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Then the Warners took a flyer in Western Electric's experimental sound-film, which most Hollywood companies had already turned down. On Aug. 6. 1926, Warner's Manhattan theater screened Don Juan (John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy) with a fully synchronized musical background. On the same bill were eight sound shorts. Historians agree that the bell tolled that evening for silent pictures...
...longing for the good old days that never were. At London's Mall concerts, the bands throbbed Rose-Marie, Alice Blue Gown and Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life. In nightclubs, heavily curtained against outside noise and austerity, singers crooned: She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor and Money Is the Root of All Evil...
...Lady Astor's 27-year-old son John, standing for Parliament as his mother had, tried a different approach. "I do not intend to bring drink or morals into politics," said...
...Lady Astor finally sailed back to England as she had come, happily firing from port and starboard. In the U.S., said the teetotaling viscountess, she had found too much sex in advertising, too much talk about disease on the radio, and too much liquor in the young folks. "Nevertheless," she reported, "I've had a wonderful time...
Academy Award Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The spooky Maltese Falcon with Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart...