KATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1923
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE FILMS
PROGRAMME FEATURES.
TO-NIGHT.
Pushers." Star, Kowloon," A Perfect
and a Punch or Two."
THE KINEMA AND :
EDUCATION.
PSYCHOLOGISTS' INQUIRY.
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FILM PROGRESS.
imports of
OUR JUNE MOVIE CALENDAR.
1.—Anniversary birth. Author Movie Calendar:
-Witness in law care declares has been picture palace pianista for twenty years. Local police mis ponded pending enquiry into allega tion of graft.
earth.
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MOVIE MAGNATES.
FABULOUS ́SALARIES.
CHAPLIN'S RECORD...
BLAME THE MOVIES.
IGNORANT CENSURE.
Mr. Johii W Hicks (momaging Interesting statements concerning direction Paramount Pictures) says: tho salarion paid to movie star have To loses in some way the guilt of been made by witnesses before the youths whose recklessness leade Federal Trade Commision, which them into paths that become criminal investigating allegations that the Fanus Players Orporation is a there must always be a scapegoat. trust, and is restraining trade. Just at prosent it happens to be the It was stated that in 1017 Charlie motion picture: A few years back produce oight pictures. While this boyond that it was probably some Chaplin received £200,000 cach to tuo penny dreadful." Back wna the largest contract over misde, wilder form of the Punch and Judy, it was the cheapest eventually, be-But there has always been some. cause Chaplin, under the terms of thing, and now, in this enlightened the contract, paid for the completed' negatives and was responsible for go, the irony of it all is that one uil ealaries, expenace, and scenery.
Lof the most potent forces for the Between 1017 and 1918 Mary chosen for the scapegoat.
education of the peoples has been
£600,000.
FROM LOS ANGELES:
5.-Von Stroheim sends himself autographed photographs of himself to keep his hand in during slump. Creighton Hale is to play one of There can be little doubt that an autographed photo Author Movie 4-Mary Pickford writes for the chief roles in Tea-With a intelligent uso of the film might Calendar. Kick, a new comody drama now consolidate the Britial Empire by
5. Sonde it back.. Coronet.-"No Woinan Kuowe.**
being made at Fine Arts Studios. making all the great imperial pro-no screen, no anything.
6-Wireless Movies. No caruera, World.--"Modorn Husband" and Ho will leave chameter rolan alone bloms clear to the multitude, ná no
The New Leather for awhile and play a straightfor-other agency could.. "Shoer ignor commence operations ut last.
7-Scottish Photoplays Inc, ward juvenile load.
anco, barefaced and untehamed, not
9.-American Novelties Inc. pro only among the simple and un-- Woman" and "Titbits don'a part in the dramatisation of and educated," was, we were told cast. Scottish Photoplays Ins. Inart, received £70,000 auch for miracle of bridging the chasm that Laurette Taylor playa Vera Goredicated, but among the well-to-do duce film with no store. All-star Pickford, Tim World's Sweet- The motion picture nchicood, the Humoresque.
Of the clover cast the other day, at the root of all the duce film with no actors.
thres pictures in which she starred was made by the Tower of Babel; who made the film so popular every-troubles and misunderstandings that
9-Drought in Hongkong. Cuble-a total of £210,000. to Perking, where, Sidney Carlyle is the only had concealed the importance and
Norni Talmadge received £32,000 it speaks with a language that all Princess Radziwell-Pallfy, thế ons whose name figures upon the retarded the growth and prosperity reaches 120th birthday Declares got £70,000 such for eight more, the printed word will nover be able as the most beautiful and extravas 10-Old Lady in Edmonton for each of sight pictures, and later can understand. It is a factor that former Dorothy Deacon, of Boston, programane of the spoken version.of the British possessions in the never een Douglas Fairbanks,
tvill yet carry mighty messages that who, before the war, was regarded He plays the same part as in the West Indies. Much the c
making the enormous total of film, that of the hore's brother.
