Word: phonographers
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...sausages Hero of Labor Alexei Stakhanov was back from Moscow last week in his home on the Donbas Steppe, a four-room shack, the walls of which were decorated with poster pictures not of potent Dictator Stalin but of popular War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Squeaked the Stakhanov family phonograph in English: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf...
...other of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be." Both records take exactly four and a half minutes to play. They were, however, very faint and obscured by much extra noise to such an extent that Mr. Grossman, despaired of ever having them transferred to modern phonograph discs...
...Rogers Room of the Theatre Collection a phonograph will he installed, so that all interested can actually play the Booth records and other historical records...
...chief virtue which is helping Helen Jepson to climb fast in opera. She was born 29 years ago in Titusville, Pa., where her father kept a candy and hardware store combined. Her first job was as a corset-fitter in an Akron department store. Then by selling phonograph records she became converted to opera, won a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...
...terms of pure theory he set down accurately at great length what ought to be done to make motion pictures. In the early 1890"s the supremely practical tinkering of Edison produced a peep-show device into which one spectator could look at pictures which moved while an Edison phonograph talked. The Brothers Lumière produced at about the same time pictures thrown on a screen. The Lumière camera which took them could be carried in one hand. The Edison camera of similar date was portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumi...