It seems to be a strange thing that after so many years of experiment and early screen demonstrations, colour should still be an unresolved quantity in the cinema. We hear frequently that at length colour has come in its full glory; that the black and white picture is as dead as the silent one. When Samuel Goldwyn showed us Miriam Hopkins in colour as Becky Sharpe her appearance was supposed to announce the end of the black and white star, Yet to-day we go into picture house after picture house and See no colours on the screen "ud, when we do see colour, it seems to have added nothing in effect to black and white.
Having played "Violet of Mont-maitre" last night in the Lyceurft to 2 highly appreciative audience, the Russian Light Opera ore presenting this splendid composition by E. Kalman again to-night, AW of the popular principals of the company, will sing, namely, Orlovskaya and Bitner, Valin, Rosen and Slobodsky, who will be supported by Andreev, Novatskaya, Tomsky and Jilina, together with the chorus and ballet In three acts and ten scenes, the sides having been painted by Sofronoff, the vocal delineation will be relieved on occasion by the ballet and several striking numbers by the Astor Trio. V. Valin is producing.
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