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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1930.

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Behind the Scenees

in Hollywood

"BULLDOG DRUMMOND."

Straits Times:-

A correspondent, writes to the

I was very much surprised to read that the local Film Censor hou banned the talking picture "Bulldog Drummond."

[By Dorothy Herzog.] Walter Lang is a tall, Husky chap ho megaphones pictures for the Jimmy Cruze outåt. Walter went hunte to Memphis, to spend the holi- daya with

his folk. He stepped from the train onto an icy platform and promptly staggered. His mother nearly went. She had heard about Hollywood! Whereupon Walter hastily explained, Seemed when heit being banned. macked his wardrobe trunk and tried

and in my opinion, there is not the I have seen this picture. in Britain slightest incident in it to warrant "Bulldog Drum- mond" is simply a record of the ad-

ventures of a few high-spirited men, and there is in the picture absolute-

PLOT FOR " TALKIES.”|

Bootleggers and a Soap Pie.

The captain and ton men of the schooner Ada M. (Captain Byron Ritchy), the Britlah vessel which was captured by 'coastguards on New April 2 three miles off the Jersey coast after, as it is alleged, she had attempted to escape to the open sea and had been fired on dur- following day before the United Ing the chase, were arraigned the States Commisaloner, who fixed ball, The Ada M., which is valued at $10,000, is a new boat, and was making her maiden voyage from her home port -- Lahave, "Nová

Scotia.

It is alleged that cases of liquor

to close it, he couldn't. So he at- tempted to kick it closed and injured his leg. He just had time to have ly nothing that can be taken as im. were found on board valued at sny- j the leg X-rayed and make the train, moral, nor is there any political in- thing from £60,000 to £100,000, The X-ray negative was still wet ference or racial prejudice.

according to bootlegger valuation.. from the developing room and when

Surely with the lack of first-class The spirits were contained In quart Walter looked at it, it showed the amusements in Singapore we are not ting labelled "olive oil," "preserved i

fruits," or with other similarly mis- leading indications. An examination of the manifest disclosed the fact | that 1,500 cases were missing and unaccounted for. The crew declared

leg had suffered no fracture. But it hurt and ho could hardly navigate. Imagine his chagrin when he re turned to town to learn his leg was really fractured. The doctor had either neglected to wire him this information or else had wired to the wrong address. Even so, Walter had a lot of fast talking to do.

ACTRESS-AUTHORESS.

Congratulations to Lois Moran Lols wrote a story whilst vacation ing in the Yosemite some weeks ago. She found the courage to send it to n magazine. And did. Excelsior! It was accepted. And Lois is prouder than Punch. The title of her original effort "Kisses," College Hamour scribbled the cheque for it.

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AH HA, ART!

talkies that are produced. to be deprived of the few good This is

Board of Censors.

British film, passed by the British

How are we to

fester British trade when our own officials do their best to stop it?

THEATRE ETIQUETTE.

that they had been thrown over-

board, but the Excise officers accused thom of having sold them before the vessel' was apprehended. The Ada two officers and nine Heinz Hilpert, the well-known 1. carried Berlin producer, was invited by men crow. the Burgtheater to perform his

A First of April Story. The seizure of the Ada M. haa "modernised" mise-en-scene of

Schiller's. historic play, "Fiesco," a provided both "Wets" and "Drys"" production differing in many ways with a good laugh. It was as a mat- from the original version and lead-ter of fact an April fool pie that led ing to a "happy end" instead of to the downfall of Captain Byron tragedy. Hallowed tradition at Bitchy and his men. It happened the Burgtheater sternly forbids either actor or producer to appear before the curtain, only "gueste" commanded by Boatswaia Kar!

بھیجو

this way,

The coastguard patrol boat 145,

enjoying that privilege.

Schmidt, was cruising about one On being called, Heinz Hilpert, o'clock 15 miles off Sandy Hook, on dick to the amazement of everybody, did when one of the hands

watch, chilled with the dripping fog, not appear in immaculate evening- Russell Gleason is playing a fen- dress, but in a blue shirt, coloured went to the galley to get a snack tured role in Universal's "All Quiet coat, and brown boots, as If fresh before turning in. His eye' caught on the Western Front." The pic from work behind the scenes. Whe- luscious-looking ple which he ture has reached the front stage. ther this was due to some quarrel seized and stole away with. Now!

between him and the management, this pic had been specially baked

For fear Russell and others in the cast might respond to the iure of the holidays, Universal issued a flat order: "No finger nails to be cleaned for three weeks." That was enough to isolate young Gleason socially. Thet and the beard now bushing his

face. When he gets home from the studio, come nightfall or midnight, he's so grimed from having rolled in the mud (atmospheric realism) that he enters the house by way of the kitchen.

