Attached is a one page article composed of thirteen assorted quotes addressing various aspects of the Old Hollywood and the entertainment industry seated there. Some are prophets who rant-on about the impending failure of talking pictures, others go on about the vast sums of money generated in the film colony. A few of the wits are well-known to us, like Thomas Edison, George M. Cohan and Walter Winchell but most are unknown; one anonymous sage, remarking about the invention of sound movies, prophesied:

“In ten years, most of the good music of the world will be written for sound motion pictures.”


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