The King of Nepal photographed
the course of a European tour.
HOLLYWOOD & SEX NONSENSE
and If we are to be given picturos which speciallso in nothing but logs I have no doubt that after o Buglent period we shall become log-minded" and so used to this fare that we shall not find interest for any other nort of pleture.
Seriously, the time has come when the film magnates might casily take a leaf from the books
of
Un-
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
OLD-AGE DEAFNESS
'Watch Your Food'.
: Advises Doctor
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934.
PROTECTIVE BOOM.
To Be Placed at Stern of New
Cunardor.
A recommendation that John Brown & Company (Lid.), Clyde- bank, be allowed to place a protec "The Increasing, deafness of old tive boom and barrago around the age has been too long accepted na stern of the now Cunarder No. Inevitable, and few ageing people 634, while the vessel is in their know that the condition can be im- fitting-out basin, was adopted at a thoso producers who,
proved and to a great extent pre-meeting of the Clyde Navigation
Trustees in Glasgow recently. vented," atates tho Lancet. trammelled with the Hollywood
When the matter was discussed Mr. Macleod Yearsley, F.R.C.S., tradition, are producing pictures while able to describe hopeful lines in committee, Sir Thomas Bell, of at a not very grent cdat; pictures of prevention and treatment, which Mesara Brown, stressed the neces which do not rely in any way upon will be mentioned later, emphasisca sity of the boom and barrage, sex to "get them over," but which at the same time the great need The structures are to be placed in for research into the exact conill-the positions desired, on condition are drawing large and appreciation of the cars of old people who that the Company relieves the Trustees of all clalma which may tive audiences, morely because the have become dent. picture la good, because it deals with an interesting aspect of life, and beenuse it is well told and
well acted.
Mr. Bernard Shaw chatting with an re-actor in bu play "Androcles and the
air theatre in Regent's Park.. Lion now being played in the open
and one
nino
His own experience lenda him to be made against them arising out assert that there is an important of or In connection with the
sociation between chronic polson- placing, maintaing, and Ing from the food canal and the moving of the
protective boom and deafness of old nge. Ic thinks barrage.
It was also agreed to continue The two Bergner pictures that if people paid more attention
tu what they ate and drank they for further condition the question during his recent visit to Rome, in mean the two which are done in would preserve their hearing much of whether the Trustees should tuned voice say, "It is now exactly
hour three minutes German with English subtitles-on
afford facilities to traders might in themselves constituto n is certain," he writes, "that others to via the launch of the second." or whatever the time may
be,
The clock worka on the same lesson for Hollywood, directora. unless old people with early presby-vessel on September 26.
principle na n "talkio" cinema pro- The story of these pictures is acusts (1.c., the deafness of old age) pull themselves up and take
jector. Two glass plates carry TIME BY PHONE simplicity, sympathetic direction, more care of their digestive ap
strips of sound film on concentric the and superb acting by Miss Berg- paratus from the points of view of ner, and they, both of them, proven more appropriate diet and less "TALKIE” CLOCK INVENTED. rings, Ono plate carries
sound tracks for the minutes, and Glearwich time will be put "on the other the tracks for the hours, that it is perfectly simple to make consumption of what are called, By William Foss an effective picture without a huge with doubtful veracity, the "good the "phone" as a result of an in-seconds, and the voice which expenditure of money or a gigan- things of life, then commencing vention by telephone engineers speaks the preliminary words. By deafness will assuredly go from at the Post Office Research using mechanically operated shut- "That Conat," otherwise Holly-tic exhibition of legs. Both theac
bad to worse."
