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Picture Show Annual 49 Paul Whileman was worth his weight in gold to Universal by the time they had paid him his enormous salary, which he was receiving jor many weeks while a suitable story was being found Jor him and his famous band. Here he is seen with Jeannette Loff in " The King of Jazz," the story eventually chosen. Wallace MacDonald, Jamous a Jew years ago as a villain, made a return to the talking screen as a hero, the result of his singing in "Hit the Deck," the film version of the stage show with June Clyde, the musical comedy star. Alexander Gray, whose beautiful baritone voice is heard on the films for the first time in .Son? of the Flame." THE MUSIC MAKERS AMONG the many discussions that have been aroused by the talkies, none has provoked more argument than the question of music reproduced either by the sound on film method or the disc recording. " Canned music " is the contemptuous description given by those who can see no good at all in this kind of orchestral or vocal music. It s tinny and screechy," said a well-known critic of music to me, " and I can see no use for it except to frighten away cats on the midnight prowl." Another musician, for many years a leading player in the Halle Orchestra, and later the con- ductor of one of the finest pier orchestras in the country, was equally emphatic on the anti-side. " No man will ever be able to reproduce music by mechanical means and get anything better than mechanical music," he said. " Wireless music is a distortion when it isn't an abortion. The best phono- graphic records played on the best machines give the nearest approach to real music, but even such records fall far behind the original." Nobody will deny that original music played or sung by real musicians under ideal conditions must be better than any mechanical reproduction of that music, and it is here that I would like to join issue with those who are so bitterly against the music of the talkies. Most of us would never have heard the great singers and the great orchestras of to-day had it not been for the phonograph and the wireless, and, latterly, the pictures. The question of expense is a bar to the average music lover, especially if he or she lives in a small