THE SHADOW WORLD.

Southland Times, Issue 19516, 16 May 1922, Page 7

THE SHADOW WORLD.

Latest Real News of Reel Folk.

(BY THE RECORDER).

Charlie Chaplin watched Ernest Lubitech • at worls od his production of “The Loves of Pharoah” while he was in Europe and he expressed the verdict that the picture will surpass all previous productions. When Lubitech was in America he saw “The Kid” and pronounced it one of the best American pictures he ever had seen. This is reciprocity. Louise Dresser will make her motion picture debut with Pauline Frederick in “The Glory of Clementina.” The Civic mid-week programme promises to be a strong one, comprising Paramount’s “After the Show,” a story of theatrical life featuring Jack Holt, Lila Lee and Charles Ogle, and Realart’e comedy drama “ Her First Elopement. On its release “After the Show” was classed as the best picture of the month by many of the receivers and it certainly seems to be a production along way above the average. The younger members of the cast can always be relied upon for pleasing performances, and Charles Ogle as the old door-keeper who constituted him the guardian of the girl, gives a characterisation that stands out by itself. His work alone would make the picture great. “Her First Elopement” is a maze of complications that causes much laughter in the unravelling. If you were to believe all the scandal sheets from, abroad have to say about Conway Tearle you would think this actor- was something of a bigamist. Latest news announces that he has “four wives.” The truth of the matter is that Tearle has been married twice—his present wife being Adele Rowland, authoress and actress. Tearle is to be seen in 3 picture bearing a striking resemblance to “The Shiek,” entitled “The Man of Stone,” in which he has two leading ladies, Martha Mansfield and Betty Howe. Alice Blake will be seen at the Civic tonight only in “The Infamous Miss Revell,” in which she takes the dual role of two sisters, one of whom impersonates the other in order to benefit under a will. The complications are many, and a fine ail of mystery permeates the story and is well maintained throughout. All who see “Just Around the Corner,” another Fanny Hurst story when it comes to the Civic next week, will laugh and cry again—over another different story of New York’s great East Side ; over another mother, another son, two girls and a couple of men. No shimmering silks are here ; no blaze of wealth—but struggle and frailty, fighting loyalty, infinite love, all in the clattering, challenging, thrilling whirl of the world’s metropolis. A rare and happy hour awaits all who see—“ Just Around the Corner.” The cast includes Sigrid Holmquist, Lewis Sargent, and Margaret Seddon. Will Rogers (Jubilo) is to make an early re-appearance at the Civic in “Jes’ p|Call Me Jim,” another of the homely type of picture which Rogers has made popular. “Thunderclap,” a sporting melodrama that is said to eclipse “Sporting Life,” “The Whip” and “Checkers” is coming to the Civic this week-end. This big Fox special is heralded as a winner in every sense of the word: A motion picture crammed with, amaring scenes, full of dramatic situations, handled with a novel twist, picturing the greatest race in the history of the screen and with a heEilthy love story running through it all. The theme has a universal appeal and the cast is headed by Mary Carr (of “Over the Hill” fame) J. Barney Sherry and Violet Merseneau.

“A picture that starts at a gallop and ♦■does not falter until the final hitching post is reached” is an apt description of “The Fox,” the first super-western to be produced by Universal. Harry Carey is the star and clever little Breezy Eason is in the supporting cast. Days and weeks and months were spent in obtaining virgin, locations of scenic grandeur; untold hardships were undergone and the most infinite pains taken to have every incident perfect in every detail. The result is a smashing picture that will put Harry Carey on a high pedestal. The Civic will screen “The Fox” next week. Invercargill audiences' will have their first glimpse of Clyde Cook, the Australian comedian (the man with the rubber legs) at the Civic this week in “AU Wrong.” Clyde Cook is a big success in America. Thomas Meighan is about to start in to do “Our Leading Citizen,” which George Ado wrote for him. Lois Wilson will be Mr Meighan’s ’leading woman. A ‘blimp’ provides a real thrill in Marshall Neilan’s production of “The Lotus Eater,” with John Barrymore in the leading role. While a hundred feet or so up above the sen, a man suddenly poises on the edge of the airship and dive? into the sea. Its 1 iincipal attraction is John Barrymore in the role of a young man who attains twenty-five years of age 'without ever seeing a woman, his mother being the exception, and the left hfln at two. Then John meets among others Colleen Moore, in a sort of Utopia he has dropped into from a world trip in the air. Anyone who wants a picture that is different to the usual run can find it in “The Lotus Eater ” This week at the Albion. “Jes’ (’all Me Jim” is a title that does not do justice to the next Will Roger’s picture coming to rhe Civic. Kogers is a quaint personality and we suppose that the-produc-ers think they must match his personality with a title just as quaint. This is a most likeable story, decidedly American in the telling and will appeal to everyone. The two highest priced pictures Paramount have produced “The Affairs of Anafol” and “The Sheik” have been secured by the Civic management. Suitable dates have yet to be arranged. That his photoplay of Booth Tarkington’s “Penrod,” might not suffer for want of the best child actors procurable, Marshall Neilan, the producer and director, virtually corraled the juvenile talent of film-' dom. Virtually every youngster of screen note who was in the film center of the West at the time the picture was made was interviewed at the studio .when the casting was done. The principal role of Penrod Schofield was allotted to Wesley Barry, by i the author himself. Gordon Griffith, who I appeared in “Little Lord Fauntleroy” with ; Mary Pickford, was selected for a leading I role as Penrod’s chum. “Sunshine” Sam!my Morrison, the darky in Hah Roach • comedies, and his brother, “Florence,” were i selected for the roles of Herman and Verj man. “Baby” Peggy Montgomery, three-year-old star in Century comedies, and , Newton Hall, who was the “sissy” in “Dinty,” also have, prominent parts. Other ; popular youngsters in the cast are Noah Berry jr., son of the screen villian; Junior Alden, Winst-oxn Radom, Florence Morrison, Graham Griffith, Adelaide Baxter, Francis Plottner, Charles Meakin, Lena Baskett, Jack Condon, Peggy Cartwright, Bradford Ralston, Stephen Wei, Billie Bennet, Kenneth Green and Bernice Radom. Some of rhe grown-- p players in the cast are Marjorie Daw, Johnny Harron (brother of the j late Robert Harron 1. 'Fully Marshall and Claire McDowell a

