HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1931.
CENTRAL THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7 15 & 9.20 p.m.
'SORDID" FILMS BAN.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
BRITISH CENSOR WARNS PRODUCERS.
AUDITORY PICTURES THAT NAUSEATE.
Recent films containing a con- tinuous succession of grossly brutal and sordid scenes," accompanied by "sounds that accentuate the situa
BY SPECIAL REQUESTtion and nauseate the listener" aro
WILL NOT BE SHOWN ELSEWHERE IN THE
COLONY
C
WITH
BYRD
AT THE
SOUTH POLE
a Paramount Picture
FRIDAY
America's boy-friend
CHARLES/BUDDY)
ROGERS
THE RIVER OF ROMANCE!
Bookings at Andersons aud the Theatre (Tel. 25720).
SCHOOLBOYS” TOUR,
TO ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND.
Twenty-two public schoolboya have left London for a tour to the West Indica and British Guiana.
Dr. Montague Bondall, chairman of the Public School Empire Tours Committee, read a message from the Prince of Wales.
Dr. Drummond Shiols, Parlia mentary Under-Secretary for the 1r the Colonies, was there to see His ad- them off as Paddington. vioo was that they should not keep to the show-places, bus talk to the common people and go their homos"?
pilloried by Britain's Chief Film Censor, Mr. Edward Shortt, in a circular letter which he has acnt to all film companies in the country,
The letter also states that in futuro "no film will receive the Board's certifiente in which the theme, without agy redeeming char. acteristic, depends upon the intense brutality or unrelieved sordidiness of the scenes depicted."
The letter reads: "In our last reports attention has been drawn 1o the tendency to produce in- cidents of prolonged and gross brutality and sordid themes, which, it must be admitted, are unwhole- some and repugnant to large sec tions of the audiences in this coun try.
Buch films have required drastic eliminations and modifications be fore they could receive the Board's certificate. Of late it has been noticed with regret that filma aru being produced in which the dove- lopment of the theme necessitates a continuous succession of grossly brutal and sordid scenes, accom- panied, in the case of auditory fitus, with sounds that accentuate the situations, and nauseate the listener..
"No modification, however, dras- tic, can render such films suitable For public exhibition." In conse quence the Board issues the war- ing given above.
Producer's Comments.
Mr. Herbert Willcox, the well- known British film producer, stated that he welcomed the Board's ac tion.
Although in principle I am op- rosed to all forms of film censor- ship," Mr. Willcox said, "I think the Board has acted wisely in this natter. It has to be recognised that the introduction of sound into films, by heightening realism, make unpleasantly vivid things which the silent film left to the imagination,
"Scenes which were possible and permissible in silent pictures be bound The best censors, how como repugnant when gugmented ever, are the members of the public themselves. It would not be worth our while to give them films with unpleasant themes. I rejoice that it should be be so."
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.
11 to 11.30 a.m.--Stock quotations. 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme. 19.20 p.m.-Europea programme,
1.30 p.m.-Weather report, local time and Rugby Press news.
2 p.m.-Close down.
5 to 8 p.m.-Europena programma.
of H.M.V. and Victor records supplied by Messrs. Moutris & Co.
7 p.m.-Stock quotations.
5 to 5.30 p.m.-
** If
Orchestral.
"(from "East is West")-Victor Salon Orch. "Pearl o' Mine" (Fletcher),
Victor Salón Orch,
"Mikado Selections" (Sullivan). Marck Weber and his Orch. ··
Orch.
*
WONDERS WHY HE FEELS SO SORT OF QUEER TO DIN. NO SCHOOL, HE OUGHT TO BE FEELING CHEERFUL
SEES THE BOX OF CANDY UNCLE GEORGE BROUGHT VESTERDAY AND AUTO- MATICALLY ASKS CAN HE HAVE A PIECE
11-28
MISSING GIRL DRAMA.
GAZES GLOOMILY OUT OF WINDOW. DOESN'T SEEM TO CARE WHETHER THERE'S ANYTHING TO DO OR NOT
TO HIS SURPRISE MOTHER SAYS HE CAN. REMOVES COVER AND GAYES SAD LY INTO BOX
SEARCH FOR BODY IN
WINDSOR PARK.
