Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle. He imitates Harry Lauder, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor; he sings, with extraordinary results, a philosophic anthem entitled Let It Rain; he surmises that a talkative lady "must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle"; when confronted by a man who professes to have sprung from a long line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from a few docks myself"; when asked if he knows the King's English, he replies that so was the Prince of Wales. There is a Victor Herbert...
Last week, the Victor Talking Machine Co. (TIME, Jan. 12) announced that no more would the famed opera and concert stars under contract to them broadcast on the radio. These free broadcastings had not boosted but had decreased the sales of Victor phonograph records. Last week, therefore, the Company replaced great artists * on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr...
...combination radio set and phonograph has been presented to the Stillman infirmary through the generosity of two graduates of the University who prefer to keep their identity unknown. Records for the phonograph are very much needed, and Mr. W. I. Tibbetts '17 has announced that the Phillips Brooks House will be glad to receive any donations of records and see that they are safely transferred to the Infirmary...
...Died. Francis Barraud, artist; in London. Barraud painted one great picture, His Master's Voice*, famed phonograph advertisement. He intended the picture for the Royal Academy. It was rejected. He sold it to the Victor for ?100. in 1921, the Company awarded him a life annuity...
...United States patents have been granted to American inventors for the telegraph, the telephone, the sewing machine, the vulcanization of rubber, the moving picture, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the typewriter, the automobile, the sleeping car, the electric car, the linotype machine, the vacuum cleaner, the aeroplane and the leading features that make modern radio possible...