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THE HỒNGKONG TELEGRAPH,.
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1938.
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Million-dollar Madness
At the Cinema-with P. L. Mannock
UPPOSING your local cinema manager stopped
on the stage to announco, that the feature Alm had cost £250,000, would you rise and cheer?
..
I doubt it. Who on carth has ever recommended a picture to his friends on the ground that it had cost a million dollars? Films please the public for, one reason only because they entertain.
It is time the hot-air departments of the aludtox realised this. Do they think the showman books films be- enue they have cost a lot?
Yet they still do it. Before me лге tailletins about Lealle Howard
£200,000
"Nelson," spetuting
OIL Douglas Fairbanks unloading a similar Gm on "Lola Montez," and "The Mikado" costing the ante gure. though "Yeomen of the Guard," to follow, will only rost £100.000.
Geofrey Toyc.
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supervising the
D'Oyly Carlo Mims, agrees with me very strongly on this matter,
"I cannot bellevo," he writes in the current "Kinematograph Weekly," the tending trade organ, flat renders will take such statements seriously. These figures are quite unauthorised, and X hope and pray The Mikado' will not cost £200,000, or anywhere near ti Furthermore, no choice in been made as to its successor."
SEVERAL readers have endorsed my
assertion that "smart" Americni wisecracks are disliked by millions of Bristol Bim-geers.
disliked. Quick-ro dialogue is principally beenure it is not under Blood," writes M. G. Winter, "olther in the provinces or the big cities. Studio bosses have a great deal to learn of the average Briton's mentality, and there is only one place to acquire this education--in the sixpenny and shill- ing seats.
First Aid for Fans the to-morrow-we-die scramble of his
WELLS FARGO-Joel McCrea at patrie podjather in o fine, sweeping picture of the old days.
THE PERFECT SPECIMEN,-ETTOL Elynn, TVOKS 1000er, gingered by Jon Blundell,
EBB TIDE. Coloured trapieni drama, well played by Oscar Itamolka and others,
DOCTOR RHYTHM.-Ding Crosby. Beatrice Lilite and some clever non- SOTIST.
CONVICT 99-WHL Hop in fail. almout us furing us last time.
"I am certain there is a half-way mark between the intolerable built-up- area pace of the British producer and
American rival.”
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Chia who is matter is Stanley Lupino, not only a comedian, but also a big shareholder in cinemas and a student of audience reaction.
This lightning Bowery stung k simply delested in hundreds of halls," he nastires me.
PUBLICITY from Hollywood Inno-
cently tells how Nigri Bruer, Seol- tish actor in Kidnapped, had a sign- post to Edinburgh altered, "because
the elty was spelt Edinboro' In 1081." Joke of the story is, of course. that the period of Kidnapped is 1751. Further Joke: that the story has been aolemnly reprinted in two London dailles. Dees accuracy matter?
NEW FILMS
Blockade
STARS: Madeleine Carroll. Henry
Spanish war drama.
Fondu.
SPLENDIDLY produced war scenes and fino acting ure not, premim- ably, the ingredients of the picture to which rebel objecting.
Spain
apparently
Written with a careful oye to the non-committal, you may assume that Madeleine Carroll and her boy-friend, pensant lieutenant Henry Fonds, are on either side.
Madeleine's role is that of a giri visitor who docs not know her father is a spy. He is shot dead by Mr. Fonda, and their perilous adventures cred at a port where a shlp has run the
Shirley Temple in Mary Pickford's old role
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'
sense to it. The world can stop it- where's the conscience of the world?"
enemy plockade and brings temporary Slight Case of Murder
rellet.
All same, this climax is the chief indication that the herole side is that of the Madrid Government; and, after ail, why shouldn't a fictional romanco of the constitutional Spanish krny be Atmed? The vital moral is hom- mered home in the boy's flasl outburst. "Pence! Where can you find it? Our country has been turned into a battle. Ileld. There's no safety for the old prople and children. It's murder- murder of innocent people. There's no
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HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier
STEAMER TRUNKS
STEAMER TRUNKS ARE NOT THE UL TRA-MODERN INVENTION ONE MIGHT SUPPOSE. EGYPTIAN KINGS, WHEN, TRAVELING ON THE NILE ABOUT 2000 B.C., USED TO CARRY THEIR JEWELS AND CLOTHES IN SPECIAL TRUNKS WHICH WERE PLACED UN- DER THE MONARCH'S BED.
