Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-21
PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY
INVENTION PROBABLE
Already Pictures Have Been
Sen, Over Electric
Wires.
NIGHT
PROVE TNFLECTIOS
With "Centrnl' Able 10 Sec One Mt
Other End Of Wire. People Would
Have 10 Cultivate "rcIephOne
Face"

Inc tremendous enthusiasm With
which radio development has been
accepted, leads naturally 70 the
dreadful thought that mankind might
regard with favor a promise OF .eic-
phone photography az sciences lat
est achievement Already pictures
have been sent over electric wires
and IL IL by no means inconceivable
that time may come when through
the mere &C; OF lifting the receiver
one Will be transmitting ones fea-
lures as well az ones voice to the
party NJ tho other end of the line
" is. IN fact easier 10 imagine a day
when every telephone will automat-
icaliy photograph the user the mo-
inent h. or she takes the receiver
from the hook. than II is to feel con-
adent that such 4 condition Of af-
fairs would be welcome or even .ol-
cradle
In the first place, II a photograph
OF yourself were transmitted over
the wire every time you essayet. 10
use telephone. your image would
OF necessity first present itself TO
the eyes Of Central" have never
seen Central" but Judging from her
voice she is young lady whom it
sometimes note of Impotence in
her tone that inclines one 20 be-
lteve she has red hair and snappy
eyes
Can YOU complaccutly think Of
TRUSTING a portrait OF yourself upon
! central while in one OF her An
raiien, or apparently preoccupNd
moods For my part do not feel
l Know her well enough. 1t is one
| thing 10 shout "Iieilo!" to a girl UNI
/ der cover Of the dark and quite an
! othcr 10 be suddenly illumincd be.
| tore her eyes in the act o! utteriny
| that ia milar saluiation.
Far better for all il would seem
| that Central" remain an impersonai
! medium in the transaction OF tele-
! phonic business, but II there is to he
any presentation of photographs. ii
| Is hers that should be given To US,
hot ours that should be given TO her
BEING at her regular daily occupa-
ton, she presumably is properly at.
tired: called TO the phone in the
midst OF toilet, II is obvious We arc
not Nobody can catch her with sus-
penders hanging down her back and
one side OF her face lathercd. nor in
! faded wrapper with her hair in
| curl papers.
! Cultivate Phone .Fnre
Put another question arises
through this proposed .amalGnma,ion
| OF photography and discourse VIVA,
would be the period Of duration.
| Would the unlocking of ones tcie-
! phone receiver flash n portrait tina;
| would stay fixed" and unchanCInI
until the receiver was returned to
the hook. or would the process b2
akin to that OF the movie" film. per-
hitting of variecy Of facial cX-
pressions? In the former case. would
not a new duty be added TO lifc's
burdens? Would we NOE all OF us.
be obliged 10 cultivate telephone
! face,
There is perhaps no word in the
English language more susceptible
OF conveying various shades OF feel
ing. from contemptuous indifference
10 boundless enthusiasm that tho
| one which has become the customary
saiutatory of telephone users You
may say 'Hello!" to a yellow dog
or TO a long absent friend. but with
far different intonation In fact; the
word can he uttered in such man
ner as to leave little doubt its at
terer has mentally dropped the final
vowel.
Now II is evident that IL a photo
graph OF ourselves is To accompany
cach telephone visit we pay our halos
Tor civility will more than ever d..
pend upon our "hcllo's"Do YOU
Madam, suppost for moment tho
merchant will be as prompt in deliv-
erihS the article for which YOU are
waiting, IL scowling sour "teic-
phone face" thrusts Itself into its
vision. as, had YOU furnished
glimpse of that irresistible smile for
which you are famed? And if yo,t
my dear girl. must cali up that good
looking young man at his office. and
ask II he has lost or mislaid your
address. do you not know the kind
OF telephone face" that may help
him to find it?
Could Bc Nuisnncc.
1t seems certain at all events that
II this Photographic attachment is
ever made to our phones. the rates
for service viii, rise as the inevitable
result of clogged wires II women
IN suburban Sections find difficulty
In limiting their telephone converse
tons TO fifty minutes, what will they
do when, added to all the rest Of
their discourse, must be a prclimi-
nary as follows:
Oh my dear, how well you are
looking. What have you done to
your hair? oh. yes you have. and
It's very becoming. And that's a new
iace-piecc you're wearing: I never
saw IL before. Really? oh. do tell
me all about il. DO you suppose
could have mine done over the same
way: Charley likes your hair done
that way, You say; well, don't blame
him." etc. etc.
All things considered tclc- photog-
raphy may. in course Of time. be-
| come. like this radio business. a need
but there is no doubt i; could Le