Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
Local Stage and Screen.

| in pairs, one red and one green, and
were transparent. Each card depicted
| an ordinary bit of landscape, but when
red card was superimposed upon a
| green card and held up to the light the
result was something quite different in
the way OF pictures. Urban rushed back
to London and in 1908 came the first
public showing of the new color pic
lures, trade marked KinemaColor, and
based upon Urban's observations in
Paris. But the process proved a costly
failure in America.
In 1905 a group of engineers in Bos-
ton set about to invent and develop a
process for taking pictures in color. Up
to that time and since many millions OF
dollars have been spent in the endeavor
to perfect a system of color pictures
that would have both artistic and COM
mercial value. A number of these en-
beavers were successful as long as the
him was shot in daylight with slow
motion and with carefully selected col
ors But when the cameras had to be
set up in dark studio and the pictures
taken by artificial light, and when no
check could be set upon the motion, the
the costumes, the sets or the make-ups,
the systems were failures.
These engineers who sought to pro-
duce color pictures worked for five
years, and at the end of that time
had evolved a method which they be-
lieved would satisfy their needs, though
they had got no further than a lab
oratory process. In January, 1910,
new capital was interested in the ven
ture; more years of experimentation
followed, with an expenditure of So
100000, and this laboratory process
evolved into what is known today as
Technicolor, feasible either in daylight
or artificial light, and requiring no
Slowing-up of the movement of the
actors.
Quite recently other processes have
been announced both in this country
and in Europe. The inertia which pre-
vailed for SO long in the industry it
sell In regard to color photography
seems to have been overcome to a GER
tain extent, considerably affected. too.
by the advent of talking pictures.
Lorenzo del Riccio, in charge of the
experimental laboratories for Para
mount-Famous-Lasky, tells OF a Ger
man color film which he saw in Berlin
which was so sensitive that 1t revealed
the blush on the cheek of an actor
who had accidentally coughed on ciga-
rette smoke. Such delicate standings
while they represented almost perfect
color work, were as yet too costly to
attain in practical commercial usage,
del Riccio said.
"On With the Show" however, rep
reSenting as it does the first combina-
ton Of color photography and sound,
should interest Washington picture
goers as much as it has those in New
York.
X ATE Smith, whose birthplace was
- washington and whose present
address here is 2l52 + street northwest,
is billed IN a current Vltaphone feature
at the Metropolitan as Inc "Songbird
of the South There are many who
will recall her 42-week season of per
Sonal appearances" with The SaJur-
day Nighters" over the radio here, as
well as her appearances at the Metro
politan and Earle. Before that she had
a considerable number of professional
engagements with clubs and groups in
Washington. She was in Honeymoon
Lane" on Broadway and occupied a
star spot in vaudeville until very re-
Gently.
THE Little Theater announces a list
= of interesting pictures from which
1t will select its attractions when the
theater opens again. The date of that
reopening is as yet unsettled. ut may
NC CASAlb VI DcLl WcCASS ~ may NC OILY
a month";" one is told.
The list includes the following fea-
lures: THE Adventures of Maya the
Bee" Eleven Who Were Loyal" 1.-The
Village of SIM" 1.-The Man Who Cheated
Life" "At the Edge of the World"
Berlin After Dark" "Pawns of Des-
tiny" "Cyrano de Bergerac," His Late
Excellency," 1.-THE Doctors Women"
IT'S Easy to Become Father" Mos
feratu the Vampire" Husbands or
Lovers" and Moulin Rouge" Special
attractions contemplated include re-
turn of "ShiraZ," reShowing of 1.-THE
Life of Beethoven" a reshowing of
1.-THE Weavers," THE Light of Asia"
and Mechanics of the Brain"
HERBERT RAWLINSON'S absence
L from the coming weeks revue at
the Palace will be purely temporary,
cleaners after information are assured.
Mr. Rawlinson is to make a Movietone
short and will resume his mastery Of
ceremonies ,JIIlV g.