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-In spite of a vague impression, still held by some innocents that ffé at Hollywood is all high lights and high jinks, the busi- ness of film producing for the wide world cannot be all wide, beer and skittles. It is being Hong Kong, Monday, November 1, 1937 reported from Hollywood with
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en almost despairing frequency that producers are revealing a increasing perplexity over the ways of the censor in other lands, an official who is apt to ob ject to details which he considers Hong Kong has seen little out-
may annoy his own nationals. ward evidence of the activities of Thus, such near neighbours as that new religious cult, the Ox- the Mexicans are said to object ford Group Movement. There is, to films which represent them as however, a strong and growing
a nation of revolutionaries, knife- local adherence, and report has
attle-stealers it that this will be stimulated rowers, and
which, when you come to think the not distant future by the ar-of it, sounds quite a possible re rival of a team of young men to action The French public does organise a “drive" against popu- not mind an occasional French lar materialism.
villain, but it resents pictures. which show the whole French The report is interesting be people in an unfavourable light cause the movement has not es-agam, a reaction which might caped recent and severe critic-have been predicted in advance ism. It was, perhaps, inevitable by any film producer who could that an element of hysteria struggle through an intelligence should sometimes appear in as-test that could be passed by the sociation with the emotional average sheep change which accompanies spi- ritual renewal”, and “public ex-
posure of the soul," which
is
part of the process, has been de All-Perfect Italy
nounced as indecent. Emphasis has been laid, too, on the un- practical
in which the specific world
tellens
oured
But what is to be done about assertion that in the case of en spectacles Italy will ac
no Italian character w
That implies singularly awkward matke
The
even
that God helps those who help Italian characters cannot themselves The missionary oe good in parts, like the gurat seeking conversions in China islegg, they have to be good often a doctor of medicine as over and gleamingly, heroically well The planning of a direct 200d at that. Just as Italy her and skilled effort to cure modern self according to Signor Gayda ills would remove much of the and other official spell-binders of criticism levelled at present at the Italian press, is the one the Oxford Group. That has white spot in a wicked world, so been the method of the Salva revery individia. Itahan tion Army, a similar body work shine from head to foot with ing in a different stratum society:
Yet it is impossible to hold adu
Grozy
on for the spirit ship which the Oxfo
have brought
bewi
cious“ virtue.
musi
- It can only be ggested that Italy have to
then
the gift rades of society