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MUSIC

DEFENCE OF THE CINEMA.

Hong Kong Students* Views.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Before mentioning its advantages, let us have a brief account of how- the cinema is made.

DRAMA

SAVING THE DRAMA,

www.

Theatre Decorator to the Rescue.

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FILMS.

KREISLER RECITAL.

King and Queen at the Albert Hall,

The King and Queen visited the Albert Hall on the occasion of Kreisler's recital in ald of Queen Mary's Hospital.

Their Majesties were attended by Princess Alice, the Dowager Coun- tess of Airlie, Lady Bertha Daw- is, Lady May Cambridge, Briga- dier-General the Earl of Lucan, the Hon. Sir Harry Stoner, and Major Reginald Seymour.

On arrival the royal party were received by Prince Henry, president of the hospital, and by Earl Howe, president of the Royal Albert Hall Council,

Stockholm, June 5. The Swedish theatres, threatened by the competition of sumptuous cinemas with excellent music, have First of all, the director, who is now resorted to an ingenious really, the holder of the fate of the device to cater for the public he ordering highly artistic decorations einema. has to pick out a well from the best of the young Swedish sclelted story generally either bas-painters. The rich colouring and ed on a very popular novel or some the marvellous "symphonies" in portion of history. The story is milieu arrangements, working with striking effects of Rights, shadows then passed to the scenario writer and profiles, have won the admira who adds various details. These tion of the dramatic critics as well are the two main steps of the literas of the art critics, and the pre- sent-day public seems to be more ary work. The technical phase is attracted by aesthetic decoration to prepare scenes, caste, costumes, than by the play itself. The danger of the players becoming puppets in electrical appliances and cameri

a wondrously-painted setting "shootings." Everything being

overcome by the efforts of the stage ready in the studio, the director manager in getting the actors and

Although it was a royal perform- commences his work, to direct and supervise the production. It is no fashions and introducing a strikingers that Kriesler, whose first item actresses to speak and move in new

ance there were so many late com must understand familiarity of language. chsy task; he different branches

was the Mendelssohn's concerto In During the now, ending season E minor, had to wait nearly five science. particularly, psychology. "The Taming of

and "A Mid- ture belongs to the business side of summer Night's Dream" have been the management.

Thus the cinema is a productions by the gifted artistes Sandro given in this new way with decora- welded together by the appropriate Malmquist and Isane Grunewald, combination of literature, philo and

admirable scenic painter Jon as the concentration and energy of And. now attached to the Royal The author. director,

and Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm,, business experts. It is also an ex has decorated the mystic. Strind pensive product-pictures costing berg play "To Damascus" and "On millions of dollars are by no means Board." by Prince Willhelm, young-

est son of King Gustaf.

of

art and

Distributing or releasing the pic tony and Cleoput Shrew." "An minutes between two of the move- |

ments. This was a source of un- due annoyance both to Kreisler and their Majesties.

After the first half of the pro- gramme Kreisler was summoned to their majesties.

sophy, science and fine arts as well proved to be great successes the Royal box and congratulated by

uncommon.

actors

Were it the worst and most harm-

painter

On the operatic stage such ful thing in the work, 28 some artistic pageant is more conform people think, it would receive pubilcable with the spirit of the art, and censure, resulting in heavy loss. the well-known On the contrary, the cinema is a rarded great pruise and the pro ducer reaps a richly earned reward. Thousands and thousands of people throughout the world willingly pay | to see good pictures and cinema going is a part of their regular time table.

In so much as the cinema is a profact of high refinement, as mun tioned above, a clue abservation of Home of the good pictures will show us the contributions of the cinema to the world. No wonder some of the schools employ it as a means to supplement the usual forms of The cinema works into the minds

Tenac Grunewald's Oriental decorations to "Samson and Delilah" and nis quite anachronistic colours and arrange ments to Offenbach's "Orpheus la Hades" ereated the taste of the public for the new art. Jon-And, artistic globe-trotter of quick perception and sure éve, has framed the "Beggar Student," by Millocker, in a series of changing wonders of craftsmanship and art.

COLUMBIA RECORDS.

