• Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

    Mary Pickford: Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
    "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo". Los Angeles Times, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.", March 18, 1934.