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THE KANSAS CITY STAR SUNDAY 06TOBER 6 1929 18' 01 KANSAS CITY HAS A WEEK OF STRONG PICTURES HERE ARE SCENES FROM THREE OF THEM I A 4 44' 4 4 '3ikt i I MiPalle I----- -1 Ag 4 1 ro i 0 i ir itipieTtel11: 1 i I a--- A 0t t): I 41 I I 1111 I I i' 'C :4 --4k-2't----31---- 'i-2-------1---ii'll '114'' 47' ''pe 'S 9e 'ft 1 ''''17 1 7 1 'f' i'll' 11 4fr 4 4 ef i1 ik' i i -4 I S' 0 ti" IP' '---sm-----imelointemput tossanom 1- 1 I -4VIP te i K1 1 ---r--- -v at 11- er'' ''4 A 3 i affiffitatilitaillit 1 --e---f-- 'l I i It tl 11 50 -r- It 2 ---4L44 1 sfl 4 N1 'A: 4 e-- 422---sje- Lt 1 'iildWriIe 41 1 4 4 10 4 4f :4 I Yp1 i ----t--z------ -4-E--: ta- --1'--41L-" Aielke i y-v ''1' 71ti s- J' l'''1 r1'- -1---- 1 cis- i -L------------- 'k ---1 lk '1 k''VZt' i i' 3 'AA (4: ''e rl'' -4 ir 1 ''f' 'r ---c: -3 6 'it ttr- 711k1 1 Al I i 4 7 i Tk 3T 2 i- :1 ti' ft TI wif 4 fr 4 4 1 :4 4 :4 1 4 4 ''16 7 i 77 7 Px: 3- i 6 sr I 1 I 41 1 14t i 7 OM A 4rit i I I I t- 4 4 i ---110 1 kd 7 A I 4 I a i s-- --E A lk 1 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Mainstreet brings the three Moore brothers Owen Matt and Tom In a talkie that tells a gripping story and reveals new talents in the Moore family Owen as a racketeer is pitted against the law-abiding Matt and the law-enforcing Tom Pictured is a scene at the clnnx Charlie Farrell and Janet Gaynor reach the end of the successful road they have traveled together "Lucky star" their last picture togeth er' is at the Midland It is a tender and whimsical story directed with keen artistry by Frank Borzage who made "Seventh Heaven" and "Street Angel" Mek tun the "crooning troubador" and Ann Pennington the "shaking tamale" do not have much to do with the plot of "Gold Diggers of Broadway" at the Newman but they put much of the entertainment into it In this picture Nick is singing "I Want a Girl Who Looks well In a Kitchenette" and thrr is Al- right on the breadboard "Side Street" at the Mainatreet brings the three Moore brothers Owen matt and Tom in a talkie that tells a gripping story and reveals new talents In the Moore family Owen as a racketeer is pitted against the law-abiding Matt and the law-enforcing Tom Pictured is a scene at t11 to-mx Marn th Farrell and Janet Gaynor reach the end of the successful road they have traveled togeer Iheky star" their last picture together' is at the Midland It is a tender and whimsical story directed with keen artistry by Frank Borzage who made "Seventh Heaven" and Street Angel 11(k Lta lie "crooning tronhador" and Ann Pennington the "shaking tamale" do not have hitieh to do with the plot of "Gold Diggers of Broadway" at the Newman but they put much of the entertainment into it In this picture Nick is singing "I Want a Girl Who Looks Weil in a Kitchenette" and thrrt Is Ara lght on the breadboard The Critic OnTtMeArth A STROLLER IN HOLLYWOOD OBSERVES THE TALKIE PitOBLEMS hard to make you happy' These are honest sentiments but they are clumsy diction Their clumsiness is a result of their honesty No one speaks in perfect paragraphs when he is feeling deeply But because they are honest they are no less humorous They sound as graceful as the courting dance of a male ostrich looks No wonder small brothers eavesdrop on their sister's beaux They supply more laughs than Harold Lloyd iiikk DY -vs ir 'ip roV Of 407- 1411)) i MM An Egg Goes Talkie' John Gilbert Discourses on Audible Amours an Off Stage Extra "Hoggs" a Scene "Wings" Is now making talkies On the whole he prefers players to stage actors in his stories "Most of them haven't 'learned tricks of enunciation" he says "They have to hypnotize themselves into a certain amount of sincerity to act at all Stage players are overburdened with technique that shows when it faces the camera This does not apply to stage actors of the intimate school such as Alfred Lunt But there are too few of them- So few that most are still in New York That is the type of gage player we need in the films When we develop a few Alfred Lunts of the screen we will have great intimate acting and great pictures" In an effort to solve Its directorial problems the Paramount Company on many of its pictures is now employing two directors a man with movie experience and one with stage training Though this system