European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paris Library of sound curator of it Monoth que notional. Javk Box we Row rag in 1s95. N Edison s Standard phonograph Tut with Stethoscope earpieces substitute Lor amplifying Horn. Itou. Can heir it  Morton p. Guo woo is ports Bureau 0neal-�rnddiiddy of All Juke  to coloured Light. No selector by do pop tunes it a As wound by the sound came through card  to i. Thomas Edison s Little Coin in cow Taim d Sou or 5 a acoustical apparatus swallowed a i coins to the Paris exhibition of in Paris where t is on per habit along with in predecessor Edison graph phone of 1877, and of it morning glory horned sue the  National National Library of sound e display cases also to font phonograph to play Flat. Is we know them today i Early models used cylinders be been end heard is an Adlaon attempt to develop the listen commercial Poss Bill invention. His Standard phone pent to Paris for the exposition of uses with the Horn and Susti octopus like ganglia of rubber a in Stethoscope earpieces. Thus to the mechanism. 11 auditors at a listen to the scratchy recording a a presumably after pay pro Flega.  b historical exhibits by product of the institution s fat Button m National repository its collection begun in 1938 with 46 records now numbers More than 60.000 discs ranging from the recorded voices of the renowned through concert opera and popular music up to and including the twist. But if you come to the phone Cheque to listen to the latest twist music you will be politely turned away unless perhaps you can prove that you Are a scholar pre paring & thesis on the latest jazz craze. Although the Library has almost every commercial recording pressed in France and All records imported for sate in the country for More than a decade it is anything but a Mecca for the fringe bearded jazz addicts of nearby St Germain Des pres not More than 1,000 people came last year to the phone Cheque s modest premises on the Rue Des Bernardins. And the Cura Tor. Roger Deco Logne feels sure that every one of them came for assistance in some serious Pursuit or for other non frivolous reasons. Among these have been orchestra conductors wanting to hear earlier interpretations of Mozart concertos by departed maestros a linguist calling upon the Honor Cheque s vast collection of regional speech recordings to double Check the Provencal pronunciation of Betle file and an elderly gentleman making an excursion Back to his youth by listening to the voice of Sarah Bern hard t declaiming couplets from  in its collection of poets authors and dramatists Reading excerpts from their own works Are the voices of Alberl Camus Colette Rudyard Kipling Boris Pasternak and Tennessee Williams among Many others. The one most frequently called for. According to a Colllene. Are recordings of the French poet  apolinaire. Filed under the classification masters of thought Are the voices of Einstein. Freud and Gandhi and in the card file headed great political figures Are such unlikely neighbors As Charles de Gaulle Hermann Goering d w i g h t  Laval Franklin d. Roosevelt Joseph Stalin. Wood Row Wilson and mar Shal Phillipe Petain. The Mission of the phone Cheque natio Nale is wider and More Active in scope than the Mere cataloguing and preservation of recordings filed with it under the Taw or received As donations. It is no less than to preserve an aural record of our civilization and our times for posterity much As the written record is kept in the great Bibliog Cheque National. The Library s own teams Are continually recording the voices of contemporary personalities in the worlds of the theater music literature science and politics. Its collection of judicial eloquence includes the voices of eminent French. Judges prosecutors and attorneys in sonorous courtroom declaration. But under another classification the Sharp edged jibes of the French Mort sails of the Chanson enters or French political cabarets Are just As painstakingly preserved for future generations. In a few weeks a recording of astronaut John Glenn s voice Wilt take its place among the amateurs Cal dares along with France s own Pioneer of the skies ant dined Saint Exupero. While France was one of the first countries to plan a Library to House sounds a photos by Ted Rohde recorded history it was a Long time getting around to starting it. The idea was first proposed in 1904, but a Token Start was not made until 1929, when a Law was passed requiring recording firms to submit two copies of every record issued to be preserved in the National archives. The record makers were casual about complying and there was no machinery Tor enforcement. The creation of the phone Cheque National. In its present form was decided upon in 1932, but it underwent an eight year process of bureaucratic gestation during which it was discussed criticized defined and Buck passed without getting anywhere in particular. To did not open to the Public until a uary 1940, which was a Tittle late. The phone Cheque s 20th Century collection will probably never fill the gaps that it suffered by its late Start and those caused by two wars. Closed after Only five months by the nazi occupation it was revived alter the liberation of parts and under the director ship of do Cologne. Has developed into on of the most distinguished collections of recordings in the world its present premises Are hardly Large than a Good sized neighbourhood store and it is still boarding like a poor relative la in a Corner of the museum of the spoken word. But Deco Logne feels that it can get along until completion of a new building being constructed for the Biblo Tequ National the National Library where it will have roomier quarters. March 1962 the St to an stripes 11