Word: seale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand grenade their way. Yesterday in page-large ads all over the country, RCA Victor announced a new policy of making classical records for one dollar (12 inch Black Label) and seventy-five cents (ten inch Black Label). This is about fifty per cent lower than the present Rod Seal classical prices...
Reason the dealers are so upset is that they depend on the high (in most cases, two-dollar) prices charged for Red Seal Classical records to give them their profits, feeling that the jazz helps only slightly, and serves more as a "loss-leader" or traffic enticement. In other words, It's very hard to run a store on just jazz records alone, unless you have a tremendous volume of business. The dealers are afraid that people will but the lower-priced, lower-profit-making Black Label, and endanger their greatest source of profit...
...make any mistake. The records are good, all electrically recorded with the exception of a rather suspicious-sounding Tschaikowsky "Nuboracker Suite." As a matter of fact, but for slightly higher surface noise and a little less high frequency, the records are almost as good as their Red Seal counterparts. From the standpoint of the record buyer, this is the best thing that has happened since electrical recording. It means good classical cheaply priced--a triumph of modern production method...
...borrowed $21,500,000 (1938-39) to tide member producers (over 90% of production) over the industry's rehabilitation; 2) encouraged the building of central stills; 3) produced a standard product, to be marketed in uniform turpentine cans bearing the A. T. F. A. seal and pine tree symbol; 4) cut gum turpentine production 25%; 5) sought new uses for turpentine and rosin...
...years. Making her first U. S. appearance in musicomedy, Hungarian Actress Marta Eggert (wife of Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura) is pleasing but not outstanding; returning to Broadway after seven years in Hollywood, Comic Jack Haley is amusing but not uproarious. Biggest thing in the show is a trained seal named Sharkey. Unfortunately, he is provided with the smallest part...