Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-06
.HONOLULlpS MOVIE FANS GIVEN
WR|TEUP INPH0TO-PLAY MAGAZINE

ton; and with him his wife, bulky
grandma. CARRIED soberly according to
her years in black satin coat and wide
bullying trousers, for her girth ade-
quately measures her years. And
there are the same giggling, unruly
children who ask questions out loud
and run up and down the aisles.
Study in Sociology.
1T is a study in sociology, psychol-
ogy, ethnology-what MOTTO sit in
such an audience and watch the play
of emotion across those faces as one
of the old-time, hair-raising, blood-and-
fire melodramas or comedy Is flash
ed on the screen. For the assortment
of films is as odd as the audience;
there are the old cast-off films OF the
pioneer days that have made their
way down from the large cities across
the Pacific and there are some of the
latest releases.
II spoke in sense literally when
referred to their coming as II called
by summons. The method OF sum
mons is unique enough to deserve
mention. In the Oriental quarter on
certain afternoons you win see little
carts slowly threading their way
through narrow streets and in and Out
of lanes. On each side OF the cart
will be white canvas spread with the
sprawling Oriental characters. In
which one line may be chapter or q
punctuation mark On the wagon VIII
be a Chinese or Japanese monoto-
nously and phlegmatically pounding
an ancient gong. Every few blocks he
will step down from his cart, ana
addressing the heavens. proclaim IN
high whining nasals what know only
from hearsay to be an announcement
II a special attraction at some theater
that evening. 1t may not be SO Ell
.ective but it surely is more pictur-
esque advertising than the newspaper
columns.
II Movie Stars knewl
wonder If Mary Pickford and Mary
Fuller and Francis Bushman or any
If the others in the galaxy OF stars
n the big studios ever dream tnat
their most ardent admirer may pc
some brown-skinned slip OF girl
whose grandfather, CARRIED only in a
,oin cloth, combed the beach on q
tropical isle in the Pacific; or a slen-
Ter Acknowledged maiden whose ances-
tors centuries before the Christian era
delyed in the mystic lore OF the land
Of the dragon. have no doubt you
would find in the bare-walled room OF
many such a girl here, clipped photo
graphs of her favorite moving picture
actor worshipfully pasted on the wall
over her bed. If in their moments OF
depression and doubt some OF the act,
,rs and actresses 9f the camera coule
,nly realize into what undreameo-oI
places their work has brought happl-
ness!
speaking of clipped photographs,
| should say in passing that when on
nv arrival walked up Fort stree.
from the dock, / passed NEWSSTAND
with out-of-town newspapers and mag.
azines. and displayed thereon were
copies of Photo7play Magazine Anu
later I was told by the neWsdeaieI
THAT it has big sale. perhaps tua.
& as good proof as anything else q
the moving pictures popularity
| Hurts Legitimate"
ST found another familiar theatrlcal
,ien here. | discovered that not only
IN the big city is the moving picture
| .encroaching on the legitimate thea
ter, 1t is encroaching here, too
/ There was time when all the Orient
1 al peoples had their own theaters
with their own companies, playing ma
five PLAYS. But that time is gone
/ What was once the Aashi theater
where the gorgeous costumes OF Japa
nese actors were paraded IN age-ione
dramas, is now showing moving PIC
lures. Where once the Chinese prop
erty man held Ianguid sway over the
i ,tage of the old and. picturesque thea
fer On Kekaulike.stre Universal ane
Selig films now hold the boards-ol
i screen The movies have done y
MANY an old sage wags his head a.
these degenerate days; but, Chlnest
as Chicagoans, they flock to tns
movies, and dignity may go nang.
an stressing as have the theater'
Of the Oriehtals and other foreign eie
i ments I may have given rise to SONS
misunderstanding. DO not Hledn =
give the impression that there are ~
theaters here but those OF the ~
walls. There are. The white popu1a
ton of course demands better inca
ters and films and gets them. Iher'
are in the center Of the city four laFe'
| theaters, where you can see the pes
feature films from the best studios
| lust as you can in any large city o.
| the mainland. Annette kellermann
| for instance, packed houses Tor SOM
| time. So did The Escape, The Iy
nhoon. or any of the other recent sue
i cesses. You can see as good nlih
| here as YOU can anywhere else.
4 laid such great ephasis on TN
| humber and unique places becaus'
j wanted to bring out what canno
be shown anywhere else SO Well a
/ here-the universally of tbe moVinl
picture. 1t requires for IT'S under
standing and enjoyment no common
blood. no common environment, n
common speech. 1t speaks with un
yersal tongue. without the pompou
pretense of many other arts and II
stitutions, it is doing more, perhaps I
lleyel race barriers, to bind the ties Q
humanity, than any other agency noN
at work. And that makes 1t NOR
than a profession, more than an ar
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