Word: lear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First automobile radio on record was built in 1922 by one William Lear of Quincy, Ill., who sold it to a doctor from Kahoka, Mo. The doctor drove all the way to Los Angeles and back without tuning in anything, later found that the power plug had been put in backwards. First regular factory production did not come until 1927, long after cabinet sets had squealed their way permanently into the U. S. Home. Through 1927 a modest score per day were built by a little concern now a subsidiary of Philco Radio & Television Corp., biggest U. S. radio makers...
...scenery for Lysistrata and King Lear amply testify, Norman Bel Geddes is no stranger in the realm of artistic imagination. In Dead End, "an experiment in technique, a step toward increased realism in writing and production." Designer Geddes has given the U. S. Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats...
...Lear homing compass, she reached Washington in half the time it took Colonel Lindbergh to fly the same distance...
...through the night they wander, Lear and his fool. Growing and crackling of thunder shakes the earth, and lightening glares...
This morning at ten will find the Vagabond in Harvard 5 to hear Professor Kittredge finish the second act of "Lear...