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THE CHINA MAIL,
MUSIC DRAMA
FILMS
WOMAN FORGOTTEN' “GHOST" AT BALLET NEW SUPER-CINEMA
A GREAT FILM FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS
[By Dorothy Herzog] Hollywood. Six years
ago A
FANTASTIC PLAN TO CURE
FAMOUS DANCER
a
Nijinsky, the dancer, once known as "the man of whom the gods are youth, named Richard Thomas jealous," bat for years past the purchased for $6,000 a story yelept victim of mysterious mental "the Woman Forgotten." Recently malady, played a strange and tragic he was offered $50,000 for it. He part when Serge Diaghileft's ballet refused. He wanted to transpose it into celluloid himself and in his own
way.
The story concerns Я school teacher. It is a gripping, dramatic drama. Mr. Thomas desired to in- terest the school teachers of the
country in its production. He ar pired to bring his project to the at- tention of Mr. Crabtree, head of the National Board of Education.
It la kaid a powerful producer attempted the same move. He auc- ceeded in seeing Mr. 'Crabtree, who harked to his plan and then asked what his share would be. The pro- ducer is reported to have answered $25,000. Mr. Crabtree was not in- terested.
Sent For
Mr. Thomas, in the meantime, through personal letters, had inter- ested thousands of school teachers In his picture, the proceeds of which would go toward the building of a home for old and disabled teachers. Many were so interested they sent him as much money as
Jobyna Ralston
they could spare toward the pie ture's financing.
Finally Mr. Crabtree heard of this energetic idealist and tele-
Nancy Carroll, the screen actress.
gave a performance at the Paris Opera House.
Nijinsky, who is eternally famous for his dancing in such masterpieces 46 Prince Igor," "Scheherazade," and Debussy's "L'-Apres-Midi d'un Faune," fell into an extraordinary mental condition. twelve years ago. In an attempt
be- come more inspired he started-to apply auto-suggestion, persuading himself, for example, that he really was a faun.
to
The greatest mental specialists of Europe have tried to restore him without the slightest success.
Serge Diaghileff, who loved Nijin- sky like a brother, has made every effort to find a cure for his former star. Recently he conceived the fantastic idea of taking Nijinsky to a performance of the Russian Ballet
VAST BUILDINGS IN LONDON SUBURB
Europe's largest elnema-it is claimed the Davis Theatre, in the High Street Croydon, was for- mally opened recently.
It has 3,000 armchair seats, and accommodation in its cafe, re- staurant, and dancing floor for at least a thousand more people.
This impressive building, which contains two and a quarter million bricks, 960 tons of cement, covers 35,000 square feet of ground, and is seventy-six feet high, is the latest and greatest enterprise of the famous Davis family, consisting of father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Israel Davis, and their four sons who created the, "Pavilion", cir- cuit of cinemas, of which the best known are the Marble Arch and Shepherd's Bush Pavillons, a cir- cait which they recently sold to the Gaumont-British Pictures Cor- poration for an immense sum.
This Croydon, enterprise, with which Mr. Drage, of house-furnish- ing celebrity, is also associated, is the first, it is understood, of a series of super-cinemas which the Davis family will erect In the outer suburbs.
When the Davises built the Marble Arch Pavilion in 1912 they were chaffed for the thinking that Mayfair would be represented there by other than its maids and foot- men, but the theatre became a social (Continued at foot of preceding Column.)
Madame Ernestine Schumann-fielok, whose singing has thrillled millions in years past and who occasionally gives
her admirers a treat over the radio.
in the hope that the music, the danc-The above is one of her latest pictures. ing, the sight of old friends, would bring a rush of memories
him sweep
|graphed him to come to Washington would
and see him. Mr. Thomas went.
back
that
to
He confided his plans to Mr. normality. Crabtree, who is said to have put
Then came the idea of arrang- the same question to him as to the ing that Mme. Karsavina should ap- producer: What would his share
pear on the night chosen for the be t Mr. Thomas reached for his
great experiment. She had shared hat and started for the door. In the first place he couldn't give any past.
many triumphs with him in the Surely, if he remembered personal cut, and in the second any face, it would be hers.
She place he wouldn't if he could. Mr. appeared in the role of Petrouchka Crabtree promptly called him back. with Serge Lifar, as she had once He was interested-deeply inter-danced it with Nijinsky. ested.
To condense the story, Richard Thomas started work in "The Wo-
man Forgotten" on March 1 at the Mack Sennett studio city plant. Belle Bennett will be featured in the school teacher role, with Jobyna Ralston as the ingenue.
In The Shadows
Only two people in the crowded house-Diaghileff and Alexander Benois, a Rassian artist-knew that Nijinsky was there. He looked his part in the experiment-as he sat with his two friends in the shadows of a box beaide the stage, with the
Twelve prominent producers, I am told, are financially interested Cream of Farisian society flashing
and glittering beneath them. in making this film It will be Toad-showed. Twenty-five per cent of the profits are to go to the National Board of Education and its fund for the building of a home for old and disabled school teachers The money previously sent Mr. Thomas by school teachers for the picture's production has already been turned over to the fund. It
When the ballet begin Nijinsky looked at the dancers for a moment without showing the slightest in- terest or recollection, and then turned his head away. Even when Karsavina appeared and the whole audience jumped to its feet with bravos" he simply gazed at her with a queer stare.
Then, with tears In their eyes, is tentatively planned to premier Diaghileff and the painter led Nijin "The Woman Forgotten" in Washington, D. C., under the auspices of Mr. Crabtree and the National Board of Education.
I understand that Henry, Ford, Thomas Edison, Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Dr. A. Giannini have consented to be in the picture.
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puzzle.).
sky out to a motor-car, and he was driven back to the private mental home where he lives.
Nijinsky, who was the creator of dancing, first went to London in a new and realistic style of ballet 1911 and scored startling successes. He was about to begin a £1,000-s”! week engagement at the Coliseum when he had a nervous breakdown, the beginning of the liness which developed and caused retirement two years later.
rendezvous, and has had more myal visitors than any other theatre in London, including many visits from the King,
The Croyon Theatre is under the management of Mr. Alfred-Davis, for many years associated with the Marble Arch Perllion. The opening ceremony was performed by the Mayor of Croyden, Alderman W. J. Chamberlain.
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