Revolutionary Stage Effects Invented

...Tho critics and others whose business it is to know, have seen in "Siegfried" another "highwater mark in the moving picture history...

...Clever and Spicy Alice Brady Does Perfect Work In "Oh, Mama...

...The sky grows darker and darker...

...The original of this comedy wss a novel by Mrs...

...Siegfried carries hrough his word and wins Brunhilde 'or Gunther, only to find that Hagen, uother of Gunther, has betrayed him...

...TJUUi tht color of tht tky changes "Slowly ts crystal clear, tthereal asure, for tht tun hat rittn and you...

...These ctn bt brightened or dimmed and, through different combinations, obtain any and all important colora, beinf capablt of reproducing a rainbow on the eyelorama if necessary...

...Sex, ol course, is the beginning and end of the comedy...

...Some of her songs ' are decidedly rough...

...Complications mount high...

...Tht actors art playing under a dark aky of night strewn with atars...

...It ia difficult to txpltin tha system which 1 taw working at successfully both at the Royal Opera, Stockholm, and at tha State Opera in Dresden, ae let ua take a journey to tha theatre and witness a performance...

...This difficulty hss been overcome by three 'acting area lamps,' suspended overheld so that thty throw a flood of lifht from abovt upon the ptrt of tht stage where tht actors arc playing...

...But the real show is the chorus, lovely coryphees with slender, lissome forms that not one of them seems ashamed to display to the cheering audience...

...But we were left unmoved...

...It is full of the most beautiful girls I have seen In any musical show in a very long time...

...First, then art two sets of varicolored lsmps, each nint lamps widt by four ltmpt deep...

...His imperspnsonation of a country minister is superb...

...One acene showed a huge piece of Wedgwood pottery with beautiful girle crouched around it, as lovely a tableau as haa been aeen in many years...

...Btsides this work, h* • writing 1 piny entitled "Those Pen liontd by Memory.' i Broadway Briefs Willie Howard in "Sky High" Is playing the last week at the Caiins Theatre...

...The' run will end next Friday evening...

...Ten years later it was made into a musical piece, entitled "Tumble In...

...We rectll tht tettinfs in "Th* OW1 em" Is being far superior in conception and execution...

...Tht rain beats furiously down...

...Tha eloth ia ao calculated, and cut that even tht smallsst crease ruffles its surface...

...That was the illusion of the cattle of King Gunther as it towered high in the distance, massive, yet delicately outlined in tht mist...

...If it it riot required in a scene it can be rolled up on a conical drum with a small motor i and stored away indefinitely in a email apace in a wing, if a quick chanfa of arena ehould be needed, thit littlt motor can run the cyelerama out or roll it back la the amasingly short time of twenty live seconda...

...Above all tht other lights tre the large and intricate cloud apparatus, which throws photographic reproductions of real clouds either on the upper part of tht eyelorama or the lower part, or both, making them move slowly or quickly acroas tha back of the stage, aa if blown by the winda themselves...

...Father, but recently made a widower, and almost as recently re-married to a youthful wife (Alice Brady)—father has never entered the boudoir of his pretty wife, but he has keys to a dozen other apartments...

...Oh, Mama...

...W. M. F. "Siegfried" • Nibelungen Fables Well Filmed, Wagner's Immortal Score, At the Century Theatre 1 When Joseph Zuro lifted his baton and drew aside the curtains for the prologue to "Siegfried," which opened at the Century Theatre Sunday night, there was in attendance an audience unique in the history of the movies...

...is the tale of the La Garde household...

...Final performance'next Saturday...

...As Ricsenfeld says: "Obviously no better accompaniment for a picture could be found than the music of Wagner's tetrology...

...Then, aa rapidly aa it broke, the storm disappeara and tha red glow of sunset sinks slowly over the horiion...

...The large orchestra played well and in tht climaxes one found that the music was far ahead of the picture, admirable ns the effects of that may have been...

...Christie's picturization of Mary Roberts Rlnehart and Avery Hopwbod'i famoua farce, "Seven Days," will be the feature at the Colony beginning Sunday...

