Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the early decades of the century, when Victor Herbert was cleaning up year after year and Irving Berlin was still a singing waiter, an unspoken law existed among musical-comedy producers that nobody should ever try anything that hadn't already been worked at least one, and preferably one hundred times. Audiences were confronted year after year, for instance, with elaborate opening scenes in European palaces, full of richly garbed extras extolling the beauty, glamour, and unparalleled grace of the as yet unseen princess. Finally, when the entire company was worked into a supreme ectasy of adulation...
...companies and their publicity departments might polish their buttons before making any comparisons with the Ivy League album. Despite its limited production, it sells for little more than the domestic record, and the band's records--put out by a company which calls itself Trans-Radio--are superior to Victor or Columbia efforts all the way down to the good-looking album itself...
...long been looking hungrily at records. The business was a jungle full of small fry (some 230 manufacturers), lorded over by Victor. Decca and Columbia. The fry was numerous enough and appetizing enough to make Leo's mouth water. With 5,000,000 record-players (including 500,000 jukeboxes) in use throughout the U.S., the industry sold 287 million records in 1946, expects to do nearly twice as well...
...many phonograph shops which sell Zenith radios, hopes to sell their records in 5,000 key stores. But MGM's first album, four ten-inch records of Jerome Kern music from the film Till the Clouds Roll By, will cost $3-75, somewhat higher than most of Victor's, Decca's and Columbia...
...Crimson's last non-league appearance of the season. Cornell, a 53 to 30 victor over Princeton last night, comes to the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night...