has the evil of divided responsibility it has turned out many creditable pictures One of the imported ta dlted1 Ls John Cromwell amociate4 tv1 Edward Sutherland "Jast now" Mr Crom7e1l "stage players lime an a argal over movie actors who have ne' I read lines Screen plJyers tr'1 movie exeperienco are at a prerrL1 We are having a hard time people with proper don't think we will have tIlls al culty long 311micry Is Developed "The powers of in yet1 people are astounding College 1J dents and other youngsters coAll the studio with a keen sea: camera timing and seine lanes 1 camera angles simply because have studied the movies nd consciously Imitated the there are a sufficient rumber movietone voices in circulation seems likely talkie fans lj It: tricks of modulation the mine In this way the talkies 1111 rect 61- anta ne' Te' int 1) rya nes tl ber Lion It IC vi 1 subtle and Clever "We are finding subtlety and finesse necessary to audible love scenes They require intelligence where the old ones merely called for endurance Marathon kissing has been replaced by human insight and nalvette After all these things were at a premium in the old silent pictures 1 consider the little chewing gum episode in The Big Parade' one of the best love scenes I ever played" William Wellman the director of "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine" and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me are the most tuneful Miss Pennington supplies a few glamorii)usly tinted closeups and exhibits her busy little body (quite a bit of kt) in dance numbers But Winnie Lightner is by in and of the plot When everything has been added up she is the most important person in the picture because it is she who takes those tedious sequences that usually come between musical and chorus numbers and makes them the hit of the show As the buxom cutie from the merry-merry she takes the entire picture with one raucous laugh and one sprawling leap She takes such old comedy gags as the plump lady with the reducing vibrator the chorus girl vamping the coy fat man and the dumb actress who can't remember lines and makes them screamingly funny She bounces on Albert Gran's stomach (which is some stomach to bounce on) falls off the table and rolls on the floor She turns the thing into a howling roughhouse Her singing "I Want A Mechanical Man" ranks with the best of Mr Lucas's work For the benefit of sophisticated theatergoers we hasten to say this is a picture about the avocation of stage people not the vocation No one rushes in at the last minute to save the revue no one of any consequence loves a little chorus girl despite the objections of a patrician family: no One ever says "the show has got to go on" These mere negative qualities should be enough to pack the theater But in addition to what you won't see there are the fine things you do These include some "whoopee" parties rnd coin extraction from the playboys This comedy tells more fact about the stage than any of its serious in" ranks with the best of Air cas's work For the benefit of sophisticated mtergoers we hasten to say this is Acture about the avocation of stage Dple not the vocation No one shes in at the last minute to save revue no one of any consequence res a little chorus girl despite the jections of a patrician family no than any of its serious prede ever says "the show has got to on" These mere negative quail- should be enough to pack the eater But in addition to what won't see there are the fine ings you do These Include some hoopee" parties cnd considerable ill extraction from the playboys lis comedy tells more fact about the achieved by an actor had he shouted the roof off The very impersonal quality of the movies sometimes made for strength in scenes like this Still there may be a way to accomplish even such difficult recording as 'the voice of God'" The individuals seem to have' changed less than have the institutions At first there was talk of drastic changes The "dumb movie actor" was to be swept out and the brilliant stage luminary was to be swept in Time proved screen people had no monopoly on dumbness Screen players stood in awe of the microphone but the camera struck terror into the hearts of their stage brethren Mr DeMille recently completed "Dynamite" with a cast of stage and screen