Station, London. They havo de-ters, instead of awitches, much wood, is certainly a place of sur-pictures deal definitely with an
regards cure, Mr. Yearsley signed a "talking" clock which will better reproduction is obtained. prises, and the latest dictum that aspect of sex, yet in each case, be-
anyone tele-
Paris already has a talking clock films are to be "cleaned-up." that cause of the treatment, they con-reporta hopeful results with an speak the time to
and electrical method of treatment, de- phoning it.
which earns thousands of pounds stitute a lesson in morala
The new clock will be allocated every year. massage by sound," which stribed as essentially a form of
Two Leeds clock- ap-its own number, and it is to be makers recently Invented a clock prently produces definite Improve-nynclironised by Greenwich Obser- which announces the time over vatory, Callora will hear a cul- the telephonë every two minutes.
we are to have "leg-shows" con-might be seen with advantage by trolled, and that "sex" is to be put the most impressionable young hack in its right place on the film, man or woman with no fil-effect
is interesting, even. if we cannot quite bring ourselves to believe it
in its entirety.
whatsoever,
SEX INCIDENTAL.
I believe that when Hollywood producers have learned that sex, treated as an incidental to a story, is usually all right, but deault with as the main basis of the story is wrong, then a great step forward in the production of really good films will have been made.
By this time I think we have all become aware that Hollywood is, in the main.. a place of stants; and whilst I for one would not like to bring myself to believe that the idea of cleaning up Alms is merely stunt, yet, with a great many
Of course it is realised that the other people i have heard of "musical comedy" type of film of many propose changes which which there has been such a vogue have never materialised, that like rerently, demands lots of pretty the ancient suge, I am prepared to girls and lots of pretty legs, and if we go to see such film we know believe it when i see it.
more or less what we are in for; Hollywood is and always has but the sexy gangster film which been a place of extremes, and it is usually a lesson in the glorifica-
tion of
sex and crime is a definite would be amusing if the Alm menace, and there have been far pundits went to the other extreme too many films of this description and pracceded to drape the piano turned out by the Const studios, legs for fear oflending some each one vying with the last in an
jendeavour to go one better. delicately-minded director. I fear, however, that their new mentality will not take them as far na this,
As
ment in many instances.
Boys from London school recently spent a holiday i u the heart of the Hainault Forest, Ecox, only 15 -miles--from-the-Metropolit...-Que-pietu ra-shawn-a-little-bout-between- meals ---
EXPERIMENTS ON
ANIMALS
603,240 IN UK. LAST YEAR.
The total number of experiments
NIGHT AT SEA
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Clacton Queen, and for Coxswain Charles Ellis, of the lifebont.
OUR
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Such a conspicuous' part of your altire
the suggests wisdom of selecting a quality that compliments both your taste and your knowledge of values.
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There is no doubt that film audiences are sufficiently intelli- gent to realise what is good and I believe, over this matter of what is not good. They know also "sex," that Hollywood has, and the difference between probability always has had, the wrong angle.and impossibility, and the amazing situations created in some films There is nothing the matter with shown during the last year are not sex qua sex, but a great deal de-only impossible, but merely allly, pends upon the treatment. I do and are obviously introduced for the "not believe that there is any situa- the purpose of appealing to
baser instincts of those people who tion, no matter how apparently like that sort of thing." dollente, that cannot be Fopro-
THE HAPPY MEDIUM duced on the screen by Bymp thetic director in such a manner If, however, the present-day
Many hundreds of the passen- as to cause offence to no one. In Hollywood drive for purity, no
gers had spent the night on the point of fact, certain so-called matter how extreme, results in the then
decks of the steamer, and were "eoxy" films have been definitely happy medium eventually, moral in their action because they everyone will be more than satis-
Eight hundred passengers on the glad to rush off the boat to their have taught some lenson or pointed fled. The moral attitude of cen- a moral likely to make the more Borship adopted by the women's on living animals performed during pleasure steamer Clacton Queen, homes and lodgings in Clacton as
clubs of America has certainly not 1933 was 603,240, or 14,806 more
who expected to return to Clacton soon as the steamer berthed. intelligent young members of the
the previous year, from Chatham about nine o'clock audience pause and consider be- succeeded in preventing the show than during
states a Government White Paper.
