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jrtKKK BHDIKC
| \N '; 1916
401
PlClURliS AND THE P1CTUREGOER
in.iy have the opportunity of
nous actors o1 the it vs. had » • 1 1 1 > one film of Sir
y Ii\ in ' Alas! ilu i one of our
;i v\a
the film. 'I'll.' I.1 in. "ii
iiipn-iij carried out it object
tlit' gi 1 ate-t number of
iske acquitted herself
n /'■ -• Henry
•and James O'Neill also avoided
ufall. so t«f tea made l>.v the legit i
k 1 ■ 1 « 1 _* . the \ 1 1 : 1 u i . < 1 ■ • '
cured 1 he sen ices 1 if I
11 to phi} opposite to Biaiuice
in / ) / . :, /■'. When
V Taliafeuo was «nu;i u.-tl l>\ the
• nipanv 1. • pl.i v the mi mo-parl in
ilarj amounted to moi e
k' would receive for 1111 entire
011 1 he '•;« k i ti l; stage.
Hawtrev made In screen
in / l/( Hi
-1011 shed a new light i'ii screen
fetinc a* compared with the stage. He
■H, " In some ways it v\as not unlike a
eheare.al. hut in several respects
iltogether different. For example.
Bthough [ was playing onlj to one man.
in realitj acting before tens of
nds of p oplewhoweie invisible.
Be sensation wasa bit uncannj at first,
imt 1 soon got nsed to it. and threw my
self heart anil soul into the part that L
played hundreds of times.
Chrissie Bell, his laading lady, stated,
■ It i hard not to look at the camera
acting.' Hence, perhaps. the
why she committed the sin
Mi Hawtrey has sine. successfully
•d in -/ //•'/.'
Iharles Wyndham fought in the American Civil War, but fifty years later he was engaged in a different sort of an encounter. Thi^ was in David 1. !,-, which was produced by the
1 tli Company. His horsemanship
nre served him in good stead, for,
SIR JOHN HARK as " Ecdes" in ' Turner Film-, for
despite his age, he was still as agile as tver. Sir Charles, in one instance, quite forgot he was playing before the camera.
. w. EtobertsoD
the Ideal Company.
as ]>v«
LADY TREE as Mrs Sternhold" (forced to aid "Hawksley's" plans) in Still Waters /.'• t> the "Ideal" Picture Play,
In the middle of a las: re
primanded his •man" for not having mended a small rent in his sleeve. The producer's curt, "We're taking!" recalled him. and eather than give the veteran act v the trouble of going through Hie tiresome scene again the filmed incident was cut put.
Shortly afterwards, Uitiuf-t ■' was filmed by the Hepworth Company. Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robei tson,Ger1 rude Elliot , and the Drury Lane Coinpan] appealing in this great picture.
'I'll ■ eminent actor and his talented wife seemed inclined to rely 011 " liu a " to the detriment of their facial expressions and gestures, while the rest of the player evidently fi nind the in. picture stage a rather cramped affair.
If Sir John-tone could hive hit bis 1 way he would have had all the lovely natural backgrounds, which are 0 the charms of most film productions, staged in the studio, and. \vha1 is more, rather than have such line as "Ophelia picking flowers by the wil that grows enslanl a l i ted
into actions be pr -ferred them i\v spoken as in the stage production
tunately. however, Mr. Hepworth vvaable to prove to him how wrong his id
were. Sir .1 oh n -to ne e .11 Id face a pa eke I Drury Lane audience any night, but >s