REMOTE CONTROL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 182, 26 March 1932, Page 7

REMOTE CONTROL

WILLIAM HAINES IN A BIG RADIO picture: BEHIND THE SCENES. Novelty — always at a premium in motion picture stories — is reported to figure prominently iil William Haines' latest talking vehicle, "Remote Control," scheduled to open on March 28 at the Grand Theatre. The unusual aspect of this film centres about the fact that it takes movie audiences "behind the scenes" of a radio broadcasting station, introducing them to the little known technicalities of "ether" performances.

and revealing to them at first hand just what occurs when "wave-length" celebrities step up to the microphone, to speak to the ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience. S? It seems that sound exigencies required construction of a complete portable radio station for the major scenes, the effect of the familiar radio reception being impossible to achieve by artiflcial methods. Radio experts were thus employed in the construction of a station humoroqsly branded "Station M-G-M," over which Haines made what is undoubtedly the shortest broadcast in the history of radiodom, being confined to the twentyfoot distance between the station and

the talkie stage on which the action took place. The picture, adapted from the New York stage hit, is laid "behind the scenes" in Station WPN, . lending a novel atmosphere to the plot, which concerns the clever direction of the activities of a band of crooks by means of a nightly broadcast of a clairvoyant's readings. Bank robberies and a spectacular hold-up staged atop a fashionable hotel roof garden during the dress rehearsal of a Junior League Follies figure among the excitinjg incidents. Throughout the screening of the Haines picture, which is almost entijrely confijped to befund-the-scenes activities in a radio station, techical problems . continually presented themselves. One difficulty encountered was in having Haines talk directly into a radio microphone and still record his voice as it would be heard