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APRIL 18, 1931.
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The Gazette contains new regula tuns regarding hawkers' Licencer.
The Gazette gives a list of Justices of Peace, numbering 161 Non-OMelal and 85 Official.
ENGLISH TALKING
By. W. A. MUTCH.
FILMS.
NE of the most interesting, District, while the city will be
ONE of most Dirties
the Mother Country-Great Bri tain and all these possessions on
NOTHING CAN BY ANY POSSIBLITY Trade basis with ench a Free
TEND MORE TO THE CORRUPTION OF other. The Crown Colonies were A GOVERNMENT THAN ENORMOUS to have no discretion in the rant- | REVENUES.—John Bright. ter at all. Even France does not work on that basis, in which con- nexion we may quole the words of Le Temps when It says that those Colonies which have been free to
Con in the coming summer "Contraband," another Gaumont will be the making of a number of picture, will contain exteriors from frame their own fiscal policy have
Dr. W. B. A. Moore has been ny-talking pictures with English scenic Poole and the coast of Cornwall.. enjoyed undenlable prosperity, pointed to act us Director of Medical backgrounds. This will be wel-Yet another outstanding open-air while those which have been ob and Sanitary Services, with a seat on come news to filmgoers who have subject is "The Broad Highway." to
| the Legislative Council,
regretted the limitation of move-be fhade by British and Dominions. liged to submit to the policy `im-
ment and the artificiality of at-1 These are sufficient to show the posed by the Mother Country hava panion way on board the A., Chen
Through falling down the commosphere which appeared in talk- welcome return of British talking- been sinking into a condition of Kilang lying at the Taikoo Docks, the ing pictures while the microphone picture production to one of the veritable ruin." · it is true that cook on board received injuries from was regarded as rigid and immov-most attractive characteristics of
which he subsequently died.
the silent film. thirty or forty years ago France
Almost the first breath of fresh forced a highly Protectionist ro- An interesting lecture on "History air returned to Sins with "The Six-Stage Studios,
and Historians was delivered to Virginian" and "in Old Arizona," gime on her Colonies. but in less members of the Hongkong University both made in Auterica, and America will be materially increased as from The capacity of British studios than twenty
years they succeed-Arts Society at the Union Assembly has since produced auch excellent the end of July by the three new Hall, last evening, by Mr. B. G. Birch.out-of-doors subjects as "Abraham stages now being built by Gaumont
ed in breaking down, that syutem, as previous attempts by Britain, Spain and Portugal to exploit their Colonies in this way have broken down. Modifentions have had to be made to suit the peculiar conditions of each.
any imposts until they are definike- ly needed for consumption
in
able.
and completed, will give the Gaumont
studioa n six-stago capacity and will
The Government propones to erect Lincoln," "The Big Trail," "Tolable at Shepherd's Bush. These, when
Tom Sawyer," a public latrine on the west side of David,' O'Brien Rond at its junction with "Cimarron," Hennessy Road. Objections must reach the Colonial Secretary not Depese the Tyrant "Mike." later then May 8th.
mean the creation of a second Elstree at Shepherd's Bush. In
In "Espape" we had the first real each of these stages eix pictures
It is notified that at the expiration use of English scenery in a British may be made very year, and since of three months the Tat Che Steam-talling pleture but, for the most it la Intended that these pictures hip Company, Limited will, unless part, our producers have remained shall be of superior quality, this Pause is shown to the contrary, be in enclosed studios, pleading the means that a sum £720,000 will be struck off the register and the com-variability of our weather and the invested punually in British talk- pany will be dissolved.
difficulty of using microphonea ining pictures.
Practically the open air. This has not only
aame
is at
the whole
to purchase inferior quota plc- lues on the notorious pound-a-foot basis.
In a case like Hongkong, whose vary existence depends on the free and uninterrupted movement of
of this goods into the port, there is not
The master of the Tai Chung Arm made Almgoers sigh for the free-money will be returned into British the slightest case made vut for of raincoat makers of 7. Lower Las-dom of moventent which was one industries of every description, Car Row is reparted to the police to of the chief virtures of silent films. from dressmaking to carpentry, and tarfi impositions. Quite the re-
have obtained credit to the extent of but has in some degree robbed Bri-permaner.t verse.. Indred, the fact that Hong-81,088.42 From two different shops and tish pictures
employment will be of their British given to more than 600 workers kong is a free port gives it a tre- then to have absconded.
