With a keen eye cast in the direc tion of China's melody-lovers, the company"has placed under exclusive recording contracts such famous cinema stars as Miss Butterfly Wu, the Misses Chen Yue-mel, Lily Lee, Wang Zen-mei, Sha Pei-tseng and a host of others whose voices have made them idols of the New China. Meanwhile, Mei Long Fan, Chinese dramatic artist supreme, can point with the great musicians of the occident to his Master recordings of gold, safely locked away in fire-proof vaults to preserve forever an arf that is typical of Old. China, while the dainty misses named, represent the New Era in those precious files of musical creation.
Few of us, fortunately for posterity, may survey the future with any hope of having our vocalizing preserved for Tulure generations in gold, yet that Is literally what has happened to the most famous cinema Sars of China in the huge factory out on Route de Zikawei. There the diminutive heroines of 20th century Cathay have stood in a recording studio and sung the songs of the moment, while a sapphire needle cut them with exquisite precision into a dise of wax—and what wax! Most carefully chosen, and east into huge flat dises only after painstaking preparation that involved melting in a ust-proof, air conditioned room, and neat smoothing with a blade of sapphire.
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