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PICTURES AND PLAYS.
A Berlin producer is putting on "Henry IV" (Shakespeare, not Pirandello in modern dress. Fe have had a Hamlet, a Cymbeline, even a Macbeth, natty in lounge suit, impeccable in dinner jacket, or uncouth in knickerbockers. But how, within the narrower limits of the garments of the day, can they dress Falstaf Plus-fours? Well. they allow a man to exploit his weight, but there is, even yet," a suggestion of the open air about them which hardly clings to Fal- staff. A double-breasted suit, Ridiculous. Tails Impossible, un- less, symbolically, with horns. The only thing which seems to suit him is a dressing gown and carpet slip- pers, but it is incredible that he; could have spent all his time in them. One recalls the legend about the inhabitants of the Adelphi in London (before Mr. Shaw went to live there), that they only had two sets of clothes-evening dress and pyjamas.
The excuse for all this modern dress idea is, of course, that; na Falstaff and Hamlet and the rest
to
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and her warm brown skin and black place in London shortly. hair fit in marvellously with her directors of British Phototone state gestures, which are exquisite. She that the reproduction apparatus has only one drawback. Her ac will play all sound and talking pic. rent is authentie Broadway. Misstures, whether made on the film or Wong. is Chinese, but has never disc principle, and that sound and been to China...
"talkie alms will be produced The play in which Miss Wong almost immediately, not only in appears is called The Circle of this country but also in America Chalk," translated from the an and Berlin. cient Chinese.
The story is, of course, old-fashioned, inasmuch as
"It seems virtue emerges triumphant after Ringer was incapable of treat- me that The many vicissitudes The first-nightment as a 'super film" and that Mr. audience naturally enough ne Olcott would have been wanting in cepted such a theme with all the
his duty to his employers if he had, enthusiasm of a novelty. not put that view forward." Miss Wong's part is that of a
by her widowed mother, whose hus- band had hanged himself as a pro test against the injustice of a man. darin. From that point the plot becomes somewhat involved. There is a young Prince who falls in love
He gave judgment, with costs, with the girl. Their romance is for Mr. Sydney Olcott, who claim- interrupted by the reappearance of
ed from the British Lion Film Cor- the unjust and amerons mandaria.poration, Ltd, of New Compton- The mandarin, not knowing who street, £1,847, damages for breach she is takes her to his home as his of contract. secondary wife, and subsequently
Chinese girl sold into prostitution Jotice
This opinion was expressed by
she has a child.
of them are immortals, the precise date of their raiment is really no great matter. But that cuts both The mandarin's chief wife, being ways. Why not move back instead excessively jealous, makes the of forwards, and introduce Fal young girl the innocent means of staff as a Saxon churl or a bon killing the unjust mandarin. Then, viveur from the Court of Nerof Ato complete the chalky circle, the Falstaff in toga and sandals would father of the child is proved to be be a great apectacle.
the prince, who shortly afterwards mounts the throne with the girl as Cinema proprietors who instal his empress and strikes off all the American apparatus are not allow-chains which bind the people. el to show British talking pictures, Lawrence Oliver, whose last ap. and those who instal British ap- paratus are not allowed by the Americans to show American talk ing pictures.
These statements were made at a
pearance was in
"Beau Geste,"
acted well as the young Emperar. He should not sing. but then neither should Miss Won.
meeting at the offices of the Faders- British Phototone, Limited, and tion of British Industries, attend-French Phototone, Limited, bave ed by representatives of the British announced that an agreement has firms manufacturing talking ap- these companies, and by Siemens been signed by representatives of paratus and equipment, and from the Cinematograph Exhibitors' As Halske and the A. E.G. (represent
ing Klangflm), and German Tobia and Foreign Tobis, (representing Tri-Ergon and Kuichebneister), in- volving
capital &
sociation.
The federation, at the request of the conference, agreed to ask all makers to allow all suitable pie tures to be shown over their ap paratus without restriction, and all producers to allow their pictures to be shown without restriction over all quitable machines.
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Count Anthony de Bosdari, managing director of British Photo tone, Limited, who is in Berlin, is stated to be largely responsible for the success of the fiegotiations. The agreement involves the use isa Anna May Wong, the of over 500 patents and gives to of Arnold Bennett's film, British and French Phototone ex- "Piccadilly,' made her Lonclusive rights in the territories don debut recently
the operated by these two companies legitimate stage at the New for the representation and market- Theatre, Miss Weng is a remarkable ing of all the apparatus, young woman. In "Piccadilly" machinery, talking and sound films she acted Miss Gilda Gray "oft produced by the parties, to the deal. the screen. She is extraordinari. The first demonstration of the re- ly graceful, as lithe as a Lenglen, producing apparatus will take
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Shearman in the his private view of the film version King's Bench Division following of Mr. Edgar Wallace's story The Ringer.'
amounting to £2,917, which they They counter-claimed for damages said they had suffered owing to the alleged repudiation of the contract. The counter-claim was dismissed with costs,
Mr. Olcott, who was brought over from Hollywood to produce films for the company at a salary of $450 a week for ten weeks, alleged. that the scenario of The Ringer " was unsuitable for a super film," and declined to produce the play in the form in which the scenario was submitted to him.
