APPRECIATION OF MUSIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 15

APPRECIATION OF MUSIC

developed by talkies Isound1 sound picture coming on the ' has resulted in a ofm ncrease in popular appreciation An2 8 c a ecording to the well-known ai> psychol °£ist, Dr. Herbert H. jJjj* firm of De Sylva Brown and th n « ° n ' he says, “state that more limn** ® million copies of the Fox firs/?° ne Routes” songs were sold the r', 0 w*>eks after the picture was co‘ Bed ' Tliis is a tremendous volume y. ai £ are<i with the song hit sales of *? as ** and is entirely due to the tatrS? d Cl 'eated for the songs by their on the singing screen. . influence in these songs of JoutK derni sm. the exultant spirit of %h and the universal appeal of in f?? 1 and uielody will be carried on kor P * pn s ongs presented from the high n , he y are to attain equally eui^ 1 ? 8 * a scientist, I am partiinterested in observing the ! ort n? of modern life, and its various Jiy I°*, expression, and to me this B bsr,fK- deve *°Pment is one of the most t’ndi/K? Phases of our progress. IbeliLr 10 stimu lus of the talking film, fn th! ® that music will advance more fo* - n * xt flve years than it has in ast two or three decades."