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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Behind the Scenes

in Hollywood

CHARLIE BICKFORD. '

Sidelights on His Career.

[By Dorothy Herzog,) This Charlle Blekford chap. Greta Garbo's boy friend in "Anna Christic." He acts as an end to a means and not a means to an end. (Don't get discouraged.)

Bestirred from a lethargy of years, this bureau betook its body to the M.-G.-M. lot and there did corral a mine of information about Mr. Bickford.

Seems he owns a hog ranch up Massachusetts way. Breeds porkers and sells 4,000 yearly.

He owns four gas filling stations around town. Bickford traipses hither and yon between pictures and casts an eagle eys over this and that,

If he likes this and that and pro- vided it's for sale, he buys it. F

TO SOCIALISM BY TIME-MACHINE.

A RUSSIAN FUTURIST FANTASY.

An Office Scene. The play la baved from disinte- grating into chaotic boredom by the extraordinarily vivid playing of the actor Straukh in the role of the super-bureaucrat Pobedanosikov. The scene in which Pobedoncsikov is shown holding sway in his office. dictating an impossibly banal and senseless spicech to his secretary, ad- miringly surveying a painting of himself on horseback, and periodic- ally slumping into a soft chair and raising his feet above the level of his head, while his faithful secret- ary, Optimistenko, carefully keeps out of the office the inventor and other people who have legitimate 'business, Is almost Gogolian in its

brilliance.

"THE BATH.". starring and talking venture. Some- thing about Innocents. Forget the

Moscow, April 9. full title. But the picture cleaned

The collaboration of Russia's lead- up. Harry went back to Parla for ing faturist post, Mayakovsky, and a visit. Returned. To de "Raffles." the most iconoclastic of Soviet thea- trical producers, Vsevolod Meier- And is not completing it.

A pity. D'Arrast has won his hold, has borne fruit in a curious directorial spurs.. Not as an ideal compound of fantasy and satirical at, but because of merit. The comedy, entitled, "The Bath." It idealist Buffers in the motion picture has been produced in Meierhold's business where a story is a story large, draughty, barn-like theatre, in so far as it displays the trite bare of decoration except for red

In general, the "Left" artistic ten- elements of box office. And yet, the streamers proclaiming aggressive doncies represented by Mayakovsky and Meierhold are in favour in Rus- shop-worn adage: when in Rome do messages of proletarian art, as the Romans do, fits this particu-

The play was as novel and unusual sin to-day. Yet "The Bath" has Jar bill.

as the setting provided by the thea- | had a rather bad Press. Its many tre.

"VAGABOND KING.”

The plot, so far as a plot could 'defects, Its loose construction, many be said to exist, developed as follows. irrelevant episodes, and occasional An inventor, Chudakov, perfects a lapses into sheer incomprehensibl- time-machine, which will permit the Hity have been unsparingly indicat- individual to shorten or prolonged. The Observer. Famous Players staged a mid-experiences, to project himself at night advance view of its million will into the future. He is thwart- dollar technicolour offering, "The ed af every turn by the bureaucratic

BRITISH FILMS.

inst.: He spotted a filling station on Vagabond King." with Dennis King Pobedonosikov. Finally, a "Phos-"Enough Good Ones Not

Main Street in Los Angeles. It was broken down and living on air.

Bickford bought it. It now pays him a thousand a month net profit.

OWNS WHALING VESSELS. He owns three whaling vessels that ply their down-to-the-sea-in- ships trade with an efficiency that shows lucrative results.

He recently purchased a half interest in a business that rents all kinds of animals to studios.

the name part, Jeannette Mac-phorus Woman," who is described as Donald the girl, and O. P. Heggie "the Woman Delegate of 2030," ap- the King, Louis XI.

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£50,000,000 IN A ROOM.

Crown Jewels Still Intact in Moscow.

