Word: phonographers
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...Music Merchants blithely buried the Jazz Age, declaring that "dreamy, tuneful melodies" are now the thing. President Robert A. Schmitt of the Sheet Music Dealers said: "People are singing again in family music groups. They have kicked out the 'Hotcha man.' They are playing the piano instead of the phonograph...
...knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...
...biggest thing in Martin Kosleck's life was, up to last month, the time he acted in a play in Berlin with Marlene Dietrich. Some time after Miss Dietrich learned English and migrated to Hollywood, emotional young Kosleck also taught himself English (on a phonograph) and went to Hollywood. As an actor, the young German was ignored by the cinema industry. The best he could do was to get a part in The Brothers Karamazov at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. To while the time away, Kosleck taught himself to paint, did some background pictures for a Janet Gaynor film. Last...
...scene of three major kidnappings, and last year Attorney General Cummings singled it out as the "nation's poison spot of crime." Belatedly last week this hooligans' happy hunting ground was presented with a chance to clean house. The chance came in the form of 385 phonograph records...
...Chicago's School of Police Administration. Together Messrs, Warren, Kahn and Jamie plotted a secret investigation of the St. Paul police department. In a secluded room at police headquarters an elaborate wiretapping apparatus was set up. Every telephone call in & out of headquarters was recorded on a phonograph, which last week yielded an impressive symphony of corruption...