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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 25, 1939.
Trick Charge WESTON
Agitation Against. On ‘Car By "Dubbing" Films
THERE is a certain amount of agitation at the present time against the practice of “dubbing" in films. "Dubbing" is the trick of fastening by mechanical ingenuity upon the folk of one nation the speech of another. The movement of actors' lips in their own langunge is studied.
CONSTABLE HUGGINS, of the Warwickshire pollee, told at Strat ford-on-Avon, recently, of his effort to arrest a motorist who, as the oftleer lood on the running board, acceler ated, saying "I'm going to crash the ear, and you'll get the sume will."
The motorist, John Halliday, aged twenty-seven, and his eighteen-year- Equivalent meanings in the "dubb, the trial scene, and only at the very old companion in the car, Thelma ed" tongue uttered by the substitute end drops to a lower level with Jean Willems, of Battleroad, Hast- of obtaining a with synchronised solution both melodramatic and un-ings, faced charges actors are then
by a trick, and Incurring exactness fastened on to the sound convincing. because it is not consis-car track. So that strange voices are tent with what we have seen of the a liability at a Redhill, Warwickshire, brought into alllance with Lurelgu necused man's character. Anyway, it hotel.
FORCED TO LET GO faces, and yet one more camera tricks the measure of Mr. Brook's success
Both were committed for trial, the adds to the general chicanery of the that, no matter what the fellow does, Blm. Pierre speak with the you like him. His gaiety is infee-girl being allowed bail. Halliday charm overpowering: was committed also on further votee of Petet, or Peter with the tlous. his voice of Plerrt. Rene Clair is the though the man is quite contemptible, charge of obtaining £5 by fraud.
Constable Huggins sald that when latest to prove it. Clair, 1 under-jhis bearing commands reluctant nd-
on the stand, objects to this practice on the miration to, the end. The film is so he tried to arrest Halliday score that each character in life has essentially Mr. Brook's picture that Warwick road he seized Halliday by his own distinctive voice which can not and should not be varied. Yet in the best example of "dubbing" 1 have seen, viz. that in "The Chest," for not one second could the most acule observer detect the fact that
none of the other players gets much the throut, but the man accelerated, chance. Jane Baxter, is at last given forcing him to let go to avoid serious
chinee to play a grown woman con- injury. vincingly. Harry K. Barnes does all
Holiday was enuight eventually in that can be done with the faithful a feld at Hampton Lucy, three miles barrister friend: Peter Buli in ade- from Stratford-on-Avon. it was not Guitry's voice speakingquately obnoxious as the corpse-to- but that of his Engikir invisible be; and Edward Rigby gives un amus- ecunterpart. The illusion was per-ing thumbnail sketch of a likeable old feel. "She Kidnapped a Man" can-seallawag of the Turf. The produc- not claim the same degree of skill on. by Michael Balcon, and
In
sentences seemed
manner.
a Ms Jizzband. This considered a
ELSIÉ CARLISLE
GIVEN MORPHIA
the TLSIE CARLISLE, variety niar and its dubbing. The ends of the direction, by alert Stevenson (who ralo crooner, who was seriously
defective. The also had a hand in the scenario) are! picture suffers from many crudilestick to the point of brillare; and 1! with an internal complaint at her from which it it rescued by the chief taking it all in all, "The Ware Case" home in Deanery-xtreet, Park-lanc. actor, Victor de Sien, He is good- one of the best British films for W., was being given morphia Injec looking, and has a nire voice and yuan.
ttons to deaden the pain. There is in the cast also For 25 years it has been a conven- Mr. Dilly Carlisle, her brother, said
by practical con-¡"At
she cannot be present
moved. cannot be lion, supported representative siderations of programme building. When she is a little better she will
152 Italian film, but it has tremendous that all story" fins should run algo to a nursing home."
least an hour. A new British com-j vivacity and no stall
Explaining a a denial by his brother has pany Goldoni-like “intrigue,
experiment. Harry, earlier, that their sister was "Consider Your Verdict" based on a, Mr. Carlisle added:-
• Hollywood Academy, dictator of play by Laurence Housman, is to the!
We all thought it wit
it would be a push- taste in the motion picture world, Javirage in what a short story is to ing trouble, and for business reasons. has announced its choice of the tenja novel. It runs about 30 minutes thought it best that news of her ill- best fi performers of 1938. Theju kong enough to show the kili-ness should not be spread about. We
mes are
truely
amount of
Charles Boyer in "Algiers." James Cagney in "Angels with dirty faces."
Robert Dostal in "The Citadel." Leslie Howard in "Pygmalion.“ Spencer Tracy in "Boystown.“
The women are:
Fay Bainter, in "White Banners," Bette Davis, in "Jezebel." Wendy Hiller, in "Pygmalion." Norma Shearer. in “Marie Ans, toinette."
Margaret Sullavan, Comrades.
"Three
and best
the 23rd
1/1
From these "nominations"
to the best man awards woman will be announced Academy's tanquest, on February.
tried
Ing of a Blackausiler in Hyde Park and the trial that arises from it. The climax is ingenious if not very con ¦ vincing and the direction has touches! jot originality.
Bird Flies Into
Bullet
Melbourne, Australia.
had her engagements to consider,
"Now, however, we have the doc- tor's diagnosis, and
very much more serious than we imagined.
"Two specialists and two doctors jare attending her, and she has
nurse with her day and night."
Miss Corlise last broadenst with her radio partner, Sam Browne. She was ill then, and left her bed to go to Broadcasting House. Afterwards she collapsed.
Australian sportsmen labour under 'Possum's Undoing
greater inconveniene frem birds) than sportsmin in any other part of
ان
Pasadena, Cal.
the world. In addition to the hugel One warmth-loving opossum finally crows which amuse themselves by toented the steam heating pipes linearry.ng af gulf balls, o magpie got beneath the bathroom of the E. Post in its work during a rifte match here home as an ideal nesting place. by swooping down and intercepting When discovered a month later by the th: bullet
still a contestant. It lost, family, they transferred it to it if, and the rifleman had to fire warmer place in the oven, where, it back to RD,
came out a roast. Alexander
Korda camer London on Sunday, the 5th February. from the United States with £500,000 for British film production. Ile has: arranged for seven films to be made at Denham Three he will produce himmelf for London Films, and four will be produced by Irving Asher, whom he has lent to Columbia Pic tures. First of his own films will be "The Thief of Bagdad." with Sabu and Paul Robeson. This will be math in colour on a big scale, and is dite to begin within the next few week
Next will be a new prodi - tion starring Merle Oberon, who is expectul back in London about the end of Marrh The third to be made Denham wil be "The Jungle Book," again starring Saba. Rumours that he ever intended to make this! picture in Hollywood are untrue.
The feature of the films this week! is the relirn of rather the "come~||
Brook. of Clive hack
Now comes! perhaps the best picture 115
be over: nute, and certainly the finest acting" performance of
career. The
Ware Case" was always an extremely eflective int of hukim. The
it
new
tal version retells the story with! atch slave power and subtle under-
of Tones
becomes passion that
It is the mething more important. story of a parasite, typical of a breed Cohaman enough in the 18th century, now happily dying out. "The Warej Care" Establishes its characters artre là, aclzleves painful suspense in
Bryan Grover, British engineer who flew into Russia with- out permission, to regain his Russian wife, thereby violating the whole catalogue of international dying regulations, is shown with her arriving in Harwich, England, by plane. He paid a 1.500- ruble fine to the Sovels. The couple later remarried in England.
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