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MUSIC · DRAMA

£600,000 FILM.

"BEN HUR'S" MANY BIG THRILLS.

CROWD OF 50,000:

Since 1908, when General Lew Wallace's novel "Bon Har"

Was filmed for the first time in one reel, the status and magnitude of the kinema have changed. The new "Ben Har," which has opened at the Tivoli, Strand, has taken three years to make and coat approximate- ly £600,000, Almost purely spoc- tacular, bringing to the screen crowds 50,000 strong, re-creating a semblance of the glory that was Rome and Jerusalem in the time of Christ, this overwhelming picture provides many thrille.

The first, and perhaps the most. effective, is a vivid scene of the slave-benches in a Roman trireme. Row after row of naked, broken men tug ceaselessly as the great single ears as the slave master remorse- "lessly beats time with bis mullets. The vessel is attacked by pirates and there is a magnificently staged naval battle.

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Chariot Thril},

Equally thrilling is the eagerly awaited chariot-race in which the hero, Judah, a Prince of Israel,, en

AUTHOR'S LUCK.

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KIEPURA TAKES BERLIN BY STORM.

"NEW CARUSO'S", ADVENT.

The advent of "the new Caruso" The Ghost Train has achieved

has been heralded for some months a year's run in London.

The author of the play la Mr. past in Berlin: Since a young man of twenty-twb, or so, Jan Kiepura Arnold Ridley, who is engaged in a bont and shoe business in Bath.

by name, of Polish bizth and pea- He wrote "The Ghost Train" about

sant family, astonished the Vien- two years ago, and it was tried on

nese by his magnificent tenor voice, tour for eight weeks and then given up as a failure. But Mr. Ridley his name has been carefully watch- persevered. At his own expense heed. In mall week Jan Klepura.song gave three private performances in London to two leading "managers, neither of whom, however, was satisfied with it.

In the end its chance came

through the quick failure of "The Silver Fox, which ran for only a fortnight at a West End theatre. The syndicate which had put on "The Silver Fox" was at a loss for a fresh play, and Mr. Harry.Cohon, the head of it, agreed to consider "The Ghost Train", despite its pre vious career.

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for two evenings at Berlin's, muni- cipal opera house. It seems blear, now that the calm appraise- ment of the critics and the enthu- siastle sudience have come to the same conclusion, that the of the world will shortly have R new idol.

women

One of Germany's leading musical critics known for the soundness and severity of his jadyment, Dr. Adolf Weissmann, describes the voice as It now plays to about $1,600 a of a phenomenal tenor, scarcely. week in London, la being toured, incomparable to any other in strength the provinces by four companies, and brilliancy" with the reserve has been produced in the United that as yet it is "not, sufficiently States and on the Continent, and a modulated and needs further train- company is shortly going to Aus-ing." This perfect voice is allled iralin with it..

to an athletic and stalwart frame of the youthful appearance rare on operatie stage, pleasing manners, according to all accounts, and

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It is a bad week for the author when his royalties from it do not amount to well over £100

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gages in a contest to the death with Messala, the hated Roman. Here' the motion picture camera provides astounding ocular sensations. "One does more than see the chariot race with its thousands of spectators: one takes part in it. The

screen

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PROTEGE.

Dame Clara Butt has adopted as her musical protege Stanley "Ayres, aged 10, the son of a London deli- very carman, for whom she haj

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house, Hampstead when she presented the boy, to a distinguished audience. He gave a demonstration of his ability a8 & pianist, playing Haydn, Chopin, and Holbrooke,

is swept with swiftly changing pie-arranged to provide a musical edu- tures of each contestant straining cation, every nerve to outdistance his rival.. The galloping Arab steeds, with at dilated nostrils and glaring eye- balls, even the very chariots them- selves, seem about to dash out of the screen on top of the audience, which finds it almost impossible to draw breath until after the obvious conclusion the triumph of the hero.

Dame Clara said he was one of the musically talented children of poor parents discovered by the Layinskaya Musical Scholarship Association.

Fine, in another way, are the naively sincere reproductions of scenes in the life of the Saviour.. As soon as my attention was The sacred figura is never actually drawn to him, I realised that he was seen, though its presence is made an exceptionally gifted boy," asid manifest. There is no real acting, Dame Clara. nor time for it. In the picture, but "He has great talent and the its general effect is compelling and tempérament of the artist.

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ship under the Levinskaya Associa tion for Poor Children I firmly believe he has the making of a bril- liant British pianist.".

it does succeed in conveying a live-therefore granting him a scholar ly impression of the conflict be tween Rome and Israel twenty cen turies ago and the coming of Chris tfanity, that' change of heart which gradually spread over all the world.

"Ben Hur" is conceived: In a "Cautions Campbell," the play at grandiose manner and conacienti the "Q" Theatre, Kew Bridge, W. ously and boldly carried through has been acquired by Mr. Robert without loss of the requisite direct-Courtheidge for West End produc- ness and simplicity..

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quite boyish smile and general zest in life.

Hardened critics, full of reserve during the first evening's "Rigo- letto," succumbed to the spell of Tosca," and though still full of warning as to the need for study, unite in prophesying for the golden voice of Kiepura a golden future.

MR. D. W. GRIFFITH

Mr. D. W. Griffith has severed his connection with the Fampus Players Corporation of America after making only two pictures for them, the first of which, ""That Royle Girl," was an extremely po effort. The second, "The Sorrows of Satan," has not yet beep seen. It England.

Certain discussions have taken place recently. between Mr. J. D. Williams, of British National Ple- tures, the new English film-produc-- ing concern, and Mr. Griffith with a view, to ascertaining whether it might be possible for Mr. Griffith to come over and make a film in the firm's new studios at Elstree, in Hertfordshire. No decislon has been reached on the subject.

Mr. Williams has also tried to persuade Mr. Charlie Chaplin to make his next picture in England.

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