Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book is entitled, "Lamentations." The chief lament is the talking picture. Like many of the modern critics of the legitimate stage, Mr. Nathan chooses to turn up his nose and snort rather than pay any attention to the potentialities peculiar to the screen. He writes, "What the phonograph is to the opera, the lithograph to painting, the plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection he has to the passion flowers of Hollywood is that he prophesied a dozen...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...Frau Jack and husband arrived in New York, for her first visit to the U. S., the first trip she had ever made outside Germany and Austria. To a circle of beaming, embarrassed reporters she showed her paintings, posed for photographs, and played her English lessons-a set of phonograph records from which a very cultivated British voice slowly enunciated: "The grandfather is sitting in an easy chair. The grandmother is also sitting in an easy chair." etc. Very much in the background was childlike Frau Jack's quiet husband. An active stage designer, he carried in his pocket...
Howard Thurston: Phonograph record of Old Man River...
...first place, the sound mechanism sounds like a five year old phonograph record played with a needle of the same vintage. The comedy, what there is of it, is so typically Sahvian in his worst moments that it is excusable only as a commentary on Mr. Shaw. Of these the world has already seen more than enough. In other words, the picture is just another expression of Shaw the showman rather than the dramatist...