TALKIES BRING GREAT
CHANGE IN
ACTING FOR CINEMAS
REVELATION IN
OLD FILM
(By "Celluloid"
EMEMBER the de ̈ Mille
Remember the
mandments, hailed as the might- iest of mighty productions that established marathon run re- cords everywhere it went about: seven years ago? From the! Hollywood scrap heap, Para mount has resurrected some of the scenes and interpolated them in Forgotten Command- ments, now running "at the King's.
Sandwiched in between the scenes produced by, the latest technique, these old shots will be received with interest by the cinema stud- ent; Hollywood has never given us a better opportunity to compare the cinema of today with that of the old silent days.
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How different those old silent i artistes had to be! Even bearing in mind that the spectacular Ten Commandments, demanded flamboy- ant playing, in comparison to the slow and sparse movements of the artistes in the modern story, the theatrical poses of old Theodore Roberts as Moses, of John Roche as Pharoah, and Estelle Taylor, almost verge on the ludicrous. The screen without a voice made pantomime essential, and the extravagant ges- tures and dramatic stance of prin- cipals and supers alike in the old biblical tale, illustrate more than anything, the entirly new technique of acting that the talking films have introduced,
Not that the old pantomime was wrong: the silent films demanded it, and the studious under-acting of Gene Raymond and Sari Marit za in the Russian story would no more have been suited to the Exp tian tale than Theodore Roberts would have fitted in with 1932.
These old sequences have pre- served well, and except for a few feet, it could be easily imagined that they were modern productions, for
FOLLOWING her appearance in
"Million Dollar Laga," Susan. Fleming, former Broadway chorus girl, plays opposite Stuart Erwin in "He Learned About Women," at the
King's on Sunday.
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RM in its belief of the "star system." Paramount has gathered together a trio of their
CINEMA PROGRAMME most popular artistes for He Learn
TO-DAY.
King's: ments."
Queen's: "The Lodger." Central: "Leap Year." Oriental: "Mother, and Son." Star: "Men Like These.'
cd.About Women, the Sunday at-
Rly.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.
KEEN CRICKET TIES
IMPORTANT League GameS DOWN FOR DECISION
(By "THE STUMPER")
COME good League matches
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gown for, decision this week, and
idea of the destination of the two NEW YORK STOCK
nies may be ostazard after utorrow as all the leasing teama will There are three. mat- be engaged.
thes in se senior alviston and five in the junior. All the senior matches should be "worth watching as upsets ure likely.
AFTER their dismal batting form against the University a fortnight!
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traction at the King's. The three COTTON & WHEAT for the Volunteers against the Kow-Consolidated Gas of
leads, Stuart Erwin, Alison Skip- worth and Susan Fleming are just
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"Forgotten Command-now high in public favour, and fortunately, in their haste to star them, Paramount has not pitch- forked them into a trite tale. There is a laugh in every foot of the film. Alison Skipworth, the English Majestic: "The Old Dark House."actress with many Broadway suc- World: "Flying High."
casses behind her, was that likeable cld rogue who made Madame Packeteer so entertaining. has a similar role in this film. Susan Fleming was the feminine Mareh lead opposite Jack Oakie in Million May Dollar Legs and Stuart Erwin, after July years of small parts, Queen's: "The Washington Mas-blossoming as a star.
is just October
December querade."
Junuary King's: "He Learned About Women."
TO.MORROW, Central: "The Most Dangerous Game,"
SUNDAY.
Majestic: "The Phantom Presid
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Star: "Flying High."
She
all the films that Lionel Spot Barrymore has dominated
since, his return as an actor in A
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6.05
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although the artistes have changed, on Sunday. He eclipses even Grand the camern work has found few new Hotel. Critics may say that his tricks. What betrays the age of Washington Senator Is the sante duced in co-operation with Ernest the de Mille classic more than lawyer of Guilty Hands and that Schoedsack who made Grass and anything is the absence of the mov.his extravagant gesture is too | Chang. Another genuine asset is ing camera: it is just a succession theatrical, but his age, voice and the bad man is Leslie Banks. of close up, long shots and half mannerisms fit in well with his one of the most polished of English distances; expertly cut, but with part.
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In spite of its absurd plot, Henry Gordon, Karen Morley and typically Hollywooden in its side Nils Asther. lights, Forgotten Commandments
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has a few points of interest, main- While Forgotten Commandments ly centred in Sari Maritza, the at the King's is showing Irving English-Continental star said to be Pichel, the Central is displaying his born in Tientsin. Hollywood halls artistry as a director in The Most her as the coming "It" girl, and it Dangerous Game, which he pro-
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