THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1933.
CINEMA "SHOTS " & "SEQUENCES,,
DOMESTIC DRAMA WITH
A WRONG TWIST
GOOD FILM AT KING'S SPOILT BY THE AUTHOR
M.G.M.'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE CINEMA
THE Cinema's interpretation Shannon plays cleverly opposite him variably interesting often amu nccomplished by William Boyd. Irv ing and always tantalising.ing Pichel und Herbert Mundin. And the last mentioned is the result of a persistent departure THERE is something attractively novel about the present picture
from what, up to a point can beat the Queen's Theatre, 70,000 accepted as fairly indicative of Witnesses." The title in compara- a phase of life, into sheer melo-tively irrelavent when the picture drama where commonsense, and is viewed in perspective, but it is intelligence gives place to crass not a point to worry about. What stupidity on the part of one or appeals, I think, is the effort to two of the characters. A glar ing example is The Painted Woman, current attraction at the King's Theatre,
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introduce a new method of com- mitting murder and the reconstruc-
tion of the crime which lends to the unmasking of the murderer. A footballer is rubbed by his college doctor with nitro-glycerine, which, a long and
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JP to a certain stage this is real after he has made
good drama. There is plenty strenuous run, acts on the brain
hemorrhage. of good neting, snappy action and [and the promise of climax. But instead of allowing by the game being played the story to progress along normal again with the doctor forced to lines, the author has had to go apply the same "dope" to another off at a tangent, introduce an eic player and the final denoument of
a dashed good solution to the riddle is provided
over
Lilian Harvey and Henry Garat as they appear in the brilliant film "Congros Dances” which comes to the Central Theatre on Sunday.
ment quite foreign to the earlier his act. theme and finish up with melo- drama, where the hero and heroine IN this picture we have some new well presented. have no time to listen
idens quite to sane explanations of a very simple, al-Additionally some typical acting by though delicate, situation. As a David Landau, some first rate work result we get an unecessary trial,by Charles Buggle (once again a
and adequate "Notoriety," or better still, "Have due to the skilful manipulation of an equally unnecessary shooting drunken reporter) affair, a death scene and finally a supporting contributions by Doro- you heard this one?" since the main the camera, but the grimness of to by some amusing running com- sloppy reunion. It is this reunion, thy Jordan, Lew Cody and a host of idea seems to be to prepare the some of the incidents were relieved where the characters accept each other players go towards the mak-way for individual characters
film. It shout off a dubious variety of so-mentary. Judged by the expres- #lons of opinion I heard afterwards, other on face value aimply beenuseling of an entertaining of a dying confession. half of relles largely on its dramatic situn-called wisecracka,
Hongkong appreciated this new re- which is a lie, and are no nearer tions any mystery, and if the lat- the explanation of the cause of ter is a bit shallow, the action is WILL Rogers strikes a refreshing velation of the sereen and further note in a cinema world where Instalments of this feature will be their quarrel than prior to the sufficiently Buatained to overcome
polish and speed are so predomin-welcomed. ant. He picks hia leisurely shooting, the trial and the death the deficiency.
way
scene, which makes the latter parts through his films provoking chuck- of the picture so inconsistent. PEGGY Shannon is on the rocks
.
one
YOU CAN SEE THESE TO-DAY.
"Painted Woman". King's. "70,000 Witnesses
Queen's, "Lady With a Past"
Central. . Majestic. "Nagana" "Passport To Hell"
Oriental.
.Star..
"Chances"
AND THESE SUNDAY. "She Done Him-Wrong
Queen's. "Congress Dances" Central. "Too Busy To Work"
King's. "Stepping Sister" Majestic.
"A VISIT TO THE.
INFERNO”
(Continued from Page 6.) Continued
bed, and the beds were of different sizes and the people of different ages.. Their faces were dry like charcoal bones thin like wooden and their boards.
Ting Loan-kat asked for an ex- planation of all these things.
les and smiles, rather than boister ous laughter, with his steady flow
dry humour
homely of
and and has to make her living in a
philosophising. Ton Busy to Work questionable hotel in Singapore.
which is the next change at the There she has a scene with a
King's Theatre shows him in a man culminating in her breaking
role which fits him perfectly. He is a tramp, who has made laziness a jug over his head. She prevails
something between a fine art and a on William Boyd to help her to
virtue, who walks the country-side on his ship sailing for escape Australia. On the journey
oking for the man who stole his wife and daughter while he was at of the crew is attacked with
the war. He finds them, and find- plague and Peggy is put off on
ing that they are happy, takes to
Bluecoat said, "There are many an island off the trade route.
the road again with his identity kinds of sin., It is almost impossible There sho first meets Irving
unrevealed. The slight plot is to treat them as of one type, The Pichela rascally lawyer and Spen-
perfect vehicle for the expression evil of men proceeds from their evil cer Tracy ngo-ahead pearler.
of the star's personality. There is hearts. It is by the mind that one She and Tracy marry after fichel
fine supporting cast of players, may increase or reduce his evil.
about has done his utmost to lure her
including Marion Nisen and Dick It may be that in going AWAY. William Boyd returns with
Powell, but the film begins and during the day when one is busy, one his schooner and without knowing
ends with Will Rogers. There are cannot think over these matters very each other he and Tracy have a
incidents in his travels-making clearly, but at night when lying in little back-chat in the saloon.
