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An independent journal of phonography and other arts of sound-reproduction Founded 1926 by Axel B. Johnson T he Phonograph Monthly R i eview ROBERT DONALDSON DARRELL, Editor AXEL B. JOHNSON, Business Manager THE PHONOGRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts Telephone UNIversity 3827 THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW appears at the end of each month. All material is fully pro- tected, but may be reproduced under a credit line. Yearly subscription price $3.00 in the United States and $4.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 25 cents f All communications should be addressed to the Man- aging Editor, Box 138, Cambridge, Massachusetts. All unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONOGRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. NOTES and ECHOES C OMPLETING our fifth year, it is a renewed pleasure to have the Columbia Company again represented in our advertising pages. In from the first issue of the P. M. R., Columbia’s absence from the last three numbers left a discouraging gap. Two other items of prime phonographic news: The rapid approach of the new long playing records to commercial release (the Philadelphia orchestra is rumored to have recorded Beethoven’s Fifth on a single disc); the first examples of the new records may probably be expected during the fall or early winter. Second, the rumor that Strawinski’s per- haps greatest work, the Symphonie de Psaumes, for orchestra and chorus, is shortly to be announced in a recording conducted by the composer. Given its first performance only last winter, this Psalm Sym- phony convinced many hearer that Strawinski had finally collected his full forces to write perhaps the most significant musical work of our times. The merger between the Columbia and Gramo- phone (H. M. Y.) companies in England, outlined in the May 1931 P. M. R., has now been consummated, and the new company has been named Electrical and Musical Industries, Ltd. Holders of certificates of deposit for American depository shares of Columbia will receive one new American share in the new company; a cash dividend of 56c a share, and a voting trust certificate for stock of Columbia Phono- graph Company, Inc. (U. S. A.), at the rate of three one-hundredths share for each American share. Hold- ers of American depository receipts for ordinary shares of Gramophone will receive one new American share of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., and a cash dividend of sixty cents a share. A note by A. T. M. in Musical America for August tells of the notable work of the Music Division of the Library of Congress in utilizing phonographic and photographic devices for preserving American folk music in its archives. About 100 songs—taken prin- cipally on the Pacific Coast, North Carolina Moun- tains and Georgia swamps—have been recorded on discs, and photostats of many manuscript and printed songs have been photographed on non-inflammable film. Experiments are also being made with a “Telegraphone” to record sound magnetically on wire.