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...profitable shaving cream business (Shavex). Fiftyish, she heads three corporations, is a director of twelve. She claims that she sleeps on two hours a night, is never tired. In her swank Kensington home she fondles a fine collection of Oriental objets d'art, hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures...
...year. He says he wrote part of Awake and Sing! while cooking for fellow Groupers in their seven-room flat. A Jew like half of the Group's personnel, he likes music, plays the harmonica, is unmarried. With the proceeds of his recent successes he bought an electric phonograph. Since any man who has two hits on Broadway can command his own price in Hollywood, Broadway observers wondered how long Playwright Odets would be satisfied with his electric phonograph...
...Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. They live in evil-smelling thatched shacks perched on stilts, fish in the Everglades' black sluggish waters, hunt deer and wild turkey, make a little cash as vegetable pickers, hunting guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture of moonshine and Sloan's liniment. A Seminole marriage is complete when the bride's family has provided a shirt for the groom; the groom's family, a bed; and the groom has moved into the bride's house. To divorce...
...legend that Nelson Eddy learned operatic arias from listening to phonograph records is only partly true. His first teacher, David Scull Bispham, schooled him for one year before he made his first stage appearance at a Philadelphia benefit show in 1922. He sang for the Savoy Opera Company, Philadelphia's Civic Opera, made his New York debut in Wozzeck in 1931. In the next two years Baritone Eddy's reputation as a concert singer steadily increased. When in 1931 he gave a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium to an audience trained to appreciate manner and appearance...
...article on Lowell House yesterday omitted one of its most valued features, the record library. This library contains over nine hundred phonograph records. All of the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms, the last three of Mozart, a number of the works of Sibelius and Stravinsky, several complete grand operas, and all except one of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas--these are a few of the many records in the library, which is unapproached by that of any other House. More records are being bought each year through the generosity of the House Committee, and the choice of the new selections...