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Smart Jack Kapp has worked for phonograph companies since his high school days, when he ran errands during summer vacations. Smart Jack Kapp worked eight years for Columbia, eight years for Brunswick. He discovered many a new talent, promoted many a new selling scheme only to see the phonograph industry languish under the blight of radio...
Lucienne Boyer would be rich from her phonograph records alone. In France hers outsell all others. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" topped 350,000. Other big sellers have been "Si Petite," "Attends," "Sans Toi," "J'ai laissé mon coeur," "Désir," "Garde moi dans tes bras," "Parle moi d'autre chose, " "Moi j'crache dans I'eau," "Ballade." The songs have wide variety but Lucienne Boyer's stage costume is always the same: deep blue velvet for which she chooses blue or amber lights. They suit her reddish brown hair, large brown eyes...
...pioneer seven years ago in using the phonograph to preserve U. S. regional dialects, Professor Greet has roamed the land, taught his methods in summer school at Columbia. Last week it was announced that he will supervise a full graduate course there this autumn, in a new "Language Room" equipped with recording instruments, disks, phonographs, charts and a phonetics exhibit. In addition, each & every Columbia freshman will be required to make three phonograph records during the year, by which his speech defects may be corrected. These records will comprise an extempore recitation on a subject like "How I Spent...
Resourceful Dr. Goebbels at once got out phonograph records of the speech in which President von Hindenburg asked Germans to vote Ja in the last plebiscite. when the issue was Adolf Hitler's break with the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations (TIME, Nov. 20). From this record appropriate excerpts were transferred to a new disk for broadcasting, and all last week the dead Hindenburg campaigned for the live Hitler...
...advertising manager of Cascarets offering a contract (TIME, May 29, 1933). "Home on the Range" has worked hard for radio since then. Kay Francis kept singing it to Edward G. Robinson in I Loved a Woman. Baritone John Charles Thomas was one of several to put it on a phonograph record which lately reached a Mr. and Mrs. William Goodwin in Manhattan Beach, Calif. William Goodwin, a onetime cowboy who now runs a hay, grain & feed business in Tempe, Ariz., claimed that he and his wife wrote the song, called it "An Arizona Home" and had it copyrighted when they...