luminaries Julia Faye a camera veteran despite her youth trembled like a novice when she made her microphone appearance Stage players around her went through their scenes with easy nonchalance But when scenes began for the silent version (prepared for houses not equipped for sound) the same nervousness was discernable in the stage stars This was peculiar in one instance There was no dialogue spoken in the scene Kay Johnson the heroine merely dropped an egg on the floor and the microphone recorded the icky sound of the domestic disaster When the actress performed this scene for the talkies she was quite assured The egg spoke its lines and everything was lovely It was Mr DeMille's superproduction of "Humpty Dumpty" Then they made the same scene over for the silent drama Camera ague seized the girl and she spilt eggs all over the place The two scenes were the same except a slight difference in timing Humorous "Lose" DiniOEUPS The addition of sound has brought many changes to motion picture acting Perhaps no phase of acting has This was peculiar in one Instance There was no dialogue spoken in the scene Kay Johnson the heroine merely dropped an egg on the floor and the microphone recorded the icky sound of the domestic disaster When the actress p-erformed this scene for the talkies she was quite assured The egg spoke Its lines and everything was lovely It was tin DeNfille's many changes to motion picture act superproduction of "Humpty Dump- 4 Then they made the same scene over for the silent drama Camera ague seized the girl and she spilt eggs all over the place The two scenes were the same except a slight difference in timing Humorous "Lose Diaiogues i The addition of sound has brought ing Perhaps no phase of acting has PHOTO PLATS PHOTO PLAY'S 1 I 0e01S--- PHOTO PLATS DQWNTOWN PHOTO PLATS DQWNTOWN IHIWNTOWN new improvements seem on the verge of achievement Work on the three-dimension camera has been renewed with a zeal that promises much Recent tests of the camera Indicate we may soon see Clara Bow In all her native roundness To Questions lo Be Answered Almost as often as one hears the question: "Are the talkies here to stay?" there is the equally persistent query: "Will thcre be any more silent pictures?" The development of sound pictures has been so rapid it Is difficult to make predictions At the present writing it seems more conservative to expect the extinction of silent pictures than to hope for their survival Some weeks before the writer arrived in Hollywood Cecil De Mille in an interview said he belived silent pictures would become the epic medium of the screen that they might be to the cinema what grand opera is to the stage Mr De Millets reasons were sound At least they sounded so to those who read them But in the interval of two weeks Mr De Mille questioned his own interview He was not being inconsistent He was merely being open-minded In that time he had further experimented with sound pictures He had seen others He Is about convinced has been so rapid it Is difficult to make writingpirtedseicetmiosnsmoreActontsheervaptirevseeitiot expect the extinction of silent plc- tures than to hope for their survival Some weeks before the writer ar- rived in Hollywood Cecil DeMille In an interview said he belived silent ictures would become the epic me- und pictures He had dium of the screen that they might be to the cinema what grand opera Is to the stage Mr DeMille's reasons were sound At least they sounded s0 to those who read them But in the interval of two weeks Mr DeMille questioned his own inter- view He was not being inconsistent He was merely being open-minded In that time he had further experi- muted with seen others He Is about convinced IN the Saturday Evening Post recently Wes ly Stout a former member of The Stars staff presented tits views on the talkies beneath the title "Beautiful But No Longer Dumb" In this article Mr Stout indulged in restrospect a dangerous thing for a young man He recalled the old Idle Hour theater in Kansas City where weary individuals used to creep for a few hours sleep undisturbed by the moanings of drama This was Mr Stout's recol- lection of the old days of silent drama The writer is not yet thirty years old but is evidently a veteran movie goer whose attendance record gives him seniority over Mr Stout