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THE BLUE DANUBE.

PICTURE OF VIENNA AT

THE QUEEN'S.

COMPOSITE PICTURES AND SYCHRONISED ACTION,

sible.

[BY OUR FILM CRITIC]

»PRINCE CAROL'S

DEPARTURE..

NO DESIRE TO RETURN.

PARTING MESSAGE TO

ENGLAND

DECOY. CAR CHASE,

THE ISSUE BETWEEN YEN AND FENG.

CHIANG KAI SHEK SUFFER- ING FROM BAD TEETH

NOT ENOUGH SEA, PORTS

TO GO ROUND..

In Chinese political circles, says the N-U. Daily News, there seems to be agreement that trouble be- tween Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang and General Yen Shih Shan is in

evitable, but ic is uncertain what: the attitude of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek will be. He is apparent-

Like the "Merry Widow" the Blue Danube Waltz has been given a

DOVER, May 10th. picture and put on the screen.

Prinze Carol left England to- Perhaps the success of the Merryday in, the most inglorious circum- Widow "weighed a little too heavily stances imaginable, writes a special on the producer's mind, for he sees correspondent of the Daily Br to have used as many of the in-press. gredients of the earlier film as pos-back door, and bis last words when retired to

He virtually sneaked out by they suffering from bad teeth and has the Tongstran Hot once he was aboard the steamship Springs outside Nanking for a few l'ille de Liege were; "I do not days want to come back to England again."

The essential facts of the quarrel The story of his leaving Southwill be remembered that Marshal

between the two generals are these Godstone compares with anything Chiang Kai Shek travelled about penned by the writer of romantic fiction.

most ingenious Honan, holding conferences with He did, in fact, leave Oakhurst Yen Hsih Shan and General Pei Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang, General Court

like more

pautomime Mizzi is played by Lyn Mara. a prince than one of real royal conferences was a regional agree Chung Hai. The result of all these Viennese star, who looks very blood A number of strange motor- pretty at times and positively plain cars begun to arrive at Unkhurst cipals in the political situation ment by which each of the prin at others. She fa, however, Con- Court early this morning, and by would receive a number of pro sistently lively and makes the part midday the atmosphere of the 'sur- human and credible.

rounding district

electrical. The producer seems to have had Among the early arrivals were two two nima besides the all-engrossing cars from the Home Office. They one of making second Merry entered Oakhurst Court as top Widow. The first was to produce speed, and drew up behind the

Mizzi" is a cabaret dancer, in Vienna; she is loved by the whole regiment and by one young sprig of nobility in particular; she finds a soft corner in the heart of the Archdakr, and ends up a countess. All this has nothing to do with the waltz but it makes quite a good picture.

WAS

The police on guard had been augmented, and no one was allow ed within several hundred yards of the fencing."

viaces, at least one of which must be rich in revenue and have a bea port.

Now, according to the agreement, General Ye Hain Shan was to have received Tientsin and Marshal Feng Yu Hsiung, Tsingtao. But Tsing tub is not in Marshal Chiang's possession for him to give it to Marshal Feng. Besides, the pre- comic.ace of the Japanese in Shantung makes it an unsatisfactory place. Marshal Feng apparently is of the opinion that as the Nanking troops Lake all the trouble in Shantung.

Finally at one o'clock-the opera element began to develop with remarkable rapidity. The police who had been on duty inside the grounds became surprisingly active on the village highway, and orders were issued right and left to leave a clear road for the prince."

auxing should look after that pro- vince, while he will take Chibli and Tientsin, where there is no trouble. But that would leave General Yen Hsih Shan with nothing for all the fighting he has done. There is no use holding Peking without Tientsin and if he loses Chibli, he has nothing that he did not have before he entered the war. there are no other ports to go round, there seems to be no way out of the situation except by either, Marshal Feng destroying Genera Yen or rice terad, unless,

some povel camera effects and the house. other to sychronise all the action. with the dance tune. Neither of these effects, is very satisfactory.

The second was a clever idea and had it beep entirely successful might have made The Blue Danube a first rate film; unfortu- nately certain weaknesses in the story intervened. The result should have been to have set the whole audience swaying to the walts, and to have infected us with the fervour of admiration for the heroine that the Viennese of the picture showed,

A motor car in which every blind Actually you get a little tired of the was drawn, and on top of which clearly beaten rhythm, and and the was & portmanteau, drove cut of spretacle of everyone doing every Oakhurst Court and sped towards action" to music a little absurd. London. Ten other cars took up The Queen's Orchesten played exthe chase immediately, and follow tremely well and kept in perfected closely. time with the picture.

