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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

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 ...... Advertising R epresentative ; LIL I~ Pomel'oy's first directorial effort. The Prince is the sor t of fello. AN WEINSTOCK, Advertisin g Rep­ resentative; RAF AEL YBARRA Excellent. Shows what science and By PAUL SPIER who could Staff A rtist. ' art can do. play "The ~ ub sc rip tion Rate: One year, by .. .. • ESPITE the fact that "The Fall Guy" mall, $1.50, payable in a dva nce CRITERION - "The W edding Wedding March" has been w i thou t For eign: $2.00 per year. Advel'~ D sever ely cut, particularly at tising r ates on application . Sub­ March." See this issue. .Coming, a n y r e­ scription rate only t emporarily Nov. 16, "Lilac Time," with Col­ th.e end, the Von Stroheim opus is hearsals. pending decision to make Sound still one of the best pictures of .. .. Waves a w eekly publication. P r es­ leen Moore. * ent subs criptions received on one ...... the year. "The W edding March" O r "The year basis on ly. is a picture of Vie nna before the B e ggar on GRAUMAN'S CHINESE-War­ Horseback" ­ Contributions r ece ived s ubject ner Bros.' epic, "Noah's Ark." For war, lovely, romantic, carefree to editoria l discrimination. No and di ssolute. The Corpus Christi wi t hout a r esponsibility Rs s umed for inter­ f uture review. horse. view articles or signed comment ...... procession from St. St ephans * * * News item s may be r eproduced UNITED ARTISTS -"The cathedral is a marvel in detail, the I don 't providing credit is give n; features : Awake ning," with Vilma Banky. Viennese nobility, the charm of think t h e etc., only by writte n permis s ion. Same her e. the beer gardens, particularly the Royal Fam­ * .. latter, made a deep impression ily would WARNER BROS. - Current, with t his r eviewer , who has had consent t o let the Prince T ALKA TORIAL " The Singing Fool." Coming, Nov. t he good fortune to have a good talkie. His E nglish is 18, "On Trial" and here. glass of Hofbra u at the Pra ter. than Scotch...... Fay Wray gives a beautiful and ...... By CARL HA VERLIN F ILMARTE-"Wings." A great understanding performance. Mat ­ If he went into pic tul" CI:; h e no doui HE motion picture industry picture. hew Betz, Maude George, George would m a k e W es t er ns a nd demand an fl· today may be likened to a ...... Fawcett, Zasu Pitts and the late trn ch eck ever y *tim e.. he ..f e ll o ff . T Helen Kellar. Speechless for ME TROPOLIT AN George Ni cholls are all excellent. a quarter of a century, electrical Not to forget the extremely effec­ And judging f r om the numb! LOEW'S STATE of times he falls off , the co mpanJ genius has bestowed vocal organs UPTOWN tive synchronization, especially the upon a hitherto pantomimic art. reli gious music and the male choir. that employed him wo uld soon ru' ALHAMBRA out of money. While the organs are suitable cer­ FIGUEROA No sweet Pollyanna story t his, but tain brain centers, atrophied a powerful, amazingly clever piece .. .. BOULEVARD T h en h e'd have to accept ru bilr through disuse, must be vitalized RITZ of work. Do not miss it. checks. O f course h e might - enjoy h' before anything but stuttering TOWE R " Nightstick" self stretching them like rubber band. can r esult. Above theatres are all equipped .. .. * While, as an executive of one "Nightstick, " now on di splay at for Sound Productions. See dail y t ~ e Presid ent Theatre, manages by Or he could put t he rub of the nations leading broadcast­ paper s for Film Me nu. checks in his hip pockets and if ing s tations (KFI) , I shall prob­ ylrt ue of a number of well-imag­ In d a nd tensely handled sit ua­ f ell and landed on his bottom he' ably be accused of prejudice. I t ions, to prick up the audience's bounce right up again. ' nevertheless consider radio the RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ...... half-way point between the si­ ears and tickle the vertebrae t hi s despite the fact that the play has BY T HIS METHOD HE MIG lent a nd audible motion picture MOTHERKNOWSBEST screens. three distinct a nd separ ate end­ LOSE A F EW POUNDS, B (Fox)-See this in a theatre not ings. IT WOULDN'T BE ENGLIS Microphones. and equipment nec­ wired for Movietone. essal'y to r egister sound and voice ...... Like most melo-dramas, this one MONEY . effects for motion pictures are doesn't bear analysis. If you wish THE PATRIOT (Paramount) ­ to properly enjoy it, yo u've got t o identical with those used by broad­ The greatest picture of the year. NEW TERM SUPPLANTED casting stations. Silent motion pic­ place yourself in a pl easurably ...... dumb mood, and heads of the . Long a comma nd to begin fi tures have developed a magical mg