WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
We beg to announce to our many clients that we have removed to 18. D'Agullar Street.
We have also just re- ceived a new assort meat of
SUMMER SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
18, D'Agullar Street. Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
LAU PAK-WAL, DENTIST,' has re- moved his Hong Kong Oce to GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st floor, Ped- der St (New Building next to Hong Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488.
TANG YUE, Dentist. Successors to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Àguilar Street.
TERMA VERy moderate Consultation Free.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
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HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers, No. 12, D'Agullar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre)
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL
COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
58, Queen's Road Central.
SHOES.
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Phone 21474.
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PHOTO-SUPPLIES
THE CHIN MAIL:
MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
When It Is Played In Theatres.
VIEWS OF MANAGERS,
SLAPPING FACES IN FILM.
Jeanette Macdonald The Champion.
CHEVALIER STANDS IT.
TRADE SUPPORTS FILM CENSORS.
Producers and Erotic Pictures,
I think that most producers realise their responsibilities, and that the "films have in many ways had a good Influence, Gansgter Alms have been severely criticised. Actually they have done more to force the American authorities to take action than any other medium
of expression. But for the films belleve Al Capone would still be at large."
Though here and there I heard Mr. Herbert Wilcox, director for Among many problems now. vex- Jeanette MacDonald makes no satirical comment, most leaders of British and Dominion films, also ing the minds of teatre-managers claim to approaching the screen the film trade had no grievance yea- expressed sympathy with the cen- is the "mechanised" National An- kissing record which Claudette terday against the determination of sor's difficulties. them, writes the theatro correspon-Colbert holds with Maurice, Chava the British Board of Film Consors
"The stage," he pointed out, “isi dent of the Morning Post. In lier, but she undoubtedly leads all to suppress erotic filme. On the selective that is to say, if people the growing number of smaller actresses in the number of slaps contrary, they all expressed anxiety go to 'Strange Interlude,' they know HONG KONG theatres which have dispensed with she has delivered to the face of to co-operate with the Board for more or less what to expect. But
an orchestra, the notes of a grame- that star.
the good of the public and the trade, people go to the gipema out of ha phone record put through a loud- During "The Smiling Lieuten-
"I am quite sure that every real bit, not knowing what they will see, speaking contrivance are apt to be ant," someone counted 150 kisses producer sympathises with the cen-and very often they take the family. merely puzzling to present-day au- between Chevalier and Miss Col-sor's difficulties," said Mr. Rowland It is only reasonable, therefore, that diences. Not everybody recognises bert, most of them for one scene. V. Lee, the brilliant American those who make films should be re- that any music is being played at
In filming a single sequence fos director, who made "The Guilty minded of their responsibilities. It all, and those who do are not al-One Hour With You," Chevaller's Generation," and who is now work would be a serious blow to the ways sure what is being played. current Paramount starring picing at the A.R.P. studios for Mr. screen itself if it ceased to be a
On the first night of "Aval- ture, Miss MacDonald had to slap Basil Dean. "It is a very dificult family institution. anche," at the Arts Theatre, I was her cinematic husband twenty and important job to decide just "But this does not mean that sex- one of a number of people who times, counting rehearsals and the what the youth of a nation shall themes can be eliminated. பின், stood respectfully at the "striking numerous "takes" for both English see. up" of a musical machine when the and French
We don't want to make that treated in different ways, is the versions. curtain had fallen. After a barber mounted because angry words
The nam job more difficult.
baals of nearly' all popular stories, or two we were naturally diacon- had to accompany the slap and syn; product and only a very stupid man and honesty.
"Producers want to sell their and modern taste Lemands candour Protect the public carted at finding that what was chronization
was perfected only makes something which will be by all means, but for heaven's sake coming through was not "God Save after Chevalier's face had grown a spoiled by cutting," Mr. Lee went don't handicap the cinema out of the King," but just a jazz-tune of shade or two redder.
Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES.
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
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Tel No. 23459. 26A, Des Voeux Road, C Hoag Kong.
ALEXANDER
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Phone 25169. Padder. Building (1st Floor)
Opposite Entrance to
Hong Kong Hotel.
jan indescribably trivial order.
