"BEYOND BENGAL" REALISTIC JUNGLE FILM AT THE GAIETY
"Beyond Bengal" Realistic Jungle Film at the Gaiety Authentic Jungle Picture Filmed by Harry Schenck in Malay Peninsula A monster herd of wild elephant) in action is recorded by the camert in...
...This "Charge of the Elephant Brigade" is but one of many thrillling scenes in "Beyond Bengal...
...Beyond Bengal" Realistic Jungle Film at the Gaiety Authentic Jungle Picture Filmed by Harry Schenck in Malay Peninsula A monster herd of wild elephant) in action is recorded by the camert in "Beyond Hengal," the jungle romance, current at the Gaiety The atre...
...The Goodrich paraphrase of 'Richelieu," while preserving the If ill wer-Lytton plot, involving inrigueyagainst the lives of Cardilal Richelieu and King Louis 4111, and against the honor of Richelieu's ward, Julie de Mortenar, has doy away with the old'ashioncd "asides" and circumlocuions which retarded the action...
...Hampden Openi Engagement May 21 at Brooklyn Academy Walter Hampden, returning from his coast to coast tour in three of the world's most famous plays, will appear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Wednesday afternoon, May 21, 22 and 2...
...Hampden will be surrounded by ii8 permanent acting company Concerning Lee Daly, Savoyard Director Lee Daly, who is staging the current scries of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas now being presented at the Majestic Theatre under the aegis of S. M. Charlock, has been associated either as player or in a back-stage capacity with* more than one hundred and forty of the Savoyard works over a span of eighteen years...
...Born in Shenandoah, Pa., Daly came to the stage at an early age as an amateur dancer in the variety halls of the mining sector of that portion of the state, His real experience came with Lew Morton's musical stock company...
...Double Film Bill at Brooklyn** Strand Two film attractions, shown for the first time In Brooklyn, are being presented at the Warner Strand Theatre this week...
...When an elephant gets mad al you, hoy, he's mad...
...which is said to be an authentic and realistic film transcript of the wildest jungle in the world...
...Brown in "A Very Honorable Guy," a romance, filled with adventure and laughs...
...is Schenck's assertion...
...The amiable director knows every line, lyric, bar of music and piece of stage business in upwards of one hundred different light and comic operettas...
...Daly has not only played every conceivable Gilbert and Sullivan role, but was equally {imminent in countless Victor Herbert revivals...
...Although the expedition was, ir reality, chasing the elephants n order to get effective camera shot.1 of the herd on the move, the big mammals suddenly took it int< their heads to do a little chasing themselves, and making a sudden reverse flank movement, charged upon their hunters full tilt, trump eting their rage as they came...
...The wreckage of equipment wasn't worth picking up...
...And when a herd of elephants get mad all at once, and start a stampede, it's just too had if you happen to he in the way...
...This opened a new histrionic vista to him and he emerged one of the better light comedy jesters...
...When the cataclysmic cay/ alcade had passed, we gathered up the wounded and gave them first aid...
...Some of the natives used spears in an attempt to fend off swishing trunks of elephants used like huge bludgeons, and the spears were splintered like toothpicks in theii bands...
...Five years ago he personally directed the entire repertory for Aborn in New York while the latter was elsewhere engaged...
...The renowned star will open in Arthur Goodrich's new version of Sir Edward BulwerLytton's "Richelieu...
...He has not played Macbeth so frequently of late, but his portrayal is well known and its restoration to his repertoire will arouse keen interest among lovers of the ircatest of all dramatists...
...and will repeat this exciting play at the closing on Wednesday evening...
...in addition to a herd o trained elephants, bullocks, Chines* )ionies ami equipment and para phernalia required for the under taking...
...Macbeth" and "Hamlet," and Walter Hampden's performances herein, need no introduction or •coniiums...
...The star's jLamlct is hriee familiar and always welcome...
...The very next season he joined the Aborn company and served with him until his death a few short months ago...
...The second feature is Joe F...
...This production was filine< by Harry Schenck, in cooperatior with the Sultan of Perak, in th< wild jungles of the Malay Pen insula, the southernmost point ol Asia...
...The second offering will be none other :han "Hamlet" on Tuesday evening, while its companion tragedy, 'Macbeth," will be the Wednesday natinee bill...
...Many months were spent in thi beast-infested jungle by Schenck': expedition, which comprised l,6(M people, including natives, Saiki (wild men of the jungle), scien tists, and a large corps of camera men...
...The movement and dialogue now ire direct and swiftly flowing so hat the melodramatic climaxes ire said to have far more power han they did in the less direct and nore indefinite original version...
...For the major portion of this time Daly labored in the managerial vineyards of the late Milton Aborn...
...Th'J first film is Ruth ChatterWm in "Journal of a Crime," with Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd, George Barbier, Douglas Dumhrillc and Harold lluber...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 62