a scene, "Camera!" has b command of. pantomime, line, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (Uni­ hom icid e bureau, cops with whites versal-The question still is "Will in their eyes, rich bootleggers, s uppla nted by t he word "In mass, expressIOn and other visual lock!" on the sound stages who dramatic elements. Broadcasters Eliza slip on the ice?" elaborately kept ladies, big g un­ ...... man with respect fo r virtuous la­ talking pictures are made. have developed a special and in­ new word, which typifies the inb nate sense which demands and STATE STREET SADIE (War­ dies, a policeman's family, mere et fille, will pass in review. Miss ence scientific t e rminology recognizes quality in sound, voice ner Bros. )-Gangsters talking out made at the studios, is a si and music; realize their effect on loud, incidental music by sirens Patsy Ruth Miller provided the r omance in the piece. La Miller's that the camel'as and r ecordi the audience and know the most machine guns and bullets. ' apparatus have been interloe desirable method of presentation...... act ing was natural and sincere with a voice that s hould be much and are in synchrony. A tal ' Is it not logical t o assume, since THE MATINEE IDOL (Colum­ picture scene cannot be suce this ability or sense is not to be bia)-This pictuI'e is decidedly in dema nd in the talkies. In a company made up of able actors, f ully film ed until this interloe . gained over night, and is to be worth your while. process has been accomplished found nowhere except in radio the work of Cameron Prud'homme ...... Stanley Taylor, George L e ffing~ synchronization of words and studios, that the picture game tion i::; a vital part of spoken could, with profit, call upon the THE STAGE well and Elmer Ballard is out­ PRE S ID ENT - "Nightstick" standing. "Nightstick" sho uld make logue films. The word made broadcasters f or co-operation in appearance a t the .Paramount the production of sound pictures? with Pat y Ruth Miller. See this an extremely eff ective sound and issue. dialogue picture. dios in Hollywood when the so Simile Given ...... stages first began operation thlJ There is a story of a blind man EL CAPIT AN-"The Shannons and a dumb man, whose remaining N. B.-"Nightstick" will soon Of. Broadway." This has every­ BRE MA IN HOTEL senses so complemented one an­ thing. Should make a great talkie. be produced both as silent and other, that t ogether they formed a .. dialogue pictures by Roland W est The possibilities seen in the very able pair, while apart they for United Artists. ' ture of " radio movies" have were helpless. This is an exag­ HOLLYWOOD PLAYHOUSE­ one New York h ot el to annou gerated comparison, of course, but "The Bes t P eople." Despite cer­ that it is planning the installa ' contains food for thought in this tain rumors, this play is not by L. A. REPERTORY THEATRE of a t elevision r eproducer in e "radio-talking" discussion, for tel­ Ann Nichols. Coming, Nov. 18, -"The Silver Cord." Sidney How­ room. How soon this step wo evision looms on the broadcaster's "The Lady Next Door." ard's opus on mother love, with be taken was n ot indicated. horizon. When it arrives, it will .. .. Nance O'Neil. William Fox missed be we)) for broadcaster s to avail BIL TMORE-"The Play's the this one. At Figueroa P layhouse starting Nov. 19. WOMAN SOUND DIRECT themselves of motion picture T.hing." A rare Schnitzel, saucy, To Dorothy Arzner, the brains, at least during the early pIquant and well acted. You can­ ...... active woman director in Ho stages of t elevision. n ot afford to miss it. BROADWAY P ALACE-Zieg­ wood goes the h onor of being If, after you consider there are .. .. f eld'3 famous musical comedy first woman to direct a so und tricks in all trades, and meditate MAY AN-"The Marriage Bed." "Sally," condens~d to slow motion: ture. It is "Manhattan Cock! on the fiascos in t he picture game We haven't got around to it yet. also "The Matinee Idol," with a backstage melodrama co-fea that can be attributed to ignor- My spies inform me that it should Bessie Love. See above. Coming ing Nancy Carroll , Ri chard A (Continued on Page 6) be seen. . another famous hit, "Irene." , and Paul Lukas. November 15, 1928 SOUND WAVES Page Three

Our Own Horn I RICHMOND LEIGH HERE FOR TALKERS I Foreign News -:- Nordlinger to Make Test -:- "a,. Servlnr Others, One Serves Oneself." M JEAN SAPENE, head of • Cineromans, interviewed in ELIEVING in this ancient Berlin, has suggested a laying, and living up to re- plan to overcome difficulties of ex- B cent editorial a ..ertions in change between France and Ger- tbil relpect, your editor has ac- many. For each French film cepted an invitation to speak on t., . bought for Germany, he luggests talkers at the Drama Luncheon three kontingenh for German

