Buy yourself a bag and plug up your ears." Norma doesn""t believe that the actors of the alkies era can compete with the stars of the silent era.(Nicky had described earlier to Bourne what Daniels had told her about Bourne""s indoctrination: "The training was experimental, behavior modification.One of the era""s earliest actresses, Marie Dressler (originally in vaudeville), after a comeback Oscar-winning role inMin and Bill (1930), performed her most quintessential career-ending, next-to-last role here as a fading stage star - she died shortly afterwards from cancer at the age of 65 in 1934.Of the 50-hour effort to rescue the child, 27 hours and 30 minutes were televised live by KTLA.(It was one of the first instances to illustrate the public""s fascination with live TV coverage of a breaking news story.