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CLASSIC
Double Exposures
{Continued from page 55) ence of British made films in the States will arouse the same feelings of pardonable curiosity among the Americans."
Speaking of subtitles, why doesn't some company sign Daisy Ashford to write captions?
Anne Luther wore 103 gowns during six days of the making of the serial, "The Lurking Peril," and wrecked them all doing stunts. After seeing a serial, we know just how a gown feels after participating in one.
The British may poke fun at our screen methods, but their sense of humor stops short of reading their own film press material. We had to send to the nearest drug store for a restorative after our office-boy had glanced over a batch of recent screen press stories. Note these choice bits, bearing the plea "for the favor of insertion" :
"Whilst riding on the Downs for a scene in her new production, 'The Gentleman Rider,' Miss Violet Hopson was thrown from her horse, and altho not seriously hurt, this popular star sustained a severe shaking. It will be remembered that whilst acting in the Broadwest film, 'A Fortune at Stake,' last year. Miss Hopson had a bad accident in Rotten Row and was for some time unable to work owing to a severely sprained ankle." . And this:
"If you had been privileged to look in at the Broadwest studio one day last week you would have found a very merry party at dinner. Somewhere behind the scenes, rag-time tunes were being played to 'get the atmosphere,' altho no piano appeared in this particular scene. It was eflfective, however, for when a call of 'speed up that rag' spurred the musician on to syncopate the already raggy tune, the artistes 'got going' and the scene proved a huge success."
German kinemas, according to film men just returned from BerKn, are against providing remarkable musical programs. The popular film demand is for detective and society dramas. The reported wave of immoraiity in the German kinemas seems to be without foundation. The moral level of films there is pronounced excellent.
The manufacturing of German lenses and projectors is being taken up rapidly. This wUl shortly have an effect on the American market.
At present -American activities on the other side are interesting to note. The Italian Kinema Union, the biggest film organization in Italy, has signed Herbert Brenon to produce a series of pictures starring Marie Doro. The first will be "The Mysterious Princess."
(Eighty-three)