Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

38 EXHIBITORS HERALD -WORLD December 6, 1930 113 Installations in 2 Weeks Give Erpi 4, 761 as New Figure for U. S. Addition of 113 more installations since its last report was issued has brought the total of Western Electric sound systems now in use in the United States to 4,761. Here's Reply to Bluebook School Question No. 48 There are 298 Review Rooms in the world using Western Electric equipment. Latest theatre installations include: Theatres most recently equipped include : Seats Columbus, O., Ogden 830 Trenton, N. T., Garden 302 Washington, D. C, Gem 249 Brooklyn, N. Y., Tivoli 1,896 New York, N. Y., Venice 566 Buffalo, N. Y., Academy..: 978 Syracuse, N. Y., Brighton Olean, N. Y., State 478 Souderton, Pa., Broad 698 SYNCROFILM GIVES THEM THE ILLUSION THEY PAY FOR P)EOPLE pay you to run ■ a forgettery — to produce a perfect illusion of a world entirely different from the one they live in. When that illusion fades, so do they. Now that talking pictures are here to stay it is essential to render every sound with absolute faithfulness. Any thing less spoils the illusion. Put Syncrofilm on all your projectors. WEBER MACHINE CORP. 59 Rutter Street, Rochester, N. Y. Export: IS Lelght St., New York, N. Y. Cable Address: ARLAB, New York Summit Hill, Pa., Capitol 428 New Haven, Conn., Garden 616 Whiteville, N. C, Columbus 422 Monroeville, Ala., Strand 453 Nashville, Tenn., (New) Paramount New York, N. Y., Washington Beaver, Pa., Beaver Philadelphia, Pa., Erlen 1,750 * * * Yonkers N. Y., American 300 E. Cambridge, Mass., Institute 694 Waverly, N. Y., Amusu 396 Philadelphia, Pa., Lyric 749 Albany, Ga.. Albany 2,578 Worcester, Mass., Plymouth 1,490 Washington, N. J., Washington 628 Dayton, O., Salem 926 Blue Island, 111., Lyric 857 Hammond, Ind., Orpheum Brooklyn, N. Y., Classic Cattaraugus, N. Y., Palace Seattle, Wash., Circle Huntington Park, Cal., Warner Bros Bakersfield, Cal., Virginia Atlanta, Ga., Eighty-One 750 Brooklyn, N. Y., Rige 592 New York, N. Y.. Monroe 2,293 Tilton, N. H., Tilton 350 Brooklyn, N. Y., Mapleton 433 Jacksonville, Fla., Rialto 556 * * * St. Petersburg, Fla., Cameo 472 Plant City, Fla., Capitol 785 St. Louis, Mo., Rainbow... 432 Brewton, Ala., Vaudette 360 Oxford, Pa., Met 665 Philadelphia, Pa., Castle 1,014 Hartford, Conn., Cameo 1,439 Brooklyn, N. Y., Monroe East Haven, Conn., Capitol 744 Philadelphia, Pa., Ambassador 1 ,007 Denver. Colo., Mayan 968 Maysville, Ky., Russell Trenton, N. J., Greenwood 739 New Kensington, Pa., Paramount Jersey City, N. J., Cameo 1,435 Hanover, Pa., Park Dayton, O., Victory 1,416 Chicago. 111., Vogue 1,549 Alice, Tex., Rialto 535 St. Petersburg, Fla., La Plaza 1,690 Sanford, Me., Leavitt's 1,089 Brooklyn, N. Y., Sun Ray 499 Portsmouth. O., Lyric 749 Westfield, N. J., Rialto 1,037 Decorah. la., Grand 666 Santa Monica. Cal.. Wilshire Sacramento, Cal., Mexico {Continued from preceding page, column 3) The question was : Is it essential that amplifying tube current be kept at exactly the right value? What will happen if it be permitted to go too high? Is any benefit derived from using a too-high amplifying tube current? What are the results of a too-low amplifying tube current? Explain just why a too-high current shortens the life of an amplifying tube. THERE has been a mix-up ! I know there were a large number of answers to this question, but where they have disappeared to is a dense mystery, both to myself and everyone else. In fact, two sets of answers have disappeared, these and those to question No. 49. Sorry! It's the first, and I hope the last, time there has ever been any trouble of this sort. I will have to answer these two myself, so if I am not correct you may land on me with all four feet and no gloves. First of all, quoting verbatim from the Bluebook, page 1,044 (I don't permit you to do that, but I'm a privileged character), IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that the filament current be maintained EXACTLY at the value indicated in the instruction book supplied by the installation engineer. If the current be too high, it will very greatly shorten the life of the tube, without any corresponding benefit. If the current be too low, then, while the tube itself will take no damage, the sound volume will be low ; also, the quality of the sound probably will suffer. The reason why the life of the tube is shortened by too much current is that the toohot filament throws off electrons at an excessive rate, hence the oxide filament coating, which same supplies most of the electrons, becomes rapidly exhausted. This, of course, reduces the flow of electrons and finally brings about the destruction of the filament. There, you see how easy it is for me to answer via the Bluebook? Efftee to Use R CA Sound Unit in New Australian Studio (Special from Department of Commerce) NEW YORK, Dec. 4.— With the completion of a studio in Melbourne, Efftee Film Productions, recently formed Australian producing company, plans the production of sound pictures on a large scale shortly after January 1, 1931. Negotiations have been concluded here for the acquisition of a complete RCA Photophone sound recording unit, between executives of RCA and Thomas Holt, general manager of the film company, who is here as the personal representative of Frank W. Thring, president of Efftee. Thring has up to recently controlled and actively directed Hoyt's Theatres, Limited, the second largest chain of theatres in Australia. The new studio now under construction, it is said, will be complete in every detail, and equipped to produce any type of feature picture. Holt, on his way "back to Australia, will stop off in Hollywood to close contracts with directors and sound engineers, for which negotiations were started by Holt on a previous visit. Commenting on the plans for the new company, he said, "Efftee Film Productions proposes to make sound feature pictures and short subjects with allAustralian casts." Local Sound Film, Love Story and All, Made in San Marcos F. W. Zimmerman, manager of the Palace theatre, San Marcos, Texas, sponsored production of a local sound picture which had both a love theme and the necessary local color. The film was shot in the theatre. This gave the crowd an opportunity to see the entertainment and also to learn what there was to be learned about how motion pictures are made. The setting was on the Palace stage. Pioneers from everywhere in the region were there to take part. Perhaps they didn't make the best actors in the world, but theatregoers didn't mind that. It made good entertainment. Every time one of the oldtimers missed his cue there was a laugh from the audience — and it all went into the sound picture. A local man and girl were the leading characters and all the love scenes were enacted right on the stage. _ Another feature recorded was a style show in which 10 local girls participated. This brought a tieup with a local merchant and eased the cost of producing the film. Two nights were consumed in the making of the picture and there was a capacity house on both occasions.