W.E. TALKIE EQUIPMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 14

W.E. TALKIE EQUIPMENT

DISPLAY AT CIVIC THEATRE BUILDINGS Installation of further Western Electric talking equipments is now proceeding apace at the Tivoli Theatre Auckland, and at the Town H*" l Huntly and Cambridge, and the We&* era Electric Company (N.Z.), Ltd. r - recently established branch ser \v stations at Christchurch and in addition to those already opened Wellington and Auckland. , An exceptionally interesting esm tion of the? mechanism and ca«PV ent parts o:* the Western Electric P is now on view in the Civic The buildings. The latest feat of the Western w* trie sound engineers was the inS tion of the ocean’s first talking P 1 : “theatre.” This was the wiring 01 <Vi lounge of the s.s. Majestic, one o largest of the trans-Atlantic (r When the Majestic left New a recent trip, after only a one-day • to port. Western Electric talkies - become a feature of this fine - varied amusement programmefirst picture was “Broadway.' , As the lounge is used even' ® -j : . dancing and other forms of «n “ . ment, the whole of the equipmen to be dismantled each evening.