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£250,000 FILM FOR CORONATION YEAR
(BY REGINALD WHITLEY)" London, July 13. Plans for a £250,000 Coronation Year film, showing the pageantry of England in Joy, in sorrow, in crises, at wai and at play, were suggested to me yesterday by Ed- mund Goulding. the Hollywood producer,
The suggestion came as a sequel
by Hollywood to place her on top
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1936.
TODAY AT THE CHILDREN LAUGH
CINEMA
Hong Kong
KING'S:-
"Come Out of The Pantry” QUEEN'S:
"Singing Kid"
ORIENTAL:
"Return of The Terror"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA :-
"We're Only Human" ALAJESTIC:-
"In Spite of Danger"
STAR:-
"The Case of the Lucky
Legs"
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KING'S:
Coming
"Little Miss Nobody” QUEEN'S:-
"Man of Iron" ALHAMBRA:-
"Three Wise Guys"
STAR:--
"King Kong"" MAJESTIC:
"Stormy"
COME OUT OF THE
PANTRY
AT SEX FILMS
"Unable To Imagine
Mae West
"G" MEN THEIR FIRST FAVOURITES
Children do not like Mae West or Greta Garbo aims; they laugh at sex appeal. but they are very fond of "G" men.
These facts emerged from a discussion at a conference organ- ised by the Public Morality Coun- cil and Cinema Christian Council, at Central Hail. Westminster, te cently,
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN
THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, July & The conference of the National Council of Women, representing about 2,000,000 members, opened at Southport yesterday,
In her address, the president, Mrs. E. Hartree, who was the first woman Mayor of Cambridge, em- Phasized the need for many more women on local authorities and for Diplomatic and Consular services.
The slow rate of progress in the Mr. William Farr...acting general inclusion of women in legal gov- manager, British Film Institute.emment bodies since their ad- said it had been found that first mission had been a disappoint- among films disliked by children ment. Mr. Hartree criticized the were horrific pictures of the recent report on women in the Frankenstein type. It had also Diplomatic and Consular services. Qeen noticed that there were It was a disappointment to them frightening qualities in many of all, she said, and many of its con- the later Walt Disney cartoons, clusions seemed to be based on Children, he added, did not ke slight, foundations composed to a Oghting. "close-ups" of killing great extent of preconceived ideals and sudden noises.
on women, their capabilities, "and their so-called "proper" sphere of work.
to be
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OUTSIDE THEIR KEN
The diske of Mae West and Greta Garbo was almost unanim ous. They had never met anyone in the least like them and were not able to imagine that such per sons could really exist.
Speaking of Alm the children like, Mr Farr suggested that they One of the difficulties in making would find on inquiry that the Come Out of the Pantry," the placing of "G" men films at the new Jack Buchanan comedy for head of the list did not necessari British and Dominions which is ly mean that the children must mainly set in New York, was that have these pictures. They liked of casting the American roles.
them because they gave excite- In these days of educated public ment, sensation and suspense. opinion when every alm fan
"We believe." he added, "that England not only knows
the dramatic stories built up around American accent but can talk like such characters as an air pilot, a a native, it was obviously neces-Colonial administrator, a sea cap.
head.
sary to sign real Americans fortain, or even a doctor, would be of the parta. While, however, it is a greatest interest to the children." simple enough matter to make a
Mr. G. Kirkham Jones. fim in Hollywood with an
all master ** St. Andrew's Senior English cast-witness Alms like Boys' School, Batterses, stated "Cavalcade" and "Over the River" that he had listened to what chil-
it is quite another job to find dren said to each other. an American cast in Elstree.
In "Come Out of the Pantry," which will be seen at the King's Theatre to-day., Olive Blakeney plays the part of the wife of the wealthy American in, whose family
Jack Buchanan is forced to take the position of footman.
She had no idea of playing in films until a year ago when she was approached with Sir Beymour Hicks. She made this film and also appeared in "The Batter and Egg Man."
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She has, of course, always been interested to be able to take her baby girl. Betty Lou, to see them because she is usually playing a
"I have found." he continued. "that they love ting, comedy, young animals, young people, right triumphing over wrong, happy endings to the stories of the books they read.
Appeal
children simply
"'Sex laugh at, and a close-up of a man and woman kissing sends them,
"One paragraph seems particularly regrettable," she said. "It states that certain duties which the women's deputations mention- ed as specially requiring women are now being performed by the wives of members of the service 'without cost to the State. It is doubtless
convenient to use the unpaid wives of offelals, though they cannot be regarded as substitutes for the trained and selected women' 'en- visaged in our demands, but that this 'getting something for nothing" should be given openly, as a rea- son against the admission of such trained women into the services is surely unworthy of a Govern. ment Department.”
נד
Mrs. Hartree referred to the
danger to the right of women to work throughout the world." In view of this, and of the increasing tendency in many countries to cur- tail that right, either directly by legislation, or by the delegation of powers of Ministers and omcials, sometimes acting in conjunction with trade unions, their duty in upholding such right became ever more insistent.
APPOINTMENTİ OF MAGISTRATES
It was unanimously agreed that. the present method of selecting
as a rule, into fits of laughter. lay magistrates resulted in the
"They hate cruelty, drunken- ness is no longer a joke to them, and beauty of scenery leaves them
cold."
appointment of many unsuitable people, and also failed to secure the appointment of many suitable people. A delegate urged that ad- visory committees should have de- finite and established constitutions, that the names of their membera
they should include both men and women.
heary villain and shooting people A BALLERINA'S should be made public and that
in a particularly dastardly way.
