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THE UNHOLY GARDEN"

WHY RONALD COLMAN

HATES UNIFORMS

Royal Colman is one Hollywood actor who is averse to appearing upon the screen in costume. This despite the fact that many of his Parlier succENSEN were registered in Funiforms.

The star of "The Unholy Gar- den," which opens at the King's Theatre on Sunday next, has volc- ed. this aversion to uniforms upon several occasions. Once he was discussing bis pictures with Vilma Banky, many of which were costume stories, and he declared:

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"THE

WHILE PARIS SLEEPS

VICTOR

HELEN MACK

McLAGLEN

WILLIAM BAKEWELL

RITA LA ROY -

Screenplay by Basil Woon Directed by Allan Duran

FOX PICTURE

DAY OF THE FILM STAR OVER”

HOW A RUSSIAN AUDIENCE WAS DECEIVED

"In these pictures which now, curiously enough, seem a hary memory, I have one definite feeling. a dislike for uniform-any kind of uniforms or costumes. I know that these costume romances served to introduce me to picture fans, not only in America, but throughout the world. And I'm grateful. But

There will be no film "stars" remembers the time when, in a even after making so many of them, in a few years. In the words of death-bed sectio, he had to hold the

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ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS PSY- CHOLOGY

"LECTURE BY MR. V. K.

KWONG

An interesting and instructive lecture on "Some observations on Advertising and Business Psycho-. logy" was delivered by 'Mr. Vistor K. Kwong at the meeting of the Hong Kong Practical Psychology Club held at Lane Crawford's Restaurant last evening.

In introducing the speaker, Mr. J. P. Kim, the Chairman, stated that Mr. Kwong was a graduate of Commerce and Economics at Har vard University, and hal' wide experience on advertising.

In the course of his lecture Mr.

Kone explained that the termi "Advertising " да

to transfer one's own idea from one's own mind into that of another person. In advertising there are two pur- poses cominercialism and pro- paganda.

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Dealing with the latter. Mr. Kwong stated that during the Grea War it was used as a very effective weapon in inciting or rather encouraging people to fight against the onemy, and to gain sympathy from other nations.

During the Mauchurian trouble, Mr. Kwong continued, very poor propaganda work was done by Japar.

Commercial Advertising,"

Referring to commercial advertis- ing Mr. Kwong said that slogans played a very important part. Hë I stated that an effective slogan

the product.

AGE OF THE EARTH would always make people buy

THREE THOUSAND MILLION YEARS

TORONTO UNIVERSITY

ESTIMATE

st

Toronto Ways of establishing the Bge

of the earth

about 3,000,000,000 years, which are said to find acceptance in every branch of natural science, have been dis covered in the physics Iaboratories of the University of Toronto. The new discovery accounts for certain This is the contention of Mr. Youth who combined the offices of divergencies in previous computa-

I have never outgrown iny hatred the song, they will " simply fade bedclothes with his toes to provant

For away."

for uniforms and costumes. yehra I've wanted to do "The Tale

of Two Cities," but what worries

their being blown away, while the

assistant director, assistant camera

me more than anything else is the E. G. Cousin, in his book "Film- man,'. Cashier, secretary, "props" tións. It is based on deductions

necessity of more uniforms costumes."

"WHILE PARIS

: SLEEPS"

laud in Forment." Mor

AND VICTOR McLAGLEN FIGHTS!

That fight means fight to Victor McLaglen is proved by one thrilling scene of his new Fox picture, "While Paris Sleeps." It called for the big six-foot-plus star to engage in battle royal with four broad-shouldered opponents. MoLaglon selected these personally.

One was & teamster, out of regular work one Was wrestler and the other two were professional pugilists. The battle they staged will long be remember-

men

In support of his theory Cousins gives the following ample:

made from analyzing radioactive and make-up man waved his arms) Mr.voilently to dissuade a herd of rocks. ex-

cows, whose favourite grazing pates was being invaded, from straying into camera-range,

The appeal to our imagination

is one of the strongest cards in "I remember myself once seeing

Advertising in China is at pre sent in its infancy and rennot

therefore be compared with other

nationa.

Returning to the subject of busi- neas psychology, Mr. Kwong said that many "good business-men, al- though naturally with profits in mind, usually advertised for the welfare of the consumer and the public. The question of profits was of secondary consideration, cou- cluded Mr. Kwong

RUGGER AT HANKOW

SHANGHAI HELD TO A DRAW

Hankow, Dec. 24.-The Interport Rugby football match between Han- kow and Shanghai ended in a draw, neither side scoring. Rain in the past two days has made the ground sodden and the weather was very dull when play began. "

The fact which led to these errors - being discovered was the leak of. helium through walls of hard glass bottles. One way to tell the age of a rock formation is by the amount the hand of the film producer. It in a horse opera, or Wild West of helium in quartz rock, which is was once the subject of an interest-film, the interior of a house with like the bottles nsed in the labora- ing experiment by Pudovkin (the its doors barricaded against Red tory. First found to be present in Russian film producer) and his cof. Indians, in which the cloth was the sun, nad now utilized for filling almost blown off the table by the balloons, helium gas is separated They took league Kuleshov. close-up of a man's face absolutely breeze, and in the same scene, when when one radioactive metal changes

The game developed into a battle devoid of expression, and cut it the heroine was escoping through into another. Since it is known

royal between the two packs, in to three short lengths; after each the window from the villain, there that the decrease of radioactivity

which the home team played magni- pices they inserted a short shot of appeared in the glass sash just is constant, natural scientista cal another object--first a plate of above her lend a perfect image ofculate the proportion of helium in

ficently, beating their opponents in soup, then a dead woman in a novie-camera with a shirt-sleev the rock and thus figure its age."

