TALKIES v. SILENTS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 16

TALKIES v. SILENTS

OHARLIE CHAPLIN still doubts whether talking pictures will eliminate silent films, according to an interview recorded in “La Revue Mondiale,” of Paris. “The talkie,” he says, “will be confined always in the narrowest limits. The horizon of the silent pictures was immense, because it gave vast possibilities to a whole world of imagination. The talkies bring us back to cold reality—to cries of agony, bo curses, to tender confessions, which are unpoetical manifestations of our

Marie Burke, who will be remembered by New Zealanders for her acting in "Wild Flower,” “Katja,” and “Frasquita,” has a featured role in “After the Ball,” a New British talkie. Esther Ralston is co-starred.

daily life. Perhaps we defend with too much ardour the silent films—which many consider already dead. With the talkies science has undoubtedly shown splendid progress. But has art been served? Popular curiosity, financial interests have made the fortunes of the talkies. Bub fortunes are not invulnerable. It may be that we will some day see again in a perfected form fine black and white films where words and songs will not have first place, and where the actors will no longer move their lips to pronounce foolishness.”