character, since a film inevitably re- GOMES.--Zelinda Gomes, at 12, Ynemendous pulf at present. with
A one-year-ple
child of i, Wo Hopflects the colour of its background. Americans Must Come Here. Kwong Terrace, on 18th April, China's high tariffs in operation. Street was removed to the Govern This probably explains why so The extension of British studio 1931. Aged 76. Funeral will We can envisage the time
ment Civil Hospital by its relatives few pictures of inspiration" have space and the increase of talking when yesterday suffering from scalds pany the mounent at fi 13.12.
to be made in British studios since picture production in this country to-day.
many concerns now operating from its head and fare caused by puiting a talking pictures beran. Anthony will be prominent fentures of the
bowl of hot soup off a table. Shanghai will find it to their advan-
Asquith's brilliant talking picture coming dlm year, since the Increas- translation of "Tell England" is an ing quota of British pictures de- tage to make Hongkong their head. Suffering from oplum poisoning outstanding illustration of what manded by the
believed to have been self-administer-i
Cinematograph quarters as a distributing pointed, a Chinese women of 0. Kam Wahimgoers have missed by reason of Films Act now makes it impossible Ja place where they can coine in Street was taken to the Government the tyranny of the microphone." for renters of American pictures ·
duty-free and hold stocks free of died an hour after admission.
Civil Hospital yesterday where she "Tell England" is to be presented for a short senson at the Palace Theatre, starting on March 27. A Russian, whose
Several American companies. present unknown, was sent, down from | First-Shot Backgrounds.
have already planned to establish China. From whatever standpoint Conton by a doctor asking the local
Authorities to send him to the Govern- In the plea of the weather there production branches in London. the matter is viewed. Hongkong ment Civil Hospital. The man, who has been a great deal of truth, since Progress in this direction bas stands lo vain by preservarrived by train last night, was the daily cost of talking picture pro. been somewhat retarded by the ing her present status. Lord
duction may be £1,000, but this pica failure of American companies to The attempt made by Lord Ben-Beaverbrook, as we
no longer holds good since the per-secure exemption from the terms sny, started The average menn temperature feetion of the Dumming process by of the Act stipulating that 75 per verbrook to secure the support of out
with the Idea of first during March was 63.0, the highest which exterior backgrounds may be cent. of all money paid to personnel
being 79.7 and the lowest 55.2, There Hongkong's business men to his getting the Crown Colonies into were 3,17 inches of rain and only photographed in advance of pro-on a quota production must be paid policy of Empire Free Trade hus his scheme, with the incorporation
in that all the leading American dismally failed. For the reasons of the Dominions as "an ultimate
be afterwards enacted within the companies must very soon produce set out in our issue of yesterday, ident." Siner then, he has put
four walls of a sound-proof stage. In London, with the result that Lon- don must become a film centre the General Chamber of Commerce the smaller possessions
This process, not hitherto used a has declined to endorse a scheme background. The explanation is personally, to promote that end byproduction of "The Likes of 'Erwood itself and producing more than ard, and appears to have taken steps England, will be employed in the second in importance only to Holly- which would reset detrimentalis probably to be found in the re-communicating with the League of now being directed by Maurice 200 talking pictures a year. m the prosperity of the Colony eript of answers
Elvey at Beaconsfield, with Gració] Better and More British, sch G the Nations in an attempt to secure a Fields as the star. The scenes to und the port of Hongkong. If the Hongkong Chumber has given him. huge gold loan for China. The be used in this picture will be taken It is generally agreed that the sponsors of the Beaverbrook pian Hard facts have demonstrated the prospects of such a loan fructifying in the Thames valley, which Herbert coming of American producers to had given a moment's thought to impracticability of the plan
are few indeed, but the fact that ao Brenon, before the Dumming, pro- London will bring about a still fur- avenues are being left unexploredworth while to journey from Holly-British pletures, and I do not be the peculiar position of Hongkong.
discovered. thought it ther Improvement in the quality of in the effort to find a gold way outwood to London to secure
for lave for a moment that American..... for China's currency, should convey "Sorrell and Son."
producers will fail to exploit to the utmest the scenic banuty of this country of ours.
HONGKONG & LORD BEAVERBROOK.
the invitation to support the scheme. would never have been made. First and foremost, Hongkong is a clear.
ing house for the South markets, ami
in the
Another Silver Warning.
Quable to walk,
with a normal of 13. The average ink against such backgrounds, may hours of sunshine, this comparing duction, and the dramatic scenes, to British nationals, but it is cer
humidity was HO..
[[
Gaumont with Victor
As the result of their coming.
When Office Staffs Will
Be Objets d'Art.
