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Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed...
...beginning of the Pleistocene. One figure given for their ages is 500,000 years; another is 1,000,000 years. Two conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens appeared, and 2) that the common ancestor was a giant, arboreal ape related to the well-known fossil ape genus called Dryopithecus...
Born, To Marigold Rosemary Joyce, Countess of Londesborough, 34, and the late Hugo William Cecil Deniscm, Earl of Londesborough who died last April of pneumonia; a daughter; in London. The posthumous child will inherit the Earl's $5,000,000 but not his title, which became extinct for lack of male issue...
...those who feel that the continued rise of advertising photography will eventually blot out the commercial painter Fraprie had this to say: "A famous English artist way back in 1842, when the daguerreotype had just been invented, solemnly declared that in five years painters would be extinct. Well...
Loud-shirted John Jay Price, long chief cameraman for the extinct New York World, since 1927 operator of his own news picture service in Manhattan, is now rated by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard as "one of the country's outstanding news photog-raphers." Two years ago, however, Jack Price angered clannish press photographers by writing in Editor & Publisher: "Photography is no longer the specialized profession, requiring many years to master. Any reporter can make a really good picture within a short time if he will give a little care and attention to a camera...