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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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THE
CHINA MAIL.
Behind the Scene!
in Hollywood
"GOOD NEWS"
By Dorothy Herzog.]
This chap McGregor is some. thing new in Hollywood.
He stage
directed for Charles Frohman in the days of Maude Adams. His father was a famous Shakespearian actor. He, himself, once stage directed Robert Mantel. When: musical comedy became the popular demon of Broadway, McGregor switched from the drama to it. He staged a number of Earl Carroll's vanities. He put on "Good News" in New York. He will do likewise by the talkie version. Gus Shy. the comedian in the original com- pany, will come West to comik in the talkie. No one told me but I've got
a paragraphical hunch that Bessie Love will bring the Zelma O'Neill role to the screen. It wrong, consider the apology al- ready written,
A VETERAN ACTRESS
It is about Lydin Yeamans Titus. Mrs. Titus has been an actress nigh on to half a century. She is a well-known character trouper in pictures. She has worked with nearly every star in the game.
Mrs. Titus is alone in the world, She is 80 years old or very near the 80 mark.
Several weeks ago, she collapsed upon the street. When revived,
It was found she had suffered a paralytic stroke. She
nas re-
moved to Hospital. In her more affluent days, Mrs. Titus had con- tributed to a certain fund whose purpose was to look after its own when misfortune harassed them. It was the Motion Picture Relief Fund; however, that rallied to Mrs. Titus' aid when she needed a help ing hand. It was her friends, too. Many of them. Such as Margaret
Livingston, Mrs. Fred Niblo, Re- ginald Denny.
Under attentive medical treat- ment, Mrs. Titus rallied,
"NOISE" OF THE SNOW!
It was one of those snow scenes. For "Faithful" Billie Dove's cur- ront film.
"How was it?" Director Lloyd Bacon called to the mixer in the monitor room.
"Fine," loud speakered that worthy, "except for the hammer- Ing."
"That wasn't hammering," Billie joined 'In. "That was the snow falling!"
LEARNING TO SKI
Richard Barthelmess writes from far away Switzerland that he is learning to ski. This department trusts he means on his feet.
"The Love Parade" stars Maurice! stare directors will instruct their Chevalier, supported by Jeanettaj players to play more "to the MacDonald, Lillian Roth, Lupino gallery." Borrowing the idea from Lane and others in a huge east. talking pictures, gestures The entire musical score was com- actions will be broader and there- and posed by Victor Schertzinger and fore more easily understood by the the libretto is by Guy Rolton from masses. an Ernest Vajda story.
NEW IDEAS Given by the Talking Films
The stage will not be wiped out by talking pictures but will borrow from the screen ideas, both me- chanical and histrionic, that will enhance it as a medium of enter- tainment.
opinion of James
Whale believes that the legitimate road show is a thing of the past for the reason that audiences will not be satisfled to see plays with second- rate casts when the talking picture will bring them the best in his; trionic talent, The stage will here- after confine its efforts to the large cities, he believes.
SUICIDE ON STAGE
Theory of Death of Chung Ling Soo
This is the Whale, stage director, who is now in Hollywood, assisting in the direc tion of Richard Dix's latest Para- magician who was shot dead on the A theory that Chun Ling Soo, the mount picture, "The Love Doctor,"stage of Wood Green Empire in from "The Boomerang."
Whale says there is no doubt but blooded suicide ever planned is put 1918, committed the most cold- that the talking picture is the great-forward in "Sensational Tales of est dramatic medium of all time | Mystery Men," by Mr. Will Golds because it combines the dramatic ton, the founder of the Magicians' quality of the human volce with the Club (Will Goldston, Ltd., Ts. 6d). unlimited photographic possibilities of the camera.
He states further that the talking picture is the most democratic form of entertainment, pointing out that the spectator seated in the last row of the house is able to enjoy all the advantages of the person seated in the stall or box seat at d legitimate theatre, plus the thrill of watching a show from backstage.
But, in splle of these advantages of the talking picture, Whale says that the stage will not allow itself to be eliminated,
He believes that new theatres will be equipped with an amplifying Mas Fences Dade, young Philadel-system that will throw the voices phia girl, has realised the dream of of the players to all corners. many American girls, by becoming the In the future, he further. opines, new leading lady opposite Ronald Colman, heart-breaker de luxe of the masculine screen contingent.
