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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1974

******** LAST PERFORMANCES,000c To-day at 5.30 & 9,15, of ÷

POTASH

AND

PERLMUTTER

BARNEY BERNARD

with

ALEX CARR

VERA GORDON

The greatest characters of stage or fiction on the screen at last, Thrill getting-laugh provoking- tear chasing entertainment that has made the nation laugh and now will make it roar.

THE STAR

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PROGRAMME FEATURES.

TO-NIGHT.

CORONET-Trifling.

Women."

WORLD-Harold Lloyd in

"Safety Last."

STAR-"Potash and Perl-

mutter."

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LOVE THE THEME.

Famous Screen Director's Views.

"What the world neeth most to-day is a better understanding of humanity. What it wants ja love and human sympathy. Thore is all 100 little of it in the world to-day."

"A WOMAN OF PARIS."

Mr. Charles Chaplin As A Filar Producer.

was suggested by "A Woman of That there are two Chaplins

Paris,"

There is the Charlie Chaplin of the comic feet, the "remarkable trousers, and the eccentric hat. And there is the Mr Charles Chaplin, the producer of "A Woman of Paris."

THE CHINA MAIL.

CINEMA CHATTER.

SOUTH SEA ISLES.

Picturesqueness All Right,TMBut Alice Terry Prefers Comfort.

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SPECIAL STREET.

"West of the Water Tower."

Fifty carpenters have just finished building at the Paramount Long Island studio the main street of Junction City, the mythi-

LON

CHANEY.

Master Make-up Artist Called "Man of 1,000 Faces,"

There is one screen actor at

· Alice Terry, enacting the role of cal Mid-Western town which is least at whom the public cannot missionary's daughter in the locale for "West of the Water hurl the accusation, "Oh, he's

Tower," the anonymous novel of "Where the Pavement Ends," the small-town life which is being always the same." He is Lon South Sea story produced by Rex produced as a picture with Glenn Chaney. Ingram in Florida, which is com- Hunter starring. Hunter could In fact, Chaney is never the ing-to-the Coronát Theatre, is per- nut go on location to a small town came. You may see him to-duy fectly in love with the South Seas because he is playing every night in one characterization and to- -especially with that portion of in "Merton of the Movies," so it morrow when he comes to town in them which lies within motoring was necessary for the producers something else you will wonder distance of Miami's good hotels. to bring the town to him.

who he is. Chaney has developed Alice makes no bones about it- The street which is not more the art of make-up more than any she likes the South Sea Islands,than 200 yards long, will show the other person in pictures. He but with all modern improve. Pastime Pool Hall, the Foland fills the rarest and most difficult ments.

China Hog Association headquar-types with a perfection born of ters, the Commercial House, the his own discoveries before his "I know I leave myself open to drug store and other familiar dressing table. "The Frog" in the charge of being a Cook's Tour stores and shops that make up the "The Miracle Man" was a port- romanticist, a catalogue adven-main street of the small Middle rayal almost terrorizing in its turer, so to speak, by admitting Western town which is the setting reality. Next he was the king of my desire to have hot and cold for the story A concrete side-the underworld in the Gouverneur running water in my rooms at walk has been laid and water Morris story. "The Penalty," Wailon," said Miss Terry, recent-plugs and white-way electric light a sneaky Ghink Marshall Neilan's ly. Your hardy camper, and shoulders, and insist that I've not just as every well regulated main explorer will certainly shrug her poles were set by electricians. In fact the scenic street will function

modern conveniences," she went tower will loom in the distance. pluck enough to do without street functions, and the water on. "As a matter of fact, I think I'm right in insisting on a small degree of comfort, and I can't see where that should, in any way, of the country. have any effect on my enjoyment

It has been said of this produc- tion that Mr. Charles Chaplin, as a producer, has done something to

"Do you remember the descrip- revolutionise film methods. That tion of Wailon, as written by John was scarcely borne out recently. Russell, the author of 'Where the In effect, "A Woman of Paris" had Pavement "Ends," Miss Terry nothing more to convey than the asked? "It's a perfectly wonder- usual stereotyped film play storyful bit of description, and I've of mixed love.

