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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932.
Cinema "Shots" and "Sequences"
IS BRITISH
WIT
SO SUBTLE?
Let Us be Honest About It
NEWS AND VIEWS
THE
HE defence of British humour, maile officially by the local office of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was a gesture which all Englishmen in Hongkong must have appreciated. There is a sort of popular belief) that British wit is too subtle for the Americans, who, in the hey- days of the silent film, displayed such a Bair for slap-stick humour, as to almost lift it to an art. But the advent of the Talkles has amply dinonstrated that America enn be na witty in dialogue as the English fun-makers, True it oftens takes a somewhat different form of ex- pression, such as the quick-fire re- parte and patter of the Mars Brothers and Wheeler and Woolsey, but one cannot deny, and must admire. the glorious subtlety ol their wisecracks."
Will Roger as he appears in "Ambassador 'Bill" at the King's Theatre on Sunday.
NEW ERA IS DAWNING
CINEMA EVOLVING INTO CREATIVE
ART
ONE MORE
GEM FROM
HOLLYWOOD
“Arrowsmith" is A Masterpiece
BY "CELLULOID”
171EN i saw Arrowsmith at
the Central Theatre on Wed. nesday. I discovered two things: that the picture proved Hollywood's unparalleled flair for handling drina, and secondly that it went n long way to disproving the reputa. tion attached to the Los Angeles studios for their unhappy knack of ruining the themes of "best nel- lers". All Quirt on the Western Front was another remarkable ex-| ample of the ability of Hollywood faithfully to reproduce a story com- plete with its original charnelers and thematic details.
TO
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
Across
20
199
Turf instead of weeds in her case (two words).
6 Notion short of the best by fifty, 10 The word "G" at the flying race? 11 Can. Rome to make another town. 12 He seen again with a pear,
Y'S'R YOU will thoroughly enjoy Ar-13 Can one de this with 9?
JCHN FORD'S TRIUMPH.
Yo
rowsmith. Only the most anti-Hollywood or the most 111- rinematic minded person could do otherwise. Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel prize with his book, and I don't think he could be one bit na
and no.
He may be after a commission: but not in the Army.
17 Far from simple,
18
20
ARE WE SO QUICK WITTED?,
Sa matter of fact, experience i
During the comparatively short hamed or disappointed in its film 22 A has demonstrated that in
The time the talking picture has been interpretation.
dramatic Hongkong, the average theatre- poer is not too quick on the "up with us, it has taught us many situations and the wonderfully ex-24 tako s far as American humour things, chiedy its lack of univer-pressed self-sucrifice of the leading is concerned. Some of the smartestsal appeal: secondly its poten-characters, grip one from the very 24 and best disguised "tags" of the finifies as an intellectually eduen-opening scene. John Ford, whose Marxians, Skeets Challagher, Net live and propagandist medium. Impressionalistic direction in Up 27 Sparka, Jack Oakie and the other and thirdly its vast possibilitica the River, created such favourable comment, goes a step further in U.S. mirth-provokers have been creative art,
Even now the first factor ap- the paths of interpretative art. Fur allowed to slip by without, a sound
of Roy pears to be bat dimly realised bythermore, with the aid BETE 129943/EACT-TRUNAT=129/12213 | Romanca the American, French and Bri
GOUT: HEINICIACOVA FOREST
BARTER fish producing companies, or else! SUNDAY'S SHOWINGS.
deliberately shutting they are their eyes to the obvious. Russin. Three Outstanding
however, with her insatiable hun. Attractions,
per after propaganda, has faced up to the realities and has turn-. ed to study the basic principles of cinematography, seeking fur her themes nature in her beauty | and stark readily. She has learnt to make sound effect and photo- graphy so expressive ne to leave! dialogue almost unnecessary and superfluous.
King's—"Ambassador Bill"
(Will Rogers of course). Queen's-"Beggar Student" (Very good indeed). Central Arrowsmith"
(irent story greater
Kim).
2211*EZENTACE TOOGEVOEG TACK PELEOPEDAL-TE
At the present time.. the So- iets, in their search after a new nematic technique, have only one contemporary- -Germany, wherei
SHOWING TO-DAY.
What There Is To See At The Theatres,
Klogs "Good Sport"
(Not at afl bad). Queen's "She's My Weak-
ness" (Silly, but Nice). Central Arrowsmith"
(Don't Miss It). Star-Behind Office Doors"
An engaging story). ( World Gentleman's Fate"
(Some great acting). Majestic-"Graft"
(Typically US).
from the audience. I am not in clined to place, Englishme (and flat includes myself) on a pedestal regarding their marked subtlety, W. Pabst and Wagner are str821221230157.16 19 653 FR
happy car (anag.).
flour is rising, it may be due to this,
Even more immediate than this month, apparently.
An underhard sort of ball? I certainly isn't ericket. These vermin sound as though They have a way into the house. An old English king was. from them. len Jonson requested lipsservice
Those present, collectively speak- ing, within two hours of mid. night at a ball.
Dawn.
1 A famous sĺrect, not apparently in its final stage of development. 2 Stern.
Perfunctory krave.
4 You must have sat up after ten
fur letter
“& Harmonious "galliering,
7 Adam or I could make thiẹ
picture.
clair
83
8 Beaten mats (anag); - 9 A pledge to keep.
13 Arnt returns to cheat?
tot
It's a
16 The kind of tortoise to nip backs
to earth.
17 Not the kind of person to take
up solo card playing.
10 Irregular verbs in old English. 21 It's a bad mark to a seaman to
be temperate.
23 The alternative is black if you.
13 on this.
124 Say to an extremist what one
would say to a goose. 26 A champlon dog last summer.