Annette Kellerman, water star of such world famous pictures as “Neptune’s Daughter” and “Daughter of the Gods,” has been engaged by New Zealand Dominions Productions to appear in a unique and novel series of submarine sea plays. It is the aim of the company to make this series the most perfect submarine Spectacles ever made in the history of motion pictures. In the harbour of Nelson a fleet of sailing vessels await the new submarine apparatus, now being constructed in America. A complete hospital outfit and staff, together with two doctors, will be available for Miss Kellerman and her company, for the work of the “star”will entail many hazardous feats. Miss Kellerman will attempt a world’s record for deep sea diving, without the aid of any special apparatus or diving suit. She will also attempt to break the record for the continuous stay under water. This in. itself promises to bring to the screen new thrills. By permission, of Mr Darcy Manson, owner of what are among the finest collection of caves in the world, Miss Kellerman will he able to appear in. glorious scenic spectacles within the crystal walls of these caves. , Takaka mountains have held these beautiful caves securely hidden for centuries, • and now for the first time the camera, with the aid of a vast, collection of lamps, dynamos, and electrical effects, will take them on the colloid and so transfer them to the screen. The entire production will be made with only one object in view—beautiful scenic effects, striking submarine and swimming scenes, and a clean interesting story. Several innovations of a novel nature will be incorporated in the pictures, and will be shown for the first time in the history of motion pictures. Great secrecy will be maintained, so that the ideas will be fresh to the screen when the picture has its first showing in America. With the formation of-New Zealand Dominion Productions, Ltd., New Zealand joins her sister colonies, Bermuda and Jamaica, British West Indies, in the production of . a Kelleiman picture. This will be the third “British soil” production Miss Kellerman has m ade. Her first was “Neptune’s Daughter,” made by Universal Film Manufacturing Company of America in Bermuda. If British capital had made this great picture the film industry in England would be greatly advanced by now. Miss Kellerman’s second picture was “A Daughter of the Gods,” also made on British soil, at Jamaica, British West Indies. Here once again England would have advanced greatly, for this picture, produced by'the Fox Film Company of America, was one of the greatest successes in the history of moving pictures. The company is now at work in Nelson, and iu is expected that the completed picture will be sent to New York about the 15th of September. Wallace Reid, son of Hal Reid, noted writer of melodrama, was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1892. His first appearance on the stage was at the age of four when he played the role of a little girl in “Slaves of Gold.” The Reid family moved to New York when Wallace was ten years old and there he attended public schools, later going to the New Jersey Military Academy at Freehold, N.J. In 1909 his family moved again, this time going to Wyoming, in the Big Basin district. There young Reid gained a broad experience working on a ranch, running a hotel and later working on the Government survey of the Shoshone dam. After this he returned to New York and secured a job on the old Newark Star as a cub reporter. Next he appeared in vaudeville in “The Girl and the Ranger,” a sketch by his father. It was at the close of that season that he entered the motion picture industry in which he remained nine months, playing character leads in anything that came his way. But tiring of this varied work he accepted a position on the editorial staff of the “Motor Life” and it was while acting in this capacity that he secured the motion picture rights to “The Confession” and sold it outright to a company with the provision that both he and his father appear m the production. For eleven months he continued with this company, playing leads opposite Florence. Turner and others. Later he went west where again he acted as general allround man with one of the .‘••mailer companies, directing, acting, setting up cameras, or writing the script, as the occasion required. Just before joining the Famous Players-Lasky Company he was with D. W. Griffith in “The Birth of a Nation.” As a person with varied accomplishments it is safe to say that Wallace Reid has no equal on the screen. He is an enthusiastic motorist, plays tennis, golf, and is interested in all out-door sports. But above all his greatest hobby is music. There is scarcely a musical instrument he cannot play from a Chinese fiddle to a church pipe organ. Wal'ace Reid has gained his greatest popularity since joining Paramount pictures, some of b's best known of which are “The Charm school,” “Too Much Speed,” “The Affairs of Anatol,” “Forever,” “The World’s Champion ” and “Across the Continent.” He is s ; x foot and a-half inch tall, has blues eyes and weighs 185 pounds. CHIMNEY COLLAPSES ' An accident of an extraordinary character occurred recently in Glasgow, when the large chimney stuck in the work.-. o( the United Alkali ( oiupany in ('at tic tHu ct collapted suddenly. Men at work on ? ihn stalk were hurried in the falling debris, ’ four being killed and four injured. ■ The chimney was built in 1843 to a 1 height of 453 feet. At that time it waj I the largest chimney stalk in the world. It : was a conspicuous landmark in Glasgow, ; .im was popularly known as “Tennant’s i Stalk,” the works being the property of j Messrs Charles Tennant and Co. The I stalk was about 40 feci in diameter at the : base. It had been considerably reduced on two previous occasions. Some time ago it ■ was considered to be unsafe, and it was j decided »to demolish it altogether. Men had been working on it since December, and it was down to 100 feet high when the collapse took place. The inner core remained standing, and the outer shell fell outwards in all directions.