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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12756, 27 September 1919, Page 3

News of the Movies BY a The Movie Man □ SSE

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents desirous of having anastions answered in the current issue are requested io see that their communications an delivered at this office not later than Tut*day evening'. answers to correspondents. e ~7f, ddresa Gladys Btockwell, care Fes Corporation. 130, West Forty-sixth Street, New York City. Unable to answer yonr question last tom, as your letter did not reach me fell Friday. Sydney Ainsworth played die part mentioned. S ™?f~ \ cannot 1 ? the inforation. All I can ascertain is that there is no immediate intention to reproduce rne piece you mention. Inquirer.—The manager of Everybody’s intilat caet W3S not supplied with the piece. The question with rospect to the serial will bo referred to » ellin^ton. Cnrious.—Billy Burke, care Famous PlayersBasky Studios, 130, West Fifty-sixth Street, i\ew York City. Headquarters may know when her next picture will be shown here, tll inquire. May Allison and Viola Dana, care Metro Studios, Los Angeles, Calilornza. Enid Bennett, care luce Studios, Culver City, California. William Hart, care W. S. Hart Studios, Sunset Boulevard, I/os Angeles, California Jlollie King is now married, and may have a new address. Before marriage her address was care American Cinema Corporation, ®O. West Twenty-second Street, New York City. E\cry body.—Tf Charlie Chaplin discards his s.ap-stick comedy for something header he may he a huge success. All we can do is to wait and see. Ido not think a producing company would be a financial success in New Zealand for various reasons, which axe obvious. Yon will be able to see “ Shoulder Arms ” next week at two of the local theatres. It certainly is extremely bad form for a movie actor who is supposed to have received hi? quietus to dispel the illusion by laboured breathing. But, there, little things like that don’t worry same American producers. Possibly the camera man was too bnsily engaged in turning the crank of his machine to notice the chest heaving motions of the allged corpse Bill Hart at the Strand this evening—Bill in a dress suit and top hat. Will have to try Wellington for your other question. Answer not obtainable here. High Ace.—"The Red Lantern” will not be here for some time. “ Out of the Fog ” will come before “ The Red Lantern.” Crystal Palace, having Metro productions, naturally expects to get the two Naximova

w v tars of il|E Jltmn ||?>S MABEL EOEMAND Who ■will be, screened at Liberty in car latest release, “Sis Hopkins." HALE HAMILTON Sppesnng next week at Crystal Palace in “ Johnny on the Spot.”

pieces mentioned, also any subsequent pictures that a/po made during the tenure of the contract. Will try Wellington for information about serials. I have received the following reply from. Wellington with respect to double roles:—l enclose herewith a short explanation of the principle of double role in the movie picture drama, and I trust it will bo sufficiently explanatory to satisfy your correspondent. At the some time I must confess that the subject is a very difficult one to handle in the short space of a paragraph:—Double role means double exposure, which, is accompEahed in the following manner: —If an artist is acting on the right hand of a scene the camera operator carefully covets the left-hand side o! the sensitive film with some opaque substance, whilst the other half is recording the movements of the artist. The film is then wound back in the camera to the, starting point, and the artist takes up his position on the left-hand side of the set. The already exposed side of the film (the right-hand side) is then covered in the camera in the manner mentioned above, and then the left-hand; side receives its exposure. If great care is taken in rehearsing the artist, it is possible fox him to shake hands with himself, timing the camera, and the , position of the artist in the scene being the important factors. "E.T,” writes on the increase of prices question:—Dear Movie Man. — Seeing in your column of last Saturday night complaints regarding the prices at the various theatres, 1 think the public have themselves to blame if they pay the increased prices. If they patronise the theatres that keep their prices normal, double prices would become a thing of the past. “ Fair Play ” also has something to say on this subject: -—lt has become the practice of some of our local picture theatres to raise their prices for any good picture. This perhaps is not because of any increased cost in production, but because managers know that the public will be anxious to see the picture, and so they take advantage of the people’s generosity. The pictures arc essentially the working people’s form of entertainment, and it is hard enough now for people to follow up their favourite pictures at 9d or Is Id without having additional prices charged. For parents to take their children to the pictures requires three, four or five shillings a week, which is 100 ranch. The public should patronise those theatres which do not raise tUeir prices. It only needs a united stand by the people. Will thev take it ? “ Jack ” discusses subjects of interest as follows; Dear Movie Man, —A few remarks with regard to the rescreening of old films. “Public Benefit ” says that if managers wish, to give us_ a three-hour programme why not give us new films? There have been a good many old films screened here of of late, and some of them, to my mind, are worth rescreening, while some are not. However, they seem to draw good houses for the second screeningSometimes there has been a big picture shown, and I have not had an oppor- ' tunity to witness it, but if rescreened I some months later I have managed to see it. If managers want to rescreen a certain picture, why not take a vote os they did at Crystal Palace [ some months age. As the patrons | go into the theatre hand them a card with, for intsance, the following:— Tlie rescreening of “The Test of Honour,” showing John Barrymore.—(l) I have' not seen ‘ ‘ The Test of Honour,” and would not car© to see it. (2) I have not seen “ 'The Test 'of .Honour,” but would like to see it. (3) I have seen ‘‘The Test of Honour,” and would like to see it again. (4) I have seen “The Test of Honour,” but would enjoy seeing it again. Mark X in one of the squares opposite what you want. The cards to he deposited ia a box as *qu leave theatre. Now