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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-01-14, Page 3The xoom is large and high. A we:X• Behind 1 he Scenes known and popular dance orchestra .. is preparing to record a number.,. In . ecordin Studio They play different parts over and. over again until the conductor con- elderS the number sufficiently well clone to record. A buzzer sounds one long ("Ready?") two short ("Get set!"), and then a red flashee ("Go!")—and the band starts. When the number is finished perfect sil• enee is maintained until a final buzz indicates that the recording operator has lifted the record from the wax, The record may be slightly too By Van Phillips, in Britannia and Eve (November, 1931) The gramophene's ,faithful repro•' duction of waste no lower seems a anarvel. Records of infinite variety are so easily obtainable that we have come to accept them as com- rnionplace—like bread or matches. Y. t there is .a most fascinating Indus- try behind the recording of a singer, long or a few bar's too short. That er of the music of a mighty orobes" means another recording. Ira. Then, the visitor may go over to In the recording rooms or the the Central Pali—a large auditorium larger companies there are three or four separate studios, in all of which rcording of different ]rinds may be going on simultaneously. Each company has the exclusive use of ono or more concert halls,for the recording of large orchestral or choral works. The working day is usually made up of two sessions of three hours, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. A. privil- eged visitor may see in one day a half dozen of the most famous art - —where the multimicrophone is in use. A recording of "Rio Grande" is . in progress, There are three separate microphones --•one in front of the orchestra, one at the piano, and one before the chorus, The studio manager very carefully ad- justs each one so as to get the prop- er volume of sound required to mix the principal musical components on the record. What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Records are made of successful fists under the most informal and in- shows at the theatres. Many of -the teresting working conditions. London theatres have proved to be The Columbia Studios in West- excellent studios. But in spite of minster, London, are among the the fact that theatre recording has largest. They are situated in what become an accepted thing, it always appears to be an ordinary office,seems strange to see famous thea - building, but which is quite differ in- trical stars singing away on the Side. There one hears strangely l stage in an empty theatre—not to disordered and intermingled sounds crowded stalls, but to a little black of music. Over the door of the first • box on a pedestal. studio a red light is glowing. Be- Illectricity has brought almost neath is is a sign reading: limitless possibilities into the fie ld Silence. Recording in progress. of recording outside the studio. Do not enter while Tight is on. I Animals at the Zoo, New Year's When the light goes oc, the vis- Eve at St. Paul's, Beatrice Harrison itor may enter through two sets of and her famous nightingales, the the heavy swinging doors. The room is Icing's speech 'at some opening, bare except for a grand piano, a I Trooping of the Colors—all these microphone, and eight or ten chairs. I would have been unattainable by the There are long grey hangings,( Today any music, speech or sound stretching from ceiling to flooracoustic (or "horn") recording of against the walls. These are call- I six or seven years ago. ed "damping," and may be drawn to I may be successfully recorded, even give more or less "room tone," as I in the open air. But in spite of the desired. In this first studio two ; expert knowledge gained in the last well-known figures are recording, ; few years, it is still impossible to Layton and Johnstone, both famous American songsters and prime fav- orites among record buyers. There predict recording success in the case of a singer. The quality, or tim- bre, of the voice may sound" quite is a third figure present, a man hold-' different on the wax. "° ing open the door of the little re- -1 The `science of recording, to what - cording room at the far side of the • ever height of perfection it may be studio. brought, will never be without its "I'm sorry," he says. "We'll occasional humorous moments, In have to have one more of that. 1 the final analysis the whole thing Chipped wax." This means, that al rests on the personal element invol- flaw has been found in the surface yed, and the very human nature of of the wax after recording, although the work brings about many very it could not be seeu before. It is , amusing incidents. useless to send it to the factory for I So many records have been spoil - production purposes, however good ed by artists not waiting for the "All . the performance of the artists may Clear" signal at the finish, that the"Well can you beat that," says . his guard against it. One famous made of the brown woolen. "signs. But the tr have been. recording operator is constantly ons In dark green monotone tweed, antes had not gripped them. Spanish the sheer woolen and with Jesus shattered this complacency � etamanbe vivid green woollen it's . most attrac born -gain he can not see t re physical birth Sunday School Lesson January 17. Lesson Ids—Jesus and ffieodemus—John 3: 1.16. Golden Text—God so loved the world, that he gave his only • begotten Son, that whosoever belleveth on him should not perish, but have ever- lasting life.