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...good subject for one of his own songs-a black rascal raised in a waifs' home, whose first real job was playing on a Mississippi steamboat; a headliner unimpressed by contracts, with a jail sentence in his past for using drugs. Okeh, a subsidiary of Columbia Phonograph Co., knows all this. So does Victor Talking Machine but just the same they were fighting last week over Louis Armstrong. The courts in California were going to have to decide whether he was bound to go on making Okeh records for another year or whether he could sign up with Victor...
...Muggles* to make his own performance hot but who realizes perfectly the need for tireless rehearsing. Louis Armstrong may have developed a fancy man's taste for clothes, travel with 20 trunks full of them. But no black man works harder than he does. In Depression not many phonograph artists are worth fighting over but Victor and Okeh are both aware that more than 100,000 Louis Armstrong records sold during the past year, that he is one of the few orchestra leaders whom radio has not overpopularized. Radio, as a matter of fact, is a little wary...
...picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods are satirically interlined. The second convict, Emile (Henri Marchand), free at last, a wistful champion of the bill of rights, is jailed again for singing to flowers. Again he escapes, chases a pretty...
Theodore Miller Edison, youngest son of the late great inventor, was granted his first patent, on a device to eliminate vibration from any kind of machinery, from a phonograph to a truck...
Stomach Tablets, Shoe-Blacking. Any Frenchman can be a candidate, may nominate himself if necessary. Busy candidates have campaigned by phonograph, hiring henchmen to play their speeches on street corners. As usual in Paris at election time, boxlike billboards surrounded many a tree trunk last week, for the State must supply to each candidate free billboard space. If the candidate, instead of advertising himself, used his space to advertise stomach tablets, shoe-blacking or mineral water, that used to be the candidate's own business-but no longer. Last week the threat of a 10.000-franc fine ($400) kept...