Ritz Cinema

A BRITISH TALKING PICTURE sound system was installed in late March 1929. The ‘Jazz Singer’, not a talkie but a film with sound, was shown in mid-April. In a trade newspaper, the first ‘full talkie’ was reported as shown in October. The Ritz’s orchestra was retained, because a trade newspaper reported that the orchestra was providing the music where captions occurred due to the poor quality of the recorded music. A WESTERN ELECTRIC sound system replaced the BTP system in mid-February 1930.