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Show ' Lure Of Talking j Film Wins Mack ! Master of Stagecraft la Back on i Screen in Own Vivid Drama. "The Voice of the City," Willard Mack's all-talking picture, a Cosmopolitan Cos-mopolitan production for Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer, which will open at the ' Cameo Theatre Sunday and Monday, July 14 and 15, marks the entrance into the talkies of one of the "Big Five' of present day playwrights. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer knew what they were doing when they signed Mr. Mack to write, direct and play in a one hundred per cent talking picture. pic-ture. Mack stands out among playwrights play-wrights as a master of crisp, dramatic drama-tic dialogue. Through the years he has had an unbroken record of successes. suc-cesses. Mack's great contribution to the stage has been in realistic, true-to-life stories of the seamy side of big cities. "The Voice of the City" is such a tale. It relates the adventures, adven-tures, through twenty-four hours, of an escaped convict, and the hard-boiled hard-boiled detective who pursues him. In that, twenty-four hours are packed a lovely romance, heartragedy, humian and gripping bits of characterization, and a striking and interesting climax. |
