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Here There and I
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A KING AT CRICKET
The Prince of Wales has pre- sented to Norfolk Cricket Club an fold score book he found in a cup-¡ ¡board at St. James's Palace.
The book contains a record of the only known match in, which King Edward VIIL, then Prince of Wales, participated.
SHAKESPEARE ON THE FILMS
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM EXPERIMENT
GREATEST REVELATION
(By Professor G. B. Harrison)
NTENSE interest is being! It is a surprising experience aroused by the forthcoming and entirely different procle all production in London Paris, expectation. The film is so full The match was played between and New York of Max Rein- of unexpected beauties and rich. I Zingari and the Gentlemen of hardt's film version of "A Mid-comedy that first impressions
|Norfolk at Sandringham Park on summer Night's Dream The are bewildering.
July 17 and 18, 1866 King Ed interest is not only in this re- ward went in first for I Ziagari, markable film (of which I have but was bowled second ball for had an advance view) but in
These Things Abide
Some stand out very clearly; producing Theseus; Bottom's panic at screen at finding himself transformed
0 by Charles Wright, of Dereham. the vast subject of the general the great song of welcome to
King Edward batted only once. possibilities of I Zingari beating Norfolk by Shakespeare on the innings.
THE SEA-SERPENT SEASON
Fall
into an ass; his awakening from There is a world of difference the dream and his joy at see between a stage play and ing his own face in the wood Holiday time always seems to film On the stage, the author, land pool; Titania and the produce startling phenomena in who provides the actors with Indian boy; the dancing of Nini the great open spaces. It has ap- their words, is the most im Theiade; the grotesque dwarfs parently been ever thas
portant partner in the produc-of Fairyland; the moods and An examination of Mr. Arthur tion. for the greater part of the charm of Hermia; the angry Bryant's "Charles IL" discloses effect of a play comes from lovers losing themselves and that of exactly the same time of things heard; the ears are so each other in the mist; and. year as this in 1669 he writes: much more important than the underneath all the sound of
The silly season has begun. eyes that many plays, especial Mendelssohn's music. At Harwich a strange, ärendly when the dialogue is good.
It would be wrong for me to ful fish appeared of the hoy, can be reproduced for the ears with long grey whiskers, look-alone in the form of radio plays anticipate criticism or to review, ing "exceeding gasfully.” .. On the screen, the eyes are this film in detail until it is This forerunner of the Loch far more important
made available to the public. Ness Monster was probably a Actually,
but my own impression is that although most
it should be seen at least three strayed and elderly seal.
filmgoers probably do not
times. realise it, the proportion of dialogue to action is very small. The first sight is so fall of and although the music is now surprises and unexpected twists
Your Daily Smile!
The prospective customer approach- part of the film itself and not that half the subtleties are The marriage of Mr. Hearique attack was delivered, and theed the art shop. "I want to see Supplied separately by an missed. A second visit will A. Barros, eldest son of Mr. and hill captured a small number some of those pictures that are done orchestra, in the best films the bring out new and telling signi- Mrs. F. Barros, and Miss Cecilia of men would be seen in the dis- by scratching.” be advised, an at-spoken word is sparingly used; ficances which have been over- Noronha, eldest daughter of Mr.tance riding for dear life, and The clerk thought a moment, and
¡tendant
J. M. Noronha and the late Mrs. "living to fight another day then his face lighted up. "Oh, ye J. M. Noronha, will take place at On the boulder-strewn side of a he said, "you mean itchings.*** the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on hill. with bushes scattered be- October 19, at 4:30 pm. Friends tween the boulders. you have will be, welcome at the wedding every chance of stopping a bui ceremony and at the reception to let as you climb, but you have be held at the Cimb de Recreio. no chance at all of counting the men stationed there to snipe
The Chine
Hong Kong, Tuesday, October 15, 1935
you
Getting Herwell Tolled - He told her of his great love. "When a belle is told," she whis red winsomely, "a ring generally
follows."
*
It takes only one-fortieth of Nor do we suppose that any-[second to wink the eye, tests show. one has counted the followers of And several weeks to explain it to the Emperor's cousin "who is the wife. said to have allowed his jealousy
to overcome his patriotism.
Idezi
50 that where a film is adapted looked, especially in the opening from a stage play comparative minutes Only at a third sit- ly little of the original dialogue ting will one be able to gain a is kept, for most of the effect complete impression of is-conveyed by mearis of action whole. and music.
A Threefold Interest
A Vast New Public
the
It will be a revelation of It follows that anyone who what are the - essential differ- undertakes to produce a film ences between the drama of the version of a Shakespearean films and the drama of the play is faced with all kinds of stage as interpretations of problems If he were simply Shakespeare's plays.
to film the stage version of the There is another and far play as a whole, he would pro-more important consideration Lord Napier's advance on Mag- Smith: "Do you know, dear, I was duce a result which is neither Films are seen by thousands From The Front
dala was facilitated by the fact reading the other day that apostagood drama nor good film who never read a line of that King Theodore was a blood-can see very little, and can digest
anything
Shakespeare himself wrote Shakespeare. For the first There is an old English say- thirsty old tyrant who had made
Mrs. Smith: "What an ideal has for a stage which was very time they will now see one of ing that from the cobbler's point himself thoroughly obnoxious band!" of view there's nothing like to all the Northern tribes.
