STRAND TO SCREEN TALKING PICTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 25

STRAND TO SCREEN TALKING PICTURES

FIRST DUE IN MARCH, 1929 It has been decided by FullerHayward Theatres that the Strand will screen sound and talking pictures in 1929. The first of these is due in March and will be selected, probably, from “The Jazz Singer,” “The Singing Fool,” and “Mother Knows Best.” So great has been the demand for sound installations in Europe and America, that the manufacturers have been unable to attend to their overseas markets until now. The Fuller-l-Tayward Theatres have ordered machines from the Western Electric Company, who hold nearly all the patents. Advice has been received* that the talkie installations for Hew Zealand, will be dispatched from York in February. They will be brought by technical experts, who will install them 2tnd teach local operators how to install, repair, and take care of the new and delicate mechanism. In “The Jazz Singer,” Al. Jolson, the popular vaudeville artist, plays the leading part, and sings at the piano just as he does on the New York stage. Also, the world’s most famous Jewish cantor, sings Jewish religious music, to the accompaniment of a huge choir, and church organ. Al. Jolson appears also in “The Singing'Fool,” the picture which has broken all attendance records since motion pictures were first invented. The best British talkies are also coming to Auckland.

for all the clothes I wear or I should be bankrupt in a week! Once on tbe set, I may be there till quite late at night, with an interval of an hour for lunch and half an hour for tea. Dinner?—well, there isn’t any real dinner—you just eat bread and butter and cheese, or something thick and British like that! “Shooting” goes on all day, and sometimes I have spent as long as 15 hours continuously in the studio.