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SATURDAY MAY 19, 1928 .

THE

PROGRAMME FEATURES.

TO-NIGHT.

Curonet Theatre. Constance Talmadge in Lessons in Love,

World Theatre,-Wanda Hawley in "Two Much Wife."

Star Theatre. Alice Joyce in

FILMS

THE CINEMA-SCENARIO.

WHEN YOU WRITE, A MOVIE PLAY.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BROADCASTING PICTURES.

́CHEMISTRY OF EMOTION.

NEVER TOO TIRED.

BERNHARDT AND THE SCREEN.

ART AND TECHNIQUE.

SOME FILM HANDICAPS.

One of the most serious die.

CLASSICS TO COMEDY.

MAX LINDER'S CAREER.

Born in Bordeaux, Framce, in

Six months later he made his first

IBANEZ AND THE FILMS.

FAMOUS AUTHOR'S VIEWS,

In the following article: Vicente Blasco Ibanez, whose famous novel,

The Four Horsemen of the Very little stress has been laid on abilities under which the screen 1885, Max Linder, international Apocalypsa "Hongkong kinema- the fact that Barsh Bernhardt was labours is that the halting advance comedy favourite, bus the dinne goers have recently had the oppor- among the few to recognise in the of the silent drama towards an tion of having stepped out of stage tunity of enjoying in film form, cinema, very shortly after its birth, artistic ident la constantly checked productions of classic drania into voicon his warm admiration of the embryo of the giant it was by the necessity of first removing comedy films before he was seven- motion pictures and his enthusiast destined to become. Though con istorial obstacles from its path: teen years old. over their universal power of siderably over sixty years old at the Thus, the narrow ribbon of cellu At the age of sixteen Max Linder appeal:--

time, she hailed the newcomer with loid on which all the efforts of the received fit prize of the Conserva. The motion picture?

the enthusiasm of youth. In mark-film director and his artists are tory of Comedy and Drama at Pari Au inspiring theme. One that ed contrast with the scornful atti-epitomised in a sequence of thou-He played all classics, such as enchains the imagination with its tude adopted toward the screen by sands of photographs, each con: Hugo Edmond Rosland, etc., but Mollieres, Musset, Carneillo, Victor Professor Branly; whose name as marvellous development and its so many lending men and women siderably less than a square inch in his greatest atage success was in There is room for the new writer the discoverer of the colerer must limitless possibilities. in the cinema-scenario sphere.always be indissolubly associated

on the stage, both in Europe and area, has two great disadvantages, Here's a young lion that has leap the United States, she agreed with. its fragility and its inflammability Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerse Many of to-day's most famous with the dawn of wireless tele-ed forward with incredible swiftnere out hesitation, when approached, to Also the projector, as the optical and in "The Romanesque." writers are writing for the screen,graphy, has just made an interest during little more than the space appear in several moving picture apparatus is termed, by means of but most of them cannot discarding statement. In his opinion there of a decade, amazing the age-old plays: This was about fifteen-years which the enormiouely magnified appearance in motion pictures and altogether the techoiqua of the is nothing inherently absurd in the arts of the world with its power and nigd. The first attempt was made replicas of the little photographs are eredited by many with having waiting conft in which they were expectation that it will soon be breadth of its appeal, boldly chal with an adaptation of Victorien thrown upon the screen, soinetines had the distinction of appearing in trained and in which they made possible to broadcast the complete longing thom, with all the ardour Sarion's "La Tosca, in which M. from a distance of 200ft, admirable the very first film comedy ever their names.

The fault with the programme of any moving picture and audacity if youth, for a place de Max and Sarah Bernhardt play as it is as an example of mechanical sho At the beginning of his famous author is that invariably he theatre. Ever since the day when on the heights in their mightyed the leading parts. Everything ingenuity has its limitations. enrere made one comedy a day. hag his stock situations and another French savant, M. Edouard characters, which in his stories or Balin, succeeded in transmitting

was done in the most primitivo and However carefully its metal fingers icse varying from 300 to 500 feet Here is a new medium of express economical manner possible. The handle the thin strip of film, they in length. At that time there were books he is accustomed to dress in single photographs over an ordin sign, speaking in the universal market hell of Belleville served as can scarcely avoid inflicting injury no details or scenario-in the pre- new form and put over by the ary telegraph wire, the transmission language of animated pictures, studio, and Sardou, who took pinch on a delicate a substance.

paration of a picture, the story or DEVELOPING THE magic of his words and the defines of a series of photographs, in other understandable to cottagers and interest in the proceedings, leat

Tightly wound on a spool or reel, plot being developed a few minutes of his technique.

