Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between the player and his instrument there are only ether-waves which are directed to the production of sound by the movement of the musician's hands in the air. Thereminvox, the ether-wave music instrument, and its influence upon musical development are of general interest internationally to the worlds of art and science...
...survey may be indifferent. But it is not just another survey in this sense of the term, and therein lies its value. The data presented was gathered under the direction of The Institute of Social and Religious Research, which determined to go to the heart of the problem, and sound the sentiment of the mass of undergraduates. The book does not present the opinions of the investigators based upon examination of colleges, but what undergraduates who have not the power of the press behind them think about themselves...
...humanity from east to west following the Civil War. Those who cherish memories of the true West and are surfeited with the false and discordant atmosphere shed by cheap novels and moving pictures will find refreshment, instruction, and entertainment in Mr. Collins' attractively illustrated work. If such praise sound profuse, the reviewer merely wishes to point out that Hamlin Garland, certainly an authority on the subject, is of the same opinion. In fact, he is even more enthusiastic being a true lover of the country described, and in his foreword tells the reader about Mr. Collins' qualifications to write...
Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. (Vitaphone sound-pictures) a fortnight ago bought control of Stanley Co. of America's 255 cinema theatres. Last week Warner Brothers finished buying control of First National Pictures' 3,000 first run houses everywhere in the country. The deals make a $100,000,000 merger...
...merger is of vital importance to Warner Brothers. They were the pioneers in the production of sound-pictures, which this year have given a new spurt to the U.S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. Whereas their sound-picture rival Fox Film (with Movietone) has steady customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it has been, of strange and invidious exhibitors. With Stanley Co. and First National Pictures it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers-Paramount-Famous-Lasky...