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A theatrical manager (writes Edgar Wallace,, In the London "Morning Post" of May 11) told me the other day: "I don't pre- tend that I wish to educate the public give them what they want." He is a very successful manager and of course he is the sort of fellow who should be pilloried. For how is it possible for art to be served if the public get what they want?
taste."
DRAMA FILMS.
workshops. They have been edu- THE NIGHT OF LOVE. cated in the art of drawing
cheques, and passing dividends,
SEASON.
and rectifying somebody else's FILM SENSATION OF LONDON follies, and licking stamps, and paying the rent and listening to the troubles of their married sis- ters; and they just want to sit down and see things put right in the meat amusing way possible.
They don't really wish to see a play that goes like this:
(Enter Natinks Josefitch.) Natinka: Father, I am going to have a child by Ivan Ivanovitch,
He
Father: How interesting!.' has just had his leg off in a saw- mill
If you have troubles of your own, you aren't really interested in other people's troubles. There are folks of course, who prefer gloonly plays to bright plays. But they are born philosophers
who .derive pleasure from the discovery that other people are worse off than
"The Night of Love," co-featur- ing Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, Is. proving one of the film sensations of the present London season, according to advices re- ceived by Arthur W. Kelly, Vice- President and General Manager of Fareign Distribution for United Artists Corporation.
On the opening day crowds stood In lines despite a pitiless rainstorm, outside the New Gallery Kinema, where the picture had its premiere, and every afternoon and evening thereafter for the first two weeks of the run the queues waited for more than an hour to gain admis- So convinced was the slon. management of the New Gallery Kinema of the picture's powers that before the first week was half com- pleted they extended their original booking of two weeks to an inde- finite run, setting back other ple- turen booked for the playhouse.
The London Fress was enthusias- Some tie over this production. comments follow:
"I am very sorry, sir," says the bookseller. "I do not stock the works of Phillipe Oppenheim, but we have a wonderful selection of the works of the late Herbert they. Spencer." "But Herbert Spencer When I am told by an intelligent doesn't amuse me, and Oppenheim man that the trouble with the does," protests the shopper. The theatre to-day is that managers are bookseller shakes his head. "I'm sacrificing art for the sake of the sorry-I am trying to improve your box office, I am nearly amused, The trouble with the theatre, if To be really arty you must pro- there is any trouble, is that the duce for the few; play and author | publie in every case are not getting | must be "before their times." what they want. Every play that "The best thing that Ronald Your manager with a sense of his- fails is an advertisement of this Colman and Vilma Banky have ever tory will point out the curious fact.
done. A romantic drama with circumstances that fellows like
many colourful scenes and plenty Shakespeare and Aristophanes
The public often get what the of thrills. A picture that will ap wrote for the moment, and the
Individual critic doesn't want. Hepeal to women, who are about 80 people who crowded the Globe, at Southwark or reclined in the al may write brilliantly to demon- per cent. of the cinema's patronage fresco theatres of Greece, were not strate his point of view, but the to-day."--Dally Film Renter.,
only thing he proves la that he so much interested in the view does not possess the "common posterity would take of "Hamlet"
mind" that he Is a stranger to or "Ecclesiazusae" as in their pre- the real requirements of the sent enjoyment Mr. Paropholos,
masses. His point of view is in- going home from the Dionyslac festival after the show said to Birs.teresting, but is not vital. When the "Edinburgh Review" roasted Poropolos: "That was a musty dig Thomas Carlyle, and roasted him at the Flapper vote! I must say in the most perfect English, the that old Aristophanes has got magazine did not prove that the love romance-lavishly produced."
Cratinus skinned to death as à writer of snappy lambica!"
The Critic'a Job.
ex-
un-
"As this brings those glamorous personalities, Mr. Colman and viima Banky into conjunction, it of film- will please a multitude goers. There is something to please everybody."--Evening Stand- ard.
"An exquisitely photographed
-Dally Mall.
the
popular approval of Carlyle was
"Everything done perfectly-at- misguided. It merely gave Send for Tchekov.
pression in a splenetic view, clever-tractive drama, life and colour."
The Star.
"One of the best romantic spec- Aristophanes especially wrote ly set forth, but Individual.
Criticism is successful, or I've no doubt for the moment. that in his time there were art successful, in ratio to the ultimate tacles, we have yet had on clubs that dug a hole in the endorsement of public opinion. If screen-one of the most beautiful ground and performed futuristic I read a review of a bank, and the love scenes ever presented on the plays, and found a melancholy reviewer says, in effect: "This is a screen-played with infinite deli- pride in the fact that nobody paid brilliant novel," and if in read-cacy by Ronald Colman and Vilma money to see them. And I dareing it I discover the work to be Banky, The Night of Love' is a dramatic story."-Daily say they met (dressed peculiarly) very dull; and if my verdict le magnificent film version of a sensa-
generally shared; then the utility tional in wine shops, and spoke aneer of the critic is almost automati- Chronicle. Ingly of Aristophanes, calling him
"A picturesque, colourful low-brow and other foul names: cally destroyed. I don't want his possibly they had Sunday night personal view. I want him to tell romance. There is beauty of form He and conception-some fine heroics performances, and produced me how I will like the book. comedies which nobody understood is important only in so far as he and good melodramatic moments. and everybody said were rather can represent the public mind and The story is well told."Morning
the public taste.
Post, wonderful.
It is stupid to condemn publie And can't you imagine what they anid about that play-acting fellow predilections because they do not or to deny Shakespeare? What the actors march with yours, said and what the shocked dramat-values because they do not appeal
to you.
The analytical chemist who declined to admit the exist ence of sugar in a mixture because he did not eat sugar would be a ludicrous figure.
ists said?
