STAGE AND CINEMA.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, 23 August 1923, Page 7

STAGE AND CINEMA.

The following films will be screened at the King’s Theatre: — Saturday and Monday August 25 and 27, “Snow Blind.” Special allstar east.

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 2S and 29, “Hunting Big Game in Africa” and “Shirley of the Circus” featuring Shirley Mason.

Thursday and Friday, August 30 and 31, Waiter George Review Co.

Attesting in every scene to the genius of Cecil de Mille as one of the foremost motion picture producers in the world “Manslaughter,” his latest production, is a picture de luxe. It is one of those massive splendid, beautiful and uplifting cinema creations for which Mr. De Mille is distinguished and the superlative qualities of “Joan, The Woman,” “Male and Female,” “Fool’s Paradise,” and other of his achievements, are abundantly displayed in “Manslaughter,” starring Thomas Meig'han and Leatrice Joy. It is coming to the Queen’s at an early date.

The management of the Queen’s announce the re-appearance of Reginald Denny in The New Leather Pushers, a great human drama of the life of a college athlete and society idol who entered the prize ring to recoup a shattered fortune. It is regarded as the greatest two reelers ever made, the cleanest picture ever put out. Each series is a complete story in itself. They will be shown here very soon. A Pathe cameraman risked his life in order to obtain close-up pictures of the recent eruption of Mount Etna for the Pathe News. The effect of the pictures is heightened by pictures taken by a second cameraman showing the Pathe News correspondent working on the verge of the crater and compelled by a particularly violent explosion to run for his life. At the conference of the Kinematograph Exhibitors’ Association at Margate, England, it was stated that there was a steady improvement in British films and a steady decline in American films. Mr. G. King said it was a painful fact that the public would turn up its nose at a really good film and go crazy over one which ignored every canon of art. The more melodrama the public had the more it wanted. The America kinema did not rave about its films but about its “stars.”

If you are one of those inveterate sceptics always looking for trick photography, banish the suspicion when you gaze upon “Safety First,” states the American “Photoplay.” “We have the word of Harold Lloyd that there is not a single foot of

trick stuff in the entire seven reels. And Harold could not tell a lie with a framed picture of George Washington in his office.”

Among other superlatively excellent natTonal propaganda films none is of greater value than that recording the Empire tours of the Prince of Wales (says a London paper). The difficulty however is to exhibit them abroad, for example in South America, where they would certainly lead to enormously beneficial results, both moral and material. Unfortunately LatinAmerica has seen hitherto very few British films of any description. Individually, British producers are, perhaps not strong enough to cope with the powerful and methodically orgaised competition with which they are faced, especially that of the United States. If it were possible to elaborate some kind of combination, a fertile field of operations is at hand. It might be leasable to turn to account a French sugestion and found a certain number of theatres in which exclusively British films would be shown. Certainly in the two largest cities, at least, Buenos Aires, with its population exceeding l| million, ample support should be forthcoming for enterprises.

A. Mm devoted entirely to demonstrating care of the teeth has been shown in London. It has been acquired by the Ivory Cross (National Dental Aid Fund). “The film shows how decay begins, its development,. and what should be done to stop it, Miss Fletcher, honary secretary of the Ivory Cross, stated in an interview. “It also shows how soft foods injure the teeth and how hard foods help to keep them sound and healthy.”