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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS
"TALKIE" FILMS ACTORS & ACTRESSES CHANGE PERSONALITY
GREATER ACHIEVEMENTS
[By Cecil B. DeMille.] If I close my eyes during any current discussion of talking pic- tures I feel myself transported att once back to the days when I enter ed motion pictures in 1914. With my eyes closed from evidences that the world has progressed and gone whead, I hear directed against talkies the same arguments which were used against original movies 15 years ago. Now, as then, people said, "They're just an experiment,"
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through the coming of the "talkies." Except in those cases where players have grown lazy and allowed their, voices and their diction to deterior- ate, most of our screen players are doing splendid.y in taking pictures. For years they have been pleasing the public with their personalities without vocalisation. The coming of the voice has meant to most of them just another medium by which they. can catch and hold public approval.
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A comedy is always, one of the most difficult pictures to review adequately, because of necessity most of the dramatic rules are put aside. The laugh is the thing and In the field of direction I think everything works toward that end. those of the profession who have "Lost at the Front," which was had both stage and screen experi-sercened for the first time last ence will respond more easily to the night at the Majestic Theatre, changes. There is an interesting Kowloon, with George Sidney and blending of the two techniques. Charlie Murray co-starred, in- For instance, the stage director trigued the present interviewer be- never needs to consider the question cause of its novelty. Such things as of dialogue out of doors. To the the radio Invention that was sup- "talkie" director that is one of the posed to aid Germany to win the advantages of this new medium war, the efforts of a New York In my own new picture, "Dynamite," "p" to get it away from his friend, I have an exciting Interchange of Krause, the saloon keeper; their dramatic conversation between my adventures in Russia with the wo two women principals while they are engaged in a strenuous athletic contest. This would have been im- possible in the silent drama, also on the stage.
men's Battalion of Death; their ex- pariences in the trenches and their efforts to escape dressed as peasant women, form a series of excrucial- ingly funny episodes.
Sidney and Murray are twm
the kings of mirth. They have knack of gaining laughs by all methods-from slapstick to pure characterisation. Del Lord directed the picture; he has been an ace director with Mack Sennett. Frank Griffin wrote the photoplay which is presented by John McCormick, for First National Pictures. All the way through it meets the public's approval 100 per cent.
New Pathways Opened. To me, the sound fim opens up many new pathways. It makes pos- sible the use of stories which pre- viously were not suitable for either stage or screen. An example of this is "The Five O'Clock Girl" which James Gleason wrote for Marion Davies. The centre of the plot Is the calling of a girl by a boy every day at five o'clock. They do not know each other. Their courtship 3 brought to the peak by phone-- before they ever meet. This situa- tion would have been impossible to silent films, because we could not give enough space to titles to carry.
We must not forget the good work enough of the dialogue. It would of pretty Natalie Kingston, in the have been impractical for the stage, feminine lead as a Russian sculp
That's all that is necessary.
No detail #3 to any need to go into features aside from the laughs and they are there aplenty.
Sole Agents: W. R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong. They're a passing fancy," "They because you could hear only one side tress. She is one of the Baby Stara
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Let me say to you that talking pictures are neither an experiment nor a passing fancy. They are here to stay. Ten years from now there may be a greater or lesser percent- age of "talkies" than we imagine to- day--but there will be talkies--and marvellously better taikies than we have to-day.
Not A Fancy
The world moves-and moving pictures move with it. Talking pie tures are a unit in the industry's progress and one to be welcomed. Personally, of course, I wish they had come 14 years earlier. After years of effort we had bullt our "silent" technique to a high point- and now we have to readjust all of our ideas! Arrived at the top of the mountain, we are thrown to the bottom--there to start our ascent again!
The foremost requirement of an actor in talking pictures will at! be--personality. Right now we are trying to prevent
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movie writers.
You won't make a mistake in see- ing this flim to-day or to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre.
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individuality that they will all sound, both sides of the conversation-and alike.
The Vocal Habit
see both persons!
We are opening a great new era If a player has a bad personal of the motion picture. No one can vocal habit. or distressing Inflec- tell its future. Certainly I never tion, he should, of course, carrect it. dreamed in December, 1918, that But if he or she has a squeaky voice motion pictures wou'd have attained and if that voice an integral | their present height within 16 part of the player's personality years. Therefore I don't venture most certainly it should not be even to guess what the "talkies" will altered.
become.
I only know that they are
A large number of the "stars" a great new force and that they are able to give marvellous will make motion pictures better demonstration of charm through because they are stirring all crea- personality.
tive mentality to new action and to Chaming Personality
new effort. High and hard com- This matter of charm through petition such as we are now enjoying personality is the reason why but is the .best possible incentive comparatively few of our movie to extraordinary creative work- trained actors will be forced out "Christian Science Monitar."?
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
ID
The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (Shanghai) has address- ed a letter to Mr. B. Y. P. Kiang, counsel for Mr. K. S. Zee, formier general secretary of the Chamber, stating. that the suit brought against Mr. Zee was instituted by the new treasurer and not by the Chamber, which found, after invèg- tigation, that Mr. Zee bad |bezzled no public moneys and that before resigning from the Cham- ¡ber's service, he rendered a satis- ifactory statement of his accounts,
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So far as the Chamber is concern. ed, Mr. Zee's, character is perfectly clean
R. HEATON GREY. Of the Banvard English Comedy Co., at the "Star" Theatre, Kowloon.
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