Word: aeolian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hell on Earth (Aeolian Pictures) is a polylingual peace tract, adapted from a story by Leonhard Frank (Karl and Anna) and filmed in pre-Nazi Germany. Its gospel is Internationalism according to Marx...
...character of Neoptolemus, the youthful son of Achilles. Neoptolemus comes with Odysseus, who had been the cause of the abandonment of Philoctetes, to carry back to Troy the wounded hero and his bow. In the two figures of Neoptolemus and Odysseus are personified not only the antagonism between Aeolian and Ionian, not only the reciprocal blindness of bold youth and cautious middle-age, but the eternal conflict between idealism and opportunism...
...were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
...investor in the new company was Aeolian-Weber Piano & Pianola Co. which controls companies making pianos (Weber, George Steck). Last week plans were almost completed for a merger of Aeolian-Weber's subsidiary, Aeolian Co.. and American Piano Corp. under the name Aeolian American Corp. Both companies and the 20-odd concerns they control will remain intact...