Show I j j I The Vit ne' ne 9 r By DR FRANK CRANE CRANE The t e latest improvement of the movie p I I It is a successful end endeavor n oJ to to bring music and musicians to the screen and to synchronize sound with sight S. S S What Thomas Edison prophesied thirty years ago when working with the phonograph that some Home day we would see as well as hear the performances has come to pass This synchronizing seems to be perfect For Tor ex example example example ex- ex ample in John latest production When Vh n na a Man iian Loves we have presenta presentations ons of Marion Marlon Talley and other grand opera singers Their voices seem to proceed directly from the pictures The sound fills th the large auditorium and the p performance pet per t- t is a It marked d triumph of invention The Vit phone does not give us us' us l a a. talking movie It Is a a question whether a talking movie will ever be a success beca because se it is a a. a question Whether the public wants it The supplies the necessary m mUsk and such Important and dramatic sounds to make the movies more realistic In the we can see the tho orchestra play and also hear hear its sound quite as well as If it were In the same room When I attended attend d the on performance I It sounded as though the orchestra were In the usual pit There Ther was no orchestra at at all but the sound came to us through the ap ap- ap- ap r This This' wonderful invention will do much to add to fo o othe the pleasure of U- U those ose living Jiving far tar from great cities These cities employ the great artists and have haye inon money y enough to present spectacular perfo performances the the sight of which is denied to small smaller r centers The fhe will bring the work worl of th great artists to the small town and to the country Thus It will vill be an aid ald to io the the spread pf culture One of the greatest benefits of the will willbe willbe willbe be to record and preserve the appearance as well as the voices of great persons persons after they die At present presen we pan can an only read their works in in the library or or see their pictures in s some me form of still life Ufe The apparatus is the the result of the joint effort of of the Western Electric company and the Bell Dell Telephone Telephone Telephone Tele Tele- phone laboratories with witti Warner Brothers producers of John Barrymore's pictures Its Its' first movie was wa that of Will Hays Hays the movie czar making a s speech eccli As a me means n for preserving the personality of those who are famous th the ranks at the head It Is the most significant improvement made in inI recent alS in the art alt of moving pictures S Like every other in invention It comes as the as-the the result of the vor work Worl of many menThe men i I IThe The delicate business of recording human speech and natural sound seems to be satisfactorily solved Tomorrow Easter Copyright 1927 McClure Newspaper Syndicate |