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THE CHINA MAIL.
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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS
SCREEN DRAMA
1940.
IN 1910 cinemas there can be no con- TALKIE TRIUMPH FOR
1 jecture.
Film stare are so much.
the playthings of the hour-that no one can foresee the stars of ten, years' time.
Maurice Elvey Indulges be puzzling over their vulgar frac-
in Prophecy. ..
THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM.
People will say in ten years'
The stars of 1940 may even now
tions, or sitting on high stools in offices. No one can tell where they [are, who they will be, or how far
they may rise or fall,
MUSIC AND DEATH.
time "Let's go to the pictures" just WHAT THE FAMOUS WOULD
it.
as they do now-only more will say The appeal of the Screen Drama will be even greater then than it is to-day.
The first change that will im- press the cinema-goer of 19-10 will be the size of the screen. The pic-
ture will fill the proscenium. The illusion of looking at a framework will have gone.
As a logical, result the "close- up." as we know it today, will dis-
| appear. After all, it is only a con- vention to which we have had to subscribe because of the limita tions of the screen.
All the films of to-morrow, too,
will be made in colour, and such natural colour, Lon. The Talkies have rendered the silent film strange and stiff and unnatural. They have also made black and white photography an anomaly.
With the realism of the voice, colour is inevitable,
In another ten years the cinema will have achieved something which the schools, nendamies and education conferences have not: accomplished (aggerts Maurico Elver, the British film producer, in The Daily Herald). A universal language a hybrid of American. English, Spanish, and German-‡ will be evolved.
Persuasion,
Whatever the film industry de- cides shall be done, will be done. The financial power of the busi- ness is so great. The capital tied! up in the making distributing, renting and exhibiting of pictures is so vast that the position of the
nanciers is impregnable.
CHOOSE IF THEY WERE DYING.
Dame Nellie Melba died with the melody of one of the world's greatest songs ("Ave Maria") an her lips.-Daily Express Sydney Correspondent.
John of Gaust, Duke of Lancas- ter dying in Act II. Scene 1, of "King Richard II.." said to the
Duke of York:-
"The setting sun. and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, sweetest last..
MR. A. ASQUITH.
"Tell England'--Film of Gallipoli Epic.
DUCHESS SEES IT.
"Tell England" proven to be one
of the two or three outstanding British talkies made so far. It is certainly a great achievement for young Mr. Asquith, whose firat
talkie it is.
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brilliant
"Tell England" la a pleco of work pictorially and con- Idens in the use of sound. It does tains many novel and impressive
not, however, attempt to tell the whole story of that almost
in-
credible adventure of the war. As a director of silent films he there could be no finer material That in a way, is a pity, because had already assumed a high posi-for graphic film drama. tion in his profession.
Anzac Bay Over Again. i
A Boy's Eye View. The film has a good deal of the Instead, "Tell England," adapt- pictorial flow of "All Quiet on the ed from the novel by Mr. Ernest Western Front," although the Raymond, shows the reactions of nature of the original book pre two public schoolboys in the cam- vents it from being such an all-paign. The film opens with peace- embracing war flm.
ful acliool and sports scenes before Scenes of the Inndings on Galli- August 1914, and shows the two British film about the Gallipoli shown most vividly and, in the Tony Bruce) joining up at
"Tell England," the ambitious poll and the trench campaign are boys (played by Carl Harbord and
campaign, which has been under consideration for some three years, is finished at luat, saya the Even-
ing News.
It has been produced by Mr. Anthony Asquith and Mr. Geoffrey Farkas and has actually taken a
year to Alm.
The picture was chosen as the chief item in the programme at a charity performance at the Regal
Writ in remembrance more than Cinema in aid of the Heritage things long past."
Craft School, in the presence the Duchess of York.
A Daily Express representative asked a number of famous people as their what they would choose one last piece of music to hear if they were certain of death with- in a few hours. This is what they said:
I
should not be thinking of music
Mr. George Bernard Shaw:
I knew that I would be dead within a few hours. There is no- thing would like to hear. After I was dead I should like to hear music, and then I would choose Handel.
Mr. Herman Finck, compose: and conductor: I should like to
advant
TALKIE TALKS.
Owing to pressure on bur space Talkie Talks," our in- teresting feature every Fri- day, is held over till to
morrow,
If they decide that a common hear "Good-bye for Ever," by language is a better
commercial Tosti,
and being sent to Gallipoli..
once
opinion of survivora, accurately.
the Admiralty lent ships and men the agony of an isolated post and For the purpose of these scenes There, as officers, they endure of the Mediterranean Fleet.
finally one of them dies in bomb- Four destroyers, two cruisers,ing a trench mortar battery. and sixteen pinnaces took part in the
Miss Fay Compton gives a very Almi marines took the parts of the this boy's mother.
operations. British sympathetic characterisation Australians at Anzac Bay and the men of the 29th Division wero im- jackets. personated by marines and blue
Maltese natives served as Turks in the film, and Malta itself be came Gallipoli.
Sir Ian Hamilton personally re- of enacts an incident in which he was
concerned,
of
This story is hardly strong enough to stand out against the greater drama of the campaign.
But "Toll England" shifts the war film into a new field, and is such a capable bit of work that it may well achieve greater success than the film of "Journey's End" aid some of the triumphs of "All Quiet."
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proposition than handling different language versions of a production, then a universal language will be | devised and adopted.
did not Remember, the public particularly want Talkies. They were artfully persuaded that nothing in this world would give them greater pleasure than to hear Professor A. M. Law: I think I their film favourites speak, and should choose to hear "The Jolly they had Talkies.
Fellow's Waltz.” It is always | Pig's Chitinga The action film, in which whistled by Albert Whelan as he dialogue is subordinated to in- goes on the stage. and it would of the few times, in terest-where fluidity and move, remind me ment are the outstanding charne- my life when I have been happy. teristics will return and
Mr. Noel Maskelyne, the magi- assume the mantle of the old silent cian: I should like to hear film. This will maintain the Handel's Largo, It is most in-; elements of the visual entertain- ment.
re-
Then, opposed to this, will be the film of wit-composed of bril- liant dialogue and subtle situa tions in short, the photographed stage play.
Death to Theatre. The theatre touring company, already made moribund by the triumph of the Talkies, will die.
People will prefer to see their favourites on the
rather screen than a touring company's members, who, in spite of the fact that they may be as excellent in their parts as the London cast, have not the same public appeal.
apiring.
Mr. Hannen Swaffer: I should not be thinking of music, but I should not mind hearing the
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Rudy Vallee, the jazz orchestra leader: Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Sche- herazade."
Billy Sunday: "In the Sweet By-and-Bye."
Barbel Bream
Mr. John Phillip Sousa, hand- master and composer of "The Stars and Striper For Ever," con- of fessed that he would like to hear Carp
Catfish that played. He added, "I would
So many plays nowadays are written with parts to suit famous actors and actresses, because their box-office appeal. And now those stars cannot only be filmed, meet my Maker face to face with Codfish
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be caught and "canned," why should theatre managers risk failure by putting on a road show?
In ten years all opera will be screened. The man who firat pre- serves the colour and galety and' wit of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas will be regarded as national benefactor.
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The other version will be the photographed production with the singing and dialogue only record. ed, When presented, a full chestra, meticulously synchroniz- ed, will accompany it.
or.
I prophesy that the small. inde. pendently owned cinema will dis appear. The vast, glided halls of the super picture palace "give ‘a friendliness and sense of well- being that everyone wants. Humanity la gregarious and wel- comes its own kind.
What of the Stars? Of the great names that will wr 'shine in electric lights outside the
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