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...funniest sequence in Private Lives was the rough-and-tumble finale of Act II in which Mr. Coward and Miss Lawrence scrambled on the floor after she had cracked a phonograph record over his head. Even this delicious bit of business had its roots in earlier Coward work. The Rat Trap (unproduced) not only ended its second act in similar vein but its third as well. Perhaps it all goes back further than that, for when he was a child Playwright Coward once bashed a little girl on the head with a spade because she would not take seriously...
Shrewd, the Herr Doktor has written not about zoos but about East Africa (the once German colony which the Fatherland hopes to regain), has sandwiched into his Christmas book phonograph records full of the beat of East African drums, the jabber of natives, the roars, yelps and grunts of East African beasts...
...collection of over 800 phonograph, recordings has been acquired by Lowell House, through the gift of an anonymous donor...
...Junior Common room. Recordings correspond to a list compiled by the Carnegie Foundation as an ideal representative group for use in colleges. Half the records have already arrived while the others, many of which are being sent from Europe, will be here soon. In connection with the phonograph records, Lowell House has also received a set of over 150 miniature scores, which may be read while listening to the records, as well as 200 volumes of piano scores. The donor has also presented the House with a set of books dealing with music...
...fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud speaker. Magnified, they sound like barks. Professor Adrian understands the noises. A slow, long continued series of barks, for example, may indicate the pain of a burn or ulcer...