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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1935.
VIRGINIA UGARETTES
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CHORUS GIRLS TO
GO SOON?
"Chorus girls will be unheard of in Hollywood-within a year!
"They, will be known as 'dan- cing actresses.""
has hired"
That astonishing statement comes from Dave Gould, noted dance director, who more than 20,000 chorus girls and created 8,000 ensembles during his career.
"The new trend in Hollywood, which will be seen for the Arst time in BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938., will eliminate the old time chorine. In her place will cómo à new typ, who will play a semi- pr.ncipal role in the picture as well as dance.
This drastic transformation will cause havoc with the present ranks of Holywood chorus girls, which contains more than 2,000 names at the present time.. The list of girls will be out to 2001
"But the remaining 1800 will be assimilated into the ranks of dress 'extras' and will suffer lit- tl financial loss because of the change," claims Gould.
BROADWAY MÉLODY OF 1936 "In BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938, we are doing away with the old style musica! dance routines in which hundreds of chorus girls are used for marches' and Instead 'arm-waving. routines. we are using no more than twelve. girls at a time, although we have fifty for these small line-ups, When these girls are in front of the cameras they will be playing actual roles in the production. Their routines will be as import ant to, the picture as the dialogue Itself.
Because of this new trend, it took us several months to pick the girls for the 'new-deal' line-. up. They had to possess the same qualifications found in the aver- age fentáred player besides being excelent dancers.
"Making the former chorines semi-principals will give them a falzer chance to achieve screen. Instead of being lost in
Buccess.
a crowd, they will occupy import ant camera pas tions and will be given des
"To prove my point, let me state that seven of the rifle picked for
"MIDSUMMER NIGHT"
As A Film
Professor Max Reinhardt, grea- test of German stage producers, arrived in London," from Holly- wood, where he has made his Arst film, "Midsummer Night's Dream," for Warner Brothers.
"I do not think you will find
he' too Amre.can." the "accent said. "It is true the cast includes James Cagney as. Bottom, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Hugh Her- bert and Jean Muir, but an Eng- Ush professor coached them in their speech.
"Not a word of dialogue is used which is not from the play. and I used more scenes than are. generally seen on the stage,"
"Shakespeare can be made po-. pular-even in England,-by the Alm. I would like to flm 'Ham- let, Lear'-all of them.
HINTS TO POETS.
"I believe poets of the future will rease the possiblities of the film and write for it. It is prc- Atable.
"Just now "The Miracle' is wait- ing for a libretto.
"I am in favour of using the broadest. comedians for classical roles. If you don't use your. Re- beys and Hensons for Blakes- peare, you might just as well read the plays, instead of seeing them. * think aetors have better chances on the screen than on. * શ the stage.
First to Ven'cr.
•
"My plans?
to produce The Merchant of Venice in the open-air theatre. and back to Bollywood in Bep tember."
the new-deal chorus were given term contracts with M-G-M. The girls are Lorna Lowe, Bonnte Ban- non, Mary Lange, Claire Myers, Mary Lou Dix, Diane Cook and Wanda Peery, concludes Gould.
Goulds will present five of his semi-principal", ensembles in the John W. Considine, Jr. production under the direction of Boy di Ruth Jack Benny heads the cast
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THE WAY THEY DO IT This is the way they make nims In Hollywood. Paramount thought of making "Annapolis Farewell,' a story which is centred on naval Le..dumies.
Alexander Hail, maker of the famous "Goin' To Town,' "who directs, rang up the American Navy department and asked them if he could have aiming facil- tles. "Bure." they aud
So Hall, with Sir Guy Standing, Rosalind Keith and 100 players and technicians went to Antiapo- lis
and started filming at the academy there. All work for a week was stopped by the autho- nities, so that the sim people Every should not be disturbed! midshipman, and 100 students of a naval college, in the city were
CARTOON STARS AT
WORK
JOAN CRAWFORD
Five months of production and time, the Baving is large. It 11,200 separate scenes is the tre- comparatively simple to animate mendous schedule faced by the an arm or a leg.. makers of
"There is a great danger here in one - reel cartoon comedies.
bike trying to make cartoons too cheap, These galloping untypes take ly declared Mint I have seeng from two to three times as long to subjécks in which the animation make as the most tremendous of was done too cheaply. As a result super-productions employing hu- the movements were not natural.
