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Professor Packard evidently does not consider a student's oath of as much consequence as a teacher's, and has refused to preserve one on his famous records...
...voice is seldom raised, his temper never lost." Thus TIME word-pictured Packard's Macauley (TIME, Nov. 4). During the summer of 1917 I bell-boyed on the S.S. Noronic which the Packard Motor Co. chartered for a three-day convention cruise. At the end of the cruise and just before unloading passengers at Detroit I stalked Mr. Macauley's Parlor A for his luggage-allowing many "sure things" to pass by in order to capture the big game. I got my man and many cumbersome pieces of luggage which I maneuvered to his waiting Twin-Six. Then...
Actual voice records of Edwin F. Booth, the foremost American actor of the last century and said to be the greatest Hamlet of all time, have been salvaged for posterity largely through the work of Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
George Middleton, author of "The Unknown Lady," first informed Mr. Packard of the existence of a collection of voice records of actors of the last century. The trail finally led to the Players' Club, a society of actors in New York, where Booth had delivered the speeches for recording in April...
Through this organization Mr. Packard was able to contact Edwin Booth Grossman, grandson of the actor. Mr. Grossman had two wax cylinder records, one of Othello's speech to the Venetian senators concerning the wooing of Desdemona, and the other of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be." Both records take exactly four and a half minutes to play. They were, however, very faint and obscured by much extra noise to such an extent that Mr. Grossman, despaired of ever having them transferred to modern phonograph discs...