Word: phonographers
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Private Lives will please educated audiences, tantalize others. Good shot: Miss Shearer smashing a phonograph record over Mr. Montgomery...
Hundreds of people were turned away from the Powers trial at Clarksburg, although the authorities took care of as many spectators as they could by holding it in Moore's Opera House. Outside were sold phonograph records, sheet music composed about the Quiet Dell tragedy, a pamphlet called The Love Secrets of West Virginia's Bluebeard. Led into the Opera House every day on a chain like a little bear, Mr. Powers sat on the stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...
...well as the U. S. knows John McCormack. The two have much in common: they are both good showmen, both fat men with infectious smiles. Both started in opera, went in later for lieder. Both frankly cater to the people's taste to their own tremendous profit. Their phonograph records are bestsellers. They are not above making sound films or capitalizing on the theme songs...
...have come prepared to spend as before. There has been only a minor decrease in the average standard of living. The storekeepers of Harvard Square are not facing the bleak winter of their colleagues in Boston. For example, one of the music stores reports that its sales of expensive phonograph records is nearly as great as ever, the radio notwithstanding. Men may buy more circumspectly, but still they...