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Lip Reading
Fortunately, the moviegoer has not yet mastered the art.
By Leigh Metcalfe
Sketches by Runell I'jttertoti
'•'T~«ALK! Move your lips! Say somcthinR— say ^ anything'." roars ihe din-ctor, when he wants hi* players to reiiister a convers;ition. In lioseups, the players must "stiik to the lines," but when the camera is set off at a di.-tance and the lip-movenunls are illepible, the players may truly say "anythinK." Frequently their conversations are laughably Krote>que and irrelevant. The late Sidney Drew convulsed a movie jury while making one of his last comedies As the attorney, he was addressing the jury and his 'speech" included excerpts from both Antony's address over Caesars body and the latest ydii solo. Vou can't always tell — unless you are standing by the camera.
^^^lO wouU ju.<p«ot. for instance, that Art Jolly, characteriied a* a crippled old man, is really chuckling under his false whi.«kers: "I'll tell the world that was some dance las" night. Kate's a dam good stepper even it she is a little out of the spring chicken class."
What, pray, could money matter to Charlie Sw-agger, opera-hound at least in the picture? Truth is, however, Charlie is saying: "This is a hot one. Here I am dolled up like Easter at the Rockefellers when I can t eveiv scare up the jack to have my shoes half-soled."
Not forgetting Towser Dawg, the well-known character canine, who though posed on a velvet cushion eating creamed chicken, growls over and over: "All the same. I wish I could remember where I buried that bone out in the studio yard ye»terday,"
Kittie Cynical and Johnny Cladd. though divorced, now rcgiitcr bliM — before the camera. But tho«e hot. paMionate words that she it rubtitling into hii collar actually sound like this: "Remember what the judge said. Jack Fifty iron men per Saturday. You reneged Iwt week."
James Jones, just an "extra." looks dazzling and impressive in his Shakespearean outfit. But though he apparently shouts: "Hail to the king! he really is saying: "Believe you me I m sore at this hick director. Any boob would know I'm cut out fur supports! "
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