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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
THE defence of British humour. made officially by the local office of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was gesture which all Englishmen in Hongkong must have appreciated. There is a sort of popular belief that British wit is too sublie for the Americans, who, in the hey- days of the silent film, displayed such a flair for slap-stick humour, But as to almost lift it to an art. the advent of the Talkies has amply demonstrated that America can be
us witty in dialogue as the English)
Will Rogers as 'ho appears in "Ambandor Bill" at the King's Theatre on Sunday.
ONE MORE
GEM FROM
HOLLYWOOD
“Arrowsmith” is A Masterpiece
BY "CELLULOID”
THEN I saw Arrowsmith
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nt
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the Central Theatre on Wed- nesday, I discovered two things: that the picture proved Hollywood's unparalleled flair for handling drama, and secondly that it went a long way to disproving the reputa- tion attached to the Los Angeles studios for their unhappy ltnack of ruining the themes of "best sel- lers".
All Quiet on the Western Front was another remarkable ex. ample of the ability of Hollywood faithfully to reproduce a story com-
and thematic details.
fun-makers. True it oftens takes NEW ERA IS plete with its original characters
1
somewhat different form of ex-
pression, such as the quick-fire re-
partee and patter of the Marx
Brothers and Wheeler and Woolsey,
but one cannot deny, and
must
DAWNING
admire. the glorious subtlety of CINEMA EVOLVING
their "wisecracks."
ARE WE SO QUICK WITTED?
INTO CREATIVE
ART
JOHN FORD'S TRIUMPH.
in
Acrons
1 Turf hstead of weeds in her
case (1wn words).
6 Notion short of the best by fifty. io The word "G" at the flying race? 11 Can Rome to make another town. 12 Be soen again with a pear.
and no.
from them,
You will thoroughly enjoy Ar-18 Can one do this with 07 Yes You
rowsmith, Only
most the anti-follywood
15 He may be after a commission; ON the most un-
but not in the Army. cinematic minded person could de 17 Far from simple. otherwise. Sinclair Lewis won the 18 0 happy ear (anag). Nobel prize with his book, and I20 If flour is rising, it may be dus don't think he could be one bit as- Sa matter of fact, experience-
to this. As
During the comparatively short hamed or disappointed in its film 22 Even more immediate than this bay demonstrated that in
The dramatic month, apparently. Hongkong, the average theatre-time the talking picture has been interpretation. goer is not too quick on the "up with us, it has laught us many situations and the wonderfully ex-24 An underhard zori of hall? It
certainly isn't cricket. Lake" so far as American humour things, chiefly its lack of univer-pressed self-sacrifice of the leading
poten-characters, grip one from the very 26 These vermin sound as though
they have
way into the house. is concerned. Sume of the smartest appeal: secondly its und best disguised "gags" of the tialities as an intellectually educa- opening scene. John Ford, whose 7 An old English king was. Marxians, Skeets Challagher, Nedtive and propagandist medium: impressionalistic direction in UPR Ben Jonson requested p-service Sparks, Jack Onkie and the other and thirdly its vast possibilities the River, created such favourablo
comment, goes a step further
29 Those present, collectively speak- U.S. mirth-provokers have been creative art.
Even now the first factor up- the path of interpretative art. Fur-
ing, within two hours of in- allowed to slip by without a sound pears to be but dinly realised bythermore, with the aid of Roy
night at a ball. Bri- BETULANTIKANANGAIEDEAMUS:COM/$15m
the American, French and Lish producing companies, or else they are dellberately shutting their eyes to the obvious. Russla,! however, with her Inantiable hun- ger, after propaganda, has faced up to the realities and has turn- ed to study the basic principles; of cinematography, seeking for her themes nature in her beauty and stark reality. She has learnt to nuke sound effect and photo- graphy s6 expressive as to leave dialogue almost unnecessary and superfluous.
it.
SUNDAY'S SHOWINGS.
Three Outstanding Attractions.
King's-"Ambassador Bill"
(Will Rogers of course), Queen's "Beggar Student"
(Very good indeed). Central "Arrowsmith"
(Great story—a greater
film).
·
THANK YOU MANAGERS!
At the
present time, the So- iets. in their search after a new inematic technique, have only one where contemporary-Germany.
camera
SHOWING TODAY.
What There Is To See At The Theatres,
King's Good Sport"
(Not at all 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 U.S.).
斷
Down.
1 A famous street, not apparently in its final stage of development. 2 Stern.
Perfunctory neve.
You must have sat up after ten for letters.
6 Harmonious gathering.
7 Adani o picture.
I
could make this
Beaton mats (anug.). A pledge to keep.
114 A rat returns to cheat? It's a
Hel
16 The kind of tortoise to-nip backc
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 n seaman to
be temperate.
23 The alternative is black if you
13
on this.
24 Say to an extremist what one
would say to a goose.
25 A champion dog last summer.
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clair. Lewis created with such, years in Australian States, and dynamic power of pen. Just when a second company toured the word for Helen Hayes, and another provinces he went lato "The New for A. E. Anson. They are very, very satisfying, and the more I see of them the better.
