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CHORUS, OF 100 IN "THE DESERT SONG."
TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1931
Van Dyke film safari_doop Into the jungles of the Dark Continent.
of
"In the territory about Narok, Uganda, where Roosevelt wont on his famous African hunt" says Van Dyke, "we met no less than ten grizzled hunters who related stories of how The most remarkable chorus ever they had been in the antarl of assembled for a musical production "Bwana Tumbo," as they called our appears In the Warner Brothers ex-President. Vitaphone production, "The Desert Song" the first talking and singing Roosevel, which they sald were pro
"Many of them had pletures operatiu ever shown on the motion peture screen, and д screen play Rented to them when he left Afrien which marks a new milestone in the All say that he still stands out in the
of Africans among upward progress of the sound film. memories It is the offering at the World white hunters for his coolness, and skill with big guns in tight places.”
Van Dyke traversed British Enst With the possible exception of New York City, nowhere cine but in Afrien, the Belgian Congo, and many Hollywood could auch an array of jungle never before trod by white singers be obtained for chorus work, man in making the huge Almization The roster Includes former stars of of the famous back. With a motorized comic opera and musical comedy, both safari, carrying cameras and sound men and women, or well s many equipment, be filmed the vivid drama soloista who are well-known to radio with Harry Corey in the TolL of audiences af Los Angeles broadcasting "Horn," Edwina Booth as "Nina T station. A number. Indeed, bave and Duncan Renaldo as "Peru." ande regular appearance over KFWB, the Warner Brothers radio station in Hollywood.
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Thousands of natives took part, and savage dances, tribal customs, thrills with wild animals, and other vivid details
wcorded with were and absolute delity just as they happen. mile ed on the sensational 25,000
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One hundred singers comprise the chorus of "The Desert Song." were rehearsed for three weeks prior
the first motion picture loention ext. pedition to carry sound recordlag ap- paratus into the jungle,
to the beginning of actunt production motion picture expedition, of the picture by Ernest G. Graney, the well-known. English conductor, who was assisted by William McGann. As a result of the superior quality of
"A Man From Wyoming". their voices, these singers render the most magnificent chorus work ever Gary Cooper, the lanky and hand- heard in Anserien, and import addi- some young man from Montana wha tion! thrills to the production.cored heavily with audiences as "Tho Sigmund Rosberg's complete scure Virginian" and "The Texan," honds is played by the Vitaphone Symphony the programme at the Central Thea Orchestra,
tre this week in "A Man From Wyom- ing"--which all serves to give nḍdi- tional proof that Couper is a sterling) actur bu mutter where his picture Here's the latest on II serenitles seem to have him coming from. dramalle falus.. Pishes Bike dogs or birds, have their own dramatic per
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"A Mun Prom Wyoming" in the sonalities incuncelvable 'ns that may story of a young engineer who hears
Thus, tarofl
Wenstrom, the call to arms and leaves a construe. cameraman, Wade sorgen texts oftion job in Wyoming to get into the denizens of the briny deep with *his fight in France. While stationed solanarine camera lens in order to a "hot" corner with his company pick out piscine personalities for of Engineers he meets a young 80- wed BAL" Metro-Goldwyn riety girl who, tiring of the tedium Mayer's drama of a fishing village of her ambulance-driver job, wanders now showing at the Queen's Theatre into the line in search of excitement. Wenstron was the chief cameraman hell-fire and Cooper is forced to ar Her careless draws the enemy's en the now take, featuring Marie regt her. Later, when his company is Dressler al Wallner Beery. To relieved he conducts her, a prisoner, establish a detail in this story, to the base. Although he treats her "ahot" showing fish under water roughly she is impressed by hin man- 149 The made, As cer-liness. He falls for her beauty and tain fish photograph belter than femininity, and when they arrive In others, it was necessary for Wenstrom a little French village back of the tu "fish" with his camnern in order lines they inspetuously get married. to locate the most effective type.
Hut he is soon ordered to the front again. She returas to her ambulance The story presents at unusual unit. Later he is reported killed drama of the struggle between mother and fuster mother over child. As Min, Miss Dressler plays
first straight characterization She is grief stricken by the news and since het brilliant work in "Anna takes up a life of abandon to forget Christie." Although the stury her woes. It is thus he finds her latur The following will represent the primarily a tragic one, there are when, not dead, but badly wounded Kowloon Bowling Green Club in their numerous comedy interludes between he is sent to a convalescent bane. Minx Dressler and Beery, The cust Mistakenly he construes her wild Saturday: also includes Dorothy Jordan, Murgaiety as a typical exhibition of hor Joric Rambenu, Donald Dillaway, frue character. Thus there follows 1st team, v. Police (nt honte), 4.30 DeWitt Jennings, Russell Hopton, in bitter word-battle and he returns top-II, Nish, J. Rodger, G. E. Roy. Frank McGlynn and Gretta Gould. the fighting front dejected and sad, lance, W. Russell (skip); S. Eccle- not caring whether he is killed or not, shell. T. S. W. West, D. F, Warren, The picture was directed by George But he hasn't reckoned on true love, A. M. Holland (skip): I. S. Nichol Hill from the orna Moon
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The memory of the late Theodore Reusevelt is probably even greener it Africa than in his native land, the guided,
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edge over a river under shell-fire.
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