THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1933.
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
FASCINATING STORY OF "THE WHITE SISTER”.
"THE KID FROM SPAIN” DUE ON FRIDAY
NOT QUITE UP TO STANDARD OF EARLIER PICTURES
(By “CELLULOID")
LAIMED as the natural in allowing the self-sacri-
CLAIMED
successor to Smilin' ficing principles of Helen Through, White Sister, pre- Hayes to triumph over the sent offering at the Queen's everyday logicality of Clark Theatre is in several res-Gable, the author has pects a greater picture than usurped the dictum that even the Norma Shearer-"Love triumphs over évery- Frederic March box-office thing."
sensation. Certainly there
is more depth in the story, TN this picture we see. Helen and one of the most absor-Hayes, alianced nilly-willy to bing appeals of the film is a wealthy Italian noble, meeting the struggle on the part the high-spirited Clark Gable, 'a of the author to work out the Lieutenant in the Italian air theme to a logical conclu- They fall in love. Like her force, with the usual results. sion. Torn between ration- alism and high idealism, the
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author endeavours to work the story out to a reasonable ending. Many will feel that
mother before her, who ran away with another man and committed suicide upon being abandoned, Helen also. forsakes her father's house, but during the getaway, her car crashes in- to her father's automobile and he is killed. Overcome with grief, Helen refuses to see Clark until he is called up to the war and then once again they plight their love. The months pass, with Clark performing doughty aerial deeds
on the Austrian front. Then one day he is forced down in flames. He is reported killed, and Helen, giving, up all, hope, decides to take her vows and be-
como
Sylvia Sidney, winsome serven actress, has a real reason for her pen- streness Unga days. Defying stillo' executives, sho walked off the int In Hollywood in the middle of a picture, flow to New York and prepared to embark for Europa white fellow playors, thrown to idleness by her absence, begged her to return. Spivia said she stopped work because of a week silmett
history anun. In the meantime. THUS is
repeated. Clark has escaped from his burn- Mother and daughter suffer the ing machine and is nursed back same fate in their quest for true to life by an Austrian peasant love. Both suffer broken lives. family. He is captured in trying It is a cynical commentary on the to escape and interned in a camp popular novel iden of love and where cholera breaks out. He romance. Yet it is one of the makes his final escape from here very few films without ȧ happy and arrives back to find Helen ending which must enjoy a ter- at the. Convent. Despite all pro-rifië
success. There testation, and in the face of cold are some dynamle love acunes be reason and real desire, she re-fore the tragic close, and some fuses to break her vows. Clark brilliant acting by Clark Gable accepts and makes a final flight, and Helen Hayes throughout. Convent a in every respect the film la given arriving back in the
amazingly delicate treatment, and
dying man.
box-office
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the continuity is among the best have seen for many a long day. The material is not fitted for an exposition of the more aesthetic qualities of the cinema, but the beautifully acting material. is treated by the camera.
THE scenes in the convent are very impressive. They have been handled with reverent care,
and the most discerning eritio could not find fault with them.
YOU CAN SEE THESE
TO DAY..
Queen's: "White Sister." King's: "Cavajende."
Central: "The Blarney Stone" Majestic: "To-Night In Dura" Oriental: "Cuban Love Song." Star: "Looking On Plie Bright Side,”
WEDNESDAY:
King's: "Infernal Machine." Majestic: "Lonely Wives."
THURSDAY.
Queen's: "Gabriel Over the Whic House,"
King's: "Infernal Machine"
cording to label, except Morris, who solves the mystery atTM 11,69," Alternative title "What a Mani
or From Lifeboat to Bridal Suite, And thirdly comes the "Film Weekly." which says: "The Director has been unable to make. up his mind whether It Is comedy or drama he wants, and the re- sult is that the somewhat novel iden of showing the reactions of n number of people on a ship, con- scious that there is a bomb on board which is liable to go off at any moment, misfires a The continuity is rather confusing and ragged."
THE comparison is interesting. THE
The "Film Weekdy" is trying to convey something of the same thing as the "Bulletin" and
of its type this is truly a beauti- Clark Cable and Helen Hayes, as ful pieture; a credit to Metro- the appear in "The White Sister", Goldwyn-Mayer in every respect. now showing at the Queen's Theatre "Smith's Weckly", without giving the game away. Anyhow the WIT WITHOUT the rest of the.
Aldwych cust, Tom Walls criticisms are sufficient to arouse seems to lose a great deal of his one's curiosity, and I think you appeal. In fact a pieture such as will find both Genieveve Tobin and The Blarney Stone does much to Chester Morris much more enter- of hiatalning than the foregoing sug- demonstrate that much success is due to the contrast be. gests. The picture comes to the tween his characteristies and those King's this week, and although of Ralph Lynn. Without the Lynn agree that the scenario is not foil, ho has a difficult task to live for short as that described by our vitriolic contemporaries, up to his reputation. But the rather
main trouble about The Blarney the acting does much to compen Stone, now showing at the Central eato for the deficiencies. Theatre, is that it is u wrong
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type of vehicle for Tom Walls. HAVING seen a preview of The theme is not humorous. In The Kid From Spain, I can fact, but for the funny stories de- promise cinema-goers an amusing liberately Introduced by Walla, it two hours at the King's Theatre
Friday, Frankly I would make a very fine dramatic on
tio Slm. The situations themselves not regard this as Eddie Cantor's are unusually serious and Tom best. The usual string of wise- Walls seems to have been forced cracks are missing; but there is to erente amusing incidents in the plenty of fun, and the mountings course of directing the picture. and chorus work are typically
Samuel Goldwyn in their gor geousness. The glorifying of America's feminine beauty is own performance is quite effected with all the lavishness of good, and his Irish brogue ie its predecessors Whoopee and especially clever. Anno Grey Palmy Days, and the opening offers useful support, and the sceno ia brilliant in its concep rost of the oast are okay without ilon, staging and dancing, being exceptional. it is to bel hoped that a more caroful selec- tion of material will be made for Tom Walls' further individual screen appearances.
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course Eddie is the pivotal point of the film. He rolls his eyes, talks with his hands and sings his way through the picture in typical manner. In addition The appears in a bull fight, which, IT is sometimes not without by reason of the peculiar twist value to compare the reaction's given it by the director, remains to a m of the free-minded news-more dramatic than funny. This, paper writer and those of the film I felt, was the most disappointing magazine who has a certain axe feature of the film. The pos to grind. The former is often sibilities of a wonderful burlesque accused of hot-headed criticism, were unlimited, yet those pos- yet surely it is the "faint praise sibilities have, for the most part, which dams" as in the following been ignored. CR80. Conimenting on Infernal
Mackene, "Smith's Weekly" says JOVERTHELESS Eddie Cantor "From a brigk enough opening bas suficient Individualiam this picture dogenerates rapidly and porsonality to make The Kid Into such far-fetched bithor that From Spain a definite success and one wonders whether the director a tremendous box-office attraction. was stunned by a brick or some The theme songs are tuneful and thing at the end of the first catchy, the chief number being, rool
Gonlevevo Tobin strug "In the Moonlight." The other gies with a colourless role and two hits are "What a Perfect Chaster Morris is so bright and Combination" and "Look What shining that ho reminds us of You've Done. In the latter Lydn bottle of Listerine." The Sydney Robert, the former Shanghal Bulletin has the following: girl, who has been soon here be "The joke about Infornal Machine fore, is heard to great advantage, fa that thero fan't any When and as leading support to Eddie tho announcement is made that Cantor, adds further laurels, there is h bomb aboard, timod to Lyda, in fact, seems destined for a explode at midnight, all net ne- successful screen career.
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