Oct. 30, 1929
"Foggy day. As I wasn't busy for a time this morning, I wrote Mamma a letter, telling her about the new Retail Store, plumbing to be done in our flat, etc.
John refused to to go the Chicago tonite because I said it was a silent picture. We got there and I managed to get him into the show. He had to admit that he liked it but - it would have been better with talkies. It had music, dancing and crowd noises in sound."
Talking pictures were quite new, but all the rage. In the transition from silent movies to talkies, background noises and music made the silent movies seem more modern. Both John and Ruth loved going to movies, so perhaps John felt a silent movie was better than none - and apparently he enjoyed it more than he thought he would.
The "Retail Store" belonged to Ward's where Ruth worked in the offices across the street...It seems quaint that Ruth wrote to her mother, whom she saw and talked to often. At this point Ruth had been married about 5 months. The two families lived a few miles apart, with Ruth and John in a building he'd bought at 4705 Byron St. in Chicago. People used to write letters frequently. I kept a chart of letters written in my twenties, 25 to 30 a month on average.
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