Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phonograph recording executive named Ted Collins, believing she had better assets than her figure, put her in radio. Simplicity, Collins decided, would put her over. So her introduction became simply: "Hello everybody, this is Kate Smith"; her farewell: "Thanks for Listenin'." Soon Kate was giving a fine account of herself in CBS's then toughest spot, competing for listeners with NBC's Amos 'n' Andy. She dedicated programs to shut-ins, plugged firemen's benefits, camps for underprivileged, visited cripples, became radio's No. 1 Benefit Girl. To "expand her prestige...
...long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again. Nine years ago Director Hanson held a Festival of American Music at which he conducted a bushel or so of new U. S. music. The festival was so successful that it was repeated every...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...this phonograph records shattered over heads, beer cans galore, a bottle of potent Yukon "Cutchaw," and you have, as "The Puritan's Progress" had, material for any number of Harvard House plays. It is profane, original, and as modern as the Daily Record, in whose columns it might well run as a serial story. Which is just about what a good House play ought...
ATLANTA, Ga., April 17--Despite goldfish swallowing and phonograph-record eating activities, the college student of today is more serious than the undergraduate of pre-war days, President Conant observed today...