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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY. JANUARY 13, 1933.
CINEMA "SHOTS"
A
SOUTH SEAS ROMANCE
FAMOUS STAGE SUCCESS COMES TO CENTRAL AS
SPECTACULAR TALKING FILM
DOLORES DEL RIO AND JOEL MCRAE
artistes e on yachting
lores a
IN "BIRD OF PARADISE" X7HILE there are beautiful sex appeal, plays the wealthy tores del Rio in Hollywood there becomes infatuated with Do- fascinating little Indy. will always be films like The Bird of Paradise, a Radio ver- snatches her from the very arms of her tribut lover. and then sion of the stage success due at
roca antive for n month or so. the Central on Sunday. It mal-The climax is reached when the| ters not If the girl be a typical tribe drag the pair off to appease j Latin type: a string of bends and; the wrath of the active, volcano. a minimum of clothing to drape Naturally they are saved on the round her supple form is suff-very, brink of the crater, but the cient to transform her. into a civil returns to make the sacrifice. Polynesian and there is the necessary sex appeal for story.
AND "SEQUENCES"
TO-DAY'S SHOWS
Central: "The Old Dark House." King's "Love Me To-night." Queen's "Unashamed." Majestic: "The First Year.". Star: The Beggar Student." Oriental: "White Hell of Pitz Palu."
Triples: "The Big Gamble." ON SUNDAY.
King': "The Phantom Presi dent.
Queen's: "The Guardsman." Central: "Bird of Paradise." Star: "Polly of the Creus,”
"DON QUIXOTE". AS TALKIE
CHALIAPIN IN LEAD
GEORGE ROBEY AS SANCHO PANZA TOLLYWOOD is not alone in
A comparatively small portion the of the film is occupied by the tell- Ing of the tale. For the most part it an exhibition of photograhy, rivalling these excellent shots that featured Tabu. Submarine cameras have turned out several feet of making films from literary the film, and an artistic hand has heen responsible for the shots through dense foliage and tropical patas.
music of orchestral instruments,
of
Deloris Del Rio and Joel McCrea as Luana the heroine and Johnny Baker, Kë hero, respecteily in "BIRD OF PARADISE", RKO-Radio Picture
FILM INSTITUTE
English
larger senke. It will also determine the scope of the Institute during the first year's work, and go a long way towards directing its ultimate policy. It will be seen, therefore, that the
Organisation to choice of the right men for this pro-
be Formed
:
visional board is n malter of first- rate importance. They must be ver presentative, not only of the best. but of the widest interest, both of
the trade and the matters, and th must carry the fullest confidence of their parties. The gravity of this the case of the cinematograph trade, initial representation, particularly in
nut The Bird of Paradise was the first story of the beautiful young savage South Sea Island irl who fell in love with the rich American: nor will it be the
classics. Now Europe is trying (who works band in glove with its hand, and on nothing less Pabat) was marvellous. Someone inst: but of all of them, it seems
than Cervantes Don Quixote who has seen the 'rushes' (the uncut the least ephemeral. It must be
The film is yet uncompleted version) in Paris, tells me that the nearly 20 years since the story bit the New York stage .and
can hardly be byer-estimated. For A big cast does little but add but a busy time is forecast for photography is the finest that any broke long-distance
these men are going to carry the it records:
the background: Joel McCrea and the press agents and writers of film has ever had, had additional publicity in the Dolores del Rio are in practically puff-paragraphs, for the greatest A last, after auch parley and practicnl burden of a scheme whi
speculation, the long-talked of may look excellent on paper, but which prolonged litigation over the co- every scene and do their best to men from the four corners of National Film Institute is about to in the working out will need criess right and was revived, again and make the story seem convincing, the earth appear to have been become a fact writes C.A. Lejaune in adjustment, extension and organisa- skin. Now it has come again, in but it is a big tank. It is not gathered together for the pro-next month a Provisionnt scheme of function to the antion at large.
London Ohgerear. Within the tion if is to perform any useful sound-film, a title different from claimed that the fim was taken duction.
its netivition is likely to be published, the original plot, but with magni- in the South Seas, and although
There is still an iden In certain The Knight of the Doleful and a skeleton organisation will have sections of the film trade that the ficent photographle shots of South the scenes are realistic, an Countenance in played by Feeder been formel to make appointments Institute in a purely neademie affair Sea Island scenery to add to its congruous note is the incidental Chaliapin, Russian opera singer and direct the policy of the inaugural which need not concern them.
