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PONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 8th, 1929.
WEIRD RITUAL IN PEKING TEMPLE. FOREIGNER GETS INTO GOOD GRACES OF HÈAD LAMA. By ALEKO E. JULIUS, FPO 8]
Lamas blowing copper trumpets to senre evil spirits.
The service ended. The monks Alod out and the Da-Lama and his! assistants passed through the courtyard. At once my Chinese) Jassistant and I were surrounded by the Lamas. They numbered at least two or three hundred. Their outstretched palms told the tale. They wanted money,
"Commshaw, commshaw".....they velled. "Commshaw, commshaw."
I shook my head. No comm- shaw for-them. I had already! paid to the Da-Lama. It was enough,
They came nearer. No commn-1 shaw, I tried to make it clear to them. Then one of the infuriated
ama kieked at the tripod sup-1 porting the valuable motion pic-| tuie camera' and it crashed to the ground. My temper boiled over) fand I got hold of the offender and jan unceremonious blow sept him!
spinning over the courtyard.
Then the free-for-all fight he gan. It was a glotinus fight while it lasted: my khaki shirt was torn ito shreds, but the kodak tripod used as a weapon, went every time it swans.
Head Lana Intervenes, There was a shrill command. It was a very angry Da-Lan who very loll his disciples what he thought About two years ago the ficklejnewsreel photographer who had The old gentleman was Lady Fate demanded my presence tried to film the annual lamalstic pleased and the Staff last its of them, and turning to my in Peking. For months i haddevil dance, but had been treated dignity, yelling and laughing over Chinese assistant, expressed his followed the victorious Southern more than ranghly, and had, his the pletures like noisy children. I * Chinese, commonly known as the camera smashed, and his eyes had my Interpreter my ask the regrets over what had happened.
could get lis rertain that Da-Lamy if I Chalones or Nationalists, and, blackened. 1 decided that had bad enough time and diplomacy would win out. Eminence's permission to film the messy beadings, battles and and I went to the Lama Temple to Temple, a few ceremonies or luating of defeareless villages.jreronnoitre, padd my 50 cents and service. And somehow, I managed to make was shown the large bronze' urns, my way to that wonderful capital the gigantic Buddha, the prayer Irums, a collection of 'Buddha of all Cathay Pekin,
WAR
I had an assignment to "euverįstatues of decideally pornographic for my papers in Europe and afterature: was tricked into buying a
Impossible.
I was willing to
No. Inpossible,
pay.
It seemed that 1 Jui struck aj
an interview with Marshal Changaked Imperial letter printed wall of ulsstinagy, which even Tsolin (who was later bombed fusilk, and behaved in every reapest death during his panicky fight tea Mukden) 1 was able to turn gignoramus,
The average
sightseeing
Dollar Dees the Trick... į gave my guide, a Lama, a few
wallet, and produced. a1es money couht not break. I opened Jollar bill.
The 1er Rises.
No, no, no,!
showed the Da-Lamia another
things of my fancy. These con- sish niostly of a beastly. habit of
There, Ile Boided and! poking my nose into places wherein, and told him that I wanted) the verge tourist does not go and, when and if he goest usually to have a chat with the Da-lama l
The high priest. Impossible, he reached for the money, sees nothing.
could not be disturbed by a foreign; The following morning at 9 saw
erived
.
At this particular time 1 re-devil; it was almost a sacrilege; an American camera man with his a cable, from my paper the stod se much above me and Chinese assistant and interpreter requesting a writeup on the well myhody else that he simply would ready to attack the mysteries of known Lama Temple of Peking, so not even deign to look at me, not the upee so ill-famed Temple.
The Lamas were also ready. 1 derided not only to give this! o mention speaking. mysterious place the onze-over, a
One dollar Chinese money finally The old gentleman had ordered the monks to dress up and they wor but akan to get my mation picture)
inside und, if possible, id this trick, and the a-Lame attired in what probably was their obtain one of the first authentic appeared in person, surrounded by
Camera
very best. They wore a helmet of
las of the Temple and its in-ai staff of lesser lamaistic digni-red and yellow woollen material,
habitants, the Lamas.
I had been told that
the
aries. What did I waul?
its shape not unlike the martial.
The ikad Lema.
I wanted to soup a picture of headgear of the old Greeks, andly was too mid and short of wind
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
HISTORIC PEKING":
iii.
Entrance pailau leading to the tombs of the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
THE FUTURE OF THE “TALKIES.”
BIG TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE STATES.
(By Gene Cahn).
1lot on the heels of the Fox an nouncement that the last silent) Lana had been made by that! oneern, I have inside information What the astute William Fox haj begun to build a nation-wide train- Eng school for talking picture] prospects.
it
A string of dramatic stock com- paules will be developed in luzer key cities from coast to const.. The actors will be, for the most part, youngsters who have heen given serven lests and have! Ishown that they would look well! in pictures. The stage training will be for the purpose of develop- jing them as speaking, rather than ins allent actors. I am told that] half a hundred tentative can-! didates have already been secured. All of them are unknowns to the. vast film-going public, but will be¦ thrust into future prominence as suon as their stock education has proved them worthy.
