Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tune, which orchestras will play all spring, and phonograph records will spill into long summer evenings, and which, in the autumn, the hand-organs will trundle through the streets to burial merits no description. And the words?like the words of "All Alone", like the words of "Remember", like the words of all Mr. Berlin's songs except, possibly "I'm a K. P."?are exactly the words one would expect a waiter in Nigger Mike's Cafe to write, in a trickly moment, on a beer-stained menu, behind the nickelodeon...
From all his activities Dr. Kellogg has perhaps earned more money than his wealthy brother. He gets $1,500 yearly for devising the "daily dozen" phonograph records; the money educates two girls. The royalties of his 20 books, from his many surgical inventions, the fees from some 15,000 surgical operations and 277,000 patients in the sanitarium, all his income except a bare living have gone to support his lifelong doctrine of "not doctoring, not surgery, but education." He supports the Race Betterment Foundation, of which he is founder and president; the Battle Creek College which he created...
Best of everything was Mr. Gershwin's music. Three songs, "Looking for a Boy," "These Charming People" and particularly "Sweet and Low Down," will rattle in your ears from every phonograph and loudspeaker for many months...
...Gold Coast Orchestra has just received a shipment of records made by the Columbia Phonograph Company. These records, the first to be made by a University orchestra, are not to be placed on public sale. They are available from individual members of the orchestra only. A syncopated version of Rubenstein's "Kammenoi-Ostrow" is on one side, and the popular "My Sweetie Turned Me Down" is on the other. The latter piece was arranged for the orchestra by John W. Greene...
...Paraclete in his time plays many parts. Like the famous Italian lightning change actor. Fregolu whose name he takes, he can shift at will from Gypsy Fortune-Teller to American Theatrical-Manager, from the brazen trigamist to the tender agent of phonograph records, from Capuchin Monk to Harlequin himself in the latest of his thousand and one Harlequinades. Such sudden shifts will offer a splendid opportunity for the versatile acting of Eduardo Sanchez '26, the President of the Harvard Dramatic Club...