New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
! Deception Titles
By a King, a Pope
And Shakespeare


which has broken all records at the
RivclS Theater by playing three cen
secatsve capacity weeks and ssarts lite
fourth to-day.
Little did Pope Clement VIZ think
when he wrote his edict forbidding
Henry's divorce from Queen Katherine
that, almost four centuries latsr, IL
would be flashed upon motion picture
screen in q land that was TO old
Europe merely a dark continent.
And when King Henry designed q
gateway for one of his court favosites
Compton Wyngstes-he little imag-
ined its doors would serve to swing
open on his own life story in motion
pictures. Yet they are there-gYeat,
pondsrous gates-tc be tugged at
heroiesily before they open TO picture
Henry seated at his table surrounded
by his merry men.
Shakespeare, the crowning glory Of
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, daughter
cf Anne Boleyn, and dramatic his
torian of the swift episodes which
Anne's reign. was still another authen-
sic contributor TO Deception"
1t Is the custom in motion picture
making to fash upon the screen the
names of those who have contributed
their work to its creation. How un-
usual it would seem, yet how justified,
if the opening title of Deception"
were TO read:
Settings designed by Henry VIII.
Titles by Pope Clement VII, Anne
Boleyn and William Shakespeare"
Credit would have to be given, too,
20 many lesser personsges-sueh as
one OF King Henry's favorite minstrels,
zone Gray" who wrote hunting song
to celebrate the kings pastimes and
dedicated 1t to him. Mark Smeton,
versifier and coxcomb, an unhappy ad-
venturer who went to his death after
making false charges against Anne
Beleyn, would be still another notable
to find his name emblazoned upon the
screen as a contributor of works other
than the important role he plays In the
picture itself.
And then there are the love letters
which King Henry sent TO Anne Boieyn
at the time when she was in love with
Sir Henry Norris and looked with ques-
tion upon the advances Of the king.
Written in the intimacies of his room,
secret expressions of love that were
never to be seen by mortal eyes other
Sa< a
screen and smiled at by modern spec
tators who cannot harmenize the
clumsy royal scrawl with delicate SEN
timents.
Ny sweetes. Chuck: n you please give
your heart TO me I will be your most
loyal servant and cast eff all others.
And there is set in one corner
drawing Of heart with Anne's initials
inscribed upon 1t. 1t is crude mis-
siye, blunt and to the point, typifying
the king who dominated through his
strength Of will and great physical
power.
Again he wrote TO Anne:
Nv darling Anne: ana struck With
the dart of Love
tion, like Cupid's arrow rattling
sgainst giants armor.
Another document from history is
the message King Henry wrote to his
frst wife, Katherine Of Aragon, COM
manding her to retire to q convent
that he might be free to marry Anne
Boleyn:
To Her Majesty ths oussni His
Majesty the King desiring 8 male heir
10 the throne Of England. now does
ask and pray the queen to give up all
her claims to her present station ana
he further desires that the queen setirs
TO a convent and abide in said convent
TO the end of her days. being the while
fully assured OF the kings high esteem
Shakespeare contributed her reply
a ringing challenge adapted from his
play:
Neveri vii, die as have nved--A
wife, as God made mel
Queen Katherins'a refusal to retire
and Henry's insistence on divorce
brought forth the famous edict Of Pope
Clement VII:
we forbid you under the penalties OF
Holy MGSnor tne Sn"Cn W Seos ga
Queen Katherine, whom for twenty
years you have accepted as your wife.
Smeton wrots the song actually
sung by children when Anne Boieyn
was crowned Queen Of England at
Westminster Abbey. Az the coronation
services they sang, as flashed On the
screen
Queen so gent
OF high descent
Anne excellent
In noblenesa
Gray's song. "The Hunte Is Upp," Is
ono Of the frst titles projected on the
screen and lends it's deshing spirit to
the scenes in which King Henry and
his hunters race across the wide coun-
tryside The first verse of the song is:
The hunt is up the hunt Is up,
And 1t is well-nigh day:
And Harry our King Is gone hunting
To bring the deer to bay.
Tho song was also used by Hugo
4 Riesenfeld as the basis for the stage
prologue which introduces Deception"
and lends its name TO the colorful
number in which Robert Parker, barry
tone, and two dozen male voices are
heard. Many old minstrel songs are
used in the prologue, including Shake
speare's Mistress Mine"
Still another notable historic bit used
By Mr.. Riesenfeld in his presentation
program to Deception" is song said