ABSTRACT
The constant breakdowns in the apparatus, the first juvenile faults in the recording, these had at last given way to a more mature use of sound. Rogers did not return to the screen until 1929, when he became one of Fox’s biggest money makers. In Britain the newcomers were consolidating their positions. Although their pictures did not claim attention in America, home audiences and a large public in Australasia, South Africa, and other parts of the world found the new British talkies entertaining. In Britain the industry was back to full employment, with every studio making pictures, for which there was plenty of talent available. However, a moderate success was no set-back to Jack Hulbert. Ralph Lynn had started acting at Wigan, appearing in a wild and woolly melodrama called King of Terrors for a princely thirty shillings a week.
