News of the Movies BY The Movie Man

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19848, 17 January 1920, Page 3

News of the Movies BY The Movie Man

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. , Correspondent;; desirous oi bavin? cucsticns answered in tho current issue" 1 aro requested to sea that their communications aro dfhveroa cfc the offios r.ot th*n Tuesday evening. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Fido—Cast not obtainable in Christchurch. Will try headquarters at Wellington. E.C.W. —Mdrae Nnzimova. is Mrs Charles Bryant, She is a Russian, having been born at Yialta, in the Crimea-, Pcarlio—Pearl While, according to American advices, has finished with serial v.crk, and is to he starred in Fox productions. ''Pic-ture-Play ’’ reports that the lady was recently married to Wallace M'Cutcbeon. Australian,— 11 'ills Silent Witness” being a Bathe production a letter addressed rare Bathe. Exchange, 23, West Forty-fifth Street. New York City, should bo delivered. Nell Tracy, care Willis and Ingiis, Wright and Callender Building, Los Angeles, California. Rita.—Dorothy and Lillian Gish, core D. W. Griffith Productions, Lnngacro Building, IDS, Broadway, New York City. Carlyle Blackwell and Juno Elvidgo, caro World Film Corporation, RIO, West Fortv■rixth Street, Now York City. The others care Willis and Ingiis, Wright and Callender Building. Los Angeles, California. Fatly Arbucklo Admirer.—Cast of “ Do Luxe j Ar.nia” is;— Norma Talmago as Julia Kendal. Frank Mills as Walter Kendal, Edward Davis as Dr Fernand Niblo, F.dna Hunter as Do Luxe Annie. Eugene O'Brien as Jimmy Fitzpatrick, B. Stanton as Cro.iin. Address care Willis and Ingiis, 'Wright and Callender Building, Los Angeles, California. The mail steamer from Vancouver arrived at Auckland on Thursday. Mary Piekford will he hero soon in “Tho Hoodlum.” Her Infest- release iu America, is “Tho Heart of tho Hills,” in which she appears as a wild mountain girl. Taylor Holmes, the young American actor, who created snob a favourable impression In “Two Bit Seats,” which was presented at the Queen's, has been engaged by Metro. The next M.ahel Xormand release in Now Zealand is “ Upstairs,” in which this well-known comedienne appears in a two-in-one rule. First she is seen as a kitchen hand of a big hotel, and next she is garbed in queenly finery—tho centre of all eyes as the ragtime

opener! on October 4- Tlio total cost of the building and its equipment is set down nt approximately five million dollars - -move than .01,000,000 --•this sum 'including the valne of the site on which it j? creeled. 'the scat--111" capacity is raid (» be 5300, which is considerably in excess of that-afford-ed hv the Hippodrome, winch has -IG'itl scats. The next largest picture theatre in New York to the Capitol is the Strand, which previously held the capacity record of SOdf) seats, the next in order being the Rivoli (2‘iOG) and the, Rialto (1%0). The first programme presented included “ His Majesty the American,” a, Douglas T’airbank’s picture made for release as a Big Tour attraction, and a stage revue of a dozen scenes more, or less spectacular with principals and chorusA London paper lias the following about a question which has attracted a considerable amount of attention locally ;—The. increasing popularity of tho kinema. and the lack of new theatres are rousing proprietors to the necessity of trying to find a solution to the queue problems. Ut course a proprietor likes the idea of a queue outside his theatre; “ it is a sign of good business.” said the manager of one of the largest Most End kinema theatres rcenily. “hut wo should all ■welcome some method by which the audience had not to wait about in tin, cold and sometimes rain. Tho great trouble- is that the essence of the kinema-going habit is being aide to go in and come out when yon like. The system of honking as in theatres if of no use as a complete solution, for. although people would certainly he pleased to come in just as tho programme starts and occupy their scats, many will not want to slay right, through, and a proprietor would have to be an angel to keep their scats vacant until tho programme starts again.” MARY P.l OK FORD. MONEYMAKER. Writing in the London “ Daily Express ” of the celebrated moving-picture actress, Alary Bickford, Langford North says;— f. have scon this great litUe lady a score of times, hul 1 have never pene- ; trated tho .secret of her oriilice. Never