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A NEW COMEDY TEAM!
ADAM
with
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EVE
STARTED
SOMETHING but it
· isn't over yet! SEE
AND EVIL
a rioi
of marital
mix-ups!
LEW CODY
AILEEN PRINGLE
A
ROBERT Z. LEONARD
production Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
COMING TO THE
PICTURE
Originat seven play by P. Hop
Haberi and Florence Ryersom Directed by Rober Z. Leonard.
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HIGHER EDUCATION TELEVISION BY GRAMO-
IN AMERICA.
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
'PHONE.
ONE NEEDLE FOR BOUND: ANOTHER FOR PICTURE,
OCTOBER 19th, 1928.
SILVER SCREEN.
HERR LANG'S WORK IN **THE "SPY."
A gramophone with two needles- It was quite a remarkable sigh: one for the ordinary reproduction to see the struggling crowds, out- Information about higher educa of sound and the other giving the side and inside the foyer of the tion and research in the United "iring picture of the people Marble Arch Pavilion, London, performing has been invented by States is available in great, to the. Baird by an extension of his fighting for admission to Herr uninitiated, indeed, in embarrassing television system.
Fritz Lang's new picture, ." The abundance. Besides the "catalogs"!
Spy," when it was running there. and reports of a thousand colleges, and professional schools, there are
There are thousands and thou-
| A special record was made by a British gramophone company for the experiments. A television sands of film-goers in London and ture is thrown on a small glass screen attached to the portable in every large city who keep them- gramophone, and on this can be selves fully informed about the thrown the image of the person work of the exceptional directors while singing the song, or the scene as the thine that the record was who can almost always be relied made.
upon to make a film which is at least striking.
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the excellent statisticni summaries and surveys of the Bureau of Edu- cation, a pleatiful stream of articles in American periodicals, reports of investigations enrried out under the direction of great educational asso- One who was present at such ciations and foundations such as the experiment told a Press representa
Sharpness And Force. tive that the television scene was Carnegie Foundation for the Ad cicar and that the performers could Herr Fritz Lang, who made vancement of Teaching, and records be easily recognised. It is claimed The Spy," has assumed really of impressions of visitors from that the invention will prove Europe. The conceptions eurrent in great additional attraction to the significant proportions with the ordinary gramophone record.. 6im public: For sag thing, several Great Britain owe their origin The television picture is thus of his pictures established the re- largely to the last-mentioned source boxed" in the record and sight putation of the better German films and, perhaps not less, to published wares are sent out to synchronise
in England and es with the sound waves.
in America. visitors impressions of other América, to contact with American
"Dessiny," Sumurun, "Dr. visitors to Europe, including Rhodes
Niebelungen ** scholars, and
A special television experiment | Mahuse," to references in
were his. More recently the sharp, popular fiction Anyone desiring to was also carried out before two re-
Ress and force of Metropolis " apply to conceptions thus formed presentatives of the General Post the test of a purely objective, well-Office. Mr. Baird sent the image Authenticated, comprehensive, and of Mr. S. 4. Mosley, director of arrested everyone's attention if it
the Television Press, which pub-did not please everyone. up-to-date survey could
lishes the organ of the Television better than study the handbook. re- cently issued by the American Coun Society, from his office to a club, eil on Education,
where it was reproduced with
....
success
Post Office Interest.
Method Of Organisation,
Thia experiment may have heat This volume gives, first, an ad-ing on a possible agreement with mirably lucid account of the or- the B.B.C. to broadcast the tele ganisation of education in the vision system. United States and the character and relations of college, university, pro- fessional school, and graduate school of arts and sciences, and secondly, particulars indicating the general character and resources of ench al the 308 universities and colleges accredited by, the five great stand-
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and
We know now that we can rely on him to give us more than once" in each of his 'flms two or three incidents so vividly and so tensely constructed that we shall remember them when we bavo, forgotten al- most everything else we saw on the screen during the same period.
