White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-23

defect in his speech, to which John ].
Murdoch responded:
Yes, and the kinetophone brought
1t out, didn't it? 1t will do the same
in catching every intonation of Will
liam Jennings Bryan.
In future a public speaker may
address an audience in every city,
hamlet, eross-road or room big
enough for a screen to be hung at the
same instant, and the listeners will
all be able to see and hear the man
as he is when making the speech in
his own person from a rostrum."
Having explained the advance Mr..
Edison had made in talking pictures,
the picture announcer said that 10Y
the audience would hear a few
sounds.
From aleoves and down the stairs
approaching the picture room, enter
ed various persons. A pretty girl
sang, a clumsy servant dropped a
plate that smashed into many pieces,
a piano and a violin were played,
whistles were sounded, horns were
blown-in each instance the picture
accurately reproduced the scene and
the sounds correctly ~harmonizing.
And now" said the announcer,
you are to be entertained by the
Edison Minstrels."
A minstrel first part vas shown
Tuxedo Ministries, the kind in which
the end men only black Up, while the
days.
The end men cracked their jokes,
the interloeutor talked in stately
phrases, the singers warbled ballads
and the band blared melodiously.
Again in perfact unison was every
move and every sound.
With expressions of wonder heard
on all sides the promoters said they
had a confession. The talking
picture prepared for the first public
exhibition had been spoiled by a
careless operator. The minstrel
first part had been taken only as a
makeshift in case of accident. When
the accident came they decided to get
a verdict with the minstrel first part
of it. They got it with the public, as
the jury arose from their seats to
shout approval.
At B. F. Keith's Colonial Theatre
Thomas A. Edison was back on the
stage giving his personal supervision
to the ~kinetophone, n of the most
marvellous inventions hat the "Elec-
trical Wizard" has eve made.
The audience vas a%stounded for it
seemed unbelievable that motion piet-
ures should talk. But truly they did,
for the sound came with every move
ment of the lips, and, moreover,
there was tone and distinction be-
tween each voice and instrument.
When the pictures were w the
audience went into a pandemonium,
there being loud shouts for a speech
from Mr.. Edison.
Motion picture experts who wit
messed this first exhibition said that
a marvellous synchronism of motion
and sound had at last been perfected
after years of previous attempts that
have proved futile.
Splendid talking pictures have
been taken already, the managers of
the kinetophone announce, of Truly
Shattuek, Cecilia Lotus, William
Farnum and of Gus Edwards and His
Kids. At B. F. Keith's Orpheum
Miss Shattuck will be followed by a
reproduction in talking motion pict-
ures of her own act, thus giving an
opportunity to compare the two. Ex-
cept that one is on a screen, they are
asserted to be Identical.
Among the happy managers inter-
rested in the k~inetophone who saw
its triumph at b. F. Keith's Colonial
were Martin Beck, NJ. Myerfeld, Jr.,
A. Paul Keith, besides Messrs. Albee,
Murdoch and Tate, and Mr.. Edison's
executive and electrical staff.
Another wonder feature of the
kinetophone is the simplicity of its
operation. A small boy may set a
focus, turn a handle and the kineto-
phone does the rest.