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THE CHINA MAIL.

Behind the Scenes in Hollywood

"FIGHT US."

Gloria Swanson In Litigation.

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[By Dorothy Herzog.) He was told if he wanted any. thing: "Fight us!"

And

Edmund

Goulding, writer, composer and director, has accepted the battle verdict of Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy, through his attorney, Milton Cohen, preliminary formall ties have been exchanged. The seconds are out of the ring. The fight is on.

Behind this fight looms one of those condensed dramas that at rare Intervals send the picture pulses hammering. And this is the story, as Goulding tells it:

"Queen Kelly". Goulding was engaged by J. P. Kennedy (head of Pathe) and Gloria Swanson to direct the sound sequences in "Queen Kelly". De- eiding this type story not up his

he would do the picture or he would sacrifice his song royalties and his $10,000 bonus. To get this, he would have to fight.

So the above mentioned lawsuit is now on the loga! tap, and the three principals, squaring off for combat.

to

THEATRE SUICIDE.

Revolver Shot During War Scene.

Unaware that n' tragedy had

their midst, the happened in

the Wood Green, audience at N Hstened on March 24 to war-time aongo from the stage while a dying man who had shot himself was being car ried from the theatre.

Mr. Richard Barton, aged 39,

In the meantime, Goulding has of Harold Road, Hornsey, N., agreed make pictures for was at the theatre with his wife. Famous Players. His first, "The While they were watching a war- Devil's Holiday," will star Nancy time sketch, Mr. Barton seized his Carroll. As a story, it stands neck wife's arm and pushed her aside. and-neck with "The Trespasser" in He then took a revolver from his As the latter has pocket and shot himself through short order.

the head.

made, it is reported, a million dol-

Ambulance men who had been lars to date, figure out the possi

called gave first aid to Mr. bilities of this second story.

Verily, the climaxes of off-screen Barton, who had been laid on the floor. He was then carried out matters pyramid at times into human dramas the like of which of the theatre on a stretcher and can't even be reproduced in cellu- taken to the North Middlesex lold. This story is offered in the Hospital, Edmonton, N. He died after admission. His way of Illustration.

wife, who had accompanied him to the hospital, was so overcome that she could scarcely give any account of what had occurred.

Describing the occurrence to a reporter, a member of the audi- ence said:

ailey, Goulding suggested it would JUTLAND BATTLE ON

be cheaper to make a new picture with the money necessary to apend

on salvaging "Queen Kelly." That

THE STAGE.

shortly

"The party on the stage were

inasmuch as he had been drawing WAR THRILLS FOLLOWED BY supposed to be soldiers singing

salary and had done nothing to ac- tually earn it, he would give them this new story of his gratis. The story was "The Trespasser." It was accepted and shot in eighteen days, a record for a Swanson offer- ing. During the making of the picture, Goulding composed a theme song, "Love, Your Spell is Everywhere."

"Two Contracts". "The Trespasser" was complet ed, Miss Swanson departed for Europe. Likewise, Mr. Kennedy. Goulding was parked with Pathe... Kennedy, prior to leaving Holly. wood, had, Eddie says, promised him to make a deal in New York with the publishers for the song.

One day, says Goulding, he was busy at the studio, officials came to him with two contracta-one was for the release of "The Tres passer," the other for the release of the song.

The Naive Fact. Now let me pause here long enough to point to the startling fact-perhaps the naive fact that Eddie Goulding had been in the theatre since he was nine in mo tion pictures, as writer, scenarist and director, sinco he was dis- charged. from the army 11 years ago. That during these many years, he says, he had never had a contract. He worked with stars and companies via verbal agree- ments and "there had never been misunderstandings."

DISCUSSION.

"B. J. ONE" AT THE GLOBE.

songs in a wartime billet. They had just started "There's a Long Long Trail a-Winding' when I heard a report close behind me.

