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i-morrow's, issue along seith a neso orosa-sword pussie:)
THE CHINA MAIL.
MUSIC • DRAMA • FILMS
ROUND THE CINEMAS, CHARLIE CHAPLIN &
World's Record for Dancing Set.
"OUR MODERN MAIDENS,"
HIS FORMER WIFE.
MISS LITA GREY'S HINT OF-A RECONCILIATION.
Mr.
A reconcillation between Charles Chaplin, the Alm comedian, Miss Lita and his former wife,
The Manager claimed that the new machine for the talkies, which is supplied by The Western Electric Company of Chicago, will be bigger than that now at the Majestic
Cinema.
As readers are aware the Theatre Royal which was "in the rose," will also instal talkies at an .rly date.
Joan Crawford, winner of various dancing awards, has set a world's record for the longest solo dance ever photographed for a motion pie-Grey, is foreshadowed in an inter- JAPANESE SOPRANO, view which Miss Grey gave on her arrival in. France by the Aquitania.
ture.
It was during the filming of a sequence in her first starring pic ture. "Our
Maidens," Modern the current Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sound synchronised attraction at the
that Miss Craw Queen's Theatre, ford, unknowingly, set the marathon mark for screen solo dancing. The dance lasted more than three min ates, and according to the star. whose knowledge of terpsichorean art is unquestionably the most com- plete of any in motion pictures, it was the most difficult of any she has done.'
The dance in question is unlike anything seen before, for it is a combination of several stepa execut- ed to "off heat' rhythm. A special musical score was written for the famous dancing star and it was not until after several weeks of train- inx that she endeavoured to do the step before the cameras.
The new creation, as yet unnamed, involves the use of the old Spanish tango, Apache, and modern jazz. interpolated with bits from the famous minuette dance. It is very tiring and undoubtedly never will become popular as a ballroom dance. Time was checked on the dance by means of a stop-watch fastened to the camera.
"Our Modern Maidens" is a vivid drama of jazz-mad youth, written by the author of "Our Dancing Daughters," Josephine Lovett. The supporting cast includes Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, jun., Anita Page, Eddie Nugent, Jose phine Dunn, and Albert Gran. Jack Conway directed the picture.
Misa Grey declared that if a re- conciliation were effected it would be because of the two children.
"The link of two children is very hard to break," she said.
"It is even stronger than personal feelings.
"Charlie and I are still the best of friends. Sometimes I take our children to see him, and sometimes he comes to visit us."
It is stated that Mr. Chaplin has booked rooms at the same hotel as that at which Miss' Gray is staying in Paris, and that he is expected to arrive in a few weeks.
Miss Grey was his second wife, and was 16 when, in 1924, she was secretly married to Mr. Chaplin, with whom she was acting in "The Gold Rush."
In 1927 she left her husband and went to her mother.
"I found," she said, "that Chaplin the suitor and Chaplin, the husband were altogether different."
Since her divorce from Chaplin, Miss Grey has twite announced engagements to marry.
After declaring her engagement to Mr. Phil Baker, an accordion player, in November, 1929, she en- tered upon a "trial engagement" with Mr. Roy Darcy, a screen actor. Mr. Chaplin's first wife was Mildred Harris, whom he married in 1918. They had a son who died in infancy.
"Great netors make bad hus- bands," said Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin, with a wistful look in her eyes.
"Charlie and I have remained the best of friends," she said, "and the link of two children is hard to break. I was given the custody of them after our divorce, but sometimes I MARRIAGE FOR LOVE send them to see him, and at other
Views of American Singer.
Misa Mary McCormic, the Ameri- can singer, who has recently made her debut in London, does not believe in marrying for love.
- She confided this to me (writes an Evening Standard representa- tive) when I saw her at her hotel. She had dark curly hair, dark eyes and a ready smile.
"To my mind," she said as she sat curled up in an easy chair, "true happiness seldom results from a marriage founded on love alone. If I were to marry it would be the man I liked and respected-perhaps he might make me love him afterwards.
There was a time when I believed that a woman's career, should come before her marriage, but I do not hold that view now. I love my work, but I hold that marriage oc- cuples a higher plane, and would give up my career for it."
marry
When Miss Pola Negri, the fim star started divorce proceedings against her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani, it was stated that the
to Prince intended
Miss McCormic. The Prince and Miss Nagri, however, became reconciled.
