NOTABLE SPEECHES HAVE BEEN SPOKEN ON THE SOUND-TRACK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 10

NOTABLE SPEECHES HAVE BEEN SPOKEN ON THE SOUND-TRACK

Recordecl on the Sound-Track.-The sound tracks of the silver screen coine alive vdth words that lift the cinema to a higher destiny. The following are speeches from reeent iilms written to fit the variegated moods of the moving pietures and to tell diflierent stories in diiferent ways. Adaptability, fluency-and the sure touch of a now art of language are inherent in eaeh of. thesc excerp|s: — • • . ■ CAMILLE (Greta Garbo as Alarguerite Gautier; screeri play by Zoe Atkins, Franccs Mariou and James llilton):— Margucritc: But don't be proud of it. And dou't thinlc I havcn;t said to liirrt — and to niyself — from the vcry beginning all that you've said to-day. Onlv I was ashamed of sueh thoughts. I felt they wero ignoble. I closcd my eyes to faets as rcal as that garden wall and expected some miracle of love to makc me worthy of happiness. But you've opened these eyes. Perliaps no one in this world except Armand's father — the father he respects and loves — could have persuaded me that it's right to be selilsh, to be mercenary, to be cowardly. FIRE OVER ENGLAND (Laurence Olivier as Michael Ingolby; screen play by Clemence Bane and Sergei Noibandov): — Michael: Prudence! My friends, driulc to the prudent, who think as the State thinks, who believe as the State believes. Who love and hate with prudence, die prudently when it is no Ionger safe to live, and. lie snug at last-in prudent graves. Gentlefolk of Spain,- I give you the prudent State. and may Ehgland — you can guess my wishes for England. STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR (Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur; sOreen play by Shei-idan Gibney and Pierre Collings) : — Pasteur: You young men — doctors ' and scientists of the future — do not let yourselves be tainted by a barren scepticism, nor discouraged by the sadness of certain hours that creep over nations. Do not becQme angry at your opponents, for no scientific theory has ever been accepted without opposition.' Live in the serene peace of libraries and laboratories. Say to yourselves first: "What have I done for my instruction?" and as you gradaally advance: "What am I accomplishing?" imtil the time when you may have the immense happiness of thinking that you have contributed in some way to the welfare and progress of ' mankind, RHODES OF AFRXCA (Walter Huston as Rhodesj screen play by Leslic Arliss and Michael Barringer); Men of this pioneer column— as I speak to you now, and as you listen to me now, a dream comes true. But dreams don't come true of themselves. For ycars I have striven for this moment — and hoped — and'- sometimee despaired .... But here we are, the first settlers of a new land. You will have to struggle avery foot of the way. Where you struggle, those that come after will walk easily. Surely, that in itself should rnake this a proud journcv. Men, when we ride ofi; towards the horizon, as we sliall in a few. moments, we are literally riditog into the future. Let.no man among us set any bounds or limits to his hopes, for the future has no boundaries. To be with you, to lead you, is not only my proudest wish — it is aiy only wish. MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (Gary Cooper as Mr. Deeds; screen play by Robert Riskin): — Longfellow Deeds: About my playing tho tuba — seems like a lot of fuss has been made about that. If a man's crazy just 'cause ho plays the tuba, somebody better look into it, 'cause there are a loi of tuba playcrs running round loose. Of course, I don't see any harm in it. I play mine whencver I want to concentrafce. That may (sound funny to some people, but most everybody does eomething silly when they're thinking. For instance, tho judgo here is an O-filler .... You fill in all the spaces in the O's with your pencil. I was watching you. That may mako you look a little crazy, your Honour, just sitting round filling in O's, but I don't see anything wrong. 'Cause that helps you think. Other people are doodlers. That's a name we made np back home for people who make foolish designis on paper while they're thinking. It's called doodling. Most everybody is a doodler. Did you ever see a scrateh pad in a' telcphone booth? People draw the most idiotic pietures when they're thinking. Dr. Fraser, here, could probably think up a long name for it, 'cause hc doodlcs all tho timo. If Dr. Fraser has to doodle to hclp him think, that's his