But, stripped words, of a moving picture record hinge alike, addressing an ever several articles, including a wonder, the film, it will be remembered, has before the camera work started. bare for the film, cut to the skeleton or play, has meant nothing more growing host of devotees even unte ful Sedan chair, to serve as stage to be dragged out, not uniformly Five years later Mr. Linder made of scenes and situation character play, the ordinariness ofciple: "All that is required, Truly, an inspiring theme.

and then an extension of the summe prin- the far-flung corners of the earth. properties. "La Tosca," however, but in a series of rapid, staccato a one-reel comedy every week, pra- With the announcement by the the story becomes apparent even to M. Branly puts it, "is to scheme

turned out to be a very poor filan, jerks, so that each photograph reducing 350 of these and also 125 Board of Education that they are the most unsophisticated cinema-out the mechanical apparatus neces America that I came to realize the 1909.

It was not until my visit to North judged even by the standards of mains atationary for a fraction of a two-reel pictures. Of these 475. willing to discuss the question of goer. That is why so many famous sary for the purpose."

After that, "La Dame aux second in front of the lens. After comedies Mr. Linder was unthor books are failures when screened, transmission, he adds, can be effect-A leading kinema organization of orthodox, but still very imperfect ceted to a second drag, in order to

If such immense scope of motion pictures. Caruétias" was filmed in a more parsing the lens, the film is sub-and director of 400. and why great film concerns bave ed by the telegraph or the telephone the United States, Metro Pictures stafin, specially built on the other be wound, tightly as before: on to Afr. Linder has adopted the policy to employ scenario writer to hack wire, there can be nothing to pre-Corporation, has secured the film side of Paris, at Neuilly. This film, another spool. When this double of greater quality and less quantity to picces & well-known author's vont its being done equally well by ing rights to thy most sticcessful too, was a failure, and the actress operation is terminated the begin. and has produced many comedies, work and rearrange it so that the means of the Hertzian waren. 1 novel-The Four Horsenter of homself, it is said, hated to hear it ning of the film is, of course, in the varying in length from two and lailer scarcely recognises it when would thus appear to be no vain the Apocalypse, and during the mentioned. She realised when too centre of the second spool, while three to five reels: filmed. This invariably makes dream that in the near future every preliminary conferences concerning late, that to play Marguerite Gau- the end forms the very ontside coil

The Sporting Duchess."

PAPER KINEMA FILMS,

FOR

PICTURES'

EDUCATION.

the king for education purposes

tion in July comes the news of a process which will con-

at a treeting of the Imperial Educa-

siderably cheapen the cost of in- etalling a kinen apparatus saitable for school use.

The teaching value of the moving picture has long been realised by leading educationalists, but with out recognition by the Board of Education authorities little could be done to put it to a practical test in the schools. A few schools, nid- ed privately, have carried through successful experiments. On the Continent and in America the school kaneum has been a valuable ally in education for a number of years, the

its introduction,

The new process makes the paper

film a counnercial proposition, and

is reflected, instead of projected, as in the case of the present celluloid

fiftu. The paper film costs an eighth of the relluloid film, and is non-inflammable - an important consideration in the school and

of, the machine Kinerellex" offer

ing the machine at under £30, The

authore indignant: but if the story were left in its original form the public would be indignant; it has

to be done.

POINTS TO BE AVOIDED.

company,

telephone subscriber will be able to the production I obtained my first sea in his own home, whenever the glimpse behind the scenes of this mood prompts him, s picture show vast Twentieth Century field of simultaneously with the audience in a theatre hundreds, possibly, even, thousands, of miles distant.

endeavour.

tier at her time of life before the of the spool. Before the film can camera's cruel; searching eyes was be projected again it has always feat which not even her talent been assumed that it must firet be could accomplish.

re-wound on a third spool, so that Two or three other filaus follow

In the last few years, however,

At the inquest at "Hammersmith

Lonsdale-road, Barnea, W., it

2

in her arms.

A doctor, said that there wong - a

DIED OF LAUGHING.

New writers, on the other hand,

Later, when I went to California

the beginning may become once COLLAPSED AFTER SEEING - have a fresh laut on life and on

I spent much time in the Metro ed, the beat of them being "Queen more the outside coil, in readiness The inventor of the coherer, studios and was given every oppor-Elizabeth. This is the film which to be run through the projector. the handling of the material life while professing to recognise fully tunity of studying the making Mr. Adolph Zukor has since told

"CHARLIE CHAPLIN" FILM. gives then.