...The supporting cast includes Lee Moran, Pauline Garon, Marion Nixon, Otis Harlan and Tyronne Power...

...This Fall he will tour Central Europe, visiting Germany, Austria, Hungary, Cxecho-Slovakia, and perhaps Hollsnd...

...Billy B. Van clowns as well as he ever did and Winnie Leightner throws herself into 1 her songs and dances with an acrobatic zest that makes up in vehemence for what some might consider a lack'of art and beauty...

...Light clouds glide across tha aky, followed by heavier and more massive groupa of thunder clouds, while over the horiion dark banks ef ominous clouds forecast an approaching storm...

...Earl Carroll will manage the theatre in the future...

...Willis Lloyd k Co., and other acts...

...The Jewish Art Theatre, which In recent aeaaona has been houaed in the Madison Square Garden Theatre, will take up quartera in February in a new theatre to ba built on the aouthwest corner of Second avenue and Twelfth street...

...half a dozen of these he wore when he walked down the aisle with his bride...

...Jed Dooley A Co...

...Tht description aounda vary simple, but in ita mechanical working out the invention it a triumph of persevtrtnet tnd genius ever insurmountable difficultitt...

...But instead they delved Into the sources used by Wagner, adding to the film scenes which do not appear In the tetrology...

...Madame La Garde innocently makea an appointment to meet Rhenal, her dramatic Instructor, at a hotel...

...Imagine yourself altting in one of the bast sests in tha orchestra...

...Siegfried's encounter with the dragon seemed rather unreal, the mechanism of the monster appearing too obvious...

...The tarty rcenea ef the play carry him through the great fortet through which he is wJai.»i struggling his way to the castle of the beautiful Princess Kriemhild, the tales of whose rare beauty has aroused his determination to win her...

...One scene did captivate us...

...It happens that there are scenes in "Gay Pares" located ui , Venice, New York, Miami, India and various other places, but none in Paris...

...Then there is the Madame La Garde who happens to be in love with her stepson: Stepson Georges also loves his mama, but doesn't for a moment imagine it is anything more thin what a proper son should feel...

...All of these lights are controlled by one man at a etntral switchboard...

...which William A. j Brady has brought to the Playhouse with tha clever Alice Brady in the star role...

...Max Haaait, a CtechoSlorakian by birth, worked out many of them in Germany during the war and perfected tevertl of them since...

...the James GleasoBRichard Taber comedy at Chanln's 40th Street Theatre, passed its 250th performance...

...hie Sale is a delight no matter what he does...

...This is a huge whitt linen cloth, half elliptical in shape, hanging freely from a trackrail just under the grid...

...Footlights never lifht tht floor of the center stage adequately...

...Avery Hopwood assisted her in making the play, which waa aeen at the Astor Theatre, Nov, B, 1909...

...The theatre will have a seating capacity of 1,260 persons...

...Cycling Brunettes...

...Shubert art unveiling to the public faze at th't Shubert Theatre, it anything like an accurate picture of the goings on in the jolly old "city by the Seine, the annual migration Eastward Is simply exj plained...

...Gradually tht light blut ef daybreak crcepa with increasing brightness over the horiton until the aun itself is risible...

...Next week ht will begin renovating tha Nora Bayta Theatre, which tht Yiddish Art Theatre company will occupy until tha completion of their new theatre In Stuyvesant Square...

...We quota in part: "In certain opera houses in Europe, wonderful things in tht field of sttge lighting are bting accomplished through the genius of Mtx Hatait Just aa hia mechanical marvels bid fair to revolutionise the physical product ion of opera, hia inventiona in light and color seem deatined to revolutionise acenic and lighting effects...

...A Beautiful Show "Gay Paree," the Latest Shubert Spectacular Revue, is Unveiled At the Shubert If ''Gay Paree," the new entertainment that the Messrs...

...The audience was "art ie," attracted by elaborate rumors of tho beauty to be seen and heard...

...There are a number of spectacular scenes that are surprisingly beautiful...

...On the whole, however, one was able with a little effort to harmonize the music with the picture itself...

...Peal Riehter is Siegfried...

