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THE CINEMA OF TO-MORROW.
WHAT CHARLIE CHAPLIN BELIEVES.
GENIUS AND MAMMON IN A SHADOW, SHOW.
[BY PRINCESS ANTOINE RIBESCO.]
canvases," where a staff of poplis have added not only dots but
FEBRUARY 11th, 1928.
MAN WHO CANNOT DODWELL & CO., LTD.
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LETTERS.
MANY PROPOSALS OF MARRIAGE,
THE DOCTOR'S EXPLANATION.
More than any other art, even than the theatre. the cinema suffers from being a magnificent commer
The Daily Preus published a few The sums of
The film is condemned to a staff cial opportunity. money to be made attract the inevitably, unavoidably. The quesdays ago an article from the Daily speeniator, the sums of money to tion that confronts every directorres, under the heading "man be experded demand the financier. is how to mould, how to profit by who cannet catch cold," containing Our books search for publishers, his material without allowing him extracts from a contribution to the bo dominated by it. Lancet by Mr. Mark Clement, of our pictures seck buyers, our gymself to
the Department of Physiology, phonies hunger for orchestras, for Mechanical perfection in always these appeale
awaiting ready to gobble up the Middlesex Hospital Mr. Clement baard arc
now writes :- creations aiready in existence. We hesitant experiments of the artist, have not only given, our inspira¦ and the sense that it is so difficult tion, we have supplied our own to fumble occasionally sterilises pencils, our own paper, our own the imagination. paints. We come laden with a masterpirce but unencumbered by
debt.
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not suggesting for moment that the camera plays an undesirably important part in a
In the cinema the order of pre-film. Charlie Chaplin, it is true, cedence is reversed. The quest is maintains-be admires Di. Cali not for a man of taste who will gari (almost my favourite of ali bug, but for a man of faith who films) and various other German will invest. This man of faith is, pictures much less than I do that alas! not
a mystical believer in he does not like to see the camera some undiscovered genius-if he play a leading part in a film. were he would hardly possess the "Why should it be looking through necessary capital-be is a man who the keyhole?" he used to my. He has made money by knowing our believes that the camera is there of the things that the public wants to take photographs, but not in and therefore, imagines that he be one of the leading actors in a
picture. knows the public.
What I like best he said to. Of course, some of the pre eminent figures of
the film me once, is to think that when Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fair- the film is over there is nothing Not so much as a scratch banks, Mary Pickford-have made | left.
the millions necessary to complete just a blank sheet. The whole independence; that is to say, that thing has been
shadow, non-
they are independent of everything existent, leaving nothing behind,” His imagination is fired by the except their public. But the great!
to the commercial concerns," the studins, thought of that return that are responsible for the iniqui- original blank. This is I think, ties of the block-booking" system the basis of his liking for rather are inevitably run by middlemen. minute realistic photography. The In this respect, however, their detail and the precision delight directors are shining examples of him in contrast with their disap- virtue beside the black villainy of pearance. The Germans, on the the exhibitors.
The Cinema is the youngest of the arts, but it was born in; an age when the genius of man is pat at the disposal of his impatiene when the speed of transportation is considered more important than the quality of the cargo. The tele phone has taught us not to write, telegraphy has enabled us not to think. Mr. Ford has suppressed imagination by putting the horizon within reach of everyone. Why should we make up our minds, when it is so easy to change them? Giant And Dwarf.
To the Editor of the Daily Exprenz, Sir. I was very surprised and noyed at the flood of correspon dence that has reached me at the hospital as a result of your article en ny communication to the Lancet concoining the subject of "Recur- rent Colds,"
I wrote exclusively for, a medical journal, and did not expect to see passages of my article anarched out of their context and presented" to the lay public as ny comprehensive views on the prevention of common celde,
Only one aspect of my theories was given to the public, who are now under the impression, judging"
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received, that the secret of int munity from colds lies in giving up wearing underclothes.
Nothing could be Simplicitas more ridiculous and unscientific than such a simple notion,
In my article I certainly stressed the sartorial factor, but I also ern- phasised the dietetic aspect of the if not more important question. which I consider equally, I also pointed out Sir Clifford Abutt's views on the "wilet of the nose"," and my own method of prophylaxis in that particular direction.
It is essential to bear in mind that the problem of immunity, like all medical problems, is extremely complicated, and any one-sided ex- planation is always worse than none at all.
Scepticism.
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· Inspired Wisdom;- for his genius has given him the Only Charlie Chaplin is biased, power to create, with his own act- ing, a rhythm which most directors bave to produce by the camera.
