Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief virtue which is helping Helen Jepson to climb fast in opera. She was born 29 years ago in Titusville, Pa., where her father kept a candy and hardware store combined. Her first job was as a corset-fitter in an Akron department store. Then by selling phonograph records she became converted to opera, won a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...
...terms of pure theory he set down accurately at great length what ought to be done to make motion pictures. In the early 1890"s the supremely practical tinkering of Edison produced a peep-show device into which one spectator could look at pictures which moved while an Edison phonograph talked. The Brothers Lumière produced at about the same time pictures thrown on a screen. The Lumière camera which took them could be carried in one hand. The Edison camera of similar date was portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumi...
Camp Wood, for white girls, has a big recreation & dining room, electrically-lighted cabins, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, riding horses, a lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...
...important summer cruises. This aggregation of talented players achieved the national prominence it now holds four years age when it was selected to play on the Lucky Strike program over a coast-to-coast N. B. C. network. Of late this Dartmouth institution has been recording for a leading phonograph company...
...German prestige, for Adolf Hitler had resolved that the 1932 Memel election record in which about 80% of the votes went to German candidates must be bettered. In his recent Nazi Convention speech at Nurnberg the Realmleader loudly electioneered for German candidates in Memel (TIME Sept 23). Last week phonograph records of this speech were broadcast by German stations in such fashion that most Memel voters thought Orator Hitler was exhorting them in person. Up & down the Territory Nazi agents whisper-campaigned, "Hitler is coming! Heads will roll. Vote German! You don't want your house burned down...