The obstacles to satisfactory transmission and r eception of in­ stantaneous light are many, and until they have been overcome, there will be f ew, if any, commer­ cial television receivers, engineers say. It is only the scientist and the experimenter with a wide knowledge of radio who can ob­ tain r esults with the present equip­ ment. Experts in this field disagree, as shown in Popular Mechanics, in a digest. Dr. Lee De Forest, invent­ or of the radio tube, declares, "Ten years or more." Dr. C. Francis J f!.nkins, motion picture and television inventor, says, "Ra­ diovisor receivers will be available by Christmas this year." David Sarnoff, general manager of RCA, states, "Four or five more years are yet needed for perfection," while H . P. Davis, vice-president of W estinghouse, declares, "Any­ thing so far demonstrated in t ele­ vision, in my opinion, would be premature if offered to t he public as a service." Warner Agrees Harry M. W arner, who brought out Vitaphone, stat es, "Dr. De Forest is absolutely correct in his statement that t heatre owners --Wide World. ha ve nothing to fear from t ele­ WED BY SCIENCE! J ames Fowlkes, of Kansas City, Mo., and Cora Dennison, of Chicago, were vision. Should this invention be manied via radio and television, last week, as announced in a previous issue of Sound Waves. The successful, it will be the greatest ceremony was perf01"fi'le d- at- Chicago Radio Show with the minister 200 miles away, at Des Moines, help to places of entertainment by Iowa. Thousands witnessed this demonstration of the new scien ce. stimulating interest direct in the Compared to the fastest cam· ::,~;~'~ ~~:m~l eye~~~S I O ~a~=c~:~ QUARTZ CRYSTAL SECRET OF TELEVISION eras on the market today, the 0 0 Oscillograph is 100,000 times 81 voted to pictures, I have never 0 l.J l S 0 1 A / . . seen t he time when science and -. - nas mportant Clentr IC pp lcatron -:- fast, using th e same type and size of film. The fastest camera in invention damaged the industry. By J. O. PERRINE Whether or not television and S d D . common use has a minimum speed radio movies are just around t he oun eVtCe IA SMALL crystal of quartz, of on e-thousandth part of a sec· corner, I predict that, when they To Be Made about the size and form of a ond. It is st ated that one can wi~ do come, they will prove a bless- &mall oblong pill box, repre­ ness the bombardment of electrolll ing and not a curse." In Hollywood sents the latest advance in the which it will photograph , by peep­ simplification of television systems ing through a round window, in by doing away with a complete an affair called the vacuum be~ That G. A. Bush , theatrical own­ telephone line or r adio transmit­ at a flu orescent screen. The en· Radio Commission er of San Diego, intends t o place ting a nd r eceiving system. The tire apparatus weighs 750 po undl his product, the Bush Synchro­ use of t his natural mineral, cut Actson Television ~achine Described phone, on the market in commer­ from its rather irregular crystal cial quantities, has been made form to r ectangular box shape, is A description from the Lot How to encourage t he develop­ known in an announcement which Angeles Times, says: the latest contribution of the Bell The m echanis m consists of two unit&, ment of television a nd still pic­ also states that he will erect a Telephone Laboratories in simpli­ ture transmission for the benefit factory and record building soon, each of which ' is mounted on a portlb~ fying t elevision, first demons trat­ truck. of present and future "lookers" in Hollywood. On the top of the major unit a ...mb~ The instrument has been in operation ed in April, 1927. Quartz is one without seriously interfering with of the common, natural minerals. is a large obion" wooden housing, IrOil other classes of radio service will In his 'own, as w ell aa a few other one end of which protrudes an Iron fu. houses for almost t en months, and it Is It abounds in rocks a nd is an es­ nel or "vacuum bell." Within the wood .. be considered at a meeting in Bush's plan to create records for indI­ box is the cathode tube that serve." vidual pictures; records to have all sound sential element of granite. It is Washington, D. C., November 16, the hardest substa nce, next to t he s eparate the electrons from their potl· of the Federal radio commission effects. His apparatus is made in two tive nuclei and allows them to .boot s izes, the larger one ca rrying three rec .. diamond. The amethyst is a form from a m in ute hole into the vacuum bel and its engineers with television ord turn .. tables in a row and the same which contains the film. size as that recently ins talled here in of quartz colored purplish or blu­ operators and