Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 22, 1939.
KEEN INTEREST IN
FILM CENSORSHIP
FILM topics are perhaps of even more interest at the present
time than the films themselves. Thus there is a reaction against the American film censorship as a potent cause of the standardisation and puerility of the great majority of Hollywood pictures. The immediate abolition of the Will Hays office, the motion picture production "code" the Legion of Decency and all other forms of censorship is urged by Professor Sawyot Falk, director of the Civil University Theatre, at Syracuse, New York. As an experiment he wants to see "facts of life" films produced, with good taste as the only restriction. Professor Falk resents the fact that the screen is unable to touch on vital subjects not forbidden to the novelist and dramatist. I do not think his view will gain ground. since without restriction of some sort good cur- rency would be driven out by the bad. Everything depends on the manner in which the censorship is exercised. It ceases to be intolerable when, as in England, it is sensitive to public. opinion,
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Then there is the present position, 15 hours. flying service against ́ ̧ a of film production in England which German ace. Scotty (David Niven) is causing controversy and difference is cheerful and the veteran (Donald) of views everywhere. Some people Crisp) stands by with genile philo- maintain that the new Films Act sophy. John Monk Saunders, which provides for a 20 per cent. American, has written nothing so queta
for the renters and 15% for effective since "Wings" and Edmund the exhibitors, has achieved ils pur- Goulding, an Englishman, has direct- pose. It has resulted in an improve-ed a British cast faultlessly. ment in quality and Ims achieved the splendid result of degrading "Quota Qeshing out the
Oppun ents of the Act maintain that it is a flop because there is so much un employment rife. Another rectoon of the trade s unhappy because fewer pictures are being produced, but what are being produced are better.
Perhaps it is as well for everybody to be patient for months to see how the Act actually works.
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Other Alms look pale in compari- son with Dawn Patrol." tucky at the New Gallery is life seen through the rosy lens of techni colour. It is the old story of two familles
feud and the
beautiful dalla In love with
the handsome son, and there is a here in the Kentucky Derby. spite of its unoriginal plot Ja good entertainment, with Richard Greens and Loretta Young as the lovers. It! bas quaint humour and charm and no doubt will be more popular with the publie than "Down Patrol."
The
Outsider" successful as play and as a silent film, has been remade by Associated British with Mury Maguire us the crippled girl, and George Sanders, the tall English y man who made his
as the mark
Scolsmen are up in arms because lms made by an official Scottish committee have been rejected by the commitice responsible for choosing Aims for the British Pavilion at the New York Fair. The reasons for the rejection were seemingly at the Alms did not show aumclently
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pretty or decoratier picture of Bri- monocled menace in "Lloyds of inin. The body which had refused London" as the quack who cures her presentation is a committee of the when Harley Street has failed. British Council for Cultural Rela-saw the play some years ago and tions Overses, which he described | noticed that the film kept well within| as an English organisation. No the stage portrayal excepting for a doubt we shall hear more of thi few alterations.
A GREAT FILM
A great film has come to us recent-
BONE SETTING
NEW YORK
WORLD'S FAIR
Any misdirected stones might damage the $1,000,000 glass house at the New York World's Fair, where wonders of the world of glass will be houseci. Above, the huge illuminated tower of glass blocks, is shown, with its blue glass fins and spiral helix. The building is located not far from the themale trylon and perisphere of the fair.
Rich Widow To Marry
Holiday-Hotel Waiter
'BUDAPEST.
A wealthy Australian widow, aged twenty-nine, is to marry a Hungarian waiter with whom she fell in love when he waited at her table two years ago at Lake Balaton, Hungary's fashionable summer resort.
Hardy Embraced
world with a sweet and appeal y An Elephant
The chief point being that bone ly. It is a superb warm and setting was regarded with grave is called "The Dawn Patrol." One suspiclon and hostility and that cville suggests that if Chekhov had nowadays one loses a little of this served as an airman in the War point as it is t
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part of one's life. is the sort of story he might have Mary Maguire is a newcomer to the written. 1 stirring, magnificent
a
filr study in futility. There is really no ing face and lovely eyes that hold plot. None of the characters is un-(one's attention throughout. The film sympathetic. The end has come
rome | impresses one as A moving before you realise you have not seen 1 womun. The drama rises from the reactions of each man to his job. The commanding Meer (Basti Bath- bone) has been brought to a nervous breakdown by duties he hates; ils flight leader (Errol Flynn) thinks him a butcher for sending boys on
GEORGE EMERSON, of Holly- and wood, who trains animals for the athletic story which will appeal how-films, has just finished his toughest ever more to the feminine public. assignment,
Joe E. Brown continues to bel His is a strenous job at the best popular and his picture "The Gladia-of times, but when he was training or conforming strictly, to formula, two elephants, Queenie and Sally, can be safely recommended to all for their parts in Oliver Hardy's who like it. Some of the gags are latest ilm, "It's Spring Again," it
(Continued on Next Column.) attained new heights of difficulty.