11.-First "alow motion Italian £816,000, might be predicted about every one emotional drama. Many deaths."
to. It preaches cormons in churches gant hostess in Vienna, has starti of the other Colonies and Doming
For twelve filus Copalance Tal. and it provides entertainment for ed European society by her Mary Molarey, having spent ions that go to make up that won-
13.-Walter Sludge, ominent madge netted $20,000 each, and for,
royalty.
nouncement, in London, that sho The expert paychologists who are nearly all hut summer in Foneinlu, dorful cangeries of natione, all the lunatic, escapes Colney Hatch, another twelve she received £80,000her Knighthood
Take, for instance, the case of is to enter the movies. The War about to make an inquiry into the is just beginning to like travelling. Britains. How many people realise 1923.
Wae In swept away most of her fortunes value of the kinen in education She has visited also Japan, Biberia, that. to-day Australia gives a pre
18. Buys kingin,
cachi, making her total receipts Flower. This picture was shown and she was forced to sell her will concorn themselves with one China and Berida, and plans sference to British
14.-Turkish Problem Gxully Katherine MacDonald received twice to his Royal Highness the jewels and family castle to live in point of great importance and difi-trip to England and France this £6,000,000 a year, with the result rettled. Constantinople given to £120,000 for acting in six pictures. Prince of Wales, each dine at his poverty-stricken Vienna culty-namely, the durability of the summer..
that overy one of the 5,500,000 of pianistes given to Turks.
British. One hundred picture palace In the following year, she got special request. And this is but impressione produced on the minds of children by that means.
her inhabitanta purchases each year
£180,000 for starring in 12 pictures. representative of scores of motion 15.-First moon non land ou Most of the popular male stars approximately 12 worth of such irt of the larger question of educa-in screenland have been Norma Tal-goods? Facts like these and hun
Olga Petrova received $128,000 picturca York House and Bucking tion by the eye. We all remember mago's leading man at one time ordreds of others equally important
16. Snub Pollard..
for appearing in eight picture. ham Palace, London, are bolh vividly things we saw in childhood, another.
Jack Pickford receivex £20,000 equipped for the regular presents- But now Norma an- could be set forth on the screen im
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Go back to moon. And it is well that this power of nonces that for the rest of this year a graphic and arresting fashion that
Many interesting kinema plays 16-First American Photoplay wart £16,000 each for four, and
each for four pictures; Anita Stetion of pictures.
"The Dinkum Bloke," was pri- are in the process of being filmed at visual memory should be used in of grace, 1923, she will have the would leave an indelible impression played by actors.
then £20,000, each for four more, vately screened and met with un- the various studios in and around education; but we do not usually same man, Jack Mulhall, opposite on all who saw them.
19.-Chinese first used as Chinese plus falure of the not profits.
qualified approval.
LiAngeles, but none of them. know why, wo remembered one in all her productions. Mulhall is one When wireless picture transtuin-supera in Oriental films.
Marshall Neilan was in receipt of
Tho list of similar incidents is un-show greater promise than The thing so vividly and other things of those dashing young actors who ion has become an accomplished Scotch supers.
20.-Welshmen: frat used not at all: Sometimes, no doubt, has had several narrow escapes from fact, as it seems highly probable it
€16.000 each-fur eight pictures, plus limited, in which motion pictures Sign stage play written by Ja a share of the profita.
have received the highest outons Cowl and Jane Murfin, which Mrs. we had a natural and petinanont stardom. He looks a little like will before long, & now or will open hemire appears use wet after similar in its terms to the Chaplin. And yet, whon a youth is caught directing as well. It has a modern - 21.-First picture show in which
Every contract referred to was inent possible to receive.
