Word: dialogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio replied through Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co.: "The public will get its information, if not through the newspapers, then through a new medium created for the purpose" (TIME, May 4). Fortnight later the Cincinnati newspapers began to skeletonize their radio programs to such terms as "Dialog" for Amos 'n Andy; "Commentator" for Lowell Thomas; "Dance Orchestra" for Paul Whiteman. Result: within a week appeared Radio Dial, an eight-page weekly selling for 5? and presenting news and programs of broadcasting. Three weeks ago Radio Dial declared a press...
...made whereby Mr. Laemmle's Universal Pictures would supplement Mr. Cummins' bits with connectives and shots of Mr. Darrow. No scientist, and very, very serious about the proposed picture, Lawyer Darrow called in Smith College's goateed Professor Howard Madison Parshley and they spent three hardworking months preparing explanatory dialog. Last week the finished film was ready for review by Dr. James Wingate's New York State Board of Censors before its world debut at Manhattan's Cameo...
Cinema audiences stopped believing that all college students were morons several years ago and Confessions of a Co-ed will therefore seem implausible as well as dull. Its dialog, anonymously contributed, is comparable to Mother Goose without rhymes and its campus mise-en-scene suggests the cloisters of a day nursery for retarded adolescents. If anyone can take any interest at all in Confessions of a Coed, it will be because Sylvia Sidney almost manages to make real emotions out of fake situations. One of the many young actresses who have effected a successful transfer from the stage to talkies...
...year's connection with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company, commented: "They paid me $2,000 a week?$104,000?and I cannot see what they engaged me for. . . . Twice during the year they brought completed scenarios of other people's stories to me and asked me to do some dialog. Fifteen or sixteen people had tinkered with those stories. The dialog was quite adequate. All I did was touch it up here and there. . . . They were extremely nice to me, but I feel as if I have cheated them. . . . It's all so unbelievable...
...cinema if fewer shots of wheels, particularly wheels with balloon tires, had been shown in those stenographic flashes which are as yet the only means the talkies have discovered to indicate motion from one place to another. Its somewhat sentimental story is by no means a novelty but the dialog is terse and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. has an English accent which, if he uses it at home, must make his father feel like a pants-presser...