Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anybody but W.C. Fields would have a difficult time making "It's a Gift" an entertaining cinema, but the premier genius of cinematic humor has already proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably...
...Dial 911, wait for the dial tone, then dial nine, hang up, and wait for the phone to ring." Such are the instructions from a meddlesome student who has discovered in the new telephone system a method of revenge for the petty persecutions of human operators...
...secret number, which serves the Telephone Company as a check on repaired phones, has become public property since a student spent several hours of idleness trying out different combinations. He guarantees it to enliven an already joyous evening. If the number should not work, the investigator should dial eight instead of nine since Cambridge phones are divided into two classes...
Asked whether the new system will cause the discharge of all the former manual telephone operators, the manager of the company replied that such is not the case. Foreseeing the change to the dial system in Cambridge, the company long ago began gradually to transfer the regular full-time operators to other positions in other districts. As a result, the staff of manual telephone operators came in time to consist completely of part-time workers...
...course the personal element of the old system, with its corresponding uncertainty, will be missed at first, but there are other considerations to make it forgotten. The dial telephone is one of the most versatile machines ever devised. It's much more fun to play with while awaiting a call. You can play roulette with it, you can do if one-handed, one-fingered, in fact a man in New York once called a number with his nose...