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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Current and Choice...
...Hammond Electric Organ, first marketed three years ago, is no larger than a piano, has no reeds or pipes. Pressing a key on the Hammond keyboard generates a minute electric current with an oscillation frequency corresponding to the pitch of the desired note. The current is relayed into a reproduction cabinet where it becomes a musical tone...
...inventories swelled to a $20,000,000 figure, bank loans became too cumbersome, particularly on top of the $700,000 expense of building a slick new factory, opened last month. So last week with its 519,151 shares of common selling at $95 (on earnings of $10.91 last year, current dividends so far for this year of $5.25)-with its English Blend sales this year setting new records each month and expected to approximate 11,000,000,000 by year's end-Philip Morris finally offered for sale an issue of 77,873 shares of 5% preferred stock convertible...
...Ende's painting, found that, in the world he presents, figures are stopped before a barrier, or seek shelter like the nudes in Under the Console (see cut). In Munich, where his lively little wife teaches physical culture, Ende has been caught like many a German painter in current confusions of German art: his painting has received the official thumbs-down that goes with inclusion in Hitler's Degenerate Art show, but he has been commissioned to do murals for Göring's air ministry...
...Current convention for producers of Shaw plays is to dress up the protagonist in whiskers to resemble George Bernard Shaw. Thus disguised, Actor Philip Bourneuf talks his way brilliantly through the heroically talky role of Sir Arthur Chavender. No drunken skipper, but a tired, shilly-shallying Prime Minister, Sir Arthur is discovered, when On the Rocks begins, fiddling aimlessly about the interior of No. 10 Downing Street while an angry mob howls in the streets outside. Halfway through Act I, he receives a visit from a mysterious Lady in Grey (Estelle Winwood) who whisks him away to a sanatorium...