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THE CHINA MAIL.
MUSIC DRAMA FILMS
£100,000 LÖST IN WEST
END PLAYS.
Fate of Cochran's New Revue a Bitter Blow.
LONG LIST OF FAILURES.
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The failure of "Cochran's 1931+
Revue" which has just been with
drawn from the London Pavilion
after running there for only nine days, is the latest and one of the bitterest of the many blows West End theatre managers have endured in the past six months.
At the present moment there are only three current plays which were first produced in London before last
December. "The Barretts of Wim-
pole Street" arrived here in Septem- ber, "It's a Boy" in October, and
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at the St. James's Theatre, was a complete failure, like "Topaze" an- other translation from the French
"O.H.M.S." ran for only four nights," in spite of Miss Evans' provence In the cast, and disappeared in the company of "Strange Interlude," "Snioky Cell," and "Jane's Legacy." So four authors, Reginald Berkley, Eugene O'Neill, Edgar Wallace, and Eden Phillpotts, all of whom have made fortunes on the stage, all disappeared from the West End at
RANGO.
FILM OF SUMATRA JUNGLE.
ture sensation of 1931. Least thrilled of all will be the man who made it. His friends reveal that it is characteristic of tall and taciturn Ernest Schoedsack that he immo- diately loses all interest in that which he has accomplished. He went to the Achin. Jungles in Sumatra and worked for more than a year on Rango. He returned, dropped an armful of tin film con- on a cutting room table, tainers said "Here's a new picture about apus and tigers and a man and boy," walked out the door and didn't come back to the studio until two weeks later. "How does it look?" he ask
Rango, which tall and mournfùl Erncat Schoedsack
dragged by strength and courage from the black depths of the Sumatra jungle, has a cast of four: a native tiger-
when informed that it hunter and his son, an orang-outang and his son. The baby orang is ed. and Rango and he gives a perfectly "Looked pretty good" he took a grand performance, it is said. The train for New York and probably again In Hollywood "The Man Who Pays the Piper" pleture was pretty hard to make, won't be seen ran five days at the St. Martin's, Schoedsack admits. Even harder, for a year and a half, when he'll be but died regretted by quite a lot of in a way, than Grass, or Chang, or back with another one.
The Four Feathers. The heat was particularly in people who saw merit in it, and the bad thing-that and the reeking dampness of the jungle. He had to take his cameras apart every night Account Rendered" moved in to the and coat all, the metal parts with
the same hour and all in failures.
Miss Diana Wyn-
it. yard'a performance in
vacant space.
"To
£100,000. "Hawk Island," "Bedrock," and
grease, if he hadn't they would have been rusted by morning. How
PRODUCTION NOTES FROM HOLLYWOOD.
"Mary the Girl" in November. The Ninth Man" swell the long hot was it? Oh, pretty hot, he