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Now York, April 11.. Television, the broadcasting of motion pictures; has emerged from the laboratory and is preparing to

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beginnings in the scientific labora tory, he sald, pointing out that there is reason to believe industry will utilize this new contact with. the home with the same good taste and earnest purpose as it has done with sound broadcasting.

MARY PICKFORD.

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The vice-president explained that television would be an excellent medium for exploitation with its Mrs. Charlotte Pickford, mother promise that a new. product or a of Mary Pickford, the "World's new method, not to mention the Sweetheart," and of Jack and standard.commodities of industry, Lottie Pickford, also of filmland may be introduced instantaneously fame, died after a lingering ill- The family circle of the future and simultaneously to millions of ness at her home at Beverly Hills, will be able to see and hear events | homes.

near Los Angeles on March 22, they of worldwide interest as

"In the field of education, the according to word just received occur by means of television, sup addition of television to broad- hero, says the "Manila Bulletin." plementing broadcasting of und, casting of sound offers enormous She was 55 years old.

Following a request made by David Sarnoff, vice-presidez and possibilities," he declared. **In- general manager of the

Radio struction on subjects requiring ex- Mary, known in private life as Corporation of America, has preposition as well as explanation will Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, the dicted in an interview with the find a reatly and useful outlet funeral was quiet and only imme- diate members of the family and through television. The Univer- sity of the Air, an ideal of to-day, a few intimate friends were pre- but the hope of to-morrow, will sent. Interment took place on be immeasurably reinforced in its March 24 at the Forest Lawn

Cemetery, Los Angeles. effectiveness by the advent of the

United Press.

"In the future, persons in the television sets will be able to witness and listen to championship boxing..matches, for example," Mr. Sarnoff explained. "They will ace television." moving images of the battling athletes and hear details as the bout progresses.”

Animated Image.

Mrs. Pickford had been ill for three years and her illness took a serious turn three months be-

Sarnoff was careful to point fore her death.. Mary, who was "Interesting events such as the out the difference between was the only member of the greatly devoted to her mother, take-off or landing of Col. Charles televisión and radio photo-family present when Mrs. Pick- A. Lindbergh on an importantgraphy, impressing that teleford passed away in her sleep, night, the debut of a grand opera vision is the animated Image although all the other members of singer or a statesman addressing of a living picture. It survives the family were in the house. the world. will be transmitted to but a few fleeting moments, to dis- Mrs. Pickford was generally the eyes and ears of the home appear when transmission is com-credited for the tremendous suc- circle as they occur," the radio ex-picted.

cess of her children in the movies. ecutive said.

The radio photograph, on the Herself an actress in her day, she Although Sarnolf has captained other hand, is the "still" picture; pilotted Mary, and later Jack and an industry which has grown from woven by beams of light into Lottie, to the heights of fame Infancy to manhood in less than a permanent photograph. Present which they have achieved. eight years has watched radio methods of radio television and sagacity in financial matters also progress to a reality which is more broadcasting of radio photographs contributed in no small measure amazing than the most hopeful jare closely related in a technical to make her children the success viaions of its founders, he still sense.

that they are to-day.

did any,

Matter Of Time,

B

Her

Under the management of her mother, Mary startled the world in 1918 when she signed a con- tract with Artcraft at a salary of $10,000 a week, then unheard of even in movie circles. Later Mrs. Pickford and Mary organised the Mary Pickford Company in which the two were full partners until Mrs. Pickford's death.

Mary has given her mother full credit for her successes in the movies and two years ago she presented Mrs. Pickford with a new home. It was there where Mrs. Pickford died.

is a conservative man. While In experimenta recently con- reticent in setting a time limit inducted at Schenectady, New York; which television would be brought by the Radle Corporation and the to a degree of perfection compara-General Electric Company, the tive with present day radio, he moving images and voices of a man and woman were transmitted from the research laboratories of three "In tinte television will do for the clectric company to the eye what broadcasting now different homes in the city. does for the ear. As radio broad- "So lifelike were the lights and casting has brought the opera, the shadows. reproduced from the concert stage, and the theatre to research studios," Saraqif said, tho Areside, s0 radio-television, in "that the curl of smoke from a perfected form, will bring the cigarette and the flash of an eye visual spectacle made possible by were transmitted by radio just as the stagecraft of the opera, theatre, a picture unfolds on the screen.

Television must and studio. -

"While this is historical ultimately complete the broadcast event comparable to the early ex- presentation so that the radio may periments in sound broadcasting,

and 'see' as well as "hear"."

the greatest significance of the to so simplify the elaborata Television will mean much to Schenectady demonstration is in costly apparatus for television re- the entertainment, industry, and the fact that the radio art has ception that the first step might education of the world. Sarnoff bridged the gap between the be taken towards the development predicted. Just as the broadcast-laboratory and the home." Televi- of television receivers for the home. ing of sound has found its place sion has been demonstrated both in industry, so will television find in the United States and aborad A telephone service has been in-1

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