Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking Screen
Date:
Sep-Oct 1930
Publisher:
[New York, Dell publishing company, inc.]
Volume:
Talking screen
Leaf #:
000133
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

NOW YOU'RE TALKI NG In recognition of outstanding performance on the talking screen^ this magazine hereby extends hearty congratulations to: Ronald Colman, 'whose delightful savoir-faire so perfectly fits the character of Raffles, in the talkie of that name. Not at all easy, this business of being debonair, but Colman's portrayal of the suave amateur cracksman is well-nigh perfect. Richard Dix, who, in Shoot' ing Straight, takes an overdrawn and unreal character and invests it with such unusual artistry that his impersonation becomes a thin^ of life and reality — drawing forth your sympathies and to a surprising degree. Joan Crawford, who makes Our Blushing Brides an outstanding picture by her superbly human characterization of Jerry — a characterization which so easily might have fallen into the trite and irritating mould of the usual movie heroine. Claudette Colbert, who accomplishes the difficult task of taking a characterization made famous in the silent days — that of Lydia Thome in Manslaughter — and investing it vnth her own vivid personality to make an original character creation. Cyril Maude, whose work in Grumpy brings to the screen a performance that is positively amazing in its blending of humor, pathos and appealing humanity — and all without once overdoing the histrionics, a feat which is more than difficult. 21