experts. The com­ ish violet. Blue quartz is the sap­ On the minor unit a ssembly 1ft mission now has about twenty ap­ the Shrine Auditorium. The other is a m ounted a pump for exhausting the at two .. dise affair, designed for s maller phire. Agate and onyx are other in the bell, a motor and the timin, aM plications for television channels. houses. forms of quartz. The chemist calls switching a pparatus. Because the vlca· One of the biggest problems Needles on the tables are poised over it silicon dioxide. The white sands um bell must be opened each tim. I from the standpoint of the com­ and do not r est on the face of the rec­ film is inserted or removed it is n .. ords. By a series of scale it is pos sible of the sea beach consist largely of sary to correct the air pressure In .­ mission is the selection of wave to adjust the needle s o that without hesi­ quartz. Pyrex glass contains much b ... n after each of these operation., II leng ths most suitable for picture tation it may be dropped at any point quartz. that the pressure in the cathode tulo tl'ansmission which will not great­ into the sound track of the record with­ be undisturbed. out the usual scarring of the wax. Dur­ Just how this piece of lifeless ly curtail other important radio In order that the electrons may r,carI inII' a d emons tration Bush s hifted from and adamant cryst al plays a role significa nt tracings on the film, they 1ft services. one record to another, and from any part d eflected slightly from their atral,ht qj of the record, as the picture mill'ht in­ in television will be explained later. n a rrow path by being passed throu,h. "Weary River," the next First dicate, without sacrificinll' a beat. electrostatic or electromagnetic 11.1£ Bush's plan is simply to cue a picture About Television Operation Consid erinll' the cathode tube to b. I National picture to star Richal'd for records instead of for organ or or .. machine gun, the electrons as bull" Barthelmess, will be ultra-modern che.tra. On the larll'er s ynchrophone 83 In practically all methods of tel­ a nd the film a target, this d eflection k in romantic possibilities. The ra­ numbered s Ups provide storage s pa ce for evision so far developed, it is nec­ roughly comparable tn a raldn, gun In a r ecord library which are planted on across the face of a flat wall. dio being as modern as today tables by the operator for use as indi­ essal'y to have two rotating discs By u s ing the modern oscillograph b itself, the entire structure of cated by cue. Ins truments are d esigned about two feet in diameter, one at r ecord the Ufinger prints" and habit. of "Weary River" is built upon the for sound effects as distinguished from the transmitting end and one at the various groups of electrical phe •• s tory dialoll'ue, although Bus h states m ena, it is said to be entirely probabla axis of a voice over the ether there is no inherent difficulty in record­ the receiving end. Each of these that new and revolutionary appllcati.. waves. ing a nd reproducing dia logue. (Continued on Page 6) of electricity will be developed. November IS, 1928 SOUND WAVES Page Five Mme. Corazon OPERA NOT AS MOVIES Tone Expert Returns to . . Outlines H is Home Here -.- Star's Debut Awaited -.- Ten Points By CEDRIC E. HART a light voice. Then, too, the Euro­ AMON NOVARRO' S new con­ pean audiences are harder to tract with M-G-M, calling for please than the American ones . R six full months' vacation each Here, a singer can get by with year, either between pictures, or much more than he can in Eu­ in longer installments, has made rope ; if Ramon does n ot r ealize possible his long-cherished dream this and has chosen Tosca simply of entering the operatic fi eld. because he likes it, then he has in­ Following "The Pagan," for deed bitten off a big chunk. If which he leaves next week to he has done so in full knowledge, Tahiti to do, he plans to journey then he is a brave young man .. .. to Germany to make his debut as but this d cision might cost him Mario Cavaradossi in Puccini's dear. "La Tosca." Because Tosca is His debut will be watched with more of a spinto role for the tenor much more than ordinary inter­ than a lyric one, it is the opinion est, and if he should click, he of the writer that Novarro would might be made as a tenor. If he be more wise to try his vocal ef­ shouldn't .... well, it is doubtful fects in a lyric role such as "La if even the t alkers could g ive him ROBERT BIAS Boheme" (de Puccini) since his is a come-back. Voice Expert Robert Bias, noted tone special­ ist and concert baritone (instruc" tor to Zasu Pitts, Warner Baxter ROSAMONDE CORAZON and other screen notables ), has Interpretative Ar tist gone on record as endorsing the same ten points of a good t each­ OW in a score of states t er's creed as recently outlined by for her exceptional dramatic Samoiloff in Chicago, as: K soprano voice and interpre­ 1 . B est voices are undiscovered . As tative ability, Madame Rosamonde Ritorna Vincitor! children, paren ts and school may have Corazon, Spanish and Italian song called vocal t eachers' attention to a Kay D' Averil, voice. But if a child is bashful, t h e portrayer, has returned to Holly­ after 12 years matter is d ropped, and at maturity these wood for a stay of several months. of concert and voices, n e v e r having b een abused, are A talker test is said to be the rea­ often the most b eautiful and n atural. opera in Europe, 2 . To become a professional singer, son for her immediate return, al­ is back in Los intellect and love of the art come be­ though she has made no announce­ Ange le s (her fore any other acquisite. Not even a ment to this effect. home town) to big voice can replace these two things. 3. Fear and n ervousness are devel­ fill over 25 con­ oped in the studio. The pupil a lways WAGNER OPERA TO BE cert engagements with the t each e r alone b ecom es upset in Southern Cal­ when outsiders a r e present. To my N SO UND AND C OLO~ . mind, class Jessons are the solution. ifornia. Her rich 4. Some teachers and pupils make too Says an Eastern exchange: and fluent dra­ much hocus pocus t a lk a bout the spinal Wagner movietoned will mean matic s oprano column and other things absolu t ely un­ joy to many who have longed to voice has found n ecessary. It is s o easy to sing well hear and see Wagner but have and t ~ach correctly. Why make a secret favor with critics of i t ? never had the opportunity. The on both contin­ 5 . Articles writte n by teachers are opportunity is now being made for ents. She will profitable for the reader sometimes. But them by the German Grand Opera if the y read UFirs t s t ep in voice culture stay here indef­ s hould be to have the cords focused Company. The Wagner operas will initely. prope rly to obtain pitch" (why not place be fi lm d in colors by this com­ the ear drums or whites of the eyes 1)­ pany by the new process, the c; u ch articles are the r esult of ignorance and s hould b e punishable. Sound Film. 6 . A voice mus t b e placed by direct­ This means that people all over ing the breath correctly. Thus only can the world will now be able to see head res onance be obtain ed. the Wagner operas as they are t 7. Many teachers invent difficulties, because t h e y d o not understand the main seen by audiences at Bayreuth thing in s inging, head resonance a nd and elsewhere, to hear them played covered overtone. by a great symphony orchestra S. Singers w h o k n ow how to sing cor­ rectly do not need special in struction and sung by leading singers, and for radio or records. A ton e t h at is n ot to have the full benefit of the covered will always blast. In the same scenery and costumes in their ori­ way, a covered tone will always b e good. Piano Invention Opens New Fields Certainly Gigli, D e Luca and Bonelli sing ginal colors. The company is com­ the same way at all times. ing from Berlin in the fall and 9 . A vocal t eacher must be a singer. will begin a tour of America in 10. To be a good vocal teacher, a January. The Movietones will be singer, no maUe r how successful as a s inger, must acquire experience teaching, made before the tour and will be preferably in the studio of a well-known ready for release to the general teach er. public immediately after the tour. - AND NOW, INTRODUCING MUSIC LIST SOON THE VOICE FADE-OUT More than 2,000 world rights A "voice fade-out" is the latest compositions, selected from the in talking pictures. Howard Hig­ ftrm's output over a period of 43 gin and Benjamin Glazer of years, will be listed in the sound Pathe's sound department are te­ picture catalogue and music li­ sponsible for t he innovation, whi ch brary, now being prepared by M. serves for William Boyd's voice Witmark & Sons, New York. to dissolve and the silf>nt action to portray his speech innis current LISTENING IN production, "The Leatherneck." Among those who are in the position of awaiting the sound of their own voices in talkies are BEERY IS SONGSTER Llna Basquette, Sue Carol, June One of the features of the pro­ Collyer, Marian Nixon, Betty duction, "Beggars of Life," is the Compson and Janet "Gaynor. All singing of Wallace Beery, a s Ok­ of these young actresses have INGENIOUS INVENT ION! Through simple method of placing roll­ lahoma Red, in the picture. Beery talked for productions but none ers on rear of keys, Starr Piano engineers have succeeded in perfect­ actually s ang the number for the has been fortunate enough to hear ing this device so that a perfect chromatic may be ·run by even