TALKING FILMS.
AMBITIOUS AMERICAN INVENTOR
INVITES ROYALTIES TO SPEAK.
(Received 29. 9.40 a.m.) London, August 28. The “Dispatch” savs that a report that Their Majesties had agreed to make a talking film is without foundation. The facts are that Mr Washburn Child, a former American Ambassador in Italy arranged for famous people, including the Spanish King and Queen. Signor Mussolini. Marshal Foch. and President Coolidge. to make “movie’’ tone films in connection with a recent secret American ■ invention. The companv is most anxious to secure speeches by King George and Queen Mary, and shipped recording equipment aboard the Aquitania. intending to send it to Balmoral Castle, honing that the King would speak for reproduction in a West End cinema when the official film of the Coronel and the Falkland Isles battles were exhibited. but Their Majesties declined. —(Sydney “Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 218, 29 August 1927, Page 5
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