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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931.

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MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS

many JAN KUBELIK HATES

ROUND THE CINEMAS "A Woman Decides," made

exhaustive tests before he and RKO executives selected Miss La Roy for the La Rocque foil.

HUGE LINER LOANED FOR ́

TALKIE.

"ATLANTIC.”

"MAMBA,"

Jean Hersholt in the role of a

JAZZ.

True Music Must Return.

CEYLON OBSERVER.

[ Was recently playing in rich, cruel and hated vulgarian, "Atlantic," which E. A. Dupont Eleanor Boardman in the role of directed for British International an exquisite, sensitive, gently rear- Pictures, says Evelyn Spilsburyed daughter of nobility, and Ralph

Jan Kubelik told an interviewer The Scenos were shot"

Forbes in the role of a handsome recently that he was convinced that Tilbury, docks, and a huge iner was loaned for the purpose. To-young officer who loves as fiercely true music would come once again as he fights, stand at the three into its own, to the complete sub- wards midnight the real work points of the triangle drams act jugation of jazz, which he atomi- began. Mr. Dupont has a marvel-forth

nated. in the all-talking,

The present phase he con-

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lous capacity for choosing his Technicolour Tiffany production. Isidered to be one of transition, and types. There were first, second, "famba," showing on Friday at he entertained great hopes for the and steerage passengers on that the Central Theatre.

future when, he said, men of real liner, and some of the steerage

The story of "Mamba" is laid in creative ability would arise and boys looked so fierce that we kept an African jungle and its name

compose as their own musical feal- as far away from them as possible.comes from

mamba, the ings move them to. The water in the docks was churn-poisonous snake of that country classics for the

"There must be a return to the ed up and made rough.

musical idea," he the liner A poironous reptile in human form heaved, and the Kleig lamps from the man portrayed by Hersholt. sald, "but that iden will be well- the shore cast a weird reflection on When his wealth buys a cultured shaped and dressed in still more the dark water, as the liner filled bride who hates him and who is interesting lights and colours than with frantic passengers.

wooed impulsively by a daring the classical composers could give it. There has been no decline in soldier, the romance begins. And when war brings about a mobiliza-the average audience's desire for tion of the English and German serious, music," he continued, "so troops in New Posen and the there is great hope for the future. natives start a war of their own stuff which is put before them at People cannot be content with the against Hersholt, the excitement begins.

present. Music is struggling al-

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Swimming The Thames. We were told to fasten on our life-belts, the life-bonts were lower- ed one by one, the passengers were thrown into them. As one of the terrified passengers, I had to be thrown from the deck of the liner into a boat already half full of

F. Schumann-Heink and John ways towards batter things. women and children,

You were Reinhardt wrote the story of

would call jazz a parasite which lucky if you landed on somebody, "Mamba" and Al Rogell directed. took life from the great masters. but when the next person came Also included in the cast are Josef It has, no creative power and so it down and fell on you-it was not Swickard, Claude Fleming, William will have no continuation." so good. Mr. Dupont was shout Staunton, Hazel Jones, Arthur ing instructions to look terrified Stone and others. It is recorded and half-fainting, but in many by RCA Photophone.

eases this was unnecessary. Many for the women did faint from ex- citement and the too realistic at- mosphere. One girl fell short of the lifeboat and had to be rescued from the water. She was none tho worse, however, and we were all sorry when the picture was com pleted.

ARCHITECTURE OF

CINEMAS.

Contrast with Theatre

Acoustics.

EXPERIENCE AND RESEARCH

"CALL OF THE FLESH."

Ramon Novarro's much-heralded flair for opera singing will be put to screen use for the first time in In a paper on "Modern Cinema his newest musical picture, "Call | Design," read before the Royal In of the Flesh," which will open on stitute of British Architects Mr. Sunday at the Queen's Theatre J. R. Leathart sald that since the with a cast which includes Dorothy Jordar, Ernest Torrence, Nance O'Neil, Bence Adoree, Mathilde Comont and Russell Hopton.

introduction of the talking film the science of acoustics was of greater importance for the auditorium than the selection of the style for the The story, and original by interior decoration. Experience Dorothy Farnum, provides Novarro, and research had proved, that the with the role of a Spanish singer volume of an auditorium must be whose operatic success is temper-kept within certain defined limits ed by the complications which re- if excessiva reverberation was to sult as the outcome of two love be avoided, and as low a figure as affairs. The star will sing "Ridi 120-130 cubic feet per sqạt had been Pagliacci," one of the late Enrico suggested as maximum. In Caruso's favourite aring, and practice, however, it was somewhat Questa 0 Quella." from difficult to confine the volume. to "Rigoletto."

that gure, especially in cinemas with large balconies, where the height must be sufficient to prevent a crushing effect being given to the topmost seats.

