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Show mm lim is m American mm m m move titles English Films Fail to Satisfy Home polks But Big German Producers Threaten to Make Com-petition Com-petition Keen for United States.. BY KORM.VS H. MATSOX Special Corre pondc it of The Standard Stand-ard - Examine (Copyright. 12, y Tho Standurd-Elxanilner.y Standurd-Elxanilner.y LONDON, Sept. i. tlghty-flvo per cent of the films looked h' by Knelt: Kne-lt: h movio fans arc American tnade Ti olucor.cwiiip'ln that English audiences aud-iences are Inclined to groan whfn they find the program Ineii.des a humc-madO humc-madO Picture. And that seems natural natur-al after one has tat through a native "feature ' In which the duchess' grand ball looks In setting and costume much more like th- Saturday night party of the Vmalgamated Soclel of Grocers' assistants, or phoney Indians capture the hero on what Is plainly a vacant lot In a London suburb The producers ure not only complaining, com-plaining, however, handicapped b their country's chronic nunlight shoi'i-age shoi'i-age and a restricted market, they are striving to comprb' v. ith the American Amer-ican super-superbas and have already embarked n a year's program of bU ger and better Kims. The accompany" In? publicity camp.ilgn Is formidable with appeals for patronoge of home Industrv and promises of Improved production methods as well a pro-testlng pro-testlng assertions that the English puh-Tt puh-Tt I - Is getting fed up on the ali n psychology expressed In American films and on captions written In "un-cofnprehenslble "un-cofnprehenslble Amerlcanese " Mi;iII( ..S NOT WORRIED. The representatives Of American producers who have looked the situation situa-tion over .ire not particularly worried. The sunlight shortage remulns, and the American technic cannot be dup-licated dup-licated without in- wisdom of long experience ex-perience and the money procurable from the World's largest audience As I .for the "A mrricancrc" the fact that the grco English cinema public reads American slang every time It goes f the pictures must be the explanation : for thu or.oLtnt am1 growing acceptance accept-ance of our argot. The- fans don't like it enough not to memorize It and Joy-, fullv misuse it In their conversations If British competition secrrrs the i reverse of formidable tvat of the Germans la something to th'nk about Representatives of English firms, recently re-cently returned from EutAe, declare Frits is about to fairly overwhelm Eu-I rope With ntw films of rich quality They are striving with Intelligence and artistry ti make pictures hxving on Internationa) appeal The first serle3 of historical subject In which they art. specializing, will be shown in London 'this fall. One important London cx-l change has no less than twenty of these In storage i Miles Mander, E. R. O. S who knows mors abuui the movlC business in Europe than anybody else In Ixm-I Ixm-I don. has Just returned from a tour .., 'Oormany's Hollywood, thinks that the German hope of "capturing' the world market Is not extravagant, I 1 Lnbor. Ihnnks to the exchange, is absurdly cheap In German v co that armies of mechanics -and supetav-mo supetav-mo he employed. Near Munich Man 1 dor saw a "film 'own" big enough to iconf.'.in several Venetian canals and ; full sized replicas of lhe Doges' palace-J palace-J and the f'nmp San Marco. He saw I another "Hollywood," a colossal reproduction re-production nf the main square of Pisa i leaning tower and r Ui and a portion of Fleet stret, london, as It was 300 years ago In Berlin a week ago he saw nn army of 7.000 super, all rlress-ed rlress-ed In meticulously correct costume, storm nn ancient Italian cnte The movie engineers of the F;ithrlnnd haven'J attempted a life-sized rpro- I auction or the S;in I-ruin lie , i'rth-i quake but, ns o discouraged Encllsh' producer Maid the other day while walking In the unending rain, "give, them time, ir the exchange continues to drop they can do anything ' RUBBER FOR PAVEMENT If experiments about to be made by London engineers prove BUC CSSfUl owners of the world's huge rubber surplus will have a far greater market mar-ket than that now provided by manufacturers manu-facturers of bath tubs, toys And sling-! ; hots A London street is to be payed pay-ed with rubber blocks. After heavy I traffic has done Its worst for three months the engineers and municipal officials will deliver their verdict The blocks are faced with ruhhc. the hase being a harder rubber com-! position. It Is claimed they vvili last fifteen years and they xvl, of COUrSS Silence practically all traffic n.,lse. As1 London has no "L ' and street cars' are rare birds Ixndon needs ""oily to lay rubber pavement and substitute bicycle hells for automobile, horns to wholly solve the noise problem But, alas, the new paving hlocs are far more expensive than the material now used. |