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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938.
Hongkong Telegraph
EIGHTH ANNUAL AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
June-September, 1938
$250 CASH $250
PRIZES
(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph") TWO SILVER TROPHIES. VALUED $250
(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London)
BELL & HOWELL FILMO DOUBLE EIGHT MOVIE CAMERA & CASE, VALUED $288 (Donated by Filmo Depot, Hongkong)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION DE LUXE PHOTO ALBUM
Hand-made in leather by a renowned Vienna artist to the value of $100.00
Donated by: HELMUT NOCHT
To be awarded to the best action study, including
Open to all classes. sequence shots.
COMMENCE SENDING YOUR ENTRIES NOW
THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND
SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION,
IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.
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Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:
FOR STORY-TELLING PICTURES First Prize: Bell & Howell Filmo Double B Camera, Streamline Model, four speeds, self. setting footage indicator, built-in exposure guide, single picture device. Complete with case. Donated by Filmo Dept., Hongkong,
Second Prize: $40 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION TWO:
GENERAL PICTORIAL SECTION (VIEWS, ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPES, SEASCAPES, HUMAN AND ANIMAL STUDIES).
First Prize: $50 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
The following Rules will govern the Competition:
1-The Competition is confined exclusivp-
ly to amateur photographers. Z-No employee or member of any firm In the photographie trade 1s parmitted to compete.
M.G.M. PLAN TO MAKE 56
NEW PICTURES
Brilliant
Schedule
For Next Autumn
FIFTY-TWO PICTURES ARE ON THE METRO COLDWYN
MAYER SCHEDULE FOR THE NEW SEASON STARTING WITH THE AUTUMN,
Thirty-six will be in a big-budget, big-star_valuo classification with all others on a sliding scale of production expenditure but produced without regard to stinting on the pro- duction requirements of the story.
All of the pictures produced are designed for first run class theatres, a policy based on careful observation of the experiences at the box-office in the last few years.
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1930, which
The 105 stars, contracted In Ono Young Amertean: Spencer players, and directors, it is Tracy and Mickey Rooney have the stated, are sufficient to insure leading roles in, Bays' Town; an un- frst-class production effort for tled Marx Brothers comedy will be one of the big-scale productions of cach of these pictures, which will the year: nolulu is another new require magnetic casting and film with a cast yet to be announced. of the new attentive
Musical productions management. The
year will include Broadway Melody money, assured for investment,
an inve Will has been allotted on a basis for all-star cast; Adventure For Three, complete class A production. starring Jeunette MacDonald with
Nobert 2. Leonard 114
Producer- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer plans so
director; The Great Waltz, co-starring far for the new reason include Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus; starring vehicles for Lionel Barry- Sweethearts, co-starring Jeanette more, Freille Bartholomew, Wal-MacDonald and Nelson Eddy: Dala- face Beers, Joan Crawford, Nelson alka Eddy, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, adaptation of the continental with Jonn Massey, Ray Fernand Gravet,
Myrna
Loycess Bolger
and an all-star cast. Jeanette MacDonald, the Marx M-G-M directors under contraet Brothers, Robert Mastgomers. for the new season Include Frank Eleanor Powell, William Powell, Luise Rainer, Rosalind Russell. Durivier, George Fitzmaurice, Victor Clarence Dorun, Jullen Borzage, Norma Shearer, Margaret Sullayan, Fleming, Sidney Franklin, Robert Z. Robert Taylor, and Spencer Tracy Leonard, Edwin L. Marin, J. Walter The list of contemplated new sea- Ruben, Reinhold Schunzel, George gon pictures, either in production or Seitz, Errol Tagart, Willian Thiele, in preparation, follows;
Richard Thorpe, W. S. Van Dyke i
Three pictures in Technicolour,und Sam Wood. Northwest Passage, starring Robert Taylor, Spencer Tracy and Wallace
Beery, W. 5. Van Dyke 11 directing: Mrs. Kirby Green
The Wizard of Oz. Mervyn Lelloy producing, with an all-star cast that
will include Ray Holger; and Twenty Plans Record
Thousand Leagues Under The Sea,
based on Jules Verne's famous story Secret Flight
of the sane pame.
In Maric Antoinette, Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power will head!