—John 3: 16. ANALYSIS I. A SATISFIED SEEKER, 3; 1, 2. II, AN UNHEARD -0F CONDITION, 3: 3-12. IIIc GOD'S GIFT role AIL, 3: 13-17. IV. HOW CHRIST JUDGES MEN, 3: 18-21. INTRODUCTION—Jesus' first visit to Jerusalem created something of a sen- sation. Many "believed" on his name (2: 23), that is, believed that he was the Messiah, without any moral change, Jesus placed little confidence in,theni, 2: 24. In the case of one of them, however, he' made an exception. L A. SATISFIED SEEKER, 3: 1, 2. Nicodemus, a member of the San- hedrin, is taken as an example of that imperfect faith. He lcnew about Jesus. The tremendous influence and the per- sonality of the young preacher had ap- pealed to him. He may have had hopes of persuading him to give up his revolutionary theories and asso- ciate himself with the regularly organized channels of religion. He would' be les: dangerous there. So the Roman Catholics thought about Fran- cis of Assisi. Nicodemus was not the "anxious enquirer." He came to dis- cover whether he could come to some understanding with this popular young preaches which would keep the Pharisees still in their loved position of religious leadership. Ile carne to Jesus by night (v. 2) 3337' perhaps because he did not wish to compromise either himself or his bro- ther Pharisees until he was sure of this new movement. He began with a diplomatic, if somewhat patronizing, speech. He has been accused of cow- ardice, but surely, unfairly. If it was Here's a jaunty dress for the col- by night that he came, at least he came—to learn for himself. It is true lege girl. that he defended Jesus without ax - It is not content with just contrast- pressing any personal interest in him. ins trim, so chooses a plaided woolen but he defended him. He was sat'' -s- in red and brown mixture for its fied with his own religion, but he was waistcoat bodice. The skirt is plain open-minded enough to seek further thatching shade brown woolen t It's just as snappy as can be, and jZ, AN UNHEARD -0F CONDITION, 3: 3-12. so smartly appropriate for the foot- Jesus never wasted his time on ball games. sham. With Nicodemus he went at Style No. 3337 may be had in sizes once to the heart of things. Nricodemas 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches and his associates were concerned bust. Size 16 requires 2% yards of al.rut this new preacher's possible 35 -inch material for skirt with 2% connection o sect on with the own fitness for nit king yards of 35 -inch material for waist. dodole was taken for granted. Were Brown diagonal woolen skirt is they not orthodox children of Abra- stunning with the waistcoat of almond him' They connected Jesus with .he green woolen with the revers and belt kingdom because they saw external •+� "f his utter - Follower of the Turf So They Sar: Miss Dorothy Pagett, one of rich- est women in England and daugh- ter of Lord Queenborough, is be- coming prominent patron of the turf, having sunk about $100,000 in recent bloodstock sale. "Children do really hate their' .Iyer ants In their struggle for independ- ence."—George Bernard Shaw. "Governments will do nothing unless driven by public opini0ii:. W11liana L Berate. "Tile State should be our servant;: we should not be slaves of the State." --.Albert Einstein. "You can't be knightly when they use poison gas."—Sinclair Lewis. "When competition becomes intense, then business runs to the government.". —Merle Thorpe. To own one's own home is a Phy- sical expression of individualism, ofl enterprise, of iudependence, and of the freedom of spirit."—Herbert Hoover. "Tile psychology of a child is more baffling than that of men and women," —A. A. Milne. "I would not have missed the ex• perience of visiting Russia for a mil- lion dollars, but I would not take a million dollars to go back again." --S. L. Rothafel (Roxy). "The systems of government in use are largely those of the eighteenth een• tury."—John. Masefield. "Man does not make rules of life and then live according to those rules; he lives and then he makes rules of life."—Clarence Darrow. • "Punishment is not only meant to act as a deterrent to the criminal him- self, but as a deterrent to others."