SCREENS FIRST OPERETTA
It is singularly fitting that “The Desert Song,” the screen’s first operetta, should be produced by Warner Brothers, whose introduction and development of the Vitaphone is responsible for the advent of the speaking photoplay. Presenting the first sound-film when they released the John Barrymore production “Don Juan,” with a synchronised musical score, Warner Brothers’ next Included actual talking in A 1 Jolson’s “Jazz Singer.” Then followed many other productions making a constantly added use of the Vitaphone and finally several which were all-talking. As a climax to their endeavours they have produced the glorious musical operetta, “The Desert Song.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 846, 14 December 1929, Page 20
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