Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Spiritual Church of New York went Magician Howard Thurston. Magician Thurston had been quoted as saying that he could do anything with a watch-size instrument that mediums say they have done with supernatural power. One Arthur A. Ford was to contest the point in debate. Police had been called to prevent violent outbreaks...
...feel a certain regret that the score specially composed for the presentation of the picture in New York and Boston and played by a full orchestra cannot be adequately reproduced on the University Theatre organ, but at that the instrument in question does very well indeed. Long artistic prologues and involved orchestral movements do not always make a motion picture,--in fact they have been known to break them...
...what he has done and said before. John Irwin, as the son ignorant of the ways of the world, much more so of the ways of carnival dancers manages to be unsophisticated without being simple. Eleanor Williams, as the girl Nifty cast off, and Rhea Marting as the instrument she employs for her revenge on the son, set each other off splendidly...
...violophone will soon rival the saxaphone in popularity," said Paul Whiteman in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon in his dressing room at the Metropolitan Theatre. "It is the most sensational instrument that has been invented in many years. I ran across one last summer while I was touring in Germany, and it immediately impressed me as being a remarkable find. Briefly in consists of a violin with a horn-like arrangement on it to improve the tone...
...with the usual bow, but its qualities in both lyrical tone and resonance are far better adapted to jazz than those of the violin. I have ordered six which ought to be here in a few days, and I have no doubt that in a year or so this instrument will be an essential part of every jazz orchestra in the country...