It is during this last rewinding. And they will often the unique value of the kinema as of motion pictures through every the world, laid the foundation of process, performed naturally as hit on a new plot or a novel angle an educational agent, rather sur phase. I saw an author's original his fortune. He secured the Ameri- quickly as possible, usually by of an age-old situation, anal a great prised his interlocutor by confessing work prepared and adapted for its can. rights, and spent every penny almost unskilled labour.. that the Mr. Josepli Chatfold filu play will result. A long and that the last film of any kind o transition into pictures; I saw the he could procure in exploiting it in greatest damage is done to the film. Governments being responsible for rigid list might be made of the had himself seen was at the Paris nation into pact of the printed the United States. The result fully ffence, for the most part, atiso the was stated that he collapsed and

situations which even erminent Exhibition of 1900. It had left an page take form and substance as justified his expectations. Until unsightly scratches and other dis Charlie Chaplin" film.

died in a kinema, after laughing at writers employ with great effect, indelible impression on his mind, the camera recorded the action then few actors of any note had figuring marks, which cause eve His housekeeper said that he sug but which are quite impossible in a be declared. and he was quite will before it and finally I saw the appeared on the screen. The name oye strain, and render that parti the introduction of a paper film not film play, only ofiminates the risk of tire, but

The long arin of coin- ing to believe that inuch progress completed photoplay sesembled, of Sarah Bernhardt proved to be a onlar strip of Alm absolutely worthgested the visit to the kinema, as ho appreciably reduces production and

cidence for instance. In one of his had been mado in the interval, unfolding with all its vividness the magnet that filled every theatre in leas before it has been projected a wanted a good laugh. He enjoyed Bovels Bernard Shaw takes one of though the film seen in 1000 was, whole dramatic plot. installation costs. Orduary photo- bis characters to New York and in his estimation, already very borevelation of the possibili. Famous Players-Lasky organisa-of its active career, numerous see-beret the end he collapsed, and died It was which the film was shown. The hundred times. Towards the end, the film very much, and she had. graphie printing paper is used, and makes her put up at the same board- nearly perfect. It is advisable that ties of this wonderful form of tion, with its £5,000,000 capital [tions of the film have been so in- but at the end he collapsed, and died

ing-house as the one woman whose those who assume that the kinema dramatic expression. meeting with hor is vital to the plot. is still in its teens abould hear these

and its world-wide ramifications, is jured that they have to be cut away. This won't do for the film. Crime home truths now and then..

I returned to Spain before the thus the direct consequence of that successively, and the two loose ends needs careful bandling. On the cently, for instance, thres deaf and and as many sharp regrete that Mr. Zakor, while Sarah Bernbardi originally may have been a mode-hearly would precipitate, Mr. Chat Re-filming of my novel was completed Incky initial move on the part of ipined together. In this way what rapture of the heart. Laughing stage sometimes the heru is arrested, dumb men were invited by the I could not have witnessed its trans is the real foundress, it not of the rately coherent story is, not infe-feld's death, owing to the condition institution. The reflecting appara-nished, owing to the discovery of the words on the tips of some per- have on my desk before me a collec- of one of the small group of leading unintelligible pictorial gibberish,

or at least the bus good home-tax-French Boxing Federation to read lation, to the screen. However, I American film industry, at any rate quently, metamorphosed into almost of the heart, which weighed 24 tus which supplants the usual pro-incriminating letters, plans or sora-prosent at the Carpentier-Sikition of photographs: portraying film producers who enable it to

ounces. A verdict of Death from jector is inexpensive, the patentees stolen property in his pockets or fight last September: This was scenes and characters from The occupy the predominant position it rewinding has been recognised

The handicap imposed by this Natural Causes was returned. trunk, said incriminating matter cited as if it were something quite Four Horsemen." having been placed there by the unprecedented, yet on almost identi

does to-day. By a sad coincidence, almost from the day when the fimf flammable nature of the celluloid villain. Scenario editors turn to cal experiment was carried outing. As I turn them over one by fatal illness, Madame Bernhardt, projector. Scores of clever bruins scratched surface of injured films These photographs are fascinat just before she was seized with her film was passed through the first eye-strain caused by the blurred and film necessitates expensive precau- another M.S. when they hit this successfully by Professor Maroy in one I am seeing for the first time overtaxing her strength, tions against fire, involving the

was have been trying everywhere to find would be a thing of the past.. scene in a film play submitted. 1893, exactly thirty years ago, two the people of my book-the children actually engaged in making another some practical way of dispensing The second disadvantage tinder : Unpleasant marriages contracted by years before the brothers Lumière of my imagination, that hitherto film, in which she took the part of with this operation, and, literally, which the fim auffers, its inflanie. girls to save the family fortune or had perfected their apparatus. Tie have lived only in the printed page a paralytic medium, supposed to be hundreds of specifications of inven-mability will also be removed, in the old reansion are one of the few kinematographic record, or, as itpassing before me, visualized in living alone in a garret with a tione for effecting this purpose have all likelihood, at no distant date. sides of real life which the film was then called, the chronophoto flesh and blood and not only inter: chimpanzee. This animal, usually been registered in the Patent Offices This danger of fire, which is very doesn't care to touch."

