Word: lisping
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Three problems confront the makers of talkies: 1) Women's voices. At present, most of them have a lisp or a 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...
...lines were terrible, making the audience laugh in tense moments. The girl had a throaty voice. Only Lionel Barrymore sounded convincing. He is the Vitaphone's best bet at the present stage of development. Women's voices are the most annoying problem; they either take on a lisp, or else they sound husky...
Glorious Betsy. Costumes are all right. So is the Vitaphone when it does not lisp. But the little locks on the nape of the neck of Dolores Costello are the hearts of the lettuce of this film, wherein Betsy, belle of Baltimore, wins Jerome, young brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, away from all the princesses of Europe...
...voices, Cinema Critic Harriette Underhill wrote: "The fact that all screen talking devices give the characters a certain lisp, slightly detracts from the serious effect. So, when the beautiful heroine clasps her hands, rolls her eyes and cries, 'Why do you perthitht in perthecuting me? I am innothent!' it sounds funnier than if she were speaking her lines in 'perthon...