Mr. Charles Chaplin, however, has made this "revolution": he has reduced the sub-titles to the minimum. Ile has, for the most part, left the pictures to tell their

own story.

Ilis methods may be new, but they are not exactly lucid.

memorized it. It goes like this:

"Wailoa—one of those islands where mail is delivered once a year; where exports are variously copra, shells, and natives; and where, according to his ideas, a man may find Paradise-or hell.'

"I know that I get just as much of a thrill from the picturesque native huts, from the semi-civiliz- ed natives, from their vivid and

Yet, on the whole, "A Woman of Paris" is an interesting film, with the chief characters engagexciting dances, as your intrepid ingly played by Miss Edna Pur- vince, Mr. Adolphe Menjou, and Mr. Carl Miller. ;

Thus did Emory Johnson sum up his reasons for producing such popular productions for the screen

But Mr. Charles Chaplin is not as "In the Name of the Law." yet so good a writer and director "The Third Alarm" and now as he is a film actor. "Westbound Limited. in which this brilliant young director glori- fies and immortalizes the railroad

engineer and all the hundreds of

Thousands of railroad workers:

POLA NEGRI.

Another Picture Finished,

Herbert Brenon has finished

The Story of a wife's dreams of wealth and

a husband's realities.

POOR MEN'S WIVES

A Companion picture to "Rich Men's Wives" & a bigger production,

RECORD. RUN.

traveller who braves all discom-The Covered Wagon's" Success. forts in order to understand the prople better. Must one live in a

better our homes are than those?

No.

ין

"

Which is "the easy Road"?

-the high-way slippery with

cocktails and dollars

or the low-way smoothed by

suffering and love?

Thomas Meighan

tries both in his tremendously gripping picture with

Lila Lee and Gladys George,

"THE EASY ROAD"

TO-MORROW

at 6 and 9.15 at

xxxxxx THE STAR

"PRISONERS OF LOVE,

Noted Screen Artists Form Company.

The cast that appears in sup- port of Betty Compson in her first

AUDIENCE'S FUN.

Letting the public peep bahind the screen spoils its fun is the

demands. He has been cast for Women." is at

Bits of Life." His recent work belief of Rex Ingram whose latest has been equally as varied in its production for Metro, Trifling the Coronet the title role in "The Hunchback Theatre. of Notre Dame" and for Fagin in

To acquaint audiences, Mr. "Oliver Twist,"

Ingram holds, with the mechanics starring production, "Prisoners of of motion picture technique cracks Love," the illusions of the screen, and, he Coronet Theatre soon, is made up adds, people go to see pictures for of real stars in their own right. the emotional reaction from illu-

Roy Stewart was starred by sions it creates.

But the most unusual and diffi- cult part he has yet assayed is that of Yen Sin in "Shadows." Its obstacles lie in the subtle inter pretation which it demands to show the Chinese nature in a way it has never before been painted. Yen Sin is not the degraded type of Oriental so common in screen drama but a wise, inscrutable old Chinaman who pits his ancient philosophy against the teachings of the Puritanical townfolk of a New England fishing village. '

which

comes to the

"The thrill would be gone from Triangle and has just finished ü poetry if, as marginal notes to the long-term contract with Federal verses, the writer related in detail Productions. He has been leading how difficult it had been to rhyme man for Lillian Gish, Katherine such and such a line. Take away the casing of a piano and throw a spotlight upon the wires within so that the eye is drawn to them, and the recital would suffer from

McDonald and Bessie Love, Other popular leading women have sup ported him in his own starring

features.

