PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS (By Hector Maclean, F.R.P.S.)
"SPEAKING LIKENESSES"
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At the “private demonstration” histrionics took a prominent part. For instance, there were couple of short music-hall turns, “The Whistling Bowery Boy,” which last was an unanswerable proof that the invention has already achieved practical success. there were songs from “Lohengrin,” which were crucial much as the movements of the lips of the vocalist with the sounds given forth by the gramophone. A telling negro laughing song was seemingly the greatest favourite. In this the quaint and droll expressions of the grotesque face of the were mated to an unusually telling reproduction of comic guffaws.

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St Jame's Gazette, London, April 20, 1904, p. 17.

Théâtre des Variétés
Direction : A. CARTON
Samedi 19, dimanche 20, matinée et soirée, et lundi 21 mai, débuts et, pour la première fois en Belgique, auditions d'artistes célèbres de tous pays, par le merveilleux Phono-Chronomegaphone-Théâtre, dernière invention de la Maison américaine Gaumont et Cie de New-York, London et Paris. Seuls propriété, actuelle du Barnum Excelsior : "FAUST", opéra en 5 actes et 8 tableaux, musique de Ch. Gounod ; EPISODES DE LA TERRIBLE GUERRE RUSSO-JAPONAISE (seule propriété du Barnum) ; LE BARBIER de l'Opéra de Paris ; MISS SAAHRU, célèbre danseuse de Madrid-Mayol dans la Matchiche ; Mlle GERTRUDE RAANCHE et M. G. BRAUMY, de l'Appollo-Théâtre de Berlin ; WILLIAM DAUBLEY, le roi des siffleurs ; le nègre TCHARLEY, dans son rire.

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Gazette de Charleroi, Charleroi, 19 mai 1905, p. 5.