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Views and Previews of Impending Events
Snakes and Squeakies Toy Oceans and Paper Tights Participate in Film Art
Above, Trader Horn, whose narrative will be re-told in motion pictures; and at the right, Eva Von Berne undergoing a scientific test to determine the effect of music upon blood pressure
DEEP in the dark, I dank jungles of fearful Africa, where every murmur is a menace, gibbering gorillas will soon peer through lush foliage upon one of the strangest scenes in history. Hissing serpents will slither sibilantly along branches heavy with the poisoned beauty of orchids. Lions will pause in forest aisles to raise their terrifying voices in heartstopping protest. Unseen but seeing, all the jungle folk will cause the woodland gloom to rustle with an ominous restlessness. And every sound that echoes through the mysterious gloom will be snatched from the air, safely imprisoned and carried back to the byways of civilization to give you thrilling entertainment. For they're going to make a talkie in darkest Africa.
Metro has given W. S. Van Dyke the assignment. He is the adventurous movie-man who but recently returned with an epic of silvered shores and emerald seas called "White Shadows of the South Seas." And now he will be dispatched to make a celluloid version of "Trader Horn." The picture will be made in the noisome heart of the French Congo, and his black burden bearers will pack picture lights, cameras, sound devices, and all the other paraphernalia to spots where the occasional footprint of man is soon eradicated by the padded feet of beasts.
Another jungle thriller will greet you at the local theater
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BY HERBERT CRUIKSHANK
Captain the distinction of being the very first talkie lecturer.
TRANSLATING THE TALKIES
THE making of sound pictures, speakies, or as one young lady columnist, careless of her P's and Q's, has christened them, squeakies, presents many unusual difficulties. One of which is the treatment of sound for the foreign market. America is not the only country where English is not spoken. And in these lands it is necessary that the talking films speak an understandable language. Universal is endeavoring to obviate the difficulty by an interesting experiment in "Show Boat." It happens that Joseph Schildkraut, hero of the picture, is an accomplished linguist. So it is planned that a number of important sequences will be so arranged as {Continued on page iij)
before Van Dyke returns with "Trader Horn, " providing he does return. It is "Gow, " made in the Fiji Islands by Captain Edward Salisbury with the assistance of those talented dare-devils, Cooper and Schoedsack, photographers of "Chang." These three musketeers of the movies actually photographed a real battle between two tribes of Fiji head-hunters. But, alas, when they departed upon their expedition, sound in pictures had not catapulted to its present prominence. However, Captain Salisbury is doing the next best thing. And when you see his picture, it will be to the accompaniment of a photophoned lecture which eliminates all titles, and gives the gallant