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...expressing my individuality. It is an interesting quest but has no definite destination. At last, however, I can safely say that I have succumbed to the fascination of the legitimate stage. I intend to give it most of my time because it not only demands more than the screen but because it is far more developing to an actress...
...good picture on each bill would draw a better crowd than two poor ones, eked out with an act of fifth-rate vaudeville. Of what use are ushers in natty uniforms, radio set in the lobby, and all the luxury of the Pharoahs, in the pictures on the screen are specimens of Hollywood at its worst. Movies in the Square, especially at such times of stress as examinations always bring, could be a welcome and convenient opportunity of clearing one's mind of one subject before cramming it with another. The management should learn that there are movies--and movies...
What causes such ridiculous antics in the name of public morality? It Chaplin's films had in them anything which the strictest Puritan could object to, the municipal censors might be justified. But no evil that he does lives on the screen. His pictures are clean in addition to being funny. When "Searing Kisses", "Bachelor Husbands", and "The Gilded Bed" are allowed, it seems strangely paradoxical that Chaplin's off-stage actions should be considered subversive of popular morality...
...achieved by the Hammond multiplex system (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) using waves between 20 and 21 metres long. At the reception end, the multiplex message would be retransformed into seven beams of light which with proper synchronization, would reproduce the image-fractions. To throw these images together on a screen he had arranged 24 mirrors on the periphery of a swiftly rotating drum. The reflection of a series of rapidly changing images induced the optical effect of a moving picture, after the fashion of a cinema film. The possibilities: synchronized with sound-carrying radio, the sight-carrying radio might some...
...phonodeik, consisting of a small glass diaphragm whose vibrations were magnified 40,000 times, transferred by means of a revolving mirror, the notes produced by the French horn and the clarinet on the screen as wavy lines...