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Machines to play music have long been accepted, but now there is a machine to compose music-of a sort. Called the Compos-A-Tune, it is a cinch to operate for anyone with elementary knowledge of musical notation...
The Compos-A-Tune ($3) is an 18 in. by 7 in. cardboard rectangle with 16 twirlable dials arranged in two rows. On the upper eight dials the operator sets any rhythm scheme desired (from countless possible combinations) for the first eight bars of a tune. By twirling the bottom...
Inflationary. In London, a coroner found that the late Sidney Corrall, acquisitive but non compos mentis, had swallowed and kept all to himself 201 pennies, florins, shillings, halfpennies, sixpences, half crowns, and threepenny bits.
It's rather hard to understand just how Frank Borzage could have been persuaded to direct a picture like "Living on Velvet." Mr. Borzage in previous efforts has shown a directorial intelligence and maturity which manifests itself but rarely in this smart set drama from the First National lot. Aside...
The question to be debated on October 28 by Harvard and a team compos of representatives of three English universities is: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life." The question of which Harvard is to support the affirmative, was chosen last night at an...