Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
Flashes From the Screen
By C. e. Nelson.

! that, in the future, pictures fol
foreign exhibition will be pro-
duced with foreign casts. The
first experiments are being made
in London studio.
THE Ontario Board of Censor
ship has barred four we'll
known American pictures-"The
Cock-Eyed World" THE Goddess
Girl" THE Thunderbolt" and
Dynamite" In the case of "The
Thunderbolt," starring George
Bancroft, the censors decided that
| the majesty of the law was not up
held in the story. "The Cock
Eyed World" has gained point
inaSmuch as the cenSorS have de-
cided that they will give 1t fur
Their consideration.
THE musical situation of the
photoplay theaterS now settles
itself into a long drawn-out argu-
ment. The American Federation
of Musicians, through full-page
space in newspapers, is firing
broadsideS at canned music" and
the motion picture men come back
with a statement that the theater
music is better than ever before.
Here is word from the must
clans:
eff the theater- going public &C
ceptS this vitiation of It's enter
tainment program, a deplorable
decline in the art of music is in
evitable. Musical authorities know
that the soul of art is lost in
mechanization. It cannot be other
wise, because the quality of the
music is dependent on the pres
ent mood of the artist, upon the
human contact, without which
the essence of intellectual stimu-
lation and emotional rapture is
lost"
And word from the sound pic
ture producers:
1.-The artist must be in some
kind of mood when he is called
upon to fiddle for Synchronization.
This mood dribbles out of the
horn into the hearts of the audi
ence just as surely as If the player
were perspiring in the orchestra
pit. Moreover. mechanization, in
stead of sounding the death knell
of musical appreciation, is spread
ing this same appreciation every
where. The motion picture and
the radio are introducing the
masses to good music, are educat-
ing them to like it and ask for
more"
OF course. each side has more
to say on the subject, and in the
meanwhile the American Fedora
ton of Musicians reports a big
war chest and a willingness to
enter the battle Fundamentally.
A LONG this same subject, Law
renee Tibbett of Metropolitan
Opera fame says that the sound
pictures are leading to broader
cultivation of music. Here is the
way Tibbett looks at the matter:
with other singers, 1 cannot ap-
pear in small towns, but the peo-
pie in the small towns can see and
hear the new pictures. They are
enabled to become acquainted
with the great artists and the
great music. And they can even
get a better idea of real music
than by going to the Metropolitan,
where the voice is often lost in
the volume of the orchestra.
look upon the sound pictures as
a possibility for a new musical
form which will be definitely
American"
Tibbett is appearing as the
leading singer in the Metro Gold
Mayer production, 1.-THE
Rogue'S Song" so one cannot con-
slider him entirely unbiased in the
matter. Fat contracts are fat
contracts, even if they are made
with the movie companies.
WILD Life Among the New Pic
W tureS-Arthur HammerStein
announces that he will produce
talking pictures for the United
Artists Corporation, and that
within a month or so he will begin
work on four all-color, talking,
singing and dancing pictures.
The first will be a musical version
of Bride &c."
John Ford has started work on
white Flame" for the Fox Co.
There will be mo women in the
large cast,
Douglas Fairbanks, jr., has the
male lead in Dangerous Bust
ness" and Marie Provost plays OPP
poSite.
Betty Compson and Eddie Dowl-
ing are featured in Blaze o.
Glory" and the picture has been
made in Spanish and English.
John Barrymore'S new starring
vehicle, THE Man." has been COM
pleted at the Hollywood studio OF
| Warner Brothers.
The next picture to star Dolores
Del Rio will be 1.-THE Bad One,
and George Fitzmaurice will direct
for United Artists. It is said that
the story is unlike anything Del
Rio has done.
1.-THE Humming Bird" is Clara