VOICES IN THE TALKIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 18

VOICES IN THE TALKIES

STAGE PLAYER’S VIEWS The speeches of players in talking pictures are far more polished than those of stage actors. Florence Eldridge, an actress -with 10 years' stage experience, pays this tribute to sound motion pictures: "It is a matter of concentration," Miss Eldridge says. “The film story is photographed and recorded a scene at a time. Each scene is rehearsed many times before the final recording is made. It is obvious that in this method of procedure the player can give more attention to each individual speech than can the stage player, who must remember the lines of an entire play. The microphone, which seems to exaggerate faults in speech, acts as a spur to 'the screen player to perfect his lines." Florence Eldridge has left the stage for the talking screen. Her latest role is in “The Greene Murder Case,” in which she plays the part of Sibella Greene, one of the members of the ill-fated Greene household. William Powell again plays the part of Philo Vance, the suave detective, the character which he created in “The Canary Murder Case.” Jean Arthur, Eugene Palette and E. IT. Calvert all of whom appeared in the previous Van Dine story, “The Canary Murder Case,” and a cast of 14 experienced actors, have important roles.