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WHAT'S WRONG WITH NICARAGUAN REVOLT.

"EILMS?"

MEN OF CULTURE WANTED.

Mr. Thomas Burke, the author of "Limehouse Nights" and the Scenario of the Successful Film Broken Blossoms," writes he fol- lows to the Daily Mall:..

AMERICAN SAILORS LANDED.

FOR PROTECTION.

Washington, Dec. 24.

TWO MANSIONS DESTROYED.

FIRE FIGHTERS CRAWL ON HANDS AND KNEES.

The State Department hashn- Two mansions were destroyed be nounced that American bluejackets are in one night at Home recently Two children who were living have been landed in the district of Rio Grande, Nicaragua, to protect at one of the houses at Fawley, American fo and proparty.

near Southampton-had a narrow In "Let's Go to the Pictures"-Reuter's American Service.

escape from death. (Chatto and, Windus, 79. 6d.), Miss Iris Barry has written a pungent

and provocative book which will, fters of technique she has much to Ffancy, arouse a hullabhled in the say that will benefit not only the hullabaloo world of the kinema average producer but also the That is, if the movie-mind can, Bojaverage picture-goer in helping through it, for it is a case of save him and her to form it criticul us from our friends.

opinion of bach pieture.

|· This house was occupied by the

Agwi Petroleum Company, part | being used as offices and the re- mainder as the home of two of the officials.

A servant was filling an oil stove with paraffin when it burst into flames...

Mrs. Wishart, the wife of the Miss Barry is one of the four In other chapters she puts some serious film-critica we have. She of the pretty "stars" in their assistant superintendent," ráh to knows its range, and limitations places, analyses the foolish con- the 'phone to give warning, and she knows its technique. Neces-ventions upon which scenarious then dashed to the bedroom for sarily she talks to this young and are built, criticises Alm-critics, her children, age 2 and 4.

In spite of the dense smoke sho noisy trade as a woman of intell and spiritless trade. gence would talk to a boastful

succeeded in getting them to safe- hoy; in somewhat acid tone, cruel to be kind. Listen:

Never let us forget that the kinema audience is nothing if not uneritical.

Every

person soca the possibilities of the screen, not for

Mr. C. J. Bristowe, who fought the purposes of education or

the flames, said: "We attempted nation-boosting, but for the mak- ing of things-ephemeral, fragile to crawl into the house on our hands and knees, but we had to things, perhaps of beauty. those possibilities will never be retreat.". puruniposed until the mass of the present practitioners in the "art" are kicked out and replaced by men of brains.

The kinema exists for the pose of pleasing women.

'We come

out of the pictures soothed and drugged, like sleepers, The theatre is a tonic; the kinema a sedative.

Popular opinion is a lot of lies boosted in the form of soothing syrup by the film factory to give people false dreams for fear they kick at the true facts.

But

The second fire was at Little. Bromley Hall, an Essex mansion which dates back 800. years. It is occupied by Mr. Howard Franklin and his family, but at the time of the outbreak only Mira. Franklin was in the house. One of the oil amps in use started to smoke, and Mrs. Franklin opened the window allow the fumes to escape.

When we have in film-produc- tion the standards of intelligence set up in the theatre by Max Reinhardt, Gordon Craig, William Pool, Granvile Barker, Nigel Play

A strong wind was blowing, and fair, there will be an immediate. movement: "great unemployment when Mrs. Franklin, who had gone: the illiterate, an earnest, into another room, returned, she

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I admit at once that the standfurniture, pictures and plate were

help Miss Barry in her call for pictures that will not insult your intelligence but will stimulate you ards in the average

West End salvagéd.

More than 30 outbreaks of fir MACHINE MADE WIRE-CUT to use the brains your Creator theatre fall far below those of the gave you. At present such pic-men have named; but there are have now occurred this year at tures are one in two hundred; theatres where one can see intelli- mansions and country houses.

there is no reason, save your lapathy, why they should not be ninety-five in the hundred.

A Spiritless Trade.

gent plays intelligently produced: and there is no kinema that exists solely for the purpose of showing Mr. Hay Halkett, the Marylebone films that satisfy the cultured and magistrate, in placing three youths Sophisticated mind. Nor can on probation on a charge of thef!" condition that they. there be so long as films are an made it a Her purpose in this book is to industry backed by commercial should not speak to one another. answer the question, "What's speculators and devoted to pro for 12 months. If they failed to wrong with the films?" and Echo ducing a standardised commodity comply with the condition, he said, answers it for her "The films!" for the lowest common denomina they would be sent to a reforma-

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