THURSDAY.” FEBRUARY 1923.
THE FILMS
ROGRAMME FEATURES.
TO-NIGHT.
Coronet Theatre.-Doris Keane
•
in "Romanco."
Kowloon Theatre.The Little
Clown.
World Theatre. Ralph Ince;
"Out of the Snows."
MR. FRANK MAYO.
STAR OF DR.-JIM,"
as this one for their first work, the
producers have shown wisdom. The purpose of the picture, obvious-
TALKING PICTURES.
THE CHINA MAIL
be made in the studio by the speaker or singer while witnessing the pro- jection of the photographed scene He must then match his lip.inove- ments with tho necessary words. *
In experimental film record Ling a speech nado by Mr. Verity people were quite startled; he says,
FILMS BY WIRELESS,
SEEING THE DERBY AT SEA..
One day, people in the cineana will be able to see the Derby on the screen while it is actually being run. on the moccoums. "
to hear my, cough at precisely ther This interesting forecast of cinema same instant as they-saw it.
"stop preas news was given by The invention apparently Professor. A. M. Low, who was usk- great educational possibilities, Mr.ed for an opinion on the report from America that motion picture engi neers are planning to ***brandenst”' filius by wireless (says the London Daily Herald), ...
ly, is to show that beauty may be NEW GRAMOPHONE INVEN- Verify mentioned, as an illust
TION.
tion, the synopsis of a lecture drawn achieved in motion pictures by the
[úp by the Board of Education, uso of eclours, and the plot is a
That lecture, he pointed out secondary consideration. But they A gramophone has been invented "may be given by thousands of ten Professor Low, who hág himself have also invested this hackneyed by Mr. Claude H. Verity, of Leeds, chere, and each would be different. been experimenting in the trans story with a beauty that is of ite which will speak the words for But with this machine: a lecture mission of moving pictures, simplicity alone, refusing to treat it cinema actors in exnet synchroniza- could be standardised and given all thought such a scheme might take with the sentimentality which portion with their lips. Its mechanover the country in xactly the way 60 years to develop. · vades inany such stories. It is suriam, described by the Manchester the Board would wish it. Or take at the moment," he said, "it inprising how much poignancy may Guardian, is rather elaborate. Two political propaganda, Mr. Lloyd is not possible to reproduce s pie- be given to an ordinary story by gruophones of a special pattern George could deliver a speech virtu- ture good enough for exhibition t | simpla, straightforward telling. are used alternately, the changes of ally in person to hundreds of thou the public.
The story, therefore, requires disc being made during any con sands of people at once.
But it is possible to reproduce little rattention. But the colour! venient pause in the dialogue. The 'It wouldn't do for everything, he added, although the reprofne- and beauty with which it is sur two are linked together, and above of course. "That's where some of tion is appallingly indistinct. If Founded challenge the imagination them run two long rows of electric the traile who have opposed it make however, this much can be done in and hold/the attention from the first lights. By an arrangement similar their mistake-they fear it would the laboratory, it is reasonable to Frank Mayo has long been on the moment when little Lotus Flower to that used on sky signs the speed damage the success of the silent say it can be made perfect in time. upper grade of the path trodden by is seen watching the sea roll in, to of the filu ranning through the pro-drama. There are some sorts of Professor Low's apparatus is his illustrions grandfather of the the last, when, having discharged jector is shown by a wave in the pictures it would not suit, and covered by secret-patents. Some of Habe mate-hat with the difference her duty to the world, un she sees lower row of lights; the speed of others, many of the dramas and the principles were actually used that the Universal star's experience it, she walks eally out to meet the the gramophong is similarly shown most of the educational films, it
The transmission of pictures in has been chiefly in the silent drama. great waves which had brought her in the upper row. The voice and would suit very well; but who, for
the picture are fully synchronized instance, stants to hear Charlic effected by means of the transmis- Mr. Mayo appeared with his her tall of sorrow? grandfather in Davy Crockett "* In the first few feet of the film when the two waves run along tage. Chaplin When he can be seen?" sion of light densities through
The invention provides also the screens made up of many squares. at he later relieved more eminence are shown the brown rocks, rising ther.
The obtain relative synchroniza-special cinema music at the appro At the moment only very smal| in The Woman in the Case."wel and austere from the green
The Squre Mari" and with waves that roll around then, tip-tion the film is numbered at inter-priate mouient. In a demonstra pictures can ho so treated. When Arthur Boucher and Heibert Sheath ped with lacy white. A bit of sun-vale along its length; the gramotion which Mr. Verity gavo to the they are magnified, they become in England. But he has been light, is caught and inprisoned in a Plone is equipped with a conter Teeds Gramophone Society single inore indistinct, and in the ease of known for several years as a screen shallow pool, in the shadow of which should correspond with the instruments, such as a pianoforte, motion pictures, to inagnify them star, and many critics have accord-cliffs. A breeze blows, lifting the number on the film. Thus a break were reproduced, it is stated, almost would be to increase the flicker," ed him a high place in historic rank, seaweed from the surface of the age of film would not prevent the perfectly, but the success is less too.
rocks, and breaking the surface of gramophone from stopping and marked when the machine has to According to the American re-. the puol into a thousand little rip-starting in time with the film tackle both the rich discursiveness port, the universal adoption of ples of sunlight. A cloud passes Both devices are regulated by hand," and the full fabric of orchestral broadcast films may be expected next year. Then projection ma over the sun, and the surface of the The records for the apparatus would music."
chines and operators will not be Deran elianges from blue to an ceric]
wanted in the cinemas, which would emerald green.
receive their films by wireless from In broadcasting station-perbaps
1,000 miles away!
