Word: phonographers
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...Arthur Bliss of New York City will give an address on The Contemporary English Compeers this evening at $15 o' clock in the John Knowles Paine Concerts Hall in the Music Building. Mr. Bliss' lecture, which is open to the public will be illustrated by phonograph records and planoforts delections. The meeting will be held under the samplers of the Department of Music...
...situations are all persevering primitives. The plot is a frankly threadbare clothesline on which to pin the songs and dances. The voices are powerful but rather inclined to bolt and run away among the gallery rafters. But even rags for costumes, a popular song for a plot, and a phonograph for music would be overlooked in view of the dancing and the vast enthusiasm of the players. Never before has so much energy been concentrated on a single stage. A congress of oriental dervishes would seem static in comparison. In addition, the stars, Miller and Lyles, are boisterously competent comedians...
...cobbler. He learned to sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...
...Manhattan, an undertaker equipped his $19,875 motor hearse with five white-enameled wooden angels, a phonograph, a radio amplifier. He increased his business...
...with. At first important musicians and verbal entertainers were willing to perform gratis for broadcasting, in consideration of the advertising. But soon, when nearly everybody had sung into the radio, the advertising value diminished. All that the radio companies could get were third-rate performers. They turned on the phonograph for the radio. That made the affair ridiculous. They have not done it so much lately. Protective organizations for musicians demanded pay for radio service. Orchestras still continue to allow the broadcasting of their concerts. At big sporting events spoken reports are broadcast. It is questionable how long these things...