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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933.
HOLLYWOOD COMES
P
DOWN TO EARTH
Bu SAMUEL GOLDWYN
como
Let us look at this other Holly-
The Very Idea!
CONDIMENTINIA
By Eddie "Hot Dog" Kelly. WHAT with the summer
WE
amiss.
Besides, it's the only thing we can think of to-day.
There are three kinds of salt; one, obtained at sea, is called "old salt", another is the salt of the earth and there is also a tough old salt, Epsom, hy name.
97 per cent. higher than the 1920 lovel. The total volume of in- terest and dividend payments in both 1930 and 1931 was higher than in 1929, and in the first half. of 1932 was still 72 per cent. above the 1926 level. Mean- while, wages bills, which furnish the bulk of the purchasing pon- Hollywood is Anfshed. Holly- Stars and those who never could
upon us, and people er of the lowest income groups, wood is in better shape then at be stars, directors and substitutes who provide 07.27 por cent. of any other time in its history, for directors, were given fantastic thinking of going for picnics Those two statements seem to contracts,. and apologica for and what nots, we think the market for goods and sex- vices-dropped constantly from contradict each other. In fact, authors were engaged to turn or the middle of 1929 until in the they do not. To understand the churn out stories ao that there some hints on this all impor- first half of 1932 they reached position of Hollywood to-day, you might be kept work and the tant subject would not be a level 56 per cent, below that have to realise that there are two schedules might be observed. In Hollywoods. The present so-called this way the road to ruin was of 1920. No wonder the demand alump in the film world in America covered in record time. for the products of industry de- is merely a transition from the What is true of Hollywood may clined while the purchasing pow-one Hollywood to the other. bo true of England, if England
The first thing you want on a Let me explain. The film world does not profit by the fate of 1932 CHEVROLET Standarder of more than two-thirds of
un- Hollywood; and, as a very close pienie is salt. Salt is what you the consumers of those products in America was boosted to
the observer of conditions throughout can take this with a grain of. Touring car new and unused
was being drained away by wage manageable dimensions on full
cuts-athough the higher in-crest of a boom. During that the film world, I am sorry to say It is used as a flavouring for carrying makers
come groups, who make up less boom money cruzed to have any that England, in my opinion, has ranty. List Price H.K.$3288.
than one third of the market for solid value. Speculation ran mad. not taken the Hollywood lesson to animal, vegetable, mineral, and
Everybody bought everything, re-heart.
the tails of the birds you can't consumers goods but invest gardless of cost. Among other In the light of all these con- catch. OUR PRICE.....H.K.$2550.
their surplus funds largely in things, cinemne were built ro-siderations, I say that the calamity which has overtaken this Holly increasing productive equipment, gardless of the capacity of
was inevitable. The in- were getting interest and divid-population to All their seats, or of wood ends only about 25 per cent, the ability of Hollywood to keep competent had to go. Let them
second Hollywood. smaller than they had been in their screens filled with films of go. A
Arst-rate quality.
stronger and more secure Holly- tho rosicst years of prosperity. Cinemas in panic demanded wood, remains and is on the eve Overcoming in modern industry more and more films. They shout-[of a golden age.
The film world the tendency of Esop's house-ed for doublo-feature programmes, has not slumped. It has holder to be dissatisfied with changed weekly or even bl-weekly, down to earth."
Pepper is what the modern moderate and reasonable returns Hollywood was gonded to produce may be a problem no less for- talking pictures in auch quantity wood: the Hollywood which re-Hangkong housewife uses to keep midable than that promulgated that quality became a minor con-gards the making of films as an food hot indefinitely. by the technocrats. But recog nition of the appropriateness of
really fine films can ever be made. a nice suit of plas fours. It is applying sop's homely illustra-
The making of films, which is I could write of the things that go mined by punching holes in the top tion to the situation might sett and a very difficult art, be- to the malding of fine films: things of a tin with a rusty nali,
Pepper la very dangerous if men to work to bring
came an industry. It became big like courage and faith and the prompt and effective measures business. Hollywood became de taking of infinite pains, but taken in large quantities, and for increasing distribution and minated by financiers, became would rather clarify this subject produces a
and mechanised. Its studios became with more practical argument.
