An All-Language Talking Picture
IT was between scenes out on the Broadway" set at Universal, and the atmosphere was just a little bit high-hat. - Paul-Fejos, tho director'of this big sound special, coming to-day to the De Luxe-Theatre,- who is also a full-fledged doctor- and surgeon, was holding forth a trifle about' this and that. ' Billy Reiter, his assistant, was listening. So were Glenn Tryon the star and Merna Kennedy, his leading woman. Eveyln Brent, ' the “Pearl" of *the play, and Otis' Harlan also were lending an attentive ear—each, not between thorn—as Fejos discoursed on the modern miracle of the talkies. ‘ ‘ Why, ’ ’ he said, ‘‘ we were recording in all -sorts of languages—in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian— ” It was then that Hal Mohr, the irrepressible camera-man who photographed the £300,000 super-super, broke in: • ' -* :l ‘ - . “Yes, doctor," he -said, “and we even tried English, didn’t we?"
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7135, 5 February 1930, Page 9
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144An All-Language Talking Picture Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7135, 5 February 1930, Page 9
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