...Riesenfcld went to Wagner's immortal operas for the score...

...Then there are the one-act sketches, all of which display a rather robust and Rabelesian sort of humor, but for those who aren't aqueamieh, lots of fun...

...Lee and Jake reiiamly hand the public an eye-full...

...K. Hall, assisted by Murray Earle, Genevieve Blair and Peggy Bennett...

...Bathing in the dragon's blood, Siegfried makes himself invulnerable to bodily harm, except on the spot on his back where a lime leaf has fallen and kept the spray of blood, which, strangely, left his body as clean ns though it were water, from annotating it...

...The complete absence of any ereaaes in the eyelorama and its circular shape five the impreaaion of endless atmosphere and enablea every pksiible kind of light, eoler or figure to be projtcted upon it...

...and the freat hem meets his leath...

...Hiram Blauvelt, in a lengthy article in Musical America, goea into detail regarding the advancement ef some new stage effects invented by Max Hatait, technical director of the State Opera in Dresden, which may tend to revolutionize the future productions...

...E. L. Vaudeville Theatres B. S. MOSS' BROADWAY B. S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, beginning Monday, will ahow on the acreen Reginald Denny in "Where Was 1." The vaudeville will include Gellmanji's Band Box Revue, featuring Ruiz and Bunnle...

...And they appeared to be fully satisfied, at the end, that they had seen the real stuff...

...Still another acene ' was supposed to represent the opening of morning glories, also very lovely...

...For years attempts have been made te obtain a back cloth free from dust and light-catching wrinkles, but without sueeass...

...They can be dimmed gradually or brightened quickly, at tht eaac may be, and identically the same lighting can alwaya bt obtained each time at tht tame place in the play...

...Pirandello to Tour Abroad --1-p~ FROM Rome comes a report that Luigi Pirandello, the playwright, in an interview with L'lmpero, lays that hereinafter he Intends to spends five months each year in touring abroad in order to present not only the work of Italian dramatists but also that of playwrights whose plays are not produced in their own countries...

...Tht other important part of these new stage inventions consists ef the veriteble batteries of lifht and figure projecting mtchinee which htng directly abovt the atage, just behind the top of the proscenium From this point ef vantage light and color combinations art projected upon tht whitt eyelorama cloth which hanft in tlrcular fashion at tht back of the stage, practically enclosing tht stage ea three sides...

...It is French, with here and thert a few Americanisms ia which we see the hand of the American adaptors, Wilton Lackaye and Harry Wagstaff Gribble...

...They . likewise hand out gay and delightful vaudeville with many touches obviously ; inspired by M. Andre Chariot, but even without the drolleries of Chic Sale, Billy B. Van and Winnie Leightner, it's a safe bet that the lines at the , box office would stretch down to Broadway every night...

...The Fall Guy" begins its last week i Monday, at the Eltinge Theatre...

...art looking far out into tht free, endless limits tf spaea...

...There is little that is cheap and tawdry, however, with which factors plays of thia kind usually ooze...

...The picturizatjon of the story was directed by Scott Sidney, who made "Charley's Aunt" The featured player of the cast is headed by Lillian Rich, for them to spend the eveninf together...

...Masses of clouds awttp threatening by...

...Tht program calls it a "Palais Royal" farce comedy and it ia one of the apriest kind...

...Where Waa I," waa written by Edgar Franklin...

...Georges, scentmi: treason to his father, follows...

...The cast art all capable, working their linea for all they are worth...

...rhoilgh a ruse the secret of Siegfried's rulntrabl* spot is wrung from Kriem11 Id...

...Pirandello said he would spend November and December, of this year, ¦ither in Spain or in the United States, returning to Rome in January...

...Eddi* Miller k Ben Bernard...

...A second company will open soon in Chicago...

...Night falls again deep upon tha earth...

...Of the picture, it may seem lese maiesle to give anything short of unqualified praise...

...This, in short, is the timpliSed theory of tht new lighting system the minutely controlled projection ef colored lifht and painted designs on an absolutely perfect and creaaeless circular panorama cloth hanging at tha back of tht stage...

