The Washington times., 1932-03-23

and in spite of langud dislike of harmony girls
prepared to suffer the three Boswell sisters But l
never heard them! They were grouped around a
piano. they sang at least their lips moved but their
voices were not heard. Before them stood micro
speakers placed in the theater and either the micro
phone absorbed their voices the reduplcatlon OF
sound in the loudspeakers drowned them out What
heard in any case, melic electrical Transcription
of music I wondered whether in an excess of zeal
the voices were being transmitted miles away to
broadcasting studio and relayed back to us in the
theater. l found the experience displeasing to the
point of morbidity.
What For?
The audience gave no visible sign of displeasure.
Injured to radio, they accepted this offense against
nature as natural in itself. It did not to them
that they had ceased to enjoy of the ancient
pleasures of humanity the pleasure taken in the sound
of the human voice; that vast multiplication of
apparatus was being used to do something no one
could really want done.
In Bernard Shaws vision of the future, Back to
Mehuselah," there is in which the Prime Min
lister of Great Britain and dusky colonial Empress
communicate by telephone and televsion. I have
forgotten whether the lady is in her bath, but re-
member that the master Of useful hokum snaps few
jokes about the dscomforts of teevison. The real
joke is that when we become habituated to the ma
chine, the machine becomes normal, natural
than the simple intercourse of the past.
Garry Your Radio
In few generations may insist that people keep
away from houses, because no longer bear
the thinness of their voices and ask them either to
casting instrument their persons. The sight of an
actual face the touch of flesh and blood may become
distastefu to U.S. We have managed to get rid of
boards and the natural compilations of women; why
not Danish faces altogether and communicate with
animated snapshots.
On the Other Hand
A few days earlier had the experience in re-
verse; when Lupe Veez formerly the appeared
in "Hot-C Cha Movie personalities, subdued from the
start to their special medium, seldom effective on
the stage, and the little remembered of Miss VeIez
left totally unprepared for her dazzling and etfec
tive presence. The beauties of the screen come off
we'll enough they beautiful and are not suttl-
ciently grateful for the exploitation of their charms.
But talent impertnence, assurance, grace OF bodily
movement, and that additional snap at the end OF the
whip which that all the talents have been
combned-these are in the movies and suffer
transportation badly Miss Velez takes them over to
the stage with the calm certainty of veteran.
The Real Thing
She plays Carmen without the dark overtones OF
the original is all artificial and light and seductive
on plane of making fun But she throws into it sui
fcient energy to make the impersonatlon success;
and her physical attractiveness from the roll of the
eye to the last snap of the fingers are multiplied by
her presence hundred times over their power from
the
do not suppose it would occur to Mr.. Megfeld,
having Miss VeeZ the stage not to let the audience
see her. but to make them look at her shadow That,
in substance what happened to the singers. And
was not enhanced by hearing words which, checked
them with other listeners-were: "You are like the
breeze that tried hard to pease.. That little
too much like radio.