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PANTOMIME AND TALKIE.

Philosophy of Charles Chaplin.

FILMS

ROUND THE CINEMAS AN AUDIENCE AND coming from the screen,

SOUND.

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actors could be plainly heard and be, its excellence will be destroyed understood oven though the irritat-if it is not projected properly, ing sound continuod. The audience

Careful Inspection. remained silent only long enough However, due to careful inspec to determine that this sound was tion of the equipment, emergency then it calls are becoming more and more broke into п tumultuous clapping rare and this is one of the reasons and stamping of feet. Eighteen for the great Improvement in talk- months ago the audience, would ing picture performances. Pro- Army of Experts Tour have sat in silence. But not to-day gramme Interruptions, due to the If the audience does not get Its failure of the sound equipment in Country.

sound in the manner to which it has Western Electric equipped theatres, been accustomed, it lets the theatre amounted to one interruption in A gold digger, as no doubt local As remarkable as the growth of know in no uncertain way.

every 200 shows in January, 1029. Because the silent or non-dialogue 6lm followers are by now aware, is talking pletures is the development

This change of attitude on the Now, as has already been stated, picture has been temporarily pushed a young lady who extracts expen-of the audiences' critical attitude part of the public has come As there is only one interruption in aside in the hysteria attending the sive presents from her admirera, toward the quality of sound in the result of two developments. First, every 1,600 shows. introduction of speech by no means without adequate retura.

In the productions.

the novelty of talking pictures has New York the average time taken indicates that it is extinct or that pleture now showing in the Queen's When the dialogue films first apworn off-people. are no longer by a theatre after he has received the motion pictures screen has seen Theatre the gold diggers are five peared the cinema enthusiast was interested simply because they talk emergoney call is only 22 the last of it. writes Churles ladies of the chorus, who apart satisfied that the sereen Images and second, so many improve minutes and the time for clearing Chaplin to the New York Times. from this one little weakness are talked. He did not demand natural-

avorages fifty-seven "City Lights" is evidence of this perfectly respectable, albeit a littleness and was quite content if the talkers that the public has accept-minutes from the time the service THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL. It is non-dialogue but synchronized noisy. The plot, from this slight meaning of the actor's lines could ed, probably, unconsciously, a higher engineer receives his emergency

film.

preamble, can be Teconstructed The caught. Noises of all sorts atandard of quality in sound recall. Why did I continue to make non- without too great, a mental effort crept into the picture; he did not production.

Besides this staff there are also dialogue ms? The silent picture, Its interpretation requires, a daz-seem to mind. He even liked and

acoustic engineers, recording en- beauty first of all, is a universal menas of eling

one demanded all sorts of noises.

gineers, laboratory men and many expression. Talking pictures neces- hundred people.

Now, however, the spectator has

He Much of the credit for improving others who contribute their part in sarily have a limited field, they are

On the whole, the mere men take definitely lost that attitude. held down to the particular tongues the honours in this picture. Conway wants, expects and demands near talking films goes to the motion making shadows talk.

Moro than 7,000 theatres of particular races. I am confident Tearle, who is too good an actor for perfections. The voice of Greta picture producers, who have made

in recording pic- throughout the world are equipped that the future will see a return of i

this sort of thing, makes a convinc- Garbo in one picture should sound grent advances

gound sys- interest in non-talking productions ing uncle, who, at first rigidly anti-like Greta Garbo in another Garbo tures. But there is another group, with Western Electric

Eleven hundred of them are because there is a constant demand pathetic to everything connected picture and both ahould sound like which deserves a large share of the tems. for a medium that is universal in its with shows and show girla, is final-. Grotn. He must understand every credit for this improvement. They in Great Britain, 300 in Canada and have had nothing to do with the 300 in Australia. There are some utility. It is axiomatic that truely convinced by "Jerry?" (one of word in every actor's speech. dranin must be universal in its ap the "diggers," played by Nancy Recently during the showing of a recording of pictures. Their job is in China, the Dutch East Indies, penl-the word elemental might be, Telford), that chorus girls are a talker in a Broadway film theatre to see that pictures are properly India, Japan, Finland, Iceland and better and I believe the medium of hard working and highly moral lot. an insistent humming sound came shown in theatres. They know that in at least sixteen Latin-American presentation should also be a uni- Until then he had apparently been from the screen. The lines of the no matter how good a picture may countries. Exchange, versal rather than a restricted one. living in the nineteenth century.