Murfin is not only producing but intercat in the thing remembered, Eugene O'Brien, and is a capable for the film industry, and it may be and sometimes it was led up to by and versatile player. He is at work compelled to tinnaform itrelt com.osened from the sen contracts, the stars paying expenses, red-handed in this act of house-social background, and the action some dramatic sequence of events on Within the Law at the moment, pletely. Mr. G. Francis Jenkins, Dean Inge offered lend Samo stars received as much as breaking, or some other similar revolves around the lives of a young which we have forgotten. Such a fand after that will have the role of the veteran inventor who assisted at
Swedish farce. sequence, says the Times in a lead the hero in Ashes of Vengeance, a the very birth of kinematography,
£10,000 as a bonus for signing con. escapado, it seems the first thought clergyman and an aristocratic girl. 123.-German tragedy star offered tracts, while all were given large of either himself or his counsel to Mire Cowl was to bays formed in ing article, cannot be ensured by the romance of old France. The third declared in Washington a few weeks lead with Mack Sennett.
advances.
immediately lay the blame for much the stage version of the story mo kinema; nor can the natural interest story, please note, of old France ago that he has all but perfected thie
24-Teloscopes first supplied in
an action to an inspiration supposed-than a year ago, but other planes of the child be ensued. For this scheduled to date.
super-kinomas.
ly received from "the movies," natural interest, is soothing very
necessary apparatus that will make
interfered and it was decided to 26-Woolworth Building, New]
And so the motion picture be-make a picture of it. The cast st different from mere. amusement.
the broadcasting of moving pictures Children, and all of us can be movie newspaper
A special dispatch" to a loading as easy as broadcasting speech and York City, first appears in Sussex
comes the scapegoat, and ignorant headed. by Rocklife Fellowes nud fingers of derision no pointed to it Miss May Allison. amused by things which are quickly follows: "The first production of to his description, is very simple, filmed at Bollywood,
His apparatus, according, domestic drama,
20Beauty Spots of Britain"
as a factor to abun no though poison. forgotten, by scenes or events which Associated Authors will be a Woods and is contained in a small box
ous. Still the King of England and Cécil B. Do Mille is filming e tickle through their novelty, but do screen version of Scott's "The Talis approximately, one cubic foot in 27-Five-reel dramas first appear The above question (with vari countless other men in the highest modern story to be called "The Ten not stay in bo mind, because they man, with Wallace Beery in the volume, which is connected with fir fired dramos,
tionalis often asked at the conclusion; positions in the world regularly go Commandments." The lining of have no connection with those per-title-role." We'll allow Wallace is the receiving eat in the same man-
28-Author Movie Calendar of a picture which contains strong to the pictures and endorse them the prologue will start in a huge manent interests that are part of a versatile fellow, but we can't, ner as the headpiece is now. By could go home now if this were material for about, two reels. to their friends and their abjects. throne room in Pharaoh's palace, cimracter. A child without any in-admehow, sea hit playing & talis using this contrivance, Mr. Jenkins 29-Centenarian at Sheffield chief offenders in excessive length legitimate scapegoat was found to studio, after which some 2,500 peo
American, super-pictures are the
Isn't it just about time that a which has been built at the Laeky terest in birds might look eagerly man, and we pity the film "Sala ussures us, it will be within the at a film of flamingoes in flight to din," if this dreadful runout be power of every householder to have claims can remember last Chaplin Many of the flamboyantly booned partly explain the reckless actions of ple and 4,000 animals are to be it might look at any strange specta (true.
supors have footage as their chief; unrestrained youtha? his own private picture show at cle in real life, but without neqnir-
transported to the sand dunes near 30.-Revolver still being discover distinguishing characteristic..
Santa Mariax, Caf, where many ing the habit of observing birds or any desire to know more about screened, Botty Compson and. Conte Forest was demonstrating to the
In The Rustle of Silk, now being Almost simultaneously Dr. Lec'ed in drawer.
days will be spent making Biblical scenes for the picture. them. There are indeed people who way Tearle play the leading parte, menbers of the New York Electri- ure amused by everything, but in Conway that of a politician, and cal Society what he terms his terested in nothing, for whom all Betty the girl who loves hit, "phonofilm "' which reproduces life is a kinema, which they watchi
speech and music synchrously as it flutters by without learning
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Vory Belton does the same film with the pictures, and is said to be anything whatever about it. Teatar play in two versions of the same an improvement on any similar in- encourage that state of mind is not story, Conway Tearle is one of thevention- education, but intellectual dissipa-few who can boast of this distine that Dr. de Tomat, unlike overal It is interesting to note tion; and so in all kinds of teaching tion. He was the artist-lover other workers in the same field,
amusotnent.
filan.
