Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This volume is written for the average man and woman. It strips the tenets of sound psychological theory to an understandable basis, expressing it in everyday terms and concrete concepts...
...very public conversation, however. Not only were the camera men there and the cinemen, but so were the "talkie" men. These protested that Mr. President had not spoken loudly enough to be "heard" by the sound-sight machinery that was to reproduce the little scene for distribution throughout the land. Moreover a cineman came scurrying along late. "I have been sick," he said and begged Mr. President to repose...
...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...
...Midnight Taxi shows Helene Costello falling for an honest bootlegger in a complicated but exciting melodrama filmed on a train. A variation between the race between the car and the train is one between train and airplane. In sound, Comedian Tommy Dugan is the screen's first stammerer. Best shot: the line of taxicabs bringing Antonio Moreno's Scotch up from the boat. Best loud-line (Dugan) : "I was in jail but I got pppp ... I got pppp . . . par . . . they let me out for a while. . . ." Best criticism (Variety) "Can go into any wired house for a week...
...investors hold General Motors cheap at 222, rush to brokers with orders to buy? Prudent investors consulted prudent stockmarketeers. They learned: 1) that the "15x" formula might justify itself in a strong bull market, but that it could not be maintained in a slump; 2) that many a sound, conservative stock, undisturbed by pools, sells at 10x or 12x; 3) that 5-year earnings are safer guides than 9 months or a year...