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Canon Fellowes sings the old music to his own lute accompaniment, and uses in his lecture phonograph illustrations from records made by the English Singers. The program of Canon Fellowes' recital has not been announced...
...food. Food for men or food for guns? Perhaps, food for men. What else? The Sheik thought some knives and a lot of other things would be very acceptable. Well, to begin again, how much money? Ah, said the Sheik, there is something more important. We must have a phonograph. That was the only thing about which Sheik Naceur was certain...
Last week, finding that he would not be able to address a convention of the American Institute of Steel Construction next week at Pinehurst, N. C., Herbert Clark Hoover sent out for a microphone and recording apparatus; read into the microphone and onto a phonograph record the speech he had prepared to read at Pinehurst. No Cabinet member or other high U. S. official ever did such a thing before...
...help celebrate the centenary of Franz Schubert's death, the Columbia Phonograph Co. has offered prizes* to the composers who submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece...
...that she decries the phonograph. There is a very definite place for it in her life. She uses it while she is scrubbing that dirty floor we spoke about. She mops to music. Or hums scout songs while she plies the dustcloth...