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Word: phonographers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...befits the No. 1 idol of U. S. youth, Autry does not drink or smoke. He lives with his pretty wife on a ten-acre "ranch" in San Fernando Valley, where he stables "Champion" and his five other less famed horses. Last year sales of Autry's phonograph records equaled those of Bing Crosby's. A manufacturer who set up a line of toy revolvers modeled on the one he carries sold 100,000 in three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Today, Miss Densmore's principal concern is in getting her thousands of Indian recordings transferred to permanent, standard phonograph discs. Of her past adventures and hardships she speaks modestly. Says she: "I have no special philosophy, but nothing downs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoop Collector | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: November Records: November Records | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Died. Alma Gluck (real name: Reba Fiersohn Gluck Zimbalist), 54, famed Rumanian-born soprano, wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, mother of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the early days of the phonograph some singers' voices did not register well in certain ranges, but Mme Gluck's registered perfectly. Her recording of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny sold more than 1,000,000 discs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...bought the screen rights to Peter Pan; learned that Singers Adriana Caselotti and Harry Stockwell, who sang the roles respectively of Snow White and Prince Charming, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, were suing him for $300,000, as their share of the profits from the sale of phonograph records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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