By A Special Correspondent Mrs. Betty Kirby-Green, record- An all-star cast; The Thin Man Re-
airwoman and Mayfair turns, co-stars William Powell and broking Myrna Loy; two Kipling stories are club-owner, revented to me recently announced, Soldiers Threo and Kim, that she is about to attempt with Mr. the latter starring Freddie Barthole- "most spectacular flight ever attempt- C. W. A. Scott, the famous pilot, the mew; Idlot's Delight, co-stars
tars Clark
Ced by British aviators." It will in- Gable and Norma Shearer, some
Scenes
me.
our
for which will be made involve five days flying for 20 hours a Switzerland; Maiden Voyage, co-stars day.
"We don't want to disclose Luise Rainer and Robert Mont- gomery; and Tell It To The Marines, some one else to attempt the flight plans just yet, because we should hate -co-stars Robert Taylor and Spencer before us," Mrs. Kirby-Green said to
Tracy.
The Women,
current Broadway
"I have been working on the idea long-run stage success, will be made since January, but still have not with Norma Shearer in the starring found a sponsor who will carry the role. Hunt
Stromberg has been full expense of the flight. named as producer for this film and
HELP will work in association, with Max *The makers of the Percival Gordon who created the stage suc-planes and de Havillands are help- CCSS.
ing us, but, we are still short of Dale Carnegie's How To Win money.
"Scott will be back from Johannesburg in three weeks, and then we shall completo our planes. "We have done plenty of flying to- gether, and I feel it would be a grand partnership."
FAITH
Third Prixes: $15 Cash, donated by "The novel of escape from Devil's Island, Hongkong Telegraph.'
SECTION THREE: STUDIES IN STILL LIFE
Percival
Second Prize: $25 Cash, donated by "The Friends is announced as the title of a comedy production to be made by Hongkong Telegraph."
Hunt Stromberg; Richard Sales's
Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep, will be produced (in the manner of Dinner At Eight) with
a multiple Sea Of Grass is Spencer star cast; and The Great Cana- Tracy vehicle; dian, a story of hockey, starring Clark Gable.
Fidelity is a new Joan Crawford starring vehicle; I Love You Again will co-star William Powell and Myrna Loy: Wallace Beery will be starred in Bland Up And Fight and Mr. Scott won the London to Mel- Bad Man, of Arizona. He will also bourne and Portsmouth to Johanner- be seen with Freddie Bartholomew burg a races.
First Prize: $30 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Third Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
SECTION FOUR:
SNAPSHOTS TAKEN BY CHILDREN UNDER 14 YEARS
First Prize: $20 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
Second Prize: $15 Cash, donated by "The Hongkong Telegraph."
RULES
1
been taken in the Colony of Hong- kang. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible.
6-No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, lots of, or dainage to entries.
Mizes:-16" by 14", 10" by 12", 10" by 6".
11. No. correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.
12-Entries in the Children's Section must bear the entrant's name, ago and address on the entry form, counter- signed by a parent.
3The prizes will be awarded to the
competitors sending in what adjudged to be the beat photographs in each section. Each entry, must be 5-Pictures submitted in sepia tones accompanied by n form which will ba should be accompanied by 'n amaller published during the period of the print in black and white. Competition, and which must be pasted on back of entry,
7-All entries to be either black, sepin. or toned pictures, and must bo mounted. Hand-coloured photography Bro
are ineligible.
9. No plcture to be entered in more
than one Section,
4-The right to publish any or all of the,
entries in the Telegraphs is reserved.18-Mounts to be only white or cream,
-All photographs entered must have
mul except in the Children's Section, must be of one of the following
USE THIS FORM
AND PASTE IT
ON THE
BACK OF EACH ENTRY.
*SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS DATE
13.-Members ot tha Staffs of the Hongkong Telegraph and the South China torming Peat are not permitted to compało,
14-The decisions of the Judges shall be
final.
15-At the conclusion of the Compelfilon, entries will be returned to compettiora on application at the Telegraph ofces within seven days.
ENTRY FORM
Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry. I entered in Children's here. Scction, parent please countersign
Kirby-Green's Dying abilities," Mr. "Mr. Scott has great faith in Mrs. Scott's manager, Mr. John Leggitt, told me.
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Mrs. Kirby-Green, with Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, broke the London-Cape-London records last
November.
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