STATEMENT: BY A SOLDIER.
·
FEELS THAT SOMEHOW! THAT THIRD PIECE OF MINCE PIE YESTERDAY IS TO BLAME FOR EVERY- THING
SIGHS DEEPLY AND REPLACES COVER, WITHOUT TAKING ANY
/ (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Virginia Water-The roarch for the body of Winifred Parrant, the 20-year-old domestic servant of Sandhurst, moar Camberley, Bork-
shire, who disappeared 17 months ago, was continued by the police
last month.
It was earried on in a frost..
bound plantation which is part of the Royal domain of Windsor Great Park, Surrey.
A squad of Surrey police officers have been digging among the doad leaves and bracken.
extensive woodland, from end to end if necessary, and they finished their investigation at dark this evening without discovering any thing further...
I understand that if the search proves fruitless the man who is un- derstood to have made a communi- cation on the matter may be asked to visit the park and to indicate u more definito spot.
The police are tryying to ascer-. tain if there is an old well in the
district.
The clothing, hat and stockings found were taken to Mrs. Parker, of Bagshot, Miss Parrant's sister.
I saw Mra. Parker to-day.
"I gave my sister a blus hat like the one that has been found." she said "just before she disappear. ed. The other clothes, too, werd of the type that my sister wore."
DECIDES HE'S NEVER GO- ING TO EAT MINCE PIE'
·AGAIN IN ALL HIS LIFE
GOES OVER TO SEE WHETHER EDDIE SELZER FEELS THE WAY HE JOES
LEIKIAMS
MASS PRODUCTION IN ENGLAND.
MINISTRY TAKES IMPORTANT STEP.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
MEN OF THE NORTH,'
Tuned fists are one of the exigencies of talking pictures. When "Men of the North," Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's dramatic story of the North woods, which will open Co-day at the Queen's Theatre, was filmed, a fist immersed for ten minutes in warm water did the pounding on a cabin door,
The scene is that in which Gilbert Roland comes upon Barbara Leo- nard, Arnold Korff and George Davis in a snowbound' cabin. It was filmed in the snows of Truckee. When Roland pounded on the door, it sounded in the microphonis liku a club striking the panel.
Investigation proved that the actors fist, hardened with the cold, was almost as hard as wood. So before he pounded again, ho had to soak the fist in warm water to "thaw" it until it really sounded like a fist.
•
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
M
ALSO SHOWING
The Colourtone Revue "CLIMBING the GOLDEN STAIRS
with
CHARLES KING
The new picturs is a dramatic adventure romance of the French Canadian wilds, based on a story by Willard Mack and directed by Hal Ronch. The plot circles about the pursuit of a suspected law- breaker by the Mounted Police and entails exciting races on skies, and dog-sleds. An unusual detail is the filming of an avalanche which almost buries the heroine in the GILBERT
BDOW.
Gilbert Roland plays the leading male role, and the cast includes Barbara Leonard, Arnold Korff, Robert Elliott, George Davis, Nena Quartaro and Robert Graves, jr.
The picture presents an innova- tion in the production of talkics,
A circular dispatched by the having been filmed simultaneously
OF THE
with
ROLANDA
BARBARA LEONARD
ARNOLD
KORFF
Directed by
Ministry of Health to local au- in five languages, Miss Leonard HAL ROACH thorities recommends that, wher-playing the feminine lead in the ever possible articles of British English, French, German and standard specification should be Italian versions.
called for in all contracts, and that firing should be encouraged to employ standard goods and materi ale.
Besides the big feature the pro- grammo includes a marvellous Gue Edward's colourtone revue, Climb ing the Golden Stairs," which fea "The object is to secure largotures Charles King of "Broadway scale manufacture and the elimina. Melody" fame, a riotous comedy tion of unnecessary variety.
The letter states:
"The adoption of standards, where appropriate, for manufac Mrs. Parker went on to tell me
cured goods is of great advantage to users and producers alike. It the history of her sister's disap-encourages large scale manufac pearance,
The girl disappeared on August 13, 1929, and recent information
"She lived with our stop-father given to the polico by a soldier at
at Albion Cottages. Sandhurst," Lichfield, Staffordshire, has caus-she said, "and she went away on ed the scouring of this woodland, August 13, 1999. which stretches on either side of
the London-Basingstoke road for
several miles.
