The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-10-28
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The movies have come to stay, OF
course, but it may be that the
time is coming when it will require
more than a pretty face and figure
to shake the plum tree in Movie
Land When movies greet the ear
as well as the eye, then it will take
real acting to get them by. Inc
Boston Herald thus describes the In
vention which is nearing perfec-
ton:
ouently heard in the early days OF
the movies, but the desire that went
with it for films that could be heard
as well as seen remained little more 6
than a "pious aspiration" during
the war experiments were carried on
with view to the use of light t EiI
the transmission OF soqna, ana hvsil
cist, was enabled to telephone dis
lance of a mile and half by means means
of light rays The oriaBs ' F,nrop mean
Countries has just eliminated in
Swedish invention, vouched for by e6-
perts, which brings the MIN p1 aivos
promise that before long our movie movie
figures hitherto talking only IN du tbe
show. will speak as well as act 'ne
parts assigned to them. ,o,,orirg
In the new method of preparIIds Il
movie films both sights and sounds
are photographed. A double eaI1i1I% a,
1
shaft, is brought into play. In one
record. that of the ordinary cine ne
matograph, the usual pictures OF Odr op ne
performers and their suIroun aInass
is directed. not towards the actor actor
but at a ray of light which. agltaiIeo
Nv his voice 1mpresses on the ceIiu-
ioid Aim curves corresponding to the
sound waves. In order to re-conVeis
this phono-photograph INTO SCUM sni
the operator uses a cell made OF Sc
ienium, a metal which reslsts the
passage Of electricity in proportion
to the degree of light which II re-
through this cell, varying aecording
to the speakers voice. is thus made
to reproduce it's sounds: o,o ro-
Gently taken Of Prof. oscar Monte
iius. director of the Swedish Ma
tional Museum. during the delivery OF
a lecture, and three days later ,,, were
thrown upon the screen penno ri M Msie.
who witnessed the exhibit, was PTot
Montelius at his lecture desk, or NOV
ing freely about the platform. and
what we heard were words in re-
production so perfect that II was
was sitting, with silent lips, at any my
side" In this way, then, the MIN
photophone is to complete. the, real,
ism Of the "movie show and add
the last touch needed to bring 1t INTO
line with the theatrical performance.
1t will be no more wondetfipSi er an
showed photographed actors and act
resses in motion, but it will have an
impressiVeness all it's own as science
with its magic wand turns their ST.
lence into speech.
Again we are at peace with the
world. The Senate has so declared
it. While it is "a technical matter,
and no particular difference is no
ticeable, it is a good thing to get
settled.
The Edison questionable is up
again for discussion, and we hnd
from Mr. Edison himself that it had
a serious purpose as far as he was
concerned. In His own words: 1T
costs too much to learn whether a
man is a good executive by trying
him out on the job" and that was
the reason of the memory test. He
goes on to say:
"This brought up the question OF
what we should look for, what is the
most important qualification Tor an
"When call upon any of my men
for decision. 1 want 1t right away.
When his department head calls on
him for a decision, he wants is right
away. 1t is all very well to say that
you have got to look up the data on
which the decision viii be based, that
data and decision will be forthcoming
tomorrow afternoon. but want the
decision now; the department wants
the decision now. II is not convenient
for me to wait and certainly IL is not
convenient for a whole department TO
wait in the air for an indeterminate
period for an executive to ind out
something he might have had right IN
his head"
said. whether man knows the capi-
tai Of Nevada, or the source Of mahog-
any. or the location of Timbuctoo. OF
course I don't care whether he knows
who Desmoulins and Pascal and Kit
Carson were. but. IN he ever knew any
OF these things and doesn't know them
now. / do very much care about IL IN
connection with giving him the job.
The assumption is that IL he has for
gotten these things he viii forget
something else that has direct bearing
OF course the assumption is cor
rect, but where is there one of us,
college educated or not, who has
not forgotten many things we once
knew. For instance, where is the
latin Of yesterday year for most of
us? Little but the struggle Of dig
ging il out remains with us, yet
the mental discipline is not wholly
lost. Mr. Edison admits that a good
memory is not all there is to
good executive, which gives us hope.
The unemployment situation is
critical mostly over the world. All
kinds of ways are being tried out
with only limited success. The slow
process Of getting back to normal is
the only cure, and while that pro-
cess is going on, unemployment in
surance, Mr. Zero's auctions. soup
kitchens, bread lines, general char
fly and making work by national,
city and state government, like
building and repairing roads, bridg-
es, parks and increased efforts on all
public works are all keeping the
wolf from coming through the door.
even tho he waits without.
IL the general public is at all
rnrrrrltnd fhnra will he no railrnad