"LOVE PARADE"
To Show Unusual Settings
"Modernistic rucoco," an advanc ed architectural theme and plan for interior design and decoration, is | now introduced by Hollywood. example of this latest contribution An to the arts of building beautification the screen of the first originai will be seen with the release upon
operetta for the talking-Alm medium: "The Love Parade," which Ernest Lubitach is directing for Paramount.
The "modernistic rococo" sets and furnishings have been de- signed and executed by Hans Dreier, noted Continental artist, now under contract to Paramount in Hollywood.
: They are an outgrowth of the necessity of presenting "The Love Parade in an entirely original setting. It, being Д royal operetta in modern costume, calls for castles, throne rooms, ultra-rich boudoirs and exotic exteriors, but it was obvious from the' start that these should be unique and not copies of some style or period that would be familiar.
Dreier, therefore, "modernized" the Louis XV theme-modernized it to such an extont that its bon bon twirls, curls and swirls have be come sharp angles and sharper Hines, but at the same time there are graceful sweeps and curves
that make his Inventive scheme a plan of beauty,
The magician was shot during his famous "catching the bullets" trick. If the trick had been performed properly, two live cartridges, after having been passed round the audi- ence, would have apparently been handed to an assistant, who would have fired them at a plate which the magician held over his chest. Actu ally. the cartridges would have been cleverly smuggled to Chung Ling Soo.
But this night, after Chung Ling Soo had loaded the rifle himself, be was shot. The bullets were never found. and the plate over bis chest was not shattered.
Mr. Goldston points out that the gun had a sealed barrel to minimise the possibility of an accident, but
Conrad Wella, well-known chief camera- man, last his life in a crash between two 'planes used in taking pictures over the Pacific, pletured as he appeared recently while engaged in his camera work. Both Wells and Max Gold, assistant director, who also lost his life, jumped as the 'planes plunged.
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Hollywood Humor
By EDMUND LOWE (Fox Movietone Artist) Not long ago young man called Vie McLaglen and explained that be was a stamp collector. Ho said
he'd heard that Vie got fan, nail from more out of the way places in the
world than anybody else' 'ia Hollywood. It was a vGIY mild form of fat- lery but all the young man want- ed was some of the stamps off of
the envelopes 10
it worked. Vic gave him a nice batch of funny
looking stamps from various coun tries
The young man evidently told friends of his visit because in r few days the story of Vic's generosity to slamp collectars was going the rounds of the press. The newspaper articles explained that Vic gets on an average of 300 letters a week from foreign countries and that he has correspond- Cats in China, Africa, Ceylon, Bom- bay, the Fiji Islands, Tahiti, South America, Hindustan, Germany, Franco and England, among other places.
That was the touch of. Ever since Vic has been besieged by stamp col- lectors in person, by telephone and by mail. He can't ward off the collect- ors so he's thinking about some way to stop his famil. When somebody told him the dict he and I sing in the Days was a knockout and would Moyicton minstrel show, "Happy make him more popular than ever, be was pleasel until somebody che re minded him that the more popular he got the greater rumormt of fan mail be would ective. Then we could hardly get him to rehearsil for a week.
after the tragedy the barrel was found to have been opened. He says that Chung was worried about domestic matters and a few days before his death cleared up all his business affairs.
Widow's Story
At the inquest his wife, who help- ed in the trick, said that specially prepared bullets were substituted for those shown to the audience by means of a false bottom in a cup in which they were placed:
It was decided that the shooting occurred owing to a daw in a plug in the gun, which allowed the ex- plosion to take place in the real gun barrel instead of a false one.
Chung Ling Soo's real name was William Elsworth Robinson. He was variously described as a Birm- ingham man and as an Ameri- can of Scottish extraction. He was apprenticed to an engineer, used his training to invent tricks, and dur- ing his travels acquired a knowldge of Chinese.
This gave him the idea of mas querading as a Chinese on the stage, and he was so successful that he even deceived Chinese, On the stage he never said a word; but merely smiled in Oriental fashion.
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