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Page Fourteen
THE FILBI SPECTATOR
May 12, 1928
longer will be able to play Americans or Englishmen. A Russian artist who does not speak perfect English will not be able to play a Russian in a Russian picture, for in an all-Russian picture the titles will have to be spoken in straight English to denote that they are translations. Accent is permissible only when a Russian character is speaking English. The use of sound devices will limit American-made pictures to English-speaking countries. But as we seem to be losing the other countries anyway, it won't make a great deal of difference. * ♦ *
THE conviction that teams are of value to the industry is dying hard. I believe the only really worthwhile team is being overlooked. I had no direct interest in pictures when Wally Reid was on the screen, but one of the features of his films that pleased me most was the presence in so many of them of Theodore Roberts as Wally's father. If some of our girls like Bebe Daniels, Madge Bellamy, Dorothy Mackaill, and Esther Ralston used the same good actor each time the scripts called for a father of one of them, I believe the public would begin to look for these fathers as eagerly as I looked for Theodore in Wally's pictures. It's worth thinking about.
PRODUCERS turning out pictures that contain scenes of social gatherings should be careful about showing their men wearing dinner clothes. Dress coats are coming back and the styles are now in the condition of interlocking vyithout showing which one ultimately will prevail. A picture presenting men in dinner coats may be out of
style in a year, and it may not. I believe the safest method would be to go fifty-fifty on the proposition while the styles settle themselves. Personally I have advanced my tail-coat to a position near the front of my clothes closet and am ready for anything.
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