The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Mar-Apr 1923)

| 30b THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS. THE LADY OF THE PALE HANDS Catherine Calvert in ‘‘ The Indian Love Lyrics,’’ N the Stoll musical filmplay based on the world-famous l ‘* Indian Love Lyrics,’’ the lady of the ‘‘ pale hands,"’ beloved by Prince Zahirudin, becomes a ‘' vamp ’’—the Sultana Vashti-el-Habibeh—and she is to be personated by Catherine Calvert, a beautiful screen actress who has figured in several American productions. Miss Calvert is Irish by inheritance, but, like many others of Celtic origin, she is Spanish in type. She has a mass of blue-black hair and a pair of wonderful eyes. Her great ambition is to wear lovely gowns on the screen, but so far she has filled nothing but character réles. As a Kashmiri Queen in ‘‘ The Indian Love Lyrics,’’ however, she will wear gorgeous costumes, and so come a little nearer to the realisation of her ambition. Before Miss Calvert made her screen debut she had become quite a popular actress on the American stage, playing leading roles in ‘‘ Brown of Harvard,’’ ‘‘ Deep Purple,’’ ‘‘ A Romance of the Underworld,’’ and ‘‘ The Escape.’’ She recently completed a three years’ contract with the Vitagraph Company, and was featured in *‘ Dead Men Tell No Tales ’* and ‘‘ The Heart of Marvyland.’’ A “STUNT” CLASSIC IN NEW GUISE. Astoria Films Present ‘‘ The Death Leap.” NHIBITORS will remember the famous classic ‘‘ stunt ”’ film, ‘** The Acrobat of Death,’’ as a record moneymaker. It is being shown to the trade in an entirely new version, re-edited and retitled, under the title of ‘‘ The Death Leap.’’ This hair-raising, sensational film, it will be 1emembered, made the Italian acrobat, Albertini, famous. ‘The Death Leap’’ has more breathless stunts than the majority of fifteen-part serials, and it was this production that doubtless induced the German producers to offer Albertini a salary which constitutes a record for any actor of his class. Provincial renters who are interested in territorial rights for this famous subject are asked to get into touch with Astoria Films, Ltd., Motograpt. House, Upper St. Martin’s Lane, London, W.C.2. The trade show will be held on Tuesday, April 24, at the Sheftesbury Pavilion, at 11 a.m., and invitations will be sent out during the coming week. Any London exhibitor failing to reccive an invitation should communicate with Astoria Films. Mr. T. C. Elder, director of Stoll Picture Productions, Limited, has now joined the board of Natural Films, Limited, who have taken over the Polytechnic Hall (late Poly Cinema), where the first production is Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore’s film, ‘‘ The Wonderland of Big Game.”’ John Hamilton, in charge at Jury’s Glasgow office during the past three years, has joined the Phillips Film Co., Ltd., as Scottish branch manager. April 14, 1923. KINE SPORTS ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL FINAL. ° Gaumont Retains Trophy. N Saturday last Jury met Gaumont in a_well-contested game ior the K.S.A. Shield at Alperton. In the first Lalf both sides pressed alternately without finding the net. On resuming, Hart, the Gaumont centre-forward, sustained an injury and had to leave the field. On his :etur. Gaumont pressed heavily, and within ten minutes had scored twice with well-judged shots, Hart being the medium in both cases. Jury struggled gamely to get on terms, but without avail, and Gaumont ran out winners by 2--0, a well-deserved victory. They thus retain the Shield for a second year. To-day Gaumont entertain Jury at Boston Manor in the final for the Cup presented by Messrs. Jury, and of which Gaumont are the holders. THE SARAH BERNHARDT FILM. Miss Ellen Terry to Write Foreword. T is with a genuine sense of pleasure at an appropriate idea that we learn from Mr. F. W. Kilner the important news that Miss Ellen Terry has expressed a desire to be asyo ciated with the late Sarah Bernhardt’s film, ‘‘ It Happened in Paris.”’ Miss Ellen Terry has written a foreword to the film and has imnounced her intention of being present at the trade show. The tribute of Britain’s veteran actress to her great French contemporary will, indeed, be the offering of one great outstanding individuality to another. In their unique and individual fashion Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt have stood in successive generations as the embodiment of the nineteenth century stage traditions of their respeetive countrics. And there is no living woman who could more fitly and, withal, more gracefully pay tribute to the genius of ihe dead tragedienne than Een Terry. Sister actresses of the stage, these two great women were also the very first to see and to utilise the possibilities of the new art of the screen and to adapt their minds and their technique to a fresh medium of expression. And so the names of these two great queens of the public will once again be united in this unique record and _ lasting memorial of her fame; and in the warm, impulsive words of len Terry countless thousands of British picture-goers and playgoers will have found the true expression of the homage to the creat tragedienne. ROSE FILM Co.'s YORKSHIRE AGENT. Mr. Charles Tohmpson has been appointed Yorkshire and Lincolnshire agent of the Rose Film Company, handling ‘‘ The Virgin Queen.” With this and ‘‘ The World's a Stage,’’ ‘‘ Southward with the Quest ’’ (the Shackleton Expedition picture), ‘‘ The Tomb of Tutankhamen "’ and other notable pictures, ‘‘ C.T.”’ is a very busy man these days.