From actual photograph 
made March 10, 1920, in 
Carnegie Hall, Hew York. 
LIGHTS 
© T. A. E. INC. 
The lights 
flashed on. Case 
was gone. Iler 
voice had been 
coming from the 
New Edison. 
stood beside the 
New Edison 
and sang. 
wem oh 
Case s voice 
continued. 
The miracle 
at New York City 
Great audience of 2,800 people couldn’t tell which 
was singing — the New Edison or Anna Case. 
Startling “Dark-Scene” Test ends in overwhelm¬ 
ing triumph for Mr. Edison’s new phonograph. 
James Montgomery Flagg tells the story. 
{See New York papers of March 11th: 
“ Times ”, “Sun aiul New York Herald ”, 
‘' Morning Telegraph ”, ‘ ‘Evening Mail' '“Even, 
ing Sun ’ ’, ‘ ‘ Globe ’ ’ and ‘ ‘Evening 1 ' elegram ’ ’.) 
Suppose you could have in your own home a 
phonograph exactly like the famous Official 
Laboratory Model which triumphed in this 
startling test! 
—a phonograph that had actually rivalled one 
of the world’s greatest sopranos ! 
—a phonograph which, by its marvelous art, 
had kept 2,800 New Yorkers glued to thei r seats ! 
Well, it was just a regular Official Labora¬ 
tory Model which Mr. Edison used in this 
astonishing proof of the New Edison’s realism. 
Carnegie Hall, New York 
On March 10th, 1920, in Carnegie Ilall, New 
York City, the great event came off. Anna 
Case, the superb American soprano, was there; 
she had been asked by Mr. Edison to make the 
test. Noted music critics, newspaper men 
and James Montgomery Flagg were there; they 
had been asked to witness the test. 
The famous auditorium was packed to its top¬ 
most gallery. Curiosity ran high. Everybody 
was wondering what Mr. Edison was going to do. 
Mr. Flagg’s Story 
“A pleasant gentleman in an Ascot tie,” writes 
Mr. Flagg, “introduced the phonograph, which 
stood unemotionally in the center of the stage. 
Then Miss Case. She draped her beautiful self 
in an almost affectionate posture against the 
phonograph. One of her own song recordings 
was put on the instrument, and they. Miss Case 
and the phonograph, sang together. Then she 
would stop, and her other self would continue— 
then together again—I looked away and then 
back again—and it puzzled me to determine 
which was at the bat! She sang a charming 
duet with herself, too—one of them doing the 
alto business—I couldn’t say which. 
“Then the tallest pianist in the civilized 
world, sometimes called Victor Young, played 
a charming thing, accompanied by himself via 
the phonograph—lifting his fingers away from 
the keys now and again. I could SEE him 
stop playing, but I couldn’t HEAR him stop. 
It was remarkable. 
The Dark Test 
“Then the big stunt of the recital—the dark 
scene. 
“Miss Case began singing with the phono¬ 
graph. At a certain stanza, the house was 
suddenly darkened. 'The song went on. I was 
shooting out my ears like periscopes to detect 
the second when she w ould stop and leave the 
stage. I was sure I got it! Hut she seemed 
to be back again ! Then I knew I was being 
completely deceived. 
“The flood of light came on again—but no 
Anna! Only the self-possessed and urbane 
phonograph standing there, singing away. 
“It was quite wonderful. The audience 
applauded. Two girls behind me said, ‘Goo- 
gracious!’ It was both charming and astonish¬ 
ing.” 
-—James Montgomery Flagg. 
Guaranteed Duplicates 
You can have an instrument every bit as good 
as the one that performed so wonderfully in 
Carnegie Hall. 
The instrument used in Carnegie Hall, New 
York City, on March 10th, 1920, was an exact 
duplicate of Mr. Edison’s original Official Lab¬ 
oratory Model, which cost him three million 
dollars to perfect. 
Your local Edison dealer also has a duplicate 
of this famous three million dollar original. 
He’ll be glad to show it to you. What’s more 
—he’ll guarantee this instrument to be able 
to sustain precisely the same test as that 
made at New York City on March 10th. 
Look in your local - newspaper for your 
Edison dealer’s advertisements. Take the 
whole family along when you go in to see the 
famous Official Laboratory Model. 
NOTE—If you don’t know who your nearest Edison 
dealer is, drop us a postal. We’ll tell you his name 
and address, and mail you, with our compliments, a 
copy of that fascinating book, “Edison and Music. 
THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc., Orange, N. J. 
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“The Phonograph with a Soul 