ALLEY OOP
HAVIN' MOOTOO FOR JUST YOU'N ME WUZ PRETTY NICE, BUT HULLY" GEE -IT MAKES ME HAPPIER WHEN I SEE WHAT A SWELL HOME FOR
MOO IT BE!
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HIGH IN IMPORTANCE YOU AN'I WILL SET, CAUSE GUILL BE GRATEFUL YEZZİR, YOU BET!
RDANER
HE WHO FIGHTS AND
RUNS AWAY
THE QUOTATION: —
"FOR HE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS AWAY, MAY LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY;" IS NOT ORIGINAL WITH GOLDSMITH, WHO POPULARIZED IT IN THE 18TH CENTURY. IT COMES FROM THE EARLY GREEK PROVERB:"HE WHO FLEES WILL FIGHT ANOTHER DAY.'
YEP -WE NEVER DREAMED WHEN WE LAID IT OUT
THAT OUR OLD
MOO HAD
BEEN DE-
STROYED!
C'MON NOW, BOYS-BRING
IT RIGHT OVER
THIS WAY-
By Vincent Hamlin
FOR OUR WORK HERE RECOG· NITION WELL GET-
WE'LL WERE IT NOT FOR US, THEY'D BE WANDERY BE MOOVIAN -BIG-SHOTS ING YET!
NOW, SURE ENOUGH!
HEY, GIT OUTA THE WAY YOU TRAMPS CAN'TCHA SEE WE'RE
BUSY!
Gang-
STAR: Edward G. Robinson,
ster comedy-drama. CORPSES and comedy, as we know, are no longer an incompatible mix- ture. This is a hilarious yarn of a beer baron ruined by the repeal of Prohibi- tlon. He hates the police, and is furious when fila daughter falls in love with a Federol officer.
Main situation, richly funny, is the awkward presence of four dead men in his house, shot by a fifth, with bank loot under the bed. The young cop
becomes a here by ring at the dead men through a cupboard door, and Mr. Robinson decides to improve the quailty of his brew. A great lark, with the Robinson personality ably backed by Allen Jenkins, Ruth Don- netly. Allen Jenkins and some superb toughs.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Juvenile
STAE: Shirley Temple,
comedy draina,
WISTED around into a new tale of Achik making good as a radio atar, with the brilliant Teraple puppet
By William
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in the role Mary Fickford once played, this is more than acceptablo entertainment, with A fow good character touches.
Bentimentally 'recoiling from harsh grown-ups, Shirley helps the nico ones, Randolph Scott and Gloria Stuart, by pretending to lose her voice at the inlerophone, thereby smoothing out everything.
Happy Landing
STAR: Sonja Henlo. Romance with
skating.
NE of these days Miss Henle, in a altcuit akating movement, will fall down, and thus end her film career.
Meanwhile, her sunny smile and in- credible Ice prowess has to have storing written round it. This one starts in Norway, has a couple of no skating ballets. Don Ameche rather wealcul and some very cocky, blatant cabaret stun by Cesare Romero and Ethe! Merman. A perfect hotchpotch of a plot, garnished with numbers and acts and Jean Hersholt beaming through a frings of Nordic whisker."
Here and There
NORMA SHEARER las completed Marie Antoinette," with Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, Anita Laulse, Melvyn Douglas and Gladya George in the cast.
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are again together in "Sweet hearts."
Irero Rich returns to the screen “as Deanna Durbin's mother in "That Certain Age.""
Robert Taylor, now busy InGive and Take" with Maureen O'Sullivan and Frank Morgan, is act for "Stand Up and Fight,” with Wallace Beery,
Bobby Howes, Diana Churchill, Billy Hilton and Vera Pearce have begun "Yes, Madam." at Elstrea.
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Dickens a popular in Hollywood: "Old Curiosity Shop" coming, also Lionel Barrymore as Berooge in Christmas Carol"
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STORIES IN STAMPS
How Well Was George Washington Educated? FAXTENSIVE estates and a large income provided handsomely for the youth George Washing-
except in the field of educa ton, tion. So mengro were the facili- ties of the Colonies during these early 1700's that even children the richest wer
were forced to depend the poor
common schools, which
offered tury branches.
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only the rudimen
So it was that such education as Washington had was completed before he was 16. As a growing Jad, he was not remarkable as a scholar: was reserved, sedate.
His chief inclination seemed toward mathematics. Hence his last two years of format study, were devated to engineering,
geometry, trigonometry and sur- veying. It was probably because surveying promised advantages, in view of the wild atate of the coun« try and
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