"I don't think I can say anything about Prince Mdivani," Miss McCormic sald. "That Is all past now. There was a time when ..." She paused for some minutes. Then: "Well, you see, it isn't for me to say anything about all that.**
times he comes to visit us.
"I think I am still his greatest admirer as a film artist, but, like most great, men, he has a dual per- sonality. If only he had kept his screen personality in real life! As a husband be was impossible..
"Of course, I was only sixteen when I married him, and perhaps I was too young to understand him."
TALKIE CRAZE.
Hits Penang Movie Fans.
Penang, May 17.- Talkies are the craze in Penang. The United Cinema is now pre- machine paring to instal a talkie which has been shipped from Chi- cago on the President Monroe and is expected here at the end of the month.
Fitting up the apparatus will occupy a week or so, and after care- ful testing to secure perfect tone the management expect to make an announcement during the middle of next month,"
:
Interviewed by a representative of the Straits Echo on Monday the manager of the United Cinema. ex- pressed the view that the craze for talkies will not fizzle out.”
were
Film producers, he said, making more and more talkies. The time would come when all the good, first rate pictures would he talkies and silent pictures would take second place.
Talkies, continued the Manager, More than 500 extras appear in when property produced, enabled the "Frozen Justice," Lenore Ulric's Penang public to enjoy the original first talkie. Of these 116 are native singing that the performers on the born Esquimaux. The remainder are other side of the world had been at of every other nationality. Miss pains to register-something which Ulric Is supported by such brilliant the silent, picture did not give actors as Louis Walheim, Robert The progress of education, more. Frazer and Ulrich Haupt, under over, had improved the cinema Allen Dwan's direction.
trade. Whereas some fifty years back boys had not been able to ap- Nellie Bly Baker, former secretarypreciate the pictures, to-day they and character actress, is playing an were fully aware of the advantagea important role in an M-G-M produc- of the cinema. They could now tion. It is a fact that she started appreciate, music, they could oppre her career as an elocution teacher ciato singing, and talkies gave them and sought out a job, as Chaplin's the best of the music and the sing- secretary as an opening wedge for Ing. picture work.
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Would there not be too many talkie houses in Penang?
The Manager did not have in his mind the number of talkie houses that Penang might boast but he considered that quality was the main thing. The theatre which produced a talkie best, enabling the audience to get a perfect tone, would attract the public.
"We want to have the perfect tone," said the Manager, "and-please our patrons."
The production of talkies were, of course, more costly, but they were also more profitable.
While the equipment for screen- ing aent pictures cost some $2,000, that for the reproduction of talkies multiplled the coats by fifteen to twenty.
To Make Talkie for 20,000 Yen Weekly.
Miss
Tokyo, May 13. Toshiko Seklya, Japan's most popular soprano singer, will shortly appear in a talkie film to be Teikoku Cinema prepared by the company.
Komoriuta a lullaby song, which Miss Sekiya composed while in Italy, and which she sang, many times with great success, will feature the film which will picturise the story written by Matsutaro Kewaguchi of the Cinema company. The new ple- ture will be directed by Jukichi Suzuki.
It has been understood Miss Sekiya will be paid Yen 20,000 weekly during the production of the film. This is the same rate which Yoshic Fujiwara, popular Japanese tenor, was reported to have been paid during his appearance in the production of "Furusato," Japanese talking picture, made some time ago by the Shochiku Cinema Company.
Mias Sakiya recently appeared in a leading role in the opera "La Traviata," with Yoshie Fujiwara, which was produced at the Kabuki of Theatre, under the direction Kosack. Yamada, noted composer.-- United Press.
COW
In making the "Virginian," Mary be frightened by a Brian was to tame cow running towards her. The director explained that the would not hurt her, and not to fear. Mary listened carefully and then asked the director to be as careful in explaining the action to the cow.
TORTURED FOR 12 HOURS.
Remarkable allegations of tor- ture by police-affietats were made when the trial of M. Macek, the Croat leader, and 24 Croatians on charges of conspiracy against the Jugo-Slav Government, was resum- ed at Belgrade.
One of the prisoners, M. Ber- nadic, declared that he made a false confession of gilt to the police after being termented for 12 hours. He was stripped, suspend- ed head downwards with his feet fettered and his bands fastened behind his back, and beaten and kicked.
"LIFTING?"
