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NE HOUR WITH YOU-The play boy of the Cinema world in the person of Maurice Chevalier contes before Hongkong audiences again in his latest film, which starts a week's run at the King's Theatre on Sunday. Playing opposite him is that favourite Jenuette Macdonald, and the two repent the wonderful success en
joyed in The Love Parmile, a
and bad it been treated as such little else than a theory. throughout its value would have
been doubled. As it is the pro-
dacers endeavour. persuade SOVIET SEX-STUFF.
British Naval Picture
of Historic Interest
Spoilt by Unnecessary
Sloppy Patriotic Sentiment
SOVIET FORSAKES PROPAGANDA
FOR SEX STUFF
NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID"
SEQUENCES
Suspicion of anti-war propaganda, Frankenstein is showing at the it is the type of thing which Majestic and is well worth a visit, Hollywood Turns out per mass whilst Butalund's Holiday, a Clive production and it imlicates, at Brook domestic melodrama, t feast, that the bourgeois love of its equivalent, has started at the vice has not yet been erasiented | King's Theatre and plays until
Sunday.
from the Marxian state.
RUSSIAN COMPETITION.
of
such
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The Last Love.... Chinese pic- ture is having a short senson at The Central Theatre until the re- |surrected
Wimp
with M531-
CONDEMNED TO DEATH-A scone from the brilliant British drama which is now showing at the Queen's Theatre. Among the featured players who have already captured the admiration of local tinenta audiences is Arthur Wontner and Gordon Harker, the inimit able cockney.
to
be
screen
OUR BRITISH
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CROSSWORDS
screen
E producers of Mr Like jeord of the historic Poseidon ! These, the British naval film disaster. Viewed in this light the
sary balnice to a story which the nimbleness of his fingers and threatened which comes to the Queens Thea-film has a definite value, but Lị【HE production
of unwieldy his keen eye for valuable stones. Tre on Sunday, have mundo the blup-for one, refuse tu substrife to the j film after the welter of Chronised sound added in addi-length. With this
as ber Stone owes much of his tier of labelling thin fiku a tribute producers" claim that it is a tri- propaganda
guiding star, Helen Hayes creations which tion to Claro Bow!) arrives.
bids success to his extraordinary te the "Silent Navy," and cover- Parte to the heroism of the British have emenated from the Soviet
fale to become the most popular powers of adaptability and his. of the new ing it with a thick coat of senti. Įnavy. Rather is it a vindication Studios, is, perhaps, not without WHERE THE SCREEN SCORES.
actresses. I wide knowledge of men and their Cinental patriotism which is quite pof the practitability of a life-its significance. Because of anti-
Thought Lewis Stone accomplish-psychology. He has never yet CORRESPONDENT, who fout of place. The picture is purely `saving apparatus which, until the West
re-led the best performance of his failed faithfully to Interpret the sentiments wxpressed A
vous unstinteel admiration of long and varied and amply a dumentary filmi. ¡time of the Poseidon triggedy, was (through her films. Russia up to The Sin of Madelon Clandet, sends bogus count who maintained
career as the hundred and one different charne- now has had an opportunity of me the following-
ters the producers have thrust competing in the world's film mar- Those who saw The Sin of Martelon high standard of living through upon him." kets, Her pictures, for the mostnader at the Queen's Theater re part, when shown in England decently, hailed it in of the best)
stramatic characterisations that the Ius once putain that the sailor is mus
NOVIET tilos, and their enden-¦ America, are confined to the pri talking screen has given ibing but a blue-eyed hero;"sail-
new tym vate film clubs and very rarely dished direction was comparable in ing into danger every minate of, or cinema, have lare the sube enjoy general distribution. A re-excellence to the superb arting of the his life upon the water; and per- jeet of searching criticism on the course to the sex-film may open principais. It attained heights une Jorming a self-sacrificinge mission
olæ duende Lone hand and enthusiasm an the up the way to competition" in the dreamed
ago, rather than a duly. a duty which
international markets, which, The film is still further proof the
ister than that faced by the enal.
of such powerful themes. the talking sereen in the presentation miner.,
The natural ingread of the praduction seems to be one tensible explanation. Another may be found in the genius who wields the scissnes and renders continuity natural FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Your 10 ༤-1`"་། 21
us. Its
in reality holds little more dan, ither autoag foreigs contem front the industry's puiul of view, never will the legitimate stage rivut
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BAD PSYCHOLOGY.
TO
aries. Recently an Australian; writer acensed the London
il LOW
at least, would in of Frements help despite what the anti-Soviet erities say.
COMING AND SHOWING.
schils of a misplaced ardour to wards the Bussian productions, claiming that they were but super- 810 már a man deliver a patrio-propaganda pictures, and offering
tie speech about dying for practically nothing towards the Men Like Thear.... Founded on his country wheù death stares promotion of
creative: historical fact and as such, is a hids in the face is hard psychology, cinema, Mr. Paul Rotha, the em- fine reflection of the British navy. and 'one's reaction to it. is not minent critk, on the other hand, it is an English film, which, what Complimentary to the producer, stoutly avers that although the ever its shortcomings, will hold As an historical document of the Soviet film is saturates with pro- tremendous appeal in Hongkong. sinking of the Poseidon last year paganda and constitutes one of the it shows at the Queen's Theatre and of the level-headed hereism chief mediums for inculcating So-jon Sunday.
faithfully represented, but spoil repudiation from
will hold
is interesting to look back to the birth of the modern drama.
