THURSDAY, JANUARY 18
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THE FILMS
TO-NIGHT.
Coronet Theatre.-George Alies in
"Disraeli."
THE CHINA MAIL.
thing But now along comes perfect antidote, supplied by celebrated young doctor of just such conditions by the ante of Charles Chaplin in a tonic called The Idla Class," his latest prescription, which
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MY BIGGESTt thrill.
with pictures which dealt mainly with foreign people or with loroin settings; (speaking of course, from the Améri can point of view The public will, therefore, be surprised to hear that' the story chosen by Goldwyn is by an is in a two rol dose. It is a sure American author, and that it deals cure. The laughs are crowded into with the life of an American in a puro- philanthropist and make money at it ly American setting. It is Frank his, Norris' "MeTeague," the story of a vividly among the huge personnel that formed ou a blable stage with a back by giving these laughs to
miner whore ambition to become a PROGRAMME FEATURES.help to make a sucessful picture are cloth, but the nevolotto of film cannot community.
tbo artista themselves.
exist without wild changes of timeAs usual. Chaplin wrote the book dentist is fually gratified, and the A film "star" plays to the producer and place' and the trasping of ex and lyrics of this farch and also per-account of his life is portraged by the and the machine. His world is a clamitory exteruals. Not. the fire formed the direction as well as the author in the realistic manner of the badow show played in a box under suggestion of realism, but the raw leading role, which in this instance is French writor, Emile Zola.
dual one, It seems to be prevalent white lights and inspiration may not picture of reality, is all it can achieve. enter that box, according to this The oak panelling of the drawing that prominent stare play two parts writer. There is an excitement in room set was not carved cardboard; in one picture, so not to be outdone minutes. An exhibitor can become a it was oak panelling bougt at great Chaplin characterizes two men of the carrying the girl from the buning expense. The fireplace was brick. The idlo.ctane, a member of society" (BY PHILIP ROSEN PARAMOUNT house. No acting' no personal internet books in the bookcases were real books, and a tramp. In neither is be funnier
¿DIRKOTOR.) stunt The jewela, were real jewela, the than the other. And funny he is in are required for these mercbante You have only to perfura, the old tapestry, the Koellora hoth goes without saying. Infachthis- form the deed in the right clothes and and Lelys were the real thing hired performance is his usual high-art in
at great exponde.
The cinema is a democratic institu- The actual acting is tamer then borough council meeting. "The only tion and we are the democratic spirit persistent noise was the hies of the are alive in the studio. One reade that lamps. Through that game, per all the workers trooped upstairs functor ly the voice of the producer: together to the restaurant for We'll just have that over again, Miss lunch -producer, principals electric scene. It is fuil of Chapbuisme. What after it had passed through the Gwyn...
Ha entered the lane, carpenters, clerks, and there more can be said? But it may te projector, and it fell loosely into a THE ART OF THE FILM. und dem nalrated, and, whit was a line of demarcation. The said that the most bilarious moments fargo hamper leneath the machine. this private dancing lesson was is jurior electrician sat next to the are during the long golf game incident. Neither was there any shutter to Progress; the rest of the company and "star" and the commissionsi e next And it should be recorded that there project the film from the intense heat" workers gazed about them and the producer.
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Kowloon Theatre-Mabel Normand (in The Vlor Below"
and-Harold Lloyd j
High and Dizzy." World Theatre.William Farcom
in "The Joyous Troublesker." Star Theatre Erie Von Strobeim
in Foolish Wiggi,“
WHY IT IS CALLED THE
"SILENT DRAMA."
The casy technique of the art of the ülm, which works with meebanical things, forme the subject of one of the beet chapters in Mr. Thomas Burke's new book “The Enadon Spy." He is visiting a studio in north London, and the, people that emerge the cast
you are finished,"
brooded."
No wonder they call it the "silent drams."
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THE PARTING OF THE WAYS. The same vide golfatill exists be- tween an art that is supposed, to be but a photographed version of real Everything in the studio was drama and drama itself, but there are genuite. In the filut world (writes signs that the cinem is breaking new
THE ART OF EXTERNALA.
low comedy.
"The Idle Class" (which is to be shown at the Coronet next week) as a whole in excruciatingly humorous as it is bardly a cessary to pick it to pieces and detail the good points scene by
is not the slightest tinge of vulgarity to any part of the picture. Edas Purviance and Mack Swain lend the star able eupport.
the author) they have no time for ground. In the Daily News" etitio's MY FIRST PICTURE. the creation of atmosphere by ill-judgment of a recent Fernel filo, siop. The great drama' may be per
New DeMille Picture
Breaks Away From Sex
MONIE BLUE AND GLORIA SWANSON
The series of lives on marriage which have become associated with- The name of Cell 1, Doâle has been broken by halk new super-paidue. tinn veleusz 110% megati. Kariething to Think Aleut," be eats it. It ise dizzeribro as a sourly dram of human folk, full of saules and tears 2
tilorin end ideas that make you reflect on the genuine logs in Bie Swanton et Monte Blue play the lending parts in this phươngằng hự
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A STIRRING PICTURE. ·
"FLOWER OF THE NORTH."