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Mr Justice Shearman, referring to his private view of the film, said that he had no, sooner returned from seeing it than he took up a and 34 w newspaper
aomething about a "big"
film with super. thrills in it.
t
auper film' in 'my view," he added, is something that has an element of greatness about it, either great in its conception or subject, or else in the method of treatment.
"I agree that when you come to 'super films' and 'programme films' you cannot cut them up into two lengths and say this is one and that is the other. There are some on the boundary line."
The question in this case was whe the The Ringer" was or could be made a super film." The answer, in his mind, was obviously. No." There was an utter absence of anything in it remotely related to actual life.
"I do not want to belittle it; I see its merita," said Mr. Justice Shearman, but this is the view Mr. Olcott formed and I, humbly follow.'
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
WOMEN OF THE FUTURE.
"DIFFERENT IN FORM AND MIND."
BRAIN BEFORE BRAWN.
The man and woman of the future will be entirely different in form and mind.
We are as yet only half-baked
Kavazos.
"The greatest discovery of science is that we have as yet discovered nothing at all.”
These were some typical remarks of Professor A. M. Low, the noted scientist, when he outlined to a Daily Exprer representative his ideas of The Future," the subject on which he lectured at Caxton Hall.
"We are as yet only half-way on the road of evolution," he said. "Do not forget that only two or three hundred years ago we were burning witches at the stake. And do not forget there are no 'facts.'
Take organic and inorganic chemistry. How can there be any such thing na inorganic chemistry when the stream of life is flowing through vegetables and minerals.
"All the time a new world is being created. We emphatically do not remain the same.
New Scientists.
"The scientists of to-day will be considered hopeless fools in a cen tury's time. Even now the stock- broker comes back from the City and his son tells him all about vacuum cleaners and engines and the latest science news, of which be, the pater- familias, knows nothing. This pro- cess will continue.
The man of the future will have a far finer brain at the expenso of his physical strength We aro already losing hair, teeth, oycaight, and sense of hearing. Our descend- ants will have mechanical aids There may be some radio benz method of sight.
"Parts of their bodies will be transplanted wholesale," and I can quite imingine, the.. necessity of a future law to stop a man: selling his cars and nose,
"But his physical body will un- doubtedly change as be evolves. It is only because there are no actual records that we cannot eco the'
changes which have already taken | |-- place in man.
"His intelligence will be infinite ly more speedy and developed. He will make appointments in seconds rather than minutes such as Meet we at two seconds past ten."
Telepathy.
It will be centuries before woman approaches man in intellig ence. She has had only about fifty years of education. Man is superior even in domestic accomplishments, such as cooking,
Woman will have to change physically and assume some of man's physical characteristics. Till then she will never catch up with him f intellect.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
WOODEN BEADS."
The newest daytime jewellery consists of a neek lake and two bracelets specially made as a Anish to the dress. In this case aquare beads of polished wood. are combined with strings of tiny red beads, for a creamy, yellow frock. Other attractive combinations of colour are made by using big plass beads like' unout emeralds and smüller. beads of amethystine suggestion, or square wooden beads of ailver, with jade or turqoise, for, the other colour.
WHEN A CHILD IS FRIGHTENED.
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Night terrors are due to various causes. In tiny children teething may bring on an attack. In a healthy, normal child indigestion from too heavy a supper may pro- duce a disordered dream from which be wakes, with a start. Grown-up people sometimes have the same sensation after some un usual upset during the day.
The most troublesome to deal with Are night starta in children who are of highly-strung, emotional natures. Here great care must be taken to banish
any source of fear or excite ment during their daily lives."
Try to find out if any terrifying 'incident lies dormant in the child's mind by encouraging him to talk of his fears. If you do find out the origin of the terror, reassure his mind completely and avoid any thing like fright, in future.
For the actual attacks never leave the little patient alone in the dark. The sight of familiar objects sur rounding him on awaking does much to comfort him.
"Telepathy will be taken out of the realms of quackery into those of science. Thought is an electrical process and. must be capable of transmission. It may be centuries" before we are able to effect this transmission, because at present our brains are little better than those of dogs. But it is certainly bound to come."
"We shall be able to select sex and choose the colour of our babica" bair.
Some words of Huxley's "are rather applicable, to this theme: Those who will go no farther than fact seldom reach, so far,"
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