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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
UNREHEARSED, EFFECTS.”
“LIVING” THE PART,
"John o' London's Weekly" has been conducting a symposium on the subject of the actor "living" his part or "acting" it, and some interesting views have been elicit
Pi
Ivor Novello declares;--"I have co
Mias Nora Blaney, playing in "The Vagabond King" the other night, nearly lost a finger, through a mishap with a dagger; and a London touring company, performed. ing "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" at Simla, India, lately, was surprised by the appearance of a troop of monkeys who climbed to the roof of the theatre.
way,
as it
CHAMPION MEMORY EXPERT.
"FUSS" ABOUT THE THEATRE.
Speaking in London not long ago Miss. Sybil Thorndike, the eminent actress, related that a man recently said to her, "Why do you make all this fuss about the theatre? You are only there for our entertainment." When she asked what he meant by "enter- tainment" he replied, "I look upon the theatre as I look upon a jolly good dinner with a dance after- wards, just to have my ears and palate tickled and have a jolly evening." That
perfectly
Hollywood's champion · memory expert has been discovered. He is Clarence Badger, the man who directed. "It," Clare Bow's frat Paramount starring vehicle. Madame Elinor Glys, author of the crtan thought that I had been at atory, who spent much time on the best because I had really felt set, observed Badger proceeding what I was acting, and then been from one scene to another without severely hauled over the coals for consulting a scenario. She was insincerity! Vice versa, when, astonished, and inquired as to his perhaps, through over tiredness, I methods. It was then revealed that We always have to be ready for have not been able, to concentrate, her screen adaptation from the I have been told to my astonish-original story of "It" had not only accidents on the stage, and it in ment--that I have never played been studied thoroughly by Badger really marvellous that they do not better. So what is a poor actor before starting the photoplay, but
to do?"
he had also memorised the scanos occur much more frequently than
"I have been all over the world," of each sequence. Not only did he they do when you come to think of wrote the veteran, Miss Connie carry out 52 scenes in letter perfect the chances there are for them. Edias, and having tried playing to manuer one day without referance were to a scenario, but he furnished Many A catastrophe has been an audience knowing they
there, and trying to please them; Misa Bow, Antonio Moreno, averted only by the actors and ac- and I have played to them entirely William Austin, and other of the tresses remaining calm. They forgetting they were there, which supporting cast with dialogue in- realise that if they keep their heads is best, I And. I have so soaked tended to aid them, in enacting the the audience will probably keep myself in my part that to me the action. Eadger consults the their seats. Dame Neille Melba auditorium has seemed like a blank scenario at night and before start- averted what might have been a wall, so that I forgot the audience ing work each morning, refreshing bad panie Covent Garden in that and myself entirely, and.
his memory as to the work to be The company was giving were, played a dream part in a
done. oven subcon- "Faust," and she was standing in dream play-not
BARU- the wings, awaiting the appear-sciously knowing I had ance of Mephistopheles. When be dience! In this way I have found shot through a trap-door, ahe saw that storms of applause have been this case I more than the usual spurt of flame, my reward; and in and in a few seconds the scenery have always felt the emotions of was on fire. She called out: "Ring the part. In my younger days in down the curtain!" and walked on America, Mr. Charles Frohman to the stage to reassure the au- said to me. "Connie, you are too dience. A panic was already be conscious of the audience. Forget The play's the thing." ginning in the house, and people them!
We were struggling out of their places. And I found he was right. "Dear friends," she called to them, must play the play."
Robert Loraine: "My own Ides with her charming smile, "keep your seats. I am much nearer the is that the player, in representing character, employs a dual per- flames than you are!" This quiet- ed them, and in the next few sonality, of which the second part, the impersonation, is the result of seconds the fire was put out.
Wild beasts on the stage keep us his imaginative projection of the on tenterhocks all the evening. No character he is impersonating, com- actress feels at her ease when she bined with his emotional experi- ridiculous, retorted Miss Thorn- They could have all that in hears low, menacing snarls behind ences and recollections as applied dike. her in the gloom of the wings and to that character and the situa- conjunction with a weak mind. thinks of those gleaming green tions in which It is represented. (Laughter). The theatre was not weak-minded. (Hear, eyes and cruel talons in the none One reads at times, of an actor for the too solid-looking cage nearby. At completely identifying himself" hear!" and laughter). It was to This is, of quicken and stimulate to laughter Blackburn a young leopard, though with a character.
