Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

"Sheila in Person" [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 42 ] silently out to Culver City for eighty cents worth of gasoline. She found Stupefaction's president cantering worriedly up and down the private office. "What's the matter, Abe?" tinkled Sheila, brightly. "You look worried. Laugh it off!" Mr. Zoop eyed her morosely. "Even a giggle would choke me," he groaned. "I've got to slip you some information. Listen, baby, ain't you wondered why I let you lay off so long?" "Why, to give me a rest, I thought. Look how my arms are mellowed by the sun. I'm the same all over, too. " "I believe you," said Abe hastily. " 'Stoo bad your voice ain't likewise. " He crouched in readiness to dodge a blow. Photoplay Magazine for March, 1930 I25 'MY i. V JLwp voice," repeated Sheila, raising that '•weapon an octave and a half. " W — why, Abe, it's all right, isn't it? I've made three talkies already." "The new name is phonoplay," reminded Mr. Zoop, "with the accent on the phony in your case. O'Shaughnessy, I hate to say it, but in all them pictures you sounded like your old man had been the original ballyhooer for Florida." "First I've heard of it," said Sheila, commencing to boil. "How come some of your swivel chair supervisors haven't wised me up? " "Because," chirped Abe, "we didn't know much about talkies when we began making them. Blotts Brothers pulled the trick on us when we weren't looking, and we all fell in behind like also-rans. We used our own people first, because their faces meant money, and if they didn't sound so dulcet we blamed it on the machines." "But the old gang is still working — Rosie, Carlos, Brenda and — " "I know," nodded the president, "but they're all improved enough to trade language with them Broadway gaspers we had to import. All but you, O'Shaughnessy. Y'see, the recording has got so slick we can't blame the machines no more." Mr. Zoop opened the door, and slipped an arm through hers. "It's too soon to sniffle," he advised, noting the symptoms. "Come on, baby, we'll go to the new recording room and you can toss a few vowels at the mike. " They crossed several lots and entered a square building consisting of one large room and basement. This was the newest bull pen, built for the sinister business of tryouts, and once inside its thick walls, interlined with cork and powdered gypsum, the effect was of being in a hushed world. A single microphone hung lanternlike from the ceiling; a single reel-enclosed camera trained toward it like a piece of artillery; the monitor's glass-fronted cubbyhole nestled in a corner. " r~* OOD morning," said the expert, springing ^Jto attention. "What's your pleasure, Mr. Zoop?" "My pleasure would be for the six Blotts Brothers to die insolvent," growled the president, " but what I want is another test for Miss O'Shaughnessy. Voice only, y'understand." "Go right ahead," encouraged the expert. 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