Emory Johnson has played icada.

the distraction of mechanical opposite Mary Pickford, Dorothy The make-up for the part was curiosity. So why reveal how Dalton, Ethel Clayton, Constance so intricate that it required train is made to order for picture Talmadge and other feminine. Hours and a half to don it. All the scenes; how rail and wrecks are lights of the screen. Miss Comp- nids used from Chaney's paint-

box to create the Yen Sin face simulated; why destroy the illuson engaged him for her second. were his own inventions and the sion when illusion is the prime starring picture.

| desire of the audience?, famous character actor saya that the role is the most satisfactory

one he has ever undertal en.

Producers find

Such is Mr. Ingram's stand upon those whose delight it is to show the public how and when it is being fooled by the devices of illusion. He adds:

That's not real rain,' Chances are-

Senяc.'

Ralph Lewis bad extensive legi- imate stage experience before taking up screen work. He played Chaney has reached the point

Stoneman in The Birth of a in his career where his services

Nation," and has appeared with Mary Pickford in "The Hoodlum,' "The Covered Wagon" closed are in continual demand by re- tumble-down bamboo shark in its rim of thirty-four weeks at cognized producers in Hollywood technical processes, a couple going Eyes of Youth," and with Doug- "If people are familiar with with Clara Kimball Young in order to appreciate how much Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Unlike many others in the pro-to the theatre will not feel pity for las Fairbanks in "When the Must one do without sanitation Hollywood in a blaze of glory, fession, he never experiences a

ke little waif in the rainstorm; Clouds Roll By." Mr. Lewis also simply to understand how the breaking the week's record for the period of enforced idleness be they will murmur to one another?, appeared as star. in "Common

house, also held by the Cruze tween pictures. His engagements natives manage to exist without production, by $1.624. According are usually more than he can Aw, I know how that's done. Claire McDowell is another im- it? My answer is emphatically, to the figures received by wire make time for.

from the Coast and given out by themselves planning pictures in that it might be, but once having portant recruit from the speaking "I love to walk through cocoa- the Paramount office in New York, which. Chaney is to appear with been tricked and then told about it stage. Her motion picture experi- to be sure that I can enjoy modern week were $26,138 as against the they can employ him for the num

great number of productions of dancing to modern music in the house's weekly dollar capacity of her of days that they actually Palm Room or the Cocoanut Grove 25,068.

need him. His yearly earnings of twentieth-century hotel, The picture opened at the reach a surprising figure. within a reasonable distance"

Egyptian last March and its "Where the Pavement Ends" is thirty-four weeks of continuous to the screen by Fred Jackson and Rex Ingram production for showing broke all long-run re-

Victor Varconi, who came from was put into scenario form by Eve Metro. MIngram made. the cords for the Pacific Coast. The Unsell.

screen version from a story by total receipts for the engagement Aitken, now appearing in Cecil B.' Hungary to play in Cecil B, De Alice Terry and were $712,045, or an average of De Mille's "Triumph" can be Mille's new Paramount pictura "It made me think. It broughti Featured in support of Miss John Russell.

The total found in every copy of the King "Triumph" differs from some for- forcefully to my mind that inter-Negri ure Adolphe Menjou and Ramon Novarro have prominent $30,942 per week.

The latter roles. The cast also includes attendance was 695,717, neatly James edition of the Bible. eign Thespians. He tells of no national hates and intrigues were Charles de Roche.

castles, but. freely at the bottom of all of the world's appeared in the original French Harry T. Morey and Edward 100,000 more than the total Aitken is related to the Spotti- ancestral troubles and that if human sym-stage version of the play in Connelly. The photography was population of all greater Los woods, first printers of the Holy admits that his father is a farmer

Angeles." pathy and love could take the place France.

who toil in the service of the work on "Shadows of Paris," Pola laut groves, but when I do I want the gross receipts for the final more than ordinary care so that afterward they remain foreverence embraces appearances in a

public.