The Singing Sophomores, who have done good work for the Colum- bia Company, show that they have lost none of their harmonte sense during their absence from the cata logues, but return with renewed zest. They sing "Here in my urms." from "Lido Lady," and "I'd love to meet that old sweet- heart of mine." and sing them with a fine balance of tone and with many unexpected touches of "vocal orchestration"-which happens to be the prevailing fashion. Vaughn de Leath prefaces her new records As a consequence of this new ten by a sort of vocal "till ready," and deney in theatre painling, the pits so shows that she is in line with and gallerics are being filled, and her contemporaries, whispering and in spite of the high fees to the others. She sings "That's a good artistes, the theatres seem to pay--siri" and "Susie's Feller," and sings stains a fent in these material them with the intelligence we have, istic days.

"THE FARMER'S WIFE."

FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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

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15

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©THE INTREMATIONAL SYNDICATE.

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HORIZONTAL

T-Veras-ty

6-A spear-like weapon 10-Equanimity

11-A fat plece of wood 13-To pay out 15-At a later date 10-A pointed end 17-Warchoute 19-A small spot 20-Playing card (pl.) 22-Negligent 23-Weight of packaga 24-The covering on a

house

26-A salling vessel 28-Railroad (abbr) 29-Pronoun

31-To make headway

agalost a current 33-Bhut violently 36-Parforma 38-A poem 40-Cattle 42-Boy's name 43-To let fail, an a

Uşuld

45-Look

HORIZONTAL #Cent.) | 46-Rough places of

broken stone. 40-Made much ado

about trifles 50-Girl's namo 51-Highways +2-A shalt 63-A semi-solid

glutinaus substance

VERTICAL

1-Ppizangu 2-One who' ripe 3-Aselleation to an

and

4-To mind

-To torder

7- no manner B-Pertaining to an animal's talk $-Mistako

10-Part of a flower 12-To prevent

14-A colored glazed earthenware

VERTICAL (Cont.)

18-What is the

Keystone State? (abbr.)

21-Separates into sizes 23-To twitch 25-Mineral in its

original alate 127-A shoemaker's

Implement

30-A landowner

(Scotch) 31-Used for housing

horses

22-A dejected parson 33-E80

34-Bock containing

services for. celebration of mass 35-Useless plants 37-Unreasonably

Bovere

30-Prefix meaning

"IWO"

41-Being in want

43-Metallio dross

44-To entice

47-To offer

18-Crafty in character 49-Note of the scale SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or carinatio er bath.

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

that

he

right to expect from the quint |of men-leaving vivid Impressions |

lady who first told us what "banana which last throughout life. These

oil". was. Norah Blaney shows facts can be shown by reviewing

that the company of Gwen Farrer Pic. several popular pictures.

Speculation as to who will direct was not indispensable to her artis- tures like "The Big Parade" and the British fillm to be made of "The try. She sings, and sings very "The Crowded Hours" arouse our Farmer's Wife," the play which ran feelingly. "While my pretly one hatred of war by showing us the for 1,329 performances at the Court sleeps. then, in another mood, the horrors and futility of that method Theatre, Sloane-square, S.W., ends quaintly written number, "If you of settling international differ with the news ences. We seem to be carried back to Hitchcock will make the picture.

that Mr. Alfred hadn't gone away,"

Percival Mackey's Carnival Sing- and his story is so lacking in apon- past ages when we see such pictures probably as soon as he has finished ers serve up a medley of vocal gems taneity thut we have the as "Robin Hood," "Richard, the his forthcoming production catifled, extracted from "Queen High," with feeling

must have Lion Hearted." and "Abraham "The Ring." Both will be made at a piano accompaniment played, we been rending the Hincs at Lincoln." The thrilling "Black the new Studios at Elstree, Hert suppose, by Percival himself, since the time the record was made. Pirates," and "Clothes make the fordshire.

