CINEMA SCREENINGS.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE
THEATRES.
Just the travelling repertory companies of years ago cradled futuro stars of the drama, so did burlesque nourish players who were, later, to bocome hoadliners in vaudevillo and musical comedy. For burlesque was, after all, the by-product of the bear gardens which foulshed even prior to the memorable days of the late
Pasto Tony
Garden on the Bowery Atiantic Tho In Now York, the Parade House in Buffalo, several places on Spring Street in Los Angeles, all had their beer gardens where the ensial or the
com stent purchaser of beer wit-
need aplendid entertainment with no Performers in these river charge. centros of amusement worked on no regular schedule; they entertained when there was a auflicient number of people in the place to be entertain ed and there was no set routine. If
a performaner sang, he was compell- ed to sing a different song each time If he told jokes and he was beard.
he
had
to have enough storion material so he would not repeat him- fr during an entire evening.
All of this gave the performers L keen training in versatility, particular. ly in places where from right to a dozen shown were given during an afternoon and evening.
Out of the chaos of beer gardens came music halls. And from musle halls, which were beer gardens under
ther name, canie borlesque when Sam Schribner, Gus Ill and other showmen conceived the iden of a pro- rotating system, known in the
Each frasion as a burlesque wheel. unit started its ronte at a certain apake in the wheel and followed.
When vaudeville and
musical comedy began to rear their heads and real entertainers were demanded they recruited from the backstasis were
W
shows.
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Some of the greatest stars of the drama have come fr burlesque, One of them in David Warfield. Many vainleville who became famous were products of the hurlenque singe and hundreds of musicui comedy antel- lites were graduates from that school of entertainment.
One
of these was Louise Dresser, who made her age debut in burles que when she was 15 years old, to become one of the outstanding per sonalities of vaudeville and musical comedy and, later, in motion pictures, It is a coincidence worth noting that Miss Dresser portrays the role of an ex-burlesque queen in "Stepping Sis. Lers, the Fox comedy, showing at the King's Theatre to-day.
*gkyline."
Disdaining the services of a double, Ifardic Albright, handsome young screen netor who portrays a featured role in "Skyline," the Fox picture coming to the King's Theatre next Thursday performed a series of hazar- dous feats during the making of this Alm drama.
A les cougeous young man might have welcomed a double to perform at least some of them, but Albright in. sisted on personally following the demands of the script.
Here are some of the things he was called upon to do:Engage in a te to loc fight with Stanley Fields, wit outweighs bim by 65 pounds, in which hu took a terrific beating. Swim half
mile
from a barge to the New York
a
shore, Submit to being spilled from a wagon into a maze of fast-moving street traffic. Fall down n 40 fost embankment of a
and narrowly miss the wicked Jawn a huge steam shovel. Shoot up in an unprotected rickety skyscraper in elevator through a course of construction and then walk the beams like a professed ironworker. Foll from an iron girder 40 stories up, to a platform a floor below, nars rowly escaping a drop to the ground, 39 stories downTI,
Was
Not once, but many times, Albright compelled to perform these feats in order to satisfy Sam Taylor, director of the picture, an
and insure Lake." Aloi
Albright. A perfect however, was not the only member of the east who took chances. For in stance, when he fell from the girder of the 40th story of the sky-scraper. used in the production, Thomas Melg- han fell with him.
Meighan portrays the role of a famous construction engineer and Al- bright is his ton, though this is not revented until the final climax. The leading feminine role is portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan, beautiful und talented young screen star. She ap pears as the daughter of a construc tion foreman with whom the boy falls
in love.
Critics aver that the story, written by Felix Reineberg with alaptation and dialogue by Dudley Nichols and Kenyon Nicholson, has been transfer red to the screen with its original high dramatic content retained and enhance by the camera,
include featured players Other Myrna Loy and Donald Dillkway. They are supported by a cast of not- ables that includes Stanley Fields,
Word Jack Kennedy, Alice Dorothy Peterson,
"Delicious."
and
The first wereen musical romance of the season, "Delicious," starring Jatet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, comes to the King's Theatre soon. David Butler production.
