Source: Chicago Sunday Tribune, 11 November 1928, pt. 7, pg. 5.
Mae Tinée: You are supposed to be fair and just in your criticism of pictures. What do you think of theaters advertising talking pictures that don't talk?
"Hear the mighty voice of Jannings," read the advertising of a theater. Well, I rushed down there, but did not hear him talk. I did hear what was supposed to be a laugh and a gasp, but, mae, it was not "the mighty voice of Jannings."
How long is the "dear public" going to stand for getting gypped? This applies also to other theaters advertising "miracle of sound." What do we hear? Just a lot of canned music a lot worse than we hear on our old phonograph.
Is it not about time that something was done about it? I have been stung plenty, and I am getting sick and tired of it, and I thought THE TRIBUNE would not take any misleading advertisements.
It's the bunk, Mae—it's the bunk. Why don't you get next to yourself before some one starts an agitation? And when they do—well, it's just going to be too bad for sound pictures that don't sound.
IMA SAP (or have been).
Editor's Note: Well, you DID hear him, didn't you? I did. And I don't see where anybody's getting gypped.
