Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declaring that "there are very few real fascists in this country," George S. Pettee, instructor in Government spoke in a Guardian radio broadcast last night...
...Winchell-Ben Bernie hurly-burly bearable is that whenever the Broadway gossip and the band leader rest from their mutual belaboring, pretty, pouting Simone Simon surprises everybody by singing pleasingly in a muted, engagingly unprofessional soprano. As a Bernie find whom Winchell, sight unseen, has slurred in a radio broadcast, she changes her name to Yvette Yvette, warms up on the less fluty flights of Lakme's Bell Song, proceeds through Gordon & Revel's Sweet Someone and a repertory that finally forces Winchell to eat his unsavory words...
...engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
Last week on the anniversary of this pioneer broadcast in Calvary Church- largest Episcopal Church between New York and the Mississippi-Rector van Etten again broadcast on KDKA. He organized a choir with numerous boys whose fathers had sung in the 1921 service, had it accompanied by the organist of the original broadcast. An extempore sermonizer, Dr. van Etten found the notes of his first broadcast, attempted to reconstruct his 17-year-old words, ad libbing as well on the wonders of radio...
...Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll (Amos 'n' Andy) last week made their 2,750th and last 15-minute broadcast for Pepsodent Tooth Paste, which since 1929 had paid them well over $200,000 a year for writing and acting their droll Negro dramatizations, and paid National Broadcasting Company $1,200.000 last year for radio time consumed. Messrs. Gosden and Correll have been teamed on the air for almost 18 years and theirs is the second oldest national radio program. This week Amos 'n' Andy went to work for Campbell's Soup...