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VOICES THAT LOST US THE U.S.
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KING'S:-
"Farewell Again”
QUEEN'S
"Snow White"
GRIENTAL:--
"Strike Me Pink
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"Snow White“
STAR:-
We Went To College" MAJESTIC-
"The Awful Truth"
KINGS:-
Coming
"Second Honeymoon”.
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"We Who Are About To Die"
ORIENTAL:-
"Breakfast For Two"
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"I Cover The WarTM
STAR:--
“A Dainsel In Distress” "I Live My Life"
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FILM MARKET
Effeminate Accents Spoiling
British Pictures
Film production in Britain has suffered the most costly setback in its history. There is no mystery about the cause. The plain faci is that nine British films oul of tea ·are · unacceptable to America. writes a Home correspondent. ›
What can we do about it? Well, coming Word's Fair in New York. I have no wish to be thought re- are planning to make more docu- volutionary, but I think we might | mèntaries. One, on the Mississippi begin by studying the buyer's has already attracted a great deal point of view. It is not a bit of of attention.
use going on repeating that Ameri- It would be rash to`sssume, how- |cans should like our films. Speak-jever, that they have learned the ing generally, they don't; and infart from jua." Long ago America this, as in every other Industry, the turned out such magnificent Lima' customer's always right.
as "White Shadows in the South
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NOT THE BEAL ENGLAND Seas" (documentary thinly dis- Now most of the faults that fr-guised
Action), "Nanook,” ritate Americans also fritate filin-{"Chang" and "Grass.” The entire roers here. Paul Rotha hit on first, reel of "Come and Get It,” one of them when he said that on with. Its shots of the lumber in- arriving la America he found it) dustry. was documentary—and a | quite' familiar, from the New York superb example, at that.
skyline to the liftboy with a
Jagney line of wisecracks.
To dismiss "Nanook" and "Grass"
as commercial pictures is to invite the question, "When is a docu-
mentary not a documentary?" TO which the answer would seem to
In other words, Mr. Rotha bad been prepared by films that really do paint the American scene.
Americans who mew Mr. Hotha's be, "When it's good enough to documentaries, on the other hand, make money." found England wholly strange. Why." they asked, "haven't your
QUICKER THINKING commercial film-makers given us
When it came to commercial the real England Instead of the British films, Mr. Rotha found, the sham International stuff that American was much more critical. Hollywood does so much better?" He admitted the high quality, of To do this would require a dif- | some, but found that generally be ferent and vastly more sincere ́ap- | was ¤·line`sbeat "of the "dialogue") proach to film production. Ar-and two twists ahead of the plot. tistically the case is unanswer- The" mixture of races, including able. Whether art and prosperity the quick-witted Jew, the struggle go hand in hand is debatable; but for existence, the taxi-driver's "be- they could hardly be more effec-ef that one day he may be "Pre tively divorced than they aresident, all combine to produce a quicker tempo of life and thought. Add that the American cannot
SIX HOURS TO ACHIEVE HEARTS' DESIRE O
The adventures of a handful of people given six hours in which to achieve their hearts' desire are thrillingly depicted in "Farewell Again," which is showing at the King's Theatre today.
THESE VOICES COME HIGH In any case there is one fault follow half the dialogue, and dis- that could be remedied without kes the accent when he can, and risking a penny I mean the ac. you can see why British films sent that has been variously des-rarely cause a panic at the box- cribed as Oxford, clerical, B.B.C., office. and just plain exeminate.
THIN AND VULGAR
I don't altogether agree about the B.B.C.. some of whose announ-rom Kansas City shouldn't talk The obvious retort, that a man cers speak charmingly. But every about accents, gets us nowhere. If one knows the sort of voice I have we
want to sell Americans our
Leslie Banks and Flora Robson, the stars of Erich Pommer's "Fire Over England," again head the cast of the great producer's latest in mind. There are players con- dims, and we do, then we must offering.
stantly employed in our studios, avoid The story of "Farewell Again" is while first-rate actors are forgot detest. English accents, as such, the vocal qualities they based on the true story of anten, who have only to open their are not disliked. That is shown by English troopship whose passen-mouths to knock a thousand the popularity of Arliss. Colman. gera were given a few hours' leave dollars a word of the box-office Marshall.
at Southampton in which to see takings. their sweethearts.
PROBLEMS
their wives, SHOWING AMERICA OUR their mothers, their children, to fulfil the dreams of years of year- ning during years of service in the East,
WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
Business was slow, so the barber decided to shavé him- self. Halfway through he cut himself. As the blood trickled down his chin he began to laugh loudly,
"What are you laughing at?” demanded another barber,” “Do you realise you're cut your- selten
The barber waved the razor menacingly at his own throat.
"Why "should I care?" he sneered. “I shaved myself yes- terday and didn't recòive even a penny tip."..
DIED QUOTING BIBLE
After quoting the reference In the Book of Ezekiel to the "Valley of Dry Bones," Mr. F. P. Robjent, High Sherin of Monmouthshire. collapsed and died at a clvic re- ception tó Sir William Firth at Ebbw Vale. He was 78.
The function was immediately abandoned..
Flynn and Hunter. What maddens Americans is the hin, high-pitched, petulant bleat that a certain type of young per-
of the United States, has
Mr. Rotha, after a lecture tour son associates with culture and a come great many others with effeminacy. back full of the subject, partly, no It would be a shock to a number doubt, because, he found that au-of actors and actresses to know diences had considerable difficulty how many people in this country fin following what he said.
heartily agree with America.
