Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard orators meet the Western Reserve University speakers at Holden Chapel at 8.15 o'clock this evening. Two Harvard men and one Western Reserve debater will support the negative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the principle of complete freedom of speech on political and economic grounds is sound" and will be opposed by two Western Reserve men and one Harvard speaker...
...Washington, joined its Department of Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that has long attached to the League's name was going to be submerged, by merging all Dry efforts in a purely educational campaign. "The cultivation of public opinion for law observance" is to be the slogan of the U. S. Drys, consolidated...
Lucky Boy (Tiffany-Stahl). George Jessel's clear, vigorous singing of three theme songs better than the average prevents his first sound-picture from being as tiresome as you would expect a picture to be in which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small...
...appearance of Mr. Daly's series of articles on the phases of business is of particular importance now, Comparatively few of that host of Seniors who are inevitably going to enter some branch of the commercial field have had sufficient training to formulate any sound ideas on the subject. The cultural theories that see rightly a certain acquaintance with literature, art, music as highly desirable in producing that gentle abstraction, the complete man, generally trouble themselves not at all with the crass, sordid details that must crop up for every one without means, or desire to live in an ivory...
This is the first time that sound pictures have ever been taken of a college crew, the work yesterday being done under the direction of Larry Ellis of the Fox Company. He stated that the film will be ready, for release by next Thursday...