February.
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David Bolusco is to arrive in Los: Angelos in Jung, with Lenore Ulric for the filming of "Tiger Bose in which she is to be starred. Bidney
British pictures, however, are for from blameless in this respect, at timos.The Bigarnist" bad about three reels of stary expanded into. ten, and a reet might often be de- loted with artistic advantage from Between the written description the products of more than one of our of a daring deed and its actual studios.
accomplishment for the screen Fuklin will direct and Edmund One of the obstacles to shorter there is a wide difference. Mr. Goulding is preparing the percen pictures is, of course, the reluctance A. E. Coleby realises this in his version. Following this "The Gold it is necessary to draw a sharp disopposite Clara Kimball Young in adraits that his invention is not
of the exhibiter to regard seriously planning of "The Silver Buddha," Diggers" is to be filmed under the any story feature of less than 5,000 one of the "Fu-Manchu series of direction of Harry Beaumont. tinction between interest aud Selznick-Select's first production of going to transform the present type
fost. This reluctance, we admit, is thrillers which he is producing for In the past the dis- The Common Lane, and he is one of of silent moving picture-play into.a tinction was too sharply drawn and the three co-stars of this organisa "speaking"
on. the wane; but is not yet eradi- Stoll Picture Productions, Ltd. Mary Astor, who recently became cated by any means.
Dr. Petrie, "nosing around" in a Paramount.star, isat work on her it was held that nothing which tion's new production of Robert W."phonofilm can be used with
Before the}
Until it is overborno, makers of brilliant two Museum Street, has been captured first picture, a screen version ét amused or gave any kind of pleasure Chambers fascinating could be education: but now it is Corinne Grithth plays the uncon-screen-play will have to be evolved, romance. advantage, quite a new type of
realers like George A. Cooper will by Dr. Fu-Manchu, but Karameheh "To the Ladies," a play by George often not drawn sharply enough, ventional Beroine, and Elliott Dex-he thinks.
be faced with two alternatives: the is anxious that he shall escape. To 8. Kantunan and Mare Counplly, And it is supposed that when chil-tor is the third in the trio of stars. way in which bis apparatus could be But he suggests one
commercial disadvantage caused by that end a rope is fixed from one directed by Alfred Green, Robert the habit of not taking the two-side of the street to the other and, Agnew is to be co-starred with Miss dren are absorbed they must be it is an altogether grander produc- turned to immediate account-it is learning.
realer seriously and the succumbing According to Sax Rohmer, the Astor tion this time, and Doris May, to introduce music, spooch, or Modern psychology, while it lias Phyllis Haver, Miss Du Pozit, acoustic effects when the play speci-
to the temptation to pad them out of Dr. Fu-Manchu," the way of Robert Edeson are featured in o talented author of "The Mystery Leatrice Joy, Owen Moore and rid us of the notion that all educa- Hobart Bosworth, and Bryant ally calls for them. Letters and
iato greater length and make fea escape was quite easy. How It was Paramount production, "The Silent tion must be painful, is also die. Waabburn are other names on the telegrams, or the long explanatory wife of John J. Dillon, Los Angeles latter alternative,
tures of them. If we know Cooper to be effected, Karameneh, having Partner," by Maximilian Foster. Mrs. Maud H Dillon, former at all; he is not likely to adopt the placed a light wooden cross-bar in It is being directed by Charles covering, with growing precision, studio pay roll.
