HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1935.
THE MOST SENSATIONAL EVENT IN N LOCAL HISTORY
WILL BE PRESENTED TO-DAY AT
QUEEN'S
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THE FAMOUS BALINESE BALLET
Ratu Idja
WITH
DEWI RATNA
AND
THE ROYAL BALINESE DANCERS
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY ON A TOUR ROUND THE WORLD.
THE BEAUTY OF THE ORIENT IN MUSIC AND RHYTHM
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ALLURING ".
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MYSTIC
·
EXOTIC
BUY YOUR SEATS EARLY 1
THE TRUE LIFE STORY OF DOUGLAS
Nothing. to date, has ever been successful in quenching the fire in Douglas Fairbanks' heels. After his marriage to Mary Pick- ford, in 1920, he was apt to come whooping home from the studio with a dozen or more guests for dinner; or he might phone her
to
pack and meet him at the station-they were going to Spain, or to Soviet Russia, Whenever they could both get away from the picture grind, they travelled... They visited royal palaces; in return, royalty made Pickfair its. California headquarters.
FAIRBANKS
(Continued from last Wedas; day)
Mary were inseparable friends in
Other elaborate Fairbanks blc- those days, many a pleasant tures to follow on the ragged but business conference has been held romantic heels of "Robin Hood" over the dinner table there.
"The Thief of Bagdad," Trans-Atlantic or-Pacific phone **The Black Pirate." mhe calls regarding the company's Gaucho," "The Tron Mask," "The polleles and, moves are no lovelly · Taming of the Shrew" (with to any of the three
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Mary Pickford), and the glorified travelogue. "Around the World in Eighty Minutes.”
In the summer of 1929 Doug took Mary around the world-but not in eighty minutes. This trip was almost in the nature of
During this period Doug made several elaborate pictures, in- cluding "The Mark of Zorro, "The Nut." a tarcial offering in his earlier comedy vein, and Dumą s "Three Musketeers Since the dashing D'Artagnan triumphal tour, particularly in had long been Doug's favourite: China and Japan. Their welcome character in Action, the result The business end of the mov- WELS 趨 cinema classic. These ing plcture Industry always fas-" lavish productions were consider- cinated Fairbanks almost ased crazily extravagant by out- much as did its artistic aspect. siders; however, ecouraged by There are many business
their men
who pride themselves on some small aptitude for amateur act- ing. But Doug is paradox in that he is more pleased about a compli- ment to his bustness acumen than with praise for his histrionic ability.
"At this time he was head of his own producing company. Actuni- ly a shrewed business man, he made s million and a half that first year. Now that exorbitant cost of distributing Hims became a problem, the solution of which he tackled with the delight" of a cross word puzzle enthusiast.
He and Mary Pickford, Charite Chaplin and D. W. Grimth short ly organized United Artists." This, an innovation in joint pro- duction and distribution, was ́ ́A high spot in film history. The combined interests of these three. great stars are still in majority control of big corporation to-day
Blace Chaplin's estate is next door to Pickfair and he and
A "FLOATING”
GOWN
Evelyn Venable, appearing in Paramount's Double Door, and Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, is
ing in for pink this"winter, and has just chosen a beautiful even- ng frock which she calls her "floating gown.”
The frock is in deep pink crepe and although there are elaborate touches, the lines are quite simple. The bodice front is shirred and, comes up high over the throat, where filmy draperies begin. These draperies are most fascinating as the gown is backless.
Glitter is achieved by circles of bugle beads in flesh colour, and there is a wide belt of beads round
in Japan was especially gala; the rather high waist. A train, of Fairbanks is singularly popular course, carries out the floating with these deft little people be theme, and Miss Venable is con- cause he is able to accomplish tent to dispense with jewellery. feats of strength with such amaz- ing grace. His juggling and Doug want on. Eae'r successsive fleight of hand tricks won great film was a step higher and far-"applause and admiration there. ther in the world of photoplay But there were no corurs of the earth so small or so distant. that
art.
Kreat francial success.
Then came his unforgetable "Robin Hood.
An amusing incidènt occurred
the inhabitants did not come out in cheering crowds to wecame the two famous young Americans.
when Doug was in New York to "The many men, once around the attend the premiere of this ple-world would be enough for quite ture in 1922. He had become m infatuated with archery while Alming the picture that every day he practiced, on the roof of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, with bow and arrow. He shot an arrow in the air it went through a whi- dow and landed he knew not where until e fallor, at, work in- side; reported to the hotel that he had been shoti
The management suspected B publicity stuut; an arrOW WOULD In 1922 seemed pretty far-fetch- ed. However, the tailor was not seriously injured, and a hand- some cash settlement ended the mafter amicably for everyone.
some time.”“” But to Douglas Fair- banks, travel serves only as an "aperitif, for more travel, Bo, in 1931, around the world he went again, this time alone. And in 1932 he was off again, to Tahiti, to make the delightful “Mr. Ro- binson Crusoe” against the glamorous background of the South Beas
you from the audience, the big "something that tells you instant- ly whether you have hit it or missed, whether you are ringing true or false. You don't get that in pictures. Your audience is the director, and know that it will be weaks, even months, before your work will get its fest."