Why Search was Resumed. Fears regarding the girl's fate in the woods have been intensified by the discovery in the tangle of bracken, under a light covering of snow, of a blue crinoling straw hat
i
I understand that the soldier who
I saw her the Thursday before. She was woaring & blue costume
with striped jumper. I understand from the police that she was scen by someone at Virginia Water after she left Sandhurst, and in Septembar, about a month after wards, my stepfather had a letter presumably sent by her, and bear- the London postmark, but giv- ing no address.
The Shrimp, starring Harry Langdon and the latest newsreel.
TEMPLE TOWER."
Lighting plays almost as import- ant a part in the "mood of a mystery picture as the story itself, in the opinion of Charles G. Clarke, Fox Movietone cameraman, who is well-known for his unique photo- graphic technic and results.
ture. tends to reduce cost and to facilitato delivery.
"Standards formulated by ugroe mont between producers and users are issued by the British Engineer ing Standards Association, whose
Each scene of a mystery pic activities extend over a wide range ture," explains Clarke, "is gen ginsoring and its allied industries. tain effect-suspense, terror, sur- and are not confimed to the enerally aimed to produce some car-
What is Being Dons. "Instructions have been issued to Government departments to include in their specifications for building and other appropriate contracts the following clause:
All goods, not otherwise specifi. "In that letter she said: 'Don'ted, to be in accordance with Bri worry, I am quite happy. tish standard specifications, where
such exist.
The Attache Case,
..
prise, and so on,'
"Dim, shadowy lighting, with brighter angular shafts and beams at a slightly futuristic angle, where such added light is necessary to show the action clearly,, are much more productive of eerie, effects than a broad, harsh illumination that hides nothing. But all this must be done carefully and without any too-startling qualities, or the audience will have its attention diverted to the lighting itself rather than the mood of the scene-some- thing that must be avoided at all costs.
I Wera King"-Overture and a battered attache caso con (Adolphe Adam).-Victor Sym-taining underclothes and the tops
"The letter also said it was her. phony Orchestra.
of a pair of brown stockings, intention to go to Canada with a
Appealing to local authorities to "Chinese
soldier.
support this policy, the Govern The hat and stockings are be-
ment claims that it will require "We novor heard anything more the supply of standardised goods lieved by the girl's sister to have
of hor. belonged to Miss Parrant..
over a large field which is not now.
In "Temple Tower," the all-talk- covered.
ing melodramatic novelty which the case of contracts, for the pur some noteworthy results with his It is not suggested that the Donald Gallaher directed for Fox clause can generally be inserted in Movietone, Clarks has achieved chase of stores as distinct from "mood" lighting of this breathless. contracts for the execution of and exciting picture.
Kenneth work, but efforts are made by Gov MacKenna, Marceline Day, Henry ernment departments. to secure B, Walthall, Cyril Chadwick, Peter. where possible the use of articles Cawthorne and Ivan Linów are in made to British standard specifica- the cast of the production which opens on Sunday at the Queen's, Theatre.
Spanish Life" (Rizzi).Victoria has been in with the police belongs
"A Gay Gaballero" (Crumit).—
Victoria Orch.
-}
5.30 to 0.30 p.m.-Relay of concert from the Helena May Institute. 7.p.m. Stook quotations. 6.30 to 7.15 p.in.-European child. ren's programme from the Studio. ་་་་
-
7.15 to 7.30 p.m.-Children's over- ture (Quilter), played by the New Light Symphony Orch. 7.30 to 8 p.m.-...
to a Yokkhin regiment which was at one time stationed in this district, and that since the girl disappeared he has been in Canada, He recently go into touch with the military authorities, with tha result that a new sarch for traces of the missing girl was begun by by the Surney police, under Supor- intendent F. Gray, of Chertsey. Band Selections.
Police Lake Foresters. Wec Macgregor Patrol! (Amers).
The Band of HM Cold. The search has be
conducted with great secrecy In order to stream Guards. Policoman's Holiday" (Ewing) avoid publicity the police were The Band of H.. Coldstream dressed in mufti and leggings, and Guards..
were believed to be a party of "Monastry Bella (Woly).-The forestera at work.
