Variations

Dishonest Ear. Through a fold of cloth which covered without concealing it, the metal ear of a sound device at Mills Field, San Francisco, recorded against the noise of airplane motors the following dialog between Colonel Charles Lindbergh and a fellow who had shambled toward him:

"Isn't that a microphone you have hidden there?"

"Yes."

"That's not honest. Why didn't you approach me with the microphone in plain sight?"

"Well, if I bring the 'mike' out, will you say a few words?"

"No, I will not, because you have not been fair about this matter. You have not been honest. I don't approve of your actions at all."

Artificial Ear. A voice speaks through earphones, a stick like a metal pencil moves by electricity between fingers that lightly hold it, shaping words. By this device, recently perfected by Western Electric and installed by Paramount in 30 seats of its Brooklyn theatre, deaf people can try to make sense of talkies.

Pay. To Al Jolson, $200,000 by Warner, for his picture-after-next, Show of Shows.

Chaplin. A German film company made a full-length feature film called Adventures by skilfully joining three famed Chaplin comedies, In a Pawn Shop, The Immigrant and Easy Street. For four weeks the silly, $100-a-week Chaplin, 12 to 14 years younger than the present grey-haired Millionaire Chaplin, played to full houses in the Alhambra, biggest cinema house in Berlin.