The cinema has learned a great deal from the theater about presentation.
Gone are the days when crowds were packed on wooden benches in tumble-down
buildings to gape the
1. ______ antics of silent, jerking figures on the screen, where some
poor pianist made frantic efforts 2. ______ to
translate the dramas into music. These days it is quite easier to find a cinema
that 3. ______ surpasses a
theater in luxury. Even in small villages, cinemas are spacious, well-lit and
well ventilated places where one can sit for comfort. The projectionist has
been trained to give 4. ______ the audience
time to prepare themselves for the film they are to see. Talk drops to a
whisper and then fades out together. As soon ad the cinema is in darkness,
spotlights are focused on 5. ______ the curtains
which are drawn slowly apart, often to the accompany of music, to reveal the
6. ______ title of the film.
Everything has carefully contrived so that the spectator will never actually
7. ______ see the naked screen which will remind him all
too sharply that what he is about to see is nothing merely shadows flickering
on a white board. However much the cinema tries to
8. ______ simulate the conditions in a theater,
it never fully succeeds. Nothing can equal to the awe and 9.
______ sense of hushed expectation which is felt by a theater audience as the
curtain is slowly risen. 10. _____