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Freedom From Convention. He has one great handicap he constantly sets out to make pic On the other hand, it is possible aven weak story. The plot of "The tures frun a rambling, diffuse, and for the General Post Office to grant Spy would disgrace any hack special licence to Mr. Baird to writer of thrillers. Yet Herr Lang bronderat, but up to now it is unwith his genius of a cameramaa, derstood that Mr. Baird has caly Herr Wagner-does hevertheless an experimental licence to do so. tell us some parts of his story so Mr. Baird is confident that he brilliantly that even the hyper will be able to broadcast the Cup critical dorive precious moments of Final by television next year.
real excitement and enjoyment from it.
of a central governmental authority, provide for the develop ment of co-operation among those jostitutions and between them and the schools. These bodies have all adopted and applied standards for, mulated by the American Council on. Education which was constituted by the leading educational associa- | ------ tions and universities and colleges
in 1918,
The opening of "The Spy." for So great, however, has been the instance, is a dazzling demonstra- The American college
simultaneous expansion of the de-tion of how the screen can to-day "stands
mand for admission to these in-claim its freedom from the 'con- between the British secondary stitations that their resources have ventions of literature or the stage. school and university, offering a been overtaxed and they have been The first scene shows only two general education during four years driven to adopt protective mensurea rubber gloved hands opening the and conferring a bachelor's degree.
of a safe. Brief Its first two years are comparable against the danger of being swamp combination with the last two of a European ed by excessive numbers. They glimpses follow, of a wireless mast and stricter with purely arbitrary ringa of lycie or gymnarium, and its last have imposed new two with the first two of the French conditions of admission, designed light flooding from its apex; of a or German university... The ani-to ensure the selection of those best versity comprises a college or colleges of Arts, Literature, and Science-historically the first part of the American university to come into existence-and professional colleges or schools of Law, Medicine, Theology, etc., and, especially, a graduate school of Arts, Literature, and Science."
organisation.
ac-
police motor-cyclist speeding; or, oficials thumping tables, telephon- ing in agitation; of miner officials searching among documents.
qualified to carry their studies to a successful issue, and there has been of fundamental
From these pictures the audience much discussion questions as to the aims and pur- poses of bigher education and what can fully derive the whole pleasure are the types of student best fitted. of recognition; it thrills not only from the point of view of the in- to learn, but to feel that its own terests of the community, for ad-eyes have helped it discern that a startling robbery of State papers mission to its benefits..
has taken place.
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THE ENCHANTED EAST of the "Arabian Knights" is vividly brought to the screen in this modern love story taken from the famous novel by Robert Hichens.
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For admission to one of the
Lesson For British Producers. credited" lists, a college has to fulfil The overcrowding with which the
The old-fashioned method would a number of minimum requirements, colleges have been afflicted has not among which are: an adequate staff been without compensating benefits. have been to show us the whole whence the papers were (for example, for a college of 100 Whereas formerly colleges competed room students, in a single curriculum at injuriously one with another for taken, the thief's entrance, all his But the cinema has least eight full-time heads of depart students, and there was excessive actions. ments); A moderate "teaching emphasis on externais-buildings partially learnt one lesson: that load," normally not more than 18 and equipment-they are now in a frequently the art of the film lies hours a week for an instructor or position to insist on high standards in concealing action, or merely in classes (exclusive of lectures) of of qualification for admission, and suggesting it, that is to any, it ap more than 30 students; annual emphasise quality rather than mere pealing direct to the imagination operating income, exclusive of pay-numbers. In some States the State through the eye.
It is a lesson which some of our ment of interest, annuities, etc., of university is required to accept any at least 50,000 dollars, of which not applicant for admission who has English film makers have to digest;" less than 25,000 dollar's should be obtained a leaving certificate from too many of them, for no reason, derived from stable sources, other the principal of any accredited high are still showing us whole dreary Many thousands of musicians than students, preferably from per-school. In more cases, however, the looking rooms, as the stage does. manent endowments; a library of college requires the completion of They kill our interest in what is may be thrown out of work in three years owing to the coming at least 8,000 volumes, exclusive of specified work in English (3 units), going on by showing us too much. England during the next two or
Scene That Grips.
