Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bizet: Music from Carmen (New York City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 8 sides...
...Mill (music by Victor Herbert; book & lyrics by Henry Blossom; produced by Paula Stone & Hunt Stromberg Jr.) has never before been revived on Broadway since it first nourished there -starring Montgomery & Stone-in 1906. There was no overpowering reason for reviving it now. The Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew...
...Brazil (and of ex-U.S. Secretary of State Hull), 17 nations have approved the idea of a new international health organization. Last week 30 U.S. citizens-including Surgeon General Thomas Parran, Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and Dr. Victor Heiser of the National Association of Manufacturers-met to talk over what the U.S. wants the organization to be. The talks will serve as preparation for an international conference to be held, probably, next spring...
...this improvement may also bring Victor its stiffest competition in 45 years. Decca, second biggest record seller, was waiting only to see how the first Victor album (Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) sells before coming out with its own unbreakable product for home use. Already on the market was the more expensive ($2.50 a record) vinyl album, Prince Igor, put out by the six-year-old Asch Recording Studios. And manufacturers who never gave records a thought before were ready to move into Victor's bailiwick...
Henry Reichhold, chairman of Detroit's Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., world's biggest synthetic resin maker, has developed an unbreakable plastic which he claims is cheaper than Victor's. He has bought Cosmopolitan Records, Inc. (Cosmo), which is already producing 800,000 shellac records a month. After the first of the year, Reichhold expects to make 200,000 unbreakable records monthly-selling between 50? and 75? apiece. As president of the Detroit Symphony, he expects to give Victor a run for its money in classical as well as popular records...