[78-L] Pathe 20" use, was pizza sizes

[Harold Aherne]

Here's a video of a 20" Pathé; the selection is «Elle était souriante» by Mansuelle (is 
this the same artiste as Eugène Mansuelle, who lived 1873-1938?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvbkSvGMJSQ
 
Here are the lyrics to the chorus:
 
Le lendemain, elle était souriante / A sa fenêtre fleurie chaque soir 
Elle arrosait ses petites fleurs grimpantes / Avec de l'eau de son p'tit arrosoir 
 
Which essentially means that she was smiling at her window as she watered her 
flowers. 
 
-HA
 

--- On Sun, 10/9/11, bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net> wrote:


From: bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Pathe 20" use, was pizza sizes
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Date: Sunday, October 9, 2011, 8:51 AM


Also according to Ron's Book, "U.S. Pathe Advertisements in the October and November editions of Talking Machine World do include a mention of 20" records being available at $4.00 each, and these are the only U.S. Ads to date that have reference to these records. There are not included in the formal U.S. catalog of center start or rim start records; all copies sold in the U.S. would have come by special order from Europe, unless a few were kept in stock here for demonstration purposes. These records were recorded at 120-130rpms. It appears that these records had to be played with a specially orders phonograph from Europe as none of the regularly stocked Pathe machines for sale in the U.S. had a turntable compartment wide enough for 20" records.