Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naivete, First words the first phonograph spoke were...
...himself a Free Thinker. A sardonic writer once pictured Edison at the Gates of Heaven. Said the Scientist to St. Peter: "I gave the world . . . good light, cheap light. Is it my fault they used it to ... make a cheap bazaar out of every street? ... I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music. . . . Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man. ... I gave them the motion picture . . . and millions of minds were . . . trivialized and anesthetized by that endless nicker...
...played with chemicals on a Michigan train, he spilled some burning phosphorus. An irate conductor gave the amateur chemist such a box on both ears that his deafness is partially ascribed to it. Thus he developed an interest in aural matters which eventually led to the telephone, dictograph, phonograph, talking cinema. Hence a slight interest in music: "I think the best music is that which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because no time. In his later years he lived principally on fruit, tapioca...
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That people will listen to advertising talk sandwiched in between music or other entertainment is the theory upon which all radio advertising is based. A variant of this appeared last week when Durium Products Corp., makers of "Hit-of-the-Week" phonograph records, announced that this month they would issue, in the same envelope, a four-in. disc containing music and advertising matter. Name of this new medium is "Durium Junior." For more than two years Durium Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached...