The Archive · 1939

"Room Service"

Sure to draw packed houses at the Nanking Theatre today, Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx romp through their antics mostly in a bedroom.

With them are Lucille Ball and Ann Miller, Municipal Orchestra's Thirteenth Concert Beethoven's 7th Symphony will be the principal item of the programme to be presented at its 13th Symphony Concert byr the Municipal orchestra in the Lyceum today at 5.15 p.m.

Another great attraction, however, is in store for the music-lovers who will attend the concert, namely, the re-appearance, after three years' absence, of the beautiful and bril-

Reynolds Trio Tonight the Reynolds Trio, star performers at the Lambeth Bar, will present new songs, dances in keeping with the regul: chang2/of programme. The trio con. sists of Rosie, Ray and Richard Renolds, all three being singers dancers and masters of various musical instruments. The Lambeth has its own orchestra and dance floor and is located on the balcony floor of the Paramount Ballroom. liant Polish pianiste, Tomaszewska.

Miss Tomaszewska was last heard with the Municipal Orchestra in 1939 in the E flat concerto by Liszt ge and many persons in Shanghai still remember her fine performance and her deserved great success, For this concert Miss Tomaszewska has chosen two compositions, the Burleske by Rich. Strauss and the "Fantasy upon Hungarian Melodies" by Liszt, in which her musical tem. perament and pianistic technical brilliancy will show to the best advantage.

The orchestra, besides the accompaniments of the Piano-works and Beethoven's "Seventh," will play a The 1939 Fords which are to be displayed in Shanghai by Messrs. Bills Motors shortly are so remarkably quiet because of the intensive research by scientists., Sound engineers who used stethoscopes, microphones, vibration analyzers and a variety of other instruments in tracing: down unwanted car noises are given much of the credit for the exceptional silence in the passenger compartment of the 1939 cars of the Ford-Lincoln family, Road tests, in which sounds were measured and analyzed at all speeds from 20 miles an hour to 70 and more, were conducted over many different kinds of road surface and with the car coasting, cruising and accelerating. During the rany months these were under way, exhaustive laboratory experiments were being made to develop better sound deadening materials. The findings of all the tests were coordinated in designing 1939 bodies.

A principal instrument in the road y|tests was the sound level meter, Which gives an accurate measure of the volume of sound. It consists of a microphone, an amplifier and a voltmeter calibrated in decibels. The microphone converts the sound into an electrical current, which is stepped up by the amplifier and measured by the voltmeter,

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