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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

SCOTLAND'S ARTISTS

101ST NATIONAL EXHIBITION AT EDINBURGH.

REVIEW OF THE PICTURES.

FILM OF PRINCE.

FROM A SMALL BOY IN VELVET.

Under the title of "H.R.H." | After the homogeneity of the ex unofficial pictures of the Prince of short film composed of official and hibition of a hundred years of Scottish art, with which the Royal Wales, which have been assembled Scottish Academy celebrated ita and lasued by a Canadian firm was centenary a year ago, the hundred and first exhibition which opened shown privately yesterday. This in Edinburgh in mail week marked by its cosmopolitan air; the Plaza, Lower Regent Street, was will form part of the programme at The previous collection possessed great variety and this combina-

within its school and S.W.

racial

"DOWN UNDER."

SHORTAGE OF BRITISH FILMS IN AUSTRALIA.

are

THE AMERICAN INVASION.

fonder of the cinema than Aus-

No people in the world tralians (says a correspondent to the "Times.") The Common- wealth has a population of only

about 200,000 a week. six millions. Yet 100,000,000 Aus- tralians attend cinemas yearly, or

The

amount of capital invested in the "It begins with some "still" industry in Australia is enormous. tion of Incident with unity gave it photographs of the Prince as a baby special significance (writes James with his great-grandmother, Queen shortage of British films in Aus- There may be a lamentable 1. Caw, Director of the National Victoria, and with his grandl-tralia, but there is no public pre- Gallery of Scotland, in the "Morning parents. The first motion picture, judice against them. Australasian Post.")

On this ecension, however, the wonderfully clear in spite of its films, Limited, probably the most variety is more obvious in kind, for age, shows the Investiture at Car-powerful "combine" in Austra

the Academy has made a feature of pre-Raphaelite and post-Impression- ist pictures. Ford Madox Brown; Roasetti, Burne-Jones, and G. F. Watts are represented by important works, lent by the Manchester Galleries. These have been placed in centres in the great room.

One of the smaller rooms has been devoted to Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and other post-impression- ists, with whose pictures are exam. ples of Messrs. Walter Sickert, Walter Bayes, and Frank Medworth, and of the younger Scottish pain ters, such as Messrs. S. J. Peploe, Leslie Hunter, and William Crozier, who have been influenced by these new movements.

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The ensemble of this room unexpectedly harmonious, the Scot- tish pictures, especially, toning well with the French. Further variety! has been obtained by the introduc- tion of fine works by Daumier, Manet, and Degas, lent by Mr. Wil| Ham Burrell.

Sir William Orpen's half-length of Lord Dewar, and an earlier pic- ture, "The Model," charming in Bighting, are also on view, together, with Mr. Nicholson's just complet- ed cabinet full-length of Professor Sir Richard Lodge, a refined por trait of a young man by Ambrose McEvoy, and Cayley Robinson's de- lightful "Pastoral." the two last from the Tate Gallery.

Racini Characteristics.

MERRY HILLER MADAL BLO

Qution Borglum, world-renowned sculptor.

lia, claims that its theatres show 21.7 per cent. of Empire flms. This is said to be a greater per- centage than that shown in Great Britain itself. Both this organ- isation and the directors of the Hoyt's Theatre, Limited, have an- nounced their intention to give preference to British and Empire films.

Australians' Regret.

Most of the films, since they come from America, are imported through Sydney. It is a matter of regret to all patriotic Austra- lians that American film pro- ducers have obtained an enor- mously strong hold upon the in- dustry in the Commonwealth.

From the information available, it appears that the British film industry is in a rather chaotic condition, and that until it organ- ises itself and makes a serious attempt to gain a footing in Aus- tralia we shall be compelled to accept a preponderance of the products of Hollywood, in spite of the fact that British films are admitted free of duty, while for- eign films pay at the rate of 11⁄2d. a lineal foot.

The large American film com- panies have agencies in the Com- monwealth, while the British com- panies are scarcely represented at all. Some good Australian films have been made, but they have not been box office successes.

Propaganda Work..