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In the script this sort of thing kept bobbing: up
"A look et pain sweeps across the
Oliver Hardy
elephant's 100,"
Sally
en braces with deep affection."
"A light of determination was in Queenie's eyes.
For the sweeping look of pain, Genge daubed glycerine on the cle- checks, then turned a wind-
The
walter, thirty-four-year-old Joseph Nagy, is the son of a brick- layer.
The widow, Mrs, Molly Barton, came to Hungary after the death of her husband, surgeon in Mel- bourne. She now owns flourishing beauty parlour in Melbourne.
Nagy said: "Wy became interested
In each other because I could talk to her in English. After I had cleared her table and was off duty nt the hotel we used to po for 'walks together,
"Before she returned to Australla after six weeks' holiday we were en-
gaged
Since then she has written to ine regularly, and sent me cables asking me to go to Australia, but I did not want to live upon her fortune. So for two years I worked on waiter, and organised connections in Hungary ga that I could act as trading agent for importing Hun- garlan goods into Australia.
ason to her
face-and-made her 11am.ready to leave, I shall sall
For
a
"Now I have sent her a cable saying from Nuples shortly and we shall be
the determination, George married immediately after I arrive in
waved a a stick with a chromium-Melbourne."
plated knob, and made Queenle stare.
To produce the embrace, Oliver Hardy had to give Sally itbits for ten
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days. After that what could gratefull clephant do but wrap her trunk affectionately round him?
Canned For 114 Years, Is Fresh
What is the age of the oldest tin really funny. Considering that Mfr. of canned meat still in existence?
There is one of heavy black metal Brown is 40 he gets away vandern Explorers' Corner" at the Royal fully with adolescent parts.
Jouer United Services Institution which d'Echees" at the Berkeley, based on was in Captain Parry's stores for two
Aretic expeditions in 1824-25.
Finally
have we
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the life of Baron von Kempelen, the He brought it back unused and it Austrian puppet maker who lost his remained unopened last year. life saving a Polish rebel from the Now the roast veal it contained is vengeance of Catherine the Great.
eal in two test tubes, pink and fresh as The film, however, never quite gets the day it was canned ni least 114 there. There are moments of beauty years ago.
and strange horror but the Alma as a Portions were fed to animals--and whole/Just misses and this despite they like it. Donkin and Heal, who some distinguished, acting by Conrad began business in 1811, were the can- as the baron and Francoise ners. They were the first firm to Rosy as the Empress.
supply such products. News from the Disney studios is There were no un-openers in those that there will
The tin in "Explorers' Corner" be no full-length days. Disney successor to Snow Whitebears the instruction: "Cut unill next Christmas at the earliest. with hummer and chisel,"
but after that the feature cartoons
should succeed one another at inter-
irt
linnd at the moment, apurt
They They
"The und
aro
round
FROM CRIMEAN WAR Canning was originated by Appert,
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vals of six months or so. There are A Paris chef, who bottled foods and three full length Disney productions placed them in boiling water about
1700. from Four tins for canned food supplied the regular supply.
to the troops in the Crimean "Bambl" Appentice." The Orsi came into the possession of Profes- sor 3. C. Drummond, of London named is based on the Italian story University, {wo years ago. When a puppet made by the, woodcarver the cans were opened the food was Gepetto, who was brought to light found to be in excellent condition. by the Blue Falcy, but couldn't be- Pasteur's experiments on fermen- come a really little boy until he tailon proved that the secret of can- proved himself worthy. Bambi sing was not the exclusion of air, as about the deer who grew up to be was formerly believed, but the kill- monarch of the Maine Woods.ing of the bacteria in the foods by Mickey Mouse himself Is the heating. The exclusion of air pre- Sorcerer's apprentice.
vents the bacteria from re-entering.
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