Word: phonographers
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...Manhattan last week, prepared to purify their business. They organized the National Association of Orchestra Leaders and named Julian T. Abeles arbiter of jazz at a salary of $25,000 a year. It will be his duty to stop the cut-throat competition among orchestras for famed musicians, phonograph contracts, bookings. Said Mr. Abeles: "There is not going to be any more poaching or tampering with saxophonists and other artists. In adopting this policy we are following the example of baseball and the motion pictures...
...been consumed, bedclothes that have been kicked into contortions-do not litter a rose garden. One dozen men were in this attic room; they had lived there for three weeks; they needed haircuts. One night last week, eleven of them were trying to sleep; the other one played a phonograph malignantly, said he would never let them go to sleep unless they came to a decision...
...blame Fall very much for that. He would have had a yellow streak a foot wide if he hadn't tried to protect his old friend after all Doheny had done for him." Then the jurors paused for dinner, sang "Bye, Bye, Blackbird," argued, turned on the phonograph, argued, slept, argued. . . . At 9:30 a.m., another ballot was taken. The vote was unanimous for acquittal...
...Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank at the other. On the drum's surface was incised a spiral line. On either...
...liked "No, No, Nanette," there isn't much point in seeing The "Queen High" imitation of it. The music can be had on phonograph records, and the wise cracks, though funny in their setting, aren't pointed enough to repeat at Christmas parties. If you didn't like "No, No, Nanette," you'll be bored by this...