The colouring of many Ameri- can filma with propaganda jars upon the feelings of Australians. In the plots of these pictures the

the coward, or the inefficient is & hero or heroine is an American. In many of the films the rogue,

* FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by en export but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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torian (abbr.) 18-Falso hair 18-Provided that 19-Exclamation 20-Expire 21-Girl's.name 23-Edible karnal 25-Closely confined 26-Damlée

26-Bage

29-Surpaau

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property 38-To-rent

40-Mature

41-By means of 42-Pronoun

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

43-Part of the verb

"to be"

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(abbr.)

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of glass 20-Harangue 22-By

the Bible (abbr.) 80-A drunkard (slang) 24-A relativa 82-A game fish 154-To touch

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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably zure. thea will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in tura ... others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the

numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

education. It is for Empire film producers to see that film educa- tion is imparted along British lines.

LONDON NEW THEATRE.

A novel feature of the new Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, W is the ventilating system.

narvon, the little Prince proceeding The presence of such diverse and through the castle grounds in a interesting elements rather over- velvet jerkin, long white silk hose, shadows the ordinary Scottish pic-and embroidered train, holding tures, especially as neither Sir King George's hand, and with James Guthrie nor Sir D. Y. Queen Mary on his right. Cameron is represented. But the Later pictures, many of them collection as a whole shows the delightfully informal, show the traditional Scoʻish instinct

for Prince in many quarters of the paint as material.

When compared with last year's, America, the United States, and

"Daily Mail'e" new home, for globe. India, Africa, Japan South

installed in Northcliffe House, the By this system, which is also however, there is evidence that Canada welcome "the most popular Scottish painting ia losing some of young man in the world," and now Briton. Strong objection is which the Carrier Engineering its essential racial characteristics and then he snatches time for a taken also to some of the Ameri- Company, of Buckingham-gate, W.,

regards subject, the way in which subject was approached, and in baseball playing,

game of polo, a little instruction can advertising matter which acis responsible, the air is admitted some shoot- companies the films. As much of at the cefling level and is exhaust- in consequence, painted, by the most distinctive Scottish

ing. The picture closes with Im- the "Press-book" matter is re-ed at the floor level. painters

Thus the

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for many years past, portraits and

of the past. As has been the case pressive scenes of the Prince's re-printed in Australia, it passes be- usual practice is reversed with a

natural and intimate "close up" of remedy has been sought in recent ing emciency. turn to England and the most yond the censors' control. A considerable advance in ventilat- the Empire's young ambassador. and will make a widely interesting

The film has been well arranged all film advertising matter shall be regulations, which require that

submitted to the censors.

landscapes bulk most largely.

Good portraits or simple figure pictures, without incident, are con tributed by Sir John Lavery, Messrs. Fiddes Watt, David Alison, and popular addition to any cinema David Foggie, Stanley Cursiter, programme. John M. Aitken, C. W. Crawford.

There is hope that the resolu- tions of the Imperial Conference will bear fruit. In a young, im- pressionable nation the propa-.

I am not, the greatest tenor in randa of the screen in one of the

D. S. Ewart, and others; an im pressive landscape represents the scholarly art of the late James Cadenhead, Messrs. James Pater- the world-John McCormack. Bon, George Houston, Whitelaw Hamilton, and Marshall Brown show well in the same field; amongst more decorative works those by Mr. John Duncan and Mr. Ancel Stronach are noticeable.

In the water-colour room the ex- quisite art of the late Edwin Alex- ander is shown in the series of specially fine drawings.

Sculpture.

The sculpture includes several distinguished works by Dr. Pitten- drigh Macgillivray, two charming stadies by Mr. Reid Dick, Mr. Jacob Epstein's recently completed and over-emphatic bust of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, a fine piece of portrai- ture by Mr. Benno Scholz, and delightful model for a carved wood figure, "St. John the Evangelist," Mrs. Meredith Williams.

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In the architectural room, in ad- dition to interesting designs by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Sir John Burnet, Sir Robert Lorimer, and others, there are several fascinating cartoons for carved stone roundels by Mr. Douglas Strachan, the stain- ed glass artist, and by Mr. M. M. Williams for the bronze service re- liefs for the Scottish National War Memorial, now nearing completion.

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