The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1927, Page 13

A eG. oN A te — a e o n RRRRM 5 A PEEK EACH WEEK AT MOTION PICTURES Made Director - of Photoplays magnificent. And how! Dorothy Arzner.) The only woman to be made a di- rector of motion pictures in the last ten years is Miss Dorothy Arzuer, who cut and edited “The Covered Wagon” and “Old Ironsides.” She is the only woman ever to be made a director in the Paramount organization and has been given a long term contract. “THE GORILLA HUNT.” You will find in “The Gorilla Hunt” some of the qualities that made “Grass” and “Moana of the South Sea” the wonderful pictures they were, Recording the progress of a hunt for the gorilla there are inter- woven flashes of the life of the Afri- can Negro. Animal life and the prim- itive human life are blended in this photographic record of an African ex- Pedition, It is a quiet record, occa- sionally beautiful and at moments thrilling. It is always interesting. Ben Burbridge, on expedition for the Belgian government and the Smithsonian Institute for the gorilla, now fast becoming extinct, takes the picture. The majestic Congo, with its jungled shores interspersed with occasional villages, begins the movie record of this African trip. The Sa- fari, human freight transport of hun- dreds of natives, is a pretty sight of beautifully muscled bodies, In the progress of the expedition to the distant mountainous regions be- yond even where Stanley and Living- ston made exploration history we are given the life as it is found. The country fairly teems with animal life. Deer, python, crocodiles, hippopotami, elephants, lizards and lions come un- der the lens to interweave thru the film, Most interesting is human life, Cus- toms of cannibalg and pigmies are caught, and these primitive peoples brought before our eyes. There is some remarkable native dancing that will please our black bottom enthu- siasts. They will find no trouble in recognizing various steps and contor- tions. Then comes the actual gorilla, hunt. Small animals are caught alive. The shooting of a monster of some 450° pounds, maddened, beating his breast in rage, is done at a range of only thirty feet and splendidly photo- graphed to give you all the thrill of this risky business, The variety of interest thruout the film makes it extremely worth while. Add to this the fact that there is no patriotic goo splattered over it; no eternal triangles; no chest-heaving drama; no preferable blondes; no gush and mother stuff—and you can easily see here is something on whigh it is worth spending your hard-earned Bet Over Horse Brought First Movies BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT Not Bardelys but the producers are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer no doubt paid Rafael Sabitini plenty for the story. John Gilbert was secured to do the director, Added to this the producers spent more money on the production as a whole than did the king of France whom Bardelys served amd kept 60 well entertained, The story concerns a wager made by our Bardelys to win the heart of a fair (and how pure!) damsel. The adventures he goes thru until she is finally and snuggly in his embrace include duels, horseback riding, swimming a river, climbing a wall (to fair damsel’s bedroom) and gymmas- tics aplenty that heretofore had been the sole movie property of only Doug- las Fairbanks, The comparison is very striking. ef presee reg a ‘eeens on Physical-culture fandangles and—yea, it brother—even the neatly trimmed brother—({without which, says «a . Spanish proverb, a man is ike an a egg without salt!)—all, all the old SE is also another comparison to be made. The love making of our hero has been intensified many degrees Farenheit. Celia Waid tes GTA i Su he esc. ste cnc have become known. Senator Leland Stanford of California thought that a horse in running, at some stage of the cycle, had all four feet lifted from the ground. He bet $25,000 on it. Instantancous photography was suggested by a French professor. The senator had 12 cameras placed 21 inches apart in a building adjacemt to the race track. Each camera had a double shutter released by a magnetic circuit released, each in turn, by pims turning on ‘a music box cylinder, forming a contact. This proved unsound. The senator therefore had strings stretched across the track, ¢he horses breaking the strings and snapping the camerag Thas was in 1877-49 years ago. The senator won his bet. Top view shows the experimental track, with strings being stretched across it. Bottom view is an athlete doing a back somersault in what is described as the first motion picture of a human being. OBOE GE EA ORO eamamammmage ame aaa rE ER Te TTC We gro In the Movies. including best Negro talent, in more A decided ~t is taking place /serious and honest portrayal. Negro in the presentation of the Negro in|actors are now working, among oth- motion pictures. No longer is he be-|jers, in the new productions of Cecil ing restricted to ridicule and the} DeMille’s King of Kings, Porgy and slightly better presentations of the | Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the Fox picture, slapstick of Snub Pollard, Harold |The Wedding Ring and The River, Lioyd, Our Gang comedies and Fox | produced by First National. Charles pictures, Gilpin, star of O’Neill’s Emperor In addition to pictures acted and | Jones, is now being shown in New produced by Negroes entirely, many | York in the moving picture produc- new pictures by leading producers are | tion of Ten Nights in a Barroom, - uy HE TINY YWORKER A Weekly. Editor, Bunny BER Roxbury, Mass. Johnny Red, Assistant Editor. popularity from which all blessings flow, make a bid in this pic- ture to place John Gilbert first im the hearts of his country-women. In this incidentally they have done a good job. The love making is artistic, hot stuff and puts John Gilbert one step ahead of his rival hot-poppa, John Barrymore, Eleanor Boardman is the much sought maiden and to her credit goes a job well done. Roy D’Arcy sneers and esmiffs. and ehows his teeth in well established, old style villainy. He could have sneered less without « ture of the times when men were gentlemen, and women wore seven petticoats—you will find Bardleys the Magnificent at the Chicago Theater. The costumes are gorgeous. The settings are splendid. The * photog- vaphy is first-rate, Gilbert ig hand- some. The story moves fast. Oh, what a wad of money Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer must have spent! « —W. C. A DOZEN IN BRIEF. THE BETTER 'OLE—Splendid entertainment. With the Vita- phone (Woods) WHAT PRICE GLORY— Great stuff (Garrick). SCARLET LETTER—Good —We are told. Vol. 1. Saturday, January 8, 1927 No. 32 HEY, WHAT’S ‘THIS? OH, LOOK, WHO'S HERE! THE BLONDE SAINT— Not one of those gentlemen prefer. PARADISE—For low mentalities. FAUST—Jannings makes it worth- while. THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH—Harold aed Bas in the movies. And as THE BLACK PIRATE cPairbanks the acrobatic pirate. THE TEMPTRESS—Greta Garbo plays hell with a few men (Tivoli). VARIETY—See this one. LONDON—Miss this one, BREAKING CHAINS—Miss meals to see this one, Our little Tiny -Worker, H. Cohen, from St. Paul, sends us this clev- er little song that you sing to the tune of “It Ain't Gonna Rain No More.” He is 9 years old and his first name begins with H. I wonder if it stands for Harry ... or maybe something else. I hope he | writes in ‘to tell us. Here's the song: Oh the old bee makes the honey comb The young. bee makes the honey, The workers make the cotton and the corn And the Capitali- ists get the mon- ey. Hey—H. Cohen— when you write to tell us if the H. means Harry or Huckelberry, why not send another poem. Gee, this is good! HEY—DO YOU KNOW? I wonder what's become of those clever Grand Rap- ids Pioneers. Re- member the good stuff they sent? I four-bits. You'll find it at the Castle | 4 motherly working class woman in| hope they start the in Chicago, Ww, Cc. LOL LC et ttneetett ttt the picture “The Passaic Strike.” new year and write! q Bunny Palatnick a Roxbury Pio- neer, scende us this poem about the bunk that it is nice to die and be- come an angel. So our artist drew a picture about it. But that isn't Bunny himself! Bunny is smaller. He's a Tiny Worker. He writes: “This is my seeond contribution and I expect to keep on contributing. I am leaving the title to you.” Alright, Bunny. Here's the on your poem: little HOW DO THEY GET THAT WAY? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, All rieh people go to heaven; Where do the poor old workers go? They = us in school that when we e, We're made into angels, but that's a lie; They tell us an angel is a slim per- son with wings, But those who go to heaven, are big fat things. What I would like to know, 1s how they reduce them 80; When a guy like Morgan goes up there s0 fat, How do they make him as thin as that? . Isn't Bunny the wise little rabbit? That makes him editor of this issue. Charmion Oliver of San- Francisco sends us this one: What's the dif- ference between a postage stamp and a Boishevik? Answer: One can be licked. But Charmion isn’t satisfied with this, so she sends us a joke _ too. Laugh this off: Frank (eating in a restaurant): Say, Bil, what do you know about them Russian Soviets? Bill: Not much-~ never ate any. -= Ho-ho—not bad, eh? Charmion, now you stop mak- ing us laugh. We're serious Tiny Reds. HOW ABOUT LOS ANGELES? What's happened to our clever Tiny Red Pioneers of Los Angeles? Hope they haven't got logt somewhere be~ tween Xmas and New Years!