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Fifty million pounds is the value Melbourne. How set on the Russian Crown The Australian Commonwealth jewels, officials of the State Bank Film Censorship Board's annual having revised the estimate of report says:

£24,000,000 made some years ago. "Talk films are hastening the They are kept in one closely-barred Americanisation of Australia, parti-room which must be the richest-room cularly in speech. The only remedy in the world. is an increased supply of good Bri-

Hitfle hope of this at present.

pears on the scene, and under her As a production "The Vagabond inspiration the time-machine is set King" is magnificent. It is rich, in motion and people prepare to fly astoundingly so. The performance to Socialism. When the fight is of O. P. Heggie, as the superstiti-attempted all the bureaucrats and ous, star gazing King of France is other persons with-a, bourgeois taint subtle in its humour and cruelty, are ignominiously hurled to earth, For my money, Heggle is the star while the inventor, the Young Com of the picture.

munist who supports him, and the Dennis King enacted the role of other virtuous types are carried tri-tish films, but there seems to be Francois Villon in the operetta's umphantly to "Socialism," wherever successful run on Broadway. He and whatever that may be. was excellent on the stage. It was a stimulant, an 'inspiration to hear him and chorus ring the theatre

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Soviet "Bounders," However, the play is so interlard-

Canberra.

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Foreign correspondents in Moscow have just been shown the collection again. Contrary to ramours, it was found to be intact, except for a number of leasar crowon and pieces which, it was stated, have been sold

The imperial crown, made for Catherina the Great, and worn for the last time by the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II., is still in the vault. It has 5,000 diamonds of a total of 2,888 carats topped by a 400-carat ruby and a cross of diamonds and and 13 valued At platinum, £10,400,000.

Diamond in a Wound.

"The United States has supplied 70 per cent, and Britain 11 per cent. of the past year's importations. . Bickford started out as a civil with 'Rudolph Friml's superb Vaga-ed with extraneous incidents that With one or two exceptions the best abroad. engineer. He landed with a grease bond defy song. In the picture, Mr this summary gives little idea of talking. films depleting British life United paint career. Also writing. He

Some for- have been made in the King tended to inject flourishes ita discursive character.

'States." wrote the new Lonore Ulric stage rather than melody into this vocal cig visitors to the Soviet Union effort. "The Sandy

Regretting the loss of the silent Hooker."

Board says:

Ita old Though the play closed before rench-climax. Which is why one remains are exhibited and ridiculed, not very ing New York, 'tis being rewritten calmly seated instead of wanting to cleverly, although the subject offers film, the

unquestionable opportunities; pseu-mystery and beauty are giving way now and the Ulric will eventually eat a chunk out of the ceiling.

Jeannette MacDonald is attractive do-revolutionary ballets which pre- more and more to the depiction of, sally forth in it again. He has s

as the King's nicec. Lillian Roth is serve old artistic forms are parodied the sordid and the vulgar, with an second play tightening itself to-

all right as the girl who adores in a sort of circus scene; four stal- emphasis upon Incidents drawn from

stage life." gether in the "sticks," ere ventur-

Villon.

wart young men in bright yellow py-

Undesirable Scenes. ing into Manhattan.

But in the case of "The Vagabond jamas, the inventor, and three of King," it is the magnitude and his friends, bound from stage to colourful beauty of the production platform and back again to symbo that absorbe. Mechanical exquial-lise the creative resilient energy of the Soviet youth; and there are tries rather than performances. Ninety per cent, of the credit goes many other incidental detaile.

The fantastic elde of the play is

"British films," it is stated, "are weakly conceived and presented. The Phosphorus Woman, that Com generally below the standard of munist Valkyrie of a century hence, technical excellence and entertain- stalks about thundering incompre-ment value set by foreign flins, and hensible things, and generally comes a greater percentage of the British Perhaps the brightest torch in thejections are nearly double the "Flight to Socialism" is the intro-American."-British United Press. duction of the prudent citizen, who

FLAPPERS WARNED OFF. Quite a chap, this Bickford. He's

married and has

children. two Doesn't flutter with the local "haute monde." Dresses with a casualness reminiscent of Jim Tully. Eas curly, fiery red hair. Is a natural

to the camera men.

In the same glass-fronted, steel- lined case, is the gold sceptre, also The report states:

made for Catherine the Great, con- "The tendency of British pro- taining the famous Arlov diamond the undesirable | of 196 carats. It is the most costly ducers is to copy type of incident common to Contin- present a lover ever made a queen. In return, Catherine bestowed upon ental films of years ago..

