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The old Hollywood type of football stories afforded material for criticisms by the college lads. But there is nothing to guy in a film where, not the ball-carrier, but the blocker
is glorified.
Worlds worst Audience ?
"f Ej ^HE worst audience in the world.''
That's what a theatre manager complained B recently after a talkie on which he had heavily banked was guyed unmercifully in his theatre. What kind of audience was this to have ruffed up the manager's ordinarily hard-boiled inner shell ? He boasted long experience running picture houses along Broadway and had emerged intact, but now he was without the calm that formerly distinguished him among his friends of the Big Stem. Let us keep you waiting no longer — the manager had been transferred to a theatre in a college town.
This particular theatre man had heard that college
students sometimes played horsey with some of the film fare, but the actuality was far more impressive than he had imagined. 'Way back in silent days the undergraduates of the different seats of learning used to gather in groups at film theatres and proceed to hurl remarks — some only too apt — at the picture. This grew to be a regular ritual first down at Princeton, where the boys had the small village theatre almost entirely to themselves during the dim past when Princeton played football with Harvard.
It used to be the fashion in those days to warn the hero when the villain was sneaking up behind. Such a situation would invariably bring a score of "look outs" from the audience. When a character entered a room in the presence of a lady without removing his hat an ever-increasing chorus admonished him to "take off that hat" until he seemingly complied. Osculation brought raucous noises.
Talkie love scenes usually bring audible sneers. However, Marlene Dietrich's sophisticated films are exceptions. Here's a scene from "Morocco."