DEAD TO "SPEAK."

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 6, 8 January 1931, Page 7

DEAD TO "SPEAK."

TALKING PICTURE

Englishman's Novel Plan to

Present Will.

FAULTS AND VIRTUES

(United F.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 7. An elderly retired Birmingham manufacturer has made a talking picture of himself reading his own will. It will be presented to an audience of selected fiiends and relatives who will benefit, together with others who they should be there, immediately after the cremation. 1 . The guests have not only been seleoted but the order of the seats in front of the screen has also been arranged to enable the dead man to turn and speak to each one individually. The speaker begins: "Now that I'm dead I claim the right to speak to you impartially," and proceeds to explain to each why he or she benefited-' more or less than was expected. He points out the faults and virtues of cach in turn, and concludes: "Now, dear nieces and nephews and friends, I shall bore you no longer. To save unpleasant lawsuits the solicitor will how read my will in similar terms, drawn up> testified and witnessed in the correct legal manner." The speaker bids good-bye, hows and is flashed off the scrcen.