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THE CHINA MAIL.
MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
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Wave of Thrift.. The stars of 'Hollywood are be ing paid at the rate of £1,500,000 a year for their beauty, laughter and tears, and love-making capa-
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Iain William Powell, are dealers in bonds. Richard Barthelmess does a considerablo trade in busi- ness sites.
WHY BRITISH STARS RUSSIAN OPERA IN HOLLYWOOD LOSING cities, and they are investing their orange grove
GO TO HOLLYWOOD.
Loss to British Film Industry.
ELSTREE IS TOO SMUG.
At the end of three years planning and preparing to make British flma in Britain Jack Buchanan-when the London run
LONDON.
First Visit for Eighteen Years.
Chalapine will be heard in Lon. don in Russian opera this Summer. It is eighteen years since the last of Russian Opera Company visited the metropolis, but the company of Which Challapine is a regular member and which numbers in all of "Stand Up and Sing" ends-is 140 singers and dancers is to going back to Hollywood
I have a
season at the Lyceum So the British film industry: Theatre from May 18 to June 30. Their repertoire will include fami- liar masterpieces, as well as sev- eral works less well-known in Britain.
season is being number of well
loses another star-this time a man who is already a proved box- office attraction in American cinemas.
latent talents
The
ITS GLITTER.
Era of Plain Living.
"STARS" BEGIN TO SAVE.
Dorothy Mackall owns
and shipbuilding.
Bobe earnings in sound securities, real plant in San Francisco. estate, oil, and business enter- Daniela has built and sold cottages prisca, others are just banking at 11 substantial profit and their money.
Eleanor Boardman and the fascin- Thus as a
ating May Murray aro shrewd in- anciers in the oil industry.
wave of thrift. un precedented In the glamorous annals of Hollywood swept over the film colony. The managers of the stars control them with an Iron hand.
Mon employed by stars to con Hollywood is losing its glamour, ed that no artistes can afford a per- trol their expenditure have insist- its Arabian Nights and its orgies sonal valet unless he is earning of lavish and spectacular enter- tainment are things of the past. at least £200,000 a year, as their An era of close economy and plain ry expenses are so high. living has set in among the mil-tears of gold and who has com Norma Talmadge, who has wept Homnire film artistes, who are inmanded thousands of pounds with venting their enormous salaries in gilt-edged securities.
Their extravagant tastes have been curbed.
Hollywood has been brought to
Louise Dresser has investments in petrol-filling stations and motor car repair shops. Noah Beery owns a trout farm,, and George K. Arthur owng A grocery atora.
reign as idols of the public is a They are all realising that their short if morry one, and they are putting by for the day when they
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are dethroned.
Charlie Chaplin, too, is pursu- British ing caution, and is investing in Government and other
bonds. His surplus for invest. ment, after allowing for his ex- a bank direc-penditure in the film business, is
stated to be £160,000 a year.
a smile, has discovered that she can keep a straight face and add to her income да tor.
Gloria Swanson has found her
its senses by the wave of Indus- ice-cold beauty equally paying a trial depression that recently swept over the United States. Davies runs
a business manager, and Marion Beautiful women are still obtain-business in her spare time. Mary a profitable, florist's log enormous sums for their Pickford is making money out of screen emotions, but they are no longer bathing in champagne, as
real catate, and so is hor 'husband; some did in days gone by.
Douglas Fairbanks, The men are finding that it is not necessary to eat their meals from solid gold plate, as did Charles
The argument advanced by Bri- financed by a tish film executives-referring to known Society people, and Sir the Charlie Chaplins, the Ronald Thomas Beecham is expected to Colmans, the Clive Brooks, the conduct some of the operas. Elissa Landis, and others-that:
The week has been a busy one none of them had shown indica- ! for the Theatre, with a number of tions of possessing star qualities new productiopa. Edgar Wallace until Hollywood "developed" their appeared in a fresh role as the
romantic does not apply in adapter of a
German the case of Jack Buchanan.
comedy. "Charles the Third.” At In the United States, as well 'as the Haymarket Mias Marie in Britain the success of "Monte Tempest appears likely to achieve Carlo" is generally conceded to be yet another, success in a new Ray. mainly due to the charm of comedy called "Five Farthings," Buchanan's performance. Theatre, while a young women who is em erities, expressing well-founded | ployed in a Tottenham Court Road surprise that at every performance store earned a measure of drama- of “Stand Up and Sing" the audi-ic Came in a night with her first ence refuses to leave the theatre | play, "Autumn Crocus." A detec- until Buchanan has made a cur-
tive play by Agatha Christic open- |tain speech, attribute this most
ed at the St. Martin's Theatre, and unusual exhibition of hero wor
an Irish rural comedy, "The New ship to the star's film "fans."
Goosson." has been produced at Powers "Not Interested."
the Apollo by J. B. Fagan, who in Yet no responsible executive in speech at the close of the first the British film industry shows the performance expressed the hope slightest inclination even to con-
that a regular Irish theatre would sider Jack Buchanan, either
eventually be established in Loc. an actor or director.
don. To obtain his side of the story I visited Buchanan in his dressing-room.
"As much as I dislike having to taken place at say it," he began, "the powers that be in the British film Indus-Stoll's reply to the talkie menace --has been produced. The critics try are not interested in people whose record proves that they
are unanimous in acclaiming the know how to make good films.
lavishness and magnificence of the marvellous spectacle. "It seems to be rather a handi
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The event for which the drama- tic world has been waiting has the Coliseum,
where "White Horse"-Sir Oswald
Shrewd Financiers. Harold Lloyd controls an estate business, and Clive Brook, Kay Francis, and the screen super vil
world by Ita wild extravagance and the Immoralities which wore
these orglea, in which its men and alleged to follow in the train of
women spent thousands of pounds on a single party or banquet. The exploitation of many of the stars earned for Hollywood a reputation as a new city of pleasure and a city of heartbreaks.
Hollywood once shocked the
Now the city of heartbreaks has become the hive of hard work,
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cap to have had any Hollywood ex- play has already been running in perience.
Berlin for eighteen months, and This strikes
its instant success in London was somewhat unreasonable, Bince Hollywood experience tends
followed by a trans-Atlantic tele- to give one
an international view. phone call to Herr Erik Charell. point
the producer, accking to arrange as against British
or any for its production in New York. other purely national viewpoint.
"And here is a vital point about
This offer was followed immedi- so-called American films which ately by a cable from Hollywood
designed seems to be completely overlooked
to secure the talkie in this country. They are Ameri-
rights. The play is reported to have cost £50,500 to produce, but can only in so far as the money Sir Oswald Stoll has already con- that makes them is American
cluded a deal muney, ensuring that the result-
with the booking ant profits will eventually go into £60,000 worth of seats during the
ngencies for the disposal American pockets, Hollywood does not care whether you white or black or yellow-so long as you can deliver the goods. At a time when the need of key in- dustries in this country is urgent I should like to stress this point. Self-Complacency, "Under existing conditions here, to say that you have come from Hollywood, that you have learned to do the trick as Hollywood does it, is fatal.
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in the United States, Elstree persists in main- taining an attitude of smug self complacency which would be funny if it were not ao deplorable. "I realise that in saying these things I run grave risks of being misunderstood. I can but hope that I can make my attitude clear. I am not a disgruntled actor who hus come home from Hollywood thinking he is the 'whole cheese.' Ruther I feel that I am standing off at a distance and looking at the situation dispassionately.
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