“THE DESERT SONG”
NEXT CHANGE AT ST. JAMES 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 solely 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 orchestral score. Warner Brothers next included actual talking in A 1 Jolson’s “The Jazz Singer.” Then followed many other productions making a constantly added use of . Vitaphone, and finally several which were “all-talking.” including the hugely successful “Gold Diggers of Broadway.” , *^- s a climax to their endeavours they have produced the glorious musical play, The Desert Song,” which shortfy. ‘° th ° St ’ James Theatre
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 16
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123“THE DESERT SONG” Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 16
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