The fifteen documentary films The voice I have in mind is he took across, were very well re-artificial and therefore irritating: ceived particularly "Night Mall" it seeks to proclaim something that and J. B. Priestley's "We Live in a person of real culture takes for Two Worlds." They have been granted, and is therefore vulgar: seen by hundreds of Government it makes anything like a full, rich ofacials, University lecturers, pub tone and variety of expression licista and fim people, all keenly quite impossible, and is therefore interested In glimpses of our pro- | bad art., blems of unemployment, malnutri- Young players so handicapped tion and housing,
should be made to realise, at every opportunity, that they are trying Americans themselves, stimulated to interpret the symphony of life by the administration, and by the on a penny whistle.
AMERICAN DOCUMENTARIES
GIRL MARRIED THROUGH FEAR
Egyptian's Threat To Kill Her
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
Anniversaries and
Holidays—-—-
Indian Mutiny Outbreak, 1857. Bt. Antoninus, Bishop.
A decree nisi of nullity was). Anctions.-Household" Furniture. granted in England recently to a at 35. Hankow Road, Kowloon, 2.30
22-year-old woman who alleged: ip.m. that she was coerced by threats Cinemax-(See Column 3 of this Into marrying an Egyptian.
office.
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The petitioner was Mrs. Estelia Mails.--(See Page 16);- Henrietta Hussein, otherwise Blitz. Meetings.—Monthly, of Women's of Victoria Mansions, West Ken-Auxiliary of the Society for the Bington, who in October, 1933. Protection of Children at Helens. when she was 18, married Mo-May, 10 a.m.; Kowloon Chess Club, hamed Hussein at Ealing register at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 pm.; Et.
Andrew's Mothers Union, 3. p.
Miscellaneous Rotary Timin, Hong Kong Hotel, War Painting chibition at St. Francis Hotal · Moon-IV Moon, 11th. Day. YMCA., 8 D.II.
RehearsalsA.D.C. at European
Mr Robient was propoaux ste health of visitors. He said that Ebbw Vale was like the Valley, of Dry Bones" until Sir William Firth and his company came to it. -
Then his head fell forward. His listeners thought he was pausing. Before anyone could reach him he fell to the floor. He was carried to
Her case was that from August, an adinining room, where a doctor 1993, when she first met Hussein attended him rem
he constantly...proposed marriage Ten minutes later- It was announced that he was boned to take her life and then o her. On her refusal he threa- dead." More than 300 students of the MR. H. DE V.
The luncheon was given by Ebow commit suicide unless the changed South-western Joint University Vale Council to Sir William and her mind STACPOOLE
Have arrived in 'Yunnanfu from Lady Firth to express appreciation Changsha after a frek over 3,300 for the establishment of new works Marriage to Late Wife's Sister by foot, states a dispatch to the by the firm of Richard Thomas
Mr. H. de Vere Btacpoole, the Sin Wan Pao, The youthful and Co., tinplate manufacturers. novelist, whose home is at Cif arrivals, who appeared bone the at Ebbw Vale s Willam Dene, Bonchurch, was married worse for the long tournes, were chairman of the company. recently to Miss Florence Robson, given, a big ovation in a welcome
Religious Prayer Meeting Ex Chaplain's Room of 8 and 8. Home: 8 o'clock.
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"GIFT" "TO `MR. DE VALERA
The King has approved the ap pointment of the Honourable Cyril Asquith, KC, to be a Justice of the High Court, King's Bench Divi Field Glasses Restored
sion, in place of Mr. Justice Porter, After 22 Yezra
who has been appointed a Lord of FARTED AFTER CEREMONY
The Prime Minister restored to Appeal-in-Ordinary. Mr. Asquith Social Police Branch of Minis Mr. de Valera recently a pair of is the fourth son of the first Earl In the end she agreed "through
tering League Bridge and Mahjong field glasses which he surrendered at Oxford, and Asquith, and hai fear of her He
Drive at Police Recreation Club, 3 to the British after the Easter been. Recorder of Salisbury since Ther parted directly after the 13
p.m.: Craigengower Cricket Club rising in 1916...
1937 cerenstray kid she never lived with weekly Tombola, 9.15 p.z The passage. In the 37th chapter him as his wife
|||||||Sports-(Bee Page 10). of the petitioner is Sunrise 6.46 am Sunset-6.54
but I accept 1 pm..
og lee Henn Collins.
Tidea-High at 06.15 and 19.04 It was on April 30, 1918, that Mr. when she says she Low st.00.10 and 1258
Pa de Valera had to make the sur threats." There - te
ender at the end of the rising TOMORROW? The fold hates were handed Moon Moon, 12thr Day over to Captain Eitzen, of Coven Surise.--5,48 ~ s.m. _Sunset_6.54 | try, who recently sent them to the
Prime Minister.
a sister of the late Mrs. Staepoole, meeting arranged by educational of Ezekiel begins: The hand or "Whe who died in January, 1934. The circles in Yungianfu. wedding took place at the New- port register office.
the Lord was upon me, and carried an a me out. In the spirit of the Lord, remark
Australis supplied Canada with and set me corn in the midst of "I believe Mr. Stsepoole is about 70 years 75,176 pojenda put of 83,283 pounds the valley which was full, of bones" believe4 or âgé dra hil Hadë krojit so. She of canned - praches ang apricots 1. describes how it was prophesied a document which she was made has been acting as housekeeper imported in January. This com- that the "dry poner would be to fign, which shows he was avid to Mr. Blacpoole mince his first parts with a total importation of covered with tiếsh and run and of power over this girl of 16, and wife's death.
11.980 pounds in January, 1937, cunsed to live.
- exercised it?
The gift was made after the luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. | THE port authorities at Marseilles Chamberlain to Mr. de Valera and are, remodelling, and enlarging his colles questi
the P. and O's embarkation fact- littes át a cost of £20,000 sterling
A STRADIVARIUS" "cello was sold for £1500 in a London sale. room. It is many years since one was suctioned. A Stradivarius violin was sold for £1250.
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