Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1935, Page 37

Moving Sound Machines No Problem, Says Expert (One of the world’s most expert sound recorders, substituting for Mollie Merrick, tells you what would happen if the movie industry quits the West Coast.) H arrival. BY DOUGLAS SHEARER. OLLYWOOD, Calif., April 4 (N.AN.A).—If the film studios decided to move to Florida, to New Jersey—to Kamchatka or Tierra del Fuego, for that matter—we could be re- cording sound there in active production the day after This illusirates how mobile the intricate equipment for re- We have super-portable sets that can be packed on muleback into the Sierras to record a “Sequoia” cording sound has become or travel to the South Seas for a “Mutiny On the Bounty” or a “Typee.” | “This is the answer to the query | frequently heard nowadays: “How are you going to move the sound ap- | paratus if the studios leave Holly- | wood?"” The obvious answer, of course, is that practically all the apparatus, save that built in the studios, was moved here from the East. And what came out can go back—just as truly | as the axiom of aviation that tells us that which goes up must come down! ‘To move the complete sound instal- lation in a studio is simply a task requiring mechanics and freight cars. Our portable equipment (we have seven sets at the Metro-Goldwyn- | Mayer Studios) obviously is no prob- | lem. These sets were built and de- signed to be moved. They can be carried anywhere, set up in a few | minutes, and can do anything that | the permanent equipment on a sound stage can do. | The stage equipment installed on | sound stages would require some work. | Cables would have to be disconnected, withdrawn from their tunnels, and tolled on reels. Motor generators, synchronizing motors and such equip- ment would be unbolted from their bases. All would be packed in cases, | loaded on freight trains and Teassem- | bled on new stages elsewhere. The various items of equipment | would range from a duralumin wire | &ix millimeters wide and half a milli- | meter thick to a motor generator | weighing about five tons. The latter, | of course, arrived in “knocked down” | form and would be shipped away in | the same form. We have already made estimates | end laid out a plan for moving, | should this be decided on. It would be simply a case of shipping by units. With the studio or location decided on, the first companies sent there to - film pictures would use the portable | equipment. In the meantime, as stages were abandoned we would re- move cables, booms, mixing panels, end such details and pack them. We | would remove the film recording ma- | chines and the disk machines in the ' main recording room, one by one, at the same time assembling complete | systems in crates and loading them | on freight cars right on the studio | siding. | Other crews would disconnect and | pack the contributing essentials to the systems—the synchronizing motors, the cable systems, the battery plants, | etc. | Arriving at the new plant, all we | would have to do would be to bolt the | machinery to the concrete founda- | tions, prepared in advance while the packing was going on, and connect | the cables and switchboards. | Considering the complexity of the machinery, the task of moving would be absurdly easy. We could accom- plish it in a very short time, with actual “shooting” not held up a day, because the portable sets could take care of that. 1 If the studios move, the last thing | to hold up the procedure would be sound. (Copyright. 16 North American | Newsp by Alltance. Inc.) N IN “CRADLE SONG.” ‘The Blackfriars Guild will present | the second of its current group of | performances of ‘“Cradle Song,” by Gregorio Martinez Sierra Sunday | afternoon at St. Paul's Auditorium, | 1421 V street northwest. The per- | formance Wwill be exclusively for the parochial school children of the Dis- | trict of Columbia and environs and | will precede the three public pres- | entations on Monday, Tuesday and | Wednesday. | The cast of “Cradle Song” is as| follows: Mary Black, Edith Oriani, | Frances Shea, Jeanne Bateman, Helen Haltigan, Helen Nordstrom, Adah May | Brady, Kathleen Crowley, Adele | Endres, Elinor Sgueo, Leo Murphy, | Elijah Sidenberg, Edgar M. Ford, John | Dillon Fitzgerald, Marguereta Nord- strom, Margaret M. Myers and Mary | Ann La Covis. The play is under the | direction of Lucy Ann Rogers. NEW DRAMATIC CLUB. A special meeting of the Arte, a | newly organized Italian Dramatic | Club, was held last Sunday at which ; the following officers were elected: Silverio Cristofoli, president; Dr. | Raphael G. Urciolo, director; Edward | J. Geraci, publicity, and Mario Ric- clardelli, secretary. The next meet- | ing will be held tomorrow at 7:30 | pm. at 3211 Georgia avenue north- | west for the assignment of parts. | All those interested are invited to | attend. . MISS CORNELL TONIGHT. Katharine Cornell will present John | Van Druten’s new drama, “Flowers | of the Forest,” in the Maryland