The Jade Osaket" be refers to the fact that the story is told in a vein of! sardonic humour instead of obviously. This is something entirely new-not” the raw picture of reality"- thing Hollywood appears not evcD yet to have thought of.
IF I EVER QUIT THE SCREEN,
(BY WANDA HAWLEY.).
I suppose I am feminine, maybe too feminine for business."
(BY DOROTHY DALTON.)
Keith vaudeville, I had an afternooo One day, while I was playing in
off and went to the movies. A noted
feminine star was appearing on the rcreen. I watched her critically and then said, "I can do that and I'm going to."
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I had heard that Thomas H. Ince in Culver City, California, was one of the most prominent film producers. I sect him a telegram that I was coming out and wanted a trial in the movize, j He wired back immediately. "Don't; some, Impossible to place you in. pictures" But I never got the le gram, because I was already on my way to California.
I know that if I ever quit the creen, the thing I would turn to would be my home. Now I am bep. When I arrived in Culver City, Mr. pily married and am perfectly at case with the world. My first love and my affections, however, are for my homo, with the screen coming second.
"Maybe, just to prove to myself that I could aot on the stage, I would follow the footlights for a while should I leave the scre.n, But that would only be for a abort time. Just long enough, in fact to prove that I could do what I have never done, dramatic stage acting.
Ince was considerably agitated, "I told you not to come," he said.
There is nothing here for you. I havo already cast my pictures for months ahead." I was somewhat discouraged, but stayed around and reported at the studio every morning on a chance there might be towe work....
Finally my luck changed. -An actress suddenly found that she was unable to play her pad is an Ince picture called "The Disciple." Mr. Ince lead to find armebody elsa at a moment's notier, and I was the only one immediately available He dis 1ked taking a chance on a person who was without screen experience as the role was a fairly important one, but
Possibly, not probably, I might refura again to concert einging and pinto playing. I did both of these before I entered motion pictures, Friends tell me I was on the road to success as a concert artist. I do not know. But I am noce too partial to such a career, though I love to sing he had tp. I made good, and waJ and play at home. -
given an extended engagement at the face studio. Finally reaching stardom in "The Flame of the Yukon."
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"THE IDLE CLASS."
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ERIC VON STROHEIM.
HIS NEXT PICTURE,
the greatest thrill that I have ever experienced, I believe, was back in ths old days when I was a projector operator in the theatre.
In the earlier projection machines, there was no reel to receive the film
of the strong light which reflected it to the screen.
It was one New Year's evo, and the house was full at a late stow. About two-thirds of the reel bad passed through the projector ani was lying loose in the ber below. The film in the projector caught fire. Film is very explosive and I realized that if the fire got down to the locas etuft in the box there would be an explos ion which would not only possibly- mark my finish, but cause a disastrous
many lives. fire and a panic meaning the loss o!
My first ira pulea war to blow the fire out, and although such a thing now seems impossible, I encceeded in blowing it out before it spread along the film. This was almost e miracle and happily a disaster was averted, but I got the scara of my life.
The cast of "Flower of this North" to be shown in Hongkong next week.
FILM REALISM.
TREES TRANSPLANTED TO MAKE "SHERWOOD. FORESE."
The screen eettings of Mr. Douglas "Robin Hood" film
Fairbanks's.
features of a mediaeval fortress with towers which rise 310it, above" ite base. Constructed of large blocks of gement, it has the grey, weatherbestem look of antiquity. The interior is jaid ou' on the damo scale sad the foer: ir composed of large concrete vari Colourd blocks of medieval pattern. The Sherwood Forest" setting is equally remarkable. Mr. Fairbanks wanted a forest that not only looked For that real, but that was real, purpose an army of workers brought giant tries to the Pickford Fairbanks stadios. The caves, in which the The royal castle is a massive pile, cutawa buld their councils, w utroudal by a mons revering an formed by dynamiting when aecan! area of 44 acres, with battleman's, sary the bellows then being planted donjon, and all the architectural, out with trees and bush-s,
which opened at the London Pavilion in December are aecal far outstripping the ordinary kinema
spectacle.
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Charlie Obaplin plays these two roles in Te Idle Class" which comes to the Coronet next week.
FILM ILLUSIONS.
PICTURES SPOILED BY *** CLOSE-UPS."
they creato.
it should keep moving. The story "People go to the pictures, broadly must proceed steadily to its proper speaking, in order that they may conciation without a drag or a halt forget, for the moment, their own anywhere. The bad producers and comparatively drab existences and film editors mistake physical move! Mr. Cecil Hepworth who made the live in imagination the more interestment of characters rapidity, of
A few weeks ago the Goldwyn Pic- remarkable film record "Through ing lives of the onarteters in the change, and so on, for movement of
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TOO MUCH GREASE-PAINT.
