Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, thanks to 20 years of rummaging by an enthusiastic Manhattan hobbyist named Robert Vincent, every town and hamlet within range of 34 local radio stations in the U. S. and several in Australia, might have heard the voices that Edison and others recorded speaking scratchily from the past. Set in modern, radio-dramatized transcriptions under titles like Voices of Yesterday, History Speaks, etc., the old recordings recapture moments calculated to stir the memories of oldsters and give youngsters shivery earfuls from beyond the grave...
Baritone Harrell learned fiddling first, found he had a voice while studying violin in Philadelphia in 1932. Since then he has toured Europe's concert halls twice, had a Town Hall recital, sung with the New York Philharmonic (Children's Concert) and the Boston Symphony, is now soloist at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. He wants to sing Wagner...
...slipped down to the neighborhood theatre with a quarter burning a hole in your pocket. This is the western of the 20's recreated faithfully, with all the old thrills and all the old cliches. It has the same story abut the indomitable sheriff who cleans up the toughest town in the West. It has the same bad man whose gang rules the town with a cruel hand of iron. There is the lovely orphan lass from the south ho has come to live with her uncle. And in the centre of its al there is the same roaring saloon...
...shiny electric organ and began a service consisting of a hymn, ten Bible verses, a short but earnest homily. The homily was delivered by stout, expansive, 39-year-old John Marvin Yost, the bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever was." At 9 sharp, John Yost and his 14 fellow employes were at their posts and "the best and soundest bank in Kentucky" -50 years old last week-was open for business as usual...
...Saturdays, when more clients come to town, two colored moppets in livery greet them at the front door, usher them into a lobby glad with music and flowers and the trilling of canaries. Christmas and holidays the bank keeps open house, with fruit cake, soft drinks and wine for all comers. Last year the bank gave away 20,000 gladiolus bulbs from its own nursery...