Word: phonographers
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...establishment in Leverett House of a "library" of phonograph records is an excellent idea. The only real way to learn music and to appreciate it is to hear it, and there are many students who would like to become more familiar with it. Others get a particular enjoyment out of listening to music. These men might feel that they could afford the time and the money to go to the symphony or to various recitals perhaps once a week. Few could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with...
...have children soloists but Yehudi has been invited to play with the orchestras in all the great capitals. In Berlin when he was 12 he played in one evening the concertos of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. In the Beethoven he played the Kreisler cadenza which he had learned from a phonograph record. (Most violinists play the Joachim cadenza. Beethoven's own, unworthy of him, was never published.) When he had finished the crowd stood cheering for 20 minutes. After the performance Albert Einstein rushed up to him with tears in his eyes. At the great Augusteo Theatre in Rome this...
There is an excellent "Silly Symphony", which takes as its musical background an old-time hit of program-music called "A Hunt in the Black Forest". Its companion-piece on old phonograph records, "In a Clock Store", is the basis for the cartoon now playing at the Fine Arts...
With little time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...
...trouble is both in & out of the office. Once it lost a $4,000,000 patent infringement suit to Magnavox Co., and last year William Carl Grunow was ousted from the presidency by his partner Bertram James Grigsby. Last week unGrunowed Grigsby-Grunow, undaunted, planned to expand, acquire Columbia Phonograph Co. by an exchange of stock. Columbia owns the U. S. properties of Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. which was merged with Gramophone Co. Ltd. in April to form Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. Columbia's properties, which will pass to Grigsby-Grunow, include U. S. factories where are made Columbia phonographs...