Word: ghilini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventor is Hollywood's versatile Ulrich L. ("Doc") Di Ghilini, professional magician, exposer of spiritualistic fakes and amateur art collector (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). After five years of experiments, in his garage and (after the neighbors complained) in a Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...
...Ghilini has yet to prove that his records can compete in tone quality with the best recordings on wax. But he thinks that, as a home recorder or as a commercial dictograph, his machine will have no trouble competing with the wire recorder and tape recorder...
...throne his, Dr. Di Ghilini set out to prove what he had suspected from Latin and Spanish inscriptions on it: that it had belonged to Spain's great Queen Isabella. For years an international art dealer, Benjamin Benguiat, had owned the throne, refused to sell it even for $25,000. But when Benguiat went bankrupt, Dealer Dan Feldman purchased the throne in a lot, priced it at $3,000. Eventually believing it was a jinx, he sold it to Dealer Osiel in another...
When Dr. Di Ghilini learned all this, he resolved to have some fun with Mr. Osiel. The magician persuaded yet another dealer to tell Dealer Osiel that he had a buyer for the throne at $5,000. According to Magician Di Ghilini, Dealer Osiel hotfooted over, offered to buy the throne back from him for $1,000. Dr. Di Ghilini thereupon pretended to go into a trance, told Mr. Osiel of the $5,000 deal. Excited Mr. Osiel rushed to the district attorney, declared that Dr. Di Ghilini had read his mind, hypnotized...
...court went Partners Osiel and Spencer, demanding 1) return of the throne on the ground that Dr. Di Ghilini had not delivered all the pictures he promised; 2) an injunction restraining Dr. Di Ghilini from selling the throne until the case is settled. Last week Osiel and Spencer petitioned the Hollywood court to strike from Dr. Di Ghilini's answer to their charges certain "irrelevancies," notably his reference to the fake trance. Said Mr. Spencer, now convinced the throne was indeed Isabella's, "Like Great Britain, we'll win the last battle." Unconcerned, Dr. Di Ghilini last...