He would like to make more pictures, but he can't stay in one place long enough. He is always happy to be going somewhere- but always just as glad to get home again. England he loves, perhaps because it is the land of his beloved Shakespeare: He.
spent the winter of 1933 there; most of last winter he was in Spain. He never stays long away from any of the Latin countries but to Spain he returns again, One summer he roamed from one end of the country, to the other.
He speaks excellent Spanish—, and in fact, with his his brown skin, flashing teeth and black hair, he might readily pass as a Spanlard. He was a guest many. times at the Royal Palace in Madrid, when King Alphonse was. on the throne, and he has visit- ed the summer palace at San Sebastian, He loves Spatiich musle and architecture; he plans to build a new house on his Tanch in San Diego, in the Spanish manner,
It was during his last winter's visit to Spain, particularly while in Seville, that he definitely de- cided to make "The Private Life of Don Juan" He had long, wished to interpret the character of Spain's great lover. This time, however, it was no crazy Impulse but grim determination. Al though much of this picture was made in England by Alexander Korda, the great producer of Henry the VIII" and "Catherine the Great, the exterior scenes were made in Spain.
But before the picture was even started, Pairbanks studied ayidly learning all he could
CLEOPATRA'S BARGE WANTED
The entire midship deck was Cleopatra's banqueting hall: Over ber was a gold spangled awning, while her couch was set of by a
Following the showing of Cecil B. DeMille's "great · Paramount spectacle CLEOPATRA-the (4- mous director received a cable from a New York multi-million-solid arch of ostrich feathers of aire, asking for the full plans and different hues, 20 feet high and 30 description of Cleopatra's barge, feet across,
full scale reconstruction of which was constructed for the picture.
It appears that the millionaire has an estate near New York which contains a huge lake and he wants the barge so that he can entertain his guests at the.
week-ends.
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The original barge was 400 feet long and could carry 4,000 per- sons. It was propelled by five banks of cars, 100 to each bank-- and the 500 oars were made of solld, silver, It was staered by two par-like rudders, controlled by helmsmen who stood in the stern
of the barge under à shelter bullt in the form of an enormous ele- phant's head of shining gold.
Around the banquetting salon were 12 triple couches, decked with embroideries and cushiong. Before each couch stood a table
on which were dishes made of gold
and inlaid with precious stones, and drinking goblets of even more exquisite workinanship.
A times Cleopatra would have the floor of the salon covered with roses to a depth of "two feet, held down by gold nets.
!
Every part of the tremendous barge reâected the taste and ex- travagance of the Egyptian queen. There was no one in her age who could approach her in staging things on a grand scale.
Cleopatra we understand
will
be shown shortly in one of the local theatres.
Goldwyn Girl în Samuel Goldwyn's "Kid MIN
reloased throngla United Artists
SILLY
SYMPHONY
SECRETS
Walt Disney Makes £120,000 A Year
Mickey Mouse, whose adventures delight cinema audiences every week in eighty-eight countries, may become the fore-runner of
new film artform. Incidentally the name of this film "hero" in other countries is:
FRENCH-Michel Souris;- GERMAN-Michael Maus;' SPANISH-Miguel Ratonocito. His creator, Walt Disney, is det termined to experiment further with the cartoon-film. He is now making a full-length fairy-tale film of Grimm's Little Snow white." It will take 18 months to make, require 100,000, drawings and cost. 250,000.
The result of the experiment will be eagerly awaited by those who have recognised Walt Disney as a creative genius. Already it is computed that the profits from his producions and royalties from the use of his 'characters" for advertis ing amount to £120,000 a year.
It is not generally realised that in the elaborate process of pro- duction the Billy Symphonies, which are no less popular than the "Mickey" series, are cut, ela borated and trimmed to fit the musical score. Only by fifting the pictures to the music can the peculiarly happy synchronisation and rhythmn be obtained.
How They are Made The process,
ss, described in "For- tune," an American magazine, is as follows: When the idea has been worked out tentatively by Mr. Disney and his.
Not long ago Fairbanks was about this amazing man. Don is turned over to asked whether he ever wished he Juan, who has lived so long in who produce scan were back on the stage. "Some--the hearts of the Spanish people telling the stor times," he adm "The thing ... that in every little town they re-the composers one misses - most is the absence, member him with white roses on—poriate music, of "response."""" I don't mean ap
festa daya. plauze, but, the something that comes up over the footlights to
(To be continued nex
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appears a set of symbols for every plature in the 750-foot fim-to-be.
