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FAMOUS SINGER IN COLOMBO.
A. Chat on Board the Ormonde.
MR. PETER DAWSON,
Peter Dawson, the world famous bass-baritone vocalist, ar- rived in Colombe on the Ormonde. 1le is on his way to Australia where he will give a series of concerts in conjunction with the HOTEL.Virtus pianist, Mark Hamburg.
In the course of a long chat with a representative of the Times he of Ceylon, Mr. Dawson said had arranged for no fewer than seventy performances in all-in ¡Brisbane, Sydney, New Zea-
Tasmania, jknd,
South Aus- tralia and West Australia. was very probable, he added, that; he would sing in Colombo on his way back-some time in October. On the eve of his departure From London he was entertained to a farewell lunch at the Savoy Hotel. A novel feature of the function was the playing of somo old scratchy pioneer gramophone records, and by way of contrast, a selection of Mr. Dawson's latest electrical recordings!
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The Indian talking pictures, which, commenced yesterday, at the Royal Cinema, are the first of their kind says the Rangoon Gazette of April 28.
The Indian talking picture In- The King of the Hediaz hasdustry is as yet in its infancy. The be made dealing with the Prophet's night might have perhaps been a ordered a new propaganda film to photography in the taiklo last tomb in Mecca, the holy city of little better, but the recording was Dreyfus was also shown in a Islam, and the new developmenta Wireless and Music..
talkle of the celebrated Dreyfus made there for the comfort of the remarkably clear and there was an case of 1894. Mr. Dawson went on to discuss
It is being shown pilgrima,
absence of that scratching sound at the London Pavilion for a run
which marred the frat talkies from the benefits of modern wireless of several weeks, we hope, since shown, with the
The route to Mecca will also be
the West. broadcasting. "The British it is an excellent one. There has transport made available.
new types of
The pictures are something after public," he observed, "have been
been a great deal of controversy This occasion will be used to.
the style forcibly fed in this respect--and
of the well-known over this picture but criticism is give a graphic survey of the rapid "Warner Shorts." There are in- they don't know it. The result is favourable on the whole. I found advance made by the King in im-strumental items, vocal numbers, they have been gradually educat-it to be an excellent film in every proving the ed in the finest possible music.
of
administration
is very high in England to-day--be expected if portions of the filmed, And thus the standard of music way considering the continuity is Nejd and the Arabian Peninsula. not loo good, but that is only to Conferences of the sheiks will be and all the innermost higher that it ever was.
atory are cut out; for instance secrets of a sheik's life will be Emile Zola is sent to prison, but disclosed to the world for the first on the film this is cut out, as well time.
"There have, of course, been many grumblers as regards the programmes put forward by the B.B.C. But, then, you always find that class of person who is never satisfied.
"Nothing has ever been given to the world before at so cheap, f price-nothing good, I mean. For 10 shillings a year the listener is Provided with entertainment of the most elevating kind.
"Wireless is always improving. good, it does a certain amount of But, although it is doing a lot of
harm too--I mean as regards con- cert attendance.
But there the problem solves itself-there is such a thing as the public being carried away by the performance of an artist over the ether. Consequent- ly the public wants to see and hear the artist in the flesh,
"The music-loving people in provincial centres of Great Bri tain, I can safely assert, have lost none of their love of concert-go-
"One had to use a good deal of brute force, observed Mr. Daw- of result "to get any sort with the recording apparatus of yesterday! And I had to sing into eight horns at a time, too, being. Popular concerts are arrang- cause the moulding methods could turn out only a hundred discs from each 'master' wherens to-day they turn out millions from one | matrix.
"Let us pieture the process of modern recording," he continued. "Last year we did Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance
It was conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent. The orchestra numbered ane hundred and the chorus was drawn from the finest voices in the London colleges of music and from the concert platform. The principals were, barring myself, from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Com- pany. Rupert. D'Oyly Carte him- self supervised the recording..
"It was naturally
a very dim- cult matter to make a faithful re- cording of so vast a number of performers. Four microphonus were necessary. At one end of the room were the string players, arranged round their microphone: at the other end were the wind and -percussion instruments with their microphone. In the centre of the ball was the conductor with the chorus and principals opposite, In fibre padded cabicles. All the microphones were connected to the récording room.
Old-Time Records. "What a
contrast to the old days when members of the chorus vied with each other to get clos
to the microphone! And he who shouted loudest was recorded best."
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It is interesting to remember that the old days Mr. Dawson was given a yearly fee of £50- and he thought he was "made" for life.
By the way, Enrico Caruso was paid a paltry 28 for his first song!
Mr. Dawson began low. He was an iron worker in Australia till he was twenty. He used to sing in St. Andrew's Church choir in Adelaide and studied music ji his spare time under the late C. J. Stevens.
In 1900 St. Andrew's choir went
ed every Saturday in the Winter and it is an inspiring sight to see such tremendous crowds attend.
"So, after all, this proves that concerts are not what many people might unwittingly term out of date-not things of the past ren- dered so by the advent of wire- less. Wireless has not only edu-
cated the listener, but has acted as a great stimulant and brought thousands of new adherents music."
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PRINCE OF WALES.
It is announced that the Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street, W., will be offered for sale by auction at the London Auction Mart on April 22.
Originally called Princes to dif ferentiate it from the old Prince of Wales Theatre of the Bancrofts, ofE the Tottenham Court Road-now re- placed by the Stala-this, famous West End playhouse was built in 1884. It was then regarded as the last word in elegance. It is one of the smaller theaires, seating not than 1,000. The pre- many more
too much.
as stressing the Jewish religion The film will be used by the The photography is King's emissaries for propaganda quite good and all the actors de purposes in the latest campaign in their beat especially George favour of Mecca. Merritt as Emile Zola, and Cedric Hardwicke as Captain Dreyfus. There is a picture of Dreyfus taken in his cell on Devil's Island where he was sentenced for four years before he is recalled, for a re-trial, that reminds us very
Farmer's Wife." much of the old farmer in "The
INDIAN TALKIES.
Successful Presentation in Rangoon.
The screen, since it first took to On the whole it speech, has spoken in many is a very creditable performance, languages. Now it talks for the and was enthusiastically received. first time in the languages of India.
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dances and short sketches. The performers did not appear to be at all camera shy and acquitted them- selves ably. In the last sketch particularly the actors played their parts to perfection. The dialogue, in Hindustani, was amusing and time and again the house fairly rocked with laughter.
The Indian talkies show great promise and with a little more ex- perience on the part of those who produce them, they should prove to be a very popular form of ontor- tainment. If the directors of the pictures had made a little more use of the "fade-out" fastead of cutting off each number in a rather abrupt way, the success would have buen more complete. It is safe to predict that the Indian talkie has came to stay.
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