The first pictures he recalls in Kansas City were talkies More than twenty years ago 1113 father took him to the "Chronophone" theater across the street from the Commerce building to see movies of elephants shooting the chutes We heard the elephants trumpeting and heard the water splash Later the same father toolc the same boy to the Idle Hour neWly opened on Twelfth street to see and hear the movies Some of his vocal recollections are highly squawking renditions of "A Bicycle Built for Two" and "Twenty Three Skidoo" As a matter of fact the talkies are ni Thma it I thirty a writer no yet iry years old but is evidently a veteran movie goer whose attendance record gives him seniority over Stout The first pictures he recalls in Kana City were talkies More than twenty years- ago Ill3 father took him to the "Chronophone" theater across the Etreet from the Commerce build- Skidoo ing to see movies of elephants shoot- ing the chutes We heard the ele- phants trumpeting and heard the water splash Later the same father took the same boy to the Idle Hour neWly opened on Twelfth street to see and hear the movies Some of his vocal recollections are highly squawking renditions of "A Bicycle Built for To and "Twenty Three As a matter of fact the talkies are Are You Sophisticated? The talkies have brought great confusion to movie audiences and reviewers 'which although it may be no greater certainly is more perceptible than it was hitherto There are two types of audiences the sophisticated and the type that writes letters to the fan Magazines What is one's big thrill is just intermission to the hther If a reviewer recommends Paris Bound" half the community writes in to ask when another such masterpiece will be in town while the other half rather pointedly inquires who is gathering the eggs down on the farm whilethe "critic" is in town trying to review pictures Now we are about to tear aside the curtains and reveal a great trade secret Reviewers try to get around this by recommending certain pictures "for sophisticated audiences" But this has done little good People seem unable to determine whether they are sophisticated and they continue to go to pictures they will not possibly enjoy In this industrial and intellectual crisisWe arise with a solution It is the Jim Dandy Sophistication Detector" and it may be operated by standing in front of the mirror in your bedroom and asking yourself the following questions: Do you think caviar is just plain fish eggs? Do you stammer and order 'chicken salad? Pow is Thee Dansant pronounced? Do you own any silk pajamas? Do You know anyone who does? l'Hispano-Suiza" a kind of bWiss cheese? With type of costume should white spats be worn? Do you eat ice cream with a fork? Do you prefer Salsbury steak to hamburger? Do you cut your own grass (If a man or wash your own dishes a woman thve you ever smoked a tiurad? How much money did 'roll in-limit from your lather? (Very important) Alio married who at Plainville Conn? How many points must one go Mt to deserve the death penalty? lug to tview pictures bliould she invite him in? If you can answer all tliese questions correctly you are soflhisticated if not you are doomed to a life of Clara Bows end Eddie Quillans Find the size of ycur intelligence and belect pictures to fit it predecessors 47i1 tfrp kill ffelo1 I ilmdom's favorite sweetfilearts are together again in a scintillating world of romame Stars of 7th and Street Angel RIGHT OR WRONG THEY ALL WANT HEROINES "t404 irtr' smoggego 'itSfoulitteiVAltdiSiti Scoring Again DOWNTOWN I DOWNTOWN toeitiMialandgitgbiovie -4'irnit-tLowxTomttrilwM ItP11 Itxo 4 4 Tt LI i DOWNTOWN I DOWNTOWN 413' -1 ant-It ir i I Ca toellymicHalldgitfittisiolye ffiltfoil ce'1 (' A miuX I 1 'T --4 I 2rf) pA! I cs ba 'g 1 '1 IIIIIT)Ttilt Lii ri -11 '-4') ta 1 ri i I i -xF 0 i 1 ps '14s i A s- 5 sors 1 1 i' 1- Bowl 4 2 RIGHT OR WRONG THEY ALL WANT HEROINES 14 '1: ii'! 