WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES
Manufacturers & Exporters of
ALL KINDS OF
SWATOW DRAWN
WORK
AND
ART EMBROIDERIES
SHAWLS
UNDERWEAR
- PYJAMAS KIMONOS.
SWATOW TRADING Co.
6, Pedder St. opp. Hong Kong Hotel Phone. 23303.
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in Gentlemen's Outdating
AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE.. PERFECT FIT
AND
RELIABLE SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's OutĒtiers
64. Queen's Rd, C.
Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,"
lat floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Tel. 21255.
Central,
TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to
the late SIEN TING. 14, D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD. 72, Queen's Road C Tel. 23270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay, New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L". Sole Agents for Kelvin Motora.
FRUITS,
AMERICAN
FRESH FRUITS
Just Arrived
KELSY PLUMS
YELLOW CLING PEACHES
BARTLETT PEARS
SUNKIST ORANGES
SUNKIST GRAPEFRUITS
Wholesale and Retail.
WING COFFEE CO.
139, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 25869.
LITERATURE
BOOKS
for All
Bibles, Pocket Testamenta, Prayer Books and Stationery.
General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality.
THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street
Next to King's Theatre.
Agenta for
British & Foreign Bible Soclety and The Religious Tract Society.
SWATOW DRAWNWORK.
JUST OPEN 111 LAI YANG EMBROIDERY CO. 2. Wyndham St.
(above Book & Bible Depot.) Direct Exporters of Swatow Drawn Work, Embroideries, Silk Shawls, Irish Linen & Grass Cloth, Handmade Lacos, & Ladies' Underwear.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
HAIR DRESSERS
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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
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the
THE ROMANCE OF THE noise-caught in the wax-to- gether with the sounds that were "TALKIE."
meant to be imprisoned there,
The film men looked at each Enterprise of
Warner Brothers... Four brothers who gambled their fortune on one throw; a alip that made film history; some curious problems.
even
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Faith on the Motherland."' Sir Harry rehearses all his new songe both when he is awake and when he is asleep. He literally dreams about thom. Before the opening of a pantomime I have known him
He gives a perfect illustration of this In, "Hove a lassie."
to fast for three days. During that Think-
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BREAKING INTO TALKIES.
How A "Bit" Player Got Her Chance.
There are ways and ways of gets
ing he hears her coming, he walks time I have sat up with him till ting a part in the talkies, and to the back of
the early hours of the morning Claire Du Brey, who plays a small the stage; stops, looks, listens, and then almost making tiny alterations which part in the Pathe special, "Sin Takes a Hollday," starring Con- whispers, "a rabbit."
mean an immense gain in effect stance Bennett, got hers in a most In other words, displacing the orthodox by the paradox.
unusual way.
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other. There was going to be more to perfecting this thing than they bad thought.
He can tell at a glance if a song Silence was therefore enforced will suit him, and, of the hundreds
Miss Du Brey attracted the at- upon everyone during recording submitted to him yearly, it is
To see Sir Harry recording for tention of Paul L Stein, who is director-the doubtful if half a dozen have been
the gramophone is veritable directing "Sin Takes a Holiday," cameras were installed in sound- retained for further consideration. inspiration of endeavour. In the through
an advertisement she proof booths, and when one day a They all lack that indefinable cheericet of moods he greets his placed in a local casting magazine," camera-booth's door became un Lauder touch. He cannot read or conductor and orchestra and then Is it an improvement on the silented the record, it was ordered that film, or do its Imperfections and the camera men should be locked
Has the Talkie come to stay? latched and the camera sound spoils play music, but he has a sixth sense off come his coat, tie, collar and which stated that despite the fact
limitations mar the entertainment?
complete orchestra in his mind. for melodies,' and can imagine a ripping open his phirt front,
he
that she had considerable ex-, perlence in silent films and on the faces the microphone robustly cor- stage with Pauline Frederick, tain of conquering the world for Robert Ames and others, she was all time with his magnificent voice willing to play "bits," dead bodies, and Infectious laugh.
Neither critics nor public can yet in. Even then noise still intruded; agree in their verdict; but, what-investigation revealed that the are
Composes in Trains. ever our opinion, we must admit lights made an electric whir which, Most of his melodies have been that the evolution of the Talkie, though imperceptible to the ear, composed in trains in all parts of described by Mr. Fitzhugh Green
was recorded by the instrument! the world. He was travelling bo-
Another difficulty, Talkies are
tween Edinburgh and London In her to do a telephone conversation (Putnam, 10s. 6d.), is one of the Music from other radio instruments his own melody for "Pla your other end of the wire.
upon the radio system. the Flying Scotsman when he found off-stage with Miss Bennett on the
in "The Film Finds its Tongue"
romances of industry.
based
was recorded!
Studios have to be soundproof. Talking movie recording apparatus has to be radio and vibration proof. The studio has to have insulated
Edison, dreaming of "an animat ed picture that talked," produced the Kinetophone so long ago as 1895. A nine days' wonder. Since then many fingers have been burn. ed, and the very name of talking walls. The recording apparatus picture had become anathema to has to have anti-electrical walls. the film industry when an Ameri-
Al Jolson.
can company evolved
When the censor made excisions, its' new
ynchronization was destroyed and the film had to be recorded again! A device was eventually found to The four Warner brothers were obviate this. Then came the diffi the sons of a. Polish cobbler im-culties of projection:- migrant. In 1903 Sam had thrown
device. The big film companies laughed at it. Not so the Warnera.
£30 Capital.
