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PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS (By Hector Maclean, F.R.P.S.) "SPEAKING LIKENESSES" [...] 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. St Jame's Gazette, London, April 20, 1904, p. 17.
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