Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 5, No. 9 (1931-06)

V. • > ' •• • , - ■ • ' , V ; - . • / : , s' v . ’ • , . • * , . * . An independent journal of phonography and other arts of sound - reproduction Founded 1926 by Axel B. Johnson The Phonograph Monthly Review ROBERT DONALDSON DARRELL, Editor AXEL B. JOHNSON, Associate Editor THE PHONOGRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc., 5 Boylston Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts Telephone UNIversity 1618 THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW appears at the end of each month. All material is fully protected, but may be reproduced under a credit line. Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 35 cents. All communications should be addressed to the Managing Editor, 5 Boylston Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. All un- solicited 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. EDITORIAL NOTES A RTURO TOSCANINI’S recent painful experience with hoodlumism received scant notice in the American press. Following his refusal to play the Fascist hymn at a con- cert in Bologna, he was set upon by a group of young Black- shirts as he left the stage door and was severely beaten up. The news reports gave no indication of any official attempt to seize and punish the “patriotic” rowdies. Mob rule and music have no common ground. But it ill behooves us to raise too righteous voices in condemnation. Karl Muck’s treatment at the hands of Americanos in 1918 was exactly of the same order of street corner assault on a great artist. The Italian brawl- ers were at least unruly youths; Dr. Muck’s assailants were a Providence editor, a chairman of a state Liberty Loan Com- mittee, a governor of Maryland, a Police Commissioner of Baltimore, Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Manning, and a myriad other notables. A UNITED States Supreme Court decision settled a lita- gation case of long standing and far reaching conse- quences in the radio-phonograph world. The Lang- muir patent—one of the most important held in the “patent pool” of the R. C. A., General Electric, Westinghouse Elec- tric, American Telephone & Telegraph, and General Motors— was the subject of the suit between the De Forrest Radio Company and General Electric. The De Forrest Company had contended that unless the patent was set aside General Electric would have a virtual monoply of the radio tube in common use. De Forrest won the case, and the secretary of the Radio Protective Association now claims that the in- dependents who have been paying royalties to the “patent pool” on the Langmuir patent may not only recover these roy- alties, but should be able to recover triple damages for all the “injuries” they have received. A DD to Mr. Seltsam’s list of noted actresses who have recorded: Cecile Sorel. She was recently pictured in the New York Times before the microphone while recording scenes from Tartufje, Demi-Monde, and Maria Delorme. The name of the recording company was not given. Contributors To This Issue Ben Drisko, Winchester, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at present en- gaged in experimental work at the Short-Wave and Television Laboratory in Boston. Herbert E. Evans, New York City, is Advisor to Student Religious Organizations at Columbia University. Rene Levy, Paris, is one of the pioneer record critics in France. He is a frequent contributor to La Revue Musicale, La Novelle Revue, Le Mois, Cine-Journal, Europe, La Joie Musicale, and other publications.