CINEMA "SHOTS"
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 Shannen plays cleverly opposite him I of domestic drama is in- and first rate suporting work is variably interesting often amas accomplished by William Boyd, Irv ing and
always tantalising. Pichet and Herbert Mundin.
And the last mentioned is the
result of a persistent departure THERE is something attractively novel about the present pleture
frem what, up to a point can be at the Queen's Theatre, 70,000 accepted as fairly indicative of Witnesses." The title is 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
appeals. I think, is
the effort to stupidity on the part of one or introduce a new method of com- two of the characters. A glar-mitting murder and the reconstruc- ing example is The Painted tion of the crime which leads to Woman, current attraction at the unmasking of the murderer. A the King's Theatre.
footballer is rubbed by his college doctor with nitro-glycerine, which, after
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The
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH FRIDAY
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"SEQUENCES"
Lilian Harvey and Henry Garat as they appear in the brilliant film "Congress Dances” which comes to the Central Theatre on Sunday,
com-
he has made a long and [P to ǹ certain stage this is real
good drama, There is plenty strenuous run, acts on the brain of good arting, snappy action and and CAUSEA hemorrhage. the promise of a dashed good solution to the riddle is provided climax. But instead of allowing by the game being played over the story to progress along nominal again with the doctor forced to lines, the author has had to go apply the same "depe" to another off at a tangent, introduce an eis layer and the final denoument of
This net. ment quite foreign to the earlier theme and finish up with meloN this pleture we have some new drama, where the hero and heroine
well presented. idens quite have no
time to listen explanations of a very simple, al. Additionally some typical acting by David Landau, some first rate work though delicate, situation. As result we get an unecessary trial, by Charles Ruggle (once again a
drunken reporter) and adequate "Notoriety" or better still, "lave due to the skilful manipulation of an equally unnecessary shooting supporting contributions by Doro- you heard this one?" since the main the camera, but the grimness of
running to by some amusing 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 caching of an entertaining
other players go towards the mak-way for individual characters
film.
exprca- It shoot off a dubious variety of so-mentary. Judged by the
sions of opinton I heard afterwards, other on face value simply because relies largely on its dramatic situs-called wisecracks.
Hongkong appreciated this new re of a dying confession, half otions any mystery, and if the lat- which is alle, and are no nearer ter is a bit shallow, the action is WILL Rogers strikes a refreshing velation of the screen and further note in a cinema world where instalments of this feature will be the explanation of the cause of sufficiently sustained to overcome their quarrel than prior to the the deficiency.
polish and speed are so predomin-welcomed. shooting, the trial and the death
ant. He picks his leisurely scene, which makes the latter part
through his films provoking chuck- of the picture so inconsistent.
les and smiles, rather than boister- ous laughter, with his steady flow of dry humour and homely philosophising. Too Busy to Work which is the next change at the King's Theatre shows him in a role which fits him perfectly. He is a tramp, who has made laziness something between a fine art and a virtue, who walks the country-side lcoking for the man who stole his wife and daughter while he was at the war.
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PEGGY Shannon is on the rocks and has to make her living in a questionable hotel in Singapore, There she has a scene with a man culminating in her breaking a jug over his head. She prevails on William Boyd to help her to
on his ship sailing for escape Australia. On the Journey of the crew is attacked with plague and Peggy is put off on an Island off the trade route. There shu Arst meets Irving Pichel's rascally lawyer and Spen- cer Tracy a go-ahead pearler. She and Tracy marry after Pichel has done his utmost to lure her away. ̈ ̄Wiillan Boyd returns with his schooner and without knowing cach other be and Tracy have a little back-chat in the saloon. Tracy has to visit a neighbouring island and Boyd hears he has been
YOU CAN SEE THESE TO-DAY.
"Painted Woman", King's. "70,000 Witnesses
Queen's. "Lady With છે 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.
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"A VISIT TO THE INFERNO"
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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.
Laan-kat
for an ex-
ine what they are them, tad fan de planation of all these things.
Bluecont said, "There' are minny kinds of ain. It is almost impossible to treat them as of one type. The
evil of men proceeds from their evil hearts. It is by the mind that one may increase or reduce his evil.
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the road again with his identity unrevealed, The slight plot is a perfect vehicle for the expression of the star's personality. There is a fine supporting cast of players, Including Marion Nixon and Dick "It may be that in going about Powell, but the film begins and during the day when one is busy, one ends with Will Rogers. There are cannot think over these matters very incidents in his travels-making bed, when the mind is settled and the clearly, but at night when lying in vain attempts to catch a rabbit for eyes that cannot be fully realised, I breakfast, or being forced to give
are closed and one contemplates
nl kinds of wickedness and villany. also come forth, in fact, most of the evil schemes originate in bed. Then
may begin cheating in secret, and as they develop the plans they may sleep "Yet even in sleep ong may think
in perce.
of acts of ferntention and enticing others by one's beauty and enjoy the pleasure of lust in sleep.
