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This will be the first time that the Glee Club has been heard in a radio broadcast and marks an experimental departure from former policy. Hitherto the University singers have avoided radio and phonograph connections. The performers of tonight's offering will be conducted by G. W. Wood worth '24 and the Club will sing in the Hotel Bradford. From there the program will be transmitted...
Gramophone's big rival is Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd. which assumed control of Columbia Phonograph Co. Inc. of America when that company was formed in 1924 out of the wreckage of Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Co. Columbia Graphophone also does a world-wide business; not least among its subsidiaries are Nipponophone Co., Ltd. of Japan and France's Compagnie Générale des Machines Parlantes...
...last week's plan, shareholders of Gramophone and Columbia Graphophone will be given stock in a new holding company.* As a bonus they will be given stock in Columbia Phonograph Co. Inc. of America which henceforth will apparently shift for itself. Dominant stockholder in the new company will be Radio Corp. of America, holding 30%, of the holding company's stock...
...book is entitled, "Lamentations." The chief lament is the talking picture. Like many of the modern critics of the legitimate stage, Mr. Nathan chooses to turn up his nose and snort rather than pay any attention to the potentialities peculiar to the screen. He writes, "What the phonograph is to the opera, the lithograph to painting, the plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection he has to the passion flowers of Hollywood is that he prophesied a dozen...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...