AT THE MUNICIPAL.
A new term has supplanted "highhat55 and "ritzy55 and "up-stage55 in motion picture pavlance. Tt5s "the hroad A.55 And it drove the noted fiim director William Beaudme, frantie. Beaudine made "Hard to Get,55 stamn" Dorothv iStaek aill, whieh is at tlie Municipal Tlieatre to-night. "The Broad A" means an affected dialect. Thea'e was a regnlar epidemie of it during the early davs of the rush to prepare for tlie talking pictures. Many a teaclier of dramatic elocution gave the film layers a "wrong steer55 by teaching them stage speaking for the films. This, of course, is tlie Ameirican viewpoint. Tlie proper voice for talking motion pictures, Beaudine points out, is the naturnl voice. No shouting or hroad A5s are necessary, becaus© tlie niechanieal . amplification takes care of the hard-of-liearing folk and those seated in the rear of tlie house. They do in "Hard to Get,55 a First National and Vrtapbone pictpre. In the cast are Louise Fazenda. Charles Delanev, Edmund Burns, Jack Oakie, Clarissa Selwynne and other capahle nlavers.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 72, 28 April 1930, Page 4
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172AT THE MUNICIPAL. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 72, 28 April 1930, Page 4
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