Show It it TT Takes I aces on DT New I Atmosphere Since e i in I Talkie Arrival n By Bt GEORGE H. H BEALE United Press Stall Staff af f Correspondent respondent irm i The WOOD WOOD-Th The talking picture picture pic pic- jure ture has brought a wider Interpretation interpretation tation ot of Mt it far so as that very verv essential quality concerns screen I productions Until the tho coming of ot sound It to the film colony was confined I to a a. snappy figure url a pair of ot come You ou hither eyes ces and a provocative smile Now In addition to all those the producers demand a voice with sex appeal The screen public naturally couldn't get enthused ed over o hearings hearing I Ithe the great brawny hero say sav I lov love 0 you ou in A tone equivalent alent to that used by y the boy soprano Most of or tho the actors and actresses have gone gane over th the barrier with plenty to pare spare Clara Bow the symbol of ot It Passed her talking test with flying J colors Her accomplishments overshadowed overshadowed over over- shadowed her voice but It H has suf cut sufficient sex appeal to carry out the schedule William WilHam Boyds Boyd's southern drawl draws seems to have added to his hH charmIn charmIng charm charm- ing In and Bessie Dessle Love Lovo has become come more mort popular than ever since The Broadway Melody Paths Pathe studio executives are excitedly ex ex- ly and vociferously proclaimIng proclaim proclaim- I ing Ann Harding the tho stage star of ot The Trial of ot Mar Mary Du Dugan an They predict modestly that her first picture Paris Bound will be a sensation and that she will be bo known as the tho girl with the sex ap appeal al voice Tier Her tests have been ma magnificent they sa say Edward II H Griffith her director states that Miss 1 Harding has a pe peculiar peculiar peculiar pe- pe j culiar of vocal seductive seductive ess ess which will lift her to an ins ins-in- an- an n- n hit with the screen public Any man who heard her voice voiceover voiceover over Oer the microphone would want to see set her In person Griffith save saVA The screen version of ot The Trial T-Ial of ot Mary lary Du Duran an struck h about as well as any dialog picture screened so far It was notable for tor a a. number of ot reasons amon among them that it brou brought ht out Norma Shearer in her first seriously seriously seriously seri seri- emotional role Most lost critics agreed that she played excellently and her voice seemed to ha have app appealed aled to the microphone It was her first talking talk talk- ing inA picture Incidentally Miss Shearer was trained in silent pIctures and had no stage staJA experience The film JIm was lacking lackIn in the usual screen pictorial effect effects Inasmuch as aA the action took place almost en enI entirely entirely en- en In a I courtroom The public still centering Its Us In Interest interest In- In I terest in fn the dialog seemed not to notice the missing backgrounds I. I |