For many undergraduates who frequent the University Theatre deep mystery may surround the activities of a certain man who sits in the front row of the balcony, clutching a telephone and a pad.
But on the fact that he is there, explains the management, hangs the underlying popularity of the University as a movie house. In no other establishment is the smacking of lips so delicate or the roar of Tarzan so beastlike; and to the shadowy figure in the leges belongs all credit for the perfection of sound control.
It seems that at the first show of a new picture he occupies this exclusive seat. Should Gable articulate too loud, he buzzes once; should Harlow's whispers be too soft, he buzzes twice. On the pad a complete record is kept on the nature of the scene, on the intensity of sound. Next performance, the projection man follows instructions on a typewritten sheet.
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