— Sir Henry A. McCardie. III. GOD'S GIFT FOR ALL, 3: 1347. Verses 14-17 are probably reflec- tions of the author rather than the words of Jesus. They discuss the very truths which Jesus suggested Nico- demus could not understand. Not for the select few—the Jews—but for all who accept it, is God's gift of salva- tion provided. The Son of Man, re- jected by the Jews, will bring salva- tion through his sacrifice, vs. 4, 15. .For this express purpose did God send his one who like other son, v.i61aEternal life is. for "whosoever believeth." "Be- lieveth" here is not an intellectual assent to a creed. It is a personal loyalty and devotion to a person. To be "saved," to "have eternal life," and "to be like Jesus" means the same thing. Johnston. "The best one this operatic star bad great difficulty morning, too!" • I with the last bars on one of his selec- "Let's hear it anyway," says Lay- , nous. They tried it several times, ton. "The play -back might give i but never seemed able to make a us some ideas." � success of those last few bars. Fin - The recording room walls are ally, when they were almost willing crowded witha maze of electrica_ ap- to give up, the opera singer decided pesetas and wires. The recording he would try it just once more. He operator has a large disc of what sang it marvelously. The -studio appears to be yellow candy. It is manager was in ecstacies. Then, larger in circumstance than a re- before the recording operator had cord, and about an inch and a half time to lift the point from the wax, ickuess. heard, forever engravedon "There's the chip—see?" andthe last grooves, "Thank an God, the skirt of black and the blouse of with one sentence, Ext p the tive. does not make one a real Canadian, It's so wearable and so easily fish- li ing up to the high ideals of Cana- ioned and you'll love it. 'dian citizenship, neither did his Jew- ish birth make Nicodemus a member "-Write your name and address plain- of the new kingdom. A spiritual as ly, giving ,number and size of such well as a physical qualification was atterns as you want. Enclose 20e in necessary. To be a member of the p kingdom of love and brotherhood, one stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap had to be loving and brotherly.' The i it carefully) for each number, and Pharisees' religion was not love, but in th he the law. Jesus, in speakingof a new address your order to Wilson Pattern ` h k G d that's Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. birth borrowed his figure from the t i i better one religious and political language years.was " There is a greatly mistaken idea Warnings In Esperanto ' boinislireligion, the °ew faithThe same term over. I couldn't make a e of his operator points to an almost ovist- �+• —•- I day. A pagan, upon embracing the 'We pin -point on the wax. Irrever- if I tried fors" said t i 're- born' "To abolish war effectively we must contrive, by some means, to lessen the intense economic tension." —William G. McAdoo. "Capitalism is unable to pay war debts, social relief, profits, dividends, and prepare for another war." --George Lausbury. . "Such a thing as a model perform ante of a play to -day is quite impos- hible."—George Bernard Shaw. "One of the contemporary general ideas which are completely false is that human nature changes; that human beings have less feeling, senti- ment, whatever you like to call it, than they ever had; that we, all of us, everywhere, are any more material than we ever were."—Hugh Walpole. IV. HOW CHRIST JUDGES MEN, 3: 18-21. The Jews thought Messiah was com- ing to punish the unbelievers. But if judgment is not the motive of the Christ's coming, it is the inevitable consequence. His coming compels Hien to take s'.des. The stand they take shows them up in their true colors. If our deeds are :vii, we shun the light because it shows 'up our true character. The man who has nothing to hide welcomes the investigation. He who avoids the light thereby proclaims that his deeds are evil. ,e ently the operator jabs two small holes in the grooved surface. that making a record or having a "The last note was a little too song recorded is the "open Sesame" heavy, 14Ir. Johnstone;' he 'says, 1 to fame and fortune. But the truth Now Issued m France was used in the mystery religions Cannes, France.—Cannes has intro- which flourished in Ephesus where d a novelty for motorists. New Jchn was writing his Gospel. To ne nc "the high one, and the piano was a of it is that a song sure is never record- signs recentlly erected in the town are "lorr again"is not to aper e little too loud in your solo, 117r• ed until it has been accepted by a I Printed in Esperanto as well as in magical change; it is to commit our - French. They often work way of living that the spirit that was deal longer than the old. French no- him will be in us also, changing Layton." publisher, and then one record He can tell simply by looking at would bring the composer or author the grooves whether there are any I only from ten to fifteen pounds ($50 dangerous places—that is, places y that will "blast" in playing the layer is lucky to receive at the be - tor "phares inferdits" and "malper- self -considering selves --a •. finished record. A recording opera- I ginning five to ten on a basis (if I iuesitaj • lanternegoj:" ing a neve life—that we can be spoken for of long experience can even dis- he is lucky) of six records a year, of as having been "re -born," "born tinguish between various kinds of ` ''' from above." music—piano, orchestral, vocal, etc.' •_ _�.