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"PARIS BY NIGHT.”

OPERA SINGER SUES HER EMPLOYERS..

Molasi' Hamlet, at the Globe Theatre, is immensely clever and yet natural, unforced. It is tender, wistful, pathetic, rather than tragic In the grand sense. He never runts and one may assuredly say of his voice that it droppeth like the gentle

dew from Heaven.

Alexander Moissi is a small man, and his face has no classic grandear. Ile could not, even if he would, strike noble attitudes. So his Ham- let is less the poetic prince than the sensitive soul In torment. "O cursed apite, that ever I was born to

set it right," is the burden of his

whole performance.

All through the play I felt what we should feel very strongly about any Hamlet, that he is cut off, by barriers of culture and intellect,

G.B.S. PLAY FOR THE FILMS.

Picture Likely to be Made in British Studio.

"Arms and the Man," the famous Shaw play, is likely to be filmed shortly with an English cast.

DUO-FONT FILM.

18 PROVINCIAL THEATRES TO EXHIBIT TALKIES.

Manila, July 8. Eighteen provincial motion plc-| ture theatres, covering-a-stretch of the archipelago that extends from This statement was made to the Zamboanga in the south to Tugue Dally Herald by Mr. George Ber- garna in the north, will soon be nard Shaw, when commenting exhibiting weekly programme of on an American report to the effect

that he had released the picture talking pictures, O. S. Cole, pre- rights for all his plays to Associat-sident of the Lyflc Film Exchange, eu Radio Pictures, the English as Inc., revealed yesterday. sociate of the American Radio Pic- tures Corporation.

Recently, it was learned, the Mr. Shaw, who spoke on the tele- Lyric Film Exchange of Manila holidaying, described as "Inaccur- the Duc-Fone Corporation of De- phone from Buxton, where he is

has concluded negotiations with ate" a report that he had permit-troit, represented in the Far East ted the American company to pro- by Nat. Nathanson, for the sole duce "any or all of his plays for distribution and installation rights of the Duo-Fone talking picture apparatus While the exact agures involved in the Philippines.

the next ten years."

the transaction are not available at this time, it is understood that the contract will represent a turn- over of over P.1,000,000.

in He refused to discuss the details from all the other people in the of the present negotiations, but ad- play, even Ophelia. Only Horatiomitted that the rights of "Arms and most beautifully acted on this occa- sion-forms a link by the clumsy

the Man" were being discussed. sincerity of his affection. And so

The sum of £50,000 was mention- Moissi's Isolation of method and said "I really eannot give you any ed to Mr. Shaw. He laughed, and manner, even his definitely "atar part" in the

indication of my terms." production, does the play nothing but good service.

The American report stated that It was intensely interesting to

all the pictures would be made in England note what lines, in German, most

with English players arrested the attention The first

under the supervision of Mr. Basil that really stood out, as I have never

Dean, but technicians would be heard it do in English, was "O my

brought from Hollywood. prophetic soul, my unde," which Moissi spoke with a peculiar mix ture of emotional horror and in- tellectual pride, as though the man of intellect cannot, even in the

Mr. Basil Dean stated that Mr. of his plays are to be filmed by his Shaw has made no promise that any

company.

Exhaustive tests of the Duo- Fone equipment have been made in two theatres in Manila, and in two others in nearby municipalities. I The Cine Plaridel and Cine Metro- politan, in the city, were among the first to be wired for Duo-Fone installations. Following this came the wiring in the Cine Victoria, Pasig, and a motion picture theatre The results attained proved satisfactory and the con tract between the focal motion ple ture firm and the Detroit corpora-

in Pasay.

worst moments of his life. be de- THE MODERN DANCE. tion was effected. prived of his delight in being right.

"Nymph, in thy orisons be all my Bins remembered" Was another tremendously moving line, spoken as though Hamlet were already an unquiet ghost begging for prayers for his soul's 'repose. But the lines which, oddly struck me most 'deeply of all were. "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well, a fellow of Infinite jest." to which Moissi gave an in- tense tenderness, as though clinging desperately to the memory of one of the very few sweet and whole- some experiences in his life.

The impressive thing about the production as a whole was the way in which all these Germans acted the play as though it were their own classic, not a foreign one. They have taken the text of Schlegel's splendid translation to themselves, and it was striking to note how much more Danish they all seemed than English actors, and how Shakespeare as a consequence seem- ed universal rather than English, Incidentally, the mere sound of the verse was superb, and the Player King made all that fustian about "The rugged Pyrrhus" sound per- |fectly magnificent.

The Polonius was excellent in his more comic moments, and got a roar of laughter for "That's good: 'mobled queen'

good."

The Claudius was just the sort of coarse scoundrel, oozing greasy amiability, that la necessary to inflame Ham- let's disgust and contempt, the Laertes finely impetuous, and the Ophelia more than pathetic. The' first gravedigger was excellent, and the second even funnier.

There is only one week of this most fascinating Hamlet, which, I frankly confess, has taught me, both by its virtues and its weaknesses, more about Shakespeare than any other single production of any one of his plays I have seen.-J. G. B.

in the Evening News,

یشه

MR. W. POWELL.

