Word: dialog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only chat in the same room but walk past each other, in defiance of the old law of double exposure. Another new technical departure is a device which, more effectively than any other tried heretofore, eliminates "ground noise," i. e. the scratch and hum of projection machinery. The dialog is thrown into high relief, not always to the advantage of the picture. It is a story about a woman of the farmlands who, when her lover is killed in a reaping machine, marries an unattractive neighbor to father her child. The illegitimate daughter, when she hears the story, rebels against...
...tried advertising and was good at it, like Author Sherwood Anderson, but resigned to write. In 1926 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, went to France and wrote John Brown's Body. Some months ago he followed the well-worn path to Hollywood to write the dialog for Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). Other books: Five Men and Pompey, The Beginning of Wisdom, Spanish Bayonet...
...years ago, was merely sabotage. In that trial and again last week the son of one of the accused passionately denounced his father as a traitor to the proletariat. During the Schakhta proceedings several of the accused pleaded "not guilty," defended themselves wildly, vainly in a dramatic radio dialog with Prosecutor Krylenko, who beat down their defense as a tiger claws to bits a bleating sheep. Last week however all the star prisoners-six of the eight accused-expressed a desire to plead guilty, entered the courtroom with bulky, manuscript confessions which they proceeded to read in turn...
Audiences in Columbus were not particularly warm toward the play. Adapted from Julia Peterkin's Pulitzer prizewinning novel, its first drawback was that the dialog was in Gullah.* And Actress Barrymore's facial expressions, under cork, were hard to see, especially since the sets were made too dark. But Actress Barrymore was not downhearted. She had the kind of a part which is every actor's dream: when she was not holding the stage all the other actors were talking about...
...time and Actress Barrymore repeatedly refused to have her picture taken in blackface. This was probably due to the fact that she was fussing with her makeup, making it lighter and lighter, going from minstrel-show black to high brown. Also, the dialog was being freed from much of its unintelligible verbiage...