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There is no dialog in Tabu. The story is told entirely by pictures, helped by infrequent and skilful subtitles, accompanied by Composer Hugo Reisenfeld's synchronized "musical setting." Three of the five actors are natives of Bora Bora, one of two Southern Pacific Islands where Director Fred W. Murnau spent 18 months making Tabu. Best shot: Matahi coasting down a waterfall...
Senator Norris of course recognized Senator Watson's attempt to get the Progressives to quarreling among themselves. The following long-range dialog occurred...
...must keep up with the experimental work of the younger boys of the theatre. Hence his play-against which the only criticism is that it is too worthy-makes use of gramophonic bugle calls, clock ticks in the darkness to denote passage of time, mysterious snatches of offstage dialog. The play should stimulate many a pulpit and women's club...
...most hilarious of the 1929-30 Manhattan season. The wisecracks of a cynical pianist suffer slightly in not being rendered by Harry Rosenthal, who created the role. The song publisher's mistress is played a little too broadly by June MacCloy. Most of the acid and laughable dialog of the play has been retained, as has the depraved and tuneless anthem, composed by a writer of novelty songs: Should a father's carnal sins Blight the life of babykins? All I ask is: Give our child a name-mean, a last name. My Past (Warner). Pregnancy used...
LAUGHTER-Donald Ogden Stewart's dialog makes this the most accurately contemporary and pleasantly entertaining of recent drawing-room efforts...