Frank Mayo DR JIM"
ITS A UNIVERSAL”
Some of the motion pictures that
brought Mr. Mayo into the
Then comes Taitus Flower, heri cheeks, brown as the shadow of the
| rocka, her qyes blue as the sea, and laer smoth hair black as the deep- ext shadow. She blends with_the scenery in a surprising way. Her
movements are restrained, grace- Flul... And "When the sea brings the
young American do leg feet, one! sers the wild rose colour In; her checks deepen, Jer eyes shine with excitement and curiosity.
Later, when she dresses to meet him after a long separation in the bisvest. rubes of state, the silver
ingles glitter: the satin gives of! shimmer and sheen with each movement. The gorgeous jude of a brocade costure, the full black of serving women, the colors on pair of embroidered slippers-
nlight are "Mary Regate with every foot of film. Pedler, • Burnt Wings," Tutus Flower is played by d **{rsen," "The Brule Breaker,"
A biule Brother of the Hicklesu girl, Anna May Wong. I the average Chinese countenance is **Hitelin' Posts," **The Marriage Pit. Honour Bumperturbable, then little Miss Wang is not the average type. Her True. * Colorado,****The Magnis contenance is mobile, enotions fernt Bruts and Go Straight."
Mayo is an intellectual in play and her features, she is dividit, who knows unre than his ainted; she is calm when calm reserved manner would indicate. In ness is desired, and always is she Controversy-it in can be invegles charming. Her restraint, her good into entering he is a formidable breeding, her Treedom from stage for. Let the speak of the subject tricks, are refreshing to watch. nearest to his heart-old English Kenneth Harlan, as the young writers and he displays a remark. American, had tunbing much to do alje slepth and breadth of know. bet walk in and out of the filin, but lege and a rich store of informa- he seems to have caught the spirit of the play from his Chinese leading
• those are things that catch-the-eye-
tion.
In Dr. Jim," the Universal woman, and acted with a great deal: photoplay which is shortly coming of the restraint and freedom from to the World Theatre, Mr. Mayo is heroics that characterised her per
formance.--Christian Science Moni- seen as a great toan with a great heart, an einent surgeon whose far. hely it is to cure crippled children
J
though he neglects his own wife in DANISH DICKENS FILMS.
the process
· Ruth Roland.
JACKIE COOGAN AS
OLIVER TWIST.
during the war.
Professor Law does not think the development is so near to comple- tion as that, and at Marconi House the story from the States was de- nounced as "a wiki ling.
KIMEMA SCENE, ··
GRIFFITH FILM ANNOYS.
Lively disturbances have taken place in one of the boulevard cinema halts of "Paris during the presenta tion of Mr. W. D.Griffith's film, Orphans of the Storm," The film
Would You, For a Million?
Charles Hutchison is the man who captures thrills, tamos- them and exhibits them, like a trick bear, at one hundred dollars each. When Hutchison undertook to Tak his life daily during the film- ing of "The Whirlwind," he re- fused reguúr, salary,
He ald
TOO-REALISTIC.
ENRAGED MOVIE "EXTRAS."
One touch of nature may make the whole world kin, but one touch of relis ruined an erstwhile per fectly good embryo motion picture recently in the southern part of California. Some 800 extras, being used as the audience" in the film
he worked by the thrill.
When the thrills in the Arst ople sode of this serial were, examined to get a line on the earning capto- ity of Hutchison, it became "ap- parent that, while this man takes chances with his life, he plays da-- 'cidedly safe with kls incos B
FILMING-ST. PAUL'S.
