Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since cinema began to record musical accompaniments in soundtracks on the edge of film, it has been a question whether music on films would replace music on discs. Most obvious advantages of film records over wax records: 1) no surface noise or record wear; 2) simplification of storage problems (film is lighter, less bulky); 3) whole symphonies and operas can be played without stopping to flip a record or change a needle. As in cinema recording, music films can be cut and patched, their wrong notes erased, their sour ones replaced. Unlike phonograph discs, they can even be played...
North Beach airport ("New York Municipal Airport" officially) was as handsome a subsidy as any city ever granted to a transport business. For rentals from the new airport New York City will get only $315,000 a year, has no expectation of getting any money return for the king's ransom it paid to bring the airlines across the Hudson from Jersey...
...Angeles, John H. Mills, 70, classed as physically unfit, pleaded with the school board to give him back his job, said, "I'm as sound and healthy as I ever was . . . ," so saying, fell dead...
Miss Gallup admitted it was the first poll she had ever directed. But said with a blush that if represented a cross section of the girls...
Fogg Museum is now presenting an exhibit of eighteenth century Japanese prints by Utagawa Toyakuni, one of the finest craftsmen Japan has ever produced. The prints, which are being shown on the first floor of the museum, are primarily humorous and satirical renditions of the actors who lived during the time of the artist. The subject matter is handled so skillfully that it is not necessary to know anything about the characters who are portrayed; depth and interest are implicit in the technique. In certain of the pieces, for example, especially the few which represent the comedians, the systematic repetition...