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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6,
"DOUG AND MARY" IN HONG KONG.
WHAT "THE UNCROWNED KING AND QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD" THINK OF TALKIES.
CHARMING SCREEN FAVOURITES IN REAL LIFE.
"I LOVE CHINA," SAYS DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.
[BY E.M.B.1
Kings and Queens may travel incognito and sometimes go about the world, even among their own subjects, undetected, but the great einemna stare whose features are familiar to millions can never hope to do so. Several days ago a"rumour etept about that Doug and Mary," the uncrowned king and queen of Holly- wood, as they are often called, were passing through Hong Kong. The rumour spread and became a certainty, and when the P. & O Haer Rajputana docked yesterday morning she was besieged by a crowd.of men and women who had come in the hope of eceing Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in the flesh.
AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESS.
Mr. and Mr. Fairbanks were accompanied by Mr. Jack Pickford, and are leasing this morning for America. They were kind enough to grant a joint interview to re- presentatives of the local Press aboard the Rajputana, answering all questione put to them with good humour and patience, although they were thus curtailing the few hours they had in which to visit the Colony.
"Doug" as Director Process of
Elimination,
Both Mr. and Mre. Fairbanks are anxious to return to Hollywood and get back into harness.
"I'm longing to see all the new inventions and discoveries for inaking talking pictures," said Mr. Fairbanks. He received us in a small smoking room with delight ful informality and was soon ni- swering questions and discussing the film world, with greatest enjoy
MARY PICKFORD.
Born in Toronto, Canada, on April 8,1833 (now, close on her 37th year). Her family name was Smith and her mother was a character actress. First mar ried Owen Moore whom she divorced in 1920,
On March 25, 1920, she mar- "ried Douglas. Fairbanks.
;
Made her debut on the stage at the early age of five and scored her first marked success in movies in "Hearts Adrift." Bas appeared as leading lady ever so many times, among her best known films are Tess of the Storm Country." "Cinder- ala," Fanchon the Cricket," Little Annie Rooney' and now "Coquette."
invention which will give all ex- traneous "noises in their right pro- porton to the voices. You won't hear them but they will make the voices sound natural."
Lonsdale to Collaborate with
Doug."
"You know," Doug' went on, clasping his knee and speaking en thusiastically, "I think another mistake which is being made with 'talkies" now is that the propor tion of talking and silent parts is, wrong, it is much too great, the talking parts ought not to be more than 10 or 15 per cent. in my opinion.""
1929.
"American" I ventured. "Sure," and Doug's jolly laugh which we have so often "heard" in imagination on the silent screen rang out in the little room.
A Family Film.
Why don't you make a family Slm starring yourself, Mrs. Fair banks, and your son?" asked onc of the company. We should ke to see you all together."
Doug laughed, It takes about a year to make a picture," he said. We should all be dead by then. I have my ideas about how things. should be done, Mary has hors, and Junior wants to run the world!"
ENTER MARY PICKFORD.
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"I am not sure, but it will be a modern story," said Mary. hapo to make a talkie and a gilent picture at the same time, if the technical difficulties can be got over" -
"Why a silent film if you are 6 sure of the future of the takkies ?"
Then there was a stir and Mary Pickford entered. Doug" jump- ed up off the stool-the throne on which he had been sitting croes- legged to hold his court-and latro- duced his wife. Not that any in- troduction
the needed. of woman who has won the title of
a the World's Sweetheart." Mary Pickford is as charming a figure in real life as on the stage, even though her golden curls "are shorn to shingle style. She was dressed in a tweed frack, over which she wore a sable coat and a tiny close fitting hat of leaf brown velvet with 2 short, loose veil. Mary's eyes are her greatest beauty, and her voice when she spole came 19 A surprise afterket." haring her in "Coquette." She "Will you play a definite role in explained to us that in that picture future," I asked. Since you have she was playing - a Southern giri given up the little girl roles which and the nccent was part of the made you famous. I wonder if you role. It would have seemed ab-will create another personal rele." surd to any American if I had
"I did not have to give them spoken in that picture in up," she replied,it was quite natura; voice," she said.
voluntary. I don't think though, that I shall allow myself to be tied in that way again. I am only tha medium of my art, I want to do whatever I can do best for art's sake."
Talkies in Their Infancy. Asked what the thought acut the future of the talkies, Mary Pickford gave a elever explanation
new
"One of the difficulties of talk of much which that has puzzled ing pictures seems to me to he thatcima patrons about this
medium. of getting really good words" 1 Talkice," she said, are in said. "In those that I have heard the words were often, very inferior to the purely screen part."
"That is so," Mr. Fairbanke agreed. "I am awfully anxious to
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.
Douglas Fairbanks, Holly- wood's greatest athlete whose. hair-raising stunts makes even the best of nerchats green with eavy,
born in Denver, Colorado, on May 23, 1981. He married Anna Beth Suely on July 1, 1007, and divorced
1918.
Was
First appearance in New York 1901 and has starred among other pictures ia **Hawthorne of the U.S.A.,” "Frenzied Finance," "All for Girl," "A Gentleman from Mississippi," "Robin Hood," "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bhagdad.”
