Word: dialogic
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...John Boettiger, Universal Service's Edward Roddan.* President Roosevelt interrupted a White House conference on the National Recovery Act to listen in. When the singers finished, the President telephoned the broadcasting studio. Disguising his voice he got the quartet leader on the wire. Approximately the following dialog then took place...
...sell but it got him a studio job. Soon after he invented an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon. Sound came to the cinema and his boss scrapped Oswald and Disney. With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work on an animated cartoon cinema with sound & dialog synchronized. Its hero was first named Mortimer Mouse, its leading lady Minnie. Mortimer soon became Mickey, an accurately cartooned mouse with a mouse's four fingers, an inert tail, and a trick of lolling out its tongue. Hollywood turned down the finished product. It was first exhibited modestly in September...
...Hoffman and it takes his son (Richard Arlen) and several friends to avenge the old man's death with tactics they learned in the Army. Somewhere in all this there may have been the germ of a potent picture but if so it was sterilized by second-rate dialog and second-hand situations. What is left are a few authentic and interesting episodes-like the contest in wagon-loading by Hoffman's drivers-strung together on the thin thread of a skillful performance by Hersholt...
...Comic Artist contains a good deal of excellent prose in its dialog, expresses not a few credible convictions, is honest if somewhat unprofessional. Most reviewers left it with justification for harsh criticism, but without the heart to administer...
...comparatively happy ending, Today We Live, adapted by Edith Fitzgerald and Dwight Taylor, is unmistakably a Faulkner production. Author Faulkner constructed it on the lines of his short story "Turn About," published in the Satevepost last year. It has all the Faulkner mannerisms from sentimental morbidity to painfully telegraphic dialog of which the following is an example...