Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...help celebrate the centenary of Franz Schubert's death, the Columbia Phonograph Co. has offered prizes* to the composers who submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece...
...Another splendid lesson that comes to her with scouting is the ability to play. She is not one of the girls who goes motoring in the country with the family on Sunday, helps scatter papers and tin cans around, sets the phonograph going and assails the surrounding haunts of Nature with its clamor. She knows how futile canned music can be when one may listen to a lark...
...that she decries the phonograph. There is a very definite place for it in her life. She uses it while she is scrubbing that dirty floor we spoke about. She mops to music. Or hums scout songs while she plies the dustcloth...
...young perfecter of television, announced that he had arranged with British postal authorities to attempt transmission of visual impressions across the Atlantic on the Government radio system. He added that he and the Columbia Graphophone Co. had succeeded in translating the electrical impulses or television into impressions on a phonograph record, whence they can be retranslated, making sights as well as sounds issue from the most modern version of a "music...
...snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. The second voice was that of Thomas Alva Edison. The first was really that of one Thomas Chalmers onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company, but Mr. Edison and his friends pretended that it actually belonged to the phonograph...