Word: phonographically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone...
...then became a chorus girl, and it was not until two years later that I learned I had a good voice. After hearing me over the radio, the phonograph people asked me to make records. Well, it wasn't long then until Ziegfeld heard me, and put me in his shows...
...Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales...
...choreographic exercise called "Plumb Line-a composition in line of the human form's law of balance," which, though curiously sinister, did not come off. Most startling and ingenious of the new numbers was "Narcissism," in which Miss Enters swaggered out on the state, gyrated to a wheezy phonograph, became convincingly drunken with self-love, was suddently moved fiercely to kiss her reflection in a mirror...
People with important secrets do not yet whisper them into radio telephones because they know that anyone with a radio set can eavesdrop. But last week in Manhattan, Sergius Paul Grace, vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, demonstrated how radio conversations may be absolutely private. Mr. Grace played a phonograph record into a special type of microphone. The audience heard an ordinary speech. Then he took away the microphone, played the record alone. Listeners heard a gibberish of strange grunts and squeaks...