Subtitler

It was an error introduced by the subtitler, not the screenwriter.

[…]any time studio atmosphere gets too thick due to scraps among the sub-titlers as to the most fitting words to suit the deed, he can scamper up among the clouds until it blows over.

The sub-titler is also a creature of convention—convention not of the picture alone but of popular belief. Why is it that a Chinaman on the screen must speak pidgin English, when many of the Chinese we know speak better English than the native?

The newspaper column's subtitler could not be identified.