A UNIQUE PICTURE.
camera
For into the night-a Beate of men. electricians, and mechanics worked against the e. cently to finish the only moving picture ever taken of the interior d St. Paul's Cathedral, and that from crypt to dome (says the Lond Daily Mail), A
is based on a story of the French ing of a prize-fight scene, in their Revolution, but a number of per- excitement forgot it was only make sons, led by a meniher of the Ligue beliege and proceeded to mob the That innumerable bats have their Action Francaise protested crooked referee and the villain house in the roof of the cathedral, against the exhibition on the ground After the smoke of battle had clear where they have settled undisturise that it was historically false and el away and a squad of police had for years, was one of the discoveries exaggerates the evil of the old herded the combatants into the made when for the first time kits- monarchical regine.--
street it was found that therenan searchlights played in the According to these critics, the film was wrecked, the camera broken, dolue Scores of these denizens of could convey the impression that the flm ruined and the director and the dark, dazzled by the giJet- the nobless of France spent their regular actors in little better case. lights, futtered, all over the cathe tine chiefly in debauchery, and It appears that the scormrio call-dral in search of gloomy retreats amused themselves by torturing ed for the hero's seconds to double Many took refuge behind the state- pengants and crushing children cross Lith by pouring a bottle of ary. under the wheels of their cariages.spirits of ammonia in the winter
All proceeds from the exhibition They demand that at least two pail. Between rounds, seeing that of the film will be devoted to the episodes, portraying the cruelty of the villain was in a bad way and St. Paul's Restoration Fund. It is neistocrufs, should be cut out, probably would be knocked out in particularly interesting to note that When these opisodes were reached the next round, a sponge, was the mighty glare of the are fampy: at recent performances demonstra-doned in the loctored water and brought to light many additional" ters rose in various parts of the then pressed against the hero's face, defecis in the masonry, house and created such a “distur temporarily blinding him. Some bance that the exhibition had to be body in the audience saw the "dirty interrupted,
work" and immediately clouted one
·A strong force of police ban since of the guilty "seconds. The free for been on duty in and about the he! | all then started, with disastrous re- There was also a kindly greating to preserve order. The proteste sulfe in so far as concerned the pic
continue, and call forth counter-ture. from the Prince of Wales.
Motion picture directore After two happy hours with Oliver protests from cinema-goers who obviously should make it clear to Twist the foundlings slattered away wish to enjoy their amusements un the hired hands that the things they
see are only make believe.. into the mellow-bit refectory, where disturbed. the long table was set out with bowls for supper, and ons hopes that any little Oliver Twist might safely ask for more.
FOUNDLINGS' FIRST FILM The number of good Dickens"
New films are usually first reveal fins has recently been swelled by ed in obscure little theatres to grim the Northern Films Company collections of trade experte with Copenhagen. Everything has been cigars and prea experts who are There could be no better film for cirefully studied; localities, period, and characters are Dickensian. So sad with experience. It was a nice children's Christmas holiday. far three Dickens films have been change the other day, says the There was not a foundling who did Manchester Guardian, to see Jackie not follow with delight every turn produced. Of these only the first, Coogan show himself as Oliver in the child's tale that cams 30 in the colours of nature will be Our Mutual Friend," has been Twist for the first time in the warm and true from the heart of interested in the release of a picture seen outside Denmark.
schoolroom of the Foundling Hos Dickous. The spirit of it is con-
NEW COLOUR FILM.
A CHINESE STORY. Followers of motion pictures who believe that black and white pic tures soon will be replaced by films
in colour, the result of several years The second Danish Dickens film, pital. One heard the horrifying vayed as truly as it can be in the of experimentation on the part of "Great Expectations, is just news that the foundlings had never cald, silence of the film. It was the Technicolour Motion Picture been played in Copenhagen. Or Corporation of Boston. The pic- the performers little Martin Herz-seen a film of any kind before... pleasant to be assured that Jackie so they must be as far withdrawn Coogan was not merely an ephe ture is called
The Toll of the berg stands out by himself. The from the ordinary experience of meral discovery of Charlie Chap Sen."
David Copperfield film promisce London children as they are from tin's, beginning and ending with The story is nothing new, nei well. Margaretlo. Schlegel play the racket of our life in their quiet The Kid." He a little genius ther is there any originality in the the part of David's mother, Karina eighteenth-century haven under and an unspoilt child. He does not development of its plot. It is sim-Bell is Dora, and Karen Winthers Captain Comm'a foundation. It merely beguile ne a prodigy-his ply a variation of the Madama But Agnes. The popular Copenhagen would have been an eye-opener to pathetic simplicity is refined, in- terfly theme, transferred to China setor, Frederick Jensen, is Mr. Hogarth's kind old friend if he stinctive art. One is sure that But in choosing a simple plot such Micawber.
could have come back to see his Dickens would have delighted in foundlings watching the film's him as much as any foundling of magio lantern in the grim old them all, and one cannot say more schoolroom.
than thot this American production Half the magic came from the did not jar on one's affection for the atmosphere of rapture in which the Master's talented Alm story-tbp story of another Jackie Coogan is amazingly self- foundling-ranits courseThe sufficient. He has been carefully children, their innocent laces schooled, but if you watch his be cleanest in tiets boys ne always haviour when he asks for more separated from girls at the back of you see he has what nobody could the great room, to see their Brat teach a way of living in his part. film, which should not be that last. There were little tricks that he Jackie Coogen, away in Loe must have learnt from Charlie Chap Anggies, had heard of the found in but they were fined down to linge premiere and a message was the natural ways of a child. The read from him. It makes me over pathos of the acting comes quietly so happy to taini
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