Page 11 Advertisements Column 2

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1915, Page 11 (Supplement)

Quite a novel use for motion pictures his been found in connection with regular stage production?. The intervals between the acts are filled up with motion pictures, bridging over the time between the first and second act, and so on. This makes the whole play seem more continuous and coherent, and at the same time does away with the tedium of waiting between the acts. One can see a new field for motion picture *rork growing up in this direction. Well done, such work ought to be of the utmost value to the speaking stage, and it certainly will be welcome to the audiences. The first experiment which was tried in New York seems to have been a decided success. "I shall undress at nine," a pantomimic sketch in 'Stop Your Nonsense" (Beaumont Smith's Sydney money-getter), is a decided joke on the public. A pretty girl is seated —and reading—inside what looks like a seaside dressing compartment. The door is in two parts. One half open, the other half closed. On the closed portion, in big print, one reads: "I shall undress at 9." So absorbed is the girl in her book that she sees nothing of what is happening outside. A crowd collects. As the liour of nine strikes, the crowd becomes restless. They disturb the girl, who looks up from her reading, appears mystified at the commotion, and shuts the otfter half of the door. With both sides closed, the printed notiee appears thus: "Miss I, Marshall, laundress, now at No. a,"