Tango Tangles Clippings 18/27
New York Tribune, New York, April 19, 1914.
Tango Tangles Scenes
& Strand, exterior by day, New York
(...) Motion Picture News, Nov. 3, 1928
& New York‘s Strand Theatre‘s Setting for The Better ‘Ole
(...) Moving Picture World, March 8, 1919
& Charlie Chaplin
Smashed All Strand RecordS!
(...) Moving Picture World, May 11, 1918
„News, scenic and comics“
Editorial content. „Broadway Likes Motion Pictures
Attractions at the Big Theatres as Varied as They Are
Prosperous – Strand Gives New York a Surprise – The Globe
Next in Line.
New York has experienced a new sensation
with the opening of the Strand. Advance reports indicated that
much might be expected, but the invited audience which
filled the theatre on the opening night were hardly prepared
for what they saw and heard. They saw a theatre which,
with the exception of a few of the newest, is perhaps superior
to any other in the city. They saw an entertaining variety
of pictures, including one long drama, projected with clearness
and brilliancy and without a flicker. They heard an
accompaniment of selections from grand opera and other
classical sources played by a large orchestra and
a pipe organ, besides a few numbers sung by capable
quartet.
With such a combination it is hardly surprising
that there were many rather dazed persons in the audience,
especially among the theatrical contingent. We had
religiously refrained from visiting the Strand during the course
of its construction, as we wished to get the whole effect
at once. As a result we were more than surprised. We were
amazed and delighted with this exemplification of the
motion picture art at its best.
The auditorium has seats for approximately 3,500
persons, although there is but one balcony. In order to insure
a full and undistorted view of the screen the balcony
and main floor are rather wide, and the rows of seats extend
almost straight across the house. At the rear is a huge
oval rotunda extending up to the ceiling of the balcony and
providing a promenade on the second floor. This is
separated from the seats in the balcony by solid walls, thus
preventing persons from standing there to watch
pictures and so annoying those in the rear seats. The
decorations are in old gold, rose and grey, and
are tasteful and harmonious.
The Strand is the only building of anything like its size
about New York which was built primarily for motion
pictures. The result is that many novel and particularly
pleasing effects can be obtained which the structure
of other places renders impossible. The entire auditorium
is lighted by an indirect diffused light which can be
controlled from one switch. This makes it possible to use
an ascending or descending illumination at any time,
which is an important feature.
The orchestra is seated on the stage behind a privet
hedge, and before the screen is a setting representing
a formal garden. In front of the leader a small fountain, colored
by changing lights, lends a touch of realism to the scene.
In the space occupied by the orchestra leader in the ordinary
theatre is the keyboard of a pipe organ.
The programme presented at the opening, and we
understand that it was typical of what will be offered regularly,
consists of two parts. The first included a number
of short pictures, news, scenics and comics, and a selection
of musical numbers by the orchestra and a quartet.
This was followed by the Selig production of Rex Beach‘s
novel The Spoilers.
Like the novelist the motion picture producer has no limit
fixed to his descriptive powers. Anything that man can
do he can portray. In such a story as The Spoilers this advantage
over the stage is seen at its best. Of course fight scenes
can be done in the theatre, but no such a battle royal as that
in which Glenister and McNamara meet. A daily repetition
of such realism would put the actors in the hospital in short
order. Besides this splendid scene the picture is crowded
with thrilling events, just as is the novel from which it is taken.
Wiliam Farnum makes an ideal Roy Glenister,
and Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte is equally effective.
In fact the entire cast is an excellent one. Rex Beach
in person directed the making of the picture. The present bill
will continue for the week, after which it is planned to
offer a new feature weekly.
An interesting feature of the bill was a special film made
for the opening. The object of it was to introduce patrons
of the Strand to the Mutual Girl series. The Mutual Girl was
shown driving up to the theatre in her machine. There
she met the proprietors and the manager, and went with them
to the studio, where she described some of her adventures
in the course of the series in which she is now appearing. This
was done by short inserts from some of the earlier reels.“
Strand, Broadway and 47th Street, New York.
Tango Tangles is released by Keystone March 9, 1914,
His Favorite Pastime March 16, 1914,
Cruel, Cruel Love March 26, 1914,
The Star Boarder April 4, 1914,
Mabel at the Wheel April 18, 1914 and
Twenty Minutes of Love April 20, 1914.
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