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Property of Academy of TLES, TALKER AND TELEVISION FEATURES Motion Picture Arts and SCiences COMMENT NEWS DIGE ST Not to be removed from this JND\WAV£5 FEATURES room ring the Epoch of Science in Pictures" YWOOD, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 15, 1928 Price: 5 Cents Japan-es-e"T"alre-r"--s --==--r-..-J"c:n:;pendent Film Producers Merge STUDIOS SPEED UP PRODUCTION Rumored Imminent Talker Interests FOLLOWING HOOVER'S ELECTION Merger of leading Hollywood film producers with the Sonora "Full Speed Ahead"-not the title of a railroad melodrama, but On Talker Horizon Phonograph Company to form a the command of a dozen producers in the biggest motion picture stu $10,000,000 motion picture com dios, following the t emporary lull coincident with the excitement of Indication of the ever-widening bine, was the chief topic of inter :·: election time and t he choice of scope of talking motion pictures est in the film colony this week. Herbert Hoover for president. has been- given by t he pr esence in The new corporation, to be WID PICKS Hoover's election means con Hollywoo d of J ohn Tateyama, known as the Gotham-Bristolphone tinued prosperity for the fi lm in young Japanese electrical engi Company, brings together Sol SHELDON FOR dustry. In fact, his campaign had neer, reported to be the repre Lesser, E. M. Asher, Edward among its most influential mem sentative of a huge Japanese finan Small, Sam Sax,. Charles R. Rog SPIDER ROLE bers several men closely identified cial organization that will make ers, who will be general manager with leadership in the motion pic 80und fil ms. and others. The organization will t ure world. Tateyama, educated in America replace the Bristolphone company, F PERHAPS more than or Aside from this fact, the Re and himself financially independ founded by E. H. Bristol. dinary inte rest to studio publican administration has al ent, has come to the film mecca to A tentative production schedule O folk as well a s thousands of ways fostered the growing indus learn the details of sound appar calls for twenty-four all talking film fans, is the verification by try, which, now again in its in atus so that American methods features and fifty-one short sub Wid Gunning of First National fancy as regards the field of may be introduced in the making jects in sound at production cost that Sheldon Lewis, the famous sound fi lms, may go on to new of Japanese talkers. of more t han $5,000,000. American stage and screen actor, heights with full confidence of a Details of Tateyama's mission is now doing a very important role friendly government. and his connections have n ot been SONORA TONE STARTS in " Sa ta n" ( formerly "Seven Foot learned as yet. Charles R. Rogers, General stepS' to Satan"), under Benjamin Shakespeare produced on t he Manager of Sonoratone Pictures, Christensen's d irection. American stage. WARNERS TO MAKE the distributing organization of According to word breezed One of the first legitimate ac SHUBERT SUCCESSES Asher, Small and Rogers, Gotham about the Burbank lot, Lewis has tors to enter pictures, Lewis has By a transaction recently com Productions and Lesser-Warner evolved one of the most interest played with such artists as Mans pleted, Warner Brothers have Pictures, announces -that a Goth mg- ma.k -Upi; of -hlS career for his field, Blanche Walsh, Ada Rehan, come into possession of a large am producing unit, headed by Sam characterization of "The Spider." the late Henry Miller and others number of the Shuberts' play hits Sax, has started work at the com To those who have followed his ca of note. Pathe's "The Clutching for vitaphone reproductions. Cer pany':; studios in Waterbury. The reer, however, this is not surpris Hand" and "The Iron Claw" tain Shubert theaters will be used first t hree short subject s of the ing, since his art is already en marked his picture debllt fifteen to exhibit them. comp<!ny's schedule 52, are being tered in modern theatrical history years ago. His future activities The contract r uns into large 'shot,' with the Sonora-Bristol while his record of over 300 differ have not been made known, al money. Not only will t he War phone sound process. Herman ent modern roles on the legitimate though it has been learned that ners use about 30 Shubert plays Heller, formerly of Vitaphone, is is only equalled by the fact that one other of the big companies is • during the coming year, but they musical director of this organiza he has proven his versatility in seriously considering signing him will use more of them thereafter. tion. every comedy and tragedy of for a series of talkers. Shades of Inferno -.-. Noted Actor -.-. Creates Weird Character Sheldon Lewis Val Paul, Benja min Christensen, Ben Silvey Lew is, Again The Spider P erfect W ork in g U nit " A s Is" "Talkers mean the art of the character artist will be recogPl ized as Center photo shows Val Paul, business manager; Director Benjamin a vital and living element of the drama, and that the voice will reg Christensen, and Benny Silvey, assistant director, of "Satan," in which ister each emotion, t h u~ running the gamut in each screen character Lewis appears. This is said to be one of the most interesting myst ery ization," stated Sheldon Lewis, left, whose conception of "The Spider" pictures of the year. Right, an "after" likeness of Lewis to t he "be il causi ng considerable attention at First National Studios. fore" on t he left. • Page Two SOUND WAVES Novembcr 15, 1928 SDIJND\ WAVES VON STROHEIM'S LA TEST "Heralding the Epoch of Scienc~ in Pictures" GREA T DESPITE CUTTING Published the first and fifteenth of each month by Sound Waves By JOHN QUILLAN Publishing Company, 1711 Winona MONTH'S BEST Blvd" Hollywood , California. P hone TALKER BETS ~98- 2 1 7 . Natalie Moorhead CEDRIC E. HART INCE EVERYONE IS TAK· E ditor a nd P ublish er F lorence E ldridge ING A " FALL" FOR TALK· CHARLES F ARR, A ssociate E d Stanley Taylor S ING PICTURE S, WE MAY !tor; PAUL SPIE R , Dra m atic E d George Leffi ngwell SOON H E AR F ROM THE Itor; ~ . D . GL ASS, Special R epre Montague Shaw sen tative; E V E WAIN, Special CARTHA Y CIRCLE - "Inter PRINCE OF WALES. Correspondent; E D. G . GRESS ference," Paramount's first talkie. Frederic March .. .. .. 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