SYDNEY APPLAUDS RCA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 779, 27 September 1929, Page 16

SYDNEY APPLAUDS RCA

HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL TEST In view of the opening at the Majtic Theatre today of an R.C.A. Pho- * phone installation, the following refe ence to the success of similar equ-. ment in Sydney should be of intere? Sydney film men had an introduce to new talkie technique recently the RCA Pliotophone gave its r demonstration at the Theatre Roya “What they heard bore out all » had read about the cone system <■ sound transmission. It was the satisfying first performance we t* listened to.” said “Everyone's.’’ a r minent Australian film magazine, that provided new tonal qualities, m**a woman speak like a woman is something talkies don’t often acn - and reduced to an absolute the extraneous noises coming. sake of avoiding technicalities, uthe general head of static. - “To an audience of about 800., - Cathro, in charge of the compajj-, Australasian activities, explainec •_ the programme had not been eei * for its entertainment value, but * demonstrating range it gave . stallation. For the rest, he »ci • instrument to speak for itself spoke! + . jj| “Showmen who had gone t“ wef! a ‘Show me!’ frame of shown. A heavy orchestral n taxed its reproduction powers thundering passages and sudden i uendos; yet all came througn clarity that permitted us to aISU every instrument sans blurs,

bloops, sans explosions. “That got us really striking sound contrast ca . Scliipa in three tenor solos, aga* . .. uncanny clarity. An a^ d >f , f o u'familiar with Kings of & new dramatic strength in it pr reel, the earthquake scene, ,j orT -: sented in synchronised form. y by the Fox Movietone feature . That Curtain.’ That. too. ga'« •. cellent demonstration of tne British voice is likely * talkies. With two exceptions-- ~r ; Baxter and Lois Moran, wmo •,;! been identified with motion P America —the cast was new lish. „ ft ' “A Vitaphone comedy’ ana ... lot of genuine plaudits clos n monstration. Using K-C k film and sound-on-disc syst f c sr.: : ' Photophone made an appeal tors.”

Sonya Levien, author for the screen version of *** mX *:- Curtain,” Earl Derr Bigger romance will prepare the scrip _ tur e Roger’s first all -dialogue P T : - Fox Films, “They Had to -ee