He Votes for Voices.
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Source: Chicago Sunday Tribune, 22 July 1928, pt. 7, pg. 6.
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Dear Madam: Good morning! Before I'm going to tell you what I think about the "talkies," I will tell you a little bit about myself. I'm still in the teens and am going to college in the fall. I never did care about the movies and that was one of my reasons why I did not go to see them. But now--
I am working as an usher in a large south side theater and the more I see of the movies the more I like to see. I like the atmosphere, music, beauty and the crowds that stream in. I like it because I carry a notebook with me and jot down all the ideas I get from the movies and put them in my autobiography. Writing the autobiography is my hobby, though nobody knows it except those I write to, and by those I write to I man the successful persons in this world. They write to me to improve my life and autobiography.
In my autograph collection I have thirty-six autographed books, twice as many photographs and over a hundred letters from persons like President Coolidge, Cosgrave, Al Smith, Hoover, Mellon, authors and poets, cartoonists and others.
I am a reader of Clifford Raymond, and since your column is next to his I am going to read yours from now on and you will hear some of my ideas. I love the great and successful persons in this world because I love the great and I love them more when they write back to me, and the more I get in the more letters I send out.
Some day I hope to walk in my shoes in their places in life, but many wouldn't believe it because I am just an usher now. the way we are treated and bossed is a shame, but I take it all in by writing it all in my autobiography. They never would think I am doing such a thing.
I'm going to write about the talking pictures, because I think they are great. I am for them. They are a few steps forward. They give a change in music. Pictures seem to be full of pep. And some day they shall have famous bands play in Chicago when they are in Europe. People will not long for the band or miss it. It is all exciting to me. to see a movie with the stars talking is the same as to read a book of travel an then visit the places. But instead of reading, traveling, and trying to meet some person or hear him, we get it all for a few cents where else we would have to spend over a hundred dollars or more.
Remember how we saw some "movie news" with some person speaking and only a word or two on the screen, and now the whole speech and how we are eager to hear it all and applaud, the same as if we were present?
The dead movie is buried. It was like a fairy tale book. We have something real now--clashing of swords, shrieks, shots, songs and other things. Sometimes we forget it is a movie. If we don't we must admit it has life. I may be wrong, but put my vote for it.
BRUNO C. KAPUSTKA.
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Page compiled: 11 June 2005
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