23-494: The Bells may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] The Bells (1911 film) , Australian feature-length film The Bells (1913 film), directed by Oscar Apfel The Bells (1918 film) , a lost silent drama The Bells (1926 film) , directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff The Bells (1931 film) , directed by Harcourt Templeman and Oscar Werndorff "The Bells" ( Game of Thrones ) ,
46-446: A 1991 song by Fluke "The Bells", a 2006 EP by Jeff Mills "The Bells", a song by Pedro the Lion from the 1998 album It's Hard to Find a Friend Other uses [ edit ] The Bells (play) , by Leopold Davis Lewis, 1871 "The Bells" (poem) , by Edgar Allan Poe, 1849 The Bells , a 1914 oil painting by Ilmari Aalto The Bells, a demolished carriage house on what
69-498: A 2019 TV episode "The Bells", a 2023 episode of Outer Banks Music [ edit ] The Bells (band) , a Canadian soft rock band The Bells (symphony) , by Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1913 (based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem) The Bells (Lou Reed album) , 1979 The Bells (Nils Frahm album) , 2009 "The Bells" (Billy Ward and His Dominoes song) , 1952 "The Bells" (The Originals song) , 1970 "The Bells",
92-460: A fool of yourself like this all your life?" (She was then pregnant with their second son, Laurence ). Irving got out from their carriage at Hyde Park Corner , walked off into the night and chose never to see her again. Period - 24 & 26 December 1833. Set in Alsace , the border country between France and Germany, Irving played the burgomaster and family man Mathias, who, fifteen years before, on
115-484: A little dazed. Old fashioned playgoers did not know what to make of it as a form of entertainment. But when the final curtain fell the audience, after a gasp or two, realised that they had witnessed the most masterly form of tragic acting that the British stage had seen for many a long day, and there was a storm of cheers. Then, still pale, still haggard, still haunted, as it were, by the terror he had so perfectly counterfeited,
138-705: A man haunted by a murder he has committed. The Lyceum Theatre season opened in September 1871, and the first two plays were box office failures. By late October Bateman was facing financial ruin. Again Irving urged him to stage The Polish Jew , convinced that the play would be a dramatic and financial success. An unsuccessful version of the play was running at the Royal Alfred Theatre in Marylebone to meagre audiences, which failed to convince Bateman that another version could be
161-479: A success; but Irving persuaded him and gave him a copy of The Bells , by Leopold Lewis. The opening night of The Bells on 25 November 1871 was held before a small audience, and during the performance a woman fainted in the stalls. The audience sat in stunned silence at the end of the play. However, they then gave the play, and Irving's performance, a great ovation. George R Sims later wrote for The Evening News : "... There were plenty of stalls vacant at
184-515: Is a 1911 Australian feature-length silent film directed by W. J. Lincoln . It is based on the famous stage melodrama by Erckmann-Chatrian , adapted by Leopold Lewis , which in turn had been adapted for the Australian stage by W. J. Lincoln before he made it into a film. It is today considered a lost film . It was one of several films Lincoln made with the Tait family, who had produced The Story of
207-523: Is a strong human being who, through a moment of weakness, falls into error and for two hours becomes a criminal - does what he knows he is doing - acts deliberately but acts automatically, as though impelled by an immense force, against which no resistance is possible." The overture and incidental music for The Bells was originally composed by Etienne Singla, Chef d'orchestre of the Théâtre Cluny in Paris for
230-572: Is now Brenton Point State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with The Bells Bell (disambiguation) Bells (disambiguation) The Bell (disambiguation) The Bells of the Strasbourg Cathedral ( Die Glocken des Strassburger Münsters ), a cantata by Liszt Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
253-523: Is on trial for the murder and, confessing his guilt, is condemned to death by hanging. Waking, he tries to pull the imaginary noose from around his neck, and dies of a heart attack. Henry Irving produced the play regularly throughout his career. Other actors who have played the Burgomaster Mathias in subsequent productions include Irving's son H. B. Irving , Henry Baynton , William Haviland , Bransby Williams and John Martin-Harvey . The play
