1923-04-05 — Page 10

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1923.

THE FILMS

PROGRAMME FEATURES.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

their handa togethior and asy grace' Now for the book agains (this registers honesty):. The thing Tra Giacomo, the prior of in dona. Let us turn back to the the monastery, delighted with the history book and see what is to be boy's progress, encourages li

studies. put in next.

The father of Christopher Wait a minute.. Bartolomeo Colombo, was a runn of no especial talent, of whom nothing is recorded."

That's coay. First we announce

Stop one minute, please, LORENZO THE MAGNI- FICENT

"Mr. L. Evang.

asparilla baing poored, foaming. Pints, the Nina and the Esperitu info the glasson.

Barito. In this soone, Columbus moves Ab, here we have the movie work up and down twirling his little globe-the real things Cardboard carn and looking appealingly in their vel tossing on the black water-ben faces. All laugh at him. His part first right close to us we ord is just the same as that of the poor almost on board of it. Notice tho little girl trying to sell up-state evig sailors with black whiskers violets in the midnight cabaret. and bare feet (bare feet in the The Court of Sardinit fades, and movies always mean a sailor and the Bim shows Columbus vainly black. whiskera mean Spaniards). soliciting financial aid from Lorenzo Now we see the caravel a little way ont-whoop! How abe bobe.up the Magnificent.

and down Thoy giva ber that jolt. (it's done with the machine itself) te mean danger. There are all 'TRA' GIACOMO-Mr. Edward

three caravele-Hooper 001; She This scene again is ok and them go up and down-stormy Sis.

Mr. Sina's Ince, clean-shaved familiar. It is the well-known in night coming, all right. See the under a round/bat, fades in and out, terior representing the Grinding sun setting in the west, over the Then the picture goes on. Movie Capitalist or the Bitter Banker re- water? They're heading straight monastery interior-young Chris-using and to the boy genius who for, it Good-night, Columbus- topher, still at a table with com has invented a patent pea rake: take care of yourself out there in Then we stick him on the filan on passes-benevolent friar bending The only change in that Lorenzo, the blackness,

"During the voyage Columbus a corner of the room, leaning up over hin-Christopher turns the wears a huge wig, has no telephone..

continually on deck, against the cardboard clock mul compasses and looks up with a and handles a large quill pon' (to remained looking at the children. This atti-what-do-you-know-about-that look gister Middle Ages), which he looping at the prow, his face to CHRISTOFORO COLOMBO. tude in the movies always indicates astonishment and delight of frine

ward the new world, be sow already in his dreams the accomplishment ance. His business is to look at the bull-dog). All this shows, atuty a accondary character of no import- (registered by opening his eyes like

of his hopea." others and to indicate forgetfulness progress, application. The friars of self, incompetence, mimportare daughted with the boy.

Christopher, after seven ange, vacuity, simplicity.

TO-NIGHT.

Coronat Theatre.--Harold Lloyd

inDr. Jack."

World Theatru.-Stasia Naper-

kovska in Atlantide." Suhr Theatre-Marguerite Clark "A Widow. By Proxy."

THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

AN, AMUSINO SKETCH.

[By Stephen in the Vancouver

·Sun:]

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"No greater power for eduen tion," said a college president, the other day, "has come among tis during the last forty years than the

oving picture."

I must have. I doubt if any college president I know could have put it quitas neatly. There's a touch about it that I recognise.

But let that pass. At any rate it is something that averybody in way-| ing and thinking. All our educa tors have turned their brains to-

him on the screen 7 ·

BARTOLOMEO COLOMBO.

Mr. Henderson.

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Wiggles furiously up and down on a

of this sort turn out the easiest part piece of parchment..

So the eightoun, years with scenes

of the whole show.

After eighteen years Columbus, now past the prime of

Just balf a moment.

QUEEN ISABELLA.

Note now this differs from the years of study, reaches the firm con-life, is presented at the Court of attitudes of important characters.viction that the world is round." If & tnovie cracter-one of im- Picture Christopher with his Queen Isabella of Spain." portance is plotting or scheming, globe-jumps up from table-passes bo seats himself at a little round his fingers around and around the table, drums on it with his fingers, globe-registers the joy of invention and half closes one eye. If he is-seats himself at table and draws heing talked to, or having a letter circles with his compasses furiously. or document or telegrami read to He fades out, him, he stands "facing full" and

On goes the picture. Christopher in the prow of the caravel (in the movies a, prow is made by putting propping up a bowsprit lengthwise two little board fences together and

over them). Columbus site up peare intently into the darkness, hía Band to his brow-registers a look. Do I see America? No. Lies down, smits his eyes, and falls into an in- tantaneous movie sloop. His face fades out slowly to music, which ben a the screen the announce Rangers. The impression that ehement is shown: made is possed on to Isabella.

