Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the finest features of the Houses are the splendid collections of phonograph records, scores, and piano music that have grown up in their libraries. These collections are complete enough to satisfy any taste, and are generally accompanied by music rooms with pianos and victrolas so that any resident may hear whatever music he likes. The students have not been slow to take advantage of these opportunities; in Lowell House alone, Brahms' First Symphony and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" were each played fifty times in a few months, even more than the bells...
...song as simple and unadorned as any piece of folk music set U. S. commercial records last week. Billy Hill's "Last Round-Up'' was played 24 times over major radio networks. It led the phonograph-record sales for Victor, Columbia and Brunswick. A sheet-music estimate was taken: in six weeks 200,000 copies had been sold, better than any song since 1929. And all this had happened not because of a publisher's plugging. The publishers of "The Last Round-Up" knowing now that they have a big song, have prayed that it will...
...like a traditional baby. Twin Jimmy cannot skate, refuses to climb down from any stand even two feet high. When in any predicament, he shows his sense of insecurity by turning to older people for help. Next step in Dr. Tilney's study of learning processes is to phonograph every sound a child makes from birth until it begins to talk coherently. That speech study waits on some interested philanthropist providing a few thousand dollars. A merry account of doughty Johnny and timid Jimmy Dr. McGraw took to Chicago last week for the 41st convention of the American Psychological...
...Chatham Press. Drawings by Scott Wilson. Price $3.50 with a phonograph record on which Mr. Fiske plays the piano and recites the adventures of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon...
...Berlin, when Conductor Otto Klemperer was pommeled by a band of Nazi youths and Soprano Frida Leider had her Bayreuth invitation recalled, Toscanini joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their phonograph records and radio broadcasts banned from Germany. And able Otto Klemperer was ousted from the Berlin State Opera where he had a contract until...