Mrs. Lees, of the Drive, Burr's E fore they followed the example of ing of pletures which in
mend The number of experiments with on a recent night, were not landed
accoin- ing. those without anesthetics
575,056
panied by her husband and 11 SEX-CLORIFICATION. If directors and producers in the
In no case has a certificate dis- For most of the' soven interven-friend, said:" have never had film city concentrate on the pro- The matter with Hollywood is duction of good stories, well direct penising entirely with the use of ing hours they had been tossed such an experience in my life.
for an about in angry that there has been too much sex-ed and well-acted, leaving the operative proceeding more severe were ill, while scores, clad only in passengers in the saloon, but the
anasthetics been allowed
acas. Dozens We were "among the fortunate glorification, and too much pander-sex-angle to look after itself, the than
subeutascous venesection, flimsy summer dresses, shivered ing to the animal instinct of aud-film will, like everything else upon Serious operations are always re-with cold,
people on the deck had a terribly iences who, strange as it may be in this earth, eventually find the level quired to be performed under an
cold time, and many of them were print, will often watch something to which it is best intended, and anesthetic. The experiments per- They had spent the day at
sick. with Interest and only discover that is the average mass intelll-formed without anesthetics were Chatham seeing the Navy Week dis- afterwards that they disapproved gence of the people who pay to mostly inoculations and feeding play, and on the return journey tho of it. After all, we are all human, see it.
experiments..
captain was unable to sight the |light on the Swinn Spitway.
Unable to find his way he had hove to until he could be piloted anfaly on his course. Eventually the Clacton lifeboat, which put out just before two o'clock in the rough sea, piloted the steamer to the lifeboat, said:"We were told R. A. CHERRIES "DEL MONTE" No. 21⁄2 tin.. Clacton Plor, where anxious that the Clacton Queen was con- LIME JUICE CORDIAL "ROSE” qt. bot. friends and relativen of the passengers had been waiting all siderably overdue, and we at onco SWEET CORN "AYLMER" No. 2 tin
cases have little to recommend
and
the film heroine before their eyes. them except a certain vulgarity, numesthetics totalled 28.185..until after four o'clock next morn, Road, Clacton, who was
A vlaw ni ́x fruit market in Central Africa. Nativas of the Zambo tribe are shown altting in the market sell-
ing mango fruits.
night.
"The sea was very rough, and we were all terribly anxious. It was a great relief when we saw the lifeboat come to our help."
Hongkong,
THE ASIA COMPANY
(GENERAL STOREKEEPERS)
ANNOUNCE
THIS WEEK'S MONEY-SAVING SPECIALS
"SEA VERY ROUGH." Coxswain Ellis, the skipper of
(SEPTEMBER 9th to 15th INCLUSIVE)
TOMATO CATSUP "DEL MONTE" 14 oz. bot. . Par bot. ASPARAGUS "CANFRU". No. 21⁄2 sq. tin SAUREKRAUT “LIBBY” No. 21⁄2 sq, tin
.28
1 tin
45
35
*1
11
.60
"
bot. $1.45
11
tin .23
.19
บ
bot. ..70
went out. The son
WES very
The alarm was first raised by rough. After going through the GREEN PEAS "STOLLA" 3 lb. tin the steamer Queen of Thanet, Spit we steered a course over the MALTED VINEGAR "C. & B." reputed qt. bot. . which left Clacton at 10.15 p.m. middle light vessel towards the When she arrived at Southend she Clacton Queen. reported having seen tho' Clacton Queen lying in the Whittaker Spit, seven miles south-west of Alcton, By this time the vessel had also been sean fram Clacton,
SCENES ON PIER.
"She was under way and her navigation lights wore up. We signalled to her, This is the Clacton fabeat. Do you Jany help?'
want
The Ilfoboat had a thrilling "She replied, "We cannot find
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ateamor, but found all the passon-
gers quite safe. Then, preceded through the Spit right to Clacion
by the lifeboat, the Clacton Queen Pler."
was guided to the pier, and res markable scones were witnessed
The Clacton Queon was in no
as the passengers, most of whom mechanical difficulty, and after were holidaymakers, were re-discharging her passengers for, united with thoir families and Clacton in very quick time, she friends.
luft immediately for Walton and There wore loud cheers for Felixstowe to land other, passer- Captain Fowle, the skipper of the gers for those roaorta. A
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