Word: phonographic
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...Edward Hagerup Grieg. He was chosen to play the Grieg Piano Concerto at the Leeds Festival (1907), and after Grieg's death he played Memorial concerts for him at Copenhagen and London. To Grieg, Percy Grainger owes his start in folk music. He has made more than 500 phonograph records; has composed more than 60 pieces for piano, voice, orchestra, chamber. But, he fondly repeats, his mother was the chief artistic influence in his life. She died in 1922; and he never married...
...John Coolidge went to Superior one cay, played golf, went shopping, returned to the lodge with the following phonograph records: "Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky," "Louisiana," "Dixie Dan," "Golden Gate," "I Can't Do Without You," "Think of Me Thinking of You," "Beloved, I Wonder...
...John McCormack, tenor, frequently orders a new set of his own phonograph records...
Prince Youssoupov boasts that he finally drew a revolver and put shot after shot into Rasputin. Even then the period before Death came was so appallingly long that the Grand Duke Dimitri is said to have rewound a phonograph 20 times in an effort to keep up the morale of all concerned. He later remarked with a shudder...
...light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind the screen are connected with the projection room. Vitaphone captures sounds, not on the film, but on a wax disc similar to a phonograph record. Some theatres have projection machines that can use either Vitaphone or Movietone productions. Mr. Shaw is not the only famed person whose voice and face have been caught by Movietone. Others: Benito Mussolini, Lloyd George, Edward of Wales, Ferdinand Foch, Raquel Meller, Beatrice Lillie, Vatican Choir, Calvin Coolidge, Charles...