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#1732858594168276-560: The Kelly Gang . According to Lincoln's obituary in The Bulletin it was one of Lincoln's best films. Mathias (Arthur Styan) is an innkeeper in a village in Alsace , happily married to Catherine (Miss Grist) and with a daughter Annette (Nellie Bramley). However he is greatly in debt, so on Christmas Day 1833, he murders a Polish Jew (Mr Cullenane) who visits the inn for his gold. He uses this to pay off his debts and rise in society, becoming
299-448: The Lyceum, and the author and I sat in two of them... The first part of The Bells was not very enthusiastically received, but the audience was undoubtedly held by the big scene. In the stalls there was a general agreement that Henry Irving had fulfilled the promise of dramatic intensity which he had shown in his recitation of The Dream of Eugene Aram . The play left the first-nighters
322-511: The actor came forward with the sort of smile that did not destroy the character of the Burgomaster or dispel the illusion of the stage." The critics declared Irving a new star, and he was immediately established at the forefront of British drama. The play ran for 150 nights, which was an unusually long run at the time. It would prove a popular vehicle for Irving for the rest of his professional life. Edward Gordon Craig , who saw Irving perform
345-481: The burgomaster of the town – however he is always tormented by guilt. Fifteen years later on Christmas Day, Mathias becomes delirious and hears the sound of the Jew's sleigh bells. He dreams he is being tried for the murder and is found guilty. He awakes and dies, leaving his family none the wiser. The film was an adaptation of a well known play and featured the only known screen appearance of stage actor Nellie Bramley . It
368-474: The last time the night before his death in 1905. The Bells is a translation by Leopold Lewis of the 1867 play Le Juif polonais ( The Polish Jew ) by Erckmann-Chatrian . Le Juif polonais was also adapted into an opera of the same name in three acts by Camille Erlanger , composed to a libretto by Henri Caïn . In 1871, Irving began his association with the Lyceum Theatre with an engagement under
391-458: The management of Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman . The fortunes of the house were at a low ebb when the tide was turned by Irving's sudden success as Mathias in The Bells, a property which Irving had found for himself. Bateman had been looking for a leading man when he saw Irving in a play, and the two discussed terms and possible roles for Irving, including a new version of The Polish Jew , a play about
414-535: The night of 24 December 1818, to pay off his mortgage debt, had robbed a wealthy Polish Jewish seed merchant named Koveski who had come to Mathias' inn, killing him with an axe and throwing his body into a lime kiln. Over time Mathias goes insane with guilt, and begins to hallucinate the ghost of the Polish Jew. Only the murderer and the audience, but nobody on stage, could hear the bells on the Jew's sledge jingling or see his ghostly face. Finally, Mathias dreams that he
437-448: The opera Le Juif polonais in 1869. H. L. Bateman brought Singla to the Lyceum to arrange his score for The Bells , and, according to the programme , Singla conducted on the opening night. In future productions Irving deleted many of the musical themes in order to heighten the drama in various scenes. As they drove home from the opening night of The Bells , Irving's wife, Florence, criticised his profession: "Are you going on making
460-414: The play 30 times, described Irving's performance as "the finest point the craft of acting could reach". Craig added, "The thing Irving set out to do was to show us the sorrow which slowly and remorselessly beat him down. The sorrow, which he suffers, must appeal to our hearts. Irving set out to wring our hearts, not to give a clever exhibition of antics such as a murderer would be likely to go through. Here
483-470: The title The Bells . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Bells&oldid=1256516373 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Bells (1911 film) The Bells
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#1732858594168506-515: Was released in the US in 1914 by Sawyers Inc. The Bells (play) The Bells is a play in three acts by Leopold David Lewis which was one of the greatest successes of the British actor Henry Irving . The play opened on 25 November 1871 at the Lyceum Theatre in London and initially ran for 151 performances. Irving was to stage the play repeatedly throughout his career, playing the role of Mathias for
529-555: Was shot partly on location of Mount Donna Buang in Victoria. Sam Crews was the scenic artist, and John Ennis was the stage manager. Stage scenery was hired from J.C. Williamson Ltd. It was shot at a studio in St Kilda. Screenings of the film were often accompanied by a lectured from J Ennis, who was in the film. The Adelaide Critic said "The snow scene at Mount Dounna Buang, near Warburton, came in for much admiration." The film
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