Word: phonographers
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...Frau Jack and husband arrived in New York, for her first visit to the U. S., the first trip she had ever made outside Germany and Austria. To a circle of beaming, embarrassed reporters she showed her paintings, posed for photographs, and played her English lessons-a set of phonograph records from which a very cultivated British voice slowly enunciated: "The grandfather is sitting in an easy chair. The grandmother is also sitting in an easy chair." etc. Very much in the background was childlike Frau Jack's quiet husband. An active stage designer, he carried in his pocket...
Howard Thurston: Phonograph record of Old Man River...
...first place, the sound mechanism sounds like a five year old phonograph record played with a needle of the same vintage. The comedy, what there is of it, is so typically Sahvian in his worst moments that it is excusable only as a commentary on Mr. Shaw. Of these the world has already seen more than enough. In other words, the picture is just another expression of Shaw the showman rather than the dramatist...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the note-worthy...
...radio, the phonograph and the better movie houses seem to be achieving the popular education in music that they set as one of their chief goals. At a local movie house the other night there was a waiting line, and as several hundred people stood about, somebody started to whistle. He rendered the "Arlesienne" Suite of Bizet, correct as to all its tricky intricacies. Somebody responded with the third movement of the Beethoven Fifth. Presently there was a lusty twittering all through the lobby: one heard the Tschaikowsky Sixth, the "Meistersinger" Prelude, the Brahms Third, the Ravel Bolero, the Gershwin...