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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS
ROUND THE CINEMAS Į DRIVELLING TALKIE There's, no mother on earth who's
ABLE CAST SUPPORTS ULRIC IN FOX DRAMA.
"SOUTH SEA ROSE."
A notable comedy cast appears in support of Lenore Ulric in "South Sen Rose." her Fox Movie- tone all talking starring feature which is showing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
Seven players with enviable re- putations on both stage and screen as comics share the burden of providing the humour. They are Tom Patricola, Elizabeth Patter son. Daphne Pollard, Roscoe Ates, George MacFarlane, Ben Hall and Chase. Charles Bickford
Ika plays opposite Miss Ulric. and others in support are Kenneth MacKenna, Farrell Macdonald and Charlotte Walker:
South Sen Rose" give Miss Ulric a new characterisation to ereute, and she plays the role with fiery ability. She is В vivacious French Miss on a tro prent island. and the role Is des cribed as her olosest approach to the creation of "Kik!" in the play
of the same name.
Allan Dwan directed this talk- ing screen adaptation of the play by Tom Cushing. "La Gringe" Incidentally, there are songs and
musical numbers which add to the attractiveness of this production,
"CITY GIRL.”
There is no business in the world that requires so much ingenuity as the making of motion pictures. For instance, during the production of the Fox Movietone talking picture, "City Girl." in which Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan are featured, several acres of wheat did double duty. This particular farm of wheat was photographed on the hillsides of Western Oregon and
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THEME SONGS.
made that way! Elsewhere Mr. Jolson tells us that: "he'd walk a million miles for one of Mammy's smiles," and on the eve of his departure for gael he ad- theso terms- Do is mother says, and never sin, Be the man your daddy might have
been.
Fatuity of Mind Fully dresses his, infant son in
Abysmal."
BRITISH CRITICISM,
Payne, the well-known B.B.C. dance Discussing the views of Mr. Jack orchestra conductor, or "talkie" music, Mr. G. A. Atkinson, Daily Express film correspondent, says:
What most worries Mr. Payne, as it does other dance band conductors who sing the lyrics played (they call it "crooning" in America), ia the appalling stupidity, and frequent indecency, of the words fitted dance tunes.
to
The level of intelligence indicat- ed in the words sung to dance tuner must be the lowest ever reached in the world's history,
fatuity of mind absolutely abysmal.
They reveal It is terrifying to think that there could be, outside a lunatic asylum, any human being capable of writing such lines as that girl in your grip is like wine on the lip," or "when you dance the kinkajou you dance before you think you do."
"A
and lips like wine." which are the Phrases such as "luscious lips," commonplaces of dance not exactly suited for broadcasting. Loneliness,
songs, are
I notice that the words of Ameri can dance tunes are based extensive. ly on the sensations accompanying calf love, and that the songs fall into certain well-defined groups.
liness commonly called the blues," There is first the state of lone in which the victim feels in need of feminine company, usually because he has been jilted, as witness:
held you tight in love's embrace There while the moon descended, And though you said you would be
true
I know you just pretended.
And if some day you should be On a new daddy's kneo
young, ever forget Mr. Joisan? Don't forget about me!
But could any one, no matter how
In more tender vein is the fol- lowing- where troubles and ills hide, I know of a hillside So take me to that hillside. And I'll never ask for more. For in that homestead, mid that green'ry, on that hillside there. A wrinkled brow turned sliver now.
is waiting in her chair. Not all mothers are alike, because one is addressed by her daughter inj these terms:-
You've robbed me of my Leonard. Since your hair was henna'd -
Some mothers seem to have a When I go to bed each night, trying time:-
Oh mum, where's my chewing-gum. I cry out with all my might,
tor who has to edit this drivel for Pity the poor dance band conduc-
the British public!
PALLADIUM SCENE.
SUMMONS SERVED AT ROYAL PERFORMANCE.
A judgment summons was served upon Mr. Tom Burke, the famous tenor, at a command performance. Counsel, in proceedings in the at the Palladium on May 22, Chancery Division in mail week, said this course was taken because
Mr.
known.
Burke's address WAS not
Mr. Justice Luxmoor to answer a Mr. Burke did not appear before
summons for arrears due under a maintenance order obtained by hlaj
again in the Fox Studios in Holly-An associated phase is reflected in former wife. wood. As soon as Director F. W. Marnau had finished with
a portion
of the field, he set men at work with reapers to cut the wheat and drop it without binding it. Carpen- ters built many crates and these were moved into the field where the wheat was laid carefully in and the crates closed.
Several carloads of this wheat- both straw and head-were brought to Hollywood, where it was set up again around studio duplicates of the house and barn on the Oregon runch. In this way it was pos- alble to "shoot" the final acenes right on the lot.
"City Girl," epming to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, is F. W. Murnau's third picture for
Fox Films. David
Torrence,
Guinn Williams, and Edith Yorke head the supporting cast.
"THE LOVE PARADE."
"The Love Parade" drew pack ed houses during the last two days, and it seems inevitable that, on-account of the big demand for seats, the management has extend- ed the season to Tuesday next.
