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NEW ITALIAN OPERA.

CHINESE THEME IN A SCALA

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“BABY CYCLONE.”

to seamen all over the world. It la filled with rare curlos and Ivory carvingo. Mr. Brown happens at DOG STORY AT "THE LYRIC,” present to be in the West Indies.

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Eight new productions are: acta, "Thien Hoa," with music by scheduled to be finished at the De Evans the young maestro Guido Bianchini, Mille studio. was given at the Scala rocently and was well received by an ap preciative audience, which applaud- ed somewhat hesitatingly after the first and second acts, but made up for it by frank and spontaneous enthusiasm at the end of the third

Kellog

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.Wyn Weaver. Frank Vosper. Cecilly Byrne. Arthur Hammond. .Alfred Drayton. .Sebastian Smith. .Helon Haye.

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[By George M. Cohan.]

Crandall Joseph Meadows Hollywood, May 2-"The Chess Jessle Hurley

Dr. Hearn Players," says the London "Daily Jim Hurley Express" is one of those historical Lydia Webstor aims for which the French are dis- George tinguished, full of exciting or curi- Webster ous incidents, accurately and beau- Mrs. Webster tifully costumed and having the Edward The opera is Chinese in subject, same appeal as the sweeping novels Maid with a distinctly Chinese character of Dumas.". in the personages and altuations.

Belle Bennett and Jean Hersholt The libretto, written by Signor Forzano, was taken from a Chin- have been engaged to play la D. W. version of "The ese play by the same author, which Griffith's had a fair amount of success in Battle of the Sexes." Italian theatres some years ago. The action is placed at Canton.

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Let me sum it up after the ex- cellent manner of P. C. Kellog. Jessie Hurley had a Pekinese dog called Cyclone, and much prefer- "The Yellow Lily," a screen ver-red it to Jim. So Jim stole Cyclone The name of "Thien Hoa" is in-ston of a play by Lajos Biro, went and sold it to Lydia Webster, for terpreted as "Flower of Heaven." into production at the First Na-pound; Jessie stole it back from tional Studios. The players in Lydia; Jim hit Joe Meadows in the She is the pretty young wife of a mandarin, but falls in love with clude Billie Dove, Clive Brook, eye; and the poilceman didn't be- von Seyfertitz, Nicholas lieve a word that anybody said, a young artist, Chian Seng, with Gustav

A Sonesanín, Jane Winton, Marc and arrested the whole party. whom she conspires to clope,

So much for the first two acts of Bodil Rosing and merchant, who buys the works of MacDermott, her lover, hears of their scheme Charles Puffy. This film la being Mr. George M. Cohan's farce. Up to this point the play has much to and tries to prevent it by reveal-directed by Alexander Korda.

recommend it. It moves with ing the secret to the mandarin,

who compels the artist to pose na

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a corpse and make Thien Hon be-Jolson, has passed its 300th per- lieve him dead. Later Thien Hoa formance at Warners' Theatre. discovers the 'trick played on her

and poisons herself, while her art-

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"Chicago," the film transcription iat lover drowns himself in a lake. of Marion Watkins's play of the The story was magnificently same name, is now on view at the ataged by the Seals, with typical Mark Strand, with Phyllis Haver Chinese

costumes. in the role of Roxie Hart. In the Beenery and The orchestra was ably directed by supporting cast are Victor Varconi, The music of Virginia Bradford, Robert Edeson, Maestro Panizza.

Jalia Faye, May Maestro Bianchini seemed at times T. Roy Barnes,

an attempt at a compromise be- Robson and others. tween melodious romanticism and mordant modernism, with somewhat perplexing results. In the first and second acts, where the airs are and Chian Thien, Hoa Bung by Seng, there was a lack of apparent sequence, and the hearers were left in dubious suspense. The chorus parts left a somewhat similar im- pression, being rudimentary and uncertain.

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"The Jazz Singer," with All speed, it attains to a certain, not very high standard of brightness, and is not too widely far-fetched to command our attention. It is true that both Jessie and Lydia want smacking, and that not all the efforts of two very charming ac- tresses can diguise the fact. It is true likewise that the spectacle of two women, presumed sane, slob- bering over a bored Pekinese dog very soon ceases to be funny and becomes faintly disgusting. for all that the battle royal for After several years of retire the possession of Cyclone is pass- ment, Rosemary Cooper has return-able farce, and the scene in which ed to the films and is playing a P. C. Kellog plays his massive part small part in Leo Mechan's latest is very good farce indeed.

The last act, however, in deplor- Yellow production, "The Little House," which features Martha able. It is hackneyed, it is dull. it is almost unbelievably silly. And Sleeper and Orville Caldwell,

although it gets rid, of Cyclone, the two fatuous and restores young women to whatever senses they possess, it does these things elumsily and to little or no effect "Children of the Sun" will be and has to introduce no fewer than the title of Alexander Markey's Ave new characters for the pur- He, it is pose. In this act Cyclone has been picture for Universal.

Level and Storage of water in Re- said, will shortly embark for an awarded to Lydia by whatever island in the Southern Pacific ac- court arranges these things, and companied by an assistant, a Jessie, having taken a situation as servoirs on May 1, 1928: camera man and a continuity clerk. nurse to the little brute so as not His destination is the Island of to be parted from him, dresses in CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER' Hollywood, May 3.-Chester M.Tarangi. Mr. Markey plans to film full nurse's rig, and is addressed Franklin is to direct George Ka romantic and dramatic story of by Lydia as "Hurley." Well, well

America's a funny place. Arthur and Karl Dane in "Detec- the Maoris.

but I forgot. They've translated Tytam... After several months in the the play into English, and the Tytam Byewah...18'

Tytam Tuk James Murray, formerly a door. Samoan Islands group Raymond whole affair is supposed to happen Tytam Intermediate 10 man at the Capitol Theatre, is to Welle recently arrived in New York in London. That makes it funnier Wong Nei Chung..21 play the leading male role opposite with the prints of a South Sun still, Marion Davies in her next produc tion. He is now to be seen in sup port of Eleanor Boardman in "The Crowd."

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Thien Hoa's part was effectively rendered by the soprano Rosa Pampanini, and the part of Chian Seng by the tenor Melandri. The baritone Damiani and the bass Bettoni did justice to the parts of the mandarin and the merchant.

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