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...Philco-with Bob Hope as guest star-was waxed last week, but ran two minutes overtime. Producer Bill Morrow put it up to Philco: whose lines should he cut-Crosby's or Hope's? Philcomen went into a huddle, came out with a decision for audiences to applaud: "Cut the commercial...
...applaud the innovation in British recording engineering (Crimson, Sept. 25) extending the upper limit of recording frequencies to "14,000 kilo-cycles." We congratulate, you on your use of the words "hush-hush" in this connection, since the upper limit of human hearing is generally conceded to be roughly 20 kilocycles...
...York Times put it more bluntly: "The action of the International Longshoremen's Association . . . sets a precedent with dangerous implications. . . . The fact that many will applaud this action without thinking does not make it right. ... It will be a bad day for all of us when we allow our foreign relations to be directed by longshoremen, or any other group, instead of by responsible Government authorities...
...debut in Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized...
...Dunbar'-but it is not the British who have done it for me, it is the Americans." But Empire Subject Dunbar is not sure he likes living in the U.S. Says he: "I think I will make my home in Paris where, if you are good, they will applaud you whether you are pink, white or black, and if you are bad they will whistle...