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THE CHINA MAIL.
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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
THEATRE LOST . FOR
30 YEARS.
House of Gay Memories to Be Demolished.
HIDDEN IN LONDON,
is a
There
-
theatre in Oxford
It is Wilson Barrett's melodrama company.
famous CHARLIE CHAPLIN
We let ourselves out through the side door and round the corner into Oxford Street. I lost the foreman
in the morning crowd,
I have an uncomfortable feeling that if ever I try to go back, like the door in the wall or the magic shop in the story, the theatro will! have vanished for ever.
Street, London, which has been ROUND THE CINEMAS Test for thirty years.
Thirty years ago the curtain was rung down for the lust time; the doyagers and old gentlemen and bright Edwardian youn things thronged down the stairs rom the red plush boxes and spunked home in hansoms; the gallery tossed down its orange-pect and went out by the back door, The theatre was forgotten.
A shallow shop-front was built over the gay entrance and the theatre was lost,
A GREAT LESSON FOR YOUNGSTERS.
"BILLY TRE KID.""
THE MAN.
His "Old Guy'nor" Fred Karno.
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PRODUCTION NOTES.
EMIL JANNINGS.
Spring and Emil Jannings will Chief items of production news return to New York about the same from Hollywood film studios reveal time this year. The impending ar- that: Paul Lukas will have heavy rival of the German screen star to romantic responsibilities in Ruth make pictures for Paramount re- Chatterton's new starring picture, |calls his last previous visit three or The Right to Love." He will also be four years ago. When his ship, the În hør next one to follow: "New Albert Ballin, swung into New York Morals." Frances Dee, the little harbour, there was a terrific din of extra girl who played opposite welcome. The municipal tug Macon, Maurice Chevalier in "Playboy of with the Mayor's reception com- Paris," gets the lead opposite Jack mittee aboard, several Pross tugs, Oakie in the film version of the and a flock of police boats, all gaily stage hit "June Moon." Barry Mr. Fred Karno is the man in decorated, scurried about in frantic Norton gets the best part personal pride in Charles Chaplin. was a great London who has a right to feel a greeting. Sirens shricked and thereof his career with Victor to do. Jannings, of McLaglen and Marlene Dietrich Everybody knows why. He gave course, was thrilled. But his smile in "Dishonoured." It is rumour- the film comedian his first chance gave way to a puzzled frown whened that Gary Cooper will join the trained him—and it was as a mem-the welcoming fleet swept on past cast of Clara Bow's next pleture, ber of a Karno troupe playing "The the Albert Rallin, raced further which will be directed by Rouben Mumming Birds" and other farces down the harbour to another incom- Mamoulian. the Theatre Gulld famous in music-hall annals that ing liner, aboard which was an- master-craftsman.
RE-UNION IN HOLLYWOOD.
One of the most engrossing pages | Mr. Chaplir. went to America.
other famous person. Queen Marie Two title changes are announced of Western history was "torn out of That is an old and oft-told story. of Roumania and Emil had reached by Paramount. Ruth Chatterton's the book" last night and presented Mr. Karno, who was talking to an America's shores within ten min-
new starring picture becomes audience at the Queen's Evening Standard representative re-utes of one another. The shouting "Unfaithful" instead of "New Theatre.
cently, still remembers Charlie as a was for her,
Morals," and Richard Arlen'a King Vidor's splendid pre-hy, 16-year-old boy being brought Jamings' first picture will be now picture la "Gun Smoke.” sentation of the twenty-one-year- by his brother Sid to ask for a job; "The Man 1 Killed," a story from Charles Farrell and Janet Gay- It sees the light of day for the old character who became the "most but his recollections are more vivid [the French, and one of the most nor are to be together again, Just time this week. (says the dangerous man of the west" during of the Mr. Chaplin he met only last powerful of Rostand's dramas.this time in "Merely Mary Ann."
Labitach will direct. Express in mall week) the Royal, the '80's is both good drama, and May in Hollywood-rich and famous Ernst
The A Princess Theatre is being pulled; a great lesson for youngsters of the down.
present day,
!
beyond the most fantastic dreams | Lubitsch-Jannings careers have of 17 years before, when they had been a close parallel. Both started I have lived within a stone's i No one who last night saw the fast met. What a remanice!
as young actors in Germany. Both throw of the Royal Princess, bravery of William Bonney, and his "My dear old guy'nor!" Mr.left the stage for pictures about Theatre for twenty years and never steadily losing fight against the Chaplin had exclaimed. "Gee! You the Rame time. Then Lubitsch suspected its existence. Its ar-
Jaw. could help but be impressed haven't altered a bit!"
directed Jammings and Pola Negri w carved porch hidden by a fur by the picture this atory presents of
His grey hair was dyed because in "Passion," und, there was no rior's shop, it has stood dark and
one who lived at the wrong time. he was still hard at work on "City stopping them from then on. secret and empty since before my
Had William Bonney lived at af Lights." Mr. Karno, in fact, was) There probably will be some prae- generation was born.
different time and in a different in at the birth of the famous song (tical joking when Jannings place than the turbulent "old } for it which Mr. Chaplin composed. Lubitsch get together again. Each West." there is no doubt but he would have been a leader in some calm fine of endeavour.
