The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-07-18
IRIS THEATRE WILL !.
OPEN SATURDAY NIGHT

lished as the opening date for the Iris
theatre, under the management of E.
&c. O'Keefe and Max Fregger of Bill
lings.
These popular showmen own and
operate the Babcoek theatre, where
only the greatest attractions of every
caliber are presented as we'll as the
Regent theatre, which recently in
stalled sound equipment and the Lyric
theatre; their entire seating capacity
is about $500 each show.
The Iris management in announcing
college Love- as their opening pic
ture, give the assurance that only the
finest in great sound pictures will be
shown at the Iris theatre. college
Love- is the supreme effort of the
Collegians, so we'll known in the short
reels, and are presented by Carl Laem-
nile, Jr.
1t is the campus of a great college
transferred literally and pietorially to
the screen, replete with everything
which gives the undergraduate life it's
vast fascination for the same de-
young stalwarts for the same de-
lightful heroine, played by Dorothy
CULVER, and the elimination of the
story in the great game Of the year
and say! If the thrilling action of
the great football game doesn't bring
you to your feet in a spontaneously
grasped moment of excitement we'll
miss our guess.
The football scenes are especially
well done, the combination of excel
lent photography, direction and con-
tinuity of action creating an emotion
in the onlooker at least equal to that
experienced during a real game. All
the plays are graphically screened.
College antics, in the shape of fra
ternity hi-jinks, football rallies and
dances, add immensely to the picture.
The direction by Nat Ross is splendid,
and George Lewis and Eddie Phillips
who, with Miss CULVER, create the
leading characters are outstanding in
their roles.
Talking motion pictures in which
the simultaneous timing of action and
sound is at all times assured are the
result of a number of years expert
menting; and though it was only last
season that most of the larger thea
tres provided installation of the vari-
Gus kinds Of equipment for the pro-
duction of sound pictures; this year
finds a number of the fine types of
equipment for the recording of the
sound photoplays.
The Iris theatre management after
many months of experimenting with
sound equipment in the Babcock thea
tire and the Regent at Billings, have
found that expert operation of the
machines, combined with the system
best adapted to the sound qualities of
the house bring the best results. For
that reason a great deal of time and
money has been spent in getting the
Iris ready for the installation of the
sound equipment. Every possible con-
sideration has been given to the al
terations necessary in the house to
produce the best results; the repro
duction horns have been built into a
closed room, with silencing material
to insure that no foreign noise is in
jected into the reproduction of the
picture.
Trials with the machinery disclose
the fact that the house has every
quality for harmony in the presenta-
ton of the finest all-talking features.
The porous screen which has just been
installed gives further assurance that
every quality of the voice, with which
every dramatic climax is created, can
be heard distinctly by the audience in
every part of the theatre.
great deal of space could be ex-
pended in presenting an educational
survey of the many and varied con-
ditions that effect sound pictures.
Suffice to direct your attention to the
opening feature "College Love'-in
which some of the great qualities of
sound reproduction will come to the
fore-for instance the recording of the
great stadium scenes in which the
voices of thousands of college students
in their yells and the band music, and
4 the thrilling, colorful crowds sayings
are recorded with remarkable quality.
Then too, on Monday and Tuesday an
other entirely different type picture
"Alibi" will be presented, wherein the
individual voice comes to the front
with wonderful tone quality