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WikiSysop: Created page with "{| align="right" | TOC |} ==Summary== This page presents a biography of Franklin Vories Fisher, always known as '''Vories Fisher'''. It is part of the wiki Classical 'S..."

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 Fisher was the only child of George Franklin Fisher Jr. (1876-1942), manager of a laundry, later President of the Hyde Park Laundry Company and an officer of the Illinois Laundry Owners' Association,<ref>'Sober Is Head Of Laundry Owners', ''The Decatur Herald'' [Decatur, Illinois, Saturday 24 March 1928, p.24; 'George Fisher Pays $250,000 For Laundry', ''Chicago Sunday Tribune'', Sunday 19 May 1929, Part 3, p.2; 'Death Notices', ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', Wednesday 18 November 1942, Section Two, p.28</ref> and Grace Elizabeth Vories (1877-1959), born into an affluent family prominent in the baking industry.<ref>'Week Of Weddings', ''The Sunday Inter Ocean'' [Chicago, Illinois], 12 June 1898, p.17; 'Harry F. Vories Funeral Rites To Be Tomorrow', ''Chicago Sunday Tribune'', 16 August 1931, Part 1, p.16; 'Death Notices', ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', Wednesday 22 April 1959, Part 3, p.[12]</ref> The Fishers were reportedly conservative and not artistic; Vories' personality, artistic, altruistic and progressive, was in noted contrast to theirs.<ref>Information kindly supplied by Fisher's daughter (personal communications, June 2017)</ref>
-Vories attended <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Academy_High_School Hyde Park High School]</span> in Chicago, and then the University of Chicago, from 1918 to 1922, graduating as PhB (Bachelor of Philosophy).<ref>'Alumni News', ''University of Chicago Magazine'', Vol.LXII No.4, January 1970, pp.36-44</ref> At the University, Fisher was very active in student drama: he was a member and officer of the Dramatic Club, appearing in many of its productions, directing some of them, and finally becoming its President.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[http://campub.lib.uchicago.edu/view/?docId=mvol-0004-1918-1108;#page/1/mode/1up/ 'Dramatic Club Elects Seven Candidates To Associate Membership']</span>, ''The Daily Maroon'' [University of Chicago], Vol.XVII No.23, 8 November 1918, pp.[1]-2; <span class="plainlinks">[http://campub.lib.uchicago.edu/view/?docId=mvol-0001-0027-0000;#page/226/mode/1up/ 'Dramatic Club']</span>, ''Cap & Gown'' (University of Chicago Junior Class yearbook), Vol.27, 1922, pp.210-13</ref> As well as acting in plays put on by other groups, in May 1922 Fisher played a reporter in <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett_Cormack Bartlett Cormack]</span>'s highly successful ''Anybody's Girl'', mounted by the <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.BLACKFRIARS Blackfriars]</span>, the student musical comedy society.<ref>Bird, Harry Jr. <span class="plainlinks">[http://campub.lib.uchicago.edu/view/?docId=mvol-0002-0014-0007;#page/18/mode/1up/ 'News Of The Quadrangles']</span>, ''University of Chicago Magazine'', Vol.XIV No.7, May 1922, p.256; see also 'Large Audience Applauds Plays by Chicago Authors', ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', Tuesday 2 May 1922, Section One, p.25 (Fisher is not named in this report)</ref> His appearance in the role was captured in a contemporary photograph:<br /><br /><img src=http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/ucpa/series4/derivatives_series4/apf4-03050r.jpg><br />
+Vories attended the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Laboratory_Schools University of Chicago Laboratory Schools]</span> in Hyde Park,<ref>I am grateful to Vories Fisher's daughter for sharing this information; private e-mails, 10 & 11 May 2021</ref> and then the University itself, from 1918 until 1922, when he graduated as PhB (Bachelor of Philosophy).<ref>'Alumni News', ''University of Chicago Magazine'', Vol.LXII No.4, January 1970, pp.36-44</ref> At the University, Fisher was very active in student drama: he was a member and officer of the Dramatic Club, appearing in many of its productions, directing some of them, and finally becoming its President.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[http://campub.lib.uchicago.edu/view/?docId=mvol-0004-1918-1108;#page/1/mode/1up/ 'Dramatic Club Elects Seven Candidates To Associate Membership']</span>, ''The Daily Maroon'' [University of Chicago], Vol.XVII No.23, 8 November 1918, pp.[1]-2; <span class="plainlinks">[http://campub.lib.uchicago.edu/view/?docId=mvol-0001-0027-0000;#page/226/mode/1up/ 'Dramatic Club']</span>, ''Cap & Gown'' (University of Chicago Junior Class yearbook), Vol.27, 1922, pp.210-13</ref> As well as acting in plays put on by other groups, in May 1922 Fisher played a reporter in <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett_Cormack Bartlett Cormack]</span>'s highly successful ''Anybody's Girl'', mounted by the <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.BLACKFRIARS Blackfriars]</span>, the student musical comedy society.<ref>Bird, Harry Jr. <span class="plainlinks">[http://campub.lib.uchicago.edu/view/?docId=mvol-0002-0014-0007;#page/18/mode/1up/ 'News Of The Quadrangles']</span>, ''University of Chicago Magazine'', Vol.XIV No.7, May 1922, p.256; see also 'Large Audience Applauds Plays by Chicago Authors', ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', Tuesday 2 May 1922, Section One, p.25 (Fisher is not named in this report)</ref> His appearance in the role was captured in a contemporary photograph:<br /><br /><img src=http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/ucpa/series4/derivatives_series4/apf4-03050r.jpg><br />
 (University of Chicago Photographic Archive, <span class="plainlinks">[http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf4-03050.xml apf4-03050]</span>, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