"I looked round and saw that a man in the third row of the bal- A valiant experiment, but one which resulted in little else but a cony had collapsed. Attendants scrupulously realistic naval display, rushed to him and carried him to af what happens on a cruiser dur- a small room at the back of the ing a night-action, following by a balcony where he lay unconscious. kind of Shavian board-meeting to, His wife was with him. discuss the desirability of Inter "There was no commotion, and national control of the steel output. except for those

immediately This is, unfortunately, all one around him, few people knew Many of can claim for "B.J. One," the naval what had happened. play which Commander Stephen! them probably thought that the King-Hall, part-author of "The shot had been fired on the stage.” Middle Watch," has written all by

Insomnia Victim, himself. It enjoyed an entirely friendly reception at the Globe! Theatre, responded to "on behalf of the ship's company" by Commander King-Hall himself,

The landlady at the houau where Mr. and Mrs. Barton lodg-

when Mrs. Barton od sald that returned home she did not seem able to describe what happened. To naval men-and many others she recalled sitting with her hus -it may well prove of absorbing in-band watching the show, then the

Whether the average play-bang, and little more." terest. goer will understand or care about

"Mr. and Mrs. Barton have

MEI LAN-FANG.

An Actor Who Plays Women's Parts,

NEW YORK - THRILLED.

Now York. Chinese drama has come to New York in the person of Mei Lan: fans, the greatest actor of his

country,

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THE DRAMA.

Views of Veteran Actor.

at Even

Johnston 77, Sir Forbes-Robertson, the veteran actor, still takes a keen interest in affairs.

Asked who, in his opinion, was the greatest dramatist of his day.

Sir Johnston said: "Shaw."

His introduction to Americans "I regard his 'Saint Joan' as the was an oxperiment in dramatic finest tragedy since Shakespeare's culture. He arrived under the day," he said. "I saw it four It many times, and I could see

auspices of the China Institute of America and sponsored by a num- ber of wealthy Americans and

Chinese.

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At the age of seven young Mei Lan-fang was a master of song and dance, and to-day at the age of 87 he is the idol of his country- men. His Income is reported to be £140,000 a year; a recent tour of Japan netted him $10,000.

He plays only feminine roles, although he is the author or part- auther of many of the 400 plays which make up his repertoire. In cidentally, as an amateur he 18

very keen on boxing. On the stage he sings, acts, and dances with a skill and exquisite grace that have won the applause of Broadway, although his art ja utterly foreign to Western acting..

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All the critica, while admitting the thrill, are groping to explain just what this famous actor ac compllahes. They admit that their shadowy inter- explanations are pretations of the real thing. voluminous brochure, sold at the theatre, gives a full account of Chinese drama, and each play is explained by a young Chinese, who speaks beautiful English.

more.

His latest play, too, the

'Apple Cart, is extraordinarily

clever and fine."

On the whole the writing for farces had risen to greater heights than the writing of tragedies.

"I am not among the army of pessimists about the theatre," he said. "I think it is on a higher level to-day than it has ever been.

Broader Outlook.

There is, too, a far higher standard of plays than in my days and & far broader outlook. Twenty or thirty years ago no one would have dared to tackle

the problems on the stage which are tackled to-day.

We are living on a great age of splendid actors and first-rate dramatists.

"I have no qualms either about the talkies or films or anything else destroying the legitimate theatre.

"My only regret is that Shake- speare is not as popular as he was, but I am hopeful that the In- terest in him will revive when we at last manage to get a national Shakespeare theatre at Sadler'sTM Wells."

*. With these aids, the audience settles down to enjoy its new thrill., woman's costume, is in itself a keen First of all, they find that Mei enjoyment, He has the most Lan-fang is, not a woman imper- beautiful hands, which glide - in sonator. Rather ho creates Ideal

and out of the long sleeves like types of "feminine character birds from their nest. set within the most rigid conven- tions. Every movement and every gesture, the way of using the eyes, The stage setting remains prac of moving the head and hands, aretically unchanged. fixed in the strict traditions of his art. It is as if this famous actor played within the limits of a son- net.

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it as an entertainment is quite an been with me for about two other matter.

years," said the landlady. "They The result a performance as Thanks to some remarkable "pro- seemed

a jolly couple, but Mr. beautiful as a jewel and as unim- duction" on the part of Mr. Reginald Barton has been suffering terribly paisioned. When Mel Lan-fang as Bach, we do get during one scene from insomnia. He is an ex-sol- the Chinese "princess murders the an excellent impression of the bridge dier, and I believe his war ex- brigand general to thrill of horror of a light cruiser during the Jutland periences played on his mind. stirs the audience. Instead it is night.

