Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First popularized by marshmallow-voiced soloists, recorded on Victor or Columbia disks, the news-songs filter into every part of the U. S. largely through the mail-order houses. "Little Marion Parker" as a phonograph record has been sold to more than 250,000 persons; as sheet music to some...
...reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia Phonograph Co.. donors of the prize money, could not believe that anyone would make a joke for the centennial of Schubert's death, cabled Composer Atterberg and chose to accept a rather dubious denial. Others, less interested, reflected that a really good comedian rarely laughs at his own jokes...
...Wyckoff made his debut in the district, getting a job as messenger for a firm of brokers. Clever lad, apt student, he was in due course a broker on his own, functioning in a number of partnerships, promoting innumerable enterprises, among them the Emerson Phonograph Co. By 1907 when he started to publish the Ticker Magazine he had acquired a reputation for smartness and a considerable fortune...
...even more sunny than ever he-came Wall Street to Wyckoff. A sympathetic understanding blossomed quickly between the onetime phonograph promoter and the would-be prima donna. It might have been music. At any rate it grew and grew, until the then Mrs. Wyckoff thought best to inquire...
...Count Esterházy at Zélesz (Hungary). There the shy, round Schubert used to go to teach young Caroline Esterházy. He left his manuscript one day and Great Granduncle Havasi stole it, left it when he died as his legacy. Last year the Columbia Phonograph Co. offered $1,000 for the Gastein's return, deposited it with the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. Vienna has it now. Judges will pass on its authenticity, divide the prize money between. Bibliophile Vambery and Great Grandnephew of Thief Havasi...