business- — everybody does 'something diiferent. Some people are ear-pullers, some are nail-Biters. That man there — Mr. Seinple — is a nose-twiteher. Tlio lady with him is a knuckle-craeker. So you see, your Honour, everybody does funny things to help them think. Well, I play the tuba. REMBRANDT (Charles Laughton as Rembrandt van Eiju; dialogue bv Lojos Biro and Arthur Wintcris) : — liembrandt: A creature, half-child, halfwoman, half-angel, half-lover, bruslied against him, and of a sudden lio know that when one woman givos hcrsclf to you you possess all woiten — women of evory age and raco and clime — and, more than that, the moon, the stars, all miracles and legends are yours: the brown-skinned girls vrho inflame your senses- with their plav; the cool-yellow-haired women who entice and escape vou; the gentle ones wno serve you; the slender ones who torment you; the mothers who bore and fcuckled you — all women whom God #ated out of the ieeming fullness of the earth are yours in the love of one woman. Throw a purple mantle lightly over her shoulders, and she becomes a Queen of Sheba; lay your tousled head blindly upon her breast, and she is a Dclilah waiting to enthrall you. Take her gar: ments from her, strip the last veil from hftr body, and she is a chaste Snsanna covering her nakedness with fluttering bands. Gaze upon her as you would gaze upon a thousand strange women, but never call lier yours— for her secrets are inexhaustible; you will never know them alli Call her by one name only; I call her Saskia. MTJTINY OF THE BOUNTY (Franchot Tone as Midshipman Byam; ecreen play by Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson) : — Byam : You gentlemen kijow' the uses of authority; you exact the law of the sea. But' the letter of tho law is one thing, 'the' tepirit ig another. I do - not -speak for myself, my Lord, T speak for the seamen condemned by this Court. Those men are children of necessity. Some are pressganged.into service. but all must endure the living death of the gun-deck". They do not ask for comxort, they do not ask for safety. They can only suffer — and die. Tf they would speak, as JE (speak for them, they would say: "Let us elioose to do our duty willingly— not the choice of the slave, but the choice of free Englishmen. " Oh, if there were only one man among you who believes as I do — such a man might one day command the fleets of England, for in that belief, I know, lies the way of victory. He would call his seamen to their duty not by flaying their backs but by lifting their hearts. NINE DAYS A QUEEN (Frank Cellier as King Henry VIII. ; dialogue by Miles Malleson): — Henry VIII.: Nearer! Nearerl The room grows dark and the sound of my owp^voice strange. A last command for you. Edward, the Prince, my son, succeeds me. After him, his heirs'. Failing them, my daughter Mary Tudor and her heirs; failing them, my sister's grand child, Jane Grey .... Who speaks? Warwick. No conscience and no fear. And Edward Seymour. So great a hypocnite that you deceive cven yourself, And brother Thomas. Of some little wit, but no judgment. Thomas, go where your wit will serve you and your lack of judgment not bring you to disaster. I know you, all of you! I know for what you wait. But you have lioard my will. Edward, Mary, Elizabeth. Jane. And I lay my curse on any that, shall abuse their power over these children and intrigue against tho succession. as I liav© namcd dt. May everything he holds dear betray liim; may his soul perish in the everlasting fires; may he die a traitor's death, his liead rot on London Bridge, the crows peck out his eyes .... MODERN TIMES (Charles Chaplin sings a song he wrote for himself. tho first words cvcr spokon in a Chaplin conicdy) : ' E1 pwu. oi se domtroco La spinach or la tuko Cigaretto toto torlo ' E rusho spagaletto. Senora ce la tima Voulez-vous la taxi metei Le jonta tu la zita Je lo tu le tu le twaa. La der la sor pawnbroker Lusern apper liow xnucher E scs confess a potcha Ponka walla ponka wa.