th e reproduction, a typical song of her voice deflected from the novice. This is the first time in History such has been possible. Startl­ the road, "I Wonder Where She aereen. ing jazz and classical effects are easily obtained. Sits at Night?" Page Six SOUND WAVES November 15, 1928 STUDIOS ANNOUNCE SUPER TALKER PROGRAM ~------ENGLISH TALKER SUCCESS A special screening of Acoustie MA~g1~~?:;T WRITER SHOWS BROAD TALKER OUTLOOK Films in Paris recently, disclosed -:- Silent Film Dead- Lonsdale -:- new and remarkable potentialitiel in this all-British sound procell, Program schedules which estab­ writes "Tatler," in a special re­ lish definitely that the leading stu­ HE coming of talking filma "To begin with, we speak the nas wiped out our leeway," orthodox English that the Ameri­ port. The demonstration was of. dios have settled down to busi­ process that may now be described ness in making talking films, were T writes Frederick Lonsdale, cans themselves seem to prefer. noted Engliah playwright, in the Secondly, we have the best dra­ as almost perfect, the only unfol' annou.nced during the past week. tun ate aspect of the screening at­ First National took the lead Daily Mail, London, "and enabled matists in the world, and they will us to start even with America all find themselves writing before tended, being the pitifully poor with announcement by Al Rockett projection which broke the filII of a $7,000,000 program. There again!" long for talking films. Thirdly, He continues, in a most em­ we have more than OUl' share of more than a dozen times, bill will be twenty-six pictures in dia­ even then did not hide the tre­ logue made and eleven more with phatic manner: the best actors and, possibly, ac­ "People in this country who tresses. mendous advances British Acou. sound synchronization. tic have made. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer plans more r egard the 'talkies' as a wild "Lastly, we have, in addition to than fifteen major attractions, dream or an ingenious toy are some of the most charming and several of super-feature magni­ blinding themselves to what is al­ exquisite scenery in the world,. all Quartz Crystal Is tude. ready an accomplished fact. Those sorts of historic architectural back­ Paramount's r elease schedule who have seen one of the current grounds which in America can Television for the next sixty days calls for early talking pictures-and later only be r eproduced unsatisfactor­ ones will, of course, be much bet­ twelve all-talking pictures and ten ily at enormous expense. Add to (Continued from productions with singing and dia­ ter-know that the silent film is this our proximity t o the Con­ logue sequences. dead. tinent and all that it offers to discs has about fifty small "This was proved to me beyond the camera, and it will be seen arranged in a single spiral all shadow of doubt by one sim­ how real are our advantages ." the edge. At the transmitting M.G-M GETS W. DE MILLE ple experiment. I was shown in William C. De Mille has been the ~ ubj ect is " scanned," that' New York a film half of which light streaks across the image signed to a long-term contract to was accompanied by dialog and SOUND ADVERTISING direct talking pictures for M-G-M. be sent in a series of lines as appropriate sounds. The second What is known in the trade a s strean,s through the holes of half was silent. Its flatness and the "talking trailer," a short rotating disc. Then the GLENNON MAKES FIRST dullness by contrast were positive­ sound-film advertising a forthcom­ electrical eye, namely, a ly ludicrous. Director Bert Glennon has init­ ing talking picture, has been de­ electric cell, sees the subject iated his talking film activity for Heggie Praised veloping lately into a new form sends electric currents to FBO at Sound Studios, Inc., in "It is a mistake, too, t o s uppose of screen drama. Instead of mere­ ceiver. At the receiving New York, by completing a sound that the dialog is necessarily shrill. ly having an actor tell the audi­ person, facing the and dialogue prologue, known as mechanical, or scratchy. One of ence about the next attraction and looks through the rapidly "Joy Ride." for the comedy oro­ the actors whom I saw and heard possibly introduce the principal holes to per ceive the i duction, "Taxi 13," which FBO in a film was O. P. Hegg ie, and members of the cast or show a created on the n eon I made a short time ago with Ches­ nothing could have been more im­ sample talking scene from the it is one of the very n ece ter Conklin in the featured role. pressive than the dialog as he new picture, the latest trailers are tors in the successful opera spoke it. The r eproduction was one-reel playlets in themselves. a television syst em that marvelous. perfect-it