THE CHURCH'S WELCOME TO SEAMEN
COME-BACK
FAMOUS TSARIST
PRIMA
London, July 14. London July 7. To-night, at the age of sixty-
The pre-war days, will stage a come
back at Covent Garden.
NAVAL BASES ON PACIFIC ISLES
TO TIME BEING LOST BY GOVERNMENT
She will dance a Russian dance Officials' Expedition
in a divertissement specially ar- ranged for her benefit."
Kshesinskalą, who is now the wife
London, July 10. The U.S. Government is losing of the Grand Duke Andrew, still
a dancing school in no time in clinching its claim to maintains Paris. To-night she will be dancing the Howland, Baker, and Jarvis with several of her puplis, includ-Islands, which lle midway between ing the young ballerina, Tatiana Hawali and Fiji. Riabushinakata, the daughter of a former Moscow millionaire.
The annual Shipping Festival three, Mathilda Kshesinskaia, the to my recent visit to California, will be held in Winchester Cathe-famous Tsarist prima ballerina of when I asked Goulding, one of the brilliant band of Britons recruited dral at 7.15 p.m. to-day.
mayors of Winchester and South- of the movie-making world, for an ampton and a representative of the Commander-in-Chief, Porta- idea to further Anglo-American friendship through the medium of mouth, will take part in the open- ing procession, in which flags of the screen.
Speaking over the transatlantic the Merchant Navy will be carried. Canon Lang will preach, and the telephone, he said:-
"My idea is a great world-lesson will be read by Captain drama-the combined efforts of George Bowyer, pilot of the Queen the best brains of London and Mary in all her entrances and exits Hollywood in a vast-scale specta at the docks. cular film.
A note prefixed to the order of service says: "For many centuries
SIXTY NOT OUT close links have bound together the
Ksnesinskaia, who belongs to the ancient cities of Winchester and
This year has pre-Pavlova era, is the most fam- Southampton.... brought us fresh proofs of the ous of all Russian ballerinas. enterprise and skill of the Mer- She was a Taarist and Grand Du- cantile Marine and of all branches cal favourite, and it was in her of industry connected with it, as house in St. Petersburg that Lenin "It would begin with the life of well as of the efforts of the church established his headquarters when Queen Victoria, a pageant of the to keep abreast of its needs. The he returned to Russia from Swit- Victorian
adopting
Queen Mary, the Stirling Castle zerland in a sealed wagon after eza,
and the Athlone Castle, and the the revolution. Coward 'Cavalcade inspiration,
It would take us to India, troopship Dilwara-to all these the Egypt-build the Empire before port of Southampton has given welcome this year and hidden them God-speed
their maiden
revival of commerce and industry
"The picture dould be entitled The Dawn of an Empire. It must show the world in terms of
inspiring entertainment, the deep fervour of the Briton for his Em- pire, his King and his Church.
VICTORIAN KRA
our eyes.
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the
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Her come-back at the age of
sixty-three is not a record. At the moment Moscow has in Geltzer a pre-war ballerina who is stili dan-
"It would show this great Queen in the manner that is now enter-voyages; and we thank God for the cing and who must now be well
over sixty.
nightly in a £5,000 a week play.
Four American Government officials arrived at Honolulu 'yea-. terday en route for the islands, They are carrying complete equip=" ment for two serological stations for pilot-balloon observation,
Rumours are current that the islands are needed for small naval bases, as well as for commercial air transport, though the oficials refuse to take any comment.
BRITAIN - UNINTERESTED The recent declaration of United States ownership over the How-
land, Baker, and Jarvis Islands, followed by the hurried despatch | of 12 Honoʻalu schoolboys in a coastguard cutter (four to- each island) for "colonisation" purposes. believed by many to be a
WILD
Britain.
To-day Geltzer can give Kshesin. "Well, dear," said Mr. Blair,taining thousands of Americans which the port is witnessing. Harakala fifty yards start in a hun- | quick move to forestall Great after tea had been cleared away, "I would first be sure that the by on land rises the new Beamen's
dred. Ballerinas are like boxers. "what are you planning to do to idea had the personal approval of Insitute of the Missions to Sea-Once they have stopped, they can- It has, however, been officially
men. extending to all who serve not stage a come-back.
stated in London that the British on the sea the right hand of Chris Geitzer's success is the result, Government takes no interest in tian brotherhood. To all alike the partly, of her superb physique-she the occupation, and has no inten Mother Church bids welcome.”
has the legs of a Dixie Dean--but ton of disputing the American mainly because she has never || claim. stopped" dancing. The Bolshevists The important strategle and air have made no attempt to force her base possibilities have been en to alter her pre-revolutionary hanced by the recently instituted classical style.
trans-Pactae "air clipper service.
the King, whose instinct for the Mrs. Blair shrugged her should-right kind of British information era. "Nothing special," she re- abroad is unparalleled. piled. Tll probably write a letter
"Representatives of the India or two read, listen to the radio, omce, the War Omce and the and so on."
Admiralty and Colonial Office "see" he replied. "When you would be our historians.se come to the "so on."" don't forget]
my shirt buttons."
tion and Durbar periods. It would "We would aim for the release be a British Empire Year through of the picture, during the Corona out the world.”
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