The New York herald., 1922-04-02

sound with simple curve correspond
ing to one of the simple curves of the
young woman's profile. The pipes were
sounded simultaneously. The resulting
tonal effect was rich harmonious chord.
with sound much like that Of the French
horn which suggested the experiment.
Then the process was reversed. The
organ pipes were sounded before the
photographing apparatus and on the SEN
sitized film there appeared the profile OF
the young woman as perfect as the origi-
nal Photographic outline.
Further experiments are now being
made not only in the Case School lab
oratory of Prof Miller but by other
scientists. 1t is proposed to actually COM
pose a completed musical work from the
face of some beautiful woman. or, as
Prof Miller says. from the face Of a
woman, for any woman is beautiful if only
her soul is free, and as all music differs
so does all beauty"
How interesting indeed will these ex-
periments be! Will they not, in their
progress, reveal some hitherto unknown
romances? Was 1t, perhaps, the memory
of woman that inspired Home, Sweet
Home" and if that quantity beautiful
melody is returned to it's basic theme will
the curves this produced reveal the profile
of her of whom Payne was thinking when
his loneliness was translated into his en-
during song?
Verdi composed his Aida" for the
Khedive Of Egypt. The first performance
was during the dedication of the Suez
Canal in a theater especially built in the
very shadow of the Pyramids. What pro-
file would result if the march Of the high
priests from aida" was photographed?
Cleopatra? Some Italian signorita?
Who would emerge from the tonal thun-
ders of Wagner? Cosima Buelow-Liszt or
Liszt-Buelow Wagner?
Could Science Bring
Joan of Arc Into View?
Would Haydn's God Save the King"
resume itself into Consuelo, the heroine
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which Haydn is the hero?
And what martial beauty would come
from the reverberating cadences Of the
"Marseillaise," Roger de Lisle's immortal
song? Joan of Arc? Charlotte Corday?
And what grotesque profile would adorn
the film if modern 'jazz' were to be
played into the device? Would the wall
of the saxophone and the clash of the
cymbals plus the humping of the drum,
result in beautiful profile? Or would
witch of Endor-a Medusa come to view?
There is yet another side to this inter
esting experiment. If eventually we can
transmute human faces into musical
sounds, then SAY 1t with flowers" will be
replaced by "say 1t with song" Lovers
will no longer be content with photo
graphs of their beloved. They will want
the musical equivalent to be played on
their phonograph or player piano.
They will classify her by the key in
which they can play her profile. OF course
this Is merely jocular, but then even
austere science can smile at times.
Speculation may we'll lend itself to va
ried imageries. II youth of the future COM
poses an opera built upon lett motif from
the young lady whom the composer adores,
and she is beautiful from a really artistic
viewpoint, then the opera undoubtedly will
be melodious. But should she be handsome
only because seen through the eyes of
love, then we may get another much criti-
cized "Salome." Or is Prof. Miller's gal
liant theory correct, and are we assured
that woman can produce no discords?
The possibility of photographing sound
waves accurately opens a wide field of
research. Perhaps it will be possible to
read character from the Photographic
sound record of man or woman. The
profile, translated into sound, may reveal
to us things which even the psychoanalyst
has failed to discover. Too. womans
voice, translated into profile may reveal
the profile of such man as would be her
ideal
AS has been said above, the possibilities
are endless--and Prof Millers further
experiments will attract wide attention.