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Behind a high semicircular counter-like table, a dozen Republicans have sat long and heavily discussing these articles. Behind them hung a rich red curtain, imperially crowned with great loops of gold. Before them was a spacious oblong room with white marble columns, a high vaulted ceiling, huge full-length windows. Outside heavy double doors, securely locked, depended a small sign, bearing the gilt lettering: "Executive Session." A blackamoor has lounged at the entrance to enforce the sign. The sitters within were Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, their heads together on the forthcoming...
What a Night. Bebe Daniels, who in the course of her career has made 52 full-length cinemas, includes in her routine one more plot with its main set in a newspaper office and most of its laughs in Herman Manckiewsz's subtitles. Best shot: Bebe Daniels trying not to sneeze...
...watchful." The hotel men's story was that a maid had reported some slats to be missing from a bed in the Senator's room. The house carpenter did not get around to the job until late. The Senator, who received his callers in an oldtime full-length nightshirt (Ku Klux Klan uniform), acted most strangely. Handy upon his bureau, the men noticed, was a pistol...
...Treasurer's Report and a piece of suburban folklore called The Family Picnic.* In these, the conversation and the accompanying action-noises run without interruption through the entire film. Many critics believe that comedies and news features are the only entertaining vehicles for the talkies. In full-length drama-films, Movietone uses synchronized orchestra accompaniment, occasional songs, but no spoken dialog. Vitaphone has put dialog into its The Lion and the Mouse, Glorious Betsy, Tenderloin. These films run along quietly and then, at dramatic moments, burst into dialog. The effect is startling, but often annoying. Vitaphone plans the following...
...husky sound when heard over the Vitaphone. 2) Dialog. Subtitle writers can be stupid, but writers of dialog that is heard should be clever. 3) Sound and Quiet. The abrupt changes in the middle of a film from mute lips to sound-emitting lips are annoying, unreal. (Perhaps the full-length films can be divided into talking acts and nontalking acts...