Sound travels at a speed of 1,100
up a fireman's job and Albert had feet per second; light travels at left a bicycle shop to travel with a speed of 186,000 miles a second. an old-fashioned Edison moving In large theatres the vision of picture outât. Though still in moving lips reached the back rows Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair their teens and having only 150 before the sound had travelled to
LEE YEE;
Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY, 'Phone 22232. 68, Queen's Rond Central.
SHOES.
Pair Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00.
Brown Black or Boots from $8.00, Children's Boots ar Shoes from $2.00.
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing & 'specialty. WONG SIU WOON
E1, Pottinger St.
Phone 21474.
SPORTING GOODS
ATHLETIC GOODS
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The all-talking picture evolved by accident. Tha Warners had en- for "The Jazz gaged Al Jolson Singer." There was to be no talk- ing, only singing and music:---
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off stage voices, or what have you,
In order to get a chance to break into the talkies. The humour, and grit back of this advertisement ap- pealed to Mr. Stein, and he engaged
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
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Realising, that bigger money was to be made in "renting" Alms,
They rehearsed, lined up, start- the brothers sold the theatre and ed the take. And before he sang, formed a company to act as a film Jolson spoke to his "mother" span. "Come on, Ma," he exchange. But as years passed big taneously. combines sprang into existence; said. "Listen to this." She went the Warners were frozen out and over to the piano, and he began to could.obtain no films; undaunted, sing. The action went ahead. they decided to make their own. Sam Warner and Alan Crosland For ten years they produced small had not expected Jolson to speak. but successful filmas. But by 1923 But when they heard it in the play- the day of the independent pro- back, that spontaneous bit sounded Pig's Chillings
A company was good. They decided to leave it in. formed which advanced slowly but That decision made history. surely, crowning its achievements "The Jazz Singer" established with "The Sea Beast" (Melville's the Talkie and the Warners' for. "Moby Dick") with John Barry- tunes. But tragedy blurred. their more, but was still a minor com- triumph, for on the eve of success pany when in 1926 the brothers Sam, the enthusiast of the four, heard of the American Company's died suddenly in Los Angeles. invention.
ducer was over.
A Successful Experiment. One demonstration sufficed. They determined to exploit it for musical accompaniments to their pictures and for filming and recording variety and musical turna.
WRITING SONGS FOR
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One August evening the brothers sat in their theatre on the first of people who have heard Sir Suet, Beef night of "Don Juan," awaiting the Harry Lauder on the wireless, the publle verdict on their new venture, gramophone or on the stage, have| Veal. To them it meant a fortune or any idea how the famous ruin! They had sunk over comedian's songs and patter are £100,000 in this picture; they had written and rehearsed. As one who invested nearly £600,000 in one has collaborated with him in the gigantic gamble that the public past, and as the author of his new would like pictures that sang and Empire song, "Pin your Falth on
Barbel Bream
THE LIANG YOU CO.. talked. They had staked their all the Motherlang" which he record- Canton Fresh Water
70, Queen's Road C.
K. FUJIYAMA
PHOTOGRAPHER
ANNOUNCES HIS REMOVAL
To
WYNDHAM STREET,
3rd floor.
It was a triumph, but a triumphed for "His Master's Voice," I will tempered by the fact that there was try to give you a "close up" of how Carp
Catfish no immediate way in which Talkies it is done. could be shown to the public. The Firstly, it is not sufficient in it. Codfish
Crabs Warners had the goods, but nobody self to know the art of song-writ- could use them, for special appara- ing. Before one
can write for Cuttle Fish tus must be installed before they Lauder, one must know Lauder, Dah could be shown. Within six months psychologically. and artistically. Da the brothers managed to equip`one Sir Harry has
Amarvellous Dog Fish ... hundred cinemas, but found them-instinct
and for effect,
for Eels, Conger selves forced in many сабев to that reason alone his songs are finance the purchase. of ap-not always moulded in accordance paratus to enable customers with the laws of metre.
Extra Proge to obtain them on the instalment words and notes are crowded ́in system. Arrayed against them here and there in such a way that was the opposition of the whole pedantic musicians become furious Herrings Alm world. But they stuck loyally at the thought of it," he together. On two occasions Harry secretly sold hundreds of thousands
of pounds worth of his shares to
help them all along.
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The First Production. Just been to the jeweller's and I've Monk: Fish' - In the old Manhattan Opera bocht her a bonnie weg ring," there Mallet House, Oscar Hammerstein's white are more syllables than there are Gysters elephant, with its ghosts of Me in the corresponding lines of the Parrot Fish Cormack, Tetrazzini, and Mary drst and second verses. The word Perch Garden, they began production. At "bonnie" is wedged in purposely to Piks first difficulties seemed insuperable. secure the right effect in passing Plaice Difficulties of synchronization, of from the song to the patter.. weke Pomfret, White, excluding extraneous sound. The His patter, by the way, seldom Pomfret, Black
Prawn producers received a shock when seems funny, in print. But laten first listening to the "play-back" of to Sir Harry deliver it from the Bar
Rock Fish a sound record antage. When coming to the point
Roach The whirring of the camera was that creates the laugh he takes a loudly audible. Someone could be step backward or forward, turne heard walking across the other alde his head sharply or slowly, or else grate of the stage; there were his foot makes gesture as if he had just grimpe steps frozen in wax. Someone's managed to swallow something that
Hnapper cough. A creaking-chair. A had bean sticking in his throat, and sala muffed rumble--that, was a, train then--bang! In this way he maker going by on the elevated tracks the most commonplace words, and outside the studio. Noise-reco phrases sparkle with rich humour.
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