Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dorothy Mackaill's affection for a plumber masquerading as a famed actor has a nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable, unlikely comic action, punctuated with subtitles, remind you how well the movies used to get along without the sound device. Plumber Jack Mulhall is proud of being a plumber; his theatrical personality is thrust on him by the imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor by reciting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel of Life (Paramount). To appear in this film...
...Talkies. Frieda Hempel (onetime Mrs. William B. Kahn), on the verge of signing a talking picture contract, wrote an article on this "inventive and progressive age" for the New York World. Excerpts: "I am entirely fearless in viewing the future of opera and the concert in the era of sound motion pictures. . . . Wonderful as motion pictures with sound really are ... we must not forget that they can only imitate a human being and not recreate one. . . . However, the radio, the phonograph and the talking picture are almost uncanny in their reproductions. ... I believe [sound pictures] will raise the standard...
Since the sound cinema vogue, hundreds of clear-voiced "legitimate" actors have hustled to Hollywood to get rich. With them has hustled Actors' Equity Association, potent labor union which controls the nation's legitimate theatre. But Equity has discovered a mighty objection to its regulations. Opulent Hollywood thinks it knows of its own business better than Equity does...
...introduction, embroidered with such quips and quiddities as all Yeomen of the guard insist on. Ambassador Dawes stood up, pulled a typed manuscript from his pocket, apologized for reading his speech, but said its importance made reading necessary. The Pilgrims leaned forward on their chairs to catch the sound of his thin, high-pitched staccato voice. The major diplomats at the speakers' table were less excited. Earlier in the day Diplomat Dawes had asked them to read his speech in advance...
Vivandiere, meaning a female brandy-selling camp-follower, is a word that has fallen into disuse since Blanche Bates played the part of one in the dramatized version of Ouida's novel Under Two Flags. Author Gaye's vivandiere "was born to the sound of a salvo of guns. She was weaned at three weeks and put on the bottle. Only it wasn't milk in the bottle, it was brandy! . . . The only powder she's ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year...