Word: phonographers
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...have been translated into light waves to which the film is exposed. Inventor Spoor has a new system that is purely mechanical. The sound waves are made to actuate a cutting instrument which carves the sound on the edge of the film in grooves like the grooves of a phonograph record. When the film is run off on a projection machine the sound is released by a sapphire roller functioning much clearer, much cheaper...
Marion Nevada Talley, Kansas farmerette, onetime soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, went to Manhattan to make a series of phonograph records. Said she: "I never knew just what made me leave the grand opera stage. ... I couldn't say that I'll never go back. . . . You know, it's a woman's privilege...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...Double Check. Although the Moran & Mack badinage lacked continuity, some critics still think that Moran & Mack were much funnier than Amos 'n Andy. Last December Moran broke up the team. He said Mack was paying him only $200 a week with a $50 bonus, and $150 for each phonograph record, though the team was averaging $5,000 a week with their famed lines about the early bird, about olives, about "very close" veins, about Adam & Eve. A Los Angeles court ruled that Mack, as originator and owner of the team, had complete right to adjust Moran's salary...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME will no- the noteworthy...