These pictures, or "frames," are calculated to move through the projector at a uniform rate of 24 frames a second. The number of frames. is carefully adjusted to that each "best" of the musical score is made to fall on a definite
1 frame.
The action of the film must be adjusted accordingly. Once this mathematically accurate chart is completed, the art staff and the sound department work separate- ly.
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TO-DAY'S RADIO
PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.BW, on 355 Metres
WEDNESDAY
12.30-2.16 p.m.--European
gramme.
Pro-
1230 pm-London and New York Stock and Commodity Quota- tions, Manila Gold Stock Quo- tations. 12.35-1.p.m-Recorded Music.
"
1 p.m.-Local Time and Weather
Report
1.15 pm-A Relay of the Orches- 1.03 pm.--Recorded Music,
trà from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill"Room (by' courtesy of the Management).
2.15 p.m.Close Down.. 4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme.
-6.15 pm Children's Studio Con- 7-11 p.m.-European Programmé.
cert.
Mischa. Elman.
ů
7-3.17 p.m.-A Violin Recital by
1. Le Coq D'Or-Hymn to the
Sun (Rimsky-Korsakow),
2. Thais Meditation (Massenet). 3. Zigeunerweisen (Sar.sate, Op.
20).
7.17-7.30 p.m.-Four Songs by
Stuart - Robertson (Baritone). 1. Eright is the ring of Words.
(Vaughan Williams).
2. The Roadside Fire (Vaughan
Willams)..
3. In Sumertime Оп Bredon
| (Peel),
4 Bea. Fever (Ireland).
7.30-8 p.m.-Band Music.
Swan Lake-Ballet (Tchaikovskyy La Source Ballet (air. Winter-
bottom).
"Marching with Sousa.
Amoretten Tanze' (Gengʻl). Valse des Alouettes .(Digo),
p.m.-Local Time and Weather
Report.
8.03-8.87 p.m.-Light Opera and
Music Comedy.
Vocal Gems-The Quaker Girl
(Monckton).
Selection Countess Maritza
(Kalman),
Vocal C. B. Cochran Mediey. Selection-Great Day (Youmans) 8.37-9.07 p.m.-Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 (Chopin)-—-—-Ar - thur Rubinstein (Pianoforte) and The London Symphony Orchestra.
9.07-9,30 p.m.-Concert Waltzes.
Dream Waltz (Millocker).
Maldens of Baden (Komzak). Eine Waltzer Redoute.
Immer oder Nummer (Waldten-
fel).
Zigeunerliebe (Lehar).
9.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m.-Stock and Commodity Quotations." 9.35-10.30 p.m.-From the Studio.
A Variety Programme
by
Jeanne Gregory, Doreen Ma, Max Wentworth,
Gaston d'Aquino,
George Denmark, Ray Remedios, V
10.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Mid-day Press New, Further London Stock and Commodity Quotations. Potpourri aus, der Operette "Gas-
parone (Millocker).
Delibes in Vienna (arr. Walter). Galety Echoes (Moncktan)." Black Eyes-Russian Impression
(Ferraris).
11 p.m.-Close Down.
BERLIN. RADIO
9 p.m., DJA, DJN Annoucement
(German-English)" German Folk Song Programme Forecast (Germán- 9.15 p.m., Serious Music for Ash
Wednesday
9.45 pm.. News in English on DJA
and In Dutch on DIN DD., Popular Orchestral Music 11 p.m. Bongs by Walter Ludwig
11.15 p.m., News in German on DJA
(Gramophone, Records)
Three "tracks" are utilised for the sound sequence, for dialogue, music, and incidental noises. The artists for divided into "back around men" and "animators. and their drawings (on celluloid) are super-imposed on a paper background, one over another on Not more than four drawings can be combined in this way.
apprentices are allowed to draw such, unimportant things as whis kers, smoke and raindrops when they are to play only an incidental part in the production.
Creators &120,000 A Year
The ordinary Billy Symphony costs £10,000, £5,500 to make and £4,500 to distribute. A good Dis- ney will be worth £16,000 during its first year and half that in ite second. Later receipts are much smaller, but continue for some years
and DJNO
11.35 p.m.. Topical Talk
12.15 am News in Englgh on DJA Midnight, Short Concert
and in Dutch on DJN N 12.30 am.. Close down DJA, DIN
(German-English)
A Mean Test
Bay these sentences quickly many times running
Three sharp swift shrimps swim- ming straight to school.
Jill generally giggles and jiggles
Misa Mack-amacks for mathe
"looks" longingly. long
The first year's returns from stanta, it each him to the Disney "factory," after, the United Arlats' distribu-
· pictures ·tion charges are met, are" abou Jwhile 439,600. In the second year the about ap- clear profit on each Aim may be the long
£1,400, and the present › rate of
After the Anal.com ideas the back
of the
comes the
on Production, appart from such am-wit be-bitious efforts a Little Snow
White," 120 films 8. VERE.
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