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With a roar from its patented lion, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last week stalked into the phonograph-record industry. Nobody was too surprised. But the roar was loud enough to make old-line record companies mighty nervous...
Last week M-G-M deftly solved that by signing up with Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. to use Zenith's ready-made distributing organization. By this stroke M-G-M got entry into the many phonograph shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...
...Special Project. In fact, the Senior Editor in charge decided to write the story himself. The preliminary work involved talks with Miss Anderson, her mother, friends, teachers, impresarios, etc.' But the important work was done, the writer claims, one afternoon when he shut himself up with a phonograph and a heap of records of Negro spirituals and played them over & over...
Said he of phonograph records: "What moves across the counters? Two or three symphonies and concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky and a few familiar favorites which are recorded and rerecorded with increasing splendor. Do you want to buy a serious composition by an American composer? Have you ever tried...
...combine technical knowledge with artistic temperament. One of these latter rare specimens is John Hays Hammond Jr., 58, America's gaudiest inventor and holder of nearly 800 patents. Last week he was tuning his latest gadget: an improved "dynamic amplifier," which coaxes uncannily lifelike music out of phonograph records. It was already licensed to RCA and A.T. & T., this month would be demonstrated to the crowned heads of the phonograph industry...