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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930.
“TALKIES" ABROAD.
LANGUAGE TROUBLES AT HOLLYWOOD.
American producers of "talkigs" are beginning to be seriously alarm-
crowds flocked to them in any
CHUCKLES IN LIVELY BOOK.
SIR JOHN CRICHTON- BROWNE'S STORIES."
Two old men of long public ser
ELINOR GLYN FILM BANNED.
ÄUSTRALIAN CENSOR AND 'KNOWING MEN."
The Australia Film Censors, who recently announced that Bri-
than any others," have banned Mrs. Elinor Glyn's "first British talking film, "Knowing Men."
ed about the foreign market for vice had their books published retish films required "more cutting their films. At first talking pic:cently. tures were such a novelty that Sir James Crichton-Browne, who is 80, has in "What the Detor Thought" put together a collection of stories and reminiscences which tempt one to go on turning his pages with frequent chuckles and friendly interest.
country where they were shown, whether the language spoken by the actors was comprehensible or
not. This mood quickly passed, however, and the producers now realise that they must face and solve the problem of making multi- lingual stories. It will not do to Add French or Spanish dialogue after the film has been made; the fact that the lips say one thing while the auditer hears another is too painfully apparent.
Parrot Phrases.
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Sir James has delightfully quiet, dry humour, which comes out in the tale of an English clergyman with a rich living, a man of wealth and aristocratic connections, who went through the formal duties of his office, but did not set much store by precept or example.
His irregularities ultimately "Certain films are now being made roused displeasure amongst some of his punetilious Jacre in which the actors repeat their
the
of
scenes four times, speaking succes-arishioners, who complained to the Bishop that his behaviour in the sively English, French, Spanish, and German. These are mainly Rectory garden with a young and comedies in which a minimum of good-looking housekeeper was un.
seemly. intelligible conversation is neces- sary. The actors know only Eng- lish, and usually very little of
that; they are taken in hand by expert linguists and are trained, parrot-like, to repeat the phrases for each scene-phrases which, once uttered, are promptly forgotten.
More serious dramas, of course, cannot be handled in this way. For them native casts of Spaniards, Frenchmen, or Germans are being assembled. A scene is made first by the American actors, and then they step aside while the same ac- tion is recorded consecutively by each of the foreign language groups. The second and all! suc- cessive versions can be made at very small additional cost, since the scenery and even some of the Lostuming are used over again and the "business, ments, and lighting need to be worked out only once. The same director may even make all three or four versions with the aid of a few interpreters.
camera
arrange-
His Way Out.
No explanation for this action has been given, and no suggestion has been made that the picture will be accepted if it is altered.
Only a week previously the Aus tralian Censor banned another Bri- tish film, "White Cargo," although the stage version was being shown at the time in Sydney. Last Octo- ber the same authority refused to pass "Blackmail," but a few weeks later permitted the film to be shown after a number of cuts had been
made.
"Knowing Men," which satisfied the British censorship (and, incid- entally, the New Zealand Censor), was shown in London at the end of June.
scene
It is the story of a rich girl who pretends to be poor in order to a tract her proad English, cousin. a man dressed as a monkey forces There is a cabaret scene, in which his attentions on the girl but ie: knocked out by the bero; and quite the most innocent bedroom On the Bishop communicating
ever shown on the screen. with him on the subject, the Rector Carl Brisson, Elissa Landi, and replied that no complaint of the Jeanne de Casalis are the principal artiste in the film, which was pro- kind should occur again, and produced with great skill and lavish- ceeded to build i wall 12.feet highness. around the garden."
Here is another example of Sir James's appreciation of an amus- ing retort:-
"Mrs. Creighton, wife of the Bishop of London, was lecturing at Walthamstow to working women on
Home Life.' .
"When the lecture was over. Miss Gregory, daughter of the Dean of St. Paul's, asked one of the women what she thought of the address.
"Oh, the woman replied, it was very good. She gave us some useful hints about home life, but she didn't tell us what she does
when Mr. Creighton comes home
drunk.'"
There is much in the book about Scotland.. One anecdote turns on the old custom of tallinn High land landowner by the name of his residence;, not by his own name.
"To speak, of Macpherson, Mac- kenzie or Stewart would not iden- tify a man. büt Cinny, Auchskcoch ör Appin does so at once.
"Mr. Piccadilly."
"A man in Edinburgh, having a friend from London staying with him, took him to a ten-party at the house of an old Scottish woman, and introduced him as Mr. Beau mount.
but
'Oh, in Pic-
Yes, the old lady said, where does he leave? cadilly, he replied.
He was much amused to hear his hostess shortly afterwards ask- ing his friend, Noo, Piccadilly, will ye has anither cup o' ten?"
