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BROADWAY AND
You’ll understand what the “ talkies ” really mean when you’ve read this illuminating treatise
tors enter; however, it is our wish to have you see the abstract, proposition, THE ELEMENTS OF GOOD TALKIES.
For ourselves, productions up to Paramount’s “Texan”, with Gary Cooper and Fay Wray, were woefully lacking in understanding of the technique but the last year has marked an astounding development in the art. We have been given a host of wonderful pictures as varied in theme as human interest is varied in taste. We have failed only in the application of song and music to theme, and in this failure we but emphasize the cardinal principle which underlies all productions, AUTHORSHIP, or the lack of it.
Song and music is still a promise of the art, and ol a certainty it is destined to play an important role. It must be woven into the drama as a basic element of I he action, and
“ The Champ” is unquestionably one of the finest “ talkies” ever produced in theUnitedStates
this will also be done.
Such notable productions as “Anna Christie”, “Morocco”, “Blue Angel”, “Dishonored”, “Romance”, “All Quiet on the Western Front”, “Hell’s Angels”, “The Dawn Patrol”, “The Big Trail”, “Holiday”, “Journey’s End”, “Cimarron”, “The Big House”, “Trader Horn”, “Disraele”, “Alexander Hamilton”, “A Free Soul”, “Front Page”, “The Mad Genius”, “An American Tragedy”, “Street Scene”, “Bad Girl”, “A Connecticut Yankee”, “The Champ”, “The Guardsman”, “The Millionaire” and a host of other excellent pictures, remove all doubt of the future. Public support has been so great, it may well be said that no field offers greater inducement of literary talent than the “movies”; therefore we may safely conclude creative intellectual art will seek this channel for ( Continued on page 44)
Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery in "The Champ'
appears in " The Mad Genius.
Marian Marsh as she