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112 Picture Show Annual All the quiet, dry humour of Will Rogers, lost to the silent screen, is brought out by the tallies, often more effectively than on the stage, as his confidential tones are easier to hear. see Nervo and Knox, and Weber and Fields, headliners of the variety stage. And who of us hasn't roared at Harry Green in his many roles as a much- harassed Jewish theatrical manager. The photographs which illustrate this article will bring many pleasant memories to picturegoers to ease the regret that so many of us felt at the eclipse of the silent pictures. I shall always hold that the supreme triumph of the cinema (from the real standpoint of that very much abused word '" Art ") would have been achieved by the silent film. Life has always been like that. Some of us cherish a vision of the old stage coach which we never saw (except in replica or in museums). We imagine ourselves travelling with crinolined ladies and being called to " Stand and deliver " by Claude Du Val, that most romantic of highwaymen. But we grumble when express is ten minutes late. The movies move and movement we who go to see the pictures regret the Past and criticise the Present, forgetting that the Present will soon be the Past. The talkies had to come, and we must think of our gams while we remember our losses. It is certain that the talkies have brought us some very clever comedians, players we might never have seen on the silent screen. the fast with the Stepin Fetchit. the most amusing negro on the screen, with the broadest beam and the laziest manner. His work, as Gummy in "Hearts in Dixie" was a triumph of wit and torpor, and he has galvanised his apparently unwilling feet into syncopated step dancing in '' Movietone Follies," "Big Time," and "Happy Days." Besides this he has given Holly- wood itself more entertainment than anyone else for many a long day.