The Baltimore Sun

Talkies came to the Metropolitan Theater: The movie palace at North and Pennsylvania avenues helped usher in an era when it showed ‘The Jazz Singer’ in 1928.

If Baltimore audiences were thrilled by George Jessel’s stage performance in “The Jazz Singer” at Ford’s Theater during the fall of 1927, a greater thrill awaited them Jan. 8, 1928, at the ...
Los Angeles Times

Silent films that express an era

Warner Bros. caused a seismic sensation Oct. 6, 1927, when the studio premiered “The Jazz Singer,” the first feature that included sound using synchronized dialogue sequences. But while the Al Jolson ...
The Harvard Crimson

Talkies Will Supersede the Movies But Not Legitimate Drama--William Hodge Also Upholds Censorship of Plays

"The 'talkies' have great possibilities, and they will probably in a great measure supplant the movies, but I don't think anything will ever take the place of the legitimate stage." Thus William Hodge ...
The New Yorker

"Doubling for the Talkies"

Over the years, the director’s early films have been lost and found, forgotten and celebrated. But what about the work that came after, or that never came to be?