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AIR SUPREMACY AT STAKE. THE FUTURE OF THE FILM.
ACTION, NOT TALK.
In his first article in the Brewing News reproduced in the Hongkong Daily Press, [General Scoly, lately Under-Secrecity for Air, called attention to German “schemes for air supremacy and warned Great Britain of the consequences of neglect.
His second and concluding article in the Evening News, is as follows:-
What can we do to meet these now con dtional Tho first and most important thing, it stems to me, is to secure the stablishment of the League of Nations This will not prevent a Power from in- volving the world in well-nigh universal destruction-nothing can do that-but it will make any Power, less likely to try it on. It will make the attempt mere improbable
NOT DRAMA BUT EDUCATION IS ITS TRUE ROLE.
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Pierre Mille writes in the Depeche de ToulousĘ :——
A short time ago, the Film, a review devoted to the art and industry of the moving picture, put to a certain number of literary mop the following question: The moving picture industry in France is traversing a crisis. The public is turn- ing away from it or at least is beginning characters should a scenario have in order "to do eo.. In your judgment what
to interest spectatora 1.
NOW IN THE PRESS.
THE
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DIRECTORY REPULSE BAY HOTEL. AND CHRONICLE
RACE WEEK.
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CHINA,
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NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP.
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FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL ISSUE.
the world could give me more pleasure I wrote a candid reply that nothing in than this same threatened crisis of the moving picture industry, particularly if Men's minds more unconsciously, and to see for foolishly it had endured the it proved that the public was beginning it is probably true that the failure of trash which the screen has been so long America, to take up the idea of the League veniting forth. And I wrote that even of Nations with real is due to the fact were I able to do so, I should take great that for some years to come she will have care to give no one a hint of what con less cover to destroy and less danger of being destroyed from the air than the stituted a "good" film; I preferred to gations of Europe.
wait for the day when universal disgust I believed that the present organization would close the moving picture threatres of the industry made inevitable the uncomplete in each ease as it can be made, but peakable stupidity of the films for every ench Colony. Pert or Settlement is prefaced Not only is the Directory as fall and theatre was compelled to pr on a new by a DESCRIPTION, carefully revised each list every few days. The ing-picture year, most of which will serve as accurate theatre has taken over the pecialization GrinES FOR THE TOURIST, giving every detail in connection with the places their History Topography, etc.
The second thing is to ensure that we keep the art of aviation alive. We can not alter the face of our country to suit the aircraft, so we must alter the aircraft to suit the country: We cannot root 2 the hedges and cut down the trees in our hedgerows, so we must evolve machines. which can take the air and return to the ground in ordinary British country.
genres which has reigned in the spoken theatre for centuries. Yet to this specili zation must they come.
THE FILM AS EDUCATOR.
THE DIRECTORY envers the whole of the ports and cities of the Far East, from Netherlands India to Siberia, in which Europeans reside.
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The Information in these Descriptions, packed with facts concisely set out, and consisting of a hundred interesting articlos,
containing statistics of the TRADE of enca
large volume.
Although in many of our distant pos sessions, notably Egypt, we have climate and ground admirably suited to aviation.
The Film very gallantly printed my British industry will never fourish until Dawer, though, as anyone can acc In [it can be used with our own island, was somewhat acid. Recently. I found coluntry and Port, would alone suffice to fill
Designing staffs must be maintained and strikes me as most interesting.
on my desk a second question which research must be stimulated by every The moving picture," exclaims the possible moans,
Royal Octavo Containing nearly 2,000 We must really do the things we have is generally held to be only an pages, 811.00% Directory only. pp. 1,400, promised to do instead of only talking amusement; the majority see in it only 87.00. about them. Air routes must be estaba picturing of newspaper novels and lished here and abroad; air lighthouses made, nevertheless, to portray the animal niformity in every arrangement greatly anecdotes. Tertain attempts have been specially reserved for the purpose, and The Book is printed from New Type directional wireless, telephones, landing grounds, the rapid dissemination of and vegetable world. Do you not think Facilitates reference meteorological information from and to that the moving picture can be made a machines in the air and between stations side of its, activities a real development
precious ally of education by giving this must be established without delay.
ITS TRUE SERVICE,
The possibilities of airship development In addition to the physical and natural and travel must be explored with un-sciences, literary matters, may be treated, remitting zeal. The rotation of the earth and general studies can be made less arid apon its axis and the resulting prevail. by well-chosen tableaux.” ing and trade winds make ready-made moving air routed, which, in the opinion of many of our best brains, give limitless opportunities for swift and certain travel aver great distances by lighter-than-air craft. We must find a means to try out
these possibilities.
