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& SRG TA ev wwwy TEE dd i dn BE Re REIL TEER UI i Bad Bedi de J Si Ba 18 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, July 19, 1961 'Wide Variety Offered [First Talkies Revived | To Mark Anniversary Ry KENNEDY WELLS Canadian Press Staff Writer + More than 40,000 men and women are enrolled in summer courses offered by Canada's uni- versities and colleges. They are studying for many reasons--to make up courses E failed during the regular se- mesters, to shorten the time needed to get a degree, to get M | special training in fine arts or| { languages, or simply to widen their cultural horizons. The majority are schoolteach- ers working for the extra know- ledge that will help them do a better job--and earn a higher salary. The campuses on which they study range from the rugged splendor of the Rocky Moun- tains where the Banff School of Fine Arts goes into session each summer to the busy downtown streets of Montreal where Sir George Williams University is ¥ | located. The courses they take-- " |usually during a semester last- PROSPEROUS WEST GERMANY ing signs promote the products | the background is the Zoo rail- of free enterprise in this view | way station and at right is | of the Hardenbergstrasse. In | the administration building of | an electrical plant --(CP Photo) Buildings of glass and con- crete stand out against the sky of West Berlin and flash- The IBM record also makes| against his table-like desk, you Thomas J. Watson Jr., tall sense he feels his company ° | New Chief Gave |trim, 47-year-old father of six,|should be nowhere but at the a man of extreme wealth and|top. IBM Shot In Arm . Profit sharing added $166, too which has evoked criticism . He and his family own com-| that the company is paternalis- |enormous, growing stature. This philosophy of perfection IBM shares has quadrupled and|pany stock valued at more than|tic and its workers regimented. 000 543 NEW YORK (AP) -- "There lling six to eight weeks--cover { nearly the whole spectrum of the university calendar. Thou- sands are studying special sub- jects such as ballet, painting and photography. His salary last year was $141,- pervades IBM. And it is this, | ENROLMENT UP | Almost every university of- | ficial queried in a Cross-Canada Survey by The Canadian Press {reported steadily increasing en- |rolment. And most of them said {increased pressure on teachers {to acquire more university {credits is the major factor in [the rise. At the University of Manitoba |{in Winnipeg, where enrolment in summer school has increased {by 250 per cent during the last {10 years and hit 3,000 this sum- To Summer Scholars et, Professor R. J. Lockhart said: "The popularity is primarily a case of teachers who want to upgrade their qualifications and to proceed towards a degree. At the same time, there are lures offered to teachers . . such as schoolboards offering better pay on the basis of the number of university credits a teacher has." Dr. H. W. Curran, exténsion director of Queen's University at Kingston, Ont., whose sum- mer school, the oldest in Can- ada, is in its 51st summer, said: "Teachers are particularly keen on improving their quali- fications and because teachers' pay scales are becoming more realistic, more people are enter- ing that profession." 9 PER CENT TEACHERS At the University of Alberta in Edmonton, summer school director Dr. J. W. Gilles esti- mates teachers make up 90 per cent of the 3,000 students in summer school this year. But educationists also saw broader reasons behind increas- ing enrolment in the summer sessions. A spokesman for the Univer- sity of New Brunswick in Fred- ericton said the UNB summer school is more and more popu- lar "chiefly because of the in- creased desire for education among both young and old." And M. W. Duckworth, exten- sion department director at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., said "more and more people turn to the uni. versity for cultural enrichment during their summer holidays." Most university spokesmen appeared to welcome the trend, but at Ottawa University, Bill .|tutes for a full academic year Boss, public relations director, said summer courses should be banned. Summer courses are cram courses which "cannot possibly be considered as education"; they are unsatisfactory substi- and they deprive professors of time needed for rest and study, Mr. Boss said. But at Ottawa U. smumer- school enrolment has from 30 in 1933 to 1,700 in 1960. Only two major Canadian uni- versities do not offer summer, courses leading to a degreée-- Mi University in Montreal and Dalhousie in Halifax. At McGill, registrar Colin Mc- Dougall said summer courses are simply not consistent with McGill tradition. The univer- sity has never favored part- time students, Mr. McDougall said, and has stricter resid requirements for undergradu- ates than most Canadian col leges. But McGill