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This will give some idea of the conversation in The Half Naked Truth. It is romance between a circus spieler (Tracy) and a cooch dancer (Velez) made funny by the way the dialog, by Bartlett Cormack and Corey Ford, and Gregory La Cava's direction favor the eccentricities of Tracy and Velez. Vaguely derived from incidents in the life of famed Publicist Harry Reichenbach, the story rambles about in the noisy manner of such carnival anecdotes. The spieler blackmails a producer (Frank Morgan), puts a lion in the cooch dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical...
...leaders planning a "hunger march" to Washington, spent 45 minutes listening to their "demands." Among other things they wanted $100,000,000 in relief funds, use of State armories, free transportation to Washington in State trucks, a guarantee against police interference. Polite but firm. Governor Roosevelt granted them nothing. Dialog...
...years, joined Fox in 1930 and made the ocean liner in Transatlantic a model for modern interiors on shipboard. Edwin Burke, son of a wholesale grocer in Albany, took up writing for the stage against his father's wishes, joined the Fox scenario staff in 1929. lately wrote dialog for Clara Bow's forthcoming picture Call Her Savage...
...this year's dinner, attended by 1,500 members of the industry, fewer celebrities than usual were present. Instead of introducing the prizewinners directly Toastmaster Barrymore paused before each name while a portion of the dialog from each prizewinning picture came through amplifiers. The dinner served also as an inaugural for the Academy's new president, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, to succeed Producer M. C. Levee...
...prime pounders: Rollin Kirby of the New York World-Telegram and Harold Morton Talburt of the Washington News. Mr. Kirby, scholarly and artistic, has a distaste for the Opper type of cartoon with its dialog in balloons. He was the pride of the old New York World. He and Talburt were both active in the 1928 campaign and the slogans of that fight echo through their work this year (see Kirby...