"The frequent use of unnecessary, close ups is greatly to be deprecat ed. They look very realistic, but they are terribly disruptive in their effect, and break continuity more than any other devion,
But as I said before, my interests are bound by the four walls of my home, my heart is with my husband and the bone and husband are my first, second and last choice. In ad- dition, I expect some day to be lo terested in charities. I love to give red-blooded excitement and clean to the needy. I have learned that open air action. Flower of the giving brings me more pleasure than North," according to the critics who to rective. So, when the time comes have read it, probably crowna Car.that I retuin wholly to my home, I James Oliver Curwood stories stewo's achievements, at least in so far ball do a great deal of charity werktures Corporation announced that it Three Reigns" covering a period of pictures. Everything which tends to story which is a totally different
had signed a long term contract with 30 years, which was shown recently break or mar the illusion, to bring | thing.
"It often happann that the story considered among the best for pictura picturization is concerned. It tells in my spare moments,
the universally known Eric you to the King and Queen at Balmoral, them back to earth, is, therefore, bad, Stroheim who..is being seen at the
moves most steadily, certainly, and ization. Perhaps the greatest of the of a youn American whose company
Star Theatre this week in "Foolish unusual ability,
a British pioneer producer of and to be avoided. Curwood pools is "Flower of the is breaking the trail of progress
The aim of every good producer thrillingly, when the characters are Wives." North, which will be shown at berough the great woods of the north,
He is not only to direct The picture business is with him is build up gradually, on the ure absolutely mutiuales, while in other Coronet next week. Davi Smith Ise Curiously enough, the opposition to
Goldwyn pictures of great magnitude less a profession than a passion, and foundation of reality and experience, cases it may halt entirely, although directed some of the biggest produe. him comes not so much from the force
CHAPLIN'S DUAL ROLE.
but also to portray important roles in some of them. Ever since then the any remarks of his on the subject of and towering structure of beauty the screen is a bewildering mass of tions, one of which was a Curwood i of barbarism as from the underband
motion picture production deserve interest, and entertainment, peopled Furrying figares. motion picture public has been very attention. "The Courage of Marge manipulations of a group of gold-
with buman creatures, living such etory. O'Doon" In this picture, Pauline greedy financiers. They lot loose on
Most people will agree that life is curious to know what his first picture
One of the great troubles with lives sa real people live. Starks made a bit as the heroine. him a gang of rofians who stop at too serious the laughs are too far would be.
moving pictures to-day," be writes, "is These tow are festors al "Flower of nothing to attain their end of ruining spart. Paigous will tell you that Until now Mr. Von Stroheim; who their gradual divorcement from "In telling a story whether by the North.". Chief among the arided him. In the midst of this turmoil thero is a superabundance of gloom, is not only a famous director, but also pointe of appeal is Henry B. W ithall and struggle le meste Jeante what with this, that and the other renowned sator, has been identified reality. Pictures depend for their pictures or any other mediam, the value upon the strength of the illusion most important consideration is that This distinguished sc or whose fame D'Arcambal, a descendant of the old goes back to "The Birth of a cavaliers of France. Her fortunes Nation" days, is flawlessly cast. and his become inextricably inter- and gives a masterly interpretation of woven. In the end it is her courage a dificult role that of a man virile as much as bis, which eaves them enough to tattl: and win against both. powerful fire and yet with his prison David Smith, the director of this ality refused by the love of a woman super-feature has sotdons himself in whom br rate in the great trackles this production. There is no more spaces of the Northwest. Some mem
successful director of specials in the bess of the supporting cast who have country than David Smith, who pat wide followinge are Emmett King, on the famous "Black Beauty” and Walter Rodger, Harry Northrup Joe a dozen other speciale in fact as well Rickann. Jack Curtis and Vincentes in name. Mr. Smith spent weeks Howard. The deftness of the cast is] before a camera crank was turned on something that has been remarked the sequences of Blower of the upon by all who have seen the film. North" to locate spaces, which are a Even a hit the portrayal of the thrill to the ey, One of these scenes Teroin' mother, is actually played is shown in the very of ening shot of by the mother of Pauline Starke. the picture. The American's rescue The only brief-fadeout in the of Jeanne from the awirling rapide of pietura Fut the natural resemblance a mountais torrent, the masqueradu bokworn wother and dyachter is eo at D'Arcambal hours, the attacks of prosonage I that it provides a con- Blake'e confederatis on the construc vincing touch to tha pamage. tion camp, and the night ride of the
Jame liver Corwond stories are tribe of Cree Indians to avenge the peculiarly edopted to piovization. wrongs of the white men who are In bis talas of shalend "north of 33* only a few of the great moments in a there is always a super-abundance of great picture.
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Some studies in facial expression by Mr. George Arliss
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