Word: dictional
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...seldom, if ever, hears over the air. I refer to the gentleman who delivered Winston Churchill's speech and later announced the engagement & wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina. I trust it will please you to let us hear more & more from one whose diction & voice are music...
...sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss Lang has emerged as completely unremarkable a young woman as the cinema has produced in many a year...
...will men with a definite defect in their speech be detected and a cure suggested, but a larger percentage of the men, while having no rest obstacle to satisfactory utterance, may be found inept in composing their thoughts orally. If this same percentage is also unsatisfactory in clarify of diction. It may be inferred that there is something significantly lacking in the present educational process
...companion piece to this moralizing talkie is "The Trumpet Blows". George Raft is featured as the Mexican matador who at heart is yellow. His East Said diction seems out of place in this picture of Mexican life and as usual he demonstrates his inability as an actor. Better cast is Adolph Menjou who plays his brother. Both men fall in love with the rhumba dancer Chulita, played by Frances Drake, and around her the story is centered. The piece is very mediocre but may appeal to those who like bullfights and vampire-like women...
...Composer Thomson, for the Negro singers, for Conductor Alexander Smallens, for Florine Stettheimer who had done the sets and costumes, for Frederick Ashton who had come from London to devise the action. The Saints were supposed to be Spaniards but Virgil Thomson had chosen Harlem Negroes because of their diction. White singers, he feared, would act foolish and self-conscious chanting such lines as "Let Lucy Lily Lily Lucy Lucy let Lucy Lucy Lily Lily Lily Lily Lily let Lily Lucy Lucy let Lily. Let Lucy Lily...