TRA MAIL:FRIDAY, SUPPLEMENT, JULY 12, 1940
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By George MacManus
Bringing Up Father
NOW-WHAT?
I'M GOING OUT- YOU STAYIN AND PACK-WEVARG GOING TO ANOTHER
TOWN-
ATS-TATAP
- CENSUS TAKER? HY- WE DON'T ́LIVE 'HERE-
WELL-WHAT DO YOU WANT?
AMTHE CENSUIS-
TAKERZ-- WHAT YOUR
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OFFER
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YOU TOO CAN LUNCHEON
SING LIKE GALLI-CURCI
ONE morning in Hollywood Gil- 00000
bert Wright, screen and fiction writer, was shaving under- neath his chin, with his mouth open, when he heard the sound of his whiskers being out coming out of his mouth..
Rushing to a music shop, he bought a tuning fork, struck the fork, pressed its handle to the
side of his throat and mouthed a silent "Hello." It came out faint- ly. "Hello" in A, the voice of the fork.
Starting from this point, Wright,
You can sing with the voice of a Caruso or Galli-Curci, thanks to Sonovox-a recent invention that will work new movie mira- cles.
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a former professor of physics, spent two years building in his which the murderer, fleeing the spare time a machine called, the scene of his crime, was haunted Sonovox, which may cause as by the sound of the train wheels great a revolution in motion pic accusing him, "You killed her, you tures as did the advent of sound, killed her, clackety-clack, you writes. Nancy Pope in "Collier's killed her!" The producers were weekly".
planning, in the usual fashion, to The Sonovox is a simple little take the sound of the train wheels machine with a sound box like a and dub in some
corny voice phonograph to which two small, speaking the necessary words. biscuit-shaped vibrators are con- Wright however, thought it nected by wires.
would be much better if the
DISHES
TO-DAY I've chosen for you
some recipes for hot dishes' that are light, easily cooked and prepared, and eminently suitable for the present weather.
SOLE AMERICAINE
1 filleted sole
3 Targe tomatoes
1 lemon Parsley
Seasoning
Wipe the tomatoes and cut in half, scoop out the pulp. Cut the fillets into neat pieces, season well, sprinkle with lemon juice and chopped parsley and roll up. Place a roll of fish inside each! tomato and place in a baking dish, Cover with a sheet of greased paper and bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes.
VEAL ESCALOPES
6 veal fillets
1 egg
Breadcrumbs
1 hard-boiled egg Chopped parsley
Salt and pepper 1 lemon
The veal should be cut thinly and beaten with the back of a
Start a record of Tito Schipa wheels themselves could speak in wooden spoon to get the fillets singing O Sole Mio, hold the vi- their own voice. Engineers told, even in thickness. Season the fil- brators to each side of your neck, him it couldn't be done. But the coat in egg and
lets well. and dip in flour, then
bread-crumbs.. open your lips and you hear the shave the tuning fork and Wright's Fry the escalopes for ten to fifteen golden voice of Schipa coming out knowledge of the science of sound
Now, of your mouth!
silently, solved the problem.
minutes according to the size, and turn during cooking so that they mouth the words, "Oh, thrilling To-day, with the Sonovox, are evenly brown on both sides. splendor!" Instead of "O sole speaker, shaping sound into
Drain and serve on a hot dish, ar- mio," Schipa will sing, "Oh, thrill- wheels or a violín, a fire siren or ing splendor!" You have. caught a cement mixer; and anyone can
ranging them so that they are the stream of Italian in
your be Caruso or Galli-Curci, Actual overlapping. Put a half-slice of mouth and remoulded it into Eng- ly all you do is. act as
lemon on each fillet. Separate the а loud- white and the yolk of the egg and lish.
speaker, shaping sound into words chep the white finely. Sieve the when, as and if you Wright.
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To begin with, Wright knew yolk, and arrange round the esca- that ordinary speech is caused by lopes with a line of chopped egg WRIGHT, the novelist son of two things; the buzz or hum made white next, and chopped parsley
as an edge. Harlod Bell Wright, got his in the throat by air. passing idea for the Sonovox because he through the vocal cords, a buzz was working on a screen play in that can be raised or lowered in
The Lovable Fragrances
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pitch and volume and that's all; : Jand second, the modifications of this buzz in the mouth by plate, tongue, teeth and Hips these mo- difications form the actual sylla- bles of articulate speech.
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What Wright-wanted to do was to supply another buzz for the human, buzz in the throat. So he enlarged the vibrations from phonograph record or a sound track so that they would ac- [tually cause the human throat to
vibrate.
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WHEN Sonovox is in common use, American motion plc- tures will be transmuted and re-
moulded into any desired lan-
guage by professional articulators.
The American voices will be exactly the same, but the words as they come from the screen will be perfect Spanish, French ΟΙ Italian...
Likewise, we English-speaking Jaudiences may hear foreign actors
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