The Queen and her consort, King Ferdinand of Aragon,

Stop, stick him on.the film. FERDINAND” OF, ARAGON

Mia Janet Briggs. There will be very probably at this point a slight applause from the back of the hall. Miss Briggs was

Harold Lloyd was married recently to Miss Mildred Davis, who succeeded Bebe Daniels as Lloyd's co-star. The photograph shows them as they appeared in "Dr. Jack:"/

Hired with his discovery.beru last week, or her astral body means that he is going to dream to complete the film.

working his features up and down Christopher set out from the mop was as Maggie of the Cattle

F

to indicate emotion sweeping over astery.” them. If he is being "exposed " Stop a minute, this is a little (which is done by pointing fingers hard. Fired. How can we show at him), he hunches up like a snake Christopher

fired."

We can't. in an angle of the room with both Parhaps he'll be fired if the film is eyes half shut and his mouth set a no good, but we must omit it just if he had just eaten a lemon. But now, if he has none of these things to

To the clock with him.

Now what comes next?

"He set out."

Mr. Edward Giles.

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Picture.

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"SPIRIT OF AMERICA, Misa E. Dickenson. and here we have. Miss Dickenson Boating in the air above Columbus. She wears nothing except mosquito netting, but she has got on enough

Just one further picture is needed got him alone in a hut and poison

ed him and took it off him.". "Columbus, who returned to

That, I think, is about the way. Europe to lay at the feet of the the film would run. When it i Spanish sovereigns the world he finished I must get that collega. had discovered, fell presently under president, or whoever it was, to the disfavour of the court, and die come and see it. in poverty and obscurity, a victim of the ingratitude of princes."

SELF-MADE BOY.

I am not certuie that it was a college president. And he may not have said it the other day. Nor do I feel absolutely sure that he refer- red to the last forty years. Indeed, now that I come to think of it, I don't believe it was. In fact, it may have been some one else. Or did I say it my

Liant picture. Columbus dying (Large wig, flat velvet cap and of it to get past the consor of the aulf? Judging by the accuracy express, and is only in the scene as One second only for this. Mon square whiskers-same make-up as State of New York. Just enough, under the poignant circumstances known only in the movies-a garret

A DAY WITH JACKIE and force of the language, I think background for the others, then astery door (double cardboard with for Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Ferdin-apparently.

Miss E. Dickenson is joined by a room ceiling lower than ever-

COOGAN. he goes over and leans in an easy iron across it)-Christopher leaving and of Bohemia, or any of the

whole troop of Miss Dickensons, all trundle bed, narrow enough, to kill attitude against the tall cardboard-carries a wallet, to mean dis- Ferdinanda.) clock.

were immediately seized in white mosquito netting. They him if all else tance. Fra Giacomo blessing him

failed Teresa I have just spent a day with the with enthusiasm for the marvellous, go through a series of beautiful Colombo, his aged mather, alone at richest self-made boy in the world- That, then, is the place for Bar-fade out. telomeo Colombo.

For eighteen years Colum-discovery of the Genoese adven prolutions, Roating over the sleep bie bedside-she offers him medi- Jackie Coogan, whose most recent ing figure of Columbus. The dance cine in a long spoon (this shows, contract as a movie actor will not bus vainly travelled through the farer,

Columbus hands his they do is meant to typify, or rather if nothing else would, that the man the eight year-old lad around world on foot, offering his discovery The young Christopher at the courts of Europe, in vain, globe to Isabella and his compasses to signify-ne a matter of fact, we is ill)bo shaken his beadpits out $1,500,000 a year, anya an Ameri ward the possibility of utilising developed at an early age a passion though asking nothing in reun for to Ferdinand. They register de- need not worry inch about what his hand and rests it on the little can writer.

The it signified. It is an allegory, globe-reaches feably for his-com- Hoving pictures for the purpose of for study, and especially for astro-it except a fleet of ships, two hun-light and astonishment. education. It is being freely said nogy, geometry, geodesy, and the dred men, and provisions for two Queen farms the globe around and done in white mosquito netting passes can't manage it-rolle up thai history and geography and even exact sciences of the day."

around and holds it up to Ferdin-That is generally held to be quite his eyes and fades. arithmetic instead of being taught

Let us go back to the Quite easy.

