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MUSIC FROM AIR.
Dorothy Revier, talented and beauty star of the Master Pictures "Stolen Pleasures," is one of the
HANDS THAT PLAY WITHOUT | music) ia divorcing itself from me most admired of screen
AN INSTRUMENT.
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In the Bechstein Hall in Berlin, a florld and hideous place where Johannes Brahms and Anton Rubinstein have played, I have istened to the strangest concert of all time (writes Philip Page, in the "Evening Standard").
Miraculous is an overworked ad- icctive these days, but to music that comes from no instrument and no voice, that" is neither heard over the wireless nor the result of a gramophone record it is surely ap- plicable.
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The quality of the music matters little, and those who produced it were careful to explain that they were primarily scientists, and not musicians. There was show manship, and no deliberately cul- tivated atmosphere of mystery. Prospero's lale was far distant, but not, it seemed, his magic, and one did in truth ask, "Where should this music be, the air or the earth?"
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A Professor from Leningrad. The music was produced by a man in a dinner jacket-Professor Theremin, Russian, from the Physikalisch-Technischen Institute, Leningrad. His knowledge of Ger- man was pecullar, but not exten- sive,-and-a-long "vorspiel" was de- livered by a German friend. This was an explanation of the technical basis of this "atherwellen-musik, and I will refer to it later.
What Professor Theremin did was, in short, to make music with
Its astounding novelty consists in the fact that for the first time in history music (other than vocal chanical means. The air, not an Instrument, is played upon. More over, anyone without any technical knowledge is able by this means to produce music comparable in its beauty of tone to that which the skilled player of an instrument may take years to attain, and this not by switching on the wireless, put- ting on a gramophone record, Or sitting down at a planola. It indeed a revolution."
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Women.
Previous to being chosen. for a screen career Miss Revier studied the art of, and appeared in Russian ballet dancing. During the past season Alexander Neville, celebrated American portrait painter, wOB commissioned to choose 25 of the most beautiful types among screen: women to decorate the Salon d'Arti at the Sesquicentennial Exposition at. Philadelphia. Miss Revier's colourful type was the first to win favour with the artist, and so it was SCREENINGS.
that the black-haired, grey-eyed screen star and daughter of Cali- Notorious persons and undesir-fornia was chosen, not alone as a able atories movies by means of co-operative women
are kept out of the member of a group of beautiful to decorate the hall of arrangement between the individual screen beauty, but also to represent producer and the Motion Picture her State as California's typical Producers and Distributors of beauty for the year of 1926. This America, according to Will Haya. is the fourth time that she has Asked how it happened that been the winning choice in beauty several notorious characters had contests. failed to appear in the movies after announcing "fabulous" offers from the producers, Hays said: "The Motion Picture Producers and Die- tributors do not censor storles, nor bar anybody from pictures,
.
"If any producer of our group is offered the picture rights to a book or play about which he has any doubt-I mean as to its propriety
Ben Turpin recently burlesqued the whole school of Graustarklan toy kingdom romances in a slap- stick comedy. William Franey, re- cently returned to the Universal banner en an actor of Reginald Denny's "I'll Be There," recalls what he claims was the first of the for general showing-he notifies Joker series put out by Universal this office. If the association agrees twelve years or more ago, shortly with the producer it would be un- after an early "mammoth feature wise to picturise the subject, the production" of Jules Verne's classic, producer refrains from doing so. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
"In this way not only are certain the Sea." It was
a bathing girl subjects failing to reach the public comedy called "Twenty Thousand through the screen, but it is possible Lega Under the Sea." that literature itself may be releed in moral tone because authors want their works to be picturised."
his hands, with hands that touched nothing that mortal eye could see He plucked, not at harp, but at the air. With his right hand shak- ing a non-existent "plectrum," and his left moving slowly up and down in space to regulate the changes from "piano" to "forte," he "play- San Francisco will furnish the ed" simple melodies Connais tu background for Mary Fickford's le pays?" from "Mignon,"
Saint-new picture, "My Best Girl." The Saen's "Le Cygne," Shubert's "Ave) Maria"---with a tone like that of
violin, though rather more rounded
and hornlike.
Between each piece he explained haltingly, that the rendering might) not have been technically imper- fect, but that it came from the air, and from nowhere else. He was obviously sincere and truthful; but had he been the reverse, the array eminent German scient- and professors would discovered any churla- tanism by the sheer force of domo-like foreheads and intent ex- pressions of Teutonic intellectual- ity to the nth degree.
of
ists
have
Eintsein Present,
story was written by Kathleen Norris after a suggestion by Miss Pickford, and the heroine is a girl clerk in a 5 and 10 cent store.
Einstein was there, gifing the right German word when the lec- turer faltered, and applauding-a sad-faced man in a dark grey suit. Gerhart Hauptmann, robust and rubicund, nodded approval. Among Pickford will choose
There is a chance that Miss the many
musicians
a girl from Slezak, the Wagnerian tenor, and each of the 5 and 10 cent stores in Bruno Walter, the conductor.
the city to
appear in "My Best "Where the professor is leading Girl," providing that suitable types us to," Walter said to me after the can be found and that the stores demonstration, "I cen hardly
were Leo
think until I have viewed the whole co-operate in the plan. position, calmly and alone. Music without Instruments! A voice that
able infant."
