AMERICAN MOVIES FAIL TO USE SOUND PROPERLY

"Micky Mouse, the cartoon with sound shown in American theatres, is the best use of sound in films which have been produced in this country," said Serge Eisenstein, the famous Russian moving picture director, in an interview last night.

Mr. Eisenstein will present at 8 o'clock tonight in the Baker Library of the Business School a lecture entitled "The Cinema as Art", which he has previously delivered before student audiences at the University of Berlin, the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Columbia, Princeton and Yale. He is on his way to the west coast to direct a moving picture under a Paramount contract, which will probably deal with some feature of modern American life. Tickets for tonight's lecture have been distributed, but the doors will be thrown open at 7.45 o'clock.

Although the Russian master's idea of the use of sound by most American directors was not complimentary, he expressed a favorable opinion of many of the pictures.

He intends to use very little dialogue, if any, and asserts that the sound should not supply action but raise it to a higher emotional pitch. He freely criticised his own four pictures, "Strike", "Potemkin", "Ten Days That Shook the World", and "Old and New", flashes from the last three of which will illustrate his speech tonight.

The 32 year old director, who has gained world fame for the intense vigor of his use of the newest medium of art, was entirely at ease with the reporters gathered from the metropolitan papers, who hurled questions at him concerning his likes and dislikes of various box office stars. Most of the questions he parried or answered in subtle ambigulties which left the scribes at a loss to understand. True to his idea of how a moving picture should be made, he stated that he would continue to use characters who had impressed him with their faces and not with their acting ability.