Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Langford's Eye...
...first talkie, The Jazz Singer (which grossed $3,500,000), did in 1927. Less sanguine observers have suggested cause for doubt. The human ear, which accepted sound in cinema so readily, has been scientifically found to be much less sensitive and hence much less critical than the eye. A wax effigy, much more lifelike than a statue, can still be less impressive, since its effort to achieve reality calls attention to its failure. Hollywood producers, though most of them expect color to arrive eventually, were still timidly dubious last week. That it costs about 30% more than black & white production...
...spoiled by trite phrases here. The Playgoer recommends it strongly, even to those romantic souls who must have their Hollywood endings. Need we say, yes, we might as well, Merle Oberon is a young lady who makes Hollywood endings a real pleasure, indeed, a delight to the eye...
...Kroll's hobby," explain his friends, "is pretty women." When he is not painting them, he likes to show them his one brown eye, one blue, make conversation by asking which they prefer. His cinema heroines are Mae West and Jean Harlow. Flippant and temperamental. Artist Kroll works hard at his painting and his beautiful young French wife sometimes takes her knitting to the studio while he paints. With her and his bilingual daughter he speaks French...
...CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Hard-case Perry Mason steps briskly into his sixth case (the retainer not so fat as formerly), does a bit of quick charity, slyly tricks "The Law," sleeps for once, and emerges triumphant, ready to plunge into the next maelstrom of chicanery and crime...