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Everything is Big at Hollywood. It is very fitting, therefore, that the Biggest pipe organ in the world should be installed there. The largest "orchestral organ" in the world is soon to be assembled in the great Hollywood Bowl, a natural open-air amphitheatre. The largest pipe in this musical monster will be 64 feet long. This single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second...
...ever been laid. There are 72,000 linear feet of them, connected with seven tons of lead to make the joints airtight. The labor of laying them alone is said to have cost $7,500. There is no water nearby nor anybody to use water. What is more, the pipe runs approximately in a rectangle 1,800 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide, with mirrors in the corners and a double row of pipe on one of the short sides, to provide a check on the accuracy of the work. Pumps are provided to exhaust the air from...
...interior is fairly well intact, even to champagne bottles in the wardroom. Barnacles and muscles encrust the sides; mud and sand have drifted in. The divers will be called upon to shut the seacocks, to close all the openings with metal patches and concrete plugs. Then a six-foot pipe will be sunk through the decks; pumps having a lifting capacity of 5,000 tons of water an hour will be lowered. If everything is plugged up, the ship will become buoyant and rise to the surface. There are many "ifs" in the process, however. The divers may have great...
...runner-up of the omnipresent, ubiquitous United chain, has invaded the musical field. It has bought Aeolian Hall, Manhattan's most delightful first-rank concert auditorium. With the hall itself goes the entire 17-story skyscraper structure, extending clear across from 42nd to 43rd Street, complete with pipe organ, radio station and numerous offices for concert managers, retired business men who wish to retain dignified New York business offices, and Christian Science practitioners...
Sitting on the seashore in Normandy, dangling his feet over a cliff and cursing French pipe tobacco, Christopher Morley (famed colyumist) conceived an idea. He scrawled his pen over a piece of paper and sent it to a friend in the U. S. Said the sheet...