Word: phonographers
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...went to Denver, last week, for the 23rd annual convention of the International Advertising Association. A British delegation, led by President Lome C. Robson of Newcastle-upon-Thyne Advertising Club, appeared dressed as dervishes and dizzy from whirling in the train baggage-car to the noise of a portable phonograph...
...make "his master's voice" the voice of the masters. Of all the factors that have made the U. S. suspicious, as a nation, of any music less candid than jazz and coon songs, no factor is more important than the brevity of pieces played on the phonograph. There came a time when the whole difference between "I-know-what-I-like" and "highbrow" music was measured in inches. A ten-inch record was the familiar thing. A twelve-inch record signified something long and probably boring-"Chocolate Soldier Medley," perhaps, or "Selections from La Traviata." The music...
...South America, threaded the West Indies, Commander Francesco De Pinedo, swart Fascist ace, last week swooped into New Orleans with his two aides in their big seaplane. He had just shaved freshly out over the Gulf of Mexico, finished off his ship's last bottle of Chianti, played his phonograph. Voluble gentlemen, one of them enormously corpulent (Mayor O'Keefe), welcomed him to the U. S. Soon he was hopping again, to Galveston, to San Antonio. His four-continent itinerary called for flight across the desert southwest to the Pacific, north to Seattle, back (following lakes) to Chicago, New York...
...Significant of Papal willingness to cooperate in the furtherance of human rectitude, was the drawing up and presentation to the Italian Chamber, last week, by a Roman Catholic Deputy of a new law vigorously suppressing pornography and salaciousness of every sort, on the stage, on the cinema, newspapers, books, phonograph records, paintings, sculpture, advertisements...
...such a play, the song's the thing, and the Vagabond King offers Several of more than average merit. "Only a Rose" and "The Song of the Vagabonds" are especially good so good, in fact, that the parsimonious reviewer parted with 75 cents for a phonograph record of the romance and adventure of the Middle Ages. And so swarshbuckling did he become that he drove the unappreciative janitor from his rooms with a snarl of "Dog, knave, back to your kennil" two hours after the play was over...