"I did not decide, off-hand to produce such pictures," Mr. Jahn- son continued. "I received my first inspiration when I stood at the crowd-lined curb on Fifth Avenue, New York, and saw the American dough-boys return from the scarlet sharables beyond the

Beps.

of hate, our world sufferings

would be at an end.

"Thus I have set out to make love the theme of all my produc

tions. I have sought to show how by love and kindly sentiments whole families are lifted from sorrow to contentment: how the constructive forces of love will develop a feeling of brotherly affection throughout the world that will benefit us all-without exception,

The world was rocked by the greatest war of all time because of hatreds bred in the black domains of intrigue across the seas. Hate has rocked kingdoms without number and sent poten- tates hurtling into the discard.

"Those dough-boys, weary of face and, eye, who trudged up Fifth Avenue to the strains of martial music at the close of the war were a living, breathing sor- mon to me--a sermon of love and buman kindliness-a serman I have tried in my humble way to preach to the paople of the world through my entertaining produc- tians."

"Westbound Limited" goes far beyond the little group of charac- terk with whom Mr. Johnson tells his story. He makes of his "pro- duction a mammoth canvas upon which he paints in bold and vivid strokes his message to the world. At no time does Mr. Johnson permit his subject to become preachy. He strikes with blows like the Hammers of Thor and drives home his convictions that love and human sympathy are the Ureatest forces for good since the yory dawn of creation

Negri's fourth American picture for Paramount. Miss Negri is now spending a short vacation seeing the scenic beauties of California.

"Shadows of Paris" was taken from Andre Picard's French play, "Mon Homme." It was adapted

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A

done by John F. Seitz.

The first name of Spottiwoods

Book.

skeptical."

Clara Horton, who is how but

"Trifling Women" was written, merit. adapted and directed by Rex Ingram. The photography is the work of John F. Seitz. Starratt Ford was production manager.

near Budapest.

You have seen "The Four Horsemen" and "The Prisoner of Zenda";

they are both Rex Ingram's super-specials:-

..

So you know what the name REX INGRAM means to a film production.

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TRIFLING WOMEN

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is another REX INGRAM super-production

featuring

Ramon Novarro, Barbara La Marr, Lewis Stone, Edward Connelly.

Being the tale. told of the beautiful sorceress of Paris and of the three men who loved her in vain. Gorgeous Setting-Fascinating Tale Wonderful Acting- Beautiful Dresses Marvellous Photography Bomething Extraordinary Something you have never seen before.

2.30 and 7.15

A stupendous and magnificent Production.

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sixteen, has been on the stage and in pictures since she was four years old. She played "Youth" in "Everywoman" and was leading Woman in Rex Beach's "Girl From Outside."

KINEMA DRAGON,

Fire-Breathing Monster on the. Film.

new

An entirely

character appeared at Berlin in a kinema drama. It was a dragon 70 feet long, with terrifying eyes and a month which belched fire.

Nobody who saw the film of the monster, apparently, crawling down the face of a high cliff, could believe that the cliff (as I found. when I saw it in a film city near Berlin) was made of scaffolding and paint, and that there were 10 men inside the dragon and 20. men in a trench to support it.

The audience seemed quite re- lieved when the youthful hero "glew" the terrible animal.

HAIR-RAISING REALISM.

A letter from Hollywood says: "Why should the ladies get all the sympathy for sacri- fices made to art? Only just a little while back all the news- papers of the world sympathised with Anna Q. Nilsson, who had her beautiful blonde tresses shorn to play a boy's role in ‘Ponjola. What about poor Jimmy Adams, who lost every hair on his head to play a black-face role in the new Christie comedy," Black and Blue."? Such is life In a film studio that while Adams was running around minus his hair, Bobby. Vernon spent three weeks raising a fyl, beard I to play in a Russian comedy, after (which he was informed that the story would be delayed, and under the circumstances he could trot right over to the barber, ahop and lose the result of his labours,