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Colour and Action.
I'm awfully interested in colour with regard to films," he went on, and I've been studying that ques tion during our trip." "
ment. He would not reveal any improve that and Freddy Lansdale deánite plans for future pictures, (author of The Last of Mrs. and said "I don't know, until 1 Cheyne ') is coming to meet me in One has all sorts of Hollywood, and I hope he will write get home. ideas on a trip like this-and im-the script of a film for me. We do pressions-then at home, suddenly need first-class men to write the something crystalises and a picture words for our talking pictures."
Picture- is born in one's mind." making, he continued, was a pro- cass of elimination, sorting out hun. dreds of impreesions, and when the story was found eliminating all but the salient parts. Everything should be simple and direct. He felt that many of the modern motion pic ture directors in America failed to understand this. They were so anxious to get fresh, angles, every thing was eacrificed to novelty, and to catch-penny tricks to hold the attention of the audience, It was a mistake, he felt, to take stories from the theatre or from literature, The screen was a magnificent and individual medium, which was eramped by an attempt to conform with stage tradition.
And on the Talkies, "What do you think of the future of talking pictures ?" asked Mr. Fairbanks.
I
"Do you think coloured films will ever be a success? 1 asked.
Then Doug ""got excited. He "Yes," got up and walked about. he said, "I do. But we have got. a lot to learn. The new colour films are in much softer tones. We have learnt to eliminate over much red.. Do you know colour is very important in' action? I have dis- covered that a apót of red has more effect than someone waving a sword for instance. Colour is fairly easy to manage in still scenes but it has weldom been successfully used in those of action. The colour in The Black Pirate for example was much too strong and heavy."
The American Voice.
talkies could really hold the market captured by their silent fims, in English-speaking countries.
*I am most enthusiastic about Both Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks them," he answered, “and believe have charming speaking
voices thoroughly in their future, you | with only a slight American accent, ought to hear them in New York.so. I was emboldened to put the Landon or Berlin and you would question as to whether American be amazed at the progress that has been made. The mechanical diff culties are practically all settled, and all sorts of new inventions are being tried out to give stereoscopic effects, colours, and & trus voice reproduction. The "unnel" voice, as though the actors were speaking through a megaphone, which you tien. nrobably get with your inetallation "Suppose."-and ho smiled 'the here, has gone, and they are work-smile that has made him famous ing now on a new invention which all over the world-" Suppcee you will make an enormous difference," made + film in Lancashire-or
Extraneous Noises.
Douglas Fairbanke, who is a most delightful person to interview, with his easy friendliness, humour and willingness to answer any question, countered mine with another ques-
Devonshire-with local actore, how much do you suppose the ordinary American audience would under- stand?"
1
"What is that I asked. "Well, you know how in real life there at all sorts of noises. "Nothing." I-langhed, "but Mr. which you hear more or less sub- Tuirimaks it drew nail one's plen consciously, those hammers and sure in a good film if one can't coolies voices now for instance, understand the words." Juthan-kuvauksen eliminated-on-all-
# That's what the talkits. ATS sound proof stages and that is what going to do ne repulcherr makes the voices of the actors going to teach all the world to boom. We are now working at an understand -
"There are many placee where English is not understood," she replied," and I think it would be a pity if we lost the world mar-
my
Threatened,Boycott ol Fairbanks
Fili
yesterday morning by the S.C.M.P.. According to telegram received Chinese circles in Shanghai have, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks cabled to
asuring him of a welcome there despite the threatened boycott due to an incident in the film "The Thief of Bagdad" in which Fair. banks pulled the queue of a Mongo- lian character, which was consider ed a slight on the Chinese nation.
When Mr. Fairbanks was showe the cable, he laughed and said
Tell them I love China, any way it wasn't a Chinese it Was Mongolian, and the picture was made from an Arabian Nights Story and had no reference to modern Chios.
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A Duty to Mothers, "You see," she went on, position is not easy. I have a duty FURTHER DONATIONS TO ST. their infancy, they are only one to the thousands of mothers who year old while silent pictures are
VINCENT DE PAUL FUND. have supported me so wonderfully wenty. It is not fair to compare
and always take their children to them. It seems to me that five see my films. Mary Pickford can't years progress has been made in make a film which would harm a one. You say that those you have child. I have to be much more seen are crude, so were the first careful than anyone ciec. I daren't silent films; they must be. With have anything in my pictures the the present technique you must least risqué." have rather crude and violent melo- drama. When the voice reproduc- tion is better can have films with all the fine and delicate shades
we
of emotion which would simply be lest, now,"
No Wish to Create New Personal
- Role.
with
"Were YOU salisfied Coquette'" I asked. "Yes, I was, I liked the part and I liked the cast."
"What are you planning to do next?"
Photographed on Deck.
When at last all questions were answered, Mr. and Mre: Fairbanks had another graceful concession to, make.
on Going out deck they allowed the Press men to photo-. group graph them standing in a with other Press representatives. Doug," whose high spirits never seem to fail, suddently sprang in the air and did one of his famous
stunts in front of the camera,
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