was exact­ Their purpose still is to advertise discs turn at exactly the NOVEL TREATMENT ly like list ening to the man in an the forthcoming attraction, but speed. When television was The most unusual and dramatic ordinary theatre. or. better still, the advertising is woven into an demonstrated in 1927 these use of sound yet employed in the in one's own drawing-room. amusing or melo-dramatic sketch. were kept in step by special making of talking pictures has tric motors compelled to been evolved by Benjamin Glazer conduct their "talkie" departments. So the same speed through a to record the beating of a baby's TALKATORI,AL (Continued from 'Page 2) far, so good, but not far enough. I master oscillator in New heart as the infant hovers between w nuld sUlfgest they also enlfage some which sent controlling . life and death in a climactic scene "NoooMen" selected from radio studios. It is sad, but tru~. that radio, stage and the New York motor and also of "Sal of Singapore," a Pathe ance or lack of a picture sense. acrl'l] "' n are the three points of an equilatoo a separate wire circuit to the Photophone feature starring Phyl­ vou still think I exaggerate the eral entertainment trian~le, and to call tor in Washington. Over lis Haver. importance or necessity of a mi­ upon the stag'" to help out in the Utalkies" is, with lamentably few excep~ telephone lines consisting of a cropnone sense. let me mention a ';on.. like the blind leading the blind. cial pair of wires connected few cases in point. for the stage is just as far from radio. NEW PRIMA DONNA? a s are motio"n pictures. ington and New York. While abroad recently, Marion Recently a celebrated figure in nals traveled a third circuit sports, broadcast a play by plav The "talkie" problem has, in my opinoo Davies studied singing under Pro­ ion. three major divisions: The men be­ rate from the two circuits used fessor Robert Osea. She brought r eport of a game in which he had hind th p. g'un, those fn frnnt of it. and carrying the light impressions back several foreign decorations. starred for many years. The au­ the "talkie" .lrun itself. With the "gun" the spoken words. With we nf'ed not concern ours~lves. The including the coveted honor of Of­ dience was left cold. For a brief evision a special signal while a regular announcer, not case for sound producers has already ficer of the Academy of France been cnVAred. Now we come to the real out over a separate wave and the Medal of Homage of particularly well grounded in the crux of the situation-the actors. Stage, for the purpose of keeping the game, took the microphone and sr.repn and radio are founded on their motors in step. Spain. the audience was revived. A well­ ""fforts. The hroadc8sting field contains many presentable p eople of proved micro­ Role of Quartz Cryatal known sport editor of a newspaper Dhone w"'rth awaitino- "discovery" by the MARIE PREVOST TALKS suffered the same fate during a "talkies." The~e will in time be sup­ At this point comes the tion of the Quartz crvstal. Marie Prevost's wit will be football game. and similar cases ol"m"nted bv develoDinR" raw material. r. ould be mentioned by the score. b1lt the ... reatest and immed;ate source Marrison and J. W. Horton heard as well as seen when the ('If satisfactory talent is in radio. Bell Telephone Labor.,t.ol"I,,< talking sequences of "The Godless So much for announcel'S. Proof Found been successful in making Girl," now being made, are re­ Experienced Onea leased. The wisecracks of Marie Proof of this may b. found in the crystal oscillators capable Experienced theatrical figures, fact that stage and concert stars were talning their rllte of as Marne in the De Mille picture with every asset at their command, "'nee th"'UKht to be worth fabulf'lus fees almost exactly the same fr.'nr' .... _1 form much of the humor of the for broadcasting, but their apn~tles r eck­ have attempted to build find pre­ One oscillator would not piece. "'ned without the microphone-.. Few proved ~ f) nt radio programs. They all capablf'! of cnnqufI!ring it. Now they are the other by as much as failed in comparison with pro­ 1"llrplv booked and thp. fabulous sums ftre bration in 10,000.000. So THREE FOR HANSHAW fI"'atinlf to the real radio stars whn. grams arranged by "mike-wise," 8tartfn~ from scratch, have battled their is to use one quartz crystal Three productions have been but otherwise undistinguished pro­ ways to th.. top through years of in­ lator at the transmitting named by Dale Hanshaw, produc­ P.'ram managers. Musical celebri. tensive eHort. another oscillator at the er, for talking pictures for Han­ ties constantly assail the micro­ On the stagp.. actors may work with end. This system does away A·Phone synchronization. The se­ phone with their concert and op­ the brollld strokeR of a mural paInter, but under th .. pitiless glare of Ihrht. the third telephone line or lections decided upon are: "The eratic methods and lose their au­ ,.nd the scrutiny of a lens actorR must third wave length as nr ..,v"o".I., Expensive Sex," "The Eternal diences while "mike-wise" nobod­ restrain thf'!mselvetll and use a diff"! rent quired. The two Feminine" and "Romance a la ies garner attention and applause. t"'r.1-.nfc. ..Actors and l'linP.'lI!rs must work are used as before, Carte." Thf! 