he is conducting the performance Edward Avis--please note the sur- Pirate," disclose the most striking As an indication of the interest of the musical play at the Queen's name gives imitations of certain lives of the sea-faring outlaws. We that nearly all writers now take in Theatre. This is a good disc to English birds-the Willow Warbler, fancy ourselves to lie enjoynig or tim matters, it is noteworthy that make a merry crowd merrier the Blackbird, the Chaffinch, the sharing the softest hours, when Mr. Eden Phillpotts, who wrote the which reminds us: If you happen Cuckoo, the Yellow-Hammer

the "Monsieur Beaucaire," "A Thief in play, is said to be re-writing, re of old or middle-aged timers, put on and he strikes me us being astonish-

to attract to your house a number Blackcap and the Song-Thrush- Paradise," and "The Dance Mad shaping and expanding the plot of Tony Lowry's medley of old songs, ingly faithful. On the reverse he news" are shown on the screen, and "The Farmer's Wife" ao our spirits are raised on seeing ready for the screen version.

himself, Lowry plays the piano-not great, contributes towards "The Nightin- Fairbank's pictures. The hard

In the past it has been no uncom by any means, but with just the gale's Trill," and the title indicates games exhibited in, "Brown of Harmon thing authors to criticise sort of punch to "get over" the 16 the nature of the composition. He vard," and "The Freshman" thrill film-makers for "distorting", their items he has extracted from the ia a remarkably fine whistler, is this us. Our fields of vision are broad plots: to-day most of them recognise as

past. He plays the choruses of human Avis. ened by the wonderful picture "The that the plot of many novela and some of the numbers which were Lost World," which affords us a more plays requires pretty drastic popular five and twenty years ago chance to see the most rarely found alteration before either can beasts of which some species are vide a workmanlike film-play. said to be extinct. If the proverb, Mr. Noel Coward has consented "To laugh once a day will make you to a very free and truly bowdleris healthy is true, then, the comedies ed version of "The Vortex" used with Harold Lloyd and Charles for the film of that name, which Chaplin are surely as good for one Mr. Adrian Brunnel has just be as a tonie from a doctor.

gun to dirct,-I.B.

The cinema is a thing which makes the past present, the distant near; places us in the society of

and which have been heard at the pro- Empire recently, and inspires his bearers vocally. There is only one false note, and it is difficult to understand just why Tony Lowry struck it--he finishes with "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag," which is a song of the war.

FORGOTTEN GLUCK OPERA.

Layton and Johnstone come up to scratch us usual with two double- sided discs. They sing the modern-

Billy Boy," Talking to ised version of the old chanty,

the

Moon," Time,

" and

great men or in the field of a horri- At the Vienna High School and ble battle; calls up our favourite Academy of Music some students "A herd of the

Anywhere, which

heroes of the past before us as if they were come to life again; ex forgotten one-act comic opera, "Der looks as if it is going to make a nui- gave a spirited rendering of Gluck's plains the uses and processes of Zauberhaum" ("The Magic Tree"), sance of itself. Elsie Carlisle, a working different inventions; intro- duces fresh ideas, quaint fashions Reger. It was composed in 1759 Leath and Eileen Stanley, sings "I under the clever baton of Robert

comedienne who recalls Vaughn De and customs of various peoples; and and performed for the first time at can't get over a boy like you loving last of all, raises the civilisation of the Schonbrunn Castle in French. a girl like me," which Terry and the world. Certainly, it is a power- When he stayed in Paris Gluck re- Pat Kendall are still singing at the al influence as well as a great in wrote "The Magic Tree" Ita musle Empire, and the quaintly written is sunny and charming and bears number, "Meadow Lark." Sophle

dustry.

It may be that some of us only the mark of genius, while the plot Tucker, that buxom, blatar:t singer see its wicked phase and declare leaves the impression of the con- of Americanisms, is heard against that morst of the pictures really ventional of the period.

teach the outlaws ways of commit ting theft or murder by showing: them secrets. Well. once these secrets are disclosed before the public, they cannot be called secrets any longer, and at the same time act as clues to the detectives.

as

With so many advantages aforesaid, the value of the cinema should not ve under estimated M. F. in the "Yellow Dragon."

A SOOTHING BALM.

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for rheumatic Foster, known as the "Vicar of paine, much relief is afforded by Mirth," is now mirthful in his now mtssaging the affected parts thorough disc, "The Parson and the Charles- ly with Chamberlain's Fain Balm. Try ton," and if it were not for his it when you have need of such a pre- paration and see for yourself what an interpolated "Yes, I think so he excellent liniment it in. Sold every would be very dull indeed. where.

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