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Pagliacci (Audio-Cinema Inc. & Fortune Gallo). Unkind people have said that Fortune Gallo does not like music much. He is a lively and busy executive, a bank director, concert manager, and, primarily, president and treasurer of the San Carlo Opera Company. Once when he was running an opera company in California he suggested to Composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo, who was working for him as a conductor, that Pagliacci would make a good movie. Leoncavallo refused to allow his masterpiece to be photographed unless the music went with it, but Gallo did not drop the idea. Last week, with characteristic enterprise...
Last week the streets of Camden were filled with wagonloads of tomatoes. Wagon on wagon piled with red fruit filed in stately procession, all going in one direction, toward the laboratories of the Victor Talking Machine (now Audio-Vision Appliance Co., subsidiary of the Radio Corporation...
Another improvement is the use of a two-stage audio-frequency amplifier to improve the sensitiveness of the telephone. This permits the use of much weaker currents in the Bridge itself, thereby minimizing disturbing effects due to heating and electrode reactions and increasing the range of usefulness of the apparatus. Another improvement is in the proper grounding of the set to eliminate errors due to electro-static capacity to ground...
...second matter is that of acoustics. This is the simplest problem of all,--though I confess the mechanics of it might shock some of our victims of Harvard tradition. It would be a simple matter to erect--again at not a great cost--audio amplifiers in different parts of the Stadium so that everything said could be distinctly heard. The telephone transmitters on the platform in the center of the Stadium would carry the voice to the loud speaking telephones located in various parts of the structure. I dare say that one would have less trouble in hearing than...