Show Charlie Chaplin Stands Alone In Battle for Silent Films HOLLYWOOD UP UP Except Except for fora a lone hone strong trong fl c. c tho the silent picture plc- plc turo ture field has been cen deserted corn com And Charles Spencer Chaplin generally g considered the lie greatest reate t o of all nil the stars is tho the ono one hol holdout out From tho the stu studio lo where he produces produces produces pro pro- duces his own pictures tho the comedian comedian com cent edian has just emphasized his de determined determined de- de but unsupported stand tand Ho lie hopes In the near future he announced to form a u. new picture con corporation embracing four or oz or five other stars to be ot do devoted d to the tho production of or films alone I 1 Intend to promote such mch a compan company com corn pan pany he lie said and I hope hopp to 1 be beable beable e able to spend pend bet between and anI a a. year cal making making- silent pictures For JOr myself ho continued I dont don't ont think an any amount of persuasion persua slon sion mone money or Influence could get me to make a talking motion pic plc- tur lure U I realize Im I'm nil all alone lIono but I still till Insist a n. field for silent plc pic tures ture that my own o portrayals als alsI I I would lose lone i t With speech Chaplin really Is the tho lone producer producer pro pro- ducer dueer of or silent pictures Months ago 0 the lar larger er studios started to turn to lo only talking pro plO Then the this smaller maller studios and Independents fallowed I Poverty Row How fought ht against tho the talkie all craze erazo as lon long as possible for or along that row is where quickies are made on shoestrings I Ind and nd talking pictures aro are more ex expensive ex- ex pen pensive ho tItan than silent ones A Always mys excepting Chaplin the only silent things going oln out of Hollywood Hol lywood al' al are aLe pictures remade for foreign for for- eign distribution In such cases after tho the talking talking- picture has 1111 been made the thc studio silent department takes a cory copy of oC the n negative atle Subtitles replace dialogue arid and occa occasionally scenes cenes arc hot shot to brid bridge e gaps In the story tolY winch which cannot cannot cannot can can- not bo he covered 1 by y subtitles Some of or tho ho studios lo make foreign lot for 01 eign talking versions for some omo tic iJo ture turcs Some remove o all dialogue ue h hut but t leavo Jea ay In any songs a picture may contain The Laurel l. anti and lIan Hardy comedies are e made in French Frenchi Italian Halian and Spanish h a as well vell as In yn English Studio officials insist that t the com com- have O no voice olee doubles double Incidentally voice oleo doubling ou lin by foreign n voices for fOl n has 1 been en Imre largely ii Moreover r. r it il is a Ion long la laborious process I. John Stone In charge chane of or the tho Fox Pox stu here lucre says say that audiences audiences audi audi- l- l in iii foreign countries have hav heartily Jn Indorsed silent with wilh sound effects and orchestra orchestra- uTile They would detect voice doubling doub ling I immediately in and und it would an annoy annoy an- an no noy them Stony said They lp especially c enthusiastic over O pictures with f extensive C music fon song and lance dance features feature So o far It II I is clear that forel foreign audiences prefer American ma made e silent pictures with ith sound effects and music to talking pictures ma made e in lit their own o count coun coun- t tries q wo can Ic legitimately In Inject In- In Joet foreign n touches into pictures for COI foreign release wo we do J so O o. o Pith Fill Dorsay ying In la French for Cut the hue French l' l release of They Tiley Had to Sec Hec cc PalI Paris hi In tb the tho cupy copy of tile the same thin film released In II English speaking coon coun- I tries site she sung 2 in ill cOlin I |