THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTUN, GEORGIA.
Last Night’s Audience
Mystified by Phonograph
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Hears famous soprano
compare voice with RE-CREATION by Edison’s new phonograph
could not tell the two apart
^LADYS RICE, the popular soprano, WHAT WIZARDRY WAS THIS? IT WAS THE TEST OF DIRECT
"OM PARIS AN WITH THE LIVING ARTIST, WHICH THOMAS A. EDI¬
gave an extraordinary recital last night SON HAS DEVELOPED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE OFFICIAL
at Main Auditorium. LABORATORY MODEL OF HIS NEW PHONOGRAPH WILL SING ANY
SONO EXACTLY AS IT WAS SUNG BY THE ARTIST, AND THAT HIS
MIS* RICT WALKED ON TO THE STAGE AND STOOD BESIDE A RE-CREATION OF A SINGER’S VOICE, AS IT COMES FROM HIS WON¬
STATELY CABINET. SHE BEGAN TO SING "FOREVER IS A LONG, DERFUL NEW PHONOGRAPH,POSITIVELY CANNOT BE DISTIN¬
LONG TIME.” THE AUDIENCE IMMEDIATELY YIELDED TO THH GUISHED FROM THE SINGER’S ACTUAL VOICE, WHEN BOTH ARE
SPELL OF HER BEAUTIFUL VOICE THEN -SUDDENLY THERE WAS HEARD IN DIRECT COMPARISON.
A STIR—A SUBDUED MURMUR OF SURPRISE—AND A PERPLEXED
RUBBING OF EYES. THE VOICE CONTINUED TO FILL THE AUDI¬ MISS RICE MADE REPEATED COMPARISONS—ALWAYS WITH
TORIUM WITH UNDIMINISHED SWEETNESS—YOUR EARS WERE THE SAME RESULT, IT WAS TRULY WONDERFUL. THIS MASTER
PROOF OF THAT—BUT HER LIPS HAD BECOME ABSOLUTELY SI¬ ACHIEVEMENT OF THE GREAT WIZARD, EDISON, MARKS A NEW
LENT—YOUR EYES TOLD YOU THAT. EPOCH IN MUSIC. 4 t -,S ms*.
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THE NEW EDISON
'The Phonograph With A Soul
YOU CAN HAVE A DUPLICATE OF THE* WONDERFUL LNSIRL- We HAVE TEN OF THE FAMOUS
OFFICIAL LABORATORY MOD¬
MENT USED AT MAIN AUDITORIUM AND, IF YOT ACT QI ICKLY, ME
ATE (SIGNED LX ELS AND MISS RICE HAS CERTIFIED EVERY ONE OF THEM, COME
FURNISH YOU WITH AX EXGRAI EI> CERT1I H
MISS RICE) CERTIFYING THAT IT IS AX EXA< I Dl PLK ATE IX TO OUR STORE AT ONCE AND ASK TO SEE AND HEAR THE
TONAL QUALITY OF THE INSTRUMENT SHE USED IN HER AMAZ¬
OFFICIAL LABORATORY MODELS ON WHICH MISS RICE HAS IS¬
ING COMPARISON; ALSO THAT IT WILL SUSTAIN I’RH IS ELY I III
SUED HER CERTIFICATES OF AUTHORITY!
SAME TEST.
J.W.HENDERSON,
“The Music Man,”
Mansfield, GEORGIA