"The Love Parade" is a gay, rollicking, sophisticated and tune- ful operetta splendidly and ima- ginatively directed by Ernst Lubitsch and capitally played by the engaging Maurice Chevalier and supporting cast that in- cludes Jeanette MacDonald;
this:
F
All my skies are grey, 'Cause every single day
And oh, I am so lonesome,
Just finds me by my ownsome. advice seems to be:
In these circumstances the best
Stand up on your legs
And be like two fried eggs. Too Full For Words.
Mr. Manningham Buller, counsel for Mrs.. Burke, said the order was made in divorce proceedings, and was for £75 a year. The arrears were $18 15s. The only payments Mr. Burke had made under the order. were those he was ordered to make under a judgment summons од December 4, 1929.
The judge ordered the £18 155. cerned with the difficulty of making
The second state seems to be con- and costs to be paid within a week.
Mrs. Marie Rosa Burke, the difficulty which I can well under-In "Show Boat," at Drury Lane an intelligible avowal of affection, a actress who played a leading part stand where song-writera are con obtained a decree nisi against her cerned.
husband in August, 1928.
Consider these tritely-worded ob- servations: What a joy it must be to express
perfectly
But when I speak Sentimentality we've stored up!
All that I say Is Greek,
Vainly I've tried, "n" phrases play
hide "n" seek.
I know something, but I can't ex
press it,
In similar vein Land:
---Though there is no better time
than how;
i
I have waited, hoping you would,
guess it,
Got to make my feelings known
somehow...
And what a tragedy is revealed
In this.
When we say good-night in the *** hall,"
He's swatting files on the wall. Ecstasy.
One of the faw "microphonical- ly perfect" high soprano voices is
The third phase is more or less bald by sound recording experts intimately concerned with the pre- to be possessed by Jeanette Mar-nuptial state, and the sufferer's joy, Donald, noted New York stage though admittedly short-lived, be- beauty who appeared opposite comes ecstatic:
Maurice Chevalier in "The Love Shoo the blues, no time to lose, Parade" now showing at the Cen-Rice and shoes will aprend the news. tral Theatre. Some high soprano Here's the preacher man, oh look, volees are shrill and piercing. As he takes his little, black book, Others are
thin and quavery. He fa sure he knows his stuff, There are others that Have Cause he's done it often enough. a fuliness. and a round- Sometimes the singer's joy is such
tonal quality
that his meaning becomes complete
ness
of
that
Skies are very blue, now that I've
MISHAP AT CINEMA. their own dynamos, it is pointed out register true in the supersensitively obscure.
by the management that even had sound recording, apparatus. Miss the accident occurred during the MacDonald's voice in one of the performance, a delay of only a few latter. minutes would have resulted while
EXHAUST BLOWS OUT IN ENGINE ROOM.
Shortly
after "God Save the
King" had began played an explosion occurred in the engine room of the Alhambra recently: A sheet of concrete was lifted out of the ground by the impact and smashed into ploces,
a change over was being made. made.
SEVERE TREATMENT
ANOTHER BRITISH FILM BANNED IN AUSTRALIA.
the British censorship (and, incl- Satisfied British Censar. "Knowing Men, which satisfied
was shown in London at the end of dentally, the New Zealand Censor),
It is the story of a rich girl who
A fire started in the engine room The Australian Film Censors, who pretends to be poor in order to at but was nipped in the bud by the recently announced that British tract her proud. English cousin. prompt arrival of the Fire Brigade. Olms required "more cutting that There is a cabaret scene, in which It was later discovered that the ex- any others, have banned Mrs. a man dressed as a monkey forces plosion was due to an exhaust blow-Elinor Glya's first British talking his attentions on the glat but is ing out
film, "Knowing Men,"
met you,
Day and night there's joy in all my
dreams.
Flowers tell the birds and bees, And the birdies tell the trees; Anyway, that's just the way It
seems.
candour:
Here is a commendable touch of
I've enjoyed trying to avoid
Young and free, Growing fond of any certain one.
Loving meant to me.
Hug and kiss and run away But that's all been done away.
The Jolson Touch khocked out by the hero and quite Once large group the most innocent bedroom scene is concerned with the various ever shown on the screen
specta maternal affection,
hich, with":"
The engine room of the Alhambra No explanation for this action has is situated in the grounds, shopf been given, and no suggestion has 200 yards from the theatro build been made that the picture will be Cari Brisson, Elissa Land, and subject ing, facing the sea.
accepted it It is altered.
Jeanne de Casalia are the principal clods!
It was thought by some people
that there would be no performance
In the evening but arrangemen
ware rapidly completed by
management and films were screen-
ed as usual at night
As the Alhambra
Lunicipall
Only a week previately the Aus artistes in the film, which was promot tralian Censor banned another Brl-duced with great skill and lavish-exam
Hish film, White Cargo, although nessu
the stage vera
being shown Mrs. Gign is unturally puzzled at The
writer
Stroz
good that's
at the time in Bydney. Last Octothe Australian attitude, taught us by them.
ber the same
Irom the later
and the other from after
"dance tunes
nority refused to Why should they treat British In their loving counsel each word
Lew weeks Alms with a severity that has never
to be shown been sun red by American pictures Would they turn us down.
ad been t the Commonwealth
We wandered metray?;
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