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Marion Nixon's freelance career started gloriously when she was cast opposite Richard Barthehness.
Photo by Frculich
JUST remember me as an old-fashioned girl," Fanny the Fan counseled, "and don't expect me to trail along with you young folks. I knew and loved the movies when they were quiet, but now they are getting articulate I can spend quiet evenings only among my books."
She could, she really meant, if she would remember to get some books.
"It used to be a reproach to call a screen player 'beautiful but dumb,' but now, to me, it is the highest tribute. I'll never like these talking movies. I can't, because there is only one Lionel Barrymore. Except when he's speaking, I, always want to plug my ears."
Fanny's "but-thev-will-never-supplant-thehorse" attitude toward talking pictures isn't going to help her a bit. The whole motion-picture industry has gone crazy on the subject of filming noises, and even the Constitution is on their side. It says something or other about guaranteeing free speech. But, try as I will to be open-minded about this new development, I can't be, if
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producers insist on digging up all the forgotten relics of vaudeville to feature on their sound programs. Almost any day now, I expect to go f into a motion-picture palace and hear "Uncle Josh at the Dentist's."
"One lucky feature about living in Los Angeles," Fanny suggested — and .the Chamber of Commerce will please note —"is that you can sometimes see previews of pictures before the noise is recorded. None of the companies, except Warner's, are committed to making dialogue pictures. The others are just picking the pictures that look like big winners and adding sound effects and music. And, if they already look like winners, I can't see the necessity.
"The obvious candidates for stardom in talking pictures are Helen Ferguson, Mae Busch, and Lois Wilson, because they have made hits on the Hollywood stage. And Shannon Day. Particularly Shannon Day, because her voice was glorious when she did 'Kongo' on the stage. Lois has already made one Vitaphone playlet, but let's not go into that any further.
"Incidentally, what do you want to bet that Estelle Taylor and Jack Dempsey get„an offer to do a talkingpicture, if their stage play is a success in New York this -fall?"
As though any one would be so foolish as to bet against a foregone conclusion like that !
"If any of Estelle's fears for the first night of the show come true, it would be well worth a trip across the country to see it. Estelle says that when she gets nervous, her voice, which is naturally low, gets lower. When Jack gets rattled, his voice slides up to a giddy falsetto. The only
way out, that I
Photo by Seely
can see, is for them to study ventriloquism and speak each other's lines !
"Two more candidates for talking-movie honors are Winston Miller and his sister, Patsy Ruth. They have gone in violently for community spirit, and have joined the Beverly Hills" Community Players. They played t he leads in 'Kempy* the other night, and covered themselves with glory. I'll never be really satisfied,
Jacqueline Logan's new contract with DeMille eliminates the possibility of her being lent to others.