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"No 'atago actor or screen player can,over reach the height of success unless he or sho possesses that great

the

Instinct of timing and spacing," says Ralph Morgan, who has been on the stage and in the Bima for a quarter of a contury.

Timing means knowing just what instant to speak a line or when to move a hand, when to Hft an eye- expression,"

rit

brow, when to changIt isn't a matter

continues Morgan.

of seconds, oliher, it is measured in: fractions of a second.

"I can, perhaps, best Illustrate what I mean by calling attention to the finely developed sense of timing en Joyed by Will Rogers. Rogors: springs a lot of good gags and, he knows within the fraction of a second when to hit them, just na Babe Ruth zenges the instant to awing his bat for a It is not all funny gags home run. and personality with Rogers, it is timing what he has to say.

"Laurel and Hardy are funny, but without their glorious sense of spac- ing, they wouldn't be the succosses they are.

"Without a sense of timing, nobody can become a good golf player. Fow people are born with this grent asset. It has to be developed by concentra- tion, experience and lined work.

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in my honest belief that DO per cent. of our successful players poRACES this sense or rhythm or timing."

role

Morgan, who portrays an exacting In the Fox romantle drama, "Humanity," gives a demonstration of his theory.

Boots Mallory portrays the leading Zeminine role.. Irene Ware pinya the role of a rich divorce.

"Humanity" comes to the King' Theatre on Thursday.

"Platinum Blonde"

How does the director of "Ladies of Leisure,

"Dirigible," "The Miracle Woman," and other noteworthy pic ture bring out the best in players under his guidance?

"Naturalness to me," he says, "is the prime requisite for an effective portrayal. "Flowery, exaggerated cling in not appreciated in this modern day of frankness and realign In all arts. And n all actors and actresses worthy of the name have Imagination and initiative, I let them, for the most part, enact their roles they FEEL them. They are what I call 'instinctive players.

"Platinum Blonde, which we've just finished, will prove interesting, I'm sure

I had three instinctive players to work with in this case, Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow.

"Loretta in one of the most popular girls on the screen to-day, but I don't think she has ever had. a really good

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SIR JOHN ELLERMAN'S DEATH ANNOUNCED

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Nanking, July 12. The Chinese press here to-day opportunity to show her real tulents owner in the Ellerman, City, reports the sensational news that an actresA of imagination and Hall and Bucknall Lines, and the Chinese girl nuthor, Miss power. She is very young, of course, other steamship tonnage. and Ting Ling, la still alive. The girl but she has the necessary instinct' formerly principal owner of the it will be recalled, was alleged to to a marked degree. Loretta does an Leyland Line, died to-day. excellent piece of work in Platiount Blonde, coming

Sir John was 70 years of age. the Queen's in Thursday, as the little mob wister

His only son, John Reeves who discovers that she is a woman,

Ellerman, who is 24 years with a woman's emotions, inatend of age, inherits his father's n hard-boiled newspaper reporter. sive holdings.-Reuter.

"The Silver Lining"

have been kidnapped from her residence in Shanghai and killed. It is now stated that she is alive of and is being well treated by her exten-captors. She is also alleged to have admitted being a Communist and to have announced her inten tion of renouncing Communism in her writings.-Reuter.

Co-

Despite the fact that Betty Comp-New York City. This is the much son has been a screen star for years discussed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sub- and has appeared in practically every marine drama, filmed with the type of feminine role, Alan Crosland operation of the United States Navy, seems to have found still a new role "ver pendent production,

his first

and based on the story "Pigbunits, Everybody's Talking by Commander Edward Ellsberg.

Robert Montgomery heads the east! of the production and featured roles are played by Walter Huston, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante, Eugrue

In this pleture, now running at the King's Theatre, Belty is seen as clerk in a cheap department store. She lives in a shabby tenement, but is the bright angel of the #treet, Pallette, and Robert Young, with the She even goes so far as to take the supporting cust including Edvin cap" when a poor widow in caught Styles, John Lee Malin, David Sewell, stealing food for her crippled son. Sterling Holloway, and Charles Irwin. Her romance in the production is Many of the exterior sequences of blasted when she finds her admirer

rer "Hell Helow," were minde on location

scenes.

has found a new love but Kate goes at Pearl Harbour, Hawail. Members on in her usual way taking things as if the cost, Director Jack Conway, they come, comforting the less for- and a large teehnient corps spent more, tunate, always the same sunny Kate. than a month at Fearl Harbour photo- Perhaps the way she scores in her graphing atmospheric and action now rolo is due to the fact, that eir cumstances at one time caused Betty Critics concede "Hell Below" to be Compson to reside in the tenement the most thrilling marine drama yet district of a large city.. Certainly she to reach the screen, striking effects never appeared more attractive having been achieved for the first and in a more convincing role that time by the use of new developments might otherwise be termed drab

Maureen O'Sullivan, John Wartar novel camura operating with the aid in undersen photography, notably a

ton, Montagu Love and Mary Doran of a periscope. The story is repleto, share featured roles with Betty in with engrossing action from start t "The ver Lining which is un Anish, the camörn depicting the plight arichal tory by Hal. Conklin.

of a submarine at the bottom of the sen with its engines dead and its crew apparently doomed, the battle between "Hell Brlow," one of the outstand-

the undersen eraft and n destroyer.. The stirring emotional conflict of ing photoplays of the year, will be showing today and to-morrow only the plot is lightened by the antles of

the Inimitable Jimmy

Durante, the

"Hell Below"

of the Queen's, following its succNighlight of whose career is a boxing int long run at the Astor Theatre in out with, a kangaroo.

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