POSSIBLY A SISTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 305, 26 December 1928, Page 3

POSSIBLY A SISTER.

PROBABLY A HANDMAIDEN.

ADVENT OF THE "TALKIES."

"THE IMPENDING SHADOW"

"An impending shadow over the whole world of entertainment/' was the description of the invention of the "talkie" film civen by Mr. Henry Hayward on his

return from Australia by the Ulimaroa yesterday.

Mr. Hayward said that several leading Australian theatres were being equipped with the device, and a staff of ten electricians had been brought from America to supervise the installations Shortly the apparatus would be introduced into several large New Zealand theatres, including two Auckland ones. "Whatever changes may come about, the silent picture will never be seriously displaced," said Mr. Hayward "I am inclined to agree with Schenk, who is perhaps the wisest as well as the richest man in the movie business in America, that the most that the 'talkies' can attain is to be the sister or handmaiden of the silent picture."

Mr. Hay ward hopes io see the first sound pictures in Auckland within a month. The installation will not be made, however, until the American- technical experts have finished their work in Australia.