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Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., February 1, 1931

Where They Eat... and Why

      A Short Menu History Of Hollywood

      By Hale Horton (...)

      Strange groupings I noticed in all the restaurants from

Victor Hugo‘s to Stark‘s, whose German food causes

Hollywood moguls to mingle with orchestra leaders. At Henry‘s

I found sad-eyed song writers doping out new musical

spasms; Charlie Chaplin, dunking a jelly sandwich in a concoction

of coffee and tea, while he patiently explained his stand

against the talkies. (...)   

      Photo. An autograph fan waylays Lola Lane and Dorothy

      Christy outside the Brown Derby, which, at this writing, is where

      the best acts in town are being presented

(...) Motion Picture, Feb. 1931

„To space the laughs“

Editorial content. „SAVING THE LAUGHS

      Directors of movie comedies that depend upon action,

principally, await with much interest the verdict on

Chaplin‘s experiment with ,silent‘ pictures. The greatest

difficulty faced by the director, according to Del

Lord, who has made some of the best, is to space the laughs.

That is because the audience is an unknown quality.

If the action is slowed down to give the audience time to laugh,

the members of that particular theater crowd may not

laugh and a deplorable ,wait‘ results. Within the past few

months comedy directors have been cutting short

the ,spoken titles‘ in the hope of obviating this. If the people

will accept pantomime, combined with the ordinary

sound effects, such as street noises, directors see a chance

for a return to the rapid-action comedy that lost some

of its zip through the talkies. The stage comedian has an

opportunity to space his laughs that is denied to the

screen actor.“                                                           

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