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sgf7it i it spn: '-4- filmdom's A I TW4' 1' 4 --4' favorite Xio "itit v' 1': 4- 1-4-1---- i'' 4 "44 ibS' 4(1404 4 20 Ted Meyt sweet are together ctil" 'c 1 A ti49 4 4 77: 4-4 Versatile again in a i )i- I 01ct 4:4 0 1 si 70-4 -q Is: 64 -41 or 1 7- re Organist scintillating world 1 4 1'xi y4-- 111 t-'" -pele 04111114 r-s --4-: roance A of 1 I jumita I amorrfif 14 li Here we have Hal Skelly as a hard-boiled and "up-and-up" detective in ''131oman Trap" lit the Royal whispering sweet nothings to Evelyn Brent while right beside them Eugene Borden as a bold and wicked Apache promisui all the better things of life to Laura La Plante Here we have Hal Skelly as a hard-boiled and "up-and-up" detective in '1Aroman Trap" Ilt the Ro Yal whispering sweet nothings ts) Evelyn Brent Ile righ beside them Eugene Borden as a bold and Wicked Apache promises all the better things of life to Laura La Plante i Here we have Hal Skelly as a hard-boiled and "up-and-up" detective In 'Woman Trap" at he Royal whispering sweet nothings to Evelyn Brent bile right beside them Eugene Borden as a bold and wicked Apache promises all the better things of life to Laura La Plante Talking and Musical Units 1Z Varsity 1 bre JACK AN'tilig Neo NI401 Ail I Comedy "SON IrSti ULM 4 1111 ICS Ikk COD Musical Units Varsity litre JACK AS' Hi I Aletrolos Neos sisiSI Ali alking 'Oa Comedy i "ON ICS JUI OR I COD 14 I I LILO Talking and Musical Units varsity bre Nancy We Iford has the dramatic role of the misunderstood heroine and Conway Tear le is the straightlaced hero who goes Broadway No one need mind this The leading characters are almost lost in the proceedings Lilyan Tashman does marvelously as a glorified clotheshorse and Gertrude Short helps with the comedy Helen Foster and William Blakewell are the young lovers but are not obnoxious Iancy Welford has the dramatic of the misunderstood heroine I Conway Tearle is the straight- ed hero who goes Broadway No need mind this The leading iracters are almost lost in the pro- dings Lilyan Tashman does mar- ously as a glorified clotheshorse i Gertrude Short helps with the nedy Helen Foster and William ikewell are the Young lovers but not obnoxious Net Diggers of liroadvra" Jerre Nancy Wel lotd ktenhen Le COWARY Tca Ile rabic Winne Lightner Ann Collins Ar Pennington ties nor Lai van 'Tashi-no' wally William Baltewell Nick Nick Lucas violet Nelen robt er Blake Albert Cran 'I opsv CiertrucIP Shoq stage Manager Neely Edwards Panes Director LeP Moran Barney Barnett Armand Nli IF OR some time the Warner Brothers studio has been tnining out big pictures Now praise be to Roy Del Muth and Larry Cabellos they have turned out one that is as good as it Is pretentious The Vitaphone finally has become vital instead of phony It was high time someone shifted the accent "Gold Diggers of Broadway" is ten reels of good entertainment It is all-talking and all-colored but unlike "On With the Show" it does not depend on this novelty to put it over "Gold Diggers of Broadway" has enough plot to keep it interesting It has good fast action excellent comedy and musical numbers that are tuneful enough to justify all the technicolored spectacle used in presenting them Conway Tearle and Nancy Welford have the leading parts but it is Win-Me Lightner Nick Lucas and Ann Pennington who capture the picture Oct keep its entertainment qualities from lagging Mr Lucas and Miss Pennington are scarcely in the plot lie sings and she dances One is tempted to say Mr Lucas sings too much and too often One who is acquainted with the boundless ego of the crooning Nick is likely to wince then this is gratified by frequent shots of the other members of the coat telling him how good he is But when he sings anyone with a sense of fairness must odmit he is good And most of his numbers are all right of these numbers "Goiri Diggers" 3: z'OStS United Artists ALL-TALKING COMEDY SENSATION not the last word in movies They were the first Edison's first experiments with motion pictures were incidental to his perfection of the phonograph He desired a voice with an image rather than an image with a voice This was near achievement But the old Edison company failed In Fecuring perfect synchronization and perfect ainplification A singer's words were usually warbling when his lins were closed If the accousticS of the house were bad only the first words were heard Edison abandoned the idea for other interests The science of recording sound and that of recording motion were divorced and developed separately When the motion picture again sought sound accompanhnent it found developments in this field per! ecied by telephonic and radio