Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trivial as the Palace episode was, it pointed up the plight of the thousands of U.S. musicians thrown out of jobs these many years by records and sound-films. This week, when delegates from all 350 A.F.M. locals assembled in Louisville for their national convention, they began to put their case before the nation. Main purpose of the convention was to decide what might be done about "canned" music. Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo of the Chicago chapter was out to make national the ban on recording which he enforced locally on union men last winter (TIME, Jan. 4). A.F.M...
...series, released last week, was a life story of the Duke of Windsor. Said Producer Castle: "We are now planning to provide home movie enthusiasts with pictures of similar interest at regular intervals, probably twice a month." Items in the News Parade are made for both silent and sound-equipped projectors, cost from $1.75 for an 8-mm., 50-ft. sequence to $17.50 for a 350-ft., 16-mm. sound film. They cannot be rented. Producer Castle expects to sell a total of 10,000.000 ft. of film on his first three releases, representing a private investment of approximately...
...Parnell and Katie O'Shea in a screen version of the play by the late Elsie Schauffler (TIME, Nov. 25. 1935). As a cinema production, Parnell ranks high. Everything in it, from the London fog to the handles on the doors of Parliament, rebuilt life-size on a sound stage, is scrupulously authentic. As history, it ranks low, since it not only telescopes Parnell's career but also whitewashes it to suit the Hays office. As entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John Van Druten & S. N. Behrman is literate but logy; John Stahl...
Story is that the Treasury officials did actually sound out British authorities early this spring on the possibilities of cutting gold prices but the news leaked out in London, causing such uproar that the idea was dropped like a hot brick. Whatever the value of that story, a quick glance at gold figures is enough to convince anyone that the U. S. is holding the bag. During the past year the Treasury has bought $800,000,000 worth of gold, none of which it needed. Imports last week pushed total U. S. gold stocks above the staggering figure...
...solemn moaning fills the warm air. It oozes into Lowell study rooms and library. It jumps the street over to Winthrop's lighted cram centers. Inhuman, the sound swells and fades, changes catch with a sobbing descent, or rasps anew to tortured heights. Angry heads appear, and irritated voices dispute with the sound, imploring or threatening...