exaggeration, or we or tears. The other day she said, held by a stout chain, aprang up
find Othello on the front of a box and clawed should
actually I am not the servant of the a little boy while his mother tried strangling Desdemona-so that it public," and the statement had to beat it off. Its keeper lost his is absurd, in my opinion, to main- been disputed. She was glad to balance and fell with it into the tain that the actor should so acute have this opportunity of repeating. orchestra stalls, where it attacked ly feel the emotions he is repre fearlessly that she was hira, while the audience, and even senting. But that they should be servant of the public, but the ser- the orchestra, dashed for the exits. actually present in his mind durvant of the theatre, of which the A performance of "Othello" ating his study of the part and dur public was only a part, and that Budapest was considerably "gin- ing his ectual performances is, I not the mot important part. No gered up" by a triangular row he- think, unquestionable."
artist was worth his salt who was tween Desdemona, Othello, and the
Ernest Truex:-"The characters lady's real husband. It started ap- which I have portrayed always parently over Desdemona's vehe- seemed things apart from me. I ment expressions of opinion over can sympathise with them, but not the way that the dusky Moor's man- actually be
I suppose ner of caressing her messed up her you would say I am not of the frock, as the colour came off his school who absolutely live the hands and arms. The next time parts as they act them. Their Othello had to smother her he per troubles have an effect on me, of formed the congenial task with course, because I feel very close to such a right good will that she them, but I admit that I am almost jumped out of bed and smacked his conscious of pulling the strings to face. He tripped over the bed- make my puppets do their job." clothes and fell, but called "Cur- tain" The curtain did not come down, but Desdemona's husband; who was in the audience, did, Desdemona went back to her death- bed and wept, and Othello hit her husband; the latter sued him for damages, but the judge prevailed on them all to shake hands and make it up.
Corner
Falling scenery has claimed many a victim. A large “fat” down pretty slowly because it is cushioned up, as it falls, by the air opposed to its big surface, but if it sideslips it descends with the swiftness of a sword. Not long ago a stage hand at a music hall in the West End of London was killed outright, his neck and back
course,
an
them; so
being broken, by a "flat" afdeslip- WHAT THE TONGUE TELIS. ping in this manner. "Datly News,"
AN UNUSUAL CAREER.
It tells, first of all, the reason for the child's lassitude, of the disordered stomach that robs the youngster of desire to play, of pain and general malease due to a congested intestinal tract
Baby's Own Tablets
WAS
not the
If
the servant of anything that did not demand of him His best. they were going to give the public their best they must feel some- thing other than what the public was asking. Arists had an ideal public when it demanded of them what they demanded of themselves. That was why she never owned herself the servant of the public, but of the theatre."
OLIVE BORDEN.:-
Olive Borden, beautiful Fox Filme star, who plays the leading feminine role in The Monkey. Talka," adapted from Rene Fau chola' world renowed stage success, is an ardent supporter of bobbed hair-for others.
Miss Borden, whose long, curly tresses are க distinct novelty among present-day screen stars, declares she has no intention of falling for the lure of shorn locks." "Absolutely not!” is her'decision. "If I desire the bobbed effect a visit to my hairdresser solves the problem-and then again; when I wish for various other head-dresses my own hair supplies the need. So you see I am able to enjoy any demand my heart makes."
Raoul Walsh, whose previous directorial effort, "What Price Glory," is established as the greatest picture of all time, direct- ed "The Monkey Talks," with an imposing cast, including Jacques. Lerner, Jane Winton: Don Hitchcock, Alvarado, Raymond Malcolm Waite, and August Tol- inire,
FULL LENGTH PLAYS.
These disorders are so common to An unusual career is being adopt childhood, accounting for fully 99 per ed by Miss Nora Johnston, who for cent, of the young one's distress. And the last four months has been train- they are so simple to treat so easy ing us a carillonneur at Malines, to banish completely with the aid of Belgium. She is the first British woman who has taken up bellring- Ing as a profession. Since child hood she has been interested in hells and she compares bellringing with playing a colossal organ; she The mother benefits equally with the had to wear pads on her fingere child through their use. Ease of mind
A demand for old drama in Its for protection. She was allowed to by day and unbroken rest at night are original form has swept Paris and play in the Cathedral after two hers. The terrors of teething are many a theatre your bus to watch months study, and at the Feast or minimized by Baby's Own Tablets, the stage for five and six hours Pentecost she had the great honour though they contain ne narcotics what without intermission. Hamlet is of playing för half-an-hour after
banished by given in its full five hour length. them, the High Mass conducted by the
Musaett' Lorenzaccio was played Of chemists everywhere, or at 60 Archbishop. No one in the cathe-cents the vial, froth The Dr. Williams for the first time since Sarah dral realised that it was a woman Medicine Cop, 60 Kiangue, Reid, Bernhardt in its eighteen tableaux; performer.
Louver, Ware
Shangbali
without Intermission."
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927.
DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
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81-Flys
36-TO
grudge 87-interrogative pranoun 38-Barnyard fowl 39-Allots by, measure 41-Look
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