limited in its equipment, and his plays in a form and presen- provided with little, if any, tation which they can under-
leather. From the newspaper They did not actually assist. FIRE BRIGADE scenery. He had to gain most stand and appreciate; and it
point of view there is nothing but neither did they resist; and like war whatever our opinion they were always ready to sell may be about the brutal waste provisions. One of the most and barbarity of war, there can striking points of that campaign
CALLED OUT
His Memory
be no question that we do buy was that, in spite of the small But Man Had Only Lost special editions to see what has amount of resistance, everyone happened at some place we who took part in it remembered never heard of before, when we the stiff climbing and the stern would never think of doing so weather as making it one of
London
of his effect by means of his will add to the enjoyment and poetry and dialogue. A talk novelty of the experience that ing picture which was mainly the principal parts are taken dialogue would be deadly dull by such old favourites as James The interest, therefore, in Cagney. Joe E Brown and this first serious attempt to Hugh Herbert. film a Shakespeare will be This class of filmgoers and threefold:
their children will find the film
Three fire engines and two First, to see how Max Rein- the greatest revelation.
the to
if the contents bills merely an-their most strenuous experi- ambulances nounced the secret of a happy ences.
dashed
GARGANTUA OF PHILADELPHIA
240 Apples Between Meals
hardt can transmute the stage
Pictures And Mosie There is no standard treat- ment or ritual performance of any of Shakespeare's plays; seven on the stage the interest of each "fresh treatment lies in Har scenes are given novelty, the way in which old and fami-
charm, and new significance
A film of Shakespeare will be
To those of us who believe
that the enjoyment of Shake-
Reinhardt's production of “A
REFUSED TO HAVE HAIR CUT
29 Soldiers Facing
Court-Martial
Vienna:
life But in spite of the hot It has become clear that the Bakers Arms, Leyton, during drama of Shakespeare's foot cables (dispatched by run-attack can only be successful if one night last month in res Midsummer Night's Dream speare should be spread wide. ner) and all the rest of the big successes are won within Ponse to a call from a fire alarm into film drama comment that fills up columns the next three weeks. The in- There was no fire, but by the
Secondly, how he creates the Midsummer Night's Dream" is we are still of the opinion that terest of news from the front alarm was a man who was ap nothing at all decisive has yet is of purely local importance Parently suffering from loss of effects of mood and atmosphere as important an event in the which Shakespeare could evolve educational as in the film world, happened in East Africa. The The issue of the war will be de- memory.
and I shall be surprised if American News Agencies, with cided at Geneva, where a still Cross Hospital where he was
He was taken to Whipps by poetry alone.....
teachers do not endorse this a strict eye to business, would bigger campaign is being decid-
And, thirdly, what impres opinion.. have us believe that Adowa has ed. That is for the right of detained for treatmentsion the film leaves as a work been captured, and recaptured, civilisation to decide that na William Weston, a consulting
His name was found to be of art in itself. and re-re-captured; that a vast tions shall not make unprovok- army has been collected on the ed attacks on other nations.engineer, of Sidcup, Kent Southern front, and that a The action of France is the battle of tens of thousands men pivot of the contest. France on both sides is just going to be has, ever since the Treaty of} fought. Adowa is a small col-Versailles was signed, advocat- lection of sundried mud huts ed the principle of collective re- that the Ethiopians made no sistance to invasion, so far as attempt to hold; and that they the application of that principle consequently would make no world make for her own securi-
Because they refused to have attempt to retake A battle ty and it must also be admit Tony Di Laurentis, a Philadel- an entirely new and different their hair cut three N.C.Os and 26- after the style of the Western ted that she has pleaded, for the phia barber, recently ate a bushel experience from any acted play-privates of a cavalry regiment in Front would be merely suicide general application as a means of apples within two hours of the It will not be a substitute either Olomice (Bohemia) have been. for the defensive forces, and as to the same end, even against following hearty breakfast:
for stage production or for read-sentenced by court-martial to im--- they have a trained staff of the reluctance of England to
ing, but, if well done, will add prisonment on charges of Belgian Officers to advise on commit herself to such a general
One steak with fried potatoes, to the enjoyment of both, for it bellion. strategy there is no likelihood pledge. "We cannot send an
Coffee, beer, and whisky. is an interpretation presented
Regimental orders laid down of anything of that sort being army to the East of Europe,"
When all 240 of the bushel of not in the form of a critical
that all hair must be cut down to undertaken. An analogous post- said Sir Austen Chamberlain apples had gone Tony decided that appreciation in words but in
one-tenth of an inch. The 29 men tion occurred in the first month when opposing the Protocol it was time for lunch This was pictures and music of the Boer War, when the ca-jof 1924. The requirements of
In some respects, indeed, the would be laughed at in town, when refused, pointing out that they it bles home reported attacks to-day are more elastic. The
film has great advantage over on kopjes "strongly held by five "sending an army” is to be left
the theatre, for it is not circum walking in civilian clothes. thousand men.” The calcula-to those immediately interest-
scribed by the size of the stage In spite of disciplinary punish- tion was made on the basis of ed; the other Powers are pledg
There is no end or
ment, they could not yiek the distance from one end of the ed only to assist as far as they of wine
A gallon of beer, and plenty scenes of pageantry an firing line to the other, on the can be reasonably expected to supposition that the interven- do. On this basis England has Tony ate the 240 apples as his Theseus, or the ing distance was closely packed said to France and Austria and little, annual treat to amuse his by men, as it would be by a Poland "very well, if you do not clients, but the breakfast and din- European Army intent on fight-join now in economic sanctions per were nothing unusual. ing in the recognised disciplin- we shall not do our
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