Alleged Infringement of Copyright.
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MURDERS IN JAPAN.
Look for One and Find Two.
Shanghai, May 25.
Tokyo, May 15. Theodore Saphiere, of 20
In investigating one brutal and Museum Road, proprietor and mysterious murder, Japanese publisher of The Shanghai Guide, police unearthed another and ever. was summoned before Mr. C. G. 0. | mare shocking crime, with the re- Anderson, yesterday in H.M. sult that the son of a wealthy Police Court, at the instance of oculist of the Hokkaido is now Messrs. Millington, Ltd., for allog-awaiting trial for killing his own ed infringement of copyright.brother. After a preliminary hearing the Several months ago the body of case was adjourned till Friday murdered man was found in a trunk in a Tokyo railroad station. The complaint filed by Messrs. The trunk had been shipped from Millington Ltd. reads: "For that the Hokkaido, the northernmost you, Theodore Saphlere, of 20 Japanese island, and investiga- Museum Road, Shanghai, pro- tion there revealed that Shejim prietor and publisher of a publica- Taniguchi, 18, son of an oculist 'tian known as The Shanghai Guide of Sapporo, the Hokkaido capital, during the month of April and had been missing since January, or May, 1930. did distribute for 1928, purposes of trade, copies of The Believing that the unidentified Shanghai Guide, thereby infring- body in the trunk might be that Ing copyright of Millington' Ltd. of the missing youth, police press- in their publication known as The, ed. their investigation, with the City Directory, Höngs and Homes, result that the trial led to an in- contrary to Section 11(c) and 1sane asylum in Tokyo. where and 2 George G, c 46."
Shinaburo Taniguchi, 19-year-old Mr. John McNeill, of Messrs.brother of Shojiro was found. Hansons, for Millington, Ltd., Physicians said he had been in-driven insane early in 1928 by said: "The prosecution for fringement of copyright of Mosars. some great mental shock. He Millington Limited's publication was questioned and in a lucid mo- called The City Directory, Hongsment confessed that his brother and Homes. The alleged copyright Shojiro had been murdered by a infringement la contained in a third brother, Fujiro Saniguchi, small book called The Shanghai 23, during a quarrel in the father's
The prosecution was home. Guide. brought under the Copyright Act of 1911, Section 11 (c) which reads as follows: If any person dis tribute infringing copies of any such work either for purposes of trade or to such no extent as to prejudice the owner of the copy right, he shall be guilty of the Act by the Order in Council, Sec- tion 79.
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Fujiro, he continued, had per- "uaded him to carry the body of the murdered youth to a nearby thicket of bamboo and there bury it.
Police searched the. thicket and found the body. They then- arrested Fujiro, who was on the point of leaving for America, and he is alleged to have confessed, saying that he beat his brother to death with a hammer.
Mr. M. Reader Harris, defend ing, said: "I am going to ask for Thus a hitherto unknown mur- an adjournment for a week. The der was revealed, but the police not served on my are as ever concerning the iden- papers were client until ten minutes to five tity of the body found in the
trunk.-United Press. yesterday afternoon."
just
Mr. McNeill: "Before we ad- journ, I want to state what my position is. The Copyright Act is
靄 few minor altera- applied by the Order in Council, and the nature of the offence in, tions in it, and my clients by the same article of the Order have been affected, and probably in Council, a grave offence, the will receive more damage from this
matter. punishment for which runs from s fine of £10 to a month's imprison. ment and a fire of £5,
I am not now going to ask for an immediate sequestration of all copies in the possession of the publisher of The Shanghai Guide, because in civil proceedings which have already been commenc ed, an injunction has been obtain- ed ex-parte, covering that matter. That is all I have got to say it Your Worship will order an ad- journment.”
"The infringement which we complain of is in this book called The Shanghai Guide. Out of about 43 pages of information relating to Shanghai, approximately one. third is directly taken from The City Directory, Hongs and Homes. The pages are taken as they stand, and are printed in The Shanghai Guide, in a form of type which does not exist. That is to say they must have been photographed. Be- sides relating to the nature of the
Mr. McNeil intimated that the city of Shanghal and its where-
they are copled abouts
al-hearing would probably not go be most word for word, with yond half a day.
Mr. Harris: "I have to say that my client has a complete defence to the proceedings. Any day your Worship may fix for the next hear- ing, will suit me."
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