Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victor belong the goal posts providing he can take them away...
Whether this operetta is revived perennially like "The Mikado," "Blossom Time," and "The student Prince," or whether like many of Victor Herbert's and Friml's creations, the properties of "show Boat" lauguish in some downtown warehouse, its music will survive long in the repertoire of remembered favorites...
Seventeen years have passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change...
...Victor's Raymond Sooy was responsible for the new version of Vesti la giubba which, with M'Appari from Marta on the reverse side, was put on sale last week in record shops all over the U. S. Raymond Sooy. who engineered the making of the original Caruso records, felt that full justice had to be done to his friend's voice. He consulted Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor's able handyman, who proceeded to memorize Caruso's interpretations, each long held note, each sob and sigh. Conductor Shilkret donned earphones, then summoned his orchestra...
Rackety Rax (Fox) is a brilliant travesty on college football and racketeering. It starts when a gangster, Knucks McGloin (Victor McLaglen) is escorted to his first football game by his publicity agent. Speed Bennett (Arthur Pierson...