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AUSTRALIA'S CHIEF CEN. SOR'S CRITICISM.
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13, 1930.
MOSES AS HERO IN EXPERT ON CRIMES CAPT. A. HALL CHARCED.
JAZZ, OPERA.
SISTER AIMEE SETS OLD TESTAMENT. TO MUSÍC.
"OF PASSION.
MOST VICTIMS ARE
WOMEN.
ALLEGED POSSESSION OF SMUGGLED OPIUM.
Captain Arthur Hall, who was pr rested on Saturday in connection Sister Aimee McPherson, the Los The prisoners in one of the with the alleged smuggling of a There is much truth in the Angeles evangelist, coufessed to a largest gaols in England had large quantity of opium,
Press representative, as she stepped debate a few months ago en capi- charged before Mr. R. E, Lindsell and grime, but their voice produc- the real reason for her trip total punishment, and by a large at the Central Magistracy yester
eriticism that talkies are all noise
on the train for Marseilles recent
Egypt and the Holy Land.
tion is rather worse than their vice production. It is a marvel that the
I have written a more or less publid will stand auch large doses jazzy grand opera about the Jews' of the prevalent slang nad accent.
history, as related in Exodus and an English car, excruciating to
Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, especially in the reproduction of
with Moses in the leading role," the alleged singing aid speaking of
she explained with great pride. the modern American girls. For "The curtain rises with the Jews the sake of the cinematic art, it basing and worshipping before a is to be hoped that the silent film bage image of the Golden Calf, to will not yet lapse into the limbo the accompaniment of pagan music. of things forgotten. Sound is has-
The opera then follows the Biblical tening the Americanisation, of the
tale of Moses receiving the Tablets Australian people, but unfortunate of the Law, the incident of the le censorship can de little or noth-burning bush, and the crossing of ing to curb this tendency. The only the Red Sea. To add a bit of remedy is an increased number of
colour I have put in the. Sphinx. good British films, but there seems the pyramids, and King Tutankha-| little hope of this at present."
mer.
These statements were made by
I shall also lighten the story the Chief Commonwealth Film Cer-with troupes of pretty chorus girls. sor (Mr. W. Cresswell O'Reilly), in
who will do the ancient classical his manual report, which was issued last month.
The censorship does cot wish to express any opinion as to the future of sound films," said Mr. O'Reilly, hut the loss of the desirable characteristics of the silent picture is to be regretted. It outweighs any advantages that sound may have brought. The soul of the film was its eloquent and vital ailence, and the old mystery and beauty are giving way more and more to the depiction of the sordid and vulgar, with tiresome emphasis on incidents drawn from stage life. A visitor from another world would draw the conclusion from the average talkie that the most absorbing interest to the modern mind was to see ballet' girls, undressing and making up backstage."
Low Standard of British Films,
Recently there has been a ten- dency on the, part of British pro ducers to copy a particularly un- desirable type of incident, which was included some years ago in several Continental films. With the advent of sound, the British pro ducers lost a golden opportunity of recapturing the home and Emi- pire market. With one or two cx• ceptions, the best examples of Eng. fish life depicted in the talking films have been made in Amerien. British films are generally below the standard of technical excellence and entertainment value attained by foreign films, and are also just as much in need of the pruning knife Agreater percentage of British films require cutting than any others, and the proportion of British pictures rejected was nearly
double that of Americas."
Figures in the report show that 0.6 per cent. of British feature films were passed with eliminations, compared with 48.6 American films, and that of the total importations of British feature films 8.2 per cent. were rejected, as against 4.2 per cent. of all the American feamre films.
Children and the Filma, Referring to the numerous com- plaints received that many Alms passed for exhibition are quite un- suitable for children, Me. O'Reilly said: "This is one of the most diffi- cult problems that has ever con- fronted us. We cannot deal with films altogether from the point of view of what effect they will have upon the child mind. To do so. would be unfair to the adults who patronise pictures, and reduce the
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Egyptian dances with the waving
majority carried a motion in favour | day, of its retention.
This remarkable contribution to the controversy was quoted by Mr. Eric Roy Calvert, the criminologist, when he gave evidence before the Parliamentary select committee on capital punishment.
He added, in answer to Major Milner, that these people were not murderers. They were like all of us-potential murderers," he said.
Mr. Calvert also said that a large majority of murders are com- mitted by men, and that the great majority of the people murdered are women-in most cases the wives, sweethearts, paramours of the murderers.
Women's Interest. :
He submitted Home, Office statis- aims and also dances with cymbals tres which; he said, proved that and tambourines. In one act a murders were generally sordid, pas-. group of ziels, in stunning jadesiccate crimes, often the outcome green robes, will march on the of jealousy. stage carrying water-pots on their bare shoulders. They will then pass among the audience offering a drink to all who care for it.
Many women were again among the public listening to the evidence. Mr. Calvert, who is the author of Capital Punishment in the Twen- tieth Century has just returned from to visit to Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and Germany, where he has been seeing the conditions under which prisoners in those countries are serving life sentences. He represented the National Coun- cil for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. The
theory that professional criminals would carry firearms if Sheathe Thy fearful lightning, capital punishment were abolished, he said, was discountenanced by prison and government officials in countries where there was no death penalty.
I have written the words as well as the music of this opera, which will be called The Iron Furnace. In addition to some very stirring song written in the majes tie cadence of the Old Testament there will be several hrighter ones in a sort of camp meeting style, as the following example showe—
Smile once again.. Smile once again,
Lord,
Smile once again.
