Word: jukebox
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...York Herald Tribune's M. C. Blackman, making a tour of Manhattan bars, found the patrons restless. In a West 38th Street saloon, Otello was largely drowned out by Buttons and Bows from the jukebox, and finally a customer shouted: "Turn on the fights-I want to see the little guy get murdered." Concluded Reporter Blackman: "Opera is not likely to supplant boxing in midtown bars and grills...
Kids were driving their parents crazy with it. Waitresses in jukebox joints were going frantic. The whole U.S. seemed to be gurgling itself silly with the laughing gassiness of a goofy song called Woody Woodpecker. Out only four weeks, Woody was already tops on Variety's list of the nation's most played jukebox tunes...
...gadget was as flashy as a jukebox, and paid off even better. It was called the "Spectro-Chrome." A 1,000-watt bulb was propped up in the back of it, shining through red, yellow, green, blue and violet panes of glass. The instructions that came with the box reflected sunny assurance: it would "measure and restore radioactive and radio-emitive equilibrium by attuned color waves." It would also cure all diseases that man is heir...
Kabalevsky: The Comedians (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). More of the bright, noisy foolishness that has already made Kabalevsky's fellow Russian Khachaturian a U.S. jukebox favorite. Performance: good...
...Hawthorne, a young Pasadena disc jockey, used to be bored with his job ($85 a week). Sometimes he would sign off with a sneer: "This is KXLA, the 10,000-watt jukebox." But he is bored with his job no longer...