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Show " A World Wonder Wonders follow wonders, each won- der greater than the last. Some of them would be unbelievable were it not known that they were scientific successes. The following is not an idle i tale but a demonstrated, workable suc-i suc-i cess, explained in the current number I of thj New York Clipper. I On January 3, Thomas A. Edison, ! after working on it for nearly 25 years gave demonstrations of his latest and perhaps ' most remarkable invention, his kinetophone, or talking picture machine, and was satisfied that it was a complete success, and now the talking talk-ing motion pictures are promised a public exhibition in the New York theatres within the next thirty days. The test was made at the laboratory of the wizard and here is how it works: A man entered the picture on the canvas, can-vas, dropped a plate and the audience heard the noise plainly. Then came I a man and played the piano, the i.otes floating through she hall. Then a lady appeared with her viclin and together i with the piano played "Hume, Sweet Home."- Another woman entered and sang a number of old melodies. Scenes from great plays were shown and the voices of the actors could be htrard distinctly and the synehroism was per-i per-i feet. Edison says of the invention that now shortly everybody will have an opportunity to see and hear the celebrated people of the stage, the voices will be. easily, recognizable ana the larger the theatre the better. "You may say lor me," he says, "the talking moving pi.ture is no longer a theory but a scientific fact." It is not a phonograph added to a motion picture machine, but a machine in itsself which puts both sce;.e and voice on the screen. |