In one of our great American pep. more comprehensible process factories turning out so much film
cinemas-the Roxy, in New York than awaiting the outcome of footage on factory schedule.,
involved and The cinemas themselves were the receipts as between one film complicated, lengthy attempts to create a civi-mechanised. By reckless buying and another, shown in precisely the collected into huge same conditions, have varied by as lisation that is "operated on a they wore
chains and were run on the same much as £11,000 in one week. balanced thermo-dynamically
lines as cheap multiple stores, but There is nothing to account for
•Cinnamon is the difference be- with legs intelligence. Every this other than that the film-going
It comes local manager in a multiple store public is film wise, As we say. In tween breakfast and getting out of chain is, as I understand it, his the film world, the filingoera of to-bed on a cold morning. is often nearer the truth than Statuesque Inaccuracy bier. He must deal in the day go shopping for entertain-in all the season's shades and tie no known particularly becoming to brunette the theories of philosophers and
goods made for the chain, but he ment, and there is wisencres. Æsop, in one of his
statues may vary his quantities to suit his method by which the filmgoers of toast.
fairly recent product. People who put up
to-day can be deluded into flocking
Alms. They have The old Romans used potassium fables, tells of a householder should really be more
careful. customers.
inferior The local manager of chain of to
care. Cinammon is found all over who had a goose that laid a In London, a correspondent of cinemas has not even this small developed a sixth sense in relation cyanide. The young one's didn't the floor and around the corner of golden egg every day. Becom- The Times.points to the eques-liberty. He must offer the goods to the cinema..
WRITER THE CREATOR.
the mouth. ing dissatisfied with so slow antrian figure outside the Houses supplied to the chain, without any of Parliament, which shows consideration for his customers.
Sand is the flavouring used It is my absolute conviction that income, however, he killed the Richard Coeur-de-Lion apparent-le ceases to become a caterer to
His the writer is the creator of film mostly by picnickers. It is found bird, "thinking to seize the whole ly wearing his chain-mail next the needs of his public
in cinema has all the individuality of drama, in the first instance, and in almost all bathing suits and is treasure at once." Economists to his skin. Richard
Hollywood does not have sufficient discovered by sitting down.
more than 60 eccentric alot machine,
The vendor of this famous and philosophers to-day, spurred many respects an
There is no magic in the world writers to create by economic and social unrest, monarch, but the writer of the whereby drama can be reduced to outstanding talking pictures & edible used to be called the "sand letter in question is probably a recipe, a formula, or a standard-year. The maximum quality out-
Hongkong he is known as Johnny are speculating as to the causes justified in his obvious feeling ised commodity. If there were, it put of Hollywood is 50 talkingman" by the old-fashioned, but in
Fear. The maximun Walker or "wassail". of the alump and trying to find that he was not so eccentric as would be as easy to tin films as to pictures
7 London quality output of
The coarser varieties of sand remedies for the conditions it all that. For, although Richard tin sardines,
perhaps 20 talking pictures
are found on our beaches, but n has brought about. They are is well known to have had the engaged in seeking the goose-heart of a lion, no one has hither- the goose
The
Hongkong Telegraph. consumption simpler
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933.
KILLING THE COOSE
The homely wisdom of a poet
load."
about
Was
sideration.
FINANCIAL DOMINATION.
QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY.
art: the Hollywood which holds to Combined with salt pepper makes those ideals without which no
year,
particularly interesting because ties. They certainly do in India. Programme, the panic production was a cry for "Bigger and Better;
Seeing England in Germany
is
condition known as
Pep is pepper with the last three letters omitted. If they are not omitted it is still pepper. The most famous brand is Pep- per Up.
It is n
When Band is by itself it is called beach. When it is mixed with ham and bread it is called sand-wich,
a. •
Once again we are beset with with letters asking How and Why
Б
I do not say that the film world finer grade, well worth the money, These superfluous, mechanised which apparently to suggested that he had the hide
I say that those sections Hotel Roof Garden any evening provided resources for the dizzy of an elephant. But these in-cinemas found their public dis- should recognise this fact. I go may be seen at the Peninsula
wanted more prosperity of a few years ago. accuracies are by no means con- appearing and decided that film-farther.
for their of the film world which do notwith the Dawn. Two prominent educationists fined to Britain. Doubtless goers recently spoke on these problems, there
Years ago in Hollywood there elsewhere money: hence the double-feature recognise this fact will die. arc statues expressing views which
It became a joke. It are which manifest similar absurdi Programme, the quick change of
of pletures, and the general in- Pictures."
There is no substitute for sand, of the different ways in which For example, the statue of Sir feriority of the pictures made. is no joke now. It has taken on a they approached the subject. Thomas Munro on "The Island," But it was quality and not quanti-new and serious algnificance. We
must have pictures of surpassing the nearest thing being the ocean. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler de Madras, represents him per- ty that the public wanted.
