Word: studio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Dr. Herbert E. Ives and Dr. Frank Gray of the Bell Telephone Laboratories operated a machine which directly broadcasts vast outdoor scenes a fair distance from their lens. Heretofore only small studio scenes could be transmitted...
...Salzburg, birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, rock of classicism, the Leningrad Operatic Studio, last week, ironically burlesqued his Bastien et Bastienne. That pastoral operetta he wrote when he was 12 (he died in 1791, at 35). It has three characters-the shepherd sweethearts and a patriarch. The Russians last week added 13 more and played the piece with machinery of production grossly exposed...
...jovial column conductor who had once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics. One of these, an ash-blonde beauty, lured Marry to her studio, and quickly taught him that his slangy little slum girl was wanting in veneer. But his slangy little Josephine bought herself books on rhetoric and elocution, and disappeared temporarily from Marry's scheme of things...
...mind, was a piece of red hot news last week. William Cabell Greet, professor of Phonetics and the History of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, assembled seven men from scattered parts of the U.S. to tell the tale of Grip to wax discs in a recording studio of the Victor Talking Machine Co. The idea: to preserve for posterity accurate specimens of U. S. dialects...
Conspicuous among the U. S. inhabitants who appeared and spoke in their accustomed accents at the recording studio was the Vermonter with his kued for could, his enser for answer, his cahft for coughed. Also conspicuous was the Middle Ohioan with his doan for don't, his then for than...