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C~Jhe RIDDLE of the
Hollywood Sphinxes
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'G[ It's nothing new for Mary Pic\ford to do a little public speaking. She used to be a stage star.
'ELL, for talking out loud!
The movie has found its voice and it has turned out to be a deep bass. Everybody is talking at once in Hollywood but from this distance it sounds like a large masculine roar with only occasionally a slight feminine shriek making itself scared. The little ladies who have been sitting so pretty since they won film fame and fortune are now wondering if there isn't some other way of exerting their papa appeal. They are practising 'a, e, i, o, and ooh, ooh, ooh!' every minute of their spare time. The bathrooms and boudoirs of Hollywood are resounding with trills, while the studios are going in strong for English accents. The stars now say 'How d'V do?' in soft and subtle tones instead of crying
Pijf" '" By Delight Evans
"Hi!' in the good, old-fashioned way.
Who says women always have the lajt word? Not in Hollywood. They're lucky if they can squeeze a word in edgewise out there these days. They are trying their best to make themselves heard but they had better speak louder— and not so funnier; or the art of the motion picture will have to go back to the old style of having all the parts played by men as in the days of Booth and Barrett — I mean Shakespeare.
But don't blame the girls. How can they help it? The trouble is, they were educated in the gentle art of pantomime. They never were encouraged to speak up. All they had to do was to look and to listen. The film beauty (Cont. on page 92)
G[ George Bernard Shaw's voice was a revelation.
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