I find that the views of managers
on, writes Campbell Dixon In the existence." " Daily Telegraph. "Tastes natural-
ly differ, and there will always
are remarkably at variance on this of the Haymarket Theatre.
A woman at Johannesburg has His be things which will need the cen- found a novel way of disposing of matter. So far as the Arts Theatre opinion le specially apposite just sor's attention.
bees in her house. is concerned, Mr. Brevin Albery now, as the Haymarket is, for the
Having found "In America, for instance, there a hive under the floor of one of the tells me that the occurrence at the first time in its history, replacing are many slang words which have rooms, she brought a vacuum clean- first night of "Avalanche" was its hidden orchestra with mechan-no unpleasant meaning. Here they er into play, and, when the been pure accident. "We do not norised music, mally have any music at all,” hel
may be obscene or blasphemous, were safely in the bag, she helped "Not only," said Mr. Watson, When British films are shown more herself to said, "but the machine was brought "am I going to have 'God Save the in America it will be found that people have bees, in their houses an the honey. As many in just for the occasion at Mr. King' played at every performance, things you regard as harmless will well as in their bonnets in Bangkok || Beverley Nichols's earnest request, but I doubt whether as our orgive offence there." and the National Anthem did not chestra la never seen-the audi-
this plan may well be borne in mind.
huppen to be in itä repertoire.
enee will notice that it is being with played on a machine at all.
"In the other theatres which I am connected, we have or "I have, as it happens, taken ape- Lustrous Oil Permanent Hair Waves
chestras, and, of course, always cial pains over this very matter. which as-Large, Soft and Natural play 'God Save the King. At the Our machine is an all British one, Artistle Finger and Marcel Waves, Oll same time, for patriotic reasons, and I have had a special record Treatment, Shampooing, Henna Pack am personally against the playing taken of a British orchestra-so (any colour), Hair Cutting and Marl of the National Anthem-above all that our National Anthem will be cure for Ladies and Gentlemen. Con- scientious, Artistle Work by European
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"As for the machine question, 1 think it is only one of the quality "It seems to me that the over use of reproduction and of its worthi- of the National Anthem tends to ness in the minds of the Audiences. make people look upon it just as alif people wish-and our audience preliminary to putting on their undoubtedly do-to express their wraps. A theatrical entertainment patriotism In the theatre, it is the is no necessarily a more solemn manager's business to see that the thing than a look. round a picture (wish is suitably fülfilled, "The best- gallery or a couple of hours spent mechanised music is a product off at a continuous performance at a our time which it is ridiculous to cinema.
neglect. Whether the playing of
An organ
"The idea of playing the Nation- an orchestra happens to be trans- al Anthem at every perform-mitted one way or another does not ance is," Mr. Albery added, "quite seem to me to count. new. It dates from the War. In voluntary is no less beautiful or prewar days only Drury Lane sacred if the instrument is electric- Covent Garden, and the Hay. ally fitted instead of being blown by market, as Theatres Royal, and a hand.
few others of the larger theatres] "I am quite sure that when our played "God Save the King" regu-{ |all-British rendering of the Nation- larly. In the War the habit be-1 Anthem is heard no one will camo, quite naturally, universal. have any reason to complain of it
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tional spirit is peculiarly urgent, I find that at the Whitehall Thea- But the mere running of a record tre, where an all-British machine of the first few bars of the tune has been installed and "God Saye through a machine as a signal that The King is regularly player, the a performance is over seems to me a experience of the management is slight upon a secred thing," that every body stands and it is re-
Quite a different point of view is garded as wholly satisfactory. that taken by Mr. Horace Watson,
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. CROPS SPEAR ARE ROMECA
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At the Strand Theatre, however,
I am told by Mr. Elliott, the mana- ger, that a machine was tried, but found wanting, and the orchestra has now been reinstated,
"We believe," he said, "that the theatre is essentially a place of liv- ing art and people. Hke to get u sense of warm humanity about the whole programme, from the over- ture to “God-Save the King "N
On the whole, experience shown that, where an orchestra is not fea- sible, audiences do respond to even the wretchedest mechanical repro- duction and that, from the point of view of loyalty, all that is required | is that this should be British and of the beat.
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