... strong hand. The tax may be iniquitous, but it is the law, and while it is so must be duly observed. THE REV. A. J. WALDRON. the one time Vicar of Brixton, who gained a certain amount of fame through his association with the stage and screen, has just ...

... the States are insisting on the barring clause, by which star artits of the regular stage are prevented during their contracts from appearing on the screen, and so art additional field is left open to those who are not yet in receipt of the coveted star ...

... the same way—as so many stage crowds do—the illusion would have vanished. They would have seemed to be merely actors obeying an instructor's voice, not spontaneous human beings. One further striking example may be found in the art of Mary Pickford. Apart ...

... the stage of this theatre. Tableau curtains and stage draperies in grey will be used. This neutral shade is used so that any colour can be shot on to the curtains, keeping them in eternal change. Colour lighting is the coming system and the stage acts ...

... fullest sense, because it is unhampered by the limitations of scene which beset the ordinary stage play. It adds whole thousands of notes to the gamut of stage art—notes Which have never before been sounded—whilst, equally, it takes away others. And it is ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...