A fan magazine used this publicity still of Norma Talmadge on its cover in 1929, but painted out the number 5 on the mike and substituted 13. A veteran of twenty years of the movies, Miss Talmadge had grown a little bored with stardom, but the talkies seemed to challenge her and after more than a year of voice instruction she made a successful sound debut in New York Nights, 1930. But her second talkie, based on Belasco's Madame Dubarry, evoked from a critic: "She speaks the Belascoan rodomontades in a Vitagraph accent." Her sister Constance, already retired, wired her, "Leave them while you're looking good and thank God for the trust funds Momma set up." A few years later a fan asked Miss Talmadge for her autograph. "Get away, dear," the ex-star replied. "I don't need you any more."