THE PICTURE WORLD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 11

THE PICTURE WORLD

The Nordisk Company can alway« be relied upon to produce something above the average in comedy or in drama. Being a Danish company, there are few advance notes of the Nordisk plays seen in the English or American newspapers, but th© company's productions are always eagerly looked for in all the English speaking countries. The success of the Nordisk features is due to the powerful themes that are woven into *ach play and the magnificent acting of the players. Th© latest big successes' of the Danish firm are, "Children of the Circus" and "The Candle and the Moth." The latter play concerns the career of a man who had lived the life of a leader of a certain fast set. He was convicted for murder on circumstantial evidence, but was released after serving a number of years in gaol. He becomes a Jay preacher. The story takes the audience through many big 'adventures, and shows how his redemption was destined to be the redemption of others. In " The Children of the Circus,'' Mdlle. Baptista, the celebrated equestrienne, is the star artiste. It will be remembered that Mdlle. Baptista's beautiful whit© horse was poisoned in a most mysterious manner while she was performing at Olympia, London, a. few seasons ago. The fascinating series known as " The Adventures of Kathlyn" is rapidly nearing the end, and in a few weeks photo playgoers will know if Colonel Hare escaped with his life from the hands of the treacherous Hindu horde, and if Bruce the hunter will marry the daring and intrepid Kathlyn, or if she will remain in India the wife of a Rajah. The next big Kathlyn production of th© Selig Company, in which Miss Williams will be seen, is "The Leopard's Foundling." The zone of danger that nan been selected for Miss Kathlyn Williams to 6how her fearlessness of wild animals is th© African veldt. , After an absence of nearly a year, Ford Sterling has joined the Keystone Company under Mack Sennett at Los Angeles. It will b© remembered thai Sterling was a very popular comedian while under th© Keystone banner, but thinking that he knew as much about making laughs as tho Keystone producer, he left and became a free lance. Time has pointed out to^aim that a Mack Sennett is not found in other studios. A comic photo-play glossary has been | written. Here are a few extracts. Comedy : Kicks in the same place. Comedy : Abuse of intended father-in-law ; or see previous note. Hero : A male saint who can pass for twentyeight. Villainess : Any lady .the leading man suspects. Villain-. Any man the leading lady refuses to make a, fuss of. Usher : Underripe male ' who Eves solely to see that, you get an uncomfortable location. Horse : Vehicle with only one specd — a gallop. Hand : Something to be held. Rich man : See monster. Kiss : A heart torpedo. Love : What the villain never gets in on. Cinema music in England 'is in a very healthy and advanced state. So largely has the idea of first-class music taken possession of those interested in things kinematographical, that recently there has been launched a publishing business known as the Cinema Music Journal, the object being to make transcriptions of some of the standard classics. These are arranged, from the original orchestral scores, for organ, piano, strings, wood-wind, a portion of the brass, and percussion. The latest of these transcriptions; the seventh of the series, is the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No.' 5 in C minor. Mack Sennett ■is one of the great personalities of the picture world. There are ten producing companies in the Keystone and a herd of comedians. Every comedy of the Keystone has ' been both written and acted by Sennett before it leaves the factory. There are men who can bite a tea leaf and tell you whether it came from Honduras, India, or any other country. There are others who can taste whisky and tell when it ceased to be corn in the ear. Other experts can detect a bogus pound note by the feel as it touches the fingers. Mack Seni.*>tt is the world's best laugh tester. He_ can bite into a joke and tell whether it is really funny, or just bogus funny, as accurately as a whisky teller can tell the year of distilling. Earle Williams, of the Vitagraph Company, is very fastidious in his choice of waistcoats : when they are white they are particularly 'so, when yellow they are of the artistic hue. On© day he thought that a fountain pen was a. thing he should possess. A fe^.v hours later a much ruffled picture ptar rushed up to the salesman and demanded — "Young man, when you sold me this pen, you told me I could carry it upsid<» down with safety, didn't you?" "Well?" "Well, I tried it. Look at this vest !" "My dear sir," replied the salesman, "you must have— er— filled . the pen before you put it, in your pocket. You shouldn't have done that." The picture on the screen was a "Western Drama." In it a young man's father loved his horse better than his son. The mother of a lazy son had com© to the theatre with her little daughter. Said thp little sirl : "Oh mamma, isn't that awful, be loves his horse better than his own son !" "I know, darling," said the mother gently, "but the horse is willing to work."