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...Apparently these were written by people who listened to the abdication broadcast of the Duke of Windsor, a broadcast so moving that last week the official B. B. C. in London for the first time refused to let His Master's Voice Ltd. make and sell in England phonograph records of a royal broadcast.* It would be a travesty of British facts not to say roundly that there was "the heaviest possible British censorship emanating from official quarters" last week. Actually this never ceased. Before, during and since the crisis, no London newspaper has seen fit to print anything...
...frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower and an autographed photograph of John Philip Sousa...
Energetic Mrs. Belmont had extended her plans this year with chairmen in 65 communities of three states, with the weekly Opera news Bulletin to members, with Metropolitan Operagrams, a 48-page book listing the plots, biographical notes, bibliography and available phonograph records on the operas and composers of the 1936-37 repertory. Hoping for a large Christmas-present sale of coupon books, she expects the Guild to sponsor a performance of Aïda for children next March...
...headquarters building of the National Academy of Sciences, the guests viewed models of historical inventions, demonstrations of current research, industrial films. They heard the voice of Thomas Alva Edison from an old phonograph record. First telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?", was again received from Baltimore on one of the two original instruments of Samuel Finley Breese Morse. In the evening, efficient young Patent Commissioner Conway Peyton Coe read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton...
Through the cooperation of Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, and his recently established committee for elementary language instruction, prints, maps, books, magazines, and other illustrative material, together with a stereoptican lantern and a phonograph, have taken their place in the new quarters...