...Rinehart-Hopwood Comedy, e "Seven Days," at Colony Al...

...Had the film author and director followed tho Wagnerian drama closely, the compiling of a score would have been a simple matter...

...Her* waa the finest climax of he picture, for which th* orchestra is It plsyad tha powerful, brooding '•••th March of Wagntr, d*s«rv*s th* •rgett share ef the credit...

...Alice Brady Is her confident self, a complete picture of perfect acting and a rich appreciation of humor...

...For a moment there is a thrill when, through the wound which the daring Siegfried has pierced in the dragon's neck, there gushes forth thick streams of blood...

...French Comedy at the Playhouse Full of real wit and splendid acting i it "Oh, Mama...

...One of the food pointa of tht colored ltmpe is tht fact thpt they are not gelatine, thereby continually changing in color and nteetsltatinf regular replacement tt considerable txptntt...

...Such are the wonders being worked on tht European stage with tht eyclorama lighting system...

...There follows Siegfried's bargain with Gunther, that he may have Kriemhild in marriage if he will aid [Junther in his suit for the hand of :he proud Brunhilde, whose heart is is cold as the NoTthlands over which ihe holds swey...

...The helpful French waiter—who lapses into the American lingo when no one Is around—thinks Georges is the Madame'a husband and kindly arranges Yiddish Art Theatre Players to Occupy the Nora Bnyes Theatre Maurice Schwartz, director of tht Yiddish Art Theatre, haa brought to a close tht tour of tht Yiddish Art Playtrt in tht big citiea of the East...

...Earl Carrol's production of "White Collars," now housed at the 39th Street Theatre, will move to Wallack's Theatre Monday night...

...This year Pirandello expects to put the finishing touches to three novels, me of whicjl h* his ben working on for ten years...

...Is Zat So...

...The company will open in Chicago Sundsy night...

...And a number about perfumes with girls r enclosed in bottles, each one reprer senting a perfume...

...It is a beautiful show...

...Hugo Ricsenfeld...

...Based as the photo-play is on the Nibelungen Lied and the Norse Saga, Dr...

...When the old-fashioned spotlight is needed, three projecting lampa, whose lifht ia concentrated by meane of a lens, throw a direct spot of lifht upon tht actor or peraon or place where concentrated lifht Is desired...

...That much can be said without any qualification...

...In "Gay Paree" he doea four skits, every one of them a joy...

...Particularly deserving of mention are John Cromwell as Jules Rhenal, Paul Pracasi aa the waiter, Jean Burton as Chariot, whose scare two minutes on the stage are a source of merry memories...

...In 1919 ha wta called to the Royal Opera at Stockholm to install the eyelorama and lighting aystem there...

...Rinehart entitled "When A Man Marries...

...But what matter...

...He slso will fo to Copenhsfen, where he has bean Invited to lecture...

...And he has done a difficult job in his usually capable manner...

...Revolutionary Stage Effects Invented by Max Hasait CONSIDERING the development of new Industrie I inventions in this ace of the machine, it ia remarkable that tha atage, both here and abroad, has been lagging ia new mechanical devices and stage lighting effects...

...And how they dance I And what fun they seem to be having...

...Albert Edwin Nicander is her husband and fully measures up to the high standards set by Miss Brady...

...Th* Messrs...

...Tha basia of the whole system, and one of tht most important of tha new inventions, is the eyelorama cloth itaelf...

...Tht thunder booms, but its sound is almost lost in tht howl of the file...

...PALACE Nora Bayes, Georfie Price, assisted by James Hamilton and Jack Trainor, Wally Sharpies with Claire Freeman, Jock Hufhes, Al Green, Kathryn McLaughlin, Dolly Manners and Eva Knapp, Margit Hegedus, Val Harris and Vera Griffin, Guy and Pearl Magley with the Melvin Sisters, the Trado Twins in dances, and Groh and Adonis...

...The new colored lamps trt imprefnated with tht desired color when made, and it doea not change during tha lift of the lampa...

...Particularly deserving of this reception was the music score specially nrranged for the occas|on by Dr...