Word: seale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill, Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Laborites Attlee and Greenwood. For himself Mr. Churchill took the title of Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister. Lord Halifax kept his job as Foreign Secretary, Chamberlain was given the sinecure post of Lord President of the Council. Major Attlee became Lord Privy Seal, Arthur Greenwood Minister "Without Portfolio. Thus, the two new Cabinet members and discredited Mr. Chamberlain, though responsible for conduct of the war, were relieved of major administrative duties...
...nosed W. C. Fields, with his marvelous sense of timing, here throws his hat in the Presidential ring and leaps on the stump, in one motion. He does not indulge much or effectively in the Will Rogers type of political ribbing; instead, he maunders on about a vaudeville seal, a cornet rendition of The Whistler and His Dog, drops useful hints on bodybuilding, the care of babies. Even without the Fields voice and the Fields mannerisms, the Fields pen shows a delicate sense of U. S. language. The book contains some mothy, mechanized, professional gagging, some second-speed samples...
Victor, in a reassuring note to its dealers, says that the Red Seal sales will be affected little if any by this innovation--that the "true" record buyers are "name-conscious" to such a degree that for a few paltry dollars difference they won't descend to buying classical works rendered by competent but less famous musicians and recorded with slightly less fidelity. It feels that the new series will mean larger grosses and gradually build up public taste to a degree where they will go one step up to Red Seal...
...film and reproducing via light waves and photo-electric cells--something like a movie sound track. This may be wild day-dreaming, but isn't it possible that Victor is starting this line to demolish competition in the field, and realizing that it will probably injure its own Red Seal irreparably as well, doesn't particularly care, because it intends to switch in a few years to the film process anyway, which completely eliminates needle-scratch and gives much better reproduction...
...just doesn't seem possible that a company as smart as Victor would risk millions in stock and Red Seal name for a Black Label record--unless that new medium would provide a market for itself and later developments which would make it profitable. Black Label and Red Seal don't seem compatible. Black Label can exist only at over doubled volume--which Victor can't handle with its present facilities. The film process can be adapted to handle itself and the old method--consequently where the woodpile and who's going...