"sub titles" now put on the screen,
Petric's hands, explained :- often to the detriment Frank Mayo
the action, motion picture director, told the But is this the only reason? We "Make sure that there is no one'
Maigne.. not. But it is, of course, only at Godowsky will play together in clear, resonant voice, not necessarily squandering so much money on like Low Chaplu comedy, be fea to enable you to swing through the Buchanan med forces for the mos
Dagmar might be read out instead by n courts that her husband was suggest another. A two-reeler will in the street, then swing across, the beginning of its discoveries. Souls for Sale, a story of the movica, that of one of the actors of the play. Mrs. Dillon No. 2 that he had not tured alone for some time to come; open window opposite, and there have combined forces for the mak
- Frank E.. Woods, Thompson- not, except in remarkable instances The length of rope is just sufficient We all know, if we have the babit by Rupert flughes, which has had
been paying her her alimony of and this means that it forms an is a mattress inside for you to drop ing of pictures, are just completing $500 a month.
item in a list of kinema attractions upon."
their first production. It.is King, in a programme. Now, although To cross the street in that fashion Richard the Lion Hearted" and is people like variaty in a music-hall, would appear to be a perilous un- an adaptation of Walter Scott's and are used to being satisfied with dertaking, but not to a Sax Rohmer novel, The Telisman. Wallace atar-tum which lasts fifteen hero! Petrio swung out. "Talip Beary, who was "King Itichard" in ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL minutes, they have not yet taken ped forward as a diver, and found Robin Hood, is playing a similar
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to the como principle in the kinema, myself sweeping through the night role in this production. Their end must be educated up to it, as a winged thing. I threw second picture is to be Peter B to use o dreadful phrase.
my body back and thrust my feet Kyne's story, "Harbour Bar. The first film to be taken of the It is also possible that the failure forward.. Back I swept upon which Thompson Buchanan t interior of St. Paul's Cathedral was of the triple or quadruple theatrical my trepeze, a sight to have induced adopting. The third story is to be shown privately at the West-end bill to attract (as Frohman often any passing citizen to question his an original one by Elmer Hurri Kinema. Every part has corne found) may have some analogy in sanity. Swinging there above under the recording eye of the the varied flm programome without Museum Street I could even dp- "A Gentlemen of Leisure, camera, and even those who knows long feature. If so, it is a pity; preciate, so lucid was my mind, the comedy by John Stapleton and P. St. Paul's best will probably dis- because it encourages padded ludicrous element of the situation." G. Wodehouse, is to be made by cover in these pictures many points pictures, which are daily alienating not the ludicrous element, but the leading role and Joseph Heng- What puzzled Mr. Coleby was Paramount, with Jack Holt playing of interest which have hitherto the public from the kinema. cscaped their notice, while those
how to portray on the screen the bory directing. amazingly simple feat of Dr. Petrie..
the difference between impressiona that repain and impressions that do
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of observing ourselves at all, that to a big sale in novel form. toarn without forgetting is to establish a relation between facta
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Cosmopolitan are planning a big
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in the mind the relation is made Elizabethan costume film for the Paid in Full, in which Paulino Fre by the mind, not merely by the autumn. Starring Marion Davies, derick appeared, with Wyndham facts; and the fret difficulty in of course, and with Julis Arthur, a Standing opposite. clucation is to establish this rela-famous and beautiful stage star, as Soul and The Marriage Price, with Ejes of the tion in the mind of the child. ItQueen Elizabeth."
Elaio Ferguson, were made under cannot be done by mere anile.
Chautard's guidance also. The new ment, or we might educate through The mountcal play, "Treno," which fim is Daytime Wives, for F.B.Q., the conjurer. There is a certain introduced Londonors to delightful and Standing cast opposite Ange teilency and character in every Faith Day, is being filmed, with Pardue, a now beauty whose first child's mind which noods to be dis-Marie Prevost in the title-role. prominent role this is. .covered and encouraged; and there This Cinderella story of a little Now
ia: also a natural, original sin of York tenement lassie should make The clever four-year-old who is indolence and caprice especially in an appealing movie, on comedy soon with Charles Chaplin in The the most gifted children which drama lines.
