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24 Picture SKow Annua] Anthony Bvshell, yet another Englishman lost to this country and fast making a lame for himself in America. Mary Duncan, and Kay Francis and the Marx Brothers in " The Cocoanuts" were the next to appear in talkies. Silent screen experience and popularity were at a discount—it was the stage that counted. The importation of stage stars steadily con- tinued, while studio technique entirely changed. The microphone severely limited the scope and talking slowed down the action incredibly in the first talkies. Films developed merely into photo- graphed stage plays almost scene by scene, or were just silent pictures with unnecessary and rather foolish dialogue attached. The strides that have been made since those first days are terrific, and producers have already begun to realise that a stage name does not mean a thing to the motion picture public. Many stars made one much heralded picture and then drifted back to the stage again. On the other hand many stayed. When possible the companies began producing ihe talkies of plays with the original stage casts. In this way Beryl Mercer came to the talkie screen, and in " Three Live Ghosts " she was so good that she was given the role of the old charwoman in " Seven Days' Leave." Now her star is in the ascendant, while that of many former silent screen " mothers " and character actresses has declined. Cha racter men, too, found this their opportunity. 0. P. Heggie, who played in '* The Letter," was amongst the first talkie r e c r u 1 ts , but m the character field there is less worry because most of the actors already have had long stage experience. It was among the younger stars that the havoc was wrought. Al- though many already popular in pictures found that their voices recorded well, Paul Page, Robert Montgomery and Elliott Nugent, who played to- gether in " So this is Elliott Nugent came from New York, was given a job in " So This is College." and has been busy talking to the microphone In circle : Kay Johnson, a Broadway star who appears in " The Ship from Shanghai." " The Song Writer," and " This Mad World."