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The Phonogram (1901-02)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1901-02
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 10
Leaf #:
0008
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","National Phonograph Company","Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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FEBRUARY 1901 *37 WHEN ROBERT BROWNING TALKED TO A PHONOGRAPH. 4 ™ A » af 4 % r * * j “ ** - • “ ‘Browning had the most marvellous memory I ever knew. I remember once, though, a funny failure of his memory—the funnier because it was in one of his own • % ^ poems. When the Phonograph was first brought over to London it was being shown at the house of an artist, and ♦ we were all asked to speak something into the receiver. Browning modestly declined for a time, but we egged him on, and at last someone said, ‘ Quote some lines from one of your own poems. * * * , “ ‘I know those least of all,* he replied, with a smile, and eventually he said he thought he knew ‘ How they brought the good news from A ix to Ghent’ better than he knew anything else. He began splendidly :— We sprang to the saddle, and Joris and he; I galloped, Dirk galloped, we galloped all three; We—we—we ; we—we—we ! we; we we—we “‘Upon my word, I’ve forgotten my own verses,’ he exclaimed, and stopped there. Somebody prompted him ; he took up the thread again, but he couldn’t get on any farther. “He apologized, but the owner of the Phonograph de- clared that the cylinder was more valuable to him on ac- count of the breakdown than if the poet had recited it right through.”—From R. DeCordova’s Illustrated Interviews in The Strand Magazine.