On the graphic record, of a phrase was preting the sequence of the story perched on the back of her chair, of the world. Many of these inven- real, bas, as everybody is aware. wherever a projecting apparaten 19

apply whole, the everyday lauman story, read on the lips of the speakers by in terms of histrionic action but would jump down, to close either a tions, it is maid by experts, would beet the reason for all the stringent installed. The paper film would

which, though it might not happen several deaf and dumb children with investing the whole with the under-door or a window, at the order of do all they profess to do, were the regulations imposed by the authori to ourselves, might well happen to perfect ease. people we know, with incidents the comparatively slight scientific

Remembering this, lying spirit of the novel.

his moster, standing just outside film made of tough steel, instead of ties of every country in connection. Surely, the mission and message the photographic field. A large fragiis celluloid. But at last there with public exhibitions. So for de from real life, and scones repre- use that has been made of this re- of the modern novel are incalculably conservatory in the actress's house, comes forward a well-known South the projectors and concerned, the sentative of actual latterday condi-markable instrument is somewhat magnified when brought to the pub in the Boulevard Peroite, was trans- African mining engineer who. mechanism has been perfected to tions-this is what the film con-disconcerting. corns of the world are looking for.

lic through the medium of the formed into a studio, the necessary though a stranger to the kinong. such a degree, that, if the film for motion picture and the appeal multi electric current being furnished by sppears almost at the first attempt any reason is checked as it is pass Then, it must be remembered useful investigations into what may proud that a novel of mine should before the front door. To save balled the moving picture world for inch or so of celluloid on which the There is clearly room for many lied many fold. I am immensely dynamos fixed on lorries drawn up to have solved the problem that has ing through the machine, the square that one of the most potent in- be termed the psychological aspects have served as occasion for this Madame Bernhardt the worry of nearly thirty years. Mr. Edward intense beat of the are light thus fluences being exerted to-day upon of the screen. An interesting ex development and improvement in

young life is represented by the periment was made some time ago impressive demonstration of the being interviewed, the making of J. Way's method is almost as sim-reinsins concentrated, is the only moving picture enterprise.

perfection of kinema photography the film was kept secret, until it ple as that adopted by Columbus part that burns. Automatic devices, the lenses of the machine to make business is developed with such of a writer who has published

The by Mr. Colden Lore, the pseudonym and I cannot refrain from express was discovered by a passing Ameri. to make an egg stand upright, Is which come into play immediately, them powerful enough to reflect a clear vision on the screen from the astounding rapidity that only very very practical little treatise on the ing my heartiest congratulations on can who, on seeing the lorries, at there any necessity to rewind the prevent the fire spreading in eiiller operating box in the average pic

recently have the people awakened composition of screen plays. It is this tremendous artistic achieve.onos guessed what was going on. film at all? he asked himself. He direction to the remainder of the to the grave danger involved in Mr. Colden Lore's ambition to re- ment.

The great tragedienne is said to decided there was not Mr. Way6lm Outside the projector, how- ture-ball But the paper-fil is

these presentations Again and duce to an exact science the means United States has kindled an ambi.ceedings. Every time she was ask second spool of the projector and ance of regulations are the only

My study of the kinema in the have been enchanted with the pro- simply lifts the coil of film from the ever, prudence and the strict observ again, however, serious crimes, in of provoking those rapidly alternat:tion to write directly for the screened whether she was not too tired to places it, just as it is, on a sort of safeguards agains; disaster. It i eluding even murder, have been ing emotions of hope and fear which no hope before: long to returna continue her answer was an em- circular revolving table of his own these considerations which have mend directly to the moving picture are experienced by the spectators of theatre, where were found the suga moving picture play, and which there to undertake a work of this phatic "Certainly not.⠀ gestions out of which grow the in- precede the crisis or climax of the there be to reach the people every kind. What better means could citing motive.