• There was too much ́ ́chéating' in ian actors.
animation....
More than 30,000 separate draw
A well-mádé colour cartoon. hgs are required, for each separate Frame of the picture represents should have a production cost of several drawings. These frames around $14,000.***
run
through the projection The actual making of a cartoon machine at the rate of twenty-four takes five months from the time of per second.
many
the first scenárto conference to the One of the largest cartoon plants finished product. The scenarists in Hollywood,the Charles Mintz are men with unusually whimsical Studics, turns out thirty cartoons imaginations. Virtually nothing is a year, constantly employs more, impossible. The more fantastic the than 100 persons and frequently "gog," generally speaking, the
more. This studio maxes, more entertaining. for Columbia release, eight car-. toons starring Krazy Kat, and his buddles, eight starring Scrappy, six Colour Rhapsodies and has re- cently contracted to bring Harney Google, Spark Plug and all their companions to the screen in a series of eight colour cartoons, em- ploying the newest three-colour method of photography.
The Mintz studio is like Colum- bla or any other large stud'o in its personnel. Strangely enough, they even have directors who direct the cartoon characters.
The story for a cartoon is cook- ed up by the scenarist, the musical: director, the director and the mu- sical arranger. Then the shooting script is prepared. Metronomes are scattered throughout the plant in every department so that there will not be extraction of a second variation in the action and sound.
The shooting script has complete dialogue and music as well as a description of the action. Several days may be spent recording the music arid dialogue although this can be done in a single day.
Then comes the bushels of Also in constant employment are scenarists. musicians. dialogue bringing the abstract ideas of the writers, composers, art directors script to Hfe. The cartoons are and animated to SyaTM and film editors. In addition there drawn are animators, tracers, opacquers, chronize perfectly with the sound paint mixers, chemists and in- track. betweeners.
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NO COMPLETE DRAWING Contrary to popular bellet complete separate drawing is not made for each frame of a cartoon : subject, it was explained by Char- les Mintz, head of Screen Gems, Inc., which makes the cartoons that Columbia releases.
"As a matter of fact," declared Minta, no single drawing is ever made that resembles the scene that is shown on the screen.
"A 700 foot Krazy Kat will con- sist of 11,200 frames of action but we will actually use as many as 44,000 drawings with an average of about 30,000 drawings for a sub. ject.
THE VARIOUS STAGES. The director of the subject fol- lows it through every step of the animators telling the drawing, exactly how he wants the scenes played.
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A background department - will make the backgrounds for each scene while the animator goes to work making complete drawings of the action of each scene. The head animator will draw only the key scenes in the action which will mean about one cut of every seven frames. The assistant will then smooth the action by doing every second frame so that the prepara- tory work w' then be half finish- ..ed.
The in-between department will These frames race through the projection machine at the rate of "then fill in the drawings to com- 1440 a minute which makes the plete the smooth action. These average cartoon represent about eight minutes of entertainment."
After all the preliminary work is done, the drawings all made, and the time for shooting arrived, there still remains nearly a month of actual shooting of the scenes to be followed by the final editing of the
film
in shooting, an overhead camera is used which photographs the drawings placed on a table beneath it in a slot which is accurate to the one-thousandth part of an inch.
drawings are all done on flexible paper and are bound together in a book so that the edge can be flip- ped and the smoothness of the dc- tion studied before the expensive work in tracing and shooting be- gins
F
Impressions Of A Director
There are only a few great emotional actresses on the streen. Joan Crawford is one or theh.”
These are the words of Edward Grimth, the noted nằm air- ector, Who is directing the star for the Arst time, in NO MORE LADIES, Irving Thalberg's new production for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, and 1 coming to the Queen's Theatre.
"I have found;" he continued "that an actress, any actress, is only as great an artist as she is
&
person.
Character Blways
paces art. Therein lies the first clue to the artistic importance of this star. Joan's sympathies and understanding are so deep, her heart so generous, she could not help but be great."