Alma Rubens was born in San
Francisco, California. When a child Alma had dreams of seeing her name in electric lights as a drama-
tie star. Her dolls invariably were named after leading actors and actresses. Miss Rubens' first screen appearance was with Douglas Fair- banks as leading lady in "The Half] Breed." She is one of the few stars who has never had the fatigu- ing experience of "gate crashing" as an extra. All her knowledge of the technique of the screen 'has been learned in leading roles. The charming actress left California after her picture with Mr. Fair- banks and visited many parts of the world; including Canada, England, Germany, France and the Orient, to broaden her outlook and assist in the visualisation of her roles. Miss Rubens is interested in short story writing; and particularly in sim- plicity of style and the beauty of words which express unaffectedly the thought of the writer. Her first role this season is in the Fox production "Marriage Licence." She has just finished her role in "The Heart of Salome,"
Tom Mix, Fox Western atar,
A big feature these days is apt made certain that his wife would
is no voice! The thing is in its to be followed by a comedy burles-not find herself short of cash at infancy, of course but a formid-que film on the same order, "The
Half Back of Notre Dame," pat terned after "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and "Bull and Sand,” modelled on Ibanez' famous "Blood and Sand," are cases in point.
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Carlsbad, or when she takes a look at Westminster Abbey on her forth- To the student of Hertizian
coming trip abroad. Åt a little waves this "air music" is, possibly,
dinner party given by Mrs. Mix's not quite so formidable a problem,
mother, Tom presented his wife Professor Theremin generates these
with a cheque for £5,000 to cover waves in a small wooden box, from which projects a brass rod about a
expenses and another for spending An epidemic of strange licence money. The latter was for £20,000, foot long. He touches neither the box nor the rod. The waves are plates broke loose in Los Angeles which should buy heaps of souve- there and by agitating them a high recently and the police stopped 200 a. Mrs. Mix, who recently note or a low note is produced. To automobiles with plates which came underwent a serious operation, left produce these notes and even a de- from no known part of the world. Los Angeles on May 12 for her trip finite tune is not at all difficult. The cars were lined along the curb
abroad. My knowledge of science simply for almost a half hour, before police does not exist, but I found it easy officials could check up the story told
In-
to follow the professor's example, by the man in charge of the and, with no discourteous Inten- tion, I shook out "Home, sweet strangely licensed caravan. home", from the air a most
unquiry revealed that the care were canny experience.
used by F. W. Murnau while making "Sunrise" for Fox. In the picture there is a city which represents a
:
The Limitations.
At present the limitations of this big town, but is purposely not iden-
mystery music are:
(1) That only a violin tone is produced (though a scarcely 'suc- cessful attempt was made to extract a human contralto voice);
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tified as belonging to any particular country. The autos naturally had plates which were just as cosmopoli tan. The man in charge had for- gotten to remove these when entered Los Angeles. The chief of (2) That only a single note can police finally found "Old Man be evolved by the individual, and Absent Minded" guilty of the notes in combination-i.e., harmony
on the
are not at present possible. violation and cleared up the altua. Several individuals, however, could tion by placing an officer remedy this deficiency by "playing" lending car to take the procession simultaneously.
through the city.
BY GOLLY-THAT MUSIC IS TERRIBLE - 1 THOUGHT
MAGGIE COULDN'T PLAY: BUT THAT'S WORSE.“
BRINGING UP: FATHER.
IF THAT KIDS PLAYIN”.
HOME SWEET HOME - IT'S BEEN CHANGED SINCE | LAST HEARD IT-
1927, by [147. Forties Sarry
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made, by an expert but our readers arc warned to look out for 'occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
17
12
05
18
70
21
20
37
38
39 440
142
16
47 148
49
50
51
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155
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 1-Religious ceremony 47-Head 6-To fall in drops 40-Jawel 9-Sleeping
compartment
10-To Indulge fraaly 12-Chair 13-Consumed 18-Affirmative (pl.) -17-To sharpen
18-Small web-footed animal (pl.) 20-One's friends 27-Fowt
23-To pince
A grain
-N. Gan, State
(abbr.) 27-Pleasure 29-The head
(humorous) 30-Abbreviation for
an laland In V. B. 31-Bobbing sound 33-Pronoun 35-Ability
37-An Island off the
coast of England 38-To pass slowly 30-Part of an act 41-A kind of avisei
potato
43-A small houso or
cabla
46-A chemical sumx
50-Prefix Back B1-To hang down B3-To astound 66-Dlangreenbis 57-Possessive pronoun
(pl.)
59-Not brillant 30-Obstructs
81-A dunce 63-A beverage 84-Without hair 85-Handed out 67-Small rodent 63-Heavy vehicle' 70-Cirl's name
VERTICAL
1-A food 2-Dexterity 3-Street (abbr.) 4-Keen
5-Bediment of liquide
-in regard to (abbr)} 7-Climbing vine B-To petp
9-Part of verb-"to be" 11-Habitat of an
- animal
12-Cut
14-Part of mouth
16-Vogue
VERTICAL (Cont.)
17-An old political
party
18-A MAZIN 19-To arr 21-Bucsessor
29-Underground ve!) 24-Falls 27-To 1040
consciousnai 29-The breast 32-To be indebted 33-An aye Infection 34~A tree 36-To- marry 39-Bingly
40-Accumulation of
vapor in the air
42-Plenty 44-Protect 45-Finishes
46-The shall of a pen
40-To ridiouls 02-To poke 54-Foolish
55-A South Amerlaan
animal Bet
quantity of cotton 68-Used on snow 60-Bottom
| 82-A product of real
64-A sweet roll. |66–Southern State
(abbr.) 166-Forward
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