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FILMLAND NEWS
Automatic Cinema On
·Its Way
MONEY IN SLOT
The automatic cinema Is sald to be on its way.. Mr. L J. Briggs, who has been in the Dim Industry for twenty years, has taken out provisional patents in London for the automatic cinema, This, he Bays, is the first time the idea has been worked out in detail.
A plan
bulk of the front abolishes the staff," he said, "box-office girls and attendants, Agate allows one patron through at a time when he or she puts the money in the slot. When all the seats are full the gate locks itself, and senis the slot an that
no more money can be insert- ed. Then when people pass out of the theatre they go through a gate which acts on the entrance gate, switches off the 'Seats full sign. and opens the slot. It is impossible to put other than correct coins in the slot. The automatic projector for the film is, I claim, the first of its kind. Only one projector is needed, and it will run for twenty- four hours a day if necessary, Three miles of film can be londed In the one projector and when that has been ron it all begins again. Most cinemas use two.org- Jectors. The Alck of an electric switch opens the box-office. The flick of another electric switch starts the projector running, Roth the mechanised gate and the auto- matic projector work continuously till they are switched off."
The all-automatic cinema moy first be tried as an "all one price" theatre in the West End of London
within a few months.
"THE GREEN PACK."
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
TUNIC FROCK
Made of Black and Beige Satin
|WITH FANCY SLEEVES
The popular tunic frock, Skirt, "lower sleeves and enrsage facinga are, black dull antin, while the tunic is made of pale beige satin, the aloever Jaggot-stitched with black silk.
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FASHION NOTES
Gangsters Turning Highwaymen
KIDNAPPING TOO RISKY
FORCED OUT OF LIQUOR TRADE
Houston, Nov. 21° Organized crime, crippled by the depression and the N.R.A., in fr constant search, now.more than ever, for new fielda of profit, ac-
cording to Mr," "John · Landesco;}
PARLOPHONE RECORDS
We are now agents for these records and our first shipment from the monthly releases will arrive shortly.
Parlophones best known artists include:
RICHARD TAUBER, JAN KIEPURA, CONCHITA SUPERVIA.. LOTTE LEHMANN, LILY PONS, RIA GINSTER, EMANUAL LIST, RONALD FRANKAU; LESLIE HUTCHISON (HUTCHI SOPHIE TUCKER, PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH," BINNI BARNES, HAROLD RAMSAY, HARRY ROY and His Orch.. LOUIS ARMSTRONG and His Orch.
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Chicago criminologist, who perhaps USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK-UP |
has an Intimate acquaintance with more gangsters than any other man in the United States;
Gangsters and racketeers suffer- ed heavy losses when the depression first struck, and their "customers" found the "pay-offs" greater than profits and closed shop, he said.
"It was then that gangs began to ascend to now heights of in- fluence when they entered the liquor industry to recoup lost pro- fits," he explained.
"Need for organisation with centralised supervision became ap THE new dress-slhouette that parent. Soon gangs were organised slides smoothly under the in different sections of American autumn coat has its big changes in cities. They warred on each other 'ita necklines and around the skirt. for supremacy In the liquor in The Paris dressmakers are showing dustry. Prices rose, profits were neath the waistline, while the actual Kood, but the people soon refused skirt beneath is quite narrow, to buy at high prices due to the
and profits Tiers are seen across the backs of depression, the now dresses, making them dwindled. wider at the back. There. ara
knee-length tunics that flare be
again
A trade show of the film of sometimes two and sometimes thres "The N.KL.A. appeared and set Edgar Wallace's successful play, tiers,
price codes for the alcohol industry recently at the Prince Edward
narrow,
The neckline of the new autumn
he Green l'ack," WAS given There are splits all over Paris which resulted in organised crime Theatro, London. The story is of styles, down skirts, down bodice- turning to kidnapping for profits. three prospectors, who, having backs, and in other places. They. But this racket proved too risky a struck gold, return only to find that come wherever the silhouette is business to continue." the financier who has agreed that the mine shall be shared, has let them down. There is a tenso scene when the three men cut a pack of cards to decide which of them shall the nancier. John Stuart gives an excellent performance, as Larry Deane, the part taken in the play by the late Sir Gerald de Maurier, and Joan Maraton, as hiя sweetheart; is very convincing. The producing in this film is ev-
cellent
VALENTINO'S BROTHER
SIGNED,
Alberto Valentino, brother of Rudolph Valentuso, has been signed for the part of an opera singer in "Enter Madame."
baritone.
1
Mr. Landesco predieted that with frocks are coming down in front, the fading of kidnapping as a pro- some of them to exceedingly low fitable racket, and the crime depres levels, and autumn dresses go in for elon gradually making gangsters choker necklines that flare out more desperate, that a wave around the face.
reserve bank robberies and mint Waistlines are played up in shipments holdupa probably would enormously wide leather belts on
follow,
some dresBES.