CORINNE'S QUICKEE,

Corinne Griffith pulled a quick one the other day on the "back-pay" set. The scene opens with Grant Withers In bed. Grant has returned from the war, blinded and otherwise in- jured. Corinne nurses him. Grant

or because he was in a hurry to re-by the cook and consisted of yellow

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turn to Berlin, has remained soap sprinkled on the top with milk mystery, but the incident has been and delicately browned to resemble much commented on as a breach of pumpkin pie. The cook spotted the ple disappearing and ran out after good manners.

its purloiner, calling out in sten- torian tones "April fool."

CHINESE FILM STAR.

Miss Nai Mai Yang Visits

Kuala Lumpur.

The incident naturally led to BOME excitement and shouting, not only

among the prime actors, but among

others on board, and the commotion attracted the attention of a motor- launch. Kuala Lumpur, April 29.

Over the mist-draped Although she expressed herself waters came a resounding hall favourably as regards those aspects

"Hey, cut out the comedy and get

from the launch

of Malaya which carn the com- down to business. We want 50 mendation of all visitors-its roads cases. Get busy. We are coming and its administration, Miss Nei alongside."

On a Hot Trail. Mai-yang, the film star who is at Present visiting Kuala Lumpur, ex- On the men pressed herself to a Malay Mail Jumping on board they wore highly is a petulant Invalid. Corinne up representative yesterday as disap-/diaconcerted to discover that they pointed with one phase of Malayan had got on to a patrolboat, not a rumrunner. They were subjected life. That is the way we enjoy our-

braids him lightly, with: "What you need is a good sound breakfast."

At this moment, Director Bill Seiter turned to Author John Faragoh and remarked:

"I don't like that

line, John.

What do you mean by a sound

breakfast!"

Whereupon Corinne

retorted:

#elves. Miss Yang is fond of danc-to. a searching Interrogation by

(Continued at foot of preceding ing, and in Shanghai there are

Column.) numerous cabarots and dances, where both Europeans and Chinese go for distraction. In Malaya there is none, though in Singapore

"You fool, he means a vitaphono there are occasional cabaret shows

breakfast!"

GOOD BUSINESS.

attended by Europeans.

Bat she thinks Chinese girls in Malaya have the advantage over their Chinese-born sisters in the The following is sworn to be true. matter. of education, for here she Two years ago, Walter Meyers and finds the level of education, both William Periberg, Hollywood book Chinese and English, comparatively Ing agents, sent the Mogals of Para-high among women, whereas it is moant a box of coconuts, with a not so in China. Miss Yang herself note: "You can't miss this!" The reads English, and speaks it a little. I recipients savvied. They called the agents and signed up the four Marx brothers.

Recently, Meyers and Perlberg sent the same producers a package of animal crackers, with a card at tached. "Another great bet for you!" It worked. The four Marx brothers have signed a contract to produce "Animal Crackers" for Paramount as soon as they finish their current stage tour.

WHOOPS!

Lee ("Big Time") Tracy is back in town. Lee fa scheduled to make another outloud for Fox. Be that as it may, he trailed into the Fox restaurant "tother noon and reached for a menu.

"I don't quite understand this," calling the waitress' attention to an Item reading: "Ham, Spare-ribs and Sauerkraut."

Although a screen atar, Miss Yang is an inveterate cinema-goer, and is especially fond of the films in which Lilian Gish and Greta Garbo appear. She models much of her work upon these two artistes. It was her liking for the cinema which led her to enter the profession five years ago, eince when she has taken the leading role in 14 productions. She has her own producing company, the Nai Mal Film Co., which has produced one fim In which Miss Yang herself took the load, entitled "The Wonderful Girl." She looks forward to the time when Western audiences will welcome Chinese firs Just as Chi- nese audiences welcome Western productions.

Miss Yang wishes to go to Holly- wood. She will in all probability go to Europe, in the course of the next few months, after touring the China coast.

One Chinese company has already "That means that the spare-ribs taken to the production of talkies, are optional," she explained.

and Mina Yang's ambition is to "My heavens," ejaculated Tracy."star" in the sound film productions. "Are they giving spare-ribs, options, too?!

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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NATHAN BYJOONA MADE STAYS ALOM US ASSABAD TO SHE HEN SULCUS YAMUN

Miss Nal Mai-ying, who is travel- ling with her sister Daisy, le ap- pearing to-night at the Chung Hua Cinema, Sultan Street, in a series of modern and Egyptian dances. A film fo which she is the leading lady, The Repentance'is also, being shown. She leaves for Ipoh on Friday, May 2 Malay Mail. PAS

the coastguards and ultimately ad- mitted that they were looking for the Ada M which should have been thereabouts. Two or three other launches also hailed the patrol-boat, showing the boatswain, that he was on a hot trail. Just before dawn the Ada M, won sighted about a mile off the Jersey coast and was captur-

ed after u inile or two's chase. |_ Pretty low, I call it," was all

"Captain Ritchie had to say,

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