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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gradual emancipation of Canada from U. S. radio influence by the setting up of a coast-to-coast chain of powerful stations under Dominion ownership...
...Gradual buying out and regulation by the high-power chain of present small Canadian stations, many of them antiquated...
Radio gave U. S. music an added puff last week. Fortnight ago five unidentified symphonic compositions (weeded out from 573) were played over the National Broadcasting chain, listened to by 150 judges in all parts of the country who telegraphed their votes back to N. B. C. in Manhattan. Week later the five pieces were played again, the composers announced. Philip James of Manhattan won $5,000 for Station WGZBX, a midget symphony which ingeniously describes lobby confusion at a studio, interference and "static, a slumber hour, microphone hysteria. Another $5,000 was divided between Max Wald, a native...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli had not decided last week whether to accept a $7,000-a-week offer for 20 weeks from Paramount-Publix, the cinema chain for which oldtime Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzina has been singing this season. But he was ready with the statement he promised his public in connection with his refusal to take a salary cut at the Metropolitan and the severance of his connection there (TIME, May 9). Excerpt: "Mr. Gatti-Casazza had a grudge against me. . . . None of my colleagues had a long contract to protect as I had. . . . They [the 32 artists who signed...
Martin John Instill, 62, brother of Samuel Ins nil, 72, resigned as president of Middle West Utilities, notified the receivers that he would be subject to their call for assistance at any time. Charles Alexander McCulloch, co-receiver, resigned as chairman of John R. Thompson Co. (chain cafeterias) to devote more time to Middle West...