Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will make trouble at the polls unless husbandry is accorded better protection (see p. 12). ¶ When the Hoovers moved into the White House, the East Room was wired for talking cinema. Two nights a week sound pictures are shown there. President Hoover does not care much for "talkies" -"They demand too close attention." ¶ Last week Billy returned to the White House. Billy is the Hoover opossum. In the spring the President lent Billy to the Hyattsville (Md.) High School as a mas cot. Hyattsville, thanks...
...player has married the secretary and escaped the trap the boss was laying for him, you have stopped paying attention without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney's. Coincidence turns the wheels...
Earl Carroll's Sketch Book. Early in this gaudy cycle there occurs a sound cinema of Comedian Eddie Cantor, who wrote the libretto, singing a song of his own devising called "Legs, Legs, Legs." Thereafter a large and lovely group of girls attired in summery yellow dresses crowd out upon the stage, lie on their backs on an imitation grass terrace, raise their legs high in the air and wave them slowly to & fro. This revel sets the pitch for the rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard-anatomical, luxurious, careless-that is associated with Producer Carroll. There...
Springing directly from the Silent Cinema, the Talking Cinema is controlled mainly by strong Silent Cinemen. Great film names, with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This company is opulent, many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length...
...inhabitants last week sought to prevent planes flying low and landing in their Long Island Sound harbor...