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Patrons of the University Theatre will welcome the auspicious debut of the "talkie" in Harvard Square, especially if succeeding talking pictures are up to the standard of "Weary River", the current photoplay. Richard Barthelmess's pleasing singing voice is not marred in its new medium: Betty Compson's femininity is enhanced by the liquid notes falling from her sultry lips. The orchestral accompaniment adds to the realism of this juxtaposition of hard-boiled night life on Broadway and the reformatory influences of Sing Sing prison...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: TALKIES MAKE DEBUT AT UNIVERSITY | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...Barthelmess reveals his usual adeptness at being able to throw off the rhinoceros skin of gangster vice, and Miss Compson becomes a good girl after many revelations of body lines and wetting of luxurious lashes. Any Senior will forget his imminent divisional...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: TALKIES MAKE DEBUT AT UNIVERSITY | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...Criticized for bad synchronization in recent films, producers denied their technical incompetence by confessing that "doubles" had sung and talked for certain performers: for Richard Barthelmess (Weary River), one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one Margaret Livingston. ¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cinemanipulation | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Anne Spencer Morrow, fiancée of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, poured tea, one afternoon last week at the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City, for Richard Barthelmess, cinemactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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