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Charles Gates Dawes, violinist, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, once in his spare time wrote a simple Melody in A Major which is heard in the U. S. chiefly on a phonograph record by Violinist Fritz Kreisler. Ambassador Dawes is today a London vogue. So, reported Publishers Boosey & Co., is his Melody in A Major. Orchestras play it in leading restaurants. Sheet-music sales are great. His Master's Voice and the Columbia companies will soon issue new recordings. Fortnight ago William F. Kenny, rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...handsome.* In his Manhattan office he sits at a drawing board on a raised dais, gazes regally down on callers. He is a connoisseur of dress, food, coffee. At his home in Danbury, Conn. he makes his own electricity, tinkers with household machinery, plays Bach and Mozart on the phonograph. He also tells innumerable stories in dialect, including the Finnish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cleland's Book | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Inventor Edison. He was unusually nervous as in clear, precisely accurate words, he welcomed the boys and explained there was "no suitable yardstick which can positively determine the relative value of one human being as compared to another." Then as a surprise each boy was given a combination radio-phonograph, said to be valued at $400. When the speeches were over they filed up to the platform, spoke their names into a microphone, shook hands with all of the Committee except Col. Lindbergh who stood back and nodded politely. When Candidate Reid went up there was loud applause from proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...seen and heard in a Radio talkie. He can make Radio-Victor records of the featured songs. He can broadcast them over National Broadcasting Co.'s chain of 53 stations (N. B. C. is 50% owned by Radio Corp.). He can appear at RKO theatres. Cinema, radio, phonograph, vaudeville-Radio Corp. is very much in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...mouse-trap maker is waiting for customers and his energetic competitor is out on the main road, a third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio, he says: "The pre-radio phonograph is absolutely dead. . . . The modern phonograph industry is alive and flourishing. . . . They [the phonograph makers] did not try to sell mousetraps when mousetraps were out of date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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