STORYBOARD: "DEDICATION OF PARK ROW"

The “Tsar of All Rushes,” Will Hays (president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America from 1922 to 1945) congratulates MPPDA member Fox Film Corporation, and improvises a stentorian speech about the “universal language” of motion pictures.

I’m very happy to be here and participate. I extend my compliments to Mr. Fox, the very great head of this very great organization, busy in New York; to Mr. Sheehan, responsible for the moment and this situation, and for the great success which this great company is making; to Mr. Wurtzel, his splendid assistant; and to all of you. That because of this occasion and what we have about us and that because of the pictures which you, for Fox, are making . . .

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Great as is the value of motion pictures as the principle amusement of the great majority of all the people in the world and the sole amusement of millions among them, great as is that essential service -- for service essential it is -- great is as that, I’m not certain but that the yet greater usefulness of motion pictures is in its capacity to carry in its universal language the message of good will to all the people of the world.

June Collyer, a 21-year-old actress who had broken into films as a Fox leading lady in 1927. Her movie career lasted a decade, although she appeared on television throughout the 1950s. She starred in five Fox movies in 1928. When this footage was shot, Collyer was in production with two John Ford silents: "Four Sons", with Margaret Mann, and "Hangman’s House," with Victor McLaglen (and John Wayne in his first bit part). That fall she starred in Raoul Walsh’s "Me, Gangster."

Ladies and gentleman, I consider it a great honor to have been made hostess here this afternoon at the dedication of Park Row on the Fox lot. We all know that the original Park Row in New York has been a molding ground of a great many world famous personalities. Well, I’m holding that wish for our Park Row here.

Tom Mix:
You know I knew that they’d bring something into this industry that would put a kibosh on my activities. Now they got Movietone. You know there’s just one job that I know of that's left where silence is a virtue, and Mr. Coolidge happens to have that.

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Now that I’ve convicted myself, I suppose I better get ready for the sentence. Thank you.

John Ford: ?. . . .significance to this organization and to the industry is the arrival at the Fox studios of Leon TROTSKY of the Soviet Republic!?

Boris Charsky, actor, as 'Leon Trotsky' [speaking in Russian]: “Comrades, by the irony of fate I play the role of Trotsky in the new Raoul Walsh production by the Fox studio. In this production, he will show the very best anyone has ever seen. Raoul Walsh is famous for this staging of "What Price Glory?," and in this production he'll show something truly special.”

Outtake:
You will be very grateful, comrades. This is the first time that Trotsky will be shown on the screen, who . . . .