It is a
This melody drama is of the magni- tude of "Sunny Side Up," and has the same stars and director. El Brendel, who appeared in "Sunny Side Up," a has an important role in "Delle- loun
George Gershwin, who grined last- Postposition, fansa with his "Rhapsody In Blue," has written orl ginal music for the new production, Ira Gershwin having provided the lyrics. There are five song hits and a composition distinctive symphonic called "Rhapsody In Rivets" written especially for "Deligious."
Janet Gaynor appears as a Scotch walf-Immigrant newly arrived from Carnoustic. Charles Farrell is seen as a polo star, scion of a socially and New York Financially prominent
family.
The locale in various playgrounds of the restless rich.
THE
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"The Mad Parade". The working hours during the production of Paramount's "The Mad Parado" were at the opposite side of the clerk from the ordinary working day. The cast and crew worked from 0 p.m. ton.m. each day filming ex- terlor scenes.
A location covering
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motor cyclists, they like plenty of members of the cast and the more ed through lack of visibility. than 100 male technicians. With the
Collisions occur between motor noise and take their. silencers offered a surf overdrafts granted on In the Club Avlan, with cockpits approved security. Current and Pized Deposit only two
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TRAVELLERS LETTERS OF served
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W. J. WADDINGTON, their tents from the cold, the mud and prevented such collisions. the rain which added a realistic touch writer of the article in question with. The weight of silencers bring means nothing except with engines!
Acting Manager, to "Flander's felda.' More than two romfurt. If he can ever tons of dynamite were exploded infimself to fly in a modern light built purely for speed. creating Tattle effects with the femi
¿Coptioned on Next Column. I nine players carefully pince so that their danger would appear on the,
on the stage for ten minutes or would do well to make a serious and com- screen without constituting an amen-1
suddenly acquired nerves and constudy of the subject sonable hazard.
The Mad Parade," revealing the pletely dried up tie sat perfectly pare the number of miles travell Placements, Basle.
speak experierend of nine girls comprising still, unable to
pr
In fairness to aviation-yet in its infancy-1 would suggest that the writer of "The Air-Widower"
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Of the Societe Internationale de Local agents
Canteen toup, along the Western, Galvani had just addressed n moved with the number of accidents--1& Co.)
Central the
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Yesterday's official quotation in
Basle.---£2. 10. fd.
put: eliminating those due entirely to a Front, i a William Readi pro- to him, and getting no response pilot's foolhardy or reckless flying
the
apur showing at duetton
in a bit of chatter on Theatre today.
moment and repented the question which form the majority of light 'plane air accidents-ns I know be "Black Cafer,"
Sul no
no reply from Sir Cloud, and Galvini. who plays
the make things worse, another actor, who will and that his criticisms at
bit of a'entirely unfounded.
As to commercial aviation, mysterious Dr. Carelli in the film of fancied himself "Hark Colfer which is showing humourist, remarked, sotto voice, in Thursday at the Queen's Theatre, alro Gavani, "it's all right, old boy, he's need only refer to the fine record af Imperial Airways to date, and played this code on the singe and only died twenty minutes to soon."
"If Sir Claud had not chosen this to the records of Flying Clubs at fells an amusing story of haw om sight, during the run of the any, the moment to pull himself together and
I have not tried to go into these etor playing the part of Sir Claud continue his part, I don't know what Home as regards private flying. Amury, who gets murdered at the end would have happened," said Galvani, of the first act, was unable to appear as by that time, I was practically matters in anything but a general always found that such
I can spare and would prove much would take up far more time than too substantial for the columns of I hope I have ane: a newspaper. ceeded, however, in establishing be sold for aviation than many that there is a great deal more to people give credit for, and I have people
as are either very wrongly informed
1 to deal with fully it or ignorant of the subject. at the last moment. His understudy hysterical. Just about the must awful way, with necasional detail,
on, and after having been stage experience I ever had."
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