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ENGINEERS IN MOVIES.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927.
A CRYSTAL-GAZING
SCIENTIST...
TESTING MACHINERY BY COLOUR,
THE BREAKING POINT.
Hollywood: Can a man be funny just after he has lost
The play of colour has be- nearly two million dollara?
come an important factor in the The answer is yes!
work of to-day's industrial world. A scientist beside" an argus- There is a little man out here eyed contrivance may be seen pro- who has been earning his living ducing a miniature sunset, a by making people laugh all. of his splash of colours, orange, gold, life. He now is finishing a mo-pink, mauve and brown. The tion picture that promises to be uninitiated might get the im- the greatest and funniest ever pression that the envant is hav made by this genius.
ing a good time-perhaps enjoying
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The genius la Charlie Chaplin.n chromatic serenade with har- The world knows that Charlle lost monies of mobile shades. The nearly a million dollars in his re-truth is that he is industriously cent divorce from his wife, Lita analysing the strength of com- Gray Chaplin. But few realize plicated sections of large elec- that the divorce added moru, trical machines. The colours than a million dollars to the cost enable him to solve accurately
and of Chaplin's current production, problems of stress
strain "The Circus."
which cannot be determined by mathematics. By looking at the Two Years at It.
variegated tints the scientist can "The Circus" will go down in tell at what point, and how the cinema history as the most ex-stress will be concentrated how the pensive and most wasteful film vital part of a machine no matter ever made, with the exception of how eccentric in shape the part "Ben Hur." The comedian start may be, or how completely it may ed work on his picture in Decembe concealed in actual operation. ber, 1926. He will complete it Colour reveals to him what many some time next month, almost farmers would like to know about two years later, and it will be their pitchfork handles-just how released in New York just before much of a load it will take to Christmas.
make them snap, and where? collossal electrical machines. of This knowledge applied to the to-day is of incalculable value.
The actual cost of the produc- tion is in the neighbourhood of one million dollars. To that Charlie can add another two mil- A Light Phenomenon. Hon as a fair salary for himself. There isn't a studio in Hollywood R. W. Baud, Research engineer, that wouldn't pay him a million a Westinghouse Electric and Manu- year for as long as a term as he (acturing Company of America, wished to stay under its banner. worked out this practical applica To get to the funny side of it-tion of a light phenomenon (photo- Charlie is funnier than ever. elasticity) known for some time to This film is bound to "top" his physicists. The argus-eyed analy best previous effort. "The Gold ser consists of a lamp, a series of two crystals. The Rush." Perhaps Charlie feels lenses and that he must give the public first crystal polarizes the light a real screen masterpiece if he is ray, which means that only beams of vertical formation are permit- to retain the popularity. he once enjoyed. Or it may be that he is ted to pass. When this polarized so happy over having his marital light passes through the sub- difficulties settled forever-untilstance under test a double beam. he marries again that he just of light results. (Double refrac tlon). Passing through the se naturally can't help being funny.cond crystal these two rays are
The Touch of Genius.
recombined in such a manner as to produce the various colour bands on the screen.
of
In any event, "The Circus" will bring to the screen a picture
The colour on any point of stor as only a genius can tell the object reflected on the screen It: The film, of course, revolves depends upon the stress conditions around Charlie in his same make there.. Thus the scientist is able up of baggy pants, slender cane, to
measure the magnitude mustache and battered derby stress, the "precise point of He happens to walk into a circus greatest concentration, and the tent and has such difficulties that cause. The play of colour tells the he draws roars of laughter from story of how actual work affects the entire audience. Because he the material before the machine made such a "hit," the circus is built. A celluloid model is used manager hires Charlie to just go in the analyser but the findings in the main tent and walk around apply equally well to steel, since it during every performance.
behaves in the same manner 34 celluloid under working condi-
Back of his antics for the cir cus patrons is a love affair be tween Charlie and a young per- former, Merna Kennedy, Those are the scenes that give Charlie an opportunity to bring his famous touches of pathos into the picture. And he certainly should know how to act like a man dis- appointed in love.
tions.
The data obtained through Mr. Baud's chromatic studies has eli- minsted what the designers of large machines have termed the "Factor of Ignorance."
President Coolidge has awarded lerna Kennedy, by the way, is the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Chaplin's new leading lady, who seems to be on the right road to Ronald Stuart of the British Stardom. Charlie picked her from Royal Naval Reserve, for heroism
displayed when in command the movie town's oversupply of H.M.S. Tamarisk, which ten years "nobodies." Now he is strong in ago rendered assistance to the This praise for her. Merna also torpedoed United States destroyer will probably play in Chaplin's Casain on the South coast of Ire- next film which will be started land.
soon after New Years. What she
will do after that no one knows-
of
but at least she won't have to from the school. At the end of worry about her future.
New Professions,
Two fathers who foresaw great future in engineering filled the minds of two potential screen, directors with mechanies. And two boys became engineers.
came.
his first year he ran away with a railroad surveying crew. During the following two years he helped build 17 railroad bridges and many miles of roadbed in the des- ert and mountains of northern California and Nevada.
He lost what little taste he had But they couldn't stick it out for the job when his buddy, because their hearts were some Joseph Painter, was killed in a where else. Eventually both landslide while building a tunnel. drifted into Hollywood, wot unim-So he hopped a train for Holly- portant. jobs and became fast wood. He started out to become friends, drawn together by the an actor but gave that up after a common ground from which they three weeks' trial and secured a
job as asaletant director. To-day thone boys, Clarence It was while both were, assist Brown and Millard Webb, are at ant directors that Brown and the head of their profession-Webb met. The friendship, though they probably would have started in those days of scanty remained mediocre engineers all living, has continued to these days their lives,
when both are making salaries Brown graduated from the far exceeding President Coolidge's University of Tennessee with yearly wage. Bachelor of Science degrees in Brown really bad his first taste mechanical and electrical en- of genuine fame when he direct- gineering. He went from one au-ed Norma Talmadge to "Kiki." tomobile firm to another as An He was so successful with it that automotive engineer. Then the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed him war broke out and he joined the to wield the megaphone ever John aviation corps as an airplane en Gilbert and Greta Garbo in "Flesh gine expert and flying instructor and the Devil," which proved to The signing of the armistice be a sensation. Brown is now looked to Brown like a good time making "The Trail of '98," a plé to end his engineering career s0ture of the famous Alaskan gold he came to Hollywood. His first rush, which, it is said, will start job was as Maurice Tourneur'a new vogue in pictures just as assistant and cutter where we "The Big Farade" did. will leave him to take a look at Webb's early career..
Ran Away.
Millard Webb is now one of the leading directors on the First Na- tional lot and has a number, of original stories to his credit as Webb was sent to the Mackay well. One of his most recent School of Mines In Reno, Nev., to directorial achlevments" was become a civil engineer, which he "Naughty but Nice," starring Col did, although he never graduated leon Moore.
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