Cinemas At Sea

Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 5

Cinemas At Sea

When the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary starts on her maiden voy--1 age next year, she will be equipped [ with separate cinemas for first, tourist I and third-class passengers. i In the first-class section, talkie equipment will be installed in the lounge, where a special projection room, complete with rewind and electrical generating compartments, has been built. Portable screens and loudspeakers will be used, so that the amenities of the lounge, which has been treated acoustically, will not be interfered with. The tourist lounge will be equipped with an entirely new type of talkie apparatus, which was successfully tested last week. A portable machine has been designed for use in one of the third-class public rooms, but in every respect it will be as efficient as the apparatus in the first and tourist classes. The contract for installing the cinema equipment on the Queen Mary has been secured by the engineering section of the Gaumont-British Corporation in face of keen foreign competition. The apparatus will be the most complete and elaborate ever supplied for use on a ship, and will permit of up-to-date talking films, either in black and white or technicolour, being exhibited.

Jean Parker is coming to London from Hollywood to appear with Robert Donat in Rene Clair’s picture for Alexander Korda, “The Laying of the Glourie Ghost.”