— Fish Demand Good Verse 5 refers to the Pharisees' re- -by the appearance of the grooves. The Canadian fresh fish market has fusel to submit to John's baptism of iT t t they are not to $75). The unknown singer or out a good tices did. For example, the motorist in our characters and our attitudes. We is warned to dim his headlights both shall become so different from our old elves so unreservedly to the Jesus "None has yet learned to grow wheat without chaff. For every mas- terpiece of literature, painting or music produced, miles of paper have been 'wasted'."—Will H. Hays, "Never forget that 99 times out of 100 the issue is not between right and wrong, but between right and right."— Sir ight"— Sir Arthur W. Lewis. "To -morrow's brand of civilization is to be built out of the stuff of to -day's youth."Fannie Hurst. "Everybody must realize that even the. most widely accepted theory, if overstrained, is bound to collapse in practice."—Adolf Hitler. "They have no white-collar com- plexities in Russia; what seems im- portant to us is not important to then at all."—J. P. McEvoy. "There is a sense in which wages may become a dole if they 'weaken m man's int( i itiv^.' —Il ury Ford. Buffalo Meat Feature of Many New Menus Two delicacies have been added to the Canadian New Year •menus, and the Mounted Police will benefit from the recent slaughter of 1,500 buffalo under government supervision in Wainwright National Park, where the Canadian Government maintains the largest herd of buffalo in the world, says a recent news item from the Canadian National Railways. Buffalo tail soup and buffalo steaks graced many a table in Can- ada on New Year's Day. The Cana- dian. National Railways have distribu- ted thirty cars of buffalo meat to vari- ous markets throughout the Dominion. The hides will be used mostly to make coats and rugs for Canada's famous red -coated police force, which still performs yeoman service in the far stretches of the northland, in many cases within the Arctic Circle. The heads, in many instances, will be sold by the government to clubs, hotels and individual citizens as wail trophies. The slaughter of the animals was necessary because there is only suf- ficient pasturage within the park to feed about 6,000 head of buffalo and also in order to maintain the quality of the stock, says the bulletin. Insist 011 yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the accumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted character of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession.—It. W. Emerson. As he plays the newly Made record A man visiting a. country town been fairly satisfactory and demand repentance. tirepen an over a lock knocking is heard as the went to the local barber for a shave. from the United States la good. Ex- fit for the Christian brotherhood. Just needle passesleover the first of the The razor,omade several slips with I porters in every line are endeavoring as the wind is known only by its ef- emall holes which he made. Lay- his and each time he would to reduce stocks wherever possible re- fects, said Jesus (v. 8). so the pres- ton and Johnstone look significant- haste a small piece of paper over I gardless of prices prevailing. ante of the Spirit is recognized by the ly at each other, realizing that this the out to stop the bleeding. When the I changed character of a pian. The per- sistent incredulity of Nicodemus (v. and the next hole represent loud the operation was over the victim 12 convinced Jesus that nothing was laces whre the piano was too handed the man half a crown: "Keep Friction Magnetizes Topaz tobegained by continuing the con - 12) "7t• and the last note too high. tate change, barber,' he said. Upstairs in the next studio the worth half a crown to be shaVed by visitor comes across a fine, solid so versatile an artist. Why, you're fanfare of brass. No warning sign a barber, butcher, and paperhanger is up. Evidently this is a rehearsal. all in one." MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FIST -TER IT LOotCs LI tie, z•'LL .AT RAGULARL.Y FROM NOW oN. 2 GOT JEFF` A doB wtTN T}1E TELEPtIONB COMPANY AND IF FIE MAKES GooD WE'RE 0..) soFT. Heat or friction will render a trite versation. John has now finished with topaz electric. It will then, litre am- Nicodemus, and dismisses him, He ber, readily pick up small bits of goes on with his discourse on God's paper.—Gas Logic. Gift: WELL, .EFPy NOW Z1'1AT 'oust* WORKED AT tT A DA`(- tloW DO `rou LIKE hE TEt.EPtIONE. BUstwess?, fkee' r, -INE, MUTT. FAN' Joe'S A SoFT SNAP. BUT TAG. TEA -EPROM M opERAToRSa • T'NEY EARN 'Mole boo .11011 IT The. PUBLIC ALMOST' DRtUES It hem GoofN ASKING RtbtCW-oUS `� QueSTIONS• THEY Asti ` -ate Best. 7RIP� IS sou WReke 'I� 101 Atv NUIIibREDS OF 6CNeR Ques•TeONs EQUALLY As pillli va- you tell net what you said was in strict confidence?" 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