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But Necessity, being the mo. ther of Invention, and an exact- about a ing parent, brought [drastic change. The forces which dealt a fatal blow at Germany's other trades isolated the country fum the big film-manufacturing! world outside, and so stimulated an industry which now claims to be the third largest in the State. and to fear no foe but America. Germany even aspires ete tually to conquer the (cinema) world. She has certainly done wanders in the matter of film enterprise. In Scandinavia. Holland, and South Europe she is carrying on an annexationist policy for all she is worth, and the number of big film companies founded with a capital of millions of marks is increasing monthly. The "Ufa" concern, which came into being only two years ago. is as much a household word as Essanay " or Gaumont." The "Decla."
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MONARCHY ON THE SCREEN.
perhaps with a weather-eye on innocence and love triumphant, temptation to trespass on forbid- the Baltic adventure, is said to tout ne cher nonesa pot-den ground has proved too of passion buffoonery, st org to be resisted. The I about to capture the whole of pouri
Thore bizarre the theme and the Eastern market while the crime, and mystery.
the bolder Bioskop," brandnew but,work-
its treatment, ing with a capital of 39 million It is sometime's supposed that the better the film is sure to be Films are shown marks, is conducted by Oswald, the masses in Germany. after received. an artist of unlimited resource ridding themselves of their Royal which are supposed to have a whose ambition it is to become houses, became at once obsessedal tendency, to warn against
m-king of the world.
with the spirit of Socialism and insidious dangers, to instruct the class warfare, but their cinemas public in matters of hygiene and THE PROBLEM OF LOCAL
seem to tell à diffrent rule. Here, physiology. All sorts of medical COLOR. The most surprising success
at any rate, they still believe in instructional films are fiung upen German fom-makers have achiev monarchies, and insist on crowns; the market. The titles of shame- ed has. they clate, been in and titles, pan pered courtiers, less film-fantasies are blazoned overcoming the dificulty of re- and aristocrats who flash, their abroad in every street. Germany producing local cur: for ex-diamonds and light innumerable is suffering from an overdose of
film Kultur. peditions abroad in search of cigarettes with histrionic ges-
For the sake of the more re- settings have all ahing beentures. Their film-divas are among harred. And big films must needs the queens of the new Republic. spectable elements in German up in armis have "a flavour of great voyages." and never was a greater flutter society, who are
such dangers. the The difficulty has certainly been caused by the appeance of a patut
have promised an tackled with a great deal of Hohenzollern in public than is authorities ingenuity. Here, there. and caused by Heapy Porter (or Fern elaborate sensorship. It is a long everywhere in the province of Andra. or Pola Negril whenshe time in coming. The necessity Brandenburg. within easy disenters her box at a premiere, of it is perhaps best proved by the tance of Berlin, one can see accepting bouquets with her opposition it is meeting with at quaint viderces of this great sweetest smile and signing picture, the hands of the trade. A project effort. Parts of the palaces and postcards by the dozen for her o municipalize the cinema is also being fiercely boycotted by in- domains of the ex-Kaisere young admirers.
recently "understud-
The German public of to-day terested parties, who point out how dull the entertainment would ied" Versailles in a Mme. is not an easy one to please. It Dubarry-production in which turns up its nose at the stale te if the films were selected by a magistrate. a pastor, and a school- Paris of Louis Quinze, the storming of sensation. It makes no apology master. Doubtless there would be the Basile, the guillotinings,
for the craving for excitement a change in the direction of were done in and around Potsdam, and distraction to which it has decorum if not of piquancy. In the same neighbourhood a succumbed. Generally it blames
Meanwhile Germany has no long stretch of the river Havel the war or the revolution. Just reason to be ashamed of her best now it holds the Entente largely film productions, among the has been transformed into a riverside Chinatown, where the responsible the Treaty of Ver- latest of which Gerhard Haupt- operator with his cinematogach sailles is an incomparable scape-mann's Rose Bernd is deserving
of special praise. Berlin, which spends and The regisseur
his goat. with megaphone seem to be the only breaks all bounds in the matter £300,000 a month on dancing and unreal figures in the view.
All Germany is
of gambing and night clubs, has just now
400 cinerna blinking at the wonders of a serial something like 6lm-play, The Mistress of the theatres and is asking for more. World, the first instalment of,
Almost each passing week brings which comprises the adventures
a new luxuricus Kinopalaol with of a European beauty kidnapped its accompanying sensation.
have
all the scenes, the
and carried off to the Far East as
a slave. Sumatra and Canton,
Chinese dens of vice, and a score
one
externals
of life. It wants
is The Berlin operator turn his handle at anything good recognized city type, ready to
Bethmann leaving the Committee that crosseS
his path from
GENERAL NEWS.
GERMAN GENERAL RELEASED IN JAPAN. General Waldeck, formerly Governor of Kisochau, and other ashino, were released on the 26th war prisoners detained at Ner-
jult.
of other Oriental settings through which the lady wanders were
VISCOUNT ASTOR'S WILL. photographed entirely
of Inquiry to Spartacist troubles on the
The will of the late Viscount Upper Spree. Elsewhere
and street fighting. It is worth Astor has been filed, disposing of stumbles upon bits of Spain re-recording that in the hottest his American estates, the value of produced for Carmen, patches of moments of the January riots in which is not stated. In New Italy for The Plague in Florence, Berlin, while the Forwarts build- York City alone the real estate is and Memphis for a tale of oldest ing was being plastered with assessed at $60,000.000 (nominally This was trans- Egypt. Even a Sahara Desert shot and shell, the cinema man £12,000,000).
was on the roof doing his bit for ferred in trust two months before has been made to order. For th
posterity's sake. most part the world thus conjure
his death for his two sons. The upon the German screen is one di
wil leaves the residue of the galleyslaves and ghosts, martyr of
estate to Captain the Hon. John ed
Jacob Astor.
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