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Show Mary Pickford In Talking Pictures at Granada Theatre Mary Pickford came to the sound stages, saw the microphones and conquered them in "Coquette," her new, allrtalking plicjture now showing show-ing at the Granada Theatre, Salt Lake. During the recording of her first scene in the picture, Mies Pickford was as excited as a small child. "I feel just as I used to feel in the old days when the curtain went up and it" was time for me to step out on the stage." Miss Pickford whispered as she waited for Director Direc-tor Sam Taylor to announce that all was in readiness for the scene. By the time the final episodes of the picture were- recorded Miss Pickford was as much at home on the sound stages aa before the silent cameras. Miss Pickford's victory over the menace of the microphones was the result of a deliberate and carefully-planned carefully-planned campaign. When she cut off her world-famous curls and decided de-cided to bring to the screen, an en-tirey en-tirey new personality, she submitted sub-mitted to the most rigorous voice tests possible. Finding that she possessed pos-sessed the most porfect recording! voice in filmdom, she determined to make an all-talking production. Miss Pickford selected "Coquette," the dramatic and emotional Broadway Broad-way ttage success, as her battle equipment, and adapted it especially for the screen. With expert generalship, general-ship, she surrounded herself with a cast of players, all of whom, with the exception of her leading man, John Mack Brown, possessed a background back-ground of tage experience. "The sound pictures present an entirely now technique," Miss Pickford Pick-ford believes, "they are a combination combina-tion of both the stage and the screen with an added art all their own. We, who are testing their possibilities, are the pioneers in an entirely new ! Geld of amusement endeavor." j "Coquette" is a 100 per cent talk- ing picture and will not be shown in silent Ehn. |