Word: phonographers
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...training course in the Aliquippa, Pa. plant of Big Steel's little competitor, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Big, broad-shouldered and 24, Blaine Fairless went to Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes by holding a mock Bachelors' Cotillion at which the girls had to carry bouquets of vegetables...
...Mahler's large symphonic works are available for the phonograph, both recorded from concert performances: Das Lied von der Erde and Second ("Resurrection") Symphony...
...they merely express themselves on these matters through a calculated but capricious symbolism. At least one exhibit was animated (see cut). One of the objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled phonograph with an old-fashioned horn from which a manikin's legs protruded at one end, at the other a plaster hand stretched over a revolving disc shaped to suggest the curve of flesh. In the dim light there was an optical illusion of the hand approaching but never quite...
...music. For 400 years eager teachers have bred away their natural song, using organ music to teach them Gluckes and Rolls, using running water to teach them the elegant Deep Bubbling Water Tour. Modern breeders lef young birds learn by listening to older champions. Some trainers have tried phonograph records, but not successfully. The birds learn and include in their song the needle's scratch and crack...
When fans hear Benny Goodman's disciplined but unfettered band play on a phonograph or the radio, they tap their feet. When they listen to him from a dance floor, they shake all over. When they listen to him while sitting in large numbers in an auditorium, they are likely to cut up rough. Last spring when Goodman played Manhattan's Paramount movie theatre, the folks got to running up and down in the aisles and extra police were called out. Something like this took place in the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie's polite plaster shrine last...