Arthur K. Kempton, Imperial Theatre Building, 332 Bleury Street, Montreal, Quebec, was known as "the specialty specialist". In 1918-1919 he promoted a wide variety of phonograph specialties for the talking machine trade in Canadian Music Trades Journal.

In June 1918 he advertised the Joyola, or Joy-ola, "the perfect talking machine at a popular price", wholesale and retail, in the Montreal Star. The manufacturer is presently unknown but Kempton had the selling agency of the Regal brand of phonographs manufactured in Canada by Duchesne & Grimard, Ltd., Montreal, Quebec.

Roll Back the Years: History of Canadian Recorded Sound and Its Legacy, Edward B. Moogk, p. 65: "Arthur K. Kempton, 332 Bleury Street, tried to get city piano dealers to handle his machine. In looking to this area for outlets, Kempton was likely influenced by the popular marketing theory of the time: piano companies with steady, well-heeled clienteles were naturals for phonograph sales."

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Montreal Star, June 4, 1918, p. 14.



Montreal Star, June 8, 1918, p. 21.



Montreal Star, June 14, 1918, p. 15.