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...voice transmission machinery. Like any phonograph or mechanical flatiron the device can be wired to an ordinary electric light circuit. It resembles a typewriter when one raises the cover. For the recording wire, nearly two miles in length, is coiled upon two revolving wheels, like the more conventional typewriter ribbon spools. When the machinery is operating, the wire is carried through a tiny box, passing a magnetizing device which places the voice on the wire much in the same manner as employed in the telephone. Automatically, machinery raises and lowers the wire as in the case of a sewing machine...
Ladies Must Dress. After repulsing the improper advances of her employer's son, a shopgirl (Virginia Valli) marries the honest poor boy whom she has captivated with her girl friend's sartorial assistance. This merry plot is a frayed and apparently accidental ribbon tied to the wrist of a fashion show...
Typewriter ribbon...
...Here comes Jack Dempsey, climbing through the ropes . . . white flannels, long bathrobe . . . friend in a long green coat. . . . Here comes Tunney . . . [blast of cheering from the crowd]. . . . He's got on blue trunks with red trimmings. . . . They're getting the gloves out of a box tied with pretty blue ribbon. . . . The announcer shouting in the ring . . . trying to quiet 150,000 people. . . . Robes...
Miss America 1927. Another prize-winner was Miss Frieda Louise ("New York") Mierse, 15 years old, who was judged to possess the beauty most suitable to an evening dress. Run-ner-up to "Miss America" was Miss Mozelle ("Dallas") Ransome, a small-sized bantamweight brunette. After winning the blue ribbon, Miss America, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, was asked what she would now do with herself. She said: "I am happy. ... I do not want to go in the movies. ... I want to draw, make a name for myself...