, Lee - Plays Ben Hall's "Little Mother" ........ Dec. 39 THEATRE INTERIORS(Pictures)("An Acre of Seats"Series) Hannum, Shirley - Shirley! .................... June 20 Detroit, Mich. - Fox .....•.................... Oct. 2 James, Tiny - At the Orpheum ................... Oct. 22 Los Angeles, Cal. - United Artists ................. Feb. 4 ~oury, Rex - Meets the Rodgers Style 260 (E) ........ Apr. 20 Oakland, Cal. - Paramount .....•.••............. Dec. 2 • FEBRUARY 1974 THEATRE ORGAN SUPPLEMENT cover- photo ... The 4/20 Crawford Special Wurlitzer, Opus 1783 in the Alabama Theatre, in Birmingham. See "The Showplace of the South" page 5. Journal of the Amer ican Theatre Organ Society Volume 15, No. 6 • December, 1973 ATOS National Membersh ip is $10.00 per calendar year , which includes a subscr i ption in this issue ... to THEATRE ORGAN, the official pub ­ li cat ion of the Amer ican Theatre Organ FEATURES Society. Single copies $1.25. Make check or money order payable to ATOS , and mail 5 The Showplace of the South ..... Alleen Cole to P.O. Box 1314, Salinas , California 93901 . 10 Are You Represented? .... Erwin A. Young Editorial Address THEATRI::: ORGAN 11 A FewWordsfrom Our Attorney . ..... Charles A. Rummel P.O. Box 13 14 , 13 Lee Erwin Discovers Little-Known Robert Morton . Ted