Word: pianolas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typewritten copy for our proofreaders and make-up men; 2) reproduces itself at the other end of wires in the Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago printing plants. There the tape is fed into especially equipped Linotype machines, whose typesetting keys it controls in much the same way that a pianola roll controls the keys of a mechanical piano. The result is galleys of correctly-justified lines of metal type ready to be made up into pages according to make-up instructions from New York...
...existence as a whole was hardly dreary. Edith and Osbert performed musical marvels on a pianola, while Sacheverell, too young to pump, "listened to us both with a flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well-meaning people who pronounced girl as gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost...
Sonya Levien's original story of Gersh win's progress from a penny arcade pianola to fabulous success and tragic death has been adapted by Scripters How ard Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...
...concerts will consist of the following selections: "Harvard Hymn" by William Howard Payne '69; "On Thou the Central Orb" by Gibbons; "Three Italian Madrigals," one by Mounteverdi and two by Gastoldi; "Pianola D'Amore" from "Four Choral Patterns from the New Yorker" by Irving G. Fine '38 with verse by David McCord '21; and choruses from "Patience" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...gigs" (one-night stands) which was booked through James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...