The first of these theatres is Hartford, already operating in
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} of my assistant, but Lamas were a virious lot and that is Eminence." 1 expreted a their robes were of colourfulto pay any attention to the pidgin Cont. The location of the others l
so many years ago, visitors fondburst of indignation, but yellow, brown or red cloth. But English
my information is that eities of their the police and what not.
similar size are to be chosen were not allowed they had for-thing like that happened. He they were very camera-shy and must have said something about has not been announced, but! tured and killed the few unforced mildly annoyed, and start-overed, their fagis with
togas. They believe Aupate daredevil who had risked to discuss the weather with hands or their lives, to get inside the Stuf, while 1 snapped picture that if the camera steals their "Da-Lama beg you not to tell rather than metropolitan centres. This will be known, the Temple expects to have made enough dis- mysterious rose-coloured wall, of after picture, When he turned to features il also steals their souls.nything to the authorities. If Within a year the Fox concern Some of the lamus had dragged and imagery would be closed te soveries to justify its experiment, The Temple, Today visitors aree and gold as far as I could.
10[forth the long copper trumpets visitors and that means the end of Also it will have, produced its allowed to certain parts of the guess that I could take a
pictures, I was already rough blow away the evil spirits that the only income the lamas have."!
jowp companies and will no longer temple and the admission fee is
brethren. 1 perchance bad assembled in the
But I was stubborn. Here was be dependent, on the Broadway probably the only income the with him and the Lamas have. Large sums used allowed reperffully and departed. courtyard, and the service which
boosted considerably by The best lag I had a dozen or was held inside, the Temple was my chance to have the Lamas stage stars, whose salaries have Baving be paid to the Lamas by the
Hollywood competition. Imperial Household, but the ach picture pointed and mounted, as beautiful as can be seen or make concessions, which were seen Chinese Emperor and their riches and won all the way out to the heard even in Rome. The sing therwise not obtainable, are gone, never to return. The as-Temple, where I had another was weird but melodious and the Tell the Da-lama, 1-Instructed tossed its fate on the side of the An emissary of the concern who, sumption that the Lamas were not i "interview" with Da-Lama plus the voices, metallic, deep and beauti-my interpreter, that if I can see talkies, it is thinking of to-morrow. over-friendly toward inquisitive; taff and very much to his surpriseful, made an unforgettable impres-the Living Dead, I won't say
em-presented him with the sampshotsision. If only I had been able to word to anybody about the fight.¡for good reason, cannot be quoted
The Continued.) -slice the negotiations have been kept quiet-admitted that there sweet morsel in "Christips" and photographers WHA
are several "aces in the holy" who while every effort is made to pro- a localit had taken of him the day before.record this strange symphony, phatically endorsed by
may be leading stars of this newject her into as many scenes as amusement medium within a year possible, little happens that will He recalled that Janel Gaynor add to her fame or popularity. I for instance, had been unknown do not recommend this. Nor did until Murneau came along and like the pre-view given of Vilma made her famous overnight with Banky in "This Is Heaven." Not "Sunrise." Most of the silent even the cate accent and the drama stars came out of aniony attractive face of this interesting mity. And the same procedure:
most
SALMON NETTING IN NORTH DEVON.
Fishermen noting the waters of the Taw and Torridge at the junction of these rivers off, Appledore, which is shown in the background.
Dorothy Mackaill and Milion Sills in a scene from "Hia Captive Woman," in which Miss Mackaill achieves one of the best successes of her career,
will be followed with the talkies, actress can save the old and Imnal Developed in a regulation theatre, story. Though I must admit that they will be graduated Into Holly the dear old situation of the work- ing girl and the young-millionaire- n-disguise has, do date, proved
wood.
Which is all very interesting
particularly in view of the preval-good box office stuff. ing notion that a grand rush will be on for all availabe Broadway actors. This, to be sure, will be the case for a time, hut Fox figures on a hand-picked group for the future,
In the deluge of "world pre- pieres," or whatever, they are, which descended upon Broadway at the end of the Lenten menman, Coringe Griffith and Dorothy Machaill have emerged with most of the laurels. Corinne was never] more gorgeous thar in her por trayal of Lady Emma Hamilton In The Divine Lady"—a dignified] and truly beautifal photopisy| taken from the E. Barrington) hiographical novel,
Miss Mackaill's la a consider ably different film, "His Captive) Woman"-a pleture which, with fall is faults, remains good ontor- tainment and, thanks to the dires- tor, is peppered with scenes of great beauty. It concerns a pretty fugitive from jualice who is being returned to prison from her South Sen refuge when wrecked with her The talking! detective cuptor. sequence, which is well done, is mited to those courtroom scenes
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