That is one of the two Holly-quality so that the film world will not have the clared the situation pointed "to forming the remarkable feat of
THIS NUDIST BUSINESSS. quantity of films we have to-day, some fundamental failure of balancing a naked sword on the woods: the Hollywood that is live. We shall
finished.
Once again the "open shirt" that plan which seeks to adjust too of Д dancing pump. The present slump is not a and the number of our cinemas demand with supply through the The explanation of course, eyclone that has torn the film must be reduced by half, or even calls, and the air resounds to the It is only more; but when that is done the nudist's merry whistle and the ordinary medium of prices" In that art seeks after truthfulness; world up by the roots. this view, Dr. Butler was pur- and truthfulness and accuracy a very healthy wind that has films we make will run for far clang of hobnail on macadam. suing the argument launched by are not by any means always blown away a lot of dead wood. longer periods and will attract.in-Eheu, fugacea, as our Tutor used He never would tell us the technocrats. The needed ad- the same thing.
In ito recent madness, Holly-finitely greater weekly patronage. to say.
That is the Hollywood that will what it meant (the raseni), but wo wood hired everything and every-
think 'twas something to do with justment "is itself a technical
bady to deliver pictures on time. survive.
birds. We like that "twas." It problem," he said, "since on the
strikes au open-air note). one hand all the elements of pro- ductive efficiency are present and anxious to co-operate, while on the other hand the human need for the products of this co- Reports that a film showing operative efficiency is impera-England's scenic beauty, ancient tive and universal." But Dr. El- buildings and modern industrial mer Brown sounded a deeper and developments is delighting Ger- more significant note than the man audiences and surprising "technical problem" theory when German commentators indicate he declared that the "social mas-that many cultivated Germans tery of those material gains are just discovering England. which the sciences have brought Even the Berlin reviewers seem us" must be found through "a to be among those agreeably its better development of the social surprised: London-with sciences-economies, sociology, huge dimensions, its gigantic politics and related subjects,"traffic, its imposing buildings The necessity, as Dr. Brown sees appears as a strange world, al- it, is to bring the social sciences though it lies only a few hours'
from distant "up to such pitch of power that journey they may give to the accomplish-The film offers an abundance ments of physical science a more of pictures of a country and its effective direction to desirable inhabitants who are closely re- social ends." Dr. Brown's views lated to us and whom we think find support in a study of the re- we know....Happy land! One lation of wage policies to the máy note in other passages from a similar distribution of purchasing power. German newspaper
having made recently, which indicates sense of the writers' that oxisting economic difficul- happened upon a country hither- ties might justly be attributed, to somewhat removed from their at least in part, to the working experience. This
us.
eagerness
of "an uncontrolled profit mo-with which the pictures of Eng- tive," functioning not only dur-land have been welcomed by ing the "prosperity" years but German audiences and critics is even during the first half of quite understandable. Despite 1932. This is the twentieth cen- the restrictive influence of na- tury version of Esop's fablo oftionalist doctrines in many lands, the gocso that laid the golden the times are marked by an in- oggs. The curvo of dividends, creasing desire on the part of the study showed, rosa steadily people the world over to under- from 1926 until, In the first half stand one another; regardless of of 1980, they reached a peak of nationality.
"Not a burglar, eh? Well, you can jush eshplain to the
copsh where you got all thoshe milk bottles,"
arc
the
to nude.. Once again there people tearing madly about Colony looking for Mr. Lanepart. Some people-have all the luck.
Kit. Let us plead, once again, for the absolute minimum. A. spare suit of clothes, of course,.a dinner jacket and stiff shirt, for the evenings; pajamas and dress- ing gown-we never carry more. The day's rations and a bottle or two of the "wherewithal." A few friendly books-Shakespeare; Wil- cox; Bradshaw; the A.B.C. A musical instrument or so. And, for hilly country, a small scooter. with auxiliary engine.
When we said "musical instru- ment" just now we think wo should have specified a saxophone. "Wind on the heath, brother". you know, That's the stuff.
MAD MELODIES.
(Waltz-Blues)
Let you and me, go honeymooning! It's all dat we unemployed can do, For listen I hear dem tenors
crooning:
Ten years more for you.
You got long, croon de tenors, You get long right now; Gobernment ain't
nuthin'
able
to [a
Ain't got no notion how. Chorus.
Let you and me go honeymooning (Der ain't no charge for de moon), For ders's ton pedra mora
employment.
Says dat crooning Chamberlain
.coom.