ABSTRACT
A British disc, its label reading “New Empire Record,” drawn from Edison Bell masters, issued sometime before 1914.
An issue of the Empire Talking Machine Co. of Chicago, established in 1915. There were 300
selections in a 48-page catalog of August 1917. A 64-page catalog appeared in January 1918. John H. Steinmetz was president of the firm, which was located in 1920 at 429 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago. A “universal cut” Empire record went on sale in July 1919, but it was “nevertheless vertical cut and in fact [could] play only on phonographs adapted to play Pathé records” (Rust 1978). From January 1920 Empire releases duplicated those
of Operaphone, with identical catalog numbers; both Empire and Operaphone were using Pathé masters. [Andrews; Rust 1978.]
A British label produced by the Globe Record Co., Ltd., London, in 1931. The record was a 10-inch “unbreakable, non-inflammable” flexible celluloid product selling for only 1s 6d. Most of the material was dance music from American Paramount, but there were also items from the German Phonycord (including three sides by Marian Anderson). [Rust 1978.]
A British record produced after 1928 for the Metropolitan chain stores, made from Piccadilly masters.