Sir Alfred Hopkinson is only 79, youthful compared with Sir James. He has been a professor, a politi cian, and a very serious person all through life..
A Development in Paris. An ambitious experiment of this sort is now being started in Paris, with American capital and, with Americans in charge of operations. European actors are often milti. lingual, and when they are not it is simple matter to import a com- plete cast from Germany, Spain, &r Italy to Paris and keep them there a few weeks. Similar work is being done in Hollywood itself, which swarms with actors from every country of Europe. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, one of the largest producing companies, has announc- ed that it proposes to spend more than £1,000,000 on foreign-language films this year: One of these, al- ready made, is called "Monsieur le Fox (sic!) and has been done in German. French, Italian, and Spanish. The director was Mr. Hal Roach, and the star in all four versions is Gilbert Rolund, who is, 1 believe, a Mexican hy birth. Buster Keaton has made a German version of his new film "Free and Easy" Vilma Banky, the Hun- garian actress, whose accent makes if necessary for her to play only immigrant-girl parts in English films, has made "A Ludy to Love"
For example he contrasts the in German. Andre Luduet, French netor, has done over the present with the period when he was a boy, and gives liste of "New film "Laholy Night in that ton-
and Good Things," "New and Bad to make gue. Greta Garbo is pictures in French and German,Things," and Bad Things which
have disappeared," Thi, Swedish star haz accomplish- ed the difficult feat of learning to speak English with hardly a trace of accent, and her first talkie, Anna Christie," from the stage play by Eugene O'Neill, has been a great success in the United Btates.
He tells how a Scots friend onec said to him: "You are a very dull dog ordinarily, but just have a glass of toddy; it opens the heart, and then you are fine."
Old and New However, there are pages of in- terest, especially towards the end.
Among the latter are- Tight-lacing, Pomatum. Bed curtains, Elastic-sided Boots, Chignons, Concealment of Sex Crinolines, Questions.
"New and Bad Things,include, however, "Too Much Talk on Sex." Anachronistic Airplanes.
Other objects of Sir Alfred's dis- like are Vanity Bags and Oxford Everyone in the American film
Bags.
His "New and Good industry now agrees that the talkies Things" form the longest list, and have come to aty, and the over-include Grage Fruit and More whelming majority of the kinema Daffodils. houses are equipped to reproduce That makes one feel that the Scots sound. The cost of making the friend was, perhaps a little hard films, has been much reduced since
on Sir Alfred. the studios discovered that elaborato precautions against noise are not only unnecessary but un- desirable: voices reproduce better they are very much concerned against a background of normal coloured movies and the wide-angle sounds than in the unnatural quiet or "grandeur" film. It is predict of the tomb. The most populared that within six months a major- type of story at present is the old-ity of the American films will be fashioned Wild West melodrama. entirely in colour, as many of made out of doors. The directors' them already are, and that within only trouble and it is sometimes a year the double-width film, which very serious one is to keep air when projected fills & screen almost planes from circling overhead and as farge as the proscenium arch of adding the anachronistic roar of the average theatre, will be in com- their motors to a story laid, per-mon use The equipment necessary, haps, in the eighteen-fifties
for these innovations is very ex- The leaders of the industry, who pensive, both to the producor and tako the talkies for granted, have to the theatre operator, but it is, two other problems over which expected that competition will force (Continued of foot of next column.) them both into general acceptance.
Mrs. Glyn is naturally puzzled, at the Australian attitude
"Why should they treat British film, with a severity that has never been suffered by American pictures in the Commonweath " she asks.
When one remembers some Amerí can films it is difficult to suggest
an answer.
SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE RIOT.
CLASH BETWEEN INDIANS
AND CHINESE.
An echo of the riot between Indian and Chinese laliourers em- ployed at the Naval Basc, Seletar, on May 29, when a Chinese was killed, was heard before Mr. J. G. Barrett, the Singapore Corozer, last week, when the inquiry wZL
begun.
The trouble arose between an In- dian overseer and some Chinese carpenters, and a general fight en- seed between the Chinese and In dian labourers. Several of the participants were injured and had to be removed to hospital, while a Chinese carpenter
killed.
was
Chungkols, poles and tools were used in the fight, which was ended by the arrival of a party of police.
Twenty-three Indians and four Chinese who were arrested at the time, have been charged with riot- ing and remanded for trial.
According to the evidence record- ed by the Coroner, Ali, the Indian overseer, had occasion to remon- strate with the deceased carpenter about some work that had been done, and there was an argument between them. At that time some Indians were near by, and there was a general mix-up between them and the Chinese' workinen.
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