Word: phonographers
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Final fusillade in last week's radio lampooning came from Father Coughlin who took 45 min. on the air to call General Johnson a "flush Bourbon," a "cracked phonograph record," a "political corpse," a "prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province...
...practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel on his phonograph...
...surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic trophies. The still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph record royalties made her rich. And she is content to be a New York hostess and devoted wife to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
Black Front broadcast procedure has been for Otto Strasser to make a violent anti-Hitler speech into a phonograph recorder, send the record to Radio Expert Wormys at the little inn. Sitting down before his powerful short-wave transmitter. Wormys would then announce "This is the Berlin Broadcasting Station," next play Otto Strasser's vitriolic attack on Adolf Hitler...
...looks were concerned, the Metropolitan has rarely introduced a singer so beguiling as Helen Jepson who took the part of the Pasha's wife. Born 27 years ago in Titusville, Pa., her first job was fitting corsets in a department store in Akron. Later selling phonograph records gave her a taste for opera which led to a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...