Arlov the title of Count and gave him a State annuity for life.

with the palpitating sex but doesn't ROUND THE CINEMAS out a very unreal and vague figure. films requires cutting. British re-

seem to swagger. Nothing unex- pected stopping him, Bickford is regarded by the producing seers as a stellar, bet.

MELODY LANE."

Sam Coslow takes typewriter under Angers to correct this depart ment. To wit: your column about a chap who wrote The other day, you mentioned in "Memory Lane" and sold it out for $50.

"Madame X" A Sensational Hit.

DIALOGUE FILMS,

A stage play that has probably enthralled more audiences than any drama of modern times is the basis of the latest sensation of the talking screen, "Madame X",} which is showing at the Queen's Chatterton, I don't know where you got this Theatre with Ruth Information, but just to get you celebrated stage atar, as heroine, straight on it, "Memory Lane" was and directed by a stage celebrity collaborated on by three composers, of equal note-Lionel Barrymore. Larry Spier, my ex-song writing

Barrymore has introduced aome- partner, who made about $40,000 in .thing new in talking screen tech- royalties on the song; Buddy Denique and the result is engrossing Sylva, and Con Conrad, each of whom entertainment, minus the Imper earned the same amount on it. None fections of the earlier offerings of of the above have had any occasion the audible screen. to sell out any songs for $50, neither Sarah Bernhardt created the have they ever bought any for that | role, in the first performance of amount and placed their names on the famous drama, in Paris. To- them.

day, almost twenty years later, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's talking version, first play to combine per- fectly the technique of the silent screen and the lore of the stage, is a greatest triumph than the original premiere of the stage drama in Faris.

RAFFLES.

Back in 1926, George Fitzmaurice completed the direction of "Night of Love," starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky for Sam Goldwyn. Four years later, Fitz returns to the in the French language, under the Goldwyn fold, to complete direction title "La Femme X".

of Ronnie in "Raffles."

"Madame X" started its career

Bernhardt

used it for a season as a starring vehicle, alternating it with "L'Aiglon" and "Camille!"

"SO THIS IS COLLEGE".

Harry D'Arrast, the stormy petrel of the megaphones, started this fim. Started it. Hit the half-way mark. Came to an impasse over a change in the story, and departed. Where- upon Fitz, the expert directorial

Filming both allent and all-talk- surgeon of the United Arists lot, ising versions at the same time was carrying on.

the task that faced Sam Wood D'Arrast is a young Frenchman, when he began production on "80 formerly associated with Charlie This Is College," which will be Chaplin. From the Chaplin studio, showing shortly at the Queen's Harry trailed to fame as a director. Theatre as a new Metro-Goldwyn- He made several flicks. He was Mayer feature. given Maurice Chevalier's initial

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The picture was Wood's first dialogue affort and after re- hearsals got under way the direc tor decided he could make two films grow where one usually did, so he started out to prove it

So This Is College is an original story by Wood,TAI Boasberg and Delmer Daves, and concerns the football rivalry be tween University of Southern California and Stanford, Call- fornia'a bitforest gridiron enemies. Most of the action was screened on the U.S.C. campus. postanowie

The new offering brings to the Bereen Elliott Nugent and Robert Montgomery favourite, Broadway Juvenile stars. It also marks the screen debut of Bally Starz,”

carefully nurses A: live

chicken, which he is taking Abdul Hamid to Tsar Nicholas II., along "AB reserve." The pro-to have kept open the Dardnelles for caution is not unnatural, if one Russin; and the sapphire brooch of considers the food stringency which 256 carats, and an emerald brooch has accompanied the recent drive to- of 146 carats, were love offerings ward Socialism in Russia.

that held royal familles together.

Time Castlea”.

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WHAT THACKERAY WROTE IN THE VIRGINIANS” IS STILL TRUE TO-DAY-- "There's no better tobacco no better brand than

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the Three Castles

The diamond is said to have been stolen from India by a French soldier, who, to smuggle it, out of the country, cut open the calf of his the wound. leg and buried it in Through a third person the soldier sold it to Arlov for £40,000.

Almost every jewel has its legend. The Shah diamond of 96 carats, is said to have averted a war between Russia and Persia in 1828; the solid gold binoculars from the Sultan (Continued at foot of preceding Column.)

Three Gastles

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