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 ==''The Phonograph Monthly Review''==
-In the autumn of 1926, a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, launched a new magazine. Clearly and closely modelled on ''The Gramophone'', ''<span class="plainlinks">[http://arsc-audio.org/blog/2016/10/27/phonograph_monthly_review/ The Phonograph Monthly Review]</span>'' aimed to emulate the British magazine's role as an independent intermediary between US consumers and producers of recorded music. Like its predecessor, the newcomer was enthusiastically received by record-buyers and collectors, and became a forum for their opinions and ideas, as well as an advocate for a local [[Gramophone, Phonograph and Record Societies|phonograph society movement]], publishing regular reports from new groups (Boston's own shared personnel with the ''Review''<ref>Axel B. Johnson, editor of ''The Phonograph Monthly Review'', was for a time secretary of the Boston Gramophone Society, see 'Boston G.S.' in 'Trade Winds And Idle Zephyrs', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.11, April 1926, pp.519-20 (on p.520); Frank B. Forrest, Business Manager of the ''Review'', was also a charter member of Boston Society, see Johnson, Axel B. <span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/stream/PMR_1_1/1_1#page/n29/mode/2up 'Topics of General Interest']</span>, ''The Phonograph Monthly Review'', Vol.1 No.1, October 1926, pp.29-30 (on p.29)</ref>).
+In the autumn of 1926, a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, launched a new magazine. Clearly and closely modelled on ''The Gramophone'', ''<span class="plainlinks">[http://arsc-audio.org/blog/2016/10/27/phonograph_monthly_review/ The Phonograph Monthly Review]</span>'' aimed to emulate the British magazine's role as an independent intermediary between US consumers and producers of recorded music. Like its predecessor, the newcomer was enthusiastically received by record-buyers and collectors, and became a forum for their opinions and ideas, as well as an advocate for a local [[Gramophone, Phonograph and Record Societies|phonograph society movement]], publishing regular reports from new groups (Boston's own shared personnel with the ''Review'', effectively its official organ<ref>Axel B. Johnson, Managing Editor of ''The Phonograph Monthly Review'', was for a brief time secretary of the Boston Gramophone Society, see 'Boston G.S.' in 'Trade Winds And Idle Zephyrs', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.III No.11, April 1926, pp.519-20 (on p.520); by late 1926, the post had been taken over by his assistant and staff writer Robert D. Darrell, see Darrell, Robert Donaldson 'Boston Gramophone Society', in <span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/stream/PMR_1_2/1_2#page/n31/mode/2up 'Phonograph Society Reports']</span>, ''The Phonograph Monthly Review'', Vol.1 No.2, November 1926, pp.33-35 (on pp.33-34); Frank B. Forrest, Business Manager of the ''Review'', was also a charter member of the Boston Gramophone Society, see Johnson, Axel B. <span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/stream/PMR_1_1/1_1#page/n29/mode/2up 'Topics of General Interest']</span>, ibid., Vol.1 No.1, October 1926, pp.29-30 (on p.29)</ref>).
 ''The Phonograph Monthly Review'' was a natural home for Fisher. The first number <span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/stream/PMR_1_1/1_1#page/n24/mode/1up introduced]</span> him to readers in glowing terms:

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 In the 1930s, Fisher changed career and worked as a professional photographer until his retirement.
-Dates of '''creation''' and '''latest update''': see 'Page information' in sidebar.
+For dates of creation and latest update, please see 'Page information' in left sidebar.
 ==Life==

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 This page presents a biography of Franklin Vories Fisher, always known as '''Vories Fisher'''.
-It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
+It is part of the site [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
 From the early 1920s, Fisher worked as a stock broker in Chicago. He also collected records, and wrote about them for British and US magazines.
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 ==[[Chicago Gramophone Society]]==
-Fisher's involvement with the Chicago Gramophone Society lasted from 1926, when the group [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Formation|was formed]] by [[Fisher, Dorothy B.|his wife]] and him, until its [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Decline|sudden disappearance]] in mid-1928. It is examined in detail on the [[Chicago Gramophone Society|relevant page]] in this wiki.
+Fisher's involvement with the Chicago Gramophone Society lasted from 1926, when the group [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Formation|was formed]] by [[Fisher, Dorothy B.|his wife]] and him, until its [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Decline|sudden disappearance]] in mid-1928. It is examined in detail on the [[Chicago Gramophone Society|relevant page]] of this site.
 ==Later employment==

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 ==Life==
-'''Born''' 23 May 1901, Chicago, Illinois, USA<ref>Biographical data for Fisher and family retrieved from birth, death, census, travel and other documents, accessed via <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ ancestry.co.uk]</span>, except where noted; additional details of Fisher's early life, education and personality kindly supplied by Fisher's daughter, whose kind and patient help are very gratefully acknowledged (personal communications, June 2017)</ref>
+'''Born''' 23 May 1901, Chicago, Illinois, USA<ref>Biographical data for Fisher and family retrieved from birth, death, census, travel and other documents, accessed via <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ ancestry.co.uk]</span>, except where noted; additional details of Fisher's early life, education and personality kindly supplied by Fisher's daughter, whose generous and patient help are very gratefully acknowledged (personal communications, June 2017)</ref>
 '''Married''' 28 October 1924, [[Fisher, Dorothy B.|Dorothy Button]], Chicago

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