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...Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven looked down on 1,600 music lovers, who in turn gazed expectantly at the stage. On the stage, seated at six instruments which looked like sewing machines with boxed-in superstructures, were six electrico-musical artists, all of scientific mien and all with electro-dynamic hair except one, who was as slick as a double-wrapped generator coil...
Fingerboards and Filters. The emiriton. which produces tones much like those of the violin, cello, bassoon, clarinet and oboe, has several advantages over previous electro-musical instruments (such as the theremin). Because it is played by running one finger up and down a free fingerboard, tones are produced strictly by finesse of touch, not by mechanical means. Because it is a single-voiced instrument that does not play chords, each instrument in the ensemble is a personality, like each instrument in a string quartet, and lends itself to a great variety of color and volume...
Reticently Anderson. The spinsterish Olga of The Three Sisters rose to fame, 18 years ago, as the sultry siren of Cobra. Since then Australian-born Actress Anderson has played Lavinia Mannon in O'Neill's, Mourning Becomes Electro, the Queen in the Gielgud Hamlet, the Mother of Jesus in Family Portrait, Lady Macbeth to the Macbeth of Maurice Evans. Quiet, practical, an actress without frills, she has less glow than Actress Cornell, less glitter than Actress Gordon, greater range and resourcefulness than either. Of her Critic Percy Hammond once remarked that, unlike other actresses, she could be "reticently...
Knox H. Finley, for electro-physiological studies on the hypothalamus and cerebrum...
...mark, other foreign countries. Its near-mo nopoly is not a matter of patents. Rivals were discouraged because 1) the demand for submarines is so unstable, 2) subma- rines are so frighteningly hard to build. Peace and subs do not mix. To survive between wars Ebco looked to its Electro Dynamic Co. (marine engines and gen- erators) and Elco Motorboat Works* (pleasure cruisers), both at Bayonne, N.J. During the depression Ebco employment dropped to a low of 300, annual sales averaged $2,500,000, annual losses $1,000,000. Desperate, Ebco grabbed whatever work it could get. For Atlantic Coast...