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MUSIC
PLAIN SPEAKING.
FILMS THAT MAKE US
LOOK SILLY.
THE CHINA
A Alm critic writes in a Home
paper:-
More and now tribulations are in store for long-suffering film-goers. We have almost accepted as inevit- ablo and partly negligible the "silly
MAIL,
DRAMA
an insult to those who made these | Ane pictures "Mons," "Ypres," and "The Somme."
The atory may be recited in one breath. An American airman new- ly attached to a British flying squadron picks up with a French girl on his first day with the air- men, tells her on the same occasion that he loves her, gets "funk," and having made three failures fighting airman retrieves his posi- tion by flying unarmed to conquer a German "ace" i.
| Nu8,"* monocled 'Britons of the American film, but we must now prepare ourselves for further and more comprehensive American at-unmanly love tempts to show ua ourselves as we
are not.
Curiously enough, this new at tack on our simple pleasures has its origin deep down in the fact that we have been going to the pictures more freely than ever lately.
It is estimated that at present | 4,000,000 people are going to cinemas In London weekly. I predicted this boom in film-going early this year. I attribute it to the fact that Bri- tish and Continental pictures, which are being booked more freely, are bringing much-sought variety into
ns ሌ
The picture is made up chiefly of scenes and stupid ting notches on the mantelpiece for pictures showing our airmen cut-
every enemy plane brought down and turning up chairs for lost com- rades and decorating the legs with the dead airmen's caps.
*.
FILMS.
“SEX APPEAL.”
LOSING GROUND AT HOLLYWOOD.
"Sex appeal," "it" or whatever you may call that certain something that has been so flaunted by Holly- wood, is headed for the discard if we may believe the industry's lead- ing directors, all of whom predict a radical change in the type of screen heroine during the coming year.
"By 1980 the flapper will be as said Cecil B. De Mille, who is said obsolete at the Floradora sextet," to be secretly seeking a new face
for his next picture.
think. She is becoming more inter- eated in her mental achievements than in the latest variation of the Black Bottom She is developing into a more sensible individual than we have had in years, and she will became netther the prude of the 90s nor the post-war extremolat.
"Women's legs are more or less alike, but their brains represént "Uncle Carl's" gesture to the
distinct individuality," he Bald. country of his origin shows a Ger- "When brains become of more im man airman dropping a wreath for portance than legs to a woman she a. dead British airman. The ple will cultivate her own personality ture displays a complete lack of un-and as a result the new American derstanding of British sentiment. girl will not be a rubber-stamp type. Another reason why we may ex- "The modern girl ia beginning to pect more such travesties of our selves on the screen is that when the Film Bill becomes law distribu- film entertainments.
Examples of this variety are the tors of American films here must entirely "different" German "Metro-handle a proportion of British pro
ducts. polis," which is being shown in
They are proposing to nearly 50 London cinemas begin secure these British pictures by ning this week, and the brilliantly having them made here under the acted human drama of "Hindle supervision of Americans.
And the screen will have a great Wakes," which has now reached the This means the films will be pro-part in developing this new Indivi- general picture theatres. Such pie-duced with more than half an eye tures are not only bringing refresh-on what is likely to please Ameri- ment to film-goera whose appetites can film-goers. And how distaste are jaded by the eternal triangle ful a British film can be when it of sex, sin, and syncopation, but is made to appeal to Americans we they are also loading the more cri- saw in "London." tical to the cinema.
What They Will Lose. The American film kings know this. They know that last year films shown to the trade in London were roughly 92 per cent. Ameri- can, 4 per cent. British, and 3 per cent. Continental. They also know that in a recent period of ten weeks the trade shows were, roughly, 74 per cent. American, 4 per cent. British and 21 per cent. Continen- tal. In two later weeks the per- centages were American 60 and European (including British) 10. And there are still to be shown most of the sixty British films
"THE BELOVED VAGABOND.".
[Hannen Swaffer, writing in the that if the all-British musical play, "Daily Express" of August 31, says "The Beloved Vagabond," proves a success it should strike a fatal blow at Jazz.)
dual."
·
D. W. Grinth also falls in line
with the idea. "What the screen needs most at this time," he con- tends, "is a return to the wholesome girl type. Sex appeal is all right when confined to the beaches, but the public is tiring of having it flaunted before them on the screen." "There is a steady trend toward a more believable and more Intelli- gent type of screen heroine," James "When motion ple. tures first began to attract notice. Cruze states.
heroines were, as a rule, possessed of even features and seldom more than two expressions, but with the Beloved, thrice-beloved Vagabond-advance of pictures she has become You've won the world's affection more of a human being and less of
a doll.
a the screen For breaking corybantic Jazz'a "And inasmuch
helps to mould public opinion, it is easy to see that the girl who takes her intelligence and womanly qual ities will soon find herself relegated to the background.
Actress, M.P.
from this hour
power
Hail!