invasion of "talkies" and "soun public documents. No college is foreign language (3), mathematics
Let our neeredited until it has been inspect- (2), history (1), science (1), and
directors, scenario dies," films which carry their own ed and reported upon by agents re- many admit only those students who writers, cameramen, and heads of musical accompaniment. gularly appointed by the accrediting ranked in the first seventh or first companies consider one scene in Cinema theatres have brought quarter of their class at the close in Forgotten Faces,' in Ameri- more than 3,000 orchestras into of their school course. Men And Women Studanto. Nor is this new emphasis on the can picture whose excellence con existence in Britain, and the num Co-education prevails in the west; quality of the student confined to sists in a blend of the speed of the ber of persons to whom cinema true American picture of the past music brings a 'ivelihood, directly separate colleges for women exist the testing of his fitness for ad and the subtlety and insistence on or indirectly, cannot be less than particularly in New England and mission. The responsibility of the purely pictorial and non-theatrical 20,000. the Atlantic States, north and south, college for developing the individual terms of the best German pictures. A proportion, say, one-third, of The organisation and influence of student is increasingly recognised, The scene shows Heliotrope this total is likely to be retained: men and women who have beer and elaborate.records are prepared Harry's" flat-his wife is vamp for the purpose of supplementing students together are extraordin both at entrance and afterwards for ing a mingy little sweetheart of tinned" music, or deputising for arily effective in America. Their use by professors and future em hers. Only that part of the Bat it when it goes wrong, but the Recretaries have become so numer- ployers. In 1927 the American only that section of the room which livelihood of the other two-thirds ous and energetic that since 1913 Council on Education received a and will be essential to the ac is seriously threatened, and the they have had their own association, grant of 90,000 dollars a year for tien is shown on the screen; the throat will probably be extended to which has published, in addition to the development of "personnel pro end of a piano to the right, a door every form of music played in reports of their, conferences, cedure--a term signifying the to the left, and behind a glimpse public, because the tinned article "Manual of Alumni Work." A various efforts by which it is sought through to a room where there is can be projected in any place which statistical study of campaign con- to bring the college into closer in a child in its cot." ducted recently by sixty-eight individual touch with its students. Almost any English director stitutions for raising funds shows Many of these efforts are directed would have shown us the entire that of a total sum of 150 million towards placing the student in some boring room first-not merely dollars, nearly half was obtained appropriate employment. With diffusing our interest in the charac from alumni. Their influence has the development of personnel pro- tere but incidentally wasting the scope of the new invention. been felt not only in financial cam-cedure," says Dr. Robertson,
in enormous amount of money in paigns but also in matters of edu- cluding greater attention to the building unnecessary sets. cational policy, and they show an analysis of, individual abilities and increasing willingness to co-operate achievements, there has come a with employment bureaux and ap-desire to have useful occupation in- pointment offices.
is wired for that purpose,
Films, gramopohone records, stage plays, band performances, orchestral, instrumental, singing,. and variety items, all are within
It is estimated that in America 30,000 musicians may shortly be thrown out of work, despite the strength of their union, and that When the world's The results of the smoking com- the entertainment industry will year by the The resources of higher education work has been analysed and the petitions at the Tobacco Tradesave £1,000,000 a in America bave expanded rapidly skill and qualities required for Exhibition is Manchester are de economy thus effected. since the War. The latest statistics particular jobs have been specified, scribed as disappointing. This is
formation.
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of the Bureau of Education show the schools and colleges can shape an age of hustle, and the speed that between 1920 and 1926 the total their curricula and methods of in-mierobe must have got into the annual receipts of colleges, univer-struction to attain more quickly and blood of the competitors, for the
PORTS of the MEETING sities, and professional
sehold effectively the objectives of educa- winner in the pipe-smoking event HONG KONG HANBARD RE (numbering 975 in 1928) increased tion as they pertain to vocations." kept his home are burning for only of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL from 240 to 480 million dollars, the This passage is significant of the 48 minutes. As to the girls in the for the Session 1927." money value of their buildings and trend of much of recent American cigarette-contest they proved de- equipment" in almost equal propo research in the field of higher eduta plorably fast, finishing in about ten who tion, and the number of professors tion. Attention is focused more on minutes, though the man and instructors from 42,882 to 52,224, brains and service, and less on secured the prize achieved the
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