Victor Concert Band.. The Mill in the Forest (Eiden
berg), The Victor Concert Band.
The party, under the direction"Patrol Comigno" (Hindley-Lake).
The Victor Concert Band, of Mr. J. F. M. Holland, A.X028-
ter at Harrow, sailed on January "A Hunting Scene" (Ducalossi).
9. and were, duo at Kingston,
The Victor Concert Band.
Tomsien saanuary 09 They Forge in the Forest" (Michaelis) will stay there for a fortnight
Ten days will be spent in Trini-"National
Game." Sousa's Bond.b
(Sousa).
dad, and they will visit Tobago,
-
the island of "Robinson Crusoe. B to 10.30 p.m.-Chinese Studio
The party, which includes boys concert. froin Efen, Harrow, Marlborough B p.m.-Weather report, local time, and other schools, is due back in England on March 25.
ate
10.30 p.m.-Close down.
They began their search on the other side of Fort Belvedere in the park, and have gradually worked their way through miles of tangled undergrowth and, wood, It was when they
with a soldier in a regiment which I knew that she was friendly was in camp, not far from here, and I believe she was going out with him as the time. She wont away from home once before, in the early summer of the same year and when she came back she said aha had spent the night in a mon- dow at Virginia Water.
underclothing was found did not "The attache ciss in which the
belong to my sister."
tions.
£33,050 WILL OF DAME MARY: SCHARLIEB.
To-day I have spoken with some aged 20; 5ft 4in. or 5ft. Bin. in people who knew Miss Parrant. height slim build, sallow comple They told me that she was an af. xion, brown eyes and dark brown tractive girl of a gay disposition, bobbed hair with fringe; dressed THE FIRST WOMAN DOCTOR. who frequently attended dances at in navy blue coat and skirt, blue f Camberley and was always pretti and white striped jumpor or mauve jumper, flesh-coloured stock- ly dressed.
Miss Parrant, whose Exther diedings, black one-bar shoes; inclined
to limp on the left leg. when she was fivo, was well known.
"She was last seen near. Virginia in Sandhurst and Camberley, where she had held sovoral situations as Water, Surrey, a domestic servant.
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Description Broadcast, reached In order to make the search for an isolated spat between Vir Miss Parrant as widespread and ginta Water and Egham, on effective as possible the following: the side of the London main message was broadcast by the that the hat and the underclothes rey polics:
found. An oyo witness wore writes:-
From the wide area that the police are searching it is clear that no definite spot, has been indicated to them. They intend to comb this
"Missing from her home at Al- bien Cottage, Bandburst, Bork shine, since August 13, 1999, Wini fred Parrant, a domestic servant, (Continued at foot of next column.)
Chertsey. It is stated here that a soldier at Lichfiold:has made a `statement to his commanding, off- cera statement which led to the scarch for Miss Parran in Wind- sor Great Park
The soldier is alleged to KATA
Parrant in the park.
Boon after Winifred Parant's disappearance letter from a girl named Pattant wore, it is declared, found in the pocket of a discard. ed uniform,
Dame Mary Ann Dacomb Schar- lieb, Doctor of Medicine and Maa-
tor in Burgory, the first woman doc- ter, of York-terrace, Regent's Park, N.W.I., who died on November 21, left an estate of £33,050,
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
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“Bulldog" Drummond Back!
His latest adventures are filled with greater thellls and bigger. laughs than aver ca în this oll: talking For Mevistona version of H. C. McNeila's new bodů :
with
KENNETH MCKENNA Marceline Day Heary & WelHall
directed by Donald Gallaher
prestal by William Fan
TEMPLE TOWER
STAR
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
At 5.30 & 9.20.
She made the following gifts:~~ | |
£350 to her secretary, Eugenio LAURA trude Elizabeth Guiseppi; £125.
to her chauffeur, Albert Pack LA PLANTE
man; and £100 each to her form- er maids, Freda Newton and. Olga Rodass
Vera Rose Devereux and her
sister, Muriol Mary, word left 66 The
£0,000 and £3,000, respectively in the will of Mrs. Eliza Jane Bum- pus, of Green Down, The Parks, Minehead, whose estate was valu ed a£:£40,571H
In
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