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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theremin, admittedly an uncannily clever invention, Olin Downes wrote in the New York Times: ''We do not like to think of a populace at the mercy of this fearfully magnified and potent tone that Professor Theremin has brought into the world. The radio machines are bad enough, but what will happen to the auditory nerves in a land where super-Theremin machines can hurl a jazz ditty through the atmosphere with such horribly magnified sonorities that they could deaden the sound of an automobile exhaust from 20 miles away...
...boxlike, ether-wave instrument invented and played upon (motion of the hands before the instrument affects the ether waves, regulates pitch, tone, volume) by Russian Leon Theremin (TIME, Sept. 30). His recent sale of his patent to the Radio Corp. of America accounts for the new joint name given the instrument...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company found itself last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked...
...eyes of ten million cinemagoers in 10,000 theatres. Last week Newsreeler Laemmle enlisted more aid. To replace the explanatory captions in his newsreels he contracted to have the explanations spoken by a voice already familiar to his customers, the radio baritone of Graham McNamee, broadcaster extraordinary. A new title was invented for the occasion: Talking Reporter...
...new title of Talking Reporter did not mean that Graham McNamee was going to shoulder a new assortment of emotional loads. He will not be present when the newsreels are taken. The 51 newspapers† film local news, send it to Universal Newsreel's Manhattan laboratory. There Talking Reporter McNamee will view it. As he watches he will make remarks, which will be recorded on discs synchronized with the film. National Broadcasting Co. will not lose its No. 1 event-describer. McNamee's hour-a-day with Universal Newsreel will be sandwiched in among his regular announcing engagements...