Ou apins the film. To anybody not used to scenarios aud. Both indicate with their sces, enough.

The music playa softly, and the After a storm-tossed voyage of spins on, announcing

inexorable film, like the reel itself, by the slow and painful process of Young Christopher in a garret room this looks a large order. Eighteen well-what-do-you-know about this? book books and memory,

can be imparted all movie study is done in garrets). years seam difficult to put on Ferdinand makes a circle with the through the eye..

The cardboard ceiling slopes within screen. In reality this is exactly compasses on a table the courtiers three-mouths.

At this theatre I had no sooner hear if this idea six inches of his head. This shows where the trained movie man sees fickle creatures, crowd around. Wait a bit. Turn on the picture than I became impassioned to put that the boy, never rises from his his chance. Here he can put in They are still dressed us in Sardinia, again and toss the caravels up and it into practice. I have therefore books. He can't. On a table in anything and everything that he eighteen years ago. In fact, one down.

during which the food prepared, or am preparing, a film,front of him is little globe and a likes, bringing, in, in a slightly recognises quite a lot of them. especially designed for the clement-pair af compasses. Christopher medieval form, all his favourite When Ferdinand draws the circle supply threstated to fail ary clames of our schools to marrate spins the globe around Then be movie scenes.

Put that on the screen, please: they fall back in wild astonishment, the story of the discovery of makes two circles with the com- Thus, for example, bere we have gesticulating frantically. What they Columbus, surrounded by ten America.

It's a circle, it's a sailors, dividing up a potato, passes, one after the other, very finst-the good old midnight cabaret mean in,

lator, the caravela arrived in And-after that I can imagine the This I should like the reader to carefully. This is the recognised supper scene thinly disguised as circle." ait and see with me, in the eye of movie symbol for mathematical re the Court of the King of Sardinia. The King and Qucon at once safety at the beautiful island of San audience dispersing, and the now bis imagination. But let me first search..

To turn a cabaret into a court the place three ships at the disposal of Salvador Colbibus, bearing the educated children going to their banner of Spain; stepped first homes, and one saying us be give the plain, unvarnished account So there we have Christopher movie, men merely exchange their Columbus." of the discovery of America as I

On with the picture. The har-hore. Surrounded by a wonder-enters took it from one of our school his, honest, studious, full of Fifth-avenue evening dress for short

coats and knee breeches, heavily bour of the port of Paloe ships ing crowd of savages, be prostrated lories.

wadded and quited, and wear large bobbing up and down (it is really bimself upon the beach and kissed

circles..

Now to the book again.

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All next week MAGGIE MAY

and," WALTER CURRAN

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IS IT WORTH IT?

I found the young genius of past. tomime helping Matumy Jackson, the Coogan's coloured laundress, do the family washing

I'm very busy," he said, "but- if you'll stick around until I've finished this job, maybe I'll talk to. you."Y

This was no petulant discourtesy. Jackie was merely up to his suds- smcared neck in his favourite 'pas- time. Plainly, it was an ill-timed intrusion.

Come on, now," he chirped and I'll show you my

His things include a pet rab

things."

bit, his dog-pal Jarry, his pony Jos.

a kiddy car, a treasured Back" of marbles, a radio set and a welter of

playroom.

. The young Columbus receiv-wigs. Quited pants and wigs re the oyster boats in Baltimore Bay, the sail of the New World that beat uliool to-day at picture show home-made and gift toys in the'

born of poor but honest parente in Here he spent seven years. V Elizabeth, Peter the Great, Louis the right, at the top of a flight of easy. It runs into pictures of itself.

There are young Coogan's rielies. not the gold that pours in.

**Say" he said, "can you shoot

"Geo I seen a

Christopher Columbus, other-

"Yes?" says his mother. “And wise Christoforo Colombo, the cele-ed his education at the monastery of gister courtiers, the courtiers of but it looks just like Palos, or fear had discovered.

what was it?"" All this is so easy that it's too brated discoverer of America, was the Franciscan monks at Geños. anybody Charlemagne, Queen enough). Notice Queen Isabella on.

Ob, it was all about a gink that

the Italian city of Genoa. Hie mother, Terees Colonibo, seems to screen in seven seconds.