CAREFUL LADIESI
Lance Fairfax causes feminino
the
Moon" es romantic lend. One night his voice failed and that was the last Australia know of him, for talkies began invading the theatres, threw in the towel. and, as elsewhere, the legitimate Last year Lance Fairfax sailed for England and was to have played
DICESYNONICAATATANICA 98/990919293 from the audience. I am not in clined to plave Englishtoen tand that includes myself) on a pedestal regarding their marked subtlety G. W. Pabst and Wagner are strivit of humor. It has certainly not ing, one through his directing| been greatly evidenced in theenias, and the other through his June, his photographer, he has hearts to flutter in his first talk- British Alm Farees and comedies
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, shots. 1 was particularly impreThe Beggar Student," due at the in Hongkong. I think there is
x-office governed industrysed 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
Ronald Colman enters for the first three years ago, when as that America, and particularly her dignity and beauty of the Arts. film studios, can fully appreciate | That the day is dawning when time, the magnificently appointed highly romantic "Red Shadow" in Bacteriological Institute. The "The Desert Song," he made that English wit, and furthermore enjoy this shall be realised I am certain camera set-ups and the lighting operatta much more spectacular by
Vufku-Kino with bi direc tion of the Russian gem Earth, effects produced some amazingly his magnificent handling of a fine shots. The entertainment to caracoling Arab steed, leading the hich as far back as 1930 proved E have been blessed with the artistic possibilities of the re-be gained from studying the mas- Riffs into battle.
Understudies left the horse part Where set re-terly ten
out, but Fairfax made the most of grammes in the cinemas this week. his remarkable theory in photat great as that offered by the
splendid cast.
it, for service in Palestine with the The King's first offering of Theraphy and cutting, by which he
Australian Light Horse during the Mirarle Man Cover which I am has demonstrated how rain drops)
war, from which he emerged a. still enthusing, and which to me. I ran actually be shown falling A BOUQUET FOR BENNET.
Captain and an M.C., enabled him blades of stands out as the best American from rain-drenched
MOST of the London,' America to control the high spirited animal picture so far produced in this grass as they hund before the and Australian critics re despite the theatre orchestra and
has been scythe. Pabst's and Wagner's ward Arrowsmith
Ronald footlights. succeeded by that pleasant, though co-operative work in the production Colman's finest picture, and such But of course, It wasn't his quite unpretentions im Goodt
Die Dreigroschenoper, (The an opinion will probably meet with ability as an equestrian that was Sport. At the Queen's Hundreds Threepenny Opera), and Rene the general approval of his par responsible for Fairfax's meteoric
rise to nolority. and Clair's imaginative direction and
It W08 of visitors between Sunday
the clear robust baritone that he yesterday, found plenty of enter- ingenious use of settings in Lisans. He is Colman at his very best, exuding a magnetic per tainment in Joan Crawford and Million are all indications of the sonality, but withal natural and had lifted up in many a Gilbert and Clark Gable, who assumed the cinerun's onward march to a new, without any suggestion of "acting". Sullivan role, which first brought intellectual Neverthless my bouquet goes to him into the Hmelight. From a leading rolex in Posacaard, andra of cultural and How we are given a foolishly funny films, shorn of the predominating Richard Bennett, who, unless he is concert singer and reveue artiste, film entitled She's My Wekesa, sex-interest and beautified by the destroyed by Hollywood's insatiable Fairfax graduated to the chorus of the lead in "Sons of Drums" at of cinematic love of "stardom", is going to re the Gilberts, and his flair for Drury Lane, but the part was Partisans of British films were expressive
math one of the finest character ne- comedy as Bob Bobstay in "Pina- taken by Derek Oldham at the last able to delight in the revisit to materials.
Hollywood, with all her flair for tors on the screen. Bennett has fore," and his finished delineation moment. The Beggar Student is the Star Theatre of the English talking version of Escape, which accuracy of technical detall and not only histrionic ability, but be of Pish Tush in "Mikado", soon his first big film, although Hong- Gerald du Maurier alone definitely settings, cannot contribute to this can understand his character, gets brought him among the principals.
kong has seen him in a couple of lifts up to entertainment standard, new cinematography until she has right within him, and live the part.
shorts. Based on Mollecknor's whilst the Majestic has indeed fill realisert that the essentials of a In Arrowsmith he is never Richard AN EPHERMERAL 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 Sondellus, a fam-
NAIRFAX'S stage career affords Beggar Studen gives Fairfax every in the first part of the week, and interest. The imaginative exo research scientist. He could
an example of how ephemeral is opportunity to exploit his voice, and of nature in all her be nobody else. He does not in the theatre-going public in a return of the ever-popular picture nloitation
__its in addition has Shirley Dalo as a Just Imagine. If only such atima-moods of drama and beauty offer troduce any habitual tricks to mark plaudits. He played the "Red charming leading lady, and Jerry lating offerings could be made every far more scope, as well as a cul-him as Richard Bennett, He lives Shadow" with great success for two Verno to supply the laughs.
tural and educativo value.
and dies the Sondelius whom Sin-
your of grace,
week!
1932),
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
ise
A Big Front!.
Ronald Colman, the hero of "Arrowsmith", which is a man. terplace of acting and direc- tional technique. The picture continues its run at the Central Theatre.
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