His wife told me that during the held by the grace with which every When the There are no heroics and no last few days he had hardly slept movement is made. 'action' in the dramatic sense-just at all.

princess dies by her own hand she darkness, confusion, men swearing "The war scene might havesinks to the floor with a bewitch at each other. Suddenly a distant worried Mr. Barton, who was a ing charm no less fascinating than Hence Goulding signed the con- flicker is seen. While furious con- clerk employed by the London tracts placed before him at Pathejecture still reigns as to what it County Council. "In good faith," he declares. Ken-means, comes a deafening bang and children." nedy was making the deal for the flash. The ship has been hit. Cur

song.for him in New York, he says tainl

he understood. Later, however, he discovered that in signing the second piece of paper, he had made the whole song, with all royalties, etc., over to Mias Swanson and Kennedy!

Then we have to imagine, from a teicam filmed during the interval, hit fifty-seven that she has been times. We see darkness again, hear groans of wounded.

"The Grand Parade".

"For God's sake shoot me, Sir!" While Miss Swanson and Ken- "You by fool!" another flickor nedy were in Europe, Goulding "Is it our fleet or the German?"-- The made another picture for Pathe, another deafening bang,

The Grand Parade," with Helen cruiser has been hit by our own Twelvetrees and Fred Scott. Eddie guns. Curtain again! wrote the story, the music, and A few minutes of this would have directed. Miss Twelvetrees and made the fortunes of a Drury Lane Scott, because of their good per- melodrama. After half an hour of formances, were placed under con-it one just got tired. tracts that spell do-re-me.

less. It was all true.

But, doubt.

Enter the First Lord So, too, with an interminable scene in the Admiralty just before, where, after a long medley of gossip and

technical talk from Staff

Well, Gloria and Mr. Kennedy Goulding Arriva in New York. goes on to discuss a new story for the star. Goulding also asked about the royalties on his song and the ten thousand dollar bonus that he says had been promised him on Officers, ope refreshing human touch the Pathe deal. It was made clear arrives in the entry of Mr. Basil to him, he asserts, that if he would Loder as the First Lord, òbviously remake "Queen Kelly" as an and delightfully suggestive of the operétta he would get his bonus, late Earl of Balfour. half the royalties and three thou- sand dollars a week salary until March 1. That was in the early part of January.

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Here, as in the Jutland scens, the complete lack of any dramatic ele- ment made one only wish, Com mander King-Hali could have got his old colleague Ian Hay to help him. Such a waste of priceless

So far as there was a story, it

A Different Note, Goulding read the new "Queen Kelly, script written by Lawrence material! Eyre and Laura Hope Crews, ran the picture that had been re-cut, and declared, he now claims, that concerned the fortune of a young he wouldn't touch the job. Varied British officer (Mr. Henry Hewitt) opinion is what makes horse-rac-and a young German officer (Mr. ing, but a different note seeped Douglas Burbidge), who are seen Into the dealings 'twixt our three drinking together at a Kiel night- principals, according to Goulding's club in the prologue. Of course the charges. He says he was Informed British officer is on the bridge in the battle and picks up the German, who had been rammed in a sub- marine. A

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At the finish we skip to last year, when we find the two of them trying to convince, blatantly obdurate British steel-manufacturer of the benefits of International agreement on steel control,

It is quite clear that Commander King Hall has strong views to favour of this all there is of a charming performance here by Mr.j. Andrew Leigh as a modest little member of the conference. But at the end of a play which has never gripped the rails once, argument has a poor chance)

Excellent acting from all in a big male cast. No women at all;

Pavlova's awan dance.

There are

'no

To watch Mei Lan-fang manipu- late the long inner sleeves of his

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WHAT THACKERAY WROTE

IN THE VIRGINIANS” IS STILL TRUE TO-DAY-- "There's no better tobacco & no better brand than the Three Castles

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The actors 'raise one foot as they enter un Imaginary door, and a walk round the stage brings them into another room. If one carries a whip, you know he is on horseback. Music plays a constant part in each little drama, but it is music so different from our own that it sounds like a series of discorde. pant

All this strange exotic drama is played before audiences among whom few of those attending have. ever seen its like before.. Yet so clear is Met Lan-fang'a acting and that of his assistante that these Chinese plays come across. the footlights with the clearness of a summer pool-Daily Mail,

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