The journey was made by way The camera effects you feel fall of Purley, Croydon, Tooting, Clap short of what they might have been.ham, Wandsworth, Chelsea Bridge, Those composite pictures are fas- and there was a thrill in every cinating but they need to have a

Chinese facetiously remarked, Mar clear muff to make them permis-

sha! Chiang would give Nanking to sable artistically. There is nic, euch

It became apparent, after cross-arshal Feng, to preserve the pence underlying iden in the superimposed ing Chelsea Bridge and striking of China. tiew's of Vienna, The picture for Piccadilly, that the car we were sequence of gossip is on the other hand quite unusua! and very good. if a little out of place. The sinister and horrid effect which breaks into the light hearted story would have been extraordinarily effective in a more serious production,

mile.

Hold-up.

following was simply & decor. This was proved in the middle of Piccadilly, when there was a com- plete hold-up for a number of minutes.

Photographers who-had-been-in the chase opened the door of the leading car to make a snapshot of the departing prince, but found he was not there. It was also dis-

But despite its faults" The Blue Danube is a lively and amusing film and if you are not interested in technique these weaknesses prob-covered that the portmanteau on ably will not trouble you at all.

top of the motor-car was empty.

From Piccadilly the chase was transferred to Victoria Station.

SUNRISE.

A TIMES CRITIQUE.

JANET GAYNOR'S 'NEW PICTURE.

arrived at Victoria at one minute to two, in company with a French detective, and just succeed ed in catching the two o'clock train to Folkestone.

A

FIFTY YEARS A SINGER.

R. JOHN COATES' CONCERTS

FOR CHILDREN.

Mr. John Coates, the. English tenor, celebrated his jubilee of singing at Bradford, where, when 12 years old, on May 24th, 1878, he gave his first big concert. On May 3rd and 24th he gave free recitals of Shakespearean and old-English ford Technical College. songs to 1,500 children in the Brad

"I believe that the future of singing in England lies largely

I found on the journey to Folke-with the children," said Mr. Contes

stone that M. Demitrigue, a mem to a reporter. He added:

ber of Prince Carol's suite, was also in the train, and was occupy- The following critique which aping a locked. compartment. peared in the London Time will

"We travelled from Folkestone to be of interest to all regular patrons Dover in a high-speed car, and of the films. Sunrise" which is after many formalities we were acclaimed as being an advance upon able to go en the quay-side where "Seventh Heaven" or "Ben Hur " will be shown at the Queen's for Ave cast off for Ostend.

the Ville de Liege was waiting to days beginning next Tuesday.

Both Prince Carol and Mme. The terms of criticism in all the Lupescu, who accompanied him, arts are notoriously vague and in- had arrived at Dover, I learned, exact, - observes The Times, and

unrecognised." A large crowd films, regarded, as they must be, gathered at the quayside when the as an art, give more bother in this news spread that he had embarked.

I am going to devote the rest of my life to interesting them in it. Singing is good for them. It is a physical and mental tonic.

England is a hard place for a singer, and that is why I want to teach the children. We Eng- lish used to sing in the olden days; and it is a mistake to neglect it in the hurry of the present.

respect than is generally recognised Their curiosity was finally re THEATRE

This picture of Mr. Murnau's, who warded, for just as the boat cast has already directed two or three off. Carol appeared on deck, and

of the most impressive of German raised his band in salute to the films, is remarkable as both in watchers on the quay.. achievement, and as a promise.

Here is c definite" enough sugges

tion of screen technique, of the right

use of the moving picture, of a acting, Mr. George O'Brien and

method of planning and presenting Miss Janet Gaynor are extra-

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condideration one ordinarily gives to beenuse they take their part in little an established art like the drama incidents contrived with ordare it be said 1-to painting. imaginative delicacy. There are imperfections, of course. But the film does achieve in its own way-in its peculiar medium, that is-what cannot be achieved in any other way.

And the story It is better than many, but, as in worse films, it scarcely matters. It appears to be an adaptation of a novel by Suder- mann, and tells of a young rustic It is difficult to say in so many couple whose peace was threatened words what that is. The movement by an urban hussy. She, poor of the film, its rhythm, the play of wretch, tempted the husband to pictorini auggestion, the super-im- drown his wife. (The psychology is

akin,

during several

·Sole Agents:» HUI and HUI Co.position of one pictured ides upon curiously

another-these may be invoked in scenes, to the climax of Mr. (Alexandra Building) Hongkong,

the attempt to define the technique Dreiser's "An American Tragedy.")' of the screen, but they are at best He very nearly did so, but changed only borrowings from the conven- his mind at the last moment, and. tional imagery of, art criticism. instead, took her to the city in They cannot convey to the person search of amusement. unfamiliar with the experimental An artless "tale, though in the trend of several Fecent films the telling of it there are moments of effect aimed at here by Mr. Murnau. understanding which are sheer in-

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(Continued on next Column). memorable.

MUSIC AND ROMANCE

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An entertaining story of gay Vienna deforg the war, city of life and love and laughter, of dreamy walix tunes and dancing feet !--

LYA MARA

The Blue Danube

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