KINEMA LIP READING?
| Major Dundas Grant, president of tho Aural Board, said at the Allied Confer ence on tho after-care of disabled soldiers, held in London, that tho number of deaf soldiers m need of training in lip reading is less than expected. French officers who knew English and German could, understand his lip reading in German better than in Luglish. There is the guttural element in Gorman but, as the French say, Tho English swallow their and our habitual mumbling makes English dimcult to understand in lip reading. Ino learning of lip reading is fatiguing, and kinema pictures are to bo used _ for teaching. Mr Lalor, an American comedian, and other raconteurs, will bo filmed telling stories. The delegates visited St. Dunstan's, whore Sir Arthur Pearson, in English and French, gave , them a description of th© successful i work for blinded soldiers.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16267, 18 July 1918, Page 5
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