This is a serious story, producing jointly that feeling where? The motion picture reflects Varios stopping devices are intraspect which should meter, be lost of suspense until the laat life. It is in this rash of rope of duced by a picture may sight of by the movie writer.

separate housing of the machine

and taun in an asbestos-lined

chamber, and various observances in the matter of exits, under the existing regulations of the Kine- matograph Act. which

have to be run through the machine

at a tremendous speed to create suicient friction to cause ignition,

and even were a spark dropped on

the sensitised surface of the paper the gelatine would only run to Siquid

The Kinereflex" is not yet a proposition for the entertaininent- hali, for there must be considerable

more adaptable for colour work and

stencilling, such as is often required

in educational films. The machine

is quite efficient for school use, and the pictures reflected on the screen

are clear, sharp, and without flicker.

retained on the screen for explana

DANGER IN MOVING MICTURE..

WANDA HAWLEY'S EXPERIENCE:

PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS.

in doubt moment. Mr. Lore made à fest sion that the most potent element of with the Griffith film, Way Down its appent resides and upon which East in which he considers there largely restaite phenomenal is the most perfect quspense popularity. The progress of kinema episode ever screened. The heroine, art in the past decade gives golden lying unconscious on an ice floe, is promise for its advancement during apparently fast drifting towards an the years at hand, and one scarcely inevitable, death, but is rescued in dares to predict the height to which the nick of time, just before the it will transcend,, fyr foe crashes over a cataract. M Loro tell us that boattached a

THE MOVIEMOTOR.

A NOVEL VEHICLE

invention; the coil of film is then impelled the French Government to fod, without any strain, through the decree that, from January, 1925, machine again by starting from the the use of inflaromahla film is to be middle of the coil where the begin{ prohibited. Thereesome to Je ning of the film 18. This process little doubt that the French example may be repested almost ad -infini- will be followed in America, both in bum, without injuring the film in the United States and in Canada, any way. A MARRI S and possibly in this country also. Ono particular flm which vas a The underwriters, who are behind A novel vehicle, half omnibus, test, has been passed through the the agitation, quite admit that there half kinema, will tour the suburbs projector more than 6,000 times is now very little risk involved by and villages around London in the exhibits no obvious signs of wear the use of inflammable film in pro- course of the next few weeks. It and tear. The new invention, it is perly constructed theatres, but they will balt at advertised stopping believed, will do away with almost insist on the practical impossibility places, and aim show will be all the injury inflicted by the of keeping such film out of the ven free of charge to the local old rewinding process on the hands of non-professionals. It has

info-toy-aiops. byeur overage for moviemotora converted it is computed; pood ever

ant the best o "B" omnibus-will be run by the through the picture house tore called

Rainfammable filmit 14 clay Gure London General Omnibus Com-in Great Britain. “Anauining that no only relatively uninflammable, and,

the films will depict the more, than 10 per cent of such 184 stric and pleasure spots of Lon- jury were prevented, competent here will be two sets of sutiorities consider, the

tion or discussion by the operator. or teacher. No open lamps are nsed, and the whole apparatas is. compact and portable. The paper flus are printed from standard celluloid base exposed in the usual way, and it is contended that, once Like that of the Gilbertian police printed, the paper film will last man, the lot of the filmstar is not longer than the existing celluloidalunya a happy one. Just recently printan pada

while the Gaumont people were producing Conan Doyle's Fires of Tate in Egypt, a rather alarming aphymo.cardiograph to the wrists of phere and suggestion influence the inhabitants. The lineomnibus 100,000,000ft. or so of film which, found experience befell Wanda Hawley fourteen people, ten women and normal judgment of For several scenes taken in the four men, whom he took separately spectator to make him interior of a mosque, a wild Darvish to see the film. The records made fus fention-on entertainment was staged unfor by the ductuations of the pulse fashioned by human - handa tunately, the Arabe, once they got upon the ribbon of moving paper suddenly galvanised into life. really warmed to their work went proved, according to Mr. Lore, thas what gestures and movementą over the score, and introduced such the susperme,

APOCKET KINEMA

A further development in, kine- matography which has a commer cinal value although in the first place the idea was devised for the amusement of amateurs-16 the pocket-size camera, which both faloes and projects pictures. The "Porto cope pocket edition kino- ms employs ordinary standard 6m base, but in the space of one picture ixtoon iniprecsions are received The cost of using firm base is there. fore, reduced to a mixteenth. Pro- jection in achieved by the addition of a small landp-bouse, which men- mures about Bourdandan half inches

fashed

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appar

aan ordinary

The pocket kit

of the crat, in order to

town up show will consist of alone

pres of cathedrals, House 100,00

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great as it is, should be made or avoided by the Aims for adults and children. The saving pleasant variations as eating glass would have been still more intense animated status and other members and biting scorpions in bulves.“

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