Too "High Brow."

In an attempt to keep the pic ture from being too "high-brow," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have also Included three numbers composed,) by Herbert Stothart and Clifford Grey, who wrote the music for "Devil May Care" and "The Rogue Song." They are "Not Good Enough For me," "Just For To-day" and "Loving Thoughts of You."

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To reproduce sound films as ori. ginally taken, it was desirable to eliminate house reverberations as much as possible. This could be satisfactorily accomplished by re- ducing the volume to within certain limits, by the use of directional loud-speaker horns, by the use of Report has it that this picture absorbents in the rear auditorium tops all of Novarro's previous walls, and by thick carpeting on all talking and singing 'efforts, being floors with heavily upholstered equipped with a particularly enter-seats. In addition to these precau- taining plot, interesting charac- tions, care should be taken to elimin- terizations and picturesque locales, ate the risk of parallel side-wall which include interiors of inter-reflection or flutter by absor- cathedrals, a reproduction of the Madrid Opera House and scenes of provincial Spanish towns.

"DELIGHTFUL ROGUE.”

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Rita La Roy, whom Hollywood calls "the miracle giri," plays op- posite Rod La Rocque in "The De- lightful Rogue," the all-talking Radio Picture, now at the Central Theatre.

bents either in the form of acoustic wall covering or by draping the walls with decorative banners or hangings. The fan-shaped auditor- lum, both in plan and section, coun- teracted to a great extent the ten- dency to acoustical imperfection, providing that the ratio of the rear auditorium width to the proscenium width was not too excessive. The increasing tendency for cinemas to "function" equally as theatres must serve as a warning that too many absorbent surfaces in an auditorium

It was

She won her nickname because, in seven months. In pictures, she has played seven featured roles. would render the natural human Mine La Roy has a footlight voice and the orchestra somewhat background of five years on the lifeless in effect and create a ten- legitimate stage" and two years in dency to flatten the tone: vaudeville, principally to Canada. therefore imperative that expert The titian-haired actress came acoustical advice should be obtained to Hollywood to play an outstand-by the architect in the initial ing role in Cecil B. Da Mille's stages of his design, so that the “Dynamite." Since then she has necessary compromise could be appeared in six other features effected between the requirements This record for a newcomer is con- of the cinema and those of the sidered miraculous.

theatre,

A. Leslie Pearce, stage director of "The Delightful Rogne," which is from the Wallace Smith story,

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Referring to the advertising of films, Mr. Leathart said that there, was the utmost conflict "betweed cinema owners and their architects as to the amount of space on the front of the building which must be allocated to advertising matter. On the one hand, the claim was raado that the man who ran a. picture house was selling a film, entertain- mont, and must be allowed to adver- tise the fact on his building. From the

this architect's standpoint necessity was admitted on prin- ciple, but he knew from bitter ex- perience that the extent of the activities of the owner in that direction was by no means limited. It was an ironic.commentary upon the whole question of publicity I that the prospective pluture patron

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A Civilising Influence. Speaking of mechanical music, Kubelik stated that if those respon. sible for its production would devote their attention to serious music they might have a very good influence when they were better developed. They were making great progress, but they were still very far from being perfect.

"I believe strongly in the civili- | sing influence of music," he said. "I think that proof of the fact that a human being is not merely a materialistic creature but part of the divine force, is found in music. I think the Influence of musle In

the enlightenment of the mind and soul is much more Important than we suppose, And we should not regard it only as an amusement."

must be stunned by flashing lights, by crudely painted scenic effects spread across the facade, perforat- ed only to allow access to the en- trance doors, and by 47-sheet pos- tera printed in the most flamboyant colours known before he could be enticed within the building, It was, In fact, entirely unnecessary to over-advertise; but boosting methods in the film indus- try were accepted as the apotheosis of publicity.

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