Picture Show (May-Oct 1919)

29 The Pirhin Show, Autjofl ?,Qt/,. 1919. ONE of the most important factors in Cmema production is the choice of a subject, and the selection of an attractive title. No amount of skilful production or superb photography can save a bad subject. There has lately been quite a run on popular songs. Everybody likes to meet old friends even in new guises; so that a producer has something in his favour in selecting a song which has t>een sung and even whistled by everybody. " Father O'Flynn," which has just been produced, is a case in point. It was a sheer delight to see in the flesh the dear old priest, who was all in the world to his (lock. AND now we have another winner coming. " The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," a song which has been round the world many, many times, and which was written and composed to celebrate one of the most astounding freaks of good luck even in that metropolis of the wheel of fortune. CHARLES COBORN, the great Comedian of the Vaudeville Stage, has been identified with the song for years and years. He produced it, popularized it, and immortalized it, and now he is going to film it. ♦ * * * WITH all that can be done in the way of production and photography, "The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" will be a great Cinema propo:ition. It is being filmed in the lovely country which has made Monaco famous, and Charles Coborn will be supported | by a company of the most accomplished artists in the world of cinema. ♦ ♦ * « THERE is everything to recommend it to as enduring a popularity as the song. Ask at your favourite cinema house when it is coming. And if you want to know any more about it, write to us : NEW REGAL SUPER-FILMS. 40, Gerrard Street, LONDON, W.I. Delay Is Dangerous IT was ia " X'enfrpaiice ami tlie Woman " in wliieh the licroine, wlio hai\ been captured by outlaws, nianagos to escape and got. back to lier husband, who is seeking high and low for her/anion^; tho iiiountaiii«. After the (huinjcrs through which both luul pssscd, they very naturally embrace one another. I'h eryone in tlie audience was highly excited, for the outlaws were getting nearer and nearer evcvy minute, when, suddenly, a man who could stand the tuspeiise no longer, shouted out at the back of tho hall : " for goodness' sake get a move on ; don't stand there kissing, or you'll be caught aijain." Half-a-crown awarded to Constance Trigg, 109, Newland S(^•eet West. Lincoln. The First There. AT the Bruntoii ,Studios they cpiW Ressie Harriscnle the moriiituf star, because she is always the first one ready for duty each day. — — One of the Old Ones. LlT l'LK OIRI. (to film actress): "My father says he has often seen you act on the stage before you went into pictures." E.Kcited Actress : " A\'hat did he say he had seen ine in ? " Little Girl i " The 'Eighties ! ^ — •»-♦■ — It was Getting Late. THE n.anager ot a nio\ im; picture star has a lot to put up with. One morning recently a local newspaper man rang JMarlc I^arkin tip at 2.30 in the morning and roused him from his slumbers to ask, "Is it true that Mary I'ickford r< retiring?" To which Mark an-iwered in a sleepy ought to be at this hour." " .ShB Why the Barbers are Cross. THK barbers of Los Angeles, the great film citj-, have a grievance. Owing to the large ntnnber of Bolslievist pictures which are being produced, they find that their trade is slipping away from them, Thomas lnc« is the latest culprit. He is about to produc« a film entitled ' Americanism '•. Bolshevism." in which he has to have a large Bolshevist army. Mr. Ince insists upon men wilh natural beards, and, of course, -every Bolsl;. has a beard, so therefore whole armies of supers arc passing by the barbers' shops each day. The soap-rsakers are trembling too, for they think that Mr. Ince, in his craze for realism, ivill pi'evont the picture Bolshies fjom washing their faces. Made All the Difference. PRODUCER: "I want you to write mc a new story for our next production."' .Scenario author ; " Does the star lilio her new ieadinc man ? '' Croducer : " Why do you ask that ? What diflercnce does it make ? " .Scenario author : " Oh. I just wanted to know liow many kissing scenes to include ! " • — — ■ All Sorts. HAVE you noticed liow many different kiinls of film actors there are ? There are f huso with wavy hair, those with long, smooth hair, brushed well back, those who are getting a trifle thin on top — and Bill Earnurn. The JiitTEf. MUTT AND JEFF AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE. tleff stumbles upon what hi is the Peace Conference, but he that it is merely a wax-work show imagmes informed To plaj' a trick on Mutt, .Jeff disguises Imir self as a French soldier and tells Mutt that he is summoned to appear before the Conference. THIS PERSON Mtrrr has COMMITTED MURDCR,! I SHE BE SHOT AT once!! Meanwhile the Professor has fixed a battery on to the dummy figures, which makes them move. Jeff gets some of his own back as Mutt bows. Mutt shudders as a drea<lftd sentence is passed upon him, but when he discosers that the Peace Conference is a fake, he makes poor old Jeft suffer. 'J'hc abnrr pichirex are taken from the film f>y permission of the Fox Film Cowpmy.