Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always frail and nervous, Ethelbert Nevin took to drink, died of apoplexy in New Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...
...Queen Victoria's only remarks to a phonograph were discovered on a squeaky old Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...
...Music Merchants blithely buried the Jazz Age, declaring that "dreamy, tuneful melodies" are now the thing. President Robert A. Schmitt of the Sheet Music Dealers said: "People are singing again in family music groups. They have kicked out the 'Hotcha man.' They are playing the piano instead of the phonograph...
...knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...
...biggest thing in Martin Kosleck's life was, up to last month, the time he acted in a play in Berlin with Marlene Dietrich. Some time after Miss Dietrich learned English and migrated to Hollywood, emotional young Kosleck also taught himself English (on a phonograph) and went to Hollywood. As an actor, the young German was ignored by the cinema industry. The best he could do was to get a part in The Brothers Karamazov at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. To while the time away, Kosleck taught himself to paint, did some background pictures for a Janet Gaynor film. Last...