Roll back the clouds, Lord.. Dark rolling clouds, Lord. Sheathe Thy fearful lightning
once again.".
Mr. Calvert, questioned" by the chairman (the Rev. James Barr) on this point, said that one could not Sister McPherson, who wore a
cost rely on evidence gathered from bewitching summer ermine over a Nile-green dress and jade prisoners. necklace explained that although she was leading her party of Ameri cam pilgrims to the Holy Land," she would devote most of her time to getting costumes and local colour in Egypt for her oper
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Intolerant Prisoners,
I have como into oloae per-. sonal touch with many prisoners," he said, and I submit they only teff prisor oficials what they think the officials want to hear Prison-
She wishes to use the gorgeous pomp and splendour of the Phar-ers achs as a background for this Jewish epic, and to portray the Egyptian life accurately and edec ively the evangelist will visit all the leading tombs and museums in the country. She particularly bopies to pick up some fetching old one-
tumes" that will be suitable for jazz female cberuses.
I originally wrote this opera to be presented at my Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, for I believe in dramatieing the Bible stories, but I am so pleased that I am now nego tinting to have it presented all "across the States in operatic houses," she added. "I eten bad an expert come from New York to California by airplane to arches thate the tunes. He has given the music a tremendous swing, posi tively ripping ""*
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Addressing the defendant, the Magistrate said: "Arthur Hall, there are two charges against you. The first is that you did have in your possession about 2,500 taels of prepared opium on board the 58. Kashgar, Victoria harbour. on Saturday last, May 10. Do you plead guilty or not guilty?
Defendant: Not guilty, sir." The second charge against defend- ant was that of attempting to ex port the drug out of the Colony. Captain Hall also pleaded not guilty to this charge.
In accordance with the request of Revenue Officer Grimmitt, his Wor- ship remanded the prisoner till Friday, May 15, at 2.15 p.m., when the Crown Solicitor will appear to prosecute.
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One of the defendants, who had a good record, was fined 815 while one of the first considerations of the well-dressed woman. Often it the other driver was fined $25. For is the last. A wet morning menus British maes can be by looking at travelling through a controlled area at 34 m.p.b. another lorry driver was fined $20.
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A Chinese employee of the branch factory of the Steam Laundry, who, n juvenile entertainment. But the
Washington, May 6-Mr. Cia private life, conducted a tailor's Jameson. New York Republican business, furnished his own trade censors to bear in mind the fact
the with materials from. hia master's that a very large proportion of executive, testified before
lobbyist investigation" to-day shop. He was, however, caught picture audiences are young peo that he hail contributed-a total of with four dozen reels of thread in his ple, that pictures are the most popular form of entertainment in G.8195,000 to anti-Smith groups possession, and was duly charged the Commonwealth, and that there- just before the last national elce before the Kowloon Magistrate with stealing the thread on various dates fore a higher standard should be tion imposed than if only a literary or:
between January 1 and May 1. The dramatic censorship were exercised.
defendant pleaded guilty. For this reason, and because the characteristic screen, with its
Some of this money, he said, #ent to Republican committees and some to anti-Smith Democrats, especially in the state of Virginia. medium and methods, has a greater
Mr. Jameson said that he gave influence for good or ill than either G.885,000 to help the activities of book or play, films are frequently Bishop James, Gannon, Jr. in banned which have appeared in opposition to the candidacy of the literary form or on the stage. The former Governor, Mr. Al Smith. most unfortunate effect of films on young people and adolescents is
where the frequent exhibition of certain phases of marriage, sex de-away from them, but they cannot
Inspector Marka gave evidence to the effect that the man was arrest- ed in the street opposite the Gas Company premises, and on inquiries being made, it was found that, the reels which he had in his possession, at the time of the arrest, were stolen from the Steam Laundry.
Mr. W. W Hirst, of the Laundry, said that although the threads were similar to those used in his Com-
get away from the advertising, pany, there was no proof that sire, and passion give them an ac which confronts them in the streets the man stole the articles. "As far quaintance with a kind of life that and in newspapers. There should as he knew, the defendant had been must have a detrimental effect.
be a unified and close control over employed at the branch factory for Especial consideration is given to filme depicting crime and the more locally produced as well as importa little over two years and bad always given satisfaction in his sordid phases of life, but there willed advertising."
work. always be a tendency, as there is in the Press, to make the most of the sensational and abnormal.'
Dimiculties of Censorship. Mr. O'Reilly said that the diff The adoption of a system of mark-culties of censorship and the main ing pictures, suitable for general tenance of standards have been in exhibition, and advertising them as creased immensely by the advent of sound pictures. Of 2932 standard
Remarking that he would take the man's good record into considera tion, the Magistrate passed-a acn- tence of one month's hard labour...
such, would be a very desirable Rims imported into the Common- reform, and there seems to be wealth last year, 671 were passed An elderly Glasgow Councillor reasonable probability of such an with eliminations, and 100 were relat month expressed the opinion arrangement shortly coming to jected. In the same period 823 that Lady Eleanor Smith knows He was feature films were dealt with. too much for her age, Seventy-two were rejected, and 287 commenting on the decision of the were passed with eliminations: The Clasgow Municipal Library Com- large number of short films rejected mittes to ban a new novel, The
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