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Foreseeing Stars
Do directors or the public make film stars? This question Mr. Alexander Korda's company- the most successful organisation Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1937. try hopes to settle by means of on the British side of the indus-
Conscious of their
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an experiment. Under Mr. Kor- da's aegis short films have been MEN AND SPARROWS made of several scores of screen aspirants, and these are to be numbers, shown in many cinemas up and men tend to be puffed up or down Britain. From the glimpses afraid. Alone with their herein afforded of new young thoughts, they recognise forces men and women singing songs, outside themselves on which they giving recitations, and doing tap might better rely than on all the dances, the public is to be asked inventions they have sought out, to designate by vote those play. In Spain and in China the war-ers whom they would like to see monster frightens humanity and starred in future productions. devours in Fear seems to rule This is one of the most inter- in chancelleries more, consistentesting of the numerous efforts ly than mere hate, which is, after now being made to put the Bri- fall, as Shaw defines it in "Majortish cinema industry on its feet Barbara," often "the co-fonte again. It grasps au essen- ward's revenge for being intim-tial of the problem in recognis dated" Peoples who, looking on ing that the economic failure of the consequences of the World the British screen is at least War, know they could not hate partly due to its lack of first- each other enough to have wish-class box-office stars. Britain ed such a scourge upon the earth, has no one like Robert Taylor or still are afraid.
Ginger Rogers, while America Afraid not only of hate, but of can boast half a score of equally Hear. And they fail back on popular players.
numbers of fighting men or Everyone may wish the new fighting machines. The crowds experiment outstanding success. come to hear the speeches. They Yet it has to be recognised that march away in formations. But the most lasting ability is not alone with his dog in the woods always that which makes the one day, Turgenev saw some-most immediate impression. It thing more inevitable than fear took Henry Irving years to get seems to be, and set down his himself acccepted by the public, experience in a passage
in and cinema stars have some "Dream Tales and Prose Poems."times to be similarly built A young sparrow had fallen out it is this building process that of its nest into the path and the shows the American industry at dog was approaching it, when, its most efficient, and suggests that, after all, it may be the di- suddenly darting down from a
tree close by, an old dark-rector who makes the star. throated sparrow fell like a
stone right before his nose, and Anthems to Order all ruffled up, terrified, with despairing and pitiful cheeps,
ger.
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It may be doubted whether the it flung itself twice towards offer of a prize of $120 for 2271 the open jaws of shining teeth. Albanian National Anthem will It cast itself before the have any more fruitful results nestling, but all its tiny body than some similar offers made in was shaking with terror; its other countries in recent years. note was harsh and strange. Canada, Australia, Switzerland, What a huge monster and Turkey have all offered re- must the dog have seemed towards for a national song, but it! And yet it could not stay without eliciting anything of real on its high branch out of dan-distinction that has proved accep- table to the judges and peoples With an insight needed by concerned. The Prussian Govern- many of us among our self-made ment, too, during the war, offer- monsters to day, Turgenev sawed a tempting prize for a song to fthat "a force stronger than its displace "Heil dir im Sieger- will Hung it down. The dog kranz,” which had become - ob- drew back. "Clearly he too re-noxions because of its close simi cognised this force. All too larity to the British National often it appears that men are at Anthem, but though over 3,000 the mercy of destructive de attempts were submitted the grading forces, whereas they are judges felt compelled to reject
the lot. reality at the command
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The most famous of National Anthems have arisen not from moving men hopes of reward but from war, eds beyond themselves, as revolution, or change of dynasty. TOW was moved by a We might still have been singing which in its fear it was the jolly "Here's a health unto for itself his Majesty" had not an anxiety Cour-to-popularise the Hanoverians probably ever launched the more Ingubrions Its own grandeur."God Save the King."
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