TAUBER’S TALKIES

Southland Times, Issue 25307, 10 June 1935, Page 11

TAUBER’S TALKIES

MICROPHONE SECRETS. Richard Tauber has just started work on another English “talkie” He described some of the problems of performing before the microphone. “Tlie whole question is to be able to produce the same effect in a studio as in a concert room,” he said. “One can even obtain a pianissimo in a studio which would be absolutely inaudible in a large building. Fortissimos are more difficult, but every nuance can be adjusted by judging one’s distance from the microphone. “All the time I am singing, I am moving nearer to or further from the instrument. This is one of my ‘tricks.’ It is an art that must be learnt like any other.” >, Asked if he did not find the constant repetition involved in film-making very trying for the voice, he replied: “The strong lights turned on make one very hot and the voice quickly becomes dry. But when I am making a talkie, it is arranged so that I do not sing two days running. The 'intervening days are devoted to dialogue.”