Frills and jabots and collars of starched whito Inen, transparent or thick, are being worn by almost everybody with simple suits. Sult buttons are of all sorts, and Include tiny birds, small enamelled hands, and leather leaves. Fastenings of dresses are indeed more hectic this season, quite different.
Flowers grow lavishly on the
lace.
of
He said gangs were most danger- ous when they were in the dissolu- tion period.-United Presn.
SYDNEY'S WATER BUSES
Three water buses, the first of their type, have been launched in Sydney Harbour for regular ser-
Are
The cast of this new Para- French evening mode. Many dressy vice, In some ways, their con- mount pleture is headed by Einiai | trocks for mutumn and winter have struction in skin to that of the
road Landi and Richard Bonelli, operatic transparent tops made of tulle or latest
buses. They The lower part is usually of streamlined, have accommodation repe-de-Chine or marocain. The for 115 passengers, can do 15 knots, inside of the hem is a vital point and are painted light green with in Paris dress fashions. Hems are smart cream facings. being faced with contrasting colour, and with rustling silk.
Rudolph Valentine was himself a Paramount star for several years.
£125,000 "Jew Suss”.
made the following statement to the Press
17
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
Aeroes
1 I entangle in rather bad taste.
Happened in a way to be cruel. 10 Sounds like the name of one of the original Prairie girls-who certainly was ono.
11 This might be the miser's
favourite lower, niti
12 this, the swindler's woollen cont.
14 A fitting anagram of 22-but it
means nothing.
15 Daby's father.
10 is children were notorious, 18 Freda up;
21 The shepherd of Croydon.
24 Plants in more ways than one. 20 The Muse of Lyric Poetry. 30 Isos from your electric read-
ing lamp (rev.),
31 Holped.
32 Wires, or made of such.
33 Sailors describe this nymph as Saucy, and are thus correct to a letter.
34 Do rest after changing.
35 Sunned pan (anag).
----- Downt
2 Just look at the doctor in the
river. Isn't he agito?
3 Got behindhand.
4 Went against the grain.
5 Unaffected.
6 One could not describe this
laugh as being .
7 It is well established: fire rises
· Im thin.
8 Windy, 11 An order of a boot which the
Polynesians consider accursed.
120
..
13 You can make a face here quite
politely.
17 No butcher ever mentions this.
common cut.
19 I don't suppose à dostor, keops
his in it with the syllables re versed (hyphen).
20 Features,
22 Scold,
29 Abstain
please.
from
this chorus,
25 What English city reminds one
.
of a charabane of unknown seat-
ing capacity?
27. Please (anng.),
28 Fatherless,
20 Ho takes a now lease.
Yesterday's Bolation. MASHEDPOTATOES [OWR FRA B NEARING INVERSE. ELKT VI FWIW, TALK TOPIC DICE
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HERCULESBEETLE
The coatliest am ever produced in a British studio, the Gaumont-i British £125,000 "Jew Suss." was seat of achievement on British m
"The rumours that the Maxwell publicly screened recently for the production in the eyes of the whole arat time, at the London Tivoli, world. The producers have taken interests had agreed to purchase the oceanion providing one of the on Feuchtwanger's story and the Ostrer interests in the Gau- most brilliant cinema "first transformed it into vivid pictorial mont British Corporation are un-
founded. Nor is it true that Mr. At the monthly meeting of the resolved to appropriate $3,000, an- now books and nights" yet seen. Prince George IranIN.
Chinese Chamber of Commerce yes nually to purchase For Conrad Veldt, who portrays trin from his position as
Isidore Ostror contemplated re-i
announced magazines for their library, which was present.
the terday afternoon it was The fact that by a generous ges-Suss, it is the triumph of his controlling head of the corporation by the Secretary, Mr. Chan Ping-au, is open daily to the pubile at the
that the Executive Committee has Chamber's premises. ture by Gaumont-British the pro-career. ceeds were devoted to the Lord Spectacularly the film is a revela-The Ostrer interests are not for Mayer's Colliery Disaster Fund at- tion of the resources of the Shep- tracted a notable Society audience, nerds Bush studios, the period and the Strand was packed by a settings and the handling of the being boyond huge crowd that struggled with the vast crowd scenes police to watch the celebrities ar reproach. rive in the glare of studio lights.
arc
Of the film itself, it can be said at once that it is a masterpiece of studio art and craftsmanship (saya 114 one ritic). Hollywood In most inspired momenta has never done anything better than this.
"Jew Susa" (says another critic) ls in conception and scope a further Illustration of the recent artistic nical advance of the British film.
DEAL OFF.
Rale."
Two days ago it was officially stated that there had been conver- |sations between Mr. Isidore Ostrer, president of the Gaumont British. and Mr. John Maxwell, head, of Associated British Pictures.
It is now learned that in the con- versations there was a general dis- cussion confined to the pooling of the interests of the two companies. without disturbing the existing in- Mr. Beverley Baxter, director of dividual management of each con- The deal will not now tako. mrblic relations to the Gaumont cern.
recently place.
Viewed from every standpoint, It In a production that must set the British
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