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[…]the image, I think at one point they thought should be built up, I don’t know long it lasted. But anyway, there were, based there, there were central publicity. When I say – I don’t know too much about this, but there was certainly artists’ publicity, personal publicity... I’m trying to remember nam[…]
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[…] for a couple of years. Do you remember whether the public welcomed the advent of sound or did they like […]