FILM STAR ON HOLIDAY IN LONDON.

Mr.

SIR LANDON RONALD AS COURT gun at

WITNESS.

Sir Landon Ronald, the composer, and principal of the Guildhali School of Music, declined to hum a melody in the Law Courts, says a mail week paper.

He is giving evidence in the case In the Chancery Division in which Messrs. G. Ricord! and Company (London), Ltd., allege that the song Asleep in My Heart, In the play Silver Wings is an infringement of the copyright of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly..

Messrs. Ricordi seek an injunc- tion against Messrs. Herbert Clay- ton and Jack Waller,, Ltd, the producers, the Dominion Theatre Ltd., and Messra. Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge, the composers.

Sir Landon Ronald gave evidence that, in his opinion, the air of Asleep in My Heart was not derived from that of Madame Butterfly. The sequence of notes was the same, but the rhythm and treat- ment were different.

"I Shouldn't Sing." He was handed a Moody and Sankey hymn book, and Mr. R. Moritz, K.C. (for Messrs. Ricordi), asked him to hum the end of in the Sweet By-and-by,

!

The court laughed when Sir Lan- don declined.

"Unidss the judge orders me, I can't do it." he said.

Mr. Moritz: Then suppose you are at your club, and someone aska you to tell, him how the waiting motif or humming chorus of Madame Butterfly goes. What would you do?

I

Sir Landon, (promptly): shouldn't sing it. (Laughter.)

Mr. Moritz: You don't like sing- ing very much? No.

A Violin Solo. -

"He means," said Mr. Justice Luxmoore, "that he does not like slaging himself." (Laughter).

A gramophone record of a violin solo by De Groot of Asleep in my Heart was played in court, and Sir Landon said he saw no resemblance between the record and the hum- ming chorus of Butterfly.

Sir Landon told Mr. Moritz that he did not listen to modern dance- music if he could avoid doing so...

William Powell, famous Ameican film star, arrived at South. ampton in the Cunard liner Aquitania, partly disguised in black Mr. Moritz: Are you familiar spectacles and with his name absent from the passenger llat. m

"I want to have a real holiday,"

An ex-opera singer took the part said Mr. Powell, "My main object of an aged quarryman and sang is to forget such things a pictures while two rest tramps, hired at a exist The advent of talking pic shilling per night each, sat at a tablatures has been rather a happy event drinking.

for me. For years I was the dirty Mme. Ixo then rushed

In dog of the film," but since my first shouting and knocking things talkie, Interference, I have found Amusing revelations regarding over. The landlord then whis myself thought of more sympathe the methods of certain agencies pered to the

↓ which conduct tourists to visit night visitors, "She in the lion- haunte in Parls are promised in css of the Mouffetard.

Paris, June 12.

awe-stricken tically:

"I have been trying to get this The holiday fixed for several months, the forthcoming action in which police are after her, but she would and in an effort to make sure I ar Mza. Ixo, the Opera Comique not leave Parls without saying fare ranged reservation in dve ships artiste, is suing a prominent French wall to the old quarryman.

leaving New York during the last

agency for terminating ber engage. The landlord then prevailed upon two weeks and also in every fast ment to play the part of a wild wo the "lloness" to sing and dance, train leaving Hollywood, man in a cabaret Included In the after which the curtain was lifted, "As it was I only just managed agency's tour of Paris by Night." showing another room with a num to catch the Aquitania, arriving in Mme. Ixo told Pressmen that bar of gleeping forms stretched on New York merely a few hours she had acted as the Lowess of straw. the Mouletard Cabaret, which was

before the ship salled, after a great Mma Ixo declared that they were race against time from the alm supposed to be the meeting place of dummies, while two men ont naar city.” @criminu

of the demi- them.

ying cards for the sake of Mr. Powell Was monde.

Áppearances it

with the abominable modern prac- tice of taking melodies from the great composers and incorporating them in dance times I am. No one is more bitter about it than I am. I think it is scandalous..

Would you consider it a legitimate thing to take your own composi tion Down in the Forest and turn it into a waltz?--I have been asked to allow it, and I definitely refused.

NEW ZEALAND

"ADVERTISES IN BRITISH CINEMAS.

vertising a popular form of pro- New Zealand is finding film ad-

paganda. N.Z. films are now being shown at an average of 50 shows in London a day, and there have been 5,726 bookings since January 1.

and

It has been shown that good silent acele pictures are preferred to in- ferior talkies:

The conversion of motion picture theatres throughout the islands in- i to talking picture houses, was be- once, and at present theatres are being wired for Dus- Fone equipment in the following towns: Lucena: San Fernando, Pampanga; Dagupan, Batangas, Lipa, Caloo

Angeles, Malolos,

tan, San Pablo. Tacloban, Davao. ean, Mariquina, Balluag, Guinoba-

Zarboanga, Silang, Pagsanjan and Tuguegarao. Simplicity of con- struction and ease of servicing and operation, in a talking picture ap- paratus are the prime requisites among Philippine theatre owners. Mr. Cole declared yesterday, Given such features in equipment, the motion picture executive, fully 00 per cent. of the theatres in the islands will be prepared for talkies within the Manila Tribune..

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