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...Johnson, mechanic-president, had seen the hard time coming. He arranged with the Radio Corporation of America for a combination radio and talking machine week Victor reported earnings of $5,648,446 in the first nine months of 1926ime talking machine, before which Nipper one day squatted inquiringly. Painter Barraud beheld a picture of popular appeal. To brighten up his canvas be borrowed a brass horn from the Gramophone Company Ltd., English subsidiary of Victor, which bought the finished picture, later pensioning Painter Barraud...
...Died. Francis Barraud, artist; in London. Barraud painted one great picture, His Master's Voice*, famed phonograph advertisement. He intended the picture for the Royal Academy. It was rejected. He sold it to the Victor for ?100. in 1921, the Company awarded him a life annuity...