Word: recording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cocoanuts (Paramount). The libretto of Irving Berlin's four-year-old musical comedy is reproduced without many amendments and with some of the original cast. Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw, who have always done well on Broadway, sound like people singing on an old phonograph record with a blunt needle. It is doubtful whether the urbane, uproarious clowning of the four Marx brothers will seem funny in districts rural enough to admire the routine dance-numbers. Best shot: a wheel-ballet from overhead...
...idea of a station for experimental evolution, and to him was given the direction of the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor at its creation a quarter-century ago. Its first work was on plants and animals. Mrs. Harriman a few years later established a eugenics record office adjoining his station. The two were later combined under him, and his supervision extended over research on all forms of life. He is still director and was, as such, host of last week's genetics display at Cold Spring Harbor...
...captain, Phil Edwards, a wiry Negro, dashed the half-mile in 1 min., 52 2/10 sec., breaking the intercollegiate record set in 1916 by famed James E. (Ted) Meredith. Stanford's Harlow Rothert put the 16-lb. shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder...
Twelve of the 33 finished. Ray Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...
...bitter obstinacy somewhere in the ranks. Half of the student bodies at Harvard and Princeton has entered college since the rupture. It seems safe to say, therefore, that the number of obstructionists among them cannot be large, and that in the new college generation now beginning all record of the break will be forgotten...