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The educational role is the true service of the moving picture. From the dramatic point of view, the film is the most mediocre, insuficient, and completely im becile of all the methods of expression; The people of this country have bean it suppresses all paychology, because it told to expect these things. They under- cannot portrary it; it is limited to ex stand better than their rulers the neces-pression of action and can give us naught sity of prompt action, and they will not concerning the causes of that action. forgive those who fail to carry it out. It and precisely because it can retrace. and is to public opinion that appeal must he now action and picture things, it can mande. Much good would result from the be a precious auxiliary for the education. formation of an Air League.. The not only of children, but also of adults. nucleus of such a league exists already Were it utilized regularly and rationally and if branches were established in every in our schools it would sooner or late most important Treatics concluded with the Repulse Bay Hotel on each day of town and village. the force of an en- force the moving-picture "palaces of in- lightened public demand for a wife and dustry; for I will not say of art, to make Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Cham the Races, leaving Hongkong Hotel progressive air policy could be brought profound changes in their scenarios. to bear. Such a body could insist on the support of civil aviation in such a degree Even today, a small moving-picture as not only to ensure scientific develop-machine can mast and continuous research, but also Ingine one in every school in every be had for very Hittle maintenance of commercial air ser- little French village: imagine it showing tion. vices which would provide trained the manner in which a plant grows, the perananel ready to help in the hour of best manner of cultivating vineyards, the The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY Thirdly, and this, after all, must be tures might be made of the history of contains every year more pages and now bistory of "France even. Splendid pic though condensed in every possible manner essential, we must have an Air Ministry France. There is the epic of Roland, the numbers nearly 20,000. with the best brains we have got, giving Crusaders, the Hundred Years War, the their whole time to this problem, which French in Italy under Lonis XII., and overshadows all others in importance. all the drama of the revolution and the. This Air Ministry must be wholly inde empire. And geography. What an ad pendent of either the War Office or the mirable way in which to make it under- Admiralty. The science which it directa stood, to make it something more than Poking. is advancing so much more rapidly than a dry list of names. When volcanoes are Tientsin. that, of the older Services that it is un- studied, there might be a film of a vol- Peitaiho. thinkable that it can be wisely directed cano in eruption; the work of the sea. Chinwangtao. and controlled, even if time permitted, torrents, and glaciers could be shown. by the responsible head of another
Tuku. Service.
Antang
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It is admitted by the authorities that shown frea to the pupils, and to the aviation will grow in relative importance parents later at a price from year to year. What folly, then, to larger municipalities a fund could be Dairen. argue that, because the sum of money now built up in this manner which would in Port Arthur. allocated to it is less than the amounts time suffice to build a moving-picture Choico, apportioned to the other Services, it can hall attached to the school. In time, we Weihaiwei, be controlled by scrape of thought and should hava a moving picture subsidized Tainaafu. scraps of time snatched from other ar by the State as are the Opera and the 31ukden. gent business,
Comedie Francaise, and the municipal Shanghai
Souchon!" Canton. Chinking. Whompos..
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JAPAN AND FORXONA.
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We are told that the arrangement Is council and the teaching bodies would Harbin. not permanent. Let it be brought to an have a voice in the choice of the films. Swatow. ond at once before the foundations of These municipal theatres would then Lungchingchun disaster are laid by neglect.
rival the commercial palaces, and per The Admiralty and the War Office baps drive them from the field. must be parged of old-fashioned nad re These actionary people, who thwart scientific might be accompanied, not by lectures, for Yokohama.
moving - picturë
programma Tokyo: advance. There must be & Council of the pictures speak in their own way, but Defence which will ensure coordination by brief explanations delivered either by of all our efforts, instead of the wasteful the schoolmaster or some chosen specialist,
Hroga. Kobe. methods that now obtain owing to the The Roland picture, for instance, might lack of joint effort on land and sea and he accompanied by the recitation of oor in the air,
On this Council the Dominions should the Song of Roland, rendered into modern tain lovely and appropriate passages from be represented so that they too shall take French. their share in the newer plans for:
A journal of education writes that Seoul. Imperitl security, and so that we may commission for the study of the educa Shamalpo, have the advantage of the fresh minds.
Moj.
. Keelung.
Tainanfu.
Nagmaaki Takow.
Hakodata. Auping.
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Shimonoseki.
Titan tron
EASTERN SIBzala,
Visdivostock.
Nicolajevak.
CHOSEN. Won802. Molpa. Furan.
Chinnampo. Pingyang. Songchin.
BONÚKONG AND 178 DEPENDENCIES, Macao)
It is quite true that we shall go banktional moving picture was appointed two Kunnan. rupt as a State if we do not economize still for I have not yet seen a word in years ago. I suppose it is deliberating but we shall be bankrupt even more cartainly and swiftly, both in money and regard to the results of its work. moral, if we are defeated by a foreign enemy. It is the knowledge of this fact which makes men of all parties, Conser- vative, Liberal, and Labour, agree to the retention of great armed forces nt gigantic cost.
Hanoi. Haiphong
TROTSKY'S UNCLE IN LONDON. Tonkin
Provinces.
FRENCH INDO-CHINA.
Annam. Hue. Quinhon,
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A correspondent, who lived for many years in Russin writes:
PHILIPPINES, On Thursday Excluding all the aftermath of war, the night on leaving the Rumian Ballet at Manila. Ilsilo... estimate foreshadowed by even the most the Empire 'whom should I see in Leices drastic economists of any party must ter-square, but Trotsky's uncle! He is a Sarawak.
BORNEO. total well over 140 millions per annum. Russian Jew named Zhivotovski, or British North Bornes, Brunei How can we save here? The answer is: Jivotoski, and had an interesting and Only by using to the atmost every power varied career. He came to Sweden in that science has given us, and especially 1018 and was possessed of considerable
FRENCH LESSONS the power of the air. Fleets and armier means according to some, authorities be
G. MOUSSION,
MORRISON FIL ROAD,
Cabu.
Labuan.
BANGKOK, MALAY STATZE. may still be needed, but air power will was worth thirty million roubles Ho Perak.
Selangor. Pahang soon make those of to-day obsolete.
Kedan. Let us see to it that no old prejudices, probable that the Swedish authorities did Kalantan.
did not stay long in Sweden, and it is Negri Sembilan Johore. no old-fashioned notions, no musty do not like his relationship to Trotsky and Singapore, Penang, Malsora, Prov. Welles
Trengganu. Parlis trines stand in the way of drantie his friendship with the Bolshevist envoy reform...
In Stockholm, Vodovski. Afterwards be Only so can we keep our place in the went to Copenhagen, where, in the sub and secure to our race the blessings antump of Inet year, he was joined by of freedom and of peace.
Trotsky's children,
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