Word: sirene
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...piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well as the numerous other works he played, good listening, often good for a laugh. The Symphony in Steel employed a siren and pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood proved most successful, with the banging and scraping of carpenters and electricians, the ennui of "stand-ins." the barking of a director, a "Precision Routine" in which the percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity...
...with his job, turned out to be another problem. Out of 19, only two achieved real success. Australian Soprano Marjorie Lawrence sang Brunnehilde dramatically, if unevenly, startled operagoers by mounting a horse in Gotterdammerung and galloping off stage as Wagner prescribed. Scrawny Swedish Gertrud Wettergren proved to be a siren as Amneris in Aida, a sensitive Brangane...
Those few benighted souls who were still in Cambridge at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon were startled by the steady drone of what sounded like a mammoth fire siren, a signal for an air raid, or perhaps even a recruiting call for the next war. Puzzled students wondered where the fire was and how big it must have been to evoke such an awe-inspiring noise...
Back on the platinum standard again, Jean Harlow, as an American chorine stranded in Europe for the World War, turns in a performance that should bring many old devotees of the once blondest siren back into the fold...
...electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they gave was immediately electrically cooled to 40°, electrically separated. "Everything is wired," cried Electrified Farmer Hughes, "except the hired men." But an electric siren called them whenever Farmer Hughes needed them...