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From to-day till Saturday there will be filmed "Kiss Me Again" | the production of Ernst Lubitsch from for Warner Brothers, It is # picture which, from the point of view of meritorious production, should not be missed by those students of the sllent drama, who are looking for Improvement, all- the time. They may find fault with the story, bat certainly in no other way, for it is an extremely Hatisfying picture.
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ledge of cinematography" and his genius for interpretation ara qualities that stamp him as an artist producer, and in this, his latest achievement. he has given usa play that is probably destined to become historic.
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"The story unfolds itself as sasily as a dream. It is the most Saturday restful picture-play I have
Helen seen. Why do theatrical and Alm Mathers's story is based is known producers think that the public is throughout the English speaking everlustingly in search of excite world and beyond, if there
ment? When I want excitement 1 such a place.
There is not a faked Circus, or ronding the headlines try dodging the traffic at Piccadilly scene in the whole Alm, the locale in certain Sunday newspapers, er being the South of England with borrowing a pound from a friend. all the beauties of the countryside For heaven's sake let us have a "Kiss Me Again" is a delight which will make many a wanderer quiet fe sometimes, and I make |
pine for the soft spring breezes of the Rye' is one of the few films bold to claim that "Comin' Thro'
the Downs. I quote -the criticism | that this or any country can offer of a literary giant who saw the picture when first released. His pen is more graphic than my own and I should like all who have been, surfeited with American "machine made filme, to visit the Star Theatre and see this picture, for it is genuinely worth seeing,
ful, vivacious comedy that deals, rather unusually, with the marital experiences of Loulou and Gaston Fleury Marie, Incurably flirta tious, ands that the noted musi- cian, Ferriere, lu a marvellous tonic for the boredom of marriage, and when Gaston discovers her prefer- ence for the pianist, he coolly offers her her freedom to pursue Cupid according to her ewn de stres. But naughtiness isn't so thrilling when it is accepted complacently, and Loulou's flighty heart is soon consumed, by jealousy and suspicion as to Gaston's i activities in the field of romance. Gaston plays his part well, and succeeds in teaching his. erring wife a lesson through comedy and ridicule, rather than drama tragedy. The picture rises to a crescento, of absurd elluations that mask genuine, drama at a' tres mendous emotional nature..
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"Kiss Me Again. has added an- other screen triumph to the lang 1st of successes of Ernst Lubitsch.. the European megaphone wizard who created "Passion," "Decep
tion," "The Marriage fircle," "Three Women," and other out- standing screen productions. He is responsible for the marvellous subtlety smoothness and fascina tion of "Kiss Me Again."
Marle Prevost and Mente Blue interpret. the roles of Loulou fnd Gaston, whilst Clara Bow the "vamp" that has made the husband a willing' accomplice to his wife'd naughty behaviour. John' Roche
ja cust મ the temperamental musician and Willard Loris, the rotund fun maker, in the part of a French lawyer.
The story was written for the screen by Hans Kraely, the man. who has worked with Lubitsch for many years and has taught hist master's Sweeping breadth of theme and emotion.
An. energetic speaker at.an.elve- tion, melting lushed himself into a frenzy.
"And are you-honest, hard- working Britons like you are you 1 ask you again, going to take all this lying down?"
"No" shouted a voice from the back of the ball; "the reporters are doing that!"
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"'Comin' Thro' the Rye' is a story
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which posSEBACK 11A1 irresistib fascination that keeps ono awake rent one from sleeping in bed. in the theatre and does not pre-
"It may be said with truth that' while we have English stories of the quality of Comin' Thre' the Rye and artistes of the calibre of Cecil Hepworth to produce them, there need be no misgivings con-
Miss Mura Shipoff, (the Baby Parlova) whose company
is appearing to-night in open air ballet at Lee Garden, the well-known local amusement Park ut East Point
of English life and character, It eerning the prestige of British
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Bre
More than a fair proportion of the
is English in sentiment. English in Picture-plays." ills the feah is heir to falls to women, characterisation and English in nut merely by virtue of Nature's degree, both manner and method. Many Alma Taylor, James Carew, Henry buv sather because of the artificiality of the exquisite scenes in this story Vibart, Shayle Gardner, Naney of present-day existence. Such
Gunh-
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"the weaker sex." or the give to us unforgettable glimpses Price. in Nature's entegory, so far as health scape, peupled with
and closely following the action. mien
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women,"grave and gay, old and
been written by two of the most. Medical research, day by day, em young, who hitherto have been capable musicnt directors in the phasizes the conclusion that health in perfectly balanced
best known to us in the pages of business, dependent upon functioning. The human organism is Dickens and Thackeray. The story supplied at birth with all that is neces itself is too well known to need Mary to provide for this and to ensure Fany detailed synopsis of it here. its continuance. It is all ton often The publication of Helen Mathers'sing an important tie. were greatly aborted by modes of living-irregular
The other day, two golfers, play-
habits contructed here and there, in-story created a sensation. The annoyed by a slow couple in front sufficient rost und sleep, improper diet, demand for the book was pheno- of them, obviously new to the failure to respect Nature's laws in one menal throughout the English-game.
way or another,
There is a
familiar saying that "peaking world, and even to-day it At one hole there was a purti- stitch in time saves nine." and this remains a vital link with the past eularly long wait. One of the saying is extremely applicable to the and continues to give enjoyment offending couple, dawdied on the ailments of women. A stitch calculated to a new generation of readers. fairway whlle his to suve the other nine in such cases Ita appeal is universal because it searched industriously in the rough. companion
is the old, old story-a story of At length the waiting couple on the Jove and romance that is tee could contain their impatience
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