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PAUL ROBESON, NEGRO-Eslanda Goode Robeson-Harper ($2.50). Many a U. S. citizen, white and colored, has heard Paul Bustill Robeson, in the flesh or on a phonograph record, sing "Ol' Man River," "Water Boy" and many another movingly mournful song of his race. Those who have seen him know he is young (32), tall, powerful, coal-black, has a modest, engaging stage presence. Singer Robeson is married. His wife, much smaller, much less dark than he, sings for an audience too, but only sings her husband's praises. Paul Robeson, Negro is partly biography, partly propaganda...
Gramophone-Graphophone. Gramophone Co., Ltd., is the British affiliate of Radio Corp. Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd., is an English graphophone company with a U. S. subsidiary, Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc. Last week it was reported that Columbia Graphophone, Ltd. would rid itself of Columbia Phonograph Co., probably by sale to some cinema company, to be able to merge with Gramophone. Negotiations for a Gramophone-Graphophone merger were begun in 1929, reputedly under the direction of Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, but Radio Corp.'s ownership of Victor Talking Ma-chine make it desirable for the English Columbia Graphophone...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME will note the noteworthy...
Less experienced is Frau Dyhrenfurth. whose good looks are only excelled by her tennis. In charge of supplies, she has in her train caviar, Swedish bread, 500 bottles of Munich beer, champagne, whiskey, brandy, a phonograph, 50,000 feet of motion picture film, three cameras, a dark room tent, a typewriter, face cream, a ton of Swiss chocolate...
Woolen robed lamas in a Buddhist monastery, high up in the treacherous denies of the Himalayas, turned their prayer wheels, eyed their pudgy Buddha nervously to see what the god might think of ''Sumy Side Up," Hollywood foxtrot, which a small phonograph was grinding out. Noting no sign of displeasure, the senior priest despatched his wife for a jug of home brewed marwa, thus repaid a strange "professor" from Germany for a new musical experience...