Cinemas

Rigadin tours and plays in Romania

The post office is slow, which the foreign and distant origin of a letter only half justifies. I thought Romania was closer. Prince, our national Rigadin, sent me from Bucharest, on July 17, the following very interesting details where theater, cinema, and propaganda find their place:

"Bucharest, July 17, 1924.
"My dear friend,
"I have been in Bucharest for a few days and I have just started in a half-French, half-Romanian sketch in a revue that is performed in a large open-air music hall (like the Ambassadors), the "Teatrul Carabus". My partner is a very popular comedian in Bucharest, Tanade, a long rez who contrasts with my nose in the air and who is an exquisite comrade. I would like to point out to you the warm welcome Rigadin received upon his arrival. More than 5,000 people at the Bucharest train station, a security service, flowers offered by charming and pretty women, speeches, La Marseillaise (yes, my dear!)
"My entrance on stage is applauded every evening and I am truly moved by this success.
"But there you go, the Romanians complain about not seeing my bands anymore, nor French bands that are becoming increasingly rare in this country. They are invaded by German bands and... American bands especially, of which they have had enough and they are asking for us.
"I am selling a film with Romanian actors and with gypsy types in very picturesque locations. I hope it will be a success.
"I pass through Bucharest every day, in the streets Edgar-Quinet, General-Berthelot, Raymond-Poincaré and... Robert-de-Flers. That tells you how much we love the French....
"Ch. PRINCE.

The expected film

The Versailles film that cannot be called anything else has just been bought in France, and even a very high price, because apart from its reputation... judicial, it has, it seems, serious scenic qualities. Let's expect to see it in Paris a little after the trial that is to take place in Versailles, the last episode next October.

Fades and blurs

— It would seem that Bustes Keatin Malec would make his next comedy films, in color. The color of the costumes and the makeup of the actors can add, claims the American comedian, to the comedy of the film.

— Currently Malec is on a three-month cruise on the Baford, a small ship that captain Johnson O'Brien leads.

— Malec's next film is called: Seven Chances and is adapted from a comedy by Roi Cooper Megrue.

— In Our Hospitality, one of the last films of Metro Goldwyn, we will see an amusing reconstruction of the first American railroad.

— Henry Roussel finishes Terre promise.

— The film Amour libre will now be called Pécheurs chics! A friend of alliteration has been there!

— Mr. Robert Saidreau has finished Monsieur le Directeur at the Studio d'Epinay.

— Paris la nuit, by Mr. de Castro, will be filmed in France and Brazil.

— Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford have returned to America.

LA BOBINE.