does have a highly regarded summer course --now in its 45th session--dur- ing which students from all over North America are steeped for six weeks in French culture. The course attracts many United States college girls-- total enrolment is limited to 150--who study French litera- ture, phonetics and civilization. Most live in residence and dur- ing the six weeks, in class and out, speak only French, Similar courses are given by the University of Western On- tario at Trois-Pistoles, Que., by the University of Toronto on the French - owned island of St. Pierre in the Gulf of St. Law- rence and by Laval University in Quebec City. LONDON (CP)--"Wait a min- ute, wait a minute--you ain't heard nothing yet." So 'much has been written about the impact of Al Jolson's voice on the vitaphone that Jan- uary evening in New York in 1927, and the revolution it caused in Hollywood. What was it really like, that historic breaking of the sound barrier? In London the younger genera- tion recently had a chance to find out for itself. To mark the grown|35th anniversary of the coming of sound, developed b; Warner brothers in 1 tional Film Theatre dug some early talkies out of its archives. Among them was the famous Warner-Jolson pair, The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool. the four , the Na- It was the first London revival of the veterans since long be- fore the war. blurred but the dubbed onto film from the orig- inal sound-on-disc system, still was in good repair. The prints were soundtrack, Like Jolson's own screen bi- hy 20 years later, The ograpl Jazz Singer told the story of a Jewish cantor's away to sing ragtimi way. It was originally intended to be a silent film with synchro- nized background musi¢ and six recorded songs, and had the ornate captions. son who ran e on Broad- But just after Al Joson fin- ished his first number, his 11- word ad-lib slipped in on the record and made cinema his- tory Later in the picture he spoke several more lines of dialogue that got accidentally waxed. The silent era was over. Flat, tinny and toneless though the répro- duction was, synchronization, as The Times said with wonder, had been "almost perfectly achieved." The success of The Jazz Singer turned the dynamic Al Jolson from a Broadway star into a world star. At the time it was rumored that another sing- ing comedian, George Jessel, had been offered the part first and had turned it down--a de- cision he bitterly regretted. Whether or not this was true, within a few weeks of the Jolson premiere, Jessel rushed into production with Lucky Boy, also being revived in London, and the similarities between the two movies are striking, Jessel's movie also portrayed a Jewish boy battling against parental opposition to sing in vaudeville, And like Jolson's, it was dominated by a yearning song about the hero's mother. But Lucky Boy soon faded into oblivion, and Jessel never be- came a household name like his rival. SANG 'MAMMY' : The big hit of The Jazz Singer had been the dramatic Mammy, so Warners looked around for another tear-ferker and came up with coe so corny probably nobody but Jolson could have got away with sing- ng i straight. nny Boy sold 2,000,000 rec- ords in Britain alone, and be- came forever linked with the start of the talkies. The Singing Fool was adver- tised with "full dialogue." But the impact of the vitaphone was cunningly held back for the first few reels of film. As Jolson finished his first song, It All De- pends on You, the cafe audience burst into loud cheers and the soundtrack unveiled its full glory. At odd moments the movie would lapse into silence, using the old-style captions, then dra- matically recover its voice. that dividends have increased|$50,000,000. And his estimated In the usual personal matter when I became chief execu-leach year. yearly retirement pension is|of dress, for example, IBM men| tive," says Thomas J. Watson| Sales grew from $734,000,000 $25,000. conform to a company pattern | recalling the smooth transfer of|in 1956 to more than $1,400,000,- Watson, who had been presi-| with almost military pride and control five years ago when he|000 in 1960 and yearly earnings dent of IBM since 1952, took over|neatness. They don't have to be took over as boss of Interna |have leaped nearly $100,000,000 las chief executive officer injtold. tional Business Machines Corp.| During these years IBM has May, 1956, shortly before the] "When I see one of our men wasn't 8 ripple on the water But waves of reaction have| pushed to 11th largest among! death of his father, T. J. Watson wearing a blue shirt 1 stiffen,' been swirling ashore ever since. | § Quick as a computer, investors ploys 75,000 domestic workers in May of this year will note that since Watson took on products from electric type- ever, the value of a block of writers to electronic brains. leg braced 'either." 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