Word: attractionâ
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore himself. What is at present the talkies' outstanding attraction???the fact that a picture can talk? must, after its novelty has disappeared, become their outstanding limitation?the fact that it is only a picture that is talking. The greatest menace to the contemporary theatre would appear to be, not good talkies, but bad plays...
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