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...bare schoolroom walls of the Great Neck High School (L. I.) and of 35 Rochester, N. Y., public, private, parochial schools, rasp and cackle such pedagogical pronounciamentos, warnings, chastisements...
...their gibing and journey toward the west. Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore himself. What is at present the talkies' outstanding attraction?the fact that a picture can talk? must, after its novelty has disappeared, become their outstanding limitation?...
...four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what Mr. Dooley once called "the more fleet aorist", he had some theoretical respect for that part of man which grows above the neck. Now, apparently, quite otherwise. The pleasant, rasp of the golden key as it slides along the watch chain seems a pale delight compared to the costasies of throwing, the victorious hat over the goal bar of the bowl or the stadium. W. W. Williams in the N. Y. Evening Post