Word: tonfilm
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...theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz Lehar. Now Vienna is poverty-ridden. The Tonfilm offers potent competition with the ordinary run of state theatres, and many composers-like Oskar Straus (The Waltz Dream)- have gone over to the talkies. Bustling Berlin can make money with Lehar and Strauss: but Berlin has its Max Reinhardt who, in mounting Die Fledermaus, can give his singers real champagne...
...move was prompted by two events: 1) the Prussian State Theatre's purchase, in co-operation with famed Producer Max Reinhardt, of a large block of stock in German Tonfilm Co.; 2) negotiations between the Vienna State Opera and the Austrian Selenophon Co. for the production of opera films. Since the audible cinema cannot be destroyed, Austrians and Germans alike believe it must be controlled to the greater glory of the great dead...
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