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MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC
SCENE FROM “STANLEY AMONG THE VOODOO WORSHIPERS” (CENTAUR)
ance. He experienced a sample of the effect the films had on them when, about a week later, he came across a band of natives acting what they had seen with great vigor.
Particularly exciting were the chase scenes, in which the blacks chased one of the tribe, whose face had been covered with white clay to resemble a white man.
Things looked very serious when they staged the trick incident. One of the films the}7 had witnessed depicted a man beating a tattoo with his club on another man’s head, only to find his victim suddenly disappear in thin air.
To the amazement of the natives, however, the victim remained where he was. Just as they were going to
You never can tell from the looks of a reel how far it will make the business jump.
There may be risks in movie acting, but at least there are no eggs to be dodged — they all land.
Shakespearean actors are gradually turning to the films for their Bacon.
A director can learn by listening even to the woman who scrubs the studio.
deal the victim another vicious blow, the missionary intervened.
When their attention was eventually secured, he told them that the thing was not done in reality. The fact that they had been deceived “got the goats” of the natives, who, on the next day, attacked the tent, when the missionary was absent, and completely wrecked everything, including the projection machine. They used the strips of film as articles of jewelry.
But in the South Sea Islands, Vicomte de Geron, a Frenchman, runs a chain of Motion Picture shows on the principal islands, which are doing much to breed the spirit of content among the natives.
Outside of dances and feasts, the natives have no other form of amuse
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FILM1GRAMS
By EDWARD ABBOTT
Many a career on the screen had as its foundation the ability to wear clothes \vell.
Some scenario writers are of the opinion that tale should have been called “Ali Baba and' the Forty Film Directors. ”
When a man has had his ear-drums ruined by some cat-voiced prima donna he becomes a firm advocate of the silent drama.
ment, and the Motion Picture, therefore, comes as a boon and blessing.
The theater operator, at the first performance, blundered, which resulted in one of the reels of film running loose from his box. The natives did not know what to make of the incident, so they each purloined a strip of the film as a souvenir.
Today the* natives attend as regularly and orderly as any American audience. They are not, however, particular how old the films are. Those they see have first gone the rounds of a number of theaters in New Zealand.
Apart from enlightening them in regard to how the civilized world lives, there has been less law-breaking since the advent of the Motion Picture.
Some movie actors only stop knocking the business long enough to receive their salaries.
It remained for the silent drama to put the real noise in amusements.
Individual preferment among movie stars is very often limited to the man in the mirror.
My profession — may it always be noble; but noble or not — my profession.
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