GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 133, 1 March 1929, Page 17

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

TALKS IN WELLINGTON. < V ' While Wellington slept at 5 o’clock yesterday morning, George Bernard Shaw’s voice broke the silence at the New Paramount Theatre. This outstanding literary genius came on the screen in the initial trial of talking pictures, and his only audience was a group of “talkie” istallation experts, electricians, Movietoe technicians, and others connected with the preparing of that particular entertainment for the forthcoming presentation to the Wellington public. Though Mr. Shaw is among the world’s celebrities, he had to obey a grimy figure in overalls, perched far up at the back of the dress circle, testing the acoustics. “Louder!” and the great author’s voice rose obediently. “Tone it down!” and Shaw’s words fell away to a murmur. What he said cannot be told, because the censor still has to 1007 and listen. That job will be dclie this morning by the censor, who will also hear what “Chic” Sale, stage and screen star, has to say in “The Star Witness,” and “pass” a piano duet by Constance Merrick and Muriel Pollock, of “Rio Rita” fame. “Street Angel,” featuring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and a newsreel done in Movietone, will also come up for censorship this morning. Those pictures will comprise the talk-ing-picture and sound-film programme the New Paramount Theatre will present on Friday, March 8.