There appeal.
will have direct Government sanction, tive elveies of exfucation that the good. thousands of gramphore records The re-action of the time-worn One alas wonders where the army whose bags hus boomed out on work. It is expected that the scheme is also an iden in the more conser well ng the cooperation of the will of the film trade laˆn small and plot on 1933 audiences should be
and who has inflicted his dynamic three offein! representative bodies of inconsiderauble factor in an essential- interesting. It is romance of the Kanaka maidens don't
Personality in practically every the film trade, the Cinematogrphly educational scheme. Both these country of the world. Don Quixote Exhibitors Association, the Kine-ideas are profoundly wrong. The is his favourite opera, and if the matograph Renters' Society, and the practical co-operation of the Almi trade, lm follows the story, he should Film Producers' Section of the Federn in its three aspects of producer, cer
tion of British Industries. Masster, and exhibitor, is the one essential meetings throughout the country have fact of the whole scheme. In know the part at least.
And who is Sancho Panzu, the already secured the goodwill of var-end, every suggestion put forward by gallant Knight's faithful follower? lets pubile bodies, and educationists the Institute will come down to a mat- Why, none other than England's "enerally have welcomed the idea of tor of raw stock, of sound equipment, favourite, Goorge Robey. Strange such a prictient liaison between the of apparatus, and of studio floorspare. The men who control these will in fact ag it may seem, George Robey hascinema and the school.
Those who have opposed the Film determine the success of the Institute, shed the bowler hat and female
al- ttire that has made bim so popu-titute, or ignored it, or shelved its however the authority may be
omideration in the past, muy jent located on paper, ar in London, and stradalles
an as well accept the fuct of its existènco new. There will be n Film Institute, At the head of affairs as diver-end just how valuable that Institute or of production is G. W. Pabst, will be to the nation generally, and the film trade in particular. depends German artist of artists, whose the course which is adapted by all name is generally spoken in whisparties in the inital stages of the pars as the world's greatest scheme.
highest degree, and in these days of blase cinema audiences, it is doubtful if it is romanen Joel
technical adviners were: generally
have daintily manicured finger nails, even if they are princesses, that and the coconut saim down which Joel McCrea slides as if it were convinces or Appeals. McGren, who appears to be the greasy pole, must have been a present requirment in masculine unique arboreal specimen.
NLÄUDETTE Colbert provides the feminine interest in "The Phan- famous American humourist, makes his first talking film appearance in the leading dual role.
tho
The whole altair in the end resolves, itself into this very simple sequence of facts. There will very shortly be Film Institute, which will have sonte kind of trade representation.
Unless that representation is sound, ami backed by the full confidence of its members, the Institute will be a paper
مالة
er of einema. He was responsible The Institute is to be inaugurated organisation only, with limited acade for Four Infantryman, the German | under the control of provisional mic functions and a very problematie constitution, with a Board of Gover-term of existence. But if the trade film nereaned here last year.
nors of a nominated rather than a whole will co-operate, ånd Robey has just returned from rmally representative nature, drawn point fully authorised representatives the south of France, where the bartly from the trade, partly from to the board, the Institute”may very ilm was made becutie of the the durational bodies, and partly, well become the nucleus of a large itability of the climate for film-it is hopel, from the Government. national organisation, operating He returned with a full tide This Board of Governors will be ultimately under Royal Charter, and of invective against the climate, probably wine in number, but involving multiple interests of com and a full tide of enthusiasm for ill have the power ta coopt, and to merce, education, industry, and public
¦create representative machinery un al life. the work he was engaged on.
The film is being made it French and English, Chaliapin
laying in both.
"I had to grow beard and whiskers" said Roboy In an iR- terview on his return. "I started them a week before I left London. When they were half-grown-when I was merely seven days unshaved looked awful. When I arrived at the Nice hotel, and the recep tion-clerk asked me where I came from, for purposes of registration, I said "Devil's Island." Later,
was walking about the town in
ayoshirgan the mealston me Edouard Bout."
"Pabst is wonderful re a dim nem With him the noting ta
nothing!
in all the film. Chaliapin, Iyan
one else were nothin
ble cameraman and the mistura nit whole are the chief consideratio
I am a photographer myself, and a
jolly good one: but I can tell you; AL
that the work of that camera-ian
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