Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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back without being sent. But out of the welter of the workshop, the clash of personalities, the adjusting to new colors and new conditions, he will produce an American star with the ravishment of the Parisienne and with the photographic beauty, drama and the heart-break of a Goldwyn master product. Her first picture with Ronald will be the Conrad story, "The Rescue," and in that story Ronald Colman will play his greatest lover role. Which brought us, inevitably, to the talkies. "Silent drama," said Mr. Goldwyn, "is not spoken drama. I am not for the allspoken picture. But take 'Wings', for example. Without that whir and rush of wings the picture would have lost half its value. For great, dramatic close-ups, for music without which the world is cheated, for all the natural phenomena and all great moments the spoken word, the art of audition will be invaluable. "All through 'The Awakening' a song of Irving Berlin's, 'Marie,' will provide the motif. When it is sung, as it is, or played on the screen at lovely poignant moments, the effect is tremendous. Properly, artistically handled the talkie angle is going to revolutionize pictures. It is putting new blood into them, new life. It is a step forward. People say 'What about the connection with the stage?' That is nonsense. There is no connection. W7hat can the stage do with a mere handful of people against a few painted props as compared to the screen with its many thousands against all outdoors? "In 'The Rescue' Colman speaks one great dramatic sentence toward the end of the picture. In his beautifully modulated voice — and no spoken title could begin to give the effect he gives. People must know whereof they speak before they deliver verdicts." You have watched Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman. You had better watch Lili Damita and Walter Byron. And back of them you must watch Sam Goldwyn, master craftsman. He strikes straight through the nerve and sinews to the sense of beauty and to the heart. And when even the soul is stirred — ■ what more can a man do? Bronchial busting: Dorothy Sebastian takes a light treatment for a sore throat between scenes at the studio Hoodwinking Hollywood Does ability count for anything in Hollywood? If a girl can act, if she has the personality and the appearance, can the studios tell it? And if they can, will they give her a chance on her merits? This is a question that has been debated ever since the movies took Horace Greeley's advice and went west But no one had ever settled it — except by talk until now For now, someone most decidedly has That someone is the greatest star on the screen today She recently, just to find out whether she'd have a chance without her present reputation went the rounds of the studios, and asked for work Did she get it? Don't be funny. All she got was eased out. Politely, it is true. But rapidly and firmly Even her own studio turned her down This is the greatest hoax that was ever perpetrated on the film world. It wasn't done as a joke. It was done as an experiment. A testing of the discernment of those who make or break the destinies and the hearts of the thousands who come to Hollywood with ability and beauty and courage to storm the citadels of celebrity and fortune Accompanying the great star on her tour was one of the staff writers for MoffioN Picture Magazine — Gladys Hall She introduced to casting directors the woman whose name is more famous than Lindbergh's She saw her turned down — and she has written, for the next, the November, issue of Motion Picture the entire story of the affair The article is entitled: WHO IS ROSALIE GREY? It's a story that might be your story — or your best friend's or your daughter's story. It's the greatest story that's come out of Hollywood since the Boulevard was a cowpath Don't miss it. Watch for the date when Motion Picture will be on the newsstands — September 28th — and find out the answer to WHO IS ROSALIE GREY? This is just one more and spectacular instance of the fact that the livest and most vital news of the screen, as well as the most freshly written and pleasantly presented, appears invariably in Motion Picture It's the Magazine of Authority 107