Yes, but we can put that on tho Quatorze, anybody, and everybody steps, exterling her hand and look-Anybody accustomed to the movies went around the cabarets trying to a game of marbles?-his invari. who ever had courtiers. Just asting at Columbus. Her gesture can see Columbus with his banner, sell an invention what he'd got, but able test of a visitor's caliber. My have been a woman of great piety- Turn on the filin.

men with bare legs mean Romans, means, "Pick a ship, any ship you and the movie savages hopping up nobody wouldn't look at it. till. at own status was fixed. when neigh and intelligence. Of, his father, Movie Monaalery-exterior, done men in peajackets mean detectives, like, any colour. Just as if she and down around him. Movie laat one dame gave him three oyster bour kids debouched on the Googm Bartolome Colombo, nothing is re-in grey cardboard-ding, dong, and young men drinking, iu even ware saying. Pick a card, any savages are gay, gladsome crea boats, see? and so he and a lot of back yard and I was promptly de conled. From his earliest Youth ding, dong (man in the orchestrong drese, Harvard graduates.

card you like."""

tures, anyway, and hopping up and other guys lauded them up and serted for game featured by lear

ing and yelling, pada the boy Christopher developed

The ladies at the court of Sar- with triangle and stick)-procession

down in their chief mode of express hiked off across the ocean."

"And where dul bo go to?" My day with this young gonius. Passion for mathematics, netronomy of raovie friars-faces more like dinis wear huge paper frills around Christopher Columbus, now ing themselves. Add to them

"Africa. And he and the other of pantomime proved him utterly geodesy, and the other sciences of thugs, but never mind-they are their necks. Otherwise it is the arrived at the height of his desire, sandy beach, with palm trees wav the day.

But, no-stop I am going too friars because they walk two and in cabaret scene with the familiar little sets out upon his memorable, voying viably in the wind (it is alwaye guys had a great stand in with the without selfishness or smart self. vention all right, but one old dame plant, shielded from free' contact fast. The reader will get it better procession, singing out of hymn tables, and the ukaleles going like age, accompanied by a hundred windy in the movies) and the thing niggers, and he'd have sold his in-consciousness. He's no hot-house

mad in one corner and black ear companions, in three caravels, the is done..

with kids, like so many scions of wealth,

if we turn it into pictures bit by bit as we go on. Let the reader there- fore imagine himself seated before the curtain in the lighted theatre. All ready? Very good. Let the music begin-Stur Byangled Ban nor, pleaso-dip' of the lights. Now then.

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA' authorised.

By the Board of Censors of New York State.

There we are. That gives the child the correct: bistorical back- ground right away. Now what goe on next? Let me go. Ah, yes, of covirea. We throw-an announce. ment 'on the screen, thus:"MAA CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Mr Quinn A

Hero the face of Mr. Quinny (în a bowler hat) is thrown on the screen and fudes out again,

We follow hitn up witli-

SPIRIT OF AMERICA

Miss E. Dickenson/

Now we are ready to begin in earnest. Let us make the scenarió together. First idea to be ex÷ Tressed

Christopher Columbus was the Bon of poor but honest parente

This might seem difficult to a bo ginner, but to those of us who fre-

bookca

quent the movie it is nothing for

The reel spins, and we see a trow room-Ut is always narrow in the moviesto indicato straiten-

roumstances cardboard furni ture-high chaira with garved backs twn cardboard beams across the iling (all, the moans, the Midillʊ!

dinner table all the

cutting bread Nat veselick to each

meurs-poverty

We turn again to history.

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One of his closest pala, ja bluch Sammy, son of the washerwoman. A million dollars menna merely how | many marbles it'll bay, and fame lots of interesting people to play with.

Fapa Coogan makes no bones about spanking Jackie when ocea sion demands or his usual I quick r

cwils basn't a good alibistan

There's one thing that isn't Itin in Jackie's life-and gosh, how he dreads it having his ears washed | Oh riches, there is thy sting

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-This, I learned, is Jackie's aver-

age day's programme

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mRises says morning.

prayers, taken hathak

8am-Breakfast.

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9-9:80.Playa with dog, toys or

neighbour kids.

9:30-10, Recites lessons to tuto 10 Gose to studio with dader and teacher,

11 am Irp.m.--Works ou fic tore

More work on pictur

2-5-Playa around studio

Second school

studio

or rende.

Complaint in