However, as did many at the same time, he lived by the pistol and died by the pistol.
I went into it. für first time, to look on the wreck of its splendour.
the
last
For it was a fashionable theatre you can see that. The rotted plush of the boxes is set off by slender gilded pillars, now turned as grey as death. There are two circles and a gallery; there is the royal box where the Prince of Wales---King Edward-sat with elegant parties at the melodrama. There is a vast stage and dizzy Bles, and stairs and corridors, and quarter of a century's dust-a dark emptiness and desolation that make one feel afraid.
A works foreman in a bowler hat let me in at a side door. "Stendy how you go," he said, as the door closed on the daylight, "there's no lights."
The Royal Box. We groped through a pitch- black corridor, our hands brushing peeled wallpaper and crumbling plaster. He struck a match. Stairs.
We crept up to the dress circle und I listened for a sound. There was the icy March wind whistling through chinks and a small stirring that might have been a ent.
"It's pretty queer at nights," said the foreman, "quiet as quiet, and then... crash! Is all of a crumble, don't you see?"
We went into the royal box, waist-high in old ledgers and rubbish, relics of the years when the theatre was used as a store-
room.
A ghost of a notice pointed
True to History.
Karno Boys, All.
and
producer of short features announces a series of fairy tales for children. Robert Flaherty, the Nanook of the North and Aloma of the South Seas man, has gone to Russia to direct Gims for Sovkina. Harry Green will play an important comedy part in Clara Bow's new picture, "No Limit." Ernest Schoed- sack, the camera explorer, has gone to New York to discuss release plans for his new Sumatra jungle drama, "Rango." Carole Lombard will play William Powell's lead in his next one, "Cavalier of the Streets."
enjoys a laugh on the other. In "I've just got an inspiration for one of their early pictures, made the Blind Girl's song," he told Mr. abroad, there was a scene in which Karno, when those first greetings Jannings, playing a king, was to were finished; and, turning to the lay stretched out in an ornate coffin. plano, played over the melody we "Close your eyes, Emil, and keep are soon to hear-"before I forget them closed," Lubitsch ordered. | Then ten. Jannings, in his com, it," he said. Then he called his "And I want everyone on the set to slowly opened one oye. He, was
John Mack Brown does a fine job as Billy, and Wallice Beery is ex-manager.
client as Sheriff Pat Garrett, who
"Have we anyone on the iot who is at one and the same time Billy's can take this down?" nemesis and his greatest friend. Others who score include Kay John- son as the heroine and Karl Dane in a comic role.
A property man was found who could record music in a rough sort of way, and that was how the song was first put on paper.
Several of the most melodramatic Later they met Irving Berlyn. incidents in the actual life of "The the ex-New York waiter and cabaret Kid" are reproduced with great ac-singer, who struck lucky by com- curacy by Director Vidor. The posing "Alexander's Ragtime Band," central one of these is probably the and is now a millionaire, married three-day siege of the MeSween to a millionaire's daughter. It was home by an opposing cattle outfit. in a Hollywood restaurant, blaring Particularly gripping is the final with music and dancing, Mr. Chap- rush of Billy and his friends from lin, still full of his song, bawled it the burning house.
above the din into Berlyn's ears, Splendid cloud effects aid greatly Berlyn shouting back his approval. must in the scenes concerning the captureThat's fine, Charlie! We of "The Kid" by Garrett. These publish that.", scenes. it à sam, wete taken in New Mexico, in the very country where the young desperado once
Nourished.
Charlie's Understudy.
It was quite a foregathering of Karno lads, Mr. Chaplin has an understudy whom ho employs to mimic any bit of his parts so that he can see how it looks before it is shot; the understudy, Al Austín, is an old Kurau boy, and so is Alfred Blood of the mounts that carried Reeves, Mr. Chaplin's manager, the Spanish conquerors into West- once Karno's manager.
So the ern United States four centuries "guv'nor" felt quite at home.
"THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS."
ago runs in the veins of the equino He was not so entirely easy in cast of Paramount's newest dialogue Mr. Chaplin's palatial house
от
A thriller of the outdoors. "The Beverley Hills. He has his own painted finger: "Saloon Bar and Light of Western Stars," with private theatre there, with organ,
and
Lounge."
