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TALKIE BOOM

FADING.

CINEMAS UNABLE TO STAND DEMANDS.

BRITAIN'S CHANCE.

PEDESTRIANS” RIGHTS.

PUBLIC CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED.

PROTECTION. ASSOCIATION

FORMED.

Silent Elms, which many people thought were." down and out," -have-auddenly-scored a dramatiction of a society for the protection

"come-back in England.

In some cases they are beating even the marvellous box-office re- cords set up during the early days of the talkie boom.

record

The Four Feathers," for in. stanee, has surpassed the scored at the same theatre by "The Coconuts."

"The Pagan "has beaten the recard made by one of its talkie predecessors, "The Broadway

Melody."

The silent film with sound effects is proving itself & most powerful rival to the dialogue film, which is in grave difficulties.

Though it is true that nothing succeed's like a good talkie, it is equally true that nothing fails like a bad talkie. There can be no com- promise over the quality of talk. It must be good.

Talkies ATC tottering because there a scarcity of good dialogue writers and a greater senreity of good dramatists.

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Exhibitors Feas.

They are hampered, aleo, by the enormous gums asked for existing dramatic and musical rights. Twenty thousand pounds is a not uncommon figure for talkie pro- ducers to pay for a stage success

Exhibitors are asked to pay such, tremendous fees for talking alma that they are in open rebellion, the more so because, apart from "The Singing Fool," there is no talking film that carries an absolute guar- antee of box-office success. Talkie producers have opened their mouths too wide. There are cases in which they have demanded as much as eighty per cent, of the theatre's takings.

Few talkie stars. have yet been discovered, and those who can be said to have established themselves in the new medium could probably be numbered on ten fingers. Good microphone voices are apparently

Tare.

A NEW NAME FOR" SPIRITUALISTS.

"SURVIVALISTS."

Mr. Oliver Baldwin, M:P., speɛk- ing at a meeting of the Survival League at Queen's Hall, London, last month, said that before scien- tists declared that communication

Early this month the organisa-with departed' spirts was halluci-

nation they should learn something. of the subject from people who were versed in it

of the rights of pedestrians was opened at Essex Hall, at which Lord Cecil of Chelwood presided. A public campaigns launched for ensuring the safety of the public on the highways and for protect ing and preserving the freedom, comfort, and general amenities of pedestrians.

The need of a Pedestrians' Asso ciation, as the new society is call ed, has long been felt; and it was a recent remark of Lord Cecil's) that the case for pedestrians has been inadequately represented to the authorities, because there bas been no society of the kind, which stimulated the movement and in duced Mr. T. C. Foley, of 134, Fleet Street, EC., one of the pro moters of the new organisation, to ask his lordship if he would preside at the opening meeting.

"The forming of the Associa tion," Mr. Foley said in an inter view, is an expression of the grave concern with which the public Views the steadily growing death roll on the reads in which pedes trians are the chief sufferers.

"

The "War" of the Roads. "Somic idea of the significance of the figures is to be gained by recalling the fact that during the whole of the Boer War only eight thousand men were killed in battle or died of wounds, whereas this year alone we are killing seven thousand persons on the roads. And this bgure is not likely to terminate, as a casualty list does at the end of a war. Unless dras tie steps are taken it will be a permanent and an increasing toll on the life of the nation,

"One of the first things the association will do will be to draw the attention of the authorities to roads where there is persistently A host of technical difficulties reckless driving to the danger of has risen in connection with the the pedestrians, and to the neces exhibition of talkies. Good opera-sity for providing adequate foot- tors are scarce, the problem of keep paths on country roads and protes ing the mechanism in repair has tive railings and high surbs at cer- turned out be cherous and cost-

tain danger spote. ly, and the variations in local elec trical power supply have seriously interfered with the quality of pro- vincial performances. *

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Deaf People Protest. Exhibitors are finding that many of their patrons do not understand talk, and deaf persons are load, in their protests against the innova-

tion.

These dificulties will right them. selves in the course of time, but Leanwhile "there is a lul in the popularity of talkice.

Filmland has not been slow to recognise this fact. The Metro- Goldwyn Company, who have never. heen completely sold" on talkies, though they have been extremely successful in that medium, an- nounce that their release schedule for the next twelve months will include forty-seven films produced wholly in the silent, technique-not talkies adapted to the needs of silence.

Similar announcements, not quite so hold. have been made by the Universal Company and the Fox organisation,

Since it is obvious that not even Hollywood can produce a com- plated silent picture in each week of the year, it follows that the Metro-Goldwyn Company must be taking from their shelves the com- Fleted silent films placed there when the talkie boom began,

A Silent Drive.

There are many signs that the American companies are organising commercial drive designed to clear off their stocks of silent films, The talkie lull will be a godsend to them, as it should he also to British film producers, whose stocks of derelict silent films brought into being by the "Quota" Act are very considerable.

Compulsory third-party insur- aner, which the Royal Commission on. Transport has recommended, But to which certain insurance companies and motor interests are opposed, will a'eo be supported, for, as things are at present, though a man may be injured as the result of a motor acrident and awarded damages, yet, if the motorist is un- insured, he may be unable to get a penny in the way of compensation.