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Lewis created with auch, years in Australian States, and dynamie power of pen. Just a when a second company toured tho word for Helen Hayes, and another provinces he went into "The New for A. E. Anson. They are very, Moon" as romantic lead. One very satisfying, and the more I see night his voice failed and that wAS of them the better.
CAREFUL LADIESI
of humour. It is certainly
TF Lance Fairfax enuses femining nol ing, une through his directing been gready evidenced in the genius, unil the other through his June, his photographer, he has hearts to futter in his first talk- British film farees and comedies
camera eraftsmanship, to save captured beauty in numbers of his ing film, the British production which have to date been displayed the cinema From the sex-ridden, abots. I was particularly impre"The Beggar Student," due at the in Hongkong. I think there is
Box-office governed
industry sed with the photographic effects Queen's on Sunday, he will be only quite sufficient evidence to prove that it is to-day, and give to it the obtained during the sequence when repeating what he did in Australia that America, and particularly her dignity and beauty of the Arts, Ronald Colman entera for the first three years ago, when As the filni studios, can fully appreciate English wit, and furthermore enjoy this shall be realised I am certain.
That the day is dawning when time, the magnificently appointed highly romantic "Red Shadow" in Bacteriological Institute. The "The Desert Song," he made that and the lighting operatta much more spectacular by Vafkn-Kino with ปล direc- camera set-ups
amazingly his magnificent handling of R tion of the Russian gem Earth effects produced some which as far back as 1930 proved fine alts. The entertainment to caracoling Arab steed, leading the E have been blessed with the artistic possibilities of the re-be gained from studying the mas- Riff into battle.
it.
A
THANK YOU MANAGERS!
We exceed be sure with torly technique of
grammes in the cinemas this week. his remarkable theory in photot great as that offered by the The King's first offering of Theraphy and cutting, by which he splendid cast. Mirarte. Mor Lover which i am has demonstrated how rain drops)
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But of course, it wasn't his
It WAA
the last Australia knew of him, for talkics began invading the theatres, and, as elsewhere, the legitimate throw in the towel.
Last year Lance Fairfax sailed for England and was to have played
Ronald Colman, the hero of "Arrowsmith", which it a man- terpiece of acting and direc- tional technique. The picture continuer ita run at the Central Theatre.
Understudies left the horse part out, but Fairfax made the most of It, for service in Palestine with the Australian Light Horse during the war, from which he emerged a still enthusing, and which to me, an actually be shown falling A BOUQUET FOR BENNET.
Captain and an M.C., enabled him rain-drenched stands out as the best American from
blades of FOST of the London, America to control the high spirited animat picture so far produerd in this grass as they bend before the:
and Australian critics re despite the theatre orchestra and Pabst's and 1932), has been rythe, year of grace,
Wagner's | A
Arrowsmith as Ronald footlights. succeeded by that pleasant, though co-operative work in the production Colman's finest picture, and such spite unpretention film
Die Dreigroschensper, (The Good of Sport. At the Queen's hundreds Threepenny Opera), and Rene an opinion will probably meet with abilty as an equestrian that was
to tisans. He is Colman at his very rise
notority. of visitors between Sunday and Clair's imaginative direction and the general approval of his par- responsible for Fairfax's meteoric yesterday, found plenty of
enter-agenious use of settings in Lebest, exuding a magnetic per the clear robust baritone that he and had lifted up in many a Gilbert and tainment in Joan Crawford and Million are all indications of the sonality, but withal natural
the cinema's onward march to a new without any suggestion of "acting" Sullivan role, which frat brought Clark Gable, who assumed
intellectual Neverthless my bouquet goes to him into the limelight. From a leading roles in Possessed, ami era of cultural and now we are given a foolishly fun films, shorn of the predominating Richard Bennett, who, unless he is concert singer and reveue artiste,
Wukurs, sex-interest and beautified by the destroyed by Hollywood's insatiable Fairfax graduated te le chorus of the lead in "Sons of Drums" film
use of cinematic love of "stardom", is going to re- the Gilberts, and his fair for Drury Lane, but the part was Partisans of British films were expressive
main one of the finest character ac comedy as Bob Bobstay in "Pina- taken by Derek Oldham at the last able to delight, in the revisit to materiala.
Bennett has fore," and his finished delineation moment. The Beggar Student is the Star Theatre of the English! Hollywood, with all her flair for tóra on the screen. talking version of Earepe, which necuracy of technical detail and not only histrionic ability, but be of Pish Tush in "Mikado' Boon his first big film, although Hong- tud de Maurier alone definitely acttings, cannot contribute to this can understand his character, gets brought him among the principals. kong has seen him in a couple of Bfts up to entertainment, standard, new cinematography until she has right within him, and live the part.
shorts. Based whilst the Majestic has indeed fill realised that the essentials of a In Arrowsmith he is never Richard AN EPHEMERAL PUBLIC.
well-known Vienna operetta, The ed the bill with The Man I Killed, good film do not rest in mere love- Bennett. He is Sondelius, a fam-AIRFAX'S stage career affords Beggar Studen gives Fairfax every He could an example of how ephemeral is opportunity to exploit his voice, and in the first part of the week, and interest. The
of nature lu all herbe nobody else. He does not in- a return of the ever-popular picture ploitation Just Imagine. If only such stimut- moods of drama and beauty offer troduce any habitual tricks to mark the theatre-going public in its in addition has Shirley Dale as a plaudits. He played tho "Red charming leading lady, and Jerry lating offerings could be made every far more scope, na 'well as a cul-him as Richard Bennell, He lives Shadow" with great success for two Verao to supply the laughs.
and dies the Sondelius whom Sin- week!
tural and educative value.
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