vain attempts to catch a rabbit for bed, when the mind is settled and the
and eyes are closed otie contemplates Tracy has to visit a neighboring
realised. island and Boyd hears he has beenchonanzavo | breakfast, or being forced to give
up a free ride on a freight train things that cannot be fully
and the feelings that one cannot anti- double-crossed by Peggy Shannon, EACTIONS to the picture Lady which are a sheer delight, so adroit-cinnte, many things strange and So int, so good. In fact the whale Rwith a Fast, which in England ly does he extract a witticism or wonderful come into the tnind, and thing is put over extremely well, We are led to feel that the climax had to be renamed Reputation be-a moral from bad luck. There is all kinds of wickedness and villany
cause the original title 3718 tno another side to the trump's nature, also come forth, in fact, most of will be the meeting of Boyd and suggestive! will be varied when it of course, and Will Rogers shows evil schemes originate in bed. Then Tracy in the latter's house and we shows at the Central Theatre to himself an emotional actor as well they can be clearly planned and one wait for the moment. We wait in day. If anybody were to protestas a humorist of the first rank.may begin chenting in secret, and as vain. The author prefers another that the theme is undesirable, the The pleasant country settings, fine- they develop the plans they may sleep route to the finish, Boyd attempts incidents highly coloured to a pointly photographed, are only one other to kidnap Peggy Shannon and he is of vulgarity, and the whole picture feature of the many fine things in atabbed by a faithful servant. rather a waste of time, Hollywood Ton Busy for Work. Peggy is accused of the crime.would probably reply "This is Life. Tracy returns to hear a semi-con- with a capital "L"; this is a truth: WE owe it to M.G.M. for several fession of her earlier life and like ful pictorial survey of the lives of Innovations in the utilising of
It sometimes howmates in bed. a true husband, head over heels thousands of men and women to the screen for bringing before the in love with his wife, decides that day. All of which is undoubtedly public educational and amusing band and wife,
was M.G.M. which set one another on to do evil, and she is nothing but a cheat. The true. The only point is, does it features. It servant confesses to the murder. help to see HORIC of the nastier gave us the series of Sports Cham- unfilial conduct oflen starts in this brethren but Tracy refuses even to listen to truths of life
the plons by which we saw the world's way, and dissensions among his wife's story. The servant esscreen? Do we come away from best tennis players, swimmers, also commence at such times.
As for the others, they each have unclean minds and ovil eapos the gendarmes to explain the the theatre feeling that we have gelfera and athletes in entertaining their own position to Tracy and is mortuily been entertained? I am not going and instructive studiea. M.G.M. plans, so in their case each in on a
invariably justify separate bed. wounded. An exhausting death to attempt to answer the questions featurettes
But in cases that are alike and scane is followed by that customary here, for as I have said reactions themselves by the very nature of old re-union which goes something will vary. But whatever one's at the subject and the quality of the where sins are similar, whether they like this.
titude to the pieture, Lady With A production. And in this direction he many or few, they are all pinced The wife: And now my dear Past provides.one of those "talking the latest fenther in the cups of together in one bed. I must tell you the true story of points," so eagerly sought by the the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company Is the Microscopic Mysteries fen- my life and how all this happen- late Lord Northcliffe, for his news
ture, the first of which were seen in Hongkong this week.
ed..
The Ilusband (cutting in); Not
papers,
mirrored on
a word darling. You are not go TN this picture we have Constance a young Hociety Ing to say anything until 1 have Bennett as Anished telling you, how sorry woman, heart-broken because she in um, and that will take me the rest unpopular with men. Miss Bennett of my life.
Curtain.
But I still think the other end- ing would have been preferable.
·
course it is no new thing for the cinema to present nature studies. but in the use of micro-
is then allowed to break nearly scople lens to photograph the stud- javery rule of conduct on the groundies, M.G.M. have, so far as Holly- that the end justifies the means,
in peace.
the
Yet even in sleep one may think of acts of fornication and, enticing others by one's beauty and enjoy the "Joys are found in bed and grief also comes to one in bed.
that a bus-
pleasure of Just in sice
(To be continued.) All Rights Reserved.
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wood is concerned, presented some-ionova. Its theme is that no girl can be thing new. It is within recollec- Berlin. A scrap between Tracy and Boyd popular with men unless she has tion that several years ago Ufa were Helsingfors.
been mixed up in some sort of making a similar type of film and Oslo might not have been quite dignified as Tracy's exit from the scandal. In pursuit of this unit was this sort of work, which, Athens
educational Milan attractive argument. we find that although it had on
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In
at
Vienna
trial court, but it would have been the girl who has every young man aspect as its basis was at the samo Buchos Aires more exciting and certainly koping with the earlier atmon-way York at her feet in a widow time distinctly experimental, con- Shanghat
who is believed to have poisoned her tributed to the fame of the Ufa New Yo phere of the picture.
husband. In this rather absurd producing company as pioneers of Amsterdam. THERE in some really oxcollent setting Constance Bennett, in the modern cinemaphotography.
part of the heroino, ("They called acting in this picture, although me Venice because Mum and Dad HE study included in the M.G.M. Bucharest
varlatý programme
the liongkong the theme is trilo. I have my own spont their honeymoon there"),
Brussels. private opinion about Hollywood apponra na the only daughter of the Queen's Theatro this week was a
Stockholm. for the manner they exploit auch a most Pilgrim Fathorish blood in remarkable example of the poten- talented actor as Spencer Tracy, New York. The story, which is tlalities of the screen as medium Lisbon
'Bombay but never mind that. One con- very long, is told in great detail and of art and education, No skilfully Yokohama solation to his admirers is that no with the utmost technical efficiency, writion scenario or cleverly acted Montevideo.
of vehlele. Tracy The members of a lengthy cast net picturo has expressed drama better, Montrout. is equal to the
Bilver brilliant actor and if given the theless, I am left with the fooling death struggles of tho ant world chance could an equally sue that this picture should have been" as "Tovealed "through-the-micros War Loane cessful character player. Poggy called not "Reputation," but copic lens. Much of the offect was
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