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"No stage actor, or screen player' can over reach the holght of success unless he or she possesses that great asnot, the instinct of timing and spacing," says

Ralph Morgan, who has been on the stage and in the films for of a century.

Timing means knowing just at what instant to speak a line or when to move a hand, when to lift an eye- brow, when to

an expression," A matter

continues Morgan Ann'é-

of seconds, either, it is measured in fractions of a second.

"I can, perhaps, beat illustrate what mean by calling attention to the Anely developed sense of timing en- Joyed by Will Rogers, Rogera aprings a lot of good gags and he knows within the fraction of a second when to hit them, just as Babo ftuth senses the instant to swing his bat for a home run. It is not all funny gaga and personality with Rogers. It is tining what he has to say.

"Laurel and Hardy are funny, but without their glorious sense of apae. Ing, they wouldn't be the successes they are

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

tion,

"It is my honest belief that 90 per? cent. of our successful players this sense or rhythm or lining."

Morgan, who portrays an exacting role in the Fox romantic drams. "Humanity," gives a demonstration of hin theory.

Boots Mallory portrays the lending feminine role. Trene Ware plays the role of a rich divorce.

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

"Platinum Blonda"

How does the director of "Ladies of | Leisure,

e." "Dirigibic," "The Miracle Woman," and other noteworthy pic-| tere bring out the best in players under his guidance?

"Naturalness, to me," he says, "la the prime requisite for an effective portrayal. "Flowery, exaggeratval acting is not appreciated in this modern day of frankness and realism in all aris. And as all actors and netreaca worthy of the name have imagination and initiative, I let them, for the most part, enact their roles as 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 Willaims and Jean Harlow

"Loretta is one of the most popular girls on the screen to-day, but I don't:

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SIR JOHN ELLERMAN'S DEATH ANNOUNCED

London, July 17. Sir John Ellerman, controlling

NANKING MYSTERY.

GIRL AUTHOR IN HANDS OF KIDNAPPERS

Nanking. July 12. The Chinese preas here to-day

think she has ever had n really good owner in the Ellerman, City, reports the sensational news that opportunity to show her real talents Hall and Bucknnil Lines, and the Chinese girl author, Mies

an actress of imagination and. power.. She is very young, of course, but she has the necessary instinct to a marked degree, Loretta does au excellent piece of work in 'Platinum Blonde, coming to the Queen's in Thursday, as the little sob mister who discovers that she is a woma with a woman's emotions, instead of a finrd-boiled newspaper reporter.

"The Silver Lining"

and Ting Ling, is still alive. The girl other steamship tonnage, formerly principal owner of the it will be recalled, was alleged to Leyland Line, died to-day.

of

Sir John was 70 years of age. His only eon, John Reeves Ellerman, who is 24 years age, inherits his father's sive holdings.-Reuter.

exten-

have been kidnapped from her residence in Shanghai and killed.

It is now atated that she is alive. and is being well treated by her captors. She is niso alleged to have admitted being a Communiat! and to have announced her inten- tion of renouncing Communism In her writings.-Reuter,

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 marino-drama,fimed-with-the-co- type of feminine role, Alan Crosland operation of the United States May; Everybody's Talking scenis to have found still a new role and based on the story "Pigboats," in his first independent production, by Commander. Edward Ellsberg. "The Silver Lining.

In this picture, now running at the Robert Montgomery heads the cast

King's Tlientre, Betty is seen as a

of the production and featured roles clerk in a cheap department store, are played by Walter Huston, Madge Durante, Eugene She lives in a shabby tenement, but Evans, Jimmy ix the bright angel of the street, Pallette, and Robert Young, with the She even goes so far as to "take the supporting cast including Edwin rap" when a poor widow is caught Styles, John Lee Maltin, David Sowell, stealing food for her crippled son. Sterling Holloway, and Charles Irwin, Her romance in the production is fel! Bat the exterior sequences

Many of

of

were made on location blusted when she finds her admirer at Pearl Harbour, Hawail. Members has found a new love but Kate goes

#f the east, Director Jack Conway,

an in her usual way taking things and a large technical corps spent more they come, comforting the less for- Luuate, always the same sunny Kate, than a month at Pearl Harbour photo- nction Perhaps the way alle stores in her graphing atmospheric and now role in due to the fact that cir-scenes, cumstances at one time caused Betty Critics concede "Hell Below" to be Compson to reside in the tenement the most thrilling niarine drama yet district of a large city. Certainly she to reach the screen, striking effects has never appeared more attractive having been achieved for the first und in a more convincing role that time by the use of new developments in undoraca photography, notably a might otherwise be termed drab,

Maureen O'Sullivan, John Warbur-novel camera operating with the ald The story is replete ton, Montagu Love and Mary Doran of Runte featured on with the in with purposing action from start to "The Silver Lining," which is an finish, the camera depicting the plight. of a submaring at the bottom of the original story by Hal Conklin.

dend and its crew ren with its engines apparently doomed, the battle between the undersea craft and a destroyer.

"Hck Below"

"Hell Below," one of the outstand-

The stirring emotional conflict of to photoplays of the year, will be the plot is lightened by the antics of showing to-day and to-morrow only the inimitable Jimmy Durante, the at the Queen's, following its success highlight of whose career in a boxing ful long run at the Astor Theatro inhout with a kangaroe.

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