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Legitimate actors, who long have repeated the slur that the only two-syllable word that Hollywood knows how to pronounce is "fil-lum," may not forget their gibing and journey toward the west. Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Hearts in Dixie. First of several Negro cinemas scheduled for imminent release, this picture has only one white actor in its cast-Richard Carlyle, who plays a doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Best current cinemas arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last fortnight. (A) The Wind-Storm of sand and emotions around Lillian Gish. My Man- Fanny Brice on the sound-device. The Shopworn Angel-A doughboy's love for a girl who loves dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

What a Night. Bebe Daniels, who in the course of her career has made 52 full-length cinemas, includes in her routine one more plot with its main set in a newspaper office and most of its laughs in Herman Manckiewsz's subtitles. Best shot: Bebe Daniels trying not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

A shoe is a commodity. So is a motion picture, a vaudeville act, a radio program. A man who has sold shoes should be able to sell cinemas, acts, broadcastings. So thinks the recently formed Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, Oct. 15), so thinks Hiram Staunton Brown, its new president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Know-Nothing Brown | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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