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John, Baron Cadman of Silverdale is a traveled, reserved, clean-shaven Staffordshire native, 61 years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named...
Many a small church has to put up with the cacophony of an unskilled choir. From England last week came news of how Rev. V. B. Yearsley, vicar of Benenden in Kent, rigged up a phonograph with a volume control under his lectern, obtained a number of records of pieces which he instructed his unskilled choir to sing. Vicar Yearsley reported: "When my choir sings badly, I drown them by turning up the volume of a gramophone record-perhaps of Westminster Choir...
...British music halls. So while King George receives only some $550,000 per year, chiefly for being dignified, Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar. Four years ago, when the Manchester Guardian announced that the 4,000,000th Gracie Fields phonograph record had just been pressed, it definitively opined, "The only singer who may have exceeded Gracie Fields' number was Caruso, but in his time figures were not carefully kept...
...Ballard and Son Donald sell their followers pins, I AM rings ($12), phonograph records of the discourses of the Accredited Messengers (also harp solos by Mrs. Ballard), and pictures in all sizes of St. Germain, of Jesus Christ...
Selections were made by Frederick M. Watkins '30, instructor in Government, and Arthur W. Hepner '38 and submitted to music concentrators and other students in the House for approval. The gift included a phonograph...