Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the phenomenon of the Shahkta Trial is now in its second month, proceedings are still in the most preliminary stage. No evidence has been heard concerning the Prosecution's astounding charge that the sabotage ring was partially financed by one of the greatest public utility corporations in the world, the A. E. G. (Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft) or General Electric Company of Germany...
...members of an orchestra in Berlin 17 miles away. They followed the piano on their various instruments; what they played was transmitted to Potsdam by another telephone and then amplified so as to fill the theatre in the wings of which the flossy pianist was softly strumming. On the stage of the theatre an opera company sang to the music of the Berlin orchestra, thus successfully completing an experiment which would, Berlin officials suggested, make it possible for small opera houses in outlying districts to secure far better orchestral accompaniment than has heretofore been possible. The audience at the Potsdam...
Please note that the Pickwick Stages System, also of Los Angeles, has been operating transcontinental motor stage service for some months, utilizing strictly its own coaches straight through from California to Philadelphia, by way of Phoenix, El Paso, St. Louis and Indianapolis-with an optional route by way of Salt Lake City and Denver...
Charles F. Wren, of Los Angeles, is the guiding spirit and president of the Pickwick System, who has consistently pushed motor stage service across from West to East, and who has sponsored the many original features of equipment and service begun by this company...
...arranged so that the end was happy. It was an unfortunate vehicle for the Vitaphone; the lines were terrible, making the audience laugh in tense moments. The girl had a throaty voice. Only Lionel Barrymore sounded convincing. He is the Vitaphone's best bet at the present stage of development. Women's voices are the most annoying problem; they either take on a lisp, or else they sound husky...