Fifty years ago, were a production like The Sin of Madelon Clamie possible, it is safe to say, that the erities of the day would have lunghed
How world ang nindern audience
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of Petty Officer Willis and hisviet principles into the minds of One Hour With You.... The re-jit, to scorn, for however furtunate thre comrades who succeeded in sav-the people, they are handled with turn of the inimitable Lore Victorian era muy have been in its ing themselves by use of the Davis such efficiency and artistry, as to|2,jude levers, Jeanette Mavilonald i wealth of poris aind litteratours gen- Apparatus, Men Like These is an entrifute something entirely 'and Mauric» Chevaller. If any iyrally, it WUS Sarren of dramatic extraordinarily interesting pie- new and revolutionary in cinema, "thing, it is spieler and more en instinet. Jure, in many respects vividly had tie art. On top of this comes a tertaining dan its hertic prede e affetal by felen ilages as Made
the Stater, cessor, and Ernst Lubitsch scores on Churles turning to une side and [by sloppy patriolie sentiment. It that the Russian ilms are entire a crowning triumph. Coming to lexelaiming "Oh! I could only tell a special appeal to y devoted to propaganda. Points the King's far a week's run on him 1 am his mother" with her son, Hongkong audiences herause ofing to one of the 1101- revent Sunday.
Just in ponderous thought standing | their close contact with the Posei-Soviet productions The Cussucks of¦ Condemned to Death....An un three feet
Yet that was the away? don tragedy. The actual scenes the Don, the writer says that the usually attentive British fat for Henrik Brun, Norwegian and It might be well to consult one
draim of the eighties. It remained!! in the hell, where the men are picture is an attempt is give the į featuring among others, Arthur
later his disiple, but not his imitator, trapped and faced with vertain; Russian film-goer something that Wontner, who scored a distinct
{George Remard Shaw to give thei death unless their Davis ap- he wants, rather than what is good success in his characterisation of warld something different in dron paratus works successfully, are for him. The picture is purely Sherlock Holmes. The Queen's well producel, photography being one of sex interest with just a joffer this until Sunday unusually good and the drama of the situation effectively presented. ! The players are nearly guilty of an anti-climax when they half heartedly join in singing an ex- cerpt from "No No Nanetle" and the old way song "It's a long way to Tipperary," this somehow strik- ing an unreal note,
AN HONEST EFFORT.
#TECHNICALLY speaking the Tditat offers bat sollte
criticism which indicates fan advance by the Burlish studios. qin at least ene direction. Sound
at times is a triffe idurred and the
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To have had sinne troulde in in- dicating the natural rise of the water line as the exemped per I rushes through the, comparimend
doors. But to dim ert these
inqunuies froin the contest of The sequences and condemn t film. As a result would le atere varpiny. Taken as a whole they picture is an honest and fairly aucerastul endeavour to bring before the public a pictorini re- ¦
RAEN LIKE THESE-A finely conceived British film recording IVA the historical sinking of the submarine Poseidon in Chinese waters last years, and the dramatic anving of life from the doomed vessel of a number of ratings. The above is a slut taken from the. in which will be presented at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.
THE PROGRESS OF DRAMA.
of these before yau "invest in a rare" bargain in horseflesh
(una.).
$ Chose about fifty to be salted. 9 Conies out of a twist. DEPERTORY thentres marked the!! State of a Mormon.
next forward
RE
move, Springing12 Just so-but put the lid on to he up throughout England, they went a compact,
lang way towards putting drun on 13 Sacred language of the Bud-
dhistat its feet. Then came the silent pic-
tures, and for the first time dranna 118 A little doy with others follow, was given an appropriate setting make much noise.
ing do a lot of mischief, and But there was still a lang way to go.
With modern
ern perspective wo kink 17 Levens (anag.). back to the "silent" days and a shud-18 Taking off without any intent | der runs through us. Yet the silent to jeer.
pictures played their part in giving 21 guod-hearted anarchist Ca us the drain of to-day. Present Poor men's clubs,
Tay something of that anture.
drama through the medium of
talking serven has reached its greatest 24 Often the Victorian young lady's heights. Its future lies in the hands feint.
of nation picture directors, almost 25 Affluent of the Tay.
alone, they can save it from "donnings Hold tightly though much turn, the motley."
There is something devoid of interes! about that which wrong though it has its appeal for the small boy.
sa mudel for the samli bny (hyphen).
HELEN HAYES SUCCESS. |TANCEPTIONALLY clever
100
al
characterisations featured The Set of Mudrion Clandet, which had a four days'
the Queen's Theatre this week. I was, in fact, a typical American i efficiency Alm in all departments, Over and above the brillkent work Helen Hayes and Lewis Stone, the most impressive part of the film was the adroit cutting, which, timed to a, nicety, gave very necen-
2 Call out.
Itown.
# Sel from this.
4 The most during pilot will not
fly here,
5 This language is not taught in
our schools,
6 A short distance.
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7 A state with which 13 denis. 8 Turkey precedes it (two words): 10 I write my inmost thoughts after a saint-I will not work without a screw.
A young Scat who can afford to Jose a fifty aml yet have money left.
15 One frequently shakes before it. 19 He breeds animals and may be
comparatively ornamental.
20 Put something into the valley
and give joy.
31 Mineral, animal or vegetable? 22 Make up your mind to tackle the
problem again.
26 This has to be done up after
every meal.
127 The bird class.
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