Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applause of many notables. When she had sung, Joe Frisco capered, W. C. Fields was called from his balcony seat to tell a story, a Warner brother took a bow, silence fell. The crowd which had paid $5.50 for seats grew uneasy. At length it was announced that the sound device had been tampered, the operators kidnaped by unknown assailants. Miami glowered at Palm Beach. Next evening, while Miami crowds saw Show Boat for 50?, the "gala" opening was held in Palm Beach. On the day of the first Manhattan performance last week, Miss Morgan was in court, charged with...
...attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles. Finally Commodore William B. Eldridge appeared on the balcony of the Yacht Club building. The boats lined up under the railroad bridge. The Commodore fired a pistol. With a shrill spattering sound the boats streaked down the Hudson. As each passed the balcony its time was marked, because the Hudson is not broad enough for 133 little boats to start at the same time. Having fired his pistol, Commodore Eldridge motored to an airplane, flew to New York, waited for the winner...
Balloons. All studios making sound pictures were being equipped last week with red captive balloons which, wavering above production lots, will notify aviators to keep their droning engines at least 2,500 ft. away...
Long Shots. In Washington, D. C., William Fox was given a license to use a special wavelength for recording sound-shots over long distances. A Fox company, taking a singing picture in the Fiji Islands, prepared to send their work to Hollywood by radio...
...entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk who thinks he is on a street car, and demands to be let off at the corner of King and Yonge. The young priest, sliding the panel between him and the drunk, recognizes the grating sound as the same noise made by the closing doors of a street car. Fearful of unseemly disturbance, uncertain what to do, he prolongs a confession at the women's panel, chides the penitent for lying, suggests that she say a little prayer whenever she feels she is going...