The standard method of deter-both tight and loose scrums. In the coffin, and Gually a child playing ed camera man cranking away

diligently

mining geological time is based on second half, Hankow penned the toy, so that on the screen

the rate of conversion of uranium visitors in their own territory and it appeared that the man was look

into lead, and from this the

occasions failed The ing at these objects in turn.

3,000,000,000-year estimate is deriv- through bad luck to score film thus composed was then shown

aed. Figures from helium analyses to an ordinary audience,

were regarded as too low, on ac count of an "escape of the gra Now that natural scientists in the university have discovered that helium will pass through quartz, will be possible to measure the at the temperature of the air, it

escape.""

with

"The result," says Pudovkin,

Boris Karloff who has won place for himself as the "monster of the screen" thoroughly relaxes

studios,

ed in Hollywood, film circles. "was terrific. The public raved from his villainics when away from

McLaglen will keep it in mind about the acting of the artist. the Metro-Gold-Mager longer than that. Sometime during They pointed out the heavy, pensive! where he is appearing in the Masks the first two minutes, the two- fisted mood over the forgotten soup, were of Fu Manchu. His favourite re

in favourite, those little tokens touched and noved by the sorrow weighed in as follows:-the teams- with which he looked upon the Inxation is cricket! He is English ter tackled him; the wrestler fell dead woman, and admired the by birth, and never misses an op. on him, and each boxer clipped him light, happy smile with which he as he was going down. Results: a surveyed the child at play. But portunity to enjoy the British twisted ankle, a broken watch we all knew that in' all three cases

& bruised rib, a lump behind his right the face was exactly the same." car and a bluish eye.

"I'll not be so mindful of the other fellow the next time I have a bit of a brawl, grinned McLag- len, as the make-up man repaired the visible damage.

Early Days of Tilms.

Mr. Cousins reculls some inter- esting and amusing anecdotes about the first days of films. He says:

"In the embryonic days a quar-

"While Paris Sleeps," the lastest work form the pen of Basil. Woon, opens to-day at the King's Theatre. tor of a century ago..studios Othors in the supporting cast are were an effete luxury; it was just Helen Mack, Fox Debutante Star, as well to have some sort of shelter William Bakewell, Jack La Rue, handy in case of rain, but a clump Rita LaRoy and Lucille La Verne, of trees, would do very well; and at Allan Dwan directed.

a pinch the camera, director, and players alike would remain, swath- edin mackintosh sheating until

eskies cleared.

"DEAD PAN KEATON AND "LONG NOSED” DURANTE

AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"Exteriors, of course, were shot absolutely au naturel, there was ro question in those days of assist "Dead pan" and "Long nose "ing the sun by means of a fow is the latest in popular comedy thousand-candle-power lamps, or contrasta 1.

The fun riot started by the com-even a reflector by which the sun's bination of Buster Keaton and rays might be thrown on to the sub- Jimmy Schnozzle" Durante isject. The scene was prepared and continued in "Speak Easily," the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy everyone waited, anxiously for the

"MY PAL THE coming to the Queen's Theatre to suit to appear, when acting would

KING"

A DRAMA STAGED IN A SMÄLL KINGDOM OF BUROPE, PLENTY OF THRILLSACTION: AND HILARIOUS FUN.

morrow

stars feverishly, so that the whole *"*Behnozzle ” portrays the role of

small town piano player in a tank cene might be recorded before a show. Keaton se a millionaire col- passing cloud called an untime

legs professor “adopts" the entire | hulf. troupe and their adventures, on Broadway provida & bilarious theme for the feature

Other members of the cast include Ruth Belwyn, Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper, Henry Armetta and Ed ward Brophy.

Those were the Days

“Queer:-ellects.

into films made ditions I know one

game.

-BART

...

Effects of Discovery.

The effect of this discovery may Continued at foot of next ColumI)

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You'll have the time of your life as Marie runs for Mayor and makes the grafters take to cover.

FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY

ZANE GREY'S Sen

RIDERS of the PURPLE SAGE

GEORGE O'BRIEN

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numerous

Pilcher, Tingle, and Welch play- ed well for Shanghai, while Bur- geon Lieutenant Commander J. Cussen, the Hatkow back, distin- guished himself, as also did B 8. Stephenson, who worked, hard - at scrum-half. Lancashire, the Haq kow captain, led the Hankow pack in a vigorous fight for supremacy and was conspicuous by his excel. lent play.

The teams were:-

Hankov. Surg. Lt. Comdr. JA Cassen, W. H. King, M. A. Glass, Liout. C. Martell, Paymaster- Lieut. G. F. Franklin, A. 8, New- comb, B. 8. Stephenson, C. H Lancashire, A. T. A. Priest, L. G. Irwin, J. Stenhouse, E. W. Giles, E. W. Price, E. K. Partridge, R Townsend.

Shanghai.-B. J. Wall, T. B Macaulay, W. H. Pilcher, R, W Falmer, M. R. Lingard. WE Tingle, P. Welch, WJ. B. Carter, TW. Bone J. R. G. Barter, J. D. Davies, E. P. Morphew, C. de W. Jansen, W. J. Hichmond, NC Stephenson,

The Interport dinner was held at the Race Clab in the evening

be seen in measurements of the ages of rocks in Ontario Rocks in Parry Sound from the second geo- logical ara, under the land system were found to be 1,090,000,000 years old. With the helium system still nider rocks from Renfrew Cou appeared to be only 800,000,000 years old The higher esti

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