'Phrase, "you do (or do not) screen bp.fnre radio or "talkIe" microphones wen." hR. its count"rpart, "you do (or with the fi."~StllP. 0'( a miniature pafnt~r: kept in step by the se do not) broatfcast ""Pon." but each dictum a fines,,'" d iffir.ult tn recoll'niz-,. appreciate tal Ol'cillators at the Benjamin Glazer, director-in­ must be d.,.Jivered by nne cap- hIe ot "'r hAndl ~ unlp.,s th""e in char .. e hS\ve and the receiver. When fnrminll an intellhr*,nt opini,..n. The av­ ;maglnation and technic to correspond. trolled the motor at the chief of the Pathe sound division, "r~ er e picture p.xecutive would find It a s In short-her~ is a n~w art. Either is rapidly getting his cast assem­ ,.Hffir11lt to choose a ,o"d radio or find neopl"! titted bv previous training to requires seven days to get bled for this company's first 100 Utalkie" arUst, as I would to select a practice lind perfect it, or let the step with the motor at the plcturll: star from the ranks. "talkies" blunrler their way ant of their by a s much as one revolution. per cent dialogue attraction, Roallzlng this, most sound producing diapers by rule of thumb and trial and "Missing Man." studios have engaged theatrical figures to error. (To Be Continued) t

November 15, 1928 SOU ND WAVES Page Seven SOU'ND SHOOTING SCHEDULE

STUDIO TITLE PRODUCER DIRECTOR STAR CAMERAMAN SCENARIST ACTION CBAS. CHAPLIN City Lights Chaplin Chaplin Chaplin Totheroli Chaplin Preparing BI-2141 COLUMBIA ~Director The Donovan Affair H. Cohn Capra Holt Walker Howell Preparing lUX OHN BOoM mST NATIONAL The Barker Fitzmaurice Sills; McKaill Synchronizing All-Star ~DIrector - -Satan Gunning Christensen Polito Shooting DAK BLLY BI-l111 VIIIpbne His Country-Woman Fitzmaurice Sills; McKaill Garmes Geazer Shooting FOX ..AlTLAND RICE 80aad Producer IBNJACK.SON 80aa I~neers Watch Out Parrott All-Star Kline Holmes Shooting IBRNAR FRAELICKS .. VON JC.IRK.BACK. Friendship Walters All-Star Mac Williams Walters Shooting BO-3OOO ...... ,n. M.G. M. ~Director Broadway Melody Beaumont Page; Love; King Gerstad Goulding;Mason Shooting ralDBllRS IoIIIId l;alneer DVDLI SHEARER 1 ....,33 ...... ,n. G. Edwards Revue Rapt Edwards All-Star Arnold Shooting Hunted Mack Mack All-Star Preparing Trial of Mary Dugan Hackett Veiller Preparing Last of Mrs. Cheney Thalberg Leonard Shearer; Arthur Gerstad Lonsdale Shooting Dynamite C. De Mille C. De Mille MacPherson Preparing ..ITROPOLITAN Carnation Kid Christie Pierce Mac Lean Phillips McCarty Shooting ~ea::,.eer Melancholy Dame AI Cohen Gillstrom Williams Al Cohen Preparing B. W. 8erpJan, GR. 3111 The Butterfly Chaser H . Lloyd Wilde Lloyd G. Lloyd Shooting PARAMOUNT Doctor's Secret Kaufman W. De Mille All-Star Hunt Barrie; De Mille Shooting ~1rJ'.fTmr IoIIIId Direcotor IOYl POMBROY 80aa B~neer Wolf-Song Fineman Fleming All-Star Seigler Farrow Shooting ALBIRT B SART Canary Murder Case Lighton St. Clair All-Star Fishback Ryerson Shooting BO-_ Four F'eathers Selznick Cooper All-Star Schoed-Sack Loring ...... ,n. Wolf of Wall St. Fineman Lee Bancroft Milnes Anderson Shooting The Dummy Turnbull Milton All-Star Hunt Ford;O'Higgins Shooting

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Missing Man Glazer Miller Lengvel; Jackson Shooting The Leatherneck Block Higgin Boyd ; Hale Me Call Clawson Shooting Noisy Neighbors Bern Reisner Quillan Family Abell Darling Editing Office Scandal Block P . Stein All-Star Badaracco Jungmeyer Shooting Square Shoulders Bern Coghlan Abell Preparing T.IC-ART She Goes to War Inspiration King Boardman Gaudio Esterbrook Shooting

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or· :t~~TAHL Girl Who Came Back Flood Miller; McGregor Me Kenzie Flood; B. Cohn Shooting ~:::~RS Squads Right Archainbaud All-Star Totman;Hyland Shooting ~l,ZllOY

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.BROS. Desert Song Del Ruth All-Star Mc-Gill Lord Shooting No Defense Bacon McAvoy Kesson Coldewey Shooting BO-4181 Frozen River Weight Quartaro Lanaby Grand Shooting She Knew Men Mayo Bronson Renyolds Gates Shooting . Alimony Annie Curtiz D. Costello ; Graves Haskin Gates; Baker Shooting Page Eight SOUND WAV ES November 15, 192

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