TALKING, SINGING, AND SOUND PICTURES

Evening Star, Issue 20135, 27 March 1929, Page 7

TALKING, SINGING, AND SOUND PICTURES

COMING TO THE OCTAGON THEATRE SHORTLY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ON THE SCREEN. The Eox movietone of George Bernard Shaw is so interesting that it opens one’s eyes to the boundless possibilities of the talking picture, ftps a .subject that has captured both the voice and the spirit of the author (says a, critic). After gazing upon Mr Shaw's animated shadow and hearing his light talk, one almost lecls as ii one had visited him in his English garden, it is a feature that will undoubtedly be followed by many others, for now one might say that men ol note owe it to posterity to leave behind them their shadows and their voices. Jn this. Eox movietone effort Air Eox, through enterprise and the spending of money, has succeeded already in recording the images and the voices of many distinguished persons. The outstanding achievement, however, is Air Shaw’s, for the Eox movietone of others reproduced _ the animated forms and voices in public speeches, ■whereas in his light tnlk Alr Shaw gives more of himself. It is a, delightful and breezy little address, in which the illustrious writer adroitly causes one to forget that it is only his shadow chatting from a screen. He is dressed in his Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, and he looks to be in the pink of condition as he suddenly appears from a clumped hushes, evidently imitating Mussolini in his approach to the camera. Bernard Shaw's speech on the programme which accompanies ‘ The Street Angel,’ starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, accompanied by the Roxy Orchestra, New York’s famous theatre orchestra ol HO pieces, is one of the important novelties iip a selection which includes box movietone news, “Chic’/ Sale, famous stage and screen star, in an “ all-talking” comedy, “The Star Witness_ Gertrude Lawrence. English coiuedjenno, in a song entitled 1 1 Don’t Know. The Octagon Orchestra, conducted by M. De Rose, Afus. Bac., will play a specially-selected musical_ programme, starting at 7 each evening and continuing until 7.45, when the Eox movietone productions will be presented. Box plan arrangements will be announced later.