Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black Front broadcast procedure has been for Otto Strasser to make a violent anti-Hitler speech into a phonograph recorder, send the record to Radio Expert Wormys at the little inn. Sitting down before his powerful short-wave transmitter. Wormys would then announce "This is the Berlin Broadcasting Station," next play Otto Strasser's vitriolic attack on Adolf Hitler...
...looks were concerned, the Metropolitan has rarely introduced a singer so beguiling as Helen Jepson who took the part of the Pasha's wife. Born 27 years ago in Titusville, Pa., her first job was fitting corsets in a department store in Akron. Later selling phonograph records gave her a taste for opera which led to a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...
John Lomax arrived in Manhattan last week to lecture on ballads and with him was Lead Belly, wild-eyed as ever. The Negro had been pardoned again because Mr. Lomax had made a phonograph record of a second petition and taken it to Louisiana's Governor Allen. Lead Belly was released from prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held...
...Boston of Lucienne Boyer, the widely known French diseuse, in the Continental Varieties with Vincente Escudero and a large supporting cast. The Continental Varieties have long been successful in Europe, and Mile. Boyer is widely known by her interpretation of d'amour songs. Annually, six hundred thousand of her phonograph records are sold, and George Gershwin, Arthur Hammerstein, and many others have testified to her great artistic ability. The engagement is to open at the Wilbur Theatre on January 10, and is to remain four days...
Next day Australian editors pointed out that Melbourne moppets do not romp in the middle of the night; that at 1 a. m., Australian time, there may be moonbathing but not sunbathing on Bondi Beach. After denouncing the obvious fake (apparently achieved by playing phonograph records in London), Australian papers indicated, characteristically, that they might have been prepared to forgive all had not the description of Bondi the Beautiful, the Pearl of Australia, been so "unspeakably puerile...