"An actor's an actor and a He's writer's a writer, old boy. putting this muck on the stage just because he wants to save au- thor's fees. I saw "Hamlet" last night, old boy! I went to sleep in the first act-murders and suicid- es, old boy! I can't understand the Censor passing it. Now I've got a great idea, old boy. Why not revive one of Sophocles' playa? I can get a chap in Lombard Street to put up the money-be's got a girl he wants to star..
1
SIR EDWARD. ELGAR.
All musical England pays Sir Edward Elgar, O.M., heartfelt homage, on his 70th birthday, says a Home paper just to hand. No living English artist has given
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, ploto, and altho.)
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18
HORIZONTAL
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7-Allow
8-Clatt 10-01 high
temperature
12-A torn piece of
cloth
13-A nobleman 10-in no mander · 17-Prafix meaning
18-Energy 10-Pouch
1-Conjunction
22-Choice
25-Before 26-Prevaricate 27-Pronoun
29-To bend
31-Final
85-Affirmative anger
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148
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HORIZONTAL(Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.)
28-At this times.
|41-Magnificence (pl.) 145-Head of a Bedouin
tribe 47-Establishment for
roaring cattle 49-Possess (50-Julos of plants
52-To shoot
58-White antiesptie
compound.
VERTICAL 1-A barrel S-Pronoun
S-Distant
6-Exclamation
6-Measure of walght
7-Negligent
·8-A pastime
18-Extremely
20-8piral winding 22-Looks
23-Harvest
|26-THY-
18-The› bottom edge of
wukirt
25-To out with the.
teeth
(20-Te direct one's
|32-To mop up
|34-To be stubbere |86-An entrance |87–To revolve rapidly
29.To Infold
|40-Part of verb "to be"
41-Takes stitches in {48-Close by |43-Precipitation
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12-Real estate
||48-Keclamation
|48-Centimetar (abbr.),
13-Secretion from the '50-in this manner
ilver
14-A claw:
16-An agreement
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Keystone State?' (abbr)
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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running sither horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above, cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
£2,730 FOR A RAEBURN,
"The craftsmen of the screen are attaining greater and greater skill in the reproduction of atmosphere
Pictures and drawings belonging in the present instance the scenery and picturesque grouping to the prominent collector, the late are adrairable. Daily Telegraph. Mr. W. A. Conta, of Dalekairth,
at Messra. | Weymouth, in whose harbour Dumfries, realised ships flying the skull and cross- Christie's a total of just over bones comprised no uncommon sight a few centuries ago, was the scene of another pirate visit not long ago when Douglas Fairbanks in "The Black Pirate" was intro duced to the town.
$18,000.
The chief. Items were £2,780 for Raeburn's portrait of James Har- rower, of Inzievar; and £2,940 for a picture for the Spanish school, "entitled "The Topers" peasant A pirate craft sailed into the in white shirt holding a wine-bottle, A crowd on with his companion holding a glass. Bay and anchored. the esplanade saw a pirate captain and his merry men transfer to their small boat and come ashore. Presa
I am one of those who believe more to his country and the world, photographers were on hand to in the public having what they and no living mustelan has had a photograph him and he was greet- want. But I believe they can find, finer career, more honourable ored by Mr. Heath of the Regent
in England. If I thought that devoted or spiritual.
the only plays English authors These have been his chief gifts: could write were long arguments the three oratorios, the orchestal about the disadvantages of marital variations and two symphonies, the fidelity, and effeminate young men violin and 'cello concertos, and or girls who like to give publicity "Falstaff." "It is a list that leaves to their ears, I would say: 'Phone out a multitude of leaser works Tchekov and ask him to send us from "Go, Song .of Mine" to the something nice and miserable piano quintet-which of themselves about a Russian who conceive a would have bee enough to make a hopeless passion for his aunt" be reputation, cause I am certain that Tchekov Elgar, a shy Englishman, who Tooks like a retired Army man does that sort of thing better than turned squire, has always been a anybody in England.
composer of the sentiments undis guised.
But, in order to save the sunity of our beloved people, I should also order from America a group of The essential spirit of Elgar's art musical plays with jazz by Gerah- is a quick and chivalric tenderness. win and specially acts by the It refuses to have anything to do Snoopy Sisters. The Two Wows, with ugliness or hardness, Critics Bunny and Ecatein (the well have suggested that perhaps hard- known, Kennedy Kida), and other ness might sometimes be welcome Hittle bits of burbling brightness. in the course of so much flowing
beauty. What They Don't Want,
At 70 he still has work to do. The trilogy that began with "The Apostles" and went on to "The Kingdom" is incomplete. No large work has come from Elger since the
Theatre and Mrs. Heath, who drove him to the theatre, followed- by a mob of interested citizens. The Dorset "Dally Echo" describes the affair as quite one of the best. film publicity stunts that has over been worked in Weymouth.
TENOR'S RACE TO OPERA.
The performance of Puccini's opera, "Turandot," at the Vienna Opera House, with Mme. Jeritza in the cast, narrowly escaped, aban- donment because M. Slezak was in- disposed, and the only possible sub- stitute tenor M. Paul Marion, had left Vienna for Tetschen, Czecho Slovakia. The telegraph and tele- phone failed to catch him until he was already in Czecho-Slovakia.
The situation was burriedly ex- I will tell you what "the public
plained through the telephone at want." Entertainment. Just that.
the station-master's office, and the The majority of the people who
singer's luggage was flung out buy stalls and dress circles, or who
through the window of the depart line up patiently for the pit and cello concerto of 1920, but seeing ing express. M. Marion then re- gallery, are not in need of educa- his vigour and remembering that turned, and by train and motor-car tlons They have spent the day Verdi produced his masterpiece in Just reached the Vienna Opera being educated in their offices and his 80th year we have our hopes. House in time.
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