Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comfortably seated by their radios last week, hundreds of thousands of Britons waited patiently for a description of the second most important event of the Coronation season, the fireworks and illumination of the greatest naval review since the World War. For the scene of the broadcast, British Broadcasting Corp. had chosen the most hallowed deck in the Royal Navy, Nelson's flagship the Victory in whose cockpit he died, lying in dry-dock at Portsmouth, two miles from the five-mile quadruple row of 160 of the world's fighting ships (see map). For announcer the B.B.C. chose...
With the largest attendance in the history of the traditional spring concerts, the Glee Club last night closed its series of three presentations broadcast over station W1XAL, on the steps of Widener...
...Glee Club will sing "March of the Peers," Sullivan; "O Domino Jean Christe," des Pres; "Cante di caccia," and "Tu mi vnot," Haltan folk songs; "Tarantella," Carter; "Der Jager Abschied," and "jagdlied," Mendelssohn; "Bacchanale," Offenbach; and the Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounov," Moussorgsky. The concert will be broadcast over short-wave radio by station WIXAL of Boston...
Behind the Headlines (RKO). Reporters who had to compete with Newsflash Broadcaster Eddy Haines (Lee Tracy) agreed that if they threw him out of the window he would scoop them by broadcasting the news all the way to the ground. Mary Bradley (Diana Gibson), the Star's sobsister, had been engaged to him until he sent her to pick out a ring while he beat her to the story of a round-the-world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which...
Another Big Broadcast, Marlene Dietrich in Angel, a Viennese novelty named Oscar Homolka in Ebbtide, with Frances Farmer, in Technicolor (Paramount...