THE VERSATILE KOSLOFF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17039, 12 May 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE VERSATILE KOSLOFF.

VARIOUS MUSES WOOED BY FILM PLAYER. in inis world, a man who can do one thing -.veil is aeemea successful. &eiaom is a mmu ioun-u uuitii cua saiisiacuirily aiviue its attention. auch a mind has Theodore K. os loft, a Russian dancer whose perieroiam.es nave delighted the royalty oi Europe, a painter with a record ot £2OOO tor a single canvas, a motion-picture actor whose charactenstaons have wen htw a place among the gieater players of Filmdom. Keblwtf was bern in Moscow, Russia. His father was Michael Kosioif, a aolo violinist of the imperial Russian Ballet Orchestra. the source, undoubtedly, of hi* passion for the artistic; while from his mother, the daughter of a merchant, he reaped a heritage oi commercial acumen which has brought to him a financial success beyotid that of many other artiste. It was a period especially productive of successful dancers in which he began his studies. Madame Parlowa. had studied ir* Petrograd two year®, while Mordkm and Nijinsky t-ook their first lessons twelve moths after Kosloff had begun. For three years Kosloff and the members of his class were on probation. They were watched carefully, and the unfitted were quietly dropped. Successfully weathering this preparation. the ambitious children started on the real work of their ballet studies. They lived right in the schools, were taught the elements of culture. and given instructions in painting and other arts. Kosloff was eighteen years of age when ho made bis official debut as h solo dancer before the Czar and Czarina. Anna Pa view a was his partlt was somewhat before this time that Kosloff played the violin occasionally in various orchestras. f?c had stir! 'd for years with his father and noted instructors, but music never exerted sufficient iharm to wean him from the muse of the dame. 11 is first appearance at the Grand Opera. Par:... v. as in U'o3. where his conc’otion of Scheherazade proved a tremendous triumph. Tsebaikowsky’s initial production of Pique Dame " in Moscow found teu-vear-old Theodore in the children's ballet, and memory still lingers with him of the faultlessly -dressed, grey-bear led geni Ua oi the ' !. bosc mine stand high in the annals of the Rus- ‘ ' Not al w K dancing at this t : i -■ Until his work began to require nm-d oi ius time, Lhe dan - ■ iiioi jo' was his ace! Me receive! high fee. for his portraits, Ed war! 1 1 G r. y. ' U h s\ x h ibited a t various limes in tlic art museums of Moscow. I'arb. London, and Petro- ! grad. It is not widely known tliat even he I It is not widely known man even beI fore i’c entered picture- Mr Kcrlofl had achieved success as an actor. Nat- | with dancing. I>m !.c frequently iv - i cepted ordinary stag*' engagements •t« increase his terpsi; i. »r. en endeavours. He played John Ba ' rain New York. Mr Kosloff i. now a permanent resident of Hollvwood. where be and hi* 1 wife, formerly Marie Boldina. -i j dancer. bnv r a beautiful home and dancing school, which i«- an important j side-line to his work before the camera.

THE PALOPHOTOPHOM.

NEW TALKING FILM. | The latest first-liaucl information -o reach New Zealand about the paio- , photophone comes through the medium Jof Mr Matthew Cable, electrical «*- I ginecr. and assistant tramways maai ager in Wellington, who arrived horn# I last week alter tea months’ ateenos I from New Zealand. While in New ! York he wav ortunate enough to I invited -o an important convention of j electrical engineers, which proved ro be very interesting. It was ac rbws convention that the first demonstration in public was given of the palopV.otophone or talking film. By this film—a celluloid film just the same speak into a machine and for the film to take bis speech in the form of vibrations, which show .ilong the top edge ot the oh«eured half of the film in a jagged line of varying siae and I shape, according lo the intensity of the tone employed. This is n«* doubt one of ihe. greatest marvels of tbe age.” said Mr o*l 1«. “as one can easily see the possibilities of utilising wh an invention with rhe ktnema One of the meet striking feature* of the palophotophone is the clearness and naturalness of the speech. AN: the ronveutier. t test was made. A man spoke a brief speech, and the record of the some speech was reproduced by the machine. So alike were the two \ mcea that the ■majority of those present voted that the record was the real voice.” Mr Goble ha* brought back a length of the film with speech recorded noon it. but it oohM not be reproduced without the new voice-projecting machine. How tiW image of vibrations en a fific he translated into round ha* something to do with the ir fluency of hgfet.