We creaked through Richard Arien, which will show at like a chapel; Turkish baths, too, the doors into a pillared room of
the Central Theatre, starting to-day late Regency splendour, high-for three days. ceilinged, papered in perished gold, with a bar like the porch of temple.
Another match and another black
corridor. I stumbled on a dead
pigeon and set up an echo. Dress ing rooma. Corrider after corridor, stair after stair. The place is a honeycomb, We groped down to the stage.
tennis court. But Marion Davies's house on the coast, where Mr. Chaplin took him visiting, re- minded him in ita magnificence of nothing less than Versailles.
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In 1535, Francisco Yasquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador, penetrated inland to what are now the States of Nevada, Arizona and "Theae," said Mr. Chaplin, touch- New Mexico, Berching for the ing the door-knobs in the room fabled Seven Citics of Cibola. Many where they awaited the film actress; Arabian horses escaped
from his "are made of solid gold."
In the private theatre Marian, caravan, forming wild herds which, augmented by atrays from other from her seat, touched a button and rose anlemnly from the Here there is some light, and my
Caravans, overran the frontier lands a screen guide lifts the ring of a trap-door. of Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New stage floor then her "rushes" were put on first "proofe," as it were, Several years ago, Jack Moore, of the photographs of her day's the 2,700 acre Para-work. With a hand-clip she stop- foreman of mount ranch in the Malibu moun-ped it where she liked for Mr. tains near Hollywood, made a foray Chaplin's criticisms and sugges- into Nevada and captured a large tions. Mr. Karno sat by, marvell- number of wild colts. He now has cayuse herd of more than 300. They were employed in the round- up and stampede scenes of Zane Grey's popular story.
"There's a twenty-foot drop under this here," he says with pride; but it is half filled with debris.
He shows me every corner of the said place with melancholy
2 affection. A scene-painting room, with shreds of canvas still clinging to the frames, an assembly room with a grand fireplace, a where the floor is gone.
Last Playbill. "I've got cort of fond of it," he says, "being here for years. Look, here's the last playbill."
room
Mexico.
"THOSE THREE FRENCH GIRLS."
P. G.
Wodehouse, the noted
ing.
"Fond of the pictures, Mr. Karno?" she inquired. He confess- ed he liked a good drama pleture,
so she had a murder-film put on for him. He happened to have seen it just before he reached Hollywood, but was too polite to say so. It lasted an hour and forty minutes!
There is a Hollywood tale of a
We examine the stained poster with a match.
It bears no date, British humorist, was caught on film star who had a golden bath in
but shows a dignified gentleman of the unmistakable nineties sitting the "Those Three French Girls" act, his house, and the plug, on being with a small girl In a pinafore be laughing at his own dialogue, when pulled, played the Wedding March fore him. With one hand he the now feature, which will come from "Tannhauser" while the water draws her nearer, the other is laid tre, was being filmed at the Metro-talkie" voice, quite English. But
to-morrow to the Queen's Thea- ran out!
Mr. Chaplin bus an excellent Goldwyn-Mayer studio.
on her head.
Your
"Do you
Remember Father?" says the caption, and the
•
•
Jew Susa.
"I hate to admit it," the British it would be, he thinks, inappropriate
to the character he plays. bill announces in peeling charac-writer shyly explained, "but I really ters that "The Fatal Wedding: A think the scenes are very funny,
"If I talked," he said to Mr. It is the first time I have seen my Karno once, "this is what I should Play of Great Heart Interest," will be played to-night
characters come to life and talk the at eight
play." And he took "Jew Susa" from o'clock.
way I imagined them.".
Reginald Denry and Fifi Dorsay the bookshelf. "Do you know this? are featured in. the hilarious Cos- It's marvellous! Listen!" And he declaimed ope of the Jew's speeches. mopolitan farce-comedy and the
"There's a climax for you!" he supporting cast includes CIMI
cried. He read another speech). "A (Ukulele Ike). Edwards, Yola
marvellone curtain that would d'Avril, Sandra Ravel, Edward Brophy, George Grossmith and make!" Back and forth on the car- pet he strode, reciting with gusto from the speech after speech novel.
He may play "Jew Suss" yet.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
ERNE
MEL
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Peter Gawthornej stra
Harry Beaumont, who fast filmed "Our Blushing Brides," directed.
RENEGADES
COMING ? 77
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keep absolutely quiet for three minutes. Mr. Jannings must be in complete repose for this scene.”
Three minutes passed. Then five.
alone on the set. Camera men, cameras, everybody was gone. Lubitsch, for a joke, had made the whole company tiptoe away,
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