Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 27 | German Musicians Fear Advent of Talking Pictures; Jobs Uncertain

German Cerman Musicians F Fear ear Advent Of Talking Pictures Jobs Uncertain By MAURITZ A. A H BERL BERLiN N UP Picture Picture te ten thousand thousand thou thou- sand G German crinan musicians tHe ts Not t musician of ot the German German Ger Ger- m man ri band type type-BO familiar f pre toi-pre- prewar pre war var America bUt who play in tho th fib movie i cathedrals and alt all of ot them hem pounding the pavements foots foot- foot s Bore ore rl weary and l' l perhaps also hungry hun- hun gry SlY ry going gains from pJ picture lure house to picture house or ot from cafe to t to cafe cae l looking for tOl work That is la tho the picture which the musicians musicians' uni unions n of or this co country ha have conjured up for fOl themselves as asa n a result of ot the advent nd of oC the talkies s. s The They hey fear teaL that ten thousand inca men members of or the roch stra's of Germanys Germany's Ger many's l larger cinema mt th theatres atres will be out of ot jobs If It 60 sound nd pictures continue making as rapid rapid headway as the they are arB doing doingt at at- t present And to to tobe be honest It I lo looks ks at it the moment as though very every one o of ot tle these e houses w was s going talkie Mr Already ady adr two o of ot the largest movies In n Berlin BerUn have havo given glyen p permanent noIce no- no tlc Ice to tl the d m members mb rs 0 of their orches- orches three others to follow tra tm a and oth rs plan u soon as s tone film apparatus can be be installed In tho provinces es the same sam unmistakable trend has been by the tue musicians musicians' un unions oft IS whO are now at last lalit after tt I r a period of ot preliminary skepticism m. m thor thor- aroused oer t tie the d dire e prospect pros pros- Officials of ot these organizations have ha s ed the hope hopa that th tIm tho y find lind It expedient t t. t to do something real ca catastrophe ca ca- from lom befalling t these se Unfortunate Un tin- fortunate to musicians and nd th their ll lam fam lUes Illes O On beh behalf l ot Jh the gov government t it has been suggested that the th t ten n I thousand soon so n to be J Jobless less movie musicians ns' ns can readily bo 16 absorbed d dinto into Ule orchestras s or 01 find agreeable agree agree- able work elsewhere lse It Itis is the theory theory theory the the- ory of at the tle ap spokesmen k for Cor th the go goy got that Germany has not yet l lost st It Its I taMo for humanly rendered as as distinct from canned music n Other observers observers' believe that th the moro worthy wOrthy of at these orchestra str be retained by the Hie theat theatres theatres the the- at atres res to provide musical numbers as a a. part of or th the regular program before and after atter th uie showing of the films This plan was adopted inthe In Intha Inthe the tha United States States' after tho of ot the talkies had thrown approximately movie musicians out of ot work I o 0