The Association is having the warm support not only of rambling clubs and similar bodies, whose members run into many thousands. but also of motorists who in their own interests, both as drivers and

neglestrians, realise the necessity f dealing drastically with the reck. less driver.

The Speed Limit. Pedestrians are viewing with great alarm the proposal of the Royal Commission to abolish the charabanes to travel at thirty-five to allow mótor. speed limit and miles an hour on roads many of which were never intended to take such traffic. It is frequently argued by interested parties that speed is not a cause of accidents. It is quite obvious, however, that in many circumstances the slower the speed, the better chance a driver has of pulling up and avoiding an accident.

"Certainly the speeding of motor traffic along London suburban main roads is a growing scandal, Motor the City, and try to make up for iets get tied up by traffic-blocks in

suburban high reads. lost time by scorching along these

The Commission's proposal to deal with this problem by impos- ing severe penalties for what it describes as dangerous driving will be extremely difficult to enforce, because the question of what is dangerous driving will cause greater conflict of evidence in the courts than even that of whether a driver was or was not exceeding a certain specified speed limit.,

Experience of **Quota " films has shown that few of them are quotable, but it would appear that there is an opportunity to clear off Bome of the British silent films stranded by the talkie wave.

Talk, in various modified forms, must be used in film production, if only for the reason that exhibitors and producers in this country have invested more than £2,000,000 intian will oppose vigorously the pro the electrical apparatne required.

Most of this money 'goes to America. The Western Electric Company, it is stated, have equip. ned 250 of our theatres at an aver

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It is significant that even in America, the land of speed, there are stili local speed limits in the various States. The new Amoris,

posal to abolish the speed limit."

Willesden applicant: A summons,

age installation cost, irrespective of please, against a neighbour, for personal insulting Janguage, follow- maintenance charges, of £4,000.

Nine persons out of ten will be in a protracted domestic alterca- glad that the silent film has retion. asserted itself, and there is reason' to think that by the use of such- ngistrate, at Highgate, to a devicea as wide-angle photography, woman summoned for obstructing wider screens, colour," and, above the street with a motor-car for an all, panoramic stereoscopy, the hour: I suppose you were shop. silent film may soon regain its ping Woman: I was having a

Some

Icientists

said that

if

Spiritualiam was not hallucination it was telepathy, and he believed it was telepathy in a certain form. Others said that Spiritualism was but some inner kind of atmosphere of which we knew nothing. thought there might be something in that If they communicated with the unseen world it greatly depended on the atmosphere as to

the results they got

He

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It was during the war that he became interested in spiritualistic research. In 1018 he was coramand- ing a company of Irish Guards, and it was a miserable day, rain- ing and freezing, and they had been about twenty-four hours without relief of any kind. They were be- ing shelled very heavily, and dur- ing a walk round with his runner, feeling very tired, he sat down be side a sunken road with the runner by his aide. Suddenly in his right car he heard a voice saying quite clearly "Go and see your company." He looked round. There was po one in sight but his runner, and he had not heard the voice. He had the feeling the message did not come from this world. He got up and walked towards his com- THE FLOOD AND MR. AND pany, but had not proceeded 30 yards when he heard a shell com ing over. He turned round and saw his runner sitting where he had left him. He (Mr. Baldwin) threw himself on his face, and the shell fell close by the runner and nothing more was ever known of him. It was then he began to take an interest in Spiritualism... To him it was the greatest thing in the world, as it seemed to provide solution for so much. If it did nothing else, he believed that by simply declaring fearlessly faith in survival after death it would bring comfort to thousands of peo- ple and steer the feet of doubters along a path that would bring them pence of soul.

Mr. H. de Vere Staepoole advo- cated changing the name of Spiri tualists to Survivalists.

MRS. NOAH. OPINIONS OF DEAN AND EARL

'A

The Rev. C. F. Spurr, speaking at a Bible Society meeting at Nor- thampton, said he wished

the Press, and particularly the London Press, would not use in headlines some glaring entence from bishop or a dean and give to his remarks a meaning never intended hy the speaker. In this connection he recalled a recent headline. The Dean of Lincoln denies the Flood,"

headline, open to misconstrue. tion by the ordinary man, The Denn hnd not done anything of the kind, really...

I don't believe in the Flood said the Dean of Peterborough. Dr. Simpson, who followed Mr. Spurr;

"I never did and I was never ask ed to. I had a Noah's Ark an amall boy and I may have treated it as an idol, but I never believed in Mr. Noah. When I was 'an un-

Oxford dergraduate at

Bishop Gere said in my hearing. "If Ad am was not the first man there must have been somebody who was, and you might as well call him. Adam as anything else.'

Dr. Simpson continued: "I be lieve that God is my saviour. I believe that the Holy Spirit sanc- tifies ne. That is my faith. I see the gentlemen of the Press are with us. If they want a heading let them say The Dean of Peter- borough believes in God.'".

In his closing speech Earl Spen- cer who presided, said, "I have been rather shocked by the Dean's statement. I have always believed implicitly that there was a food and a Mr. and Mrs. Noah."

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