Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jeanne Eagels how she fired the shot that saved her virtue. None has begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the minds of the audience, which has seen her a minute before, transformed with fury, committing the actual murder. Rather an effective contralto phonograph record than a moving picture, the film follows the construction of Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white people in Singapore. Best shot: A battle between a mongoose and a cobra. (Originally released by Ufa as a short feature this...
...University would give great pleasure and the means of further study to Harvard students if he established a fund for the purchase of the symphonic and chamber music pieces which are now being so excellently recorded. A room in Paine Hall might then be equipped with a phonograph, to which harassed students might repair to listen to the works of the masters. Sincerely yours, Leo T. Hurwitz...
...open to one another and decked with furniture suited to the occasion, in place of the more ordinary pieces, temporarily abandoned. In each room sat the mother of one of the five, behind her a white-covered, sandwich-laden table. The floor of one room was bared, while a phonograph tempted the gay company to dance...
Though meagre and defective, "Conductor Abie's" victory may serve as an opening wedge. Even more significant as a sign of growing British jazz consciousness was the installation, last week, of "phonograph kiosks" in the waiting rooms of several London and provincial railway stations...
Wellesley and Harvard reveal a wide diversity of tastes in phonograph records, according to N. A. Bell of the Music Box, which has stores in both college communities. Comparatively few classical recordings are taken at Wellesley, while the smoother dance numbers are in perpetual demand...