"Joys are found in bed and grief WE owe it to M.G.M. for several
Innovations in the utilising' of | also comes to one in bed.
It sometimes happens that a hus the screen for bringing before the
up a free ride on a freight train and the feelings that one cannet anti- double-crossed by Peggy Shannon REACTIONS to the picture Lady which are a sheer delight istri cinate, many his mind, and So far, so good. In fact the whole with a Pest, which in England ly does he extract a witticism or wonderful came into the thing is put over extremely well. had to be renamed Reputation bon moral from bad luck. There is We are led to feel that the climax cause the original title WILS too another side to the tramp's nature, will be the meeting of Boyd and janggestive! will be varied when it of course, and Will Rogers shower can be clearly planned and one i Tracy in the latter's house and we shows at the Central Theatre to himself an emotional actor as well the first rank. wait for the moment. We wait in day. If anybody were to protest us a humorist of vain. The author prefers another that the theme is undesirable, the The pleasant country settings, fine- route to the finish. Boyd attempts incidents highly coloured to a pointy 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 stabbed by a faithful servant. rather a waste of time, Hollywood Too Busy for Wark. 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 fession of her earlier life and like ful pictorial survey of the lives of a true husband, head over heels thousands of men and women to in love with his wife, decides that day." All of which is undoubtedly public educational and amusing band and wife, pillowmates in bed, she is nothing but a chent. The true. The only point is, does it features. It was M.G.M. which ret one another on to do evil, and servant confesses to the murder. help to see some
nastier gave us the series of Sports Cham-unfilial conduct often starts in this
the pions by which we saw the world's also commence at such times.
way, and dissensions among brethren but Tracy refuses even to listen to truths of life mirrored
es-screen? Do we come away from best tennis players, swimmers, his wife's story. The servant
As for the others, they each have capes the gendarmes to explain the the theatre feeling that we have golfers and athletes in entertaining their own unclean minds and evil I am not going and instructive studies. M.G.M. plans, so in their ense each is an a position to Tracy and is mortally been entertained?
invariably Justify separate bed. wounded. An exhausting death to attempt to answer the questions featurettes cane 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 titude to the picture. Lady With A production, And in this direction like this.
The wife And now my dear Past provides one of those talking the latest feather in the caps of I must tell you the true story of points," so eagerly sought by the the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company my life and how all this happen- Inte Lord Northcliffe, for his news is the Microscopic Mysteries fen- ture. the first of which were seen ed..
In Hongkong this week.
The Husband (cutting in); Not A word darling. You are not go ing to say anything until I have finished telling you, how sorry am, and that will take me the rest of my life.
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N this picture we have Constance Bennett 1 a young society woman, heart-broken because she is Miss Bennett unpopular with men.
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core it is no new thing for the cinema to present nature studies, but in the use of micro-
is then allowed to break nearlyscopic lens to photograph the stud-
But in cases that are alike and
where sins are similar, whether they be many or few, they are all placed together in one bed.
(To be continued.) All Rights Reserved.
EXCHANGE RATES
every rule of conduct on the ground fes, M.G.M. have, so far as Holly-Parls..
wood is concerned, presented some But I still think the other end-that the end justifies the means. ing would have been preferable.
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Geneva. Its theme is that no girl can be thing, now. It is within recolice Berlin. A scrap between Tracy and Boyd popular with men unless she has tion that several years ago Ufa were ifelsingfors.
Bort of making a similar type of film and Oslo been mixed up in some might not have been
of this unit was this sort of work, which, Athens
educational Milan.. dignified as Tracy's exit from the scandal. In pursult
attractive argument wo find that although it had an trial court, but it would have been the girl who has every young man aspect na its basis was at the same Buenos Aires
Shanghai. more exciting and certainly
in New York at her feet is n widow timo distinctly experimental, con- keeping with the earlier stmod who is believed to have poisoned her tributed to the fame of the Ufa Amsterdam. phere of the picture,
busband. In this rather absurd producing company as ploncors of setting Constance Bennett, in the modern cinemaphotography.
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but never mind that. One con- very long, le told in great detail and Rolation to his admirers is that no with the utmost technical efficiency. written scenario or cleverly acted mattor the type of vehicle, Tracy The members of a lengthy cast act pleture has expressed drama batter, Montreal is equal to the occasion. He is a with a maximum of polish. Never. If so well, an the grim life and Silver (spot) brilliant actor and if given the theless, I am loft with the fooling death struggles of the ant world River (forward) 19
that this picture should have been lan revealed through the micros- | Wat Loan. consful character player.
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