experimentation The old problems were ironed out Phonograph and cinema were prepared to develop their lives in sweet harmony But it was not a wedding of the muses It was a reunion By two devious routes talking pictures are back where they started But the perfection of Mr Edison's original idea will scarcely be the stopping place The addition of sound has given tremendous impetus to setuntific research in the fields of photography and sound recording Many they will take over even the epic medium ''I had believed" he said "such pictures as 'Ben Hur' and 'The Big Parade'might be best in the silent version They seemed too big too epic for anything but mass effects Yet I recall the biggest scene in 'Ben Hur' was the one where the taskmaster thumped his hammer and the galley slaves pulled at their oars This was not a dialogue scene but the thump of the hammer and the creak of the oars were sound effects that would have made that scene even more dramatic Similarly the rattle of chariot wheels and the screams of the crowds would have helped the chariot race Marvelous things are being down I am not the one to say more won't be done I hope I may be one of those who do them" ta uxampie In Old Mpo Ilnon However he still sees advantages in the old medium He recalls one in his own experience "In "The Ten Commandments'" he says "we had a scene where we photographed the voice of God I still think this was better than seeing it Each commandment formulated in dazzling light and inscribed itself en the heavens in expanding characters of fire There was an awesome dignity tO tilts that could not have been been so hard hit as love scenes or no class affected ED profoundly as the "Great Lovers" Let John Gilbert the leader of them tell you about it "Love scenes" John confides "are tricky witen dialogue is added because the type of love scenes we have been specializing in were not vocal I doubt if any realistic love scenes are vocal Probably a man never speaks so many platitudes or sounds assinine as when he is inspired by the no1e passion I have never heard the line 'I love you' peenounced in a movie theater without provoking whoops of derision To the modern generation the stately sweetness of a 'Little Women' proposal is 'artificial and laughable If should launch a line of Nathaniel Hawthorn sentiment at Greta Garbo there would he nothing left for Mr Mayer to do but have me crated and Eent to Mack Senna Most love svmes as written in novels are impossible to see acted There might be a kick in Michael Arlen love scenes but the censors are still with us "If you don't use artificial lines ou must fall back on realistic ones The sounds made by courting couples are not romantic to anyone but themselves They consist of sighs repeated protestations of 'I love you You're wonderful' and 'I'll try so fol 11101t err We 'loom It' yfi ceE ita hz 1 In rue Ten Commandments he scenes but the censors are still with I iu: aii ililii 101440)s ast! ye 1 1146'4124 IS iiiii4 sst's sIS sills irs- 1 JFV: yi 7 Ili i i i i i th not the last word in movies They they will take over even epic been so hard hit as love scenes or no So 11121 Jr I' it 41 its 'tt-sv: sistis sss sill a fi ifi sitsidisS itlite were the first Edison's first expert medium class affected Eo profoundly a3 the 4 -14 Sits: ments with motion pictures were In I had belied ie eved" he said "such r---- "Great Lovers" Let John Gilbert 1 sa 0ii Fk len I s' cidental to his perfection of the tures as 'Ben Hur' and The Big Pa- the leader of them tell you about it 41- 4 I thittet ti i We phonograph desired a voice with rade' might be best in the silent yes- "Love scenes" John confides "are an image They rather than an image with sten seemed too big too epic tricky wh 51 en dialogue is added be lg 1 12! at li 6 cz edt 11IP t' 4 'l isms 4i a voice This as near achievement for anything but mass effects Yet cause the type of love scenes we have 4 1 n-: But the old Edison company failed I recall the biggest scene in 'Ben Bur' been specializing in were not VOCal Starting 0 in Fecuring perfect synchronization was the one where the taskmaster I doubt if any realistic love scenes 144 'till- I oi 1SC6S' 4114144 1 Sd atur ay '4 'CII and perfect ainplification A singer's thumped his hammer and the galley are vocal Probably a man never words