Understand. I consider the talk-

Winnie Lightner, not unknown to! ing picture a valuable addition to

vaudeville London

patrons, is the dramatic art regarding of its largely responsible for the success limitations, but I regard it only as

of the show. Her fun-making is! an addition, not as a substitute.!

of the boisterous order, but it comes sub- it could not be a Certainly

Too little is stitute for the motion picture that at the right time. has advanced as a pantomimic art seen of dainty Ann Pennington, still one of the best dancers Uni so notably during its brief twenty years of story telling. After all, pantomime has always been the universal means of communication. It existed as the universal 'tool long

Pan- before language was born. tomine serves well where languages are in the conflict of a common ignorance. Primitive folk used the sign language before they were able to form an intelligible word. Beginning & History of Pantomime. At what point in the world's his- tory pantomime first made its ap- pearance is speculative. Undoubt- edly it greatly antedates the first records of Its part in Greek cul- ture. It reached a highly definite a development in Rome and was distinct factor in the medieval mystery plays. Ancient Egypt was adept in its use, and in the sacri- ficial rites of Druidism and in the war dances of the aborigines of all lands it had a fixed place.

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The plot serves as a peg upon which to hang several songe. Most of the songs are good. Some of the singing is not.

But all in all, the picture was quite well received and will be found worth viewing.

To a

The ubiquitous Al Jolson, in a "trailer" told all and sundry how good his next production is. certain section of patrons, trailers are merely a nuisance, to be toler

This particular one is more sted. than usually tiresome.

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"All's Button," an exhilarating talkie version of W. A. Darlington's Pantomime lies at the base of famous farce extravaganza, is the any form of drama. In the silent biggest and most successful British form of the photoplay it is the key-effort to date to present a "super" note. In the vocal form it must comedy in dialogue and music and always be an essential, because with scenes in colour in that lavish Pig's Chitinge non-visual drama leaves altogether manner which ensures

a picture's too much to the imagination. there is any doubt of this, an exam- ple is the radio play.

If popularity with the public.

Action is more generally under-a stood than words. The lift of an eyebrow, however faint, may con hundred words.

vey more than a

Rarely in a British film has such galaxy of stars been got together. In the lead there is Tubby Edlin, who contribute so largely to the widespread success of the stage play in London and the provinces and chief in support is Alf Goddard, the foremost Cockney screen comedian. Nora Swinburne, Polly Ward and Humberston Wright are others.

Like the Chinese symbolism, it will mean different things, according to its scenic connotation. Listen to a description of some unfamiliar ob jeet-an African wart-hog, for ex-

"Alf's Button" started its run in ample-then describe it; observe a

the Central Theatre yesterday to then picture of the animal and

packed houses. It is a purely Bri- note the variety of astonishment.

Silent comedy is

Batis-tish production and therefore every more

body in this Colony should pay entertainment for the factory masses than talking comedy, be- visit to the Central Theatre to sce cause most comedy depends on "Alf's Button,"

swiftness of action, and an event can happen and be laughed at be- Of fore it can be told in words. course, pantomime is invaluable in drama, too, because it serves to effect the gradual transition from farce to pathos or from comedy to tragedy much more smoothly and with less effort than speech can ever do.

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My screen character remains Al Jolson, truthfully credited "City with having, brought the Infant speechless from choice. Lights" is synchronized and cer Vitaphone into full growth with tain sound effects are part of the "The Jazz Singer" and "The Sing- comedy, but it is a non-dialogue Ing Fool," the two pictures that Monk Fish picture because I preferred that it gave auch tremendous impetus to be that, for the reasons I have talking pictures, is now starring

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