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GREATEST TRAGEDY OF THE FILMS.
FAMOUS FILM STARS SINKING INTO OBSCURITY,
· THOUSANDS OF ARTISTS OUT OF WORK AND STARVING.
FILM-STRUCK GIRLS NOW TURNING MANNEQUINS.
Hollywood." What kind of a voice has she?" That is the ques. tion that directors ask these days when they prepare to cast a girl for a role in a motion picture. The old questions of "How does sho photograph "" or "Can she act!" have almost been forgotten, writes a Daily Express correspondent.
For the present, at least, voice quality is "the great factor. A few director are again beginning to collect the senses they lost when the talkies stampeded silent films out of Hollywood, and are con sidering the photographic and act ing ability of their players. But the majority still are concerned only with the voice. Naturally that condition will change with time. The voice always will be important, but it will not be the vital factor.
Hardest Elt.
However, for the time being it is sufficiently important to have forced a number of players practically out
became due, a couple of months ago. Directors who have been "yessir And I understand they will take a ed all their lives are now being similar action in the. case of told not to get excited-wa will tell Richard Dix, whose first talkie was you when we're ready" by the experts. And there 75 not what one might consider a huge sound
nothing they can do about it be cause, the synchronisation of sounds a technical matter that few of them know anything about.
auccess.
Other stars, whose names mein too much at the box office for them to be dropped cut, have been kept in the running by the use of voice doubles. In most instances these doubles, who already have become an established part the industry, are used only for singing sequences, with the stars 'doing their ow talking.
A double was employed for the songs Corinne Griffith was supposed to sing in The Divine Lady." Richard Barthelmess used a double for his singing scenes in Wetry River. Other doubles were used Show for Laura La Plante in # Boat," for Barry Norton in Mother Knows Best for Batty Compson in On With the Show, for Marian. Nixon in Headlines, and for a number of others.
Search for Actors.
As might be expected, flm pro ducers have made large invodds on the legitimate stage in search of actors with good voices. More than 500 actors and actresses, most of them from New York, have been
Briksh Artists As Well.
While everyone is discussing the Americas angle of "talkies" and wondering how much the celebrat ed Englin voice will be worth on the screen of the future, the wholę company of British film artists are waging the most desperate battle of their lives against almost super- human adds.
There are hundreds of fim artista in London, starving for work. Thousands of them are not faced a camer since last sutumn. Eve the stars have had no work since before Christmas.
"How long can we lust ?" has become the new slogan of the Bri- tish ala industry. No one will dare to make silent films. Those already made are on the shelf. The most their owners can do with them is make sound sequences, but when these will be made no one knows since no one has the equipment for making them.
At the present time there are only three wound studios in Britain- Bush, and one at Elstros. A num one at Wembley, one at Shepherd's
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of the business. In this respect the imported during the last six or foreigners have been hit the hard-eight months. And hundreds more speak English speak it with suchmaking of taking and singing an accent as to render them useless short subjects. except for certain types of foreign roles. :
In fact, it was a stage star who actually put the talkies" over the Emil Jannings, considered by top. They were about to die a many as one of the greatest actors natural death before oven obtaining. ever seen on the screen, was one of a fair trial when Al Jolson made the first to suffer. Janning Erg-"The Jazz Singer." That was one lish was so broken that he could not of the most popular films and the possibly play anything but German biggest money maker of 1928. It roles in a talking film. And stadio opened a new road that others were sales forces declare that it is next forced to travel.. to impossible to sell a silent pro- duction these days. Consequently Jannings returned to
Germany,
birth to these emotions in oven
What Will Happen? "' In the meantime artists who a year ago were earning £60 or £70 a week are glad to take anything in the way of a small part..
The small part and ordinary crowd workers are simply trying to forget that there ever wore films. Hollywood, always a hotbed of like it. It is a tragedy," said one I have never known anything jealousies and heartaches, has 3ive of the most prominent London where he still ranks as the leading greater quantities because of the in-agents. Just look at my books. cinema artist. According to reflux of the stage. The entire film I have always found work for bo- ports received here, he is to receive colony seems to regard each stage tween four and five hundred crowd 500 a week from the Ufa Company celebrity as a person who may force girls a week and between three ard for his services.
four hundred men. I have not been able to find work for thirty girls or twenty men in the last four months. What will happen! I wish I knew. So docs every one else in the business." In our worst days we never had anything like this to fight or anticipated any- thing like this.
Other players who are returned or probably soon will return to the European studies are Camille Horn, Lya de Putti, Pola Negri, Nils Asther, and Conrad Veidt.
one of its members from the 'n- dustry. And it is true that many screen players are sitting at bome waiting for calls that never come because a stage actor has got the job.
Then there are some American Even the studios bave taken on &. players who are losing their different aspect because of the positions because, their voices sound films. No longer are there
The industry to all intents and do not meet the requirements the open sets whers much laughter
purposes is dead, and the stories Many of those who formerly played and fun could be found between told by the people who come up as extras of in small roles are no the taking of scenes. Practically here and beg me to give them work longer able to find work. And all work now is done on the large are too heartbreaking for anything. few of the great names also are sound-proof stages, whose atmosMen and women who were earning vanishing from the lists.
phere of stillness robs one of the desire for anything pertaining t the frivolous.
to
May McAvoy was among the first of them to fall by the wayside. Miss McAvoy was doing well when No longer does the director reign the talking rage struck morinna ag king on his set. To be sure be And now she is not doing a thing. gives the orders, but they are sub Florence Vidor is another. Officials ject to the whim and fancy of the at the Paramount studio decided delicate sound apparatus and the not to take up her option when it clectrical experts."
really good salaries and were begin- ning to feel secure in the revived state of the industry só secure that they had bought homes and moter- cars have come, to me here sad asked me to give them, a few skil lings for a meal on account of some job that I might one day be able to give them again,'
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