Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...block away, in the lobby of the Guild Theatre, Actors Franchot Tone and Margeret Barker spoke into a microphone lines from their roles in The House of Connelly (TIME, Oct. 12). The audience in the Broadway Theatre expected to hear and to see Actors Tone and Barker simultaneously, by television...
...middle of the exhibition, a tube in the television apparatus became overheated. It was necessary to wait 15 min. while it cooled off. Actors Tone and Barker were then seen and heard. What they said was clearly audible but their faces flickered vaguely on the screen; it was hard to tell which was which and what they were doing. Later, a Central American parrot was somewhat more successfully televised, screeching hoarsely at mention of Prohibition. Theatre-owner B. B. Moss made a speech explaining that the purpose of the performance was "to show the progress in television rather than...
...foster-brother Cyrena Van Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made...
Certainly all of the gentlemen and patriots of your editorial staff were out of the office when the half tone of President Hoover sitting in front of the Holtz machine copied from the New York Daily News was admitted to your issue of Sept...
Voice of Labor. When President Green, Labor's diplomat, a pillar of Baptist conservatism, addressed the convention, Labor's hackles were indeed rising. In a preliminary meeting the Voice of Labor had assumed a surprisingly threatening tone: "Some of us have been wondering whether the present industrial order is to be a success or a failure. No social order is secure where wealth flows at such a rate into the hands of the few away from the many. . . . We will be in favor of having the United States Government take it away through taxation and distribute...