... interfere at one stage or another. The director often fails so lamentably to understand what the author had in mind or to convey that meaning with sympathy and clarity to the artists that the author often has a difficulty in keeping his feet and his tongue ...

... by informing his readers that Miss So and So's picture happens to be on at the So and So. Here and there managers may be too much alive to miss such opportunities, but we happen to know that in many instances nothing is done by cinema people to turn this ...

... the detective put together, for while they are constantly circum- venting and outwitting each other, the note contrives to keep well ahead until it is fairly run to earth by Red Indians and cowboys somewhere between Vancouver and Shepherd's Bush. Mr. ...

... ambitious standard which the company sets itself. Its films are characterised by grace and dignity of setting and staging, while the art of the producer obtains the highest possible effect for every situation. Little need be said of the Ambrosio players ...

... whoever that may be, has been contributing an article to The Evening News, the most consistent supporter of the cinema theatre amongst our London journals, on Where the Cinema Beats the Stage, in the course of which he says, No stage can supply a ...

... a passionate advocate of the freedom of art, having immense faith in the even yet unexplored possibilities of the film, although constantly alive to the differences that exist between film production and stage production. Holding these views, and feeling ...

... of the child and the unquiet heart and brain of the adult. For the kindergarten is the garden of fancy, which we all must keep alive, to remain perennially young. .Looked at in this way, and with a wise selection, the motion picture is the beneficent fairy ...

... reception may at certain One, become an art gallery. Television, advanc eu to the stage when colour as well as shado` g may be faithfully transmitted, would bring the great art treasures vividly to the honlei Conceive the exhibition of such ...

... Fate's Buffetting. The Carbonari. (Coloured Pathe.) Pathe.) (Italian Art Film.) Max Linder and Nick Winter. (Pathe.) In Borrowed Plumes. The Stage Blackmail. Harvest of Sin. (d'Art.) (Ambrosio.) (Cines.) (Cricks and M artin.) Zigomar v. Nick Carter. (Eclair ...

... played. Staging and Photography : Settings are well in keeping with the subject and the photography is sound. THE PASSIONATE QUEST Offered by : Gaumont. Directed by : J. Stuart Blackton, for Warner Bros. Length : 6,097 feet. Release Date : May 23, 1927 ...

... one, am certainly not going to pass at its face value. The master of the stage play may prove himself to be equally a master of the screen play. Similarly, the expert novelist may be able to work wonders with the film. But it doesn't necessarily follow ...

... the navel, the former makes a very delightful and effective entertainment when regarded separately as a distinct work of art. As may imagined, the story gives opportunity for numerous exquisitely lovely pictures, and it is unnecessary to say that these ...