Theater, Baltimore, tonight for the first time in America. The theater is sold out for this performance and there are less than 100 tickets avail- able for the remaining performances, tomorrow and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee. The orchestra has been taken out and seats have been | 80ld in the orchestra pit for all of the Baltimore presentations. FOR THE CHILDREN. Tomorrow at 8 pm. the Francis Shinn Marionettes will give a per- formance at the Church of the Holy City, Sixteenth and Corcoran streets, sponsored by the Young People’s Society of that church. At this per- formance will be presented “Tweedle- -dum and Tweedledee,” adapted in Yerse by Elizabeth Sypher; “Hampel- “stiltskin,” also in verse, by Charles ~Turner; “a presentation of weird and mighty magic,” and three performing monkeys. . — . - RECITAL TOMOROW. Le Roy Lewis, baritone, will give a song recital tomorrow afternoon at the Congressional Club at 3 o'clock. Mr. Lewis will be assisted by Shirley French, soprano, with Frederick Weaver as agcompanist. The program will be as follows: “Buch .s_Liif] “Wild Geese" LITTLE PLUWSERS 08 ACH GAN 4o SAS. . ko gpon “21¢ 20 FREE TRIPS /| to EUROPE ., ‘L'Bte” . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DANCERS INTERPRET WORK OF COMPOSERS Lisa Gardiner Group and Five Composers Represented on Unusual Program. Five Washington composers pre- sented their own compositions last evening, with Lisa Gardiner and the Gardiner Dancers interpreting the music. The program, one of the most unusual given in Washington, was presented in the auditorium of the McKinley High School under the auspices of the Community Center De- partment. The composers, all mem- bers of the Washington Composers’ Club, were Mary Howe, La Salle Spier, Henry Gregor, Deane Shure and Ed- STRINGLESS Green Beans . CRISP CELERY ICEBERG LETTUCE . YELLOW ONIONS. . .. SPRING ONIONS ............ vooo. staik 10 . head 10¢ FRESH Spinach . . SPRING KALE RED RADISHES. ... MAINE POTATOES....... NEW POTATOES . OLD-FASHIONED Winesap Apples CALIFORNIA LEMONS .......... GRAPEFRUIT ceven. 4tor 25¢; 6 CALIFORNIA ORANGES. ..... 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C, THURSDAY, ward Potter, and with the exception of 1 plause, the daintiness of the dance Mr. Potter each played his or her own compositions. Mr. Shure was at the organ in Mr. Potter's “The Lotus Eaters” as the opening number. The music is heavy and languorous and the organ added to the impression while the interpreters carried out that idea. Mr. Gregor's two compositions, “Oriental Impressions” and “Etude in the Form of a Virginia Reel,” were effective as music and showed the composer as having & knowledge of the fundamental prin- ciples of musical theory and composi- tion. Jeanne Densmore interpreted “In the Temple of Shiva” with grace and good rhythm, while the groups giving the “Voice in the Desert” and the “Etude in the Form of a Virginia Reel” were well balanced. The latter was greeted with enthusiustic ap- and grace of the dancers being en- hanced by the quaint costumes. Miss Gardiner omitted the psycho- logical study, “Haunted,” by Alden APRIL reth”—“With the Woman done by Miss Gardiner, Mount of Temptation,” most spectacular of the evening. Alice Louise Hunter and Marjorie 4, 1935. the Well” Finckel, and the three Spanish dances | Beall were the interpreters and their by Mary Howe followed. The dances “Paterneras,” “Habanera” and “Jota,” are based on tunes which the com- poser learned in childhood and are lovely compositions with infectious rhythm and lilting melodies. Mrs, Howe was assisted at the second piano by Anne Hull, who came from New York for the performance. Miss Gardiner interpreted the “Habanera” and she and the two pianists repeated the number after applause. “From the Holy Carpenter,” a suite for organ by Deane Shure, was one of the effective numbers on the pro- gram. Episodes from this suite were given “With the Carpenters ai Naza- performance was outstanding. La Salle Spier played his “After- noon of a Four,” a pantomime which is a whimsical interpretation of a drama concerning four persons. Others in the dance group on the program last evening were Jeanne Milette, Marjorie Megee, Hiden, Leila Gurley, Anne Vucinovich, Barbara Worrell, Helen Langston, Lora Wills, Pillis Speich, Marian Wol- berg, Anue S8t. John, Polly Prickett, Patricia Benedict, Elizabeth Berkeley, Christine Stewart, Eda Vomacka, Anna Martin, Gertrude Feisel, Carol Schiffman, Barbara Fulton, Beverly Bennett and Beatrice Mullen, K. B. BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band Or- chestra in Stanley Hall this evening at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zim- mermann, bandmaster; Anton Point- ner, associate. March, “Wake Up America”. Glogau Hungarian overture, “The Two Hussars” Entr'Acte— “Woodland Whispers”. ... “Rainbow” (Intermeszo” Excerpts from the musical Vender” (requested).. (El Msnisero.) 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