MORE TALK ABOUT TALKIES
TT ERE are more talk# about talkies: Charlie Chaplin doe# not intend to talk in pictures. Mary Pickford won’t make any more silent pictures. D. W. Griffith thinks the talkies will destroy the theatre within five years. Roland West, director of “Alibi,” banned in New Zealand, says the talkies have concentrated interest on the actor who can talk and thus benefited the theatre. He also thinks the demand for stage-trained players will prove of benefit to the legitimate theatre. Joseph M. Schenck declares his next year’s product will consist mainly of talkies.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 29
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