& warning to ongkong of deplor-Senside, City, and Lukes. The extreme pessimism of Mr.able simplicity. Some of our se-1 China Kanu regarding the future outlook called experts desire us to walt un- The interference for silver contains a sombre war-til China's huge stocks of silver Saville directing, will shortly put British filma may not only be better with the free status of the port Mr. Kann is the author of the destroy utterly any vestige of con-which there will be exterior scenes ing. An acknowledged expert, have been thrown on the market to translation of "Hindle Wakes," in
into production a talking picture but may be more British. wald obviously drive business in mosL comprehensive study yet adence now reposing in the white of Blackpool, Bolton, Blackburn. 104-Empire goods direct to China.published of China's financial pre-metal. Mr. Kann's speech seems and Llandudno.
"PERIÓD" TYPISTS. That cardinni point had obviouslyblem, and his recommendation to demonstrate clearly and con- Gaumont will also produce not occurred to the Beaverbrook that Chinn should adopt a gold vincingly that longkong will he "Water," a drama laid against the faction; indeed, it may be mesum-standard at the earliest oppor-left with the dirty end of the stick background of the water supply ed that no special consideration was
will carry tunity
considerable unless the Currency Mission finds the scenes of the source of supply system of a great city, in which | given to Hongkong when the let-weight with the powers-that-be-a solution to our problems.
will be photographed in the Lake What is more significant is that ter begging its approval was sent his views on the silver situation) out. What most likely happened have undergone a marked change is that Chambers of Commerce in in the course of the
past six all the Crown Colonies, were cir- months. Addressing the l'an- cularised in identical terms, a cire | Pacific Conference in Shanghai cumstance which of itself shows
some little time back, after i how little thought can have been duetion and the causes of the thorough analysis of silver pra-| given to the subject by the origin collapse in prices, he expressed | tors of the polley. We venture to the opinion that there was hoje suggest that practically no sup for the resuscitation of silver
port, if any at all, was received from values as soon as a rise in thr: {
any of the Crown Colonies.
price level of world commodities} in general exhibited itself. Je singled out British India as the
It is interesting to recall that when Lord Beaverbrook began his campaign, he hoped first of all to covery, and thought that if the |grentest adveranry to silver rei see it appiled to the Crown Colonies, Government of India could be in- one of his arguments being that❘duced to stop selling for three inasmuch as the Imperial Govern-years, antil most of the other ment controls these territories, it sources of surplus silver had given. would be a simple matter to give out, there would be better prospects instructions for a tariff to ho'im-for the white metal. Today, ho posed therein on foreign goods. He material proportions. An Increase gives little hope for a price rise of was at great pains to point out world commodity values would that these possessions in them- have a favourable influence, but not selves constitute a huge Empire in in suficient strength to make an themselves. "We
could then effective Improvement. In Intor. stand," he asserted, "on the aume national conferences, he has footing with our Colonial Empire the conferences of the nineteenth faith. Ho points to the failure of as America and France with theirs." century by reason of conflicting in- He failed, however, to make mentorests, and does tion of the fact that the Colonial in វា spirit of possessions of other nations can- 1108#
not, for the purposes of the argu- then.
Do
RECENT
not believe disinterested- any moro
now For that renson,
than le
É):230 HEM SERVICO LANG,
ment, be compared with our own. urges China to adopt a gold stand-
"I always give the ones I want to rend, and then borrow?:
them afterwards."
TF you want a thing done Ivel, sald our grandfathers,
doing themselves very well with the port, "do it yourself." That may still be true. Put if you want 17,420 things done well, it would be overdoing it to do them yourself. And so Big Business has boczne mechanised.
Yesterday I'visited the Business Efficiency Exhibition, now being held at the White City, and all I can sny Is: "Goodness gracious me." No more convincing demon- stration of the Futility of Human Endeavour could be found than In the vast range of conimerefol equip ment on view at this exhibition.
The equipment is designed to save time, trouble, and office-boys, and includes everything from electric accountants to fire-proof secretaries for hot tempered mug. nates. Calculating machines, nd- dressing machines, duplicating machines, dictaphones, typewriters and paste were some of the many marvels on the standa
I was patofully surprised not to sea a Humano Sacking machine (for quickfirers) which would hand the employee his notice, together with his fortune, and weight on a card.
Magenta Typists.
Seriously, I cannot see that office: staffs will be anything but objets d'art in a fow years' time: Nico to have about the place, you know, and a good background for the.. cigar and astrakhan collar, but of no usa except as interior decor tton.
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