"She never uses her importance as a personage for selfish reasons. I have never known her to keep e company.waiting, nor to expect special favours. The first day of tue production, which is always difficult, a group of dancing girls dropped in to see her. In spite of the heavy strain she was under, · Joan took time to great each girl personally.
"Yet" with all her intuition and highly emotional nature, Joan Crawford has a dne intelligence and an innate culture. It is this rare combination of genius and the ful heart, guided by the head, that accounts for the star's suc- cess."
EMOTIONAL ABILITY The director pointed out, in this connection, that Miss Craw- ford has never relied solely on her rich rund of emotional ability.".
Instead, she has learned, with tremendous ehergy, everything there is to know about her pro-. fession," he said. "She has deve- loped perfect diction, the most flexible voice I have encountered.
But talented, and successful as Joan Crawford 15, Grimth feels that she is using only about half her ability.
"Great as she is, she will reveal yet greater power" he went on. "In great historical pictures, in rich, colourful characterizations, we shall see her stirpassing the glamorous Joan of to-day. She is an actress of almost unlimited dramatic depth and range."
Griffith himself is famous for modern, smart comedy. A leading director of silent films, he later directed such sophisticated hits as HOLIDAY, ANIMÁL KING- DOM, and FIOGRAPHY OF A BACHELOR GIRL
Robert Montgomery is co-star- red with Miss Crawford in NO MORE LADIES and Charlie Rug- gles, Franchot Tone, and Edna May Oliver are featured promin- ently in the cast.
the
After this action is smoothed a line test is shot and the film is projected and studied. Changes in action or in térky movements will - d then be made. When this is ap- proved the drawings are sent to kept around seventy and the tracing and opaquing depart-humidity is kept high. This keeps Each frame in a scene showing ment where they are traced on the paint on the sendioida from
cracking. Krazy Kat throwing a baseball may celluloid.
The procedure in the making of consist of as many as five separate When this work is completed the drawings. First there be the back celluloids and the backgrounds are Colour Rhapsodies is similar. The Mints Studios has its own calef unchanged sent to the photographic depart chemist who manufactures the which 15 ground throughout the scene. Over this is ment where timing begins. A lald a piece of very fine trans- good day's work by the camera de- Paint used for these, parent celluloid on which is traced partment will be twenty-five feet of The Columbia Colour Rhapsodies the outline of Krazy's body. On action. Occasionally, when the go- are fast gaining a phenomenal
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given a week's holiday, so that another celluloid; placed over that ing was easy they have made as popularity with audiences all over
they could be signed on en masse as crowd players.
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When Hall had finished. the naval authorities replied to his note of thanks with the equivalent of "Well, any time you want any- -thing, you know where we are!"
CHILD PLATERS START Páramount is to make a film- Too Many Parents which will feature most of the child players contract with the company. The screen play is written by Julien Josephson, and, so far, the cast Includes David Holt, "VIT- ginia Weldler and Baby LeRoy.
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HAROLD LLOYD BACK AT PARAMOUNT
Harold Lloyd. the ramous comedian, has temporarily i for Baken his 12-ysis career as the Independent producer of his own screen cohetes to run to Mis old studio Paramount for one
im
His reason for lgning with paramount for this in "The
hat the and the Starri to terisation offered will provide him. with a part perfectly su
OL ALATS
Hars: recruited from the stage, mor scree
IcCarey, maker
rect The
,
will be Krazy's arm which will do most of the moving. The baseball itself may be on this same plece of celluloid or it may be on another.
MULTIPLE CELLULOIDS
grammes.
SOUP-ERB!
much as eighty-five feet in a day. the world demanding them as a With thirty of these subjects on regular feature of their movie pro- its schedule the Mintz company always has about fifteen in various stages of production. It has more than 250,000 celluloid in constant The object of these multiple. use. As soon as a picture is fin'sh- celluloids is to reduce the cost of ed they are washed off for re-use: production. If a complete drawing were made for each frame the cost would be prohibitive, But when only one
Here's a new Burns and Allen story straight from Hollywood.
George Burns, the saner half of famous Paramount comedy
THE SHOOTING". Bhooting is always done under
the
pair
or two of the four very carefully supervised air con- celluloids have to be animated at a ditions. The temperature must be
has just been made a Kentucky colonel and thus joiná Mae West and Bing Crosby in the ranks of the governor's aides-de- camp.
TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.BW.
on 355 Metres
12.30 to 2.15 pm-European pro-
grammer.
12.30 p.m.-Recorded music. 1 p.m.-Local time and weather
report.
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1.15 pm-Hong Kong Hotel Or
chestra. 1:30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins,
Rugby Press news, etc. 2.15 pm-Close down.
4 to 7 pm Chinese programme. 6 to 8.15 b.m-Children Studio
Concert.
7 to 11 p.m.-European programme 7 to 7.34 p.m. Concerto in A Miner
for Pianoforte and Orchestra (Grieg, Op. 18) played by Ignas Friedman (Pianoforte) with
Orchestra.
1.34 to 8 p.m.-
Old Tunes Violet Loraine-Medley. Galety Echoes. Drinks all Round.
]
& p.m.-Local time and weather re-
port.
8.03 to 8.15 p.m.-
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From the Studio
"A Trip to North China and
Japan" by DEA.- 8.15 to 8:45 pm ---
Variety Henna Vocal-Take ma boots off when
Ah Dies-The Hill Billes. Xylophone Solo-Kitten on the
Keys Harry Robbins. Bong-La Petite Tonkinoise.--
Josephine Baker. Songs-Maybe I'm wrong again.
Back to those Happy Days.—
Leslie Hutchinson, and Organ Bola bote in Bloom---
Sydney Torch. Song-What can you give Nudist?-Bertha Willmott. Band-The Man on the Flying
Trapeze.
I Can't Dance-Billy Cotton
and his Band.
8.45 to 9 pin-
9
The Lener String Quartet Quartet in D Minor-Andante Cantabile ("Death and the Malden). Schubert). Moment Musical No. 3-Tran
scription (Schubert) Minuet Transcription (Behubert,
Op. 78).
to 9.15 pm-A Relay of the]! Daventry News Bulletin (Copy- right by Reuter). w 9.15 to 8.30 p.m
Selection of Walties Dreaming Waltz (Joyce), The Druid's Prayer (Davson). Tales of Autumn (Waldteufel). Blonde or Brunette (Waldteufel). Drink Drink Brother, Drink
(Bendix) 9.30 to 10 pm-
From the Studio A Recital by Nina Valentine (Contralto). CYD BIUWH (Batitone)!". Luba Shaftain (Pianoforte)", DE PROGRAMME D
1. (a) Saint Valentine, and.
(b) Saint Nicholas Day in the
Morning-From "Red Let ter Days" Music East- hope Martin).
Nina Valentine.
2. (a) Figh no moreW LA
Aiken
(b) Whither
runneth-my sweetheart-from "Book of Ayres, 1806" (Bartlett) Cyril Brown.
3. (a) Butterfly Orleg.
(b) March of the Dwarfs.-- Grieg Luba Shaftain.
4. When shall I Marry Me?—Al- ; fred Reynolds--Nina Valentine 5. Come you pretty false-eyed wanton from "na Book of Ayres, 1810" Campion cytur Brown
6. Etude Scriabin--Luba Shad-
tain.
10 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins. When she heard the news, 10.05 to 11 pm-A Relay of the
Gracle Allen, the crazier half of
the
Hong Kong, Hotel Dance Or- combination said: "You're chestra. the colonel I suppose I'm the 11 pm. Close down.
nuts!"
FOUR FOR JOAN
BENNETT
Clever
Pat: "Molke, do yez know why an Irishman hits the pepper box on the
Following her triumph in Walter bottom an' a Dutchman hite 'it' dn Wanger's Paramount picture the side? "Private Worlds" which has just-Mike: "Of Don't Way 15 159"
Pat: "Shure an it's to yet the been finished Joan Bennett has signed a contract to make four pepper out, Molke. more pictures for the producer.
Wangers schedule with Park mount calls for four more produc tions this senson Shangha," Boyer "Every Night George Raft
A little boy chose the subject of. Patey Kelly, "Boap." He wrote
ces Lan
The Boy of It
The class had been told to write
essay on any subject.
adrate of stunt made in cakes, not bad do
"Vogue"-amell but horrid to taste
there wasR