Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easy Street. In Richmond, Va., where he was visiting a son-in-law, David Graves George was planning at last to buy a tobacco farm. For eight years the withered old hillbilly had tried to establish himself as the author of "The Wreck of the Old 97," collect phonograph royalties from Victor Talking Machine Co. on that railroad ballad. Last week his case reached the nine black-robed judges of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...addition, he gets, without hindrance from the board, all the money he can from radio broadcasting, which one year was $70,000. Then there is the matter of royalties from phonograph records. The year he got $110,000 from the board, and $70,000 from radio, he also got $60,000 from record royalties, or a total...
...give the violin recitals which made his name great and his family independent, his mother vowed that there would be no more prodigies in the family, that her daughters Hephzibah and Yaltah would remain at home with her. Last year Hephzibah, who at 15 is an expert pianist, made phonograph records with Yehudi of Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42) which took the prize for being the best made in France in 1933. Hephzibah's playing for the records was so skillfully mature that people began to doubt whether she had really been at the piano...
...phonograph records, especially made by the Nashdom Abbey Singers, will be used to illustrate the lectures. Mr. Hughes will discuss the importance of the period from 1440 to 1460 in English musical history, including the character of the music, instrumental problems, syncopation, and the composers...
Music written by King Henry VI will be covered, with phonograph illustrations, both vocal and instruments...