Pilgrim, is known as Dinky Doan" needs to be overcome by discipline.
in the stadios. His own name is That discipline cannot be given Joseph Schildkraut, whose mail Deen Franklin Reisner. through the ove alone, or through his considerably increased in weights. any one of the sonses. The very since Orplans of the Storm was ro Rex Ingram has commenced work who have never viited it in person vividness of vital impresstons suny leased in Great Britain, has bood on Scaramouche from Rafuel will obtain an excellent idea of its MR. MATHESON LANG'S be hostile to it if they succeed each playing the title-role in Pear Babatini's French Revolution story, grandeur The film has been pro other toompidly the inveterate fro-Gynt' in America. He is due to The hero, played by Homanduced by Messrs. Pathé Frères,
FILM ART.. quenter of the picture palace never oppear in celluloid again later, and Novero, is a revolutionist, who with the permission of the authori remembers, but always expects; and his first film will be The Dance of joins a band of strolling players and ties, and is to be shown, publicly at "Jealousy," a new fim-play pro- this state of expectation, produced Life.
becomes their "Scaramouche. His once, with the object of assisting the dooed by Ideal Filme, Ltd., in by the excitement of quick change.
adventures look like spreading into work of restoration, the second which Mr. Matheson Lang plays Movie actresses do not live all the Emeet Torrence,, who was Bill is itsoif an obstacle to motory and Early in 1924 Universal will star twolve reels, and some faithful pic stage of which has just begun the leading part, was produced for time on milk and honey. Ask Jackson in "The Covered Wagon to any kind of concentration. That Virginia Vall in Naughty Marietta, times of France under the Terror Prior to the showing of the firm, the first time at the New Oxford Eabelle Taylor, aho will tell you, le to head the cast in Inmerso is the danger of the kinema which The Pretty Sister of Jos (already may be expected. Alice Terry will Sir Banister Fletcher, F.B.I.B.A. Thestre
She has just come out of hospital, Hough's story,North of 807 cais no doubt be avoided if it be filmed with Marguerite Olark in the play opposite Raman. Ingram's gave an interesting acount of Bir The play centre round the zoon in Los Angeles after being nearly which is to be filed under the combined with other kinds of teal-title-rôle), and The Co-Respondent, last production was a South Bea Christopher Wren's life work. St. hires of ses captain who, burnt id deatli in a great fire scenu supervision of George Mellord. ing and if the films are carefully The last was one of Elaine Hamatoty, with the same two, Ramoo Paul's Cathedral stood alone, be by false double to his wife which was being shot for the Wal- choson, but the danger is there.merstein's early successes, The Novarno and Alice Torry in the said, so the Engilah sathedral of hon; takes her with him on There is a kind of touching which equittal, a powerful drama, is to principal roles. gives the pupil opiniis about he made, with Priscilla Dean in the
Y everything and knowledge al lending role. nothing, which equbles bim to talk to y
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Kathleen Norris' novel, "Inczeliu Lombard," has been adapted for the screen and will shortly be filmed KINEMA STAR IN PERIL by Harry Ropf Irene Rich will
play one of the featured roles.
tadaw pictum Only a Shop Giel. Holbrook Blinn who has been the Renaimadce and the Reforma eventful nos voyage, only to meet the was on the top flour of a ton, appearing in California in Porter tion. Wren was to Reformation as his first were the oblock of Pift storey building, and by pocidentale Emerson Browna's play architecture WhatsMilton was to Fenloney A mutiny and Loey tripped on the window will and fell Mon, Fin to be starred in Bayad Clare Kamball Young' a next picture-- Puritan literkire, jadrat sa "Pa |eventual dealzuction of the nhịp on any object, but to no purpose. Back again in Hollywood, Wynd-play Dordello the Magnificent. dee Lost in an èpiù in words, so an explosion provide some thrilling
ham Standing has recommenced Huntley Gordon, another work with Eralle Chautard, a former the mide, has also a famous Players director. Chautari Dayton plays an Englishmen directed Out of the Shadows and plete with monoole:
The remite may be no worse than tore of mere drudgery but they exoporate, and they are not educa
flúinés, Laickily for version of the name play the here were real fireman on the ing of which, will start
host of them usalfed up part of May vs Käysin De
battared thek way boo just finished directing
and fire, und Girl the Golden W
St. Paul's Cathedral ta su epic in scenes atons. Both are endurinr
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direct the