And lay'ng her in the dust, where
she must end
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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which are the product of this sum- Her ignominious reign without a greater atock in her sex appeal than onening dance of the season, played |
mer's big film push in Britain.
The British market represents 50 per cent. of the money earned by American films outside the United
friend.
Long have these ear-drums suffered
Jazz'a din;
But with her exit we shall welcome
in
Dion Bouclcnult's final gesture
with such irresistible, verve, that half-a-dozen encores were demand- ed for some of the more popular numbers.
States after America has done withThe spirit of true music, long kept before leaving London for Austra-ja laurel wreath was handed to Mr.
them, and those earnings are 40
per cent. of the film makers' total
Income.
It is estimated that this decline in popularity of the American film here will soon represent a loss of £1,200,000 a year to the Americana. Good business men as they are the "internationale" of Hollywood have been a long time finding out that they could not for ever ride roughshod over the tastes of the more discriminating British film- keer. And now they have realised the fact they are going to make more pictures which are calculated to appeal to us!
་
Making Amends.
"The Big Parade" roused the ire
of many British cinema-goers be- cause of the way it ignored the
out-
By wild, barbaric horrors put
rout.
Come, enter, "Heavenly Maid"
Collins calls thee) And give, me respite from
sounds that galled me: With thy return (0, joy!)
we'll hear
to
(as
harah
again
The strains divine that bring our
Heaven near,
And send the Bacchanalian muse to
.dwell
In t'other place which suits her
better-Hail.
Beloved, thrice-beloved vagabond,
-D. in "Singapore Free Press."
A COMMON BOND,
musical version of Locke's "The Be-
At the conclusion of the evening,
Darewski, bearing the words:--- ia, was to act as producer to the
"To the English Paul Whiteman.". Mr. Darewaki, who has been loved Vagabond." Mabel Russell playing at the Winter Garden, (Mrs. Hilton Philipson, M.P.) made Blackpool, will be at Covent Gar her return to the stage in it. den all this season. One of his Pluck wonders if any other case most treasured presents from Black- can be quoted where Member of pool is a bar of Blackpool rock. alonal player on Parliament appeared as a profes with the words: "A bar for sweet the professional remembrance, from the man who stage, while still a Member of Par-sweeps the floor."
liament.
It has been stipulated, however, that Mrs. Philipson shall only ap pear on the stage while Parliamenti is in recess. Otherwise, the double job might lead to endless possibili ties-such as Mabel, M.P., plunging before the curtain with a plea to be excused, "While I dash round to the lobby for a few minutes. They've Mr. Gerald C. Forty, who address-rung through, they're taking a dívi- part of the British and the French ed the Birmingham Rotary Club, sion on my Complimentary Marriage in the war. So Carl Laemmic, would find it hard to prove his Bill, and I must cast my vote." head of the big Universal Film con- statement that there is more joy Or, in the House itself, members cern-"Uncle Carl," as they call in heaven over a child practising might find much diversion from dull him in Hollywood-decided that his scales, than over fifty thousand finance bills watching the Member war picture which it was propos- community singers at a football ed should be released on Armistice match." While the leisure of the for Berwick-on-Tweed propping up Day, 1928-should be based on the individual, he added, had increased her hand-mirror beside the mace, exploits of British airmen in greatly within the last twenty-five and "making up," preparatory to a years, his means of employing his scurried exit round up to the Duke This is the film, "War Hawks," spare time intelligently had not of York's Theatre, to be in time for
developed in a commensurate de- the second act. which has so naturally annoyed the gree. The result was boredom-or Royal Air Force. I have seen it, worse. There would be fewer dull and found that "Uncle Carl's" good and discontented homes if parents intentions have only succeeded is and children were united by the. making a body of brave men look common bond of music. ridiculous.
France.
WHEN DREADED CROUP
COMES.
WALTZ COMING BACK.
"This year will mark the coming back of the waltz, and with such lovely tunes as the newest waitzen, the foxtrot will be hard put to It to hold its own.
Setting aside the many military errors and giving due credit for some very thrilling air-fight scenes, the cinema-goer will find it hard to be persuaded that Britons ever be haved as do the super-sentimental, ill-disciplined Flying Corps men of this picture, whích. It is claimed by the relief of knowing that there is a Those opinions were expressed to bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
A thing of dread, that comes in the metallic cough, a choking, gasping for night without warning. Just a hoarse, breath, a threst of suffocation.. Ohl
"Some people will tell you that That is all wrong. I consider it still in its dancing is on the wane. Infancy."
its owners, "brings to the screen
in the house. See how it clears away a "Reynolds's" 'representative, by for the first time a true picture of the choking phlegm, stops the hoarse Mr. Herman Darewski, who is the the Great War which is "devoid of cough, and brings rest and sleep to new conductor of the dance orches- exaggeration." Such a remark is the little sufferer. Sold everywhere. tra at Covent Garden, which, at the
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