were usually warbling when his slaves pulled at their oars This was speaks so many platitudes or sounds tH lies were closed If the accoustics not a dialogue scene but the thump so assinine as when he is inspired by October 12th 0(kzN -41)14- of the house were bed only the first of the hammer and the creak of the the noble passion I have never '1 0 0 c16 words were heard cars were sound effects that would heard the line 'I love you pees 'i 11 is- 's Edison abandoned the idea for other have made that scene even more dra- nounced in a movie theater without interests The science of recording matic Similarly the rattle of chariot provoking whoops of derision To Three cv 4 4:4 sound and that of recording motion wheels and the screams of the crowds the modern generation the stately sr -W ts were divorced and developed sena- would have helped the chariot race sweetness of a 'Little Women' pro- in I rately When the motion picture Marvelous things are being down I posal is 'artificial and laughable If 41" itrtisSk 6'''' Liv 1 again sought sound accompahh-oent it am not the to be I should launch a line of Nathaniel one say more won' Ft found developments in th done I hope I may be one of those Hathorn sentiment at Greta Garbo is field per 4:41 4 sit S- to c' 4 fecied by telephonic and radio ex- wso do thew i there would be nothing left for Mr sts st Ncs ko 0 ss 0 ont1 C' i 0 i ZO perimentation The old problems se Lxnniple In Old Mpillnon Mayer to do but have me crated and '1' OStS 6 cl Ac i 4gsS sl were iron ou ed -Phonograph and owever he still Eees advantages in Eent to Mack Senna Most love sS slits sq- 0 S'k I cinema were prepared to develop their scenes as written in novels are lin- in in sweeiarmony was the old medium He recalls one in his But it poibl sse to see acted There might as lives reunion By two devious routes talk own expenence nte rtsts 44 not a edding of the muses It as a be a kick in Michael Arlen love Uid Ai ti 4: ANIO "l'" ss In '4 4 ''k- "Al lug pictures are back where ere they says had a scene where we ph 11 o- 8 tographed the voice of God I still you don't use artificial lines started I' ALL-TALKING COMEDY 1' st0 than ss But the perfe think ction of Mr Edison nk this was better an seeing it Aou must fall back on realistic ones k' SENSATION -4' original idea sA111 scarcely be the stop- Each commandment formulated in The sounds ade by courting couples ssItt estSsk fil ping place addition of soun 1 dazzling light and inscribed itself en are not romantic to anyone but ec-4 7 has given tremendous impetus to bet- the heavens in expanding characters themselves They consist of sighs untific research in the fields of pho- of fire There was an awesome dig- repeated protestations of 'I love you s-4------ -1 S(4St zs Naas 44ssis''1 oily to this that could not have been You're wonderful' and 'I'll try so tography and sound recording Many ssoss t1 e' 1 4 xwwoopwewtrmoi i -44t''' iiii: log 14 pdtki: 1011 7 i er Pa nt a st Li le" ratrieta Mason Loretta Young Donyins Stratton youglaa Fairbanks ir rvit Painter Chester tarns Oovernor Painter Wilintin Hoiden ThP Warden Frauk Sheridan Podnoo flati Par liaitor Dr Stratton John St Pons FAST LIFE" at Pantages this week Is a teire drama in which the suspense of the death house is mingled with the hectic gayety of flaming youth sequences It has more suspense than any other picture seen here in months and it includes acting of a fine order by nearly everyone in the cast It has an important place on the week's theatrical lineup Much of the suspense is gained through the director and p1yvT1ght deliberately conspiring to fool the (Continued on rage 20(7) Lite" atrirta Mason Loretta Young )isais isolossisneassl CFairbanks ir (s '111 PamPr hester Moris lvernhr Palm er wiain Hoiden 11' 'hP prdpn Frouk Shoriden thdhPv Hatt PaP liAllnr 4 btratton John at eons iAST LIFE at Pantages this week is a ten re drama in which the i II of the death house is min- 11 with the hectic gayety of (ism- youth sequences It has more than an other picture seen re in months and it includes act- of a fine order by nearly every- in the cast It has an important on the week's theatrical line- I II of the suspense is gained sue ough the director and plsywright iberately copir to ing fool ol ns (Continued on rage 20( 1111MgMPqPIF umow.