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In these days of universal pub- licity it is well that the public
soul of science, and that progress doubts and can only thrive on
more criticism, for nothing is deadening than the stagnation of certitude in any sphere of human sonally attained a remarkable state activity. Akhough I have per-
of immunity from colder and infee- tious diseases, I am doubtful to what extent it is due to any one We have so often discussed these factor, sartorial, dietetic, or phy points. Perhaps "discussion is notsiological. It may all be, due to the word which describes a letting mother's milk! Cocse of waterfalls. We both of us I do think that people overdress, had so many things to say! But, over-ent, and over-drink, and will in spite of the fact that he with continue to do so till the crack of his inspired wisdom, and I with
deem, in spite of the great Health OUTWARD. knew everything, in spite of the Shaw. It is all à matter of im- fact, that we were dear friends, inagination and cultural values spite of the fact that we talked at
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This is the atmosphere into which a new art was born. No wonder that at one moment we se a giant and at the next moment a dwarf. The only thing that we cannot expect to see is & child:
The dema was not so much ask.lent rely listen, if they did ed to run before it could walk, it they would interrupt. These quiet was put on to a moving staircase, people whom the dull choose as au- Not the nice slow staircase, which dieners are usually trying to re enables us to hold on to our par meger a name or an engagement, ecla and get off without spraining unless they are making a plan
Had they minds, their minds an ankle, but a staircase like a staircase in a nightmare, rushing would certainly be absent. upwards into space;
No one is interesting unless he is interested in himself, just as no one is interesting who is only in- terested in himself.
which are more innate than acquir- ed.
It is
M.8. "HAVELLAND" 9.8. "EMIL KIRDORF" SF," HAVENSTEIN" Health has been aptly defined by S.S."ACHEER" a great French physician as the
S.S. CABL LEGIEN ** "abilir to resist disease." often dependent of great musen- HOMEWARD. lar power and rubicund physi ognomy which form the popular conception of the picture of health." In fact, és not as sim- ple as that.
·Proposals Handed To His Fiancee i
The relationship between cause and effect is an extremely intricate It is in some ways the very pare
one, and superficial explanations of its technical development that
are most misleading. Pasteur, who has interfered with the growth of
revolutionised medical science, be the cinema. There is no materiai The many people who accuse queathed a truly wonderful with which the artist can fumble Charlie Chaplin of being an egotist motto which every ecientist repeats ua inchoate mass which he can forget what not only they but the to himself wherever he is experi- **Beware of con- mould and make his own. Try a whole world would have lost with-menting: he may to establish a personal out be personality. What are so-clusions." domination, he cannot escape, the called defects but the accents on perfect photographer at his elbow. individuality? The ultimate ques
Do I Every day some new device is patrian of true morality is, at his disposal. He is denied the receive more than I give, or do I stimulus of working out an idea. give more than I receive!” There are no technical dificulties to contend with; on the contrary, facilities are always lurking ready What could be more trying than the feeling that your medium is waiting for you; that your conception is lagging behind Bome perfectly prepared scheme.of execution?
to pounce.
The Director's Problem,
It is sometimes difficuls to re-
criticising member when
Licensed Bullying.
How dare Mayors, Women's Clubs, Security: Leagues, Kluxes, B. Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Pink Goats, etc., issue edicts from a base of petty self-ghteousness, of the inevitable and unchallenged virtue of licensed bullying What are their excommunications based on if not on the desire of medio- crity to absolve itself from a neces- the eity of recognising greatness i cinema from an esthetic point of It is an undoubted fenther in view how muy divergent-and-ja-
the cap of the cinema that pro dependent currents have to be merged into one stream. It is Lobably for the first time in history a genius has been hailed with equal a question even of gathering our
enthusiasm by the civilised and the on threads. Dropped sites uncivilized, by those who pretend picked up by zealous experts re- appear as part of the mesh.
There is the scenario, " cap- tion" writer, the photographer,
to think, those who do not pretend to think, and those who do think. In spite of the distaste of the
the actor. How can the director self-conscious intelligentsia, in pound them into a whole? How spite of the metrust of the much can he preserve bis buds from a maligned general public (for the premature blossoming1 Where is clever would often be right if they the possibility of tentative explor were more chany of expression, and ings when everyone is prepared at the stupid are nearly always right any moment to help a finisaed when they let themselves go), a
common genius has been found. article-into the world
Where the and fail to enter, in some secret carner of our heart-a heart in evitably given over to the unknown glory of some obscure personal. love-Charlie Chaplin has come in- to his own.
Look at the incomparable Rubens oil sketches at the late Flemish Ex hibition, the genius, the delicacy, How satisfac the completeness.. lorily they fulfit, how vividly they soar Compare them with certain large Rubens pictures, dr. mather,
It is of course impossible for me to reply to the multitudinous in- quiries I have received from en- thusiastic health devotees on this question. It is also evident that Leap Year has fallen upon us with a vengeance. I have handed all proposals from different parts of the country to my fiancée, and all the Indies concerned will hear some- thing to their disadvantage in due course.
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