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FAMOUS PLAYERS PICTURES BARRED.
The protest made by cinema |
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exhibitors in Birmingham against the acquisition of two important cinemas in the town by the l'amous Players Corporation, one biggest American film concerns. hus been supported by the General Council of the Cinematograph Ex- hibitors' Association; which repre- For 539 years she has lain, sents practically all the cinema loaded, it is believed, with proprietors in this country, says treasure, beneath 60 feet of the film critic of a Home paper. They have asked their various water in a bed of clay.
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The diving bell which is six feet high will hold the cinema operator and one visitor who will watch through a window the diver toiling outside.
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Encouraging comments on the interest taken in England in musical matters are made in a statement issued by the London Opera Syndicate. Recording that their subscription list to date amounts to more than three times that of the whole subscription to their first season in 1925, the Syndicate observe: "This is a very tangible sign that interest in opera, at any rate, is not only alive, but growing very fast. The increase is shown in all parts of the house, while the amphitheatre stalls were practically entirely subscribed for within a week of
It has been found that less the list being opened last January.
"In some quarters there seems than six feet of clay covers the an idea that international opera galleon, and that has already means all foreign artists, and been pierced by a steel grab that British talent has really very which tore off a portion of the little to do with it. This idea is poop roof of the vessel and the entirely erroneous, as the follow-lamp hanging beneath it, and on ing facts will show. The large a second attempt shifted a port orchestra, of nearly 100, is en wine bottle, pewter utensils and tirely British. The chorus, num- a gold studded silver table plate. bering about sixty, includes many An old London County Coun- members of the B.N.O.C., and cil fire engine, forcing water since the beginning of March a through a swivel mounted nozzle chorus master from Covent
on the sea floor, will be used to Garden has been touring with wash away the clay while the that company specially to re diver probes with a pointed steel hearse the various 'choruses for rod, and a 2,000-candle, power the forthcoming productions at electric light is to be used to the grand opera, many of which illuminate the scene.. are intricate and unfamiliar. Certain of these opera choruses are reinforced by a small con- tingent from Italy or Germany, as may be required, but they do not average more than ten singers a performance-not a very large percentage.
TOLSTOY'S SON A SCREEN ACTOR.
screen
the "Resurrection," version of Tolstoy's masterpiece, which will shortly be seen in
means that the
exhibitors of Great Britain aro advised not to book any further films for Famous Playera Corpora tion, although existing contracts, many of which extend untfi September this year, hold good.
No objection has previously been raised to the holding of "sky" cinemas in Central London by American firms; it is extension to the provinces to which the associa tion objects. The British exhibi tors in the provinces do not want to book American films which have been skimmed by the exhibition of the same films locally in American- owned cinemas,
Mr. J. C. Graham, head of the Famous Players business in Eng- land, states that his firm is ready to sub-lease the one Birmingham cinema of which they really make use to any British exhibitor who would undertake to protect the company's "first-run" relenaos,
Amertean films already polise 95 per cent. of our cinema programmes.
mono..
MUSIC AND WORDS.
"To some people, music is only
"In the completed list of artists, which has just appeared, London, represents the fulfilment, succession of sounds, but most there are eighteen British of a long cherished ambition. normal human beings feel that, names. One of the performers, Ten years ago, Carewe, the pro- underlying all art-and this art in particular-is something that O'Sullivan, is to sing Raoul in ducer, determined to film it, but calls to the deeper and more pro- that purpose failed to mature the-Huguenots, Otello,and Kalaf in "Turandot."
The stage until Carewe by accident met-found part of our being. I think hands at Covent Garden (elec- Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the when you hear the great works tricians,
scene-shifters, etc.) literary giant, at a hotel in New of our great composers you get number 157, and there is a staff York, and as a result of a con- closer into touch with their per of attendants, firemen, cleaners, versation Count Tolstoy promised sonality than you could get by etc., which amounts to another to help Carewe fulfil his ambi- any other means. It is a case of "deep calling unto deep." It is tion. sixty, bringing the personnel to
When the sage of Yasuaya relativity or bi-metallism, or not his thoughts, or ideas, about over 200.
Poliana began to write "Kone-things expressed intellectually, viski," or, as it is called in but those profounder and more English, "Resurrection," his son obscure parts of our being, which Ilya, helped him in the laborious cannot be expressed by words,' longhand writing and rewriting "gaid Dr. John B. McEwen, Prin- of the immortal tale of Price cipal of the Royal Academy of Dmitri and Katusha Maslova. Music, in a lecture reported in plan by which "Resurrection" of the misunderstanding in life is. From that meeting emerged the the "Observer." "A great deal became a £100,000 spectacle, with
The London Opera Syndi- cate's chief aim," it is added, "has always been artistic suc cess, but they are anxious to em- phasize the fact of a rapidly growing public for opera, Su that when they vacate Covent Garden it may no longer be con- sidered an impossible commer-
cessore."
cial adventure for their suc-Rod la Rocque as Dmitri and due to the fact that we have to f
communicate by words. If we Dolores del Rio as Katusha, a could communicate through sum in contrast to the author's great art there could be no mis- original royalty of £1,200 on the
understanding.'" novel.
The original MS. was accepted in 1899 for serial publi- cation by the "Niva," a Russian magazine. The proceeds of
"THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE."
A Shaw Play Vetoed By Magistrates.
| Tolstoy's only copyrighted novel
а
"THE MIRACLE."
were given to the persecuted Max- Reinhardt, producer of An application, first made on Dukhobors, religious sect the world-famous spectacle, a Saturday, was renewed at opposed to government by "The Miracle," the screen rights Chesterfield by the Adult Edu-violence. Later "Resurrection" of which have recently been pur- cation Committee of Notting- was translated into ten other-lan- hamshire and Derbyshire Miners for a licence for the production of Mr. G. B. Shaw's play "The Devil's Disciple" in the Miners' Welfare Hall, Chesterfield, by the Nottingham' Art Theatre Com-
pany.
Mr. Joseph Lynch, an official of the Derbyshire Miners' Asso- | ciation, said that they were try- ing to educate the miners in various forms, and this would be a form they would appreciate.
Mr. F. Chambers (a magis- trate): Why associate them with "The Devil's 'Disciple?" Why not take the other side?
Mr. Lynch: We prefer to start ut the bottom and take them upwards.
Mr. Chambers: You take them down first,
guages and four stage transla tions alone.
In "Resurrection" Count Ilya Tolstoy will play the part of his own father, Lee Tolstoy, in a special prologue to the film. Countess Tolstoy also makes her film début in support of Rod la Rocque and. Dolores del Rio.
LETTERS OF. GLUCK.
chased by First National Pictures, is in London, and it is understood that he is. making arrangements for a revival of "The Miracle" at the Albert Hall.
A modest man, Reinhardt rarely talks about his past or future activities, although almost everywhere "The Miracle" has been acclaimed as one of the finest examples of modern stage- craft.
What "The Miracle" at the Albert Hall will be like remains to be seen: Meantime prepara- tions have been made for the making of the screen version which, as already announced, is to cost £600,000.
Forty-five hitherto unpublish- ed letters by Gluck have appear ed at Vienna in the Ed. Strache- Verlag in a volume edited by Dr. Georg Kinsky. During his visits to Paris the composer formed a friendship with Franz Kruth offer, the private. secretary of I have read that it used to take the Austrian Ambassador, and two sheep to clothe a woman; now. wrote those letters to him. I am assured that it takes but a Gluck's friendship lasted until single silkworzu-Mr. Justice Me- his death,
Cardic,.
The application was refused, the chairman of the Bench stating that they had asked for certain information about the play which] The letters are valuable docu had not been forthcoming,
ments of the composer's re- The prospect of more votes for The Devil's Disciple" is a lations to various contempor- now that I know we can make the women does not elate me one bit melodrama-one of Mr. Shaw's aries, and of his artistic views I rame, mistakes earlier plays.
Christabel Pankhurst.
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