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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1953.
INDUSTRY WITH A SONG
Miss Mansfield's Job Is To Listen To Music All Day Long
By HUGH CLELAND
You could call it the industry with a song in its
heart, the vast complex organisation covered by the initials E.M.L. (standing for Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd.),
for
the
It does unmentionable top-secret research Ministries, and hus teams of men working on Woomera rocket range; but it also brings to the bed- sitting room of the bachelor girl the voice of her current. song-hero ur her favourite band - gramophone records labelled HMV, Columbia, Parlophone and others, around 20 million a year of them. It built four out of the BBC five high-power TV transmitters and stil found time to pioneer electric ironing.
Margaret O'Mahoney, from County Cork, carries two 17in cathode ray tabes, destined for big TV acts.
EMI employs' 15,000 people in that are now the headquarters cord of the Love Scene from
nam d
Charles
In London arrived
it
even
A
Was
tramophon at home, but
on TV
Harry Neal, of Norwood Green, Southall, a scientific- glans blower, works on a TV camera tube, The Job takes about an hour and a half-to produce the main structure of the TV camera's electric ..
In EMI's research department, a colour-TV camera is focused on 20-year-old Deirdre Day. of Southall. On a TV sereen in the building Deirdre's natural colouring (she uses no special. make-up), comes out perfectly, but it will be some time, say the experts, before colour TV is
available for homes in this country.
Harry Lime Theme "cold" without having seen the im and, remembering other zither records that had never cauglit on, furned It down, until other- wise advised by his staff.
I asked him what the next lunes were likely to be that would be favourites. lls an- I endet my tour with Mr Swer: Saw Mummy Kissing D. E. G. Mittel,
and Sunta Claus. Swan Song managing
When Was Young. director of EMI Studies Ltd., in charge of all the firm's records
Up and up and recording affairs.
day-rampies taken at the ratio
About 3,000 of the 15,000 people from every 100 records EMI onploy in Great Britain are of one pressed.
highly skille and tmined Jock Mason, a record press technologists. "Of my 3,000," cáin man who was busy with a re- Mr Clifford Metcaffe, managing o! EMI Engineering director Private Lives, furning out 80- Development, Lid.. "over 400 are this country, ha
f of EMI. A score
00 records En hour, has :st-class graduate engineers. I niet The Best person baldiary companies in cous-
Sir Alexande TV. Ho
no Nowe is a woman, though there tries ranging from Belgium to the chairman,
not have elec- re tavo wenen arembling ele:- Brazil, Grecve
India,
and Alkman, who, with Mr Leonard
So when he appeared tronic valves in the neighbouring started 60 years ago, when a John Brown, managing director, himself, and beat the research laboratories, zenong the
Barry told me the company's history. man
panel
in What's My Line, hin white-gasted anonymous back- Owen
to We talked in the chairman's market Krumophone which oflee, which had no TV set, not family had to go elsewhere 10 reen boys who work on projects ranging from TV camera iuber to look in. two radiogram. Just had been invented by a fellow-
You pick up a fascinating lot nuclear physical particle counters. unobtrusive American, Emil Berliner, some teltphones and
of incidental intelligence going
In colour inter - offer communication years before.
round a vast and varied organisa- Barry Owen found marketing microphone-loudspeaker.
Lion like this. Thus, from Mr It seems a long slepem tough, lie took his despair to a
Beyond the windows of the Andrew Forbes, onnager of the nuclear physis to caterialment, for-sighted solicitor, Trevor office rose the 220ft, must (the international department, the fact but it was hi that same dep1:3- Lloyd Willis who rounded up prototype of that at Alexandra
tement that they showed me coleur a handful of friends to buck the Palace, though stripped of its that in platilo West Africa television. Since seeing I can
and India extra loud needles hardly face the other variety. new Invention. A company was serials now). from which the
ber-sellors--cause people like formed, which from oftlers in first electronje (as opposed to in mak
They showed me pictures of a to take their purchases heard, Maiden Lane, W.C., began mechanical) TV brondcasts
end a gramophone, like a radio Pretty girl, whore eyes on the company marks ung
through Europe were made in 1934.
zel, is judged largely on its con appeared delightfully grey gramophones made in America The company bought a house volume.
Tyck
records produced in Hon- 10 miles away for looking-in Profesor Harry F. Trewman, A menent or two later I met OVIT.
purposes. The first TV
pro principal and managing director the gil, who was still being gramme they looked a17 A of EMI Testituler 144.. told me televised. le: none was Deirdre Mickey Mouse cartoon,
that while theoretically there is Day, the la 20 years old, Ilves In From the chairman's office 1 no reason in the world why South:11, and hat eyes of just the Mr Mittell is a Bach lover, and
This is an Industry," Mr went to talk to a
Hirl with
#twenien should not go in seriously chade the screen had reported. his home is so full of gramophone Emery said, "that never stops Job a cool many might envy, for the study and practice of Sirtelly speaking, Miss Day is a records that from time to time still, and we're stil only on Yvonne Mansfield, 17, who is clestrantes, by feel they do not, technical librian. She has fe has to ask someone to call the fringe of the possibilities paid to listen to records every At the institute headquarters been used to demonstrate colour and taire a load away.
there are. day and spot faults. She 19 in No.1ing Hill, ore 200-odd TV for four yearn now, reckons. But the latest song of dance I said this was an industry younger than most In this de- shudcols from comtries all over she got the job because she hit is as much of his business with
a song In its heart. I partment, but, the departmental the world, taking courses lasting appeared at work one day in a manager said. is very good at from three week: to four years, colour-photogenie striped jun- an expert of them, though he transcribed
as Bach or Beethoven. He Is suggest those words might be, to become the the job. especially hen. It There is cot one woman cineng per
cheerfully admits he heard the industry'e theme song. comes to records
When of singers them.
I saw her, sho wbs talking to people on the 100- (Mario Lanza is her favourite).. "Yo. I should have thought it wearing a pretty frock the firin acre Prop of factories, In a roundproof cubicle. #ke would have been in extollent provided to show what colour Jaboratories, workshops and these In record shops, Yvonne curce: for a wenza," the Profeter TV could do with soft and varled; onless
Ai Hayes (Middlesex) plays over 100-120 records sald,
colours.
A year or two later the com- pany. which Immediately Nourished, required the trade- mark of the terrier-dug listen ing to "His Master's Voler. The dog, named Nipper, be longed
Artist Francis Barraul's brother, and had in- deed lizen caught listening
to
his master's voice.
Sightseeing
I spent a day sightseeing an
to
the way
of that
He spoke of the integrity of What are the general trends? -
I #ker! Mr Ernest John dise-jockeys, the steadily widen- ing public tuste for classical Emery, managing director
and Service. f which the EMI Sales music,
gradually persuaded Just before I left. TV is ati
that appreciating little- on the up-and-up grade people intor known works by great
com" tion,
#tarted with the Corona- he said. People tend formed by the posers by having them per-
smaller radilo sots. greatest artists to buy avattable so that people gat up Rising
sales ol radiograms and took notice.
refes the growth in musical appreciation.
•
Chairman Sir Alexander Aikman (right) and managing director L. J. Brown discuss the latest phase of EMI's plans for selling records for dollars on the U.S, market.
Jock Mason, originally from Stirling, beat the BBC's What's My Line? panel with his job of record-pressman. He has been with EMI for 26 years, presses 10ln. records at the rate of 90 an hour. 12in. at 80 an hour.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
Music, music, music. Yvonne Mansfield, 37, of Hayes, apanda. most of her working day listening to gramophone records, alert for faults, Alternately, as here, she attends to appllancéa that welgb-tent "master" records for their durability,
*—(London Express Service)
Seventeen-year-old Margaret Hutton, of Hayes End, examines a museum-piece, a hand-operated gramophone, alongside one of
the latest all-electric radiograms. Less than 60 years separate the two models.
JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK SILVERY MOON, W.I.
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mean constabic," "There was a
he went on, whin ing. At the Meeting verneembared singing the song on Kenneth said, "Didn't you see youths,"
Ime put my hands to my ears? I periodically route-marches.
labrfere with this Ground, in Hyde Park, the
Suddenly there was a flash and hate fireworks. I think they're happy singing meeting. . They Inst of the speakers had the crash et сти explosion. llly, childish things. I've nivie threw the fireworks, and I heard folded
the prisoner say "nasty toys.” I his platform, Another. Tarn a third. The sing touched them in my life." pocketed what the Army had thrown the fireworks, hooted the firowork went off," said the abhors rough play. He's a very Ing stopped, stid the youths who “I saw your hand go tip, then uppen to know the prisoner would describe as the un- and roared, plussed with their officer.
refined young man." expended portion of his success. platitudes, and left. Now, A policeman hurried towards against the hum of traffic, the noise. He saw an arm go said, "Noise affects them, zo
He was invited into music softly rose and fell, and a moment later there put up my hands to them."
tio was another explosion.' He drew instead of invective.
his own conclusions and witners-box.
What Is your dishevelled," arrested the arm's owner. employment?" the learned clerk
named asked him.
**I'm
Hate
"But to 'my_cors," Kenneth
"What do you say the youtha who threw the fireworks looked llké?" the magistrate asked,.
"Small in stature and rather said Koznoth's
A score of people, men and dark, tall 27-year-old
"Well," cald the magistrate, Prcemen, were singing. There were Kenneth.
"I don't quite beo how the officer bass voices and sopranos, sci- skilled volous attempting dose ting off fireworks in a public Yes, yes, but what about last dismiss the charge."
arresting you, for lot. "I'm in private service," the
said, "the same place. 12 years this witness has
wrong but in view of what raid, 'I shall ha:mony, and rough untutored place," he explained. cons glad to be within an octave- "B-But
night?". I Avan aliging. I
At those words, a thing hap and-a-half of the night note.
Kenneth "I was concentrating on the pened that is unusual at Mari- firewing said. Next "By the light of the silvery
at Great singing," Kenneth said. "Iva borough Street. From the pub2: mco," they sung by the light Marlborough Street he pleaded witnesses."
gallery
sharp,"short of the alivery moon....."
not guilty to the charge be They came forward. A middle burst of clapping and chorring. The more ecmune among the fore Mr Paul Bennett, VC. aged woman, first, then a young | And Kenneth, in the dock, "singers" half-closed their "øyta, The policeman told the magis salesman, who said; "I was jumped, startled, and his hands clasped hacks, and tried to trato what he had seen and moderately taking part in the went, Instinctively towards his imagine themselves elsewhere, on heard, and Kenneth was invited proceedings. I know this man is cars-two Elend witzexes he the deck of a dreamship, say, "or ] to" ask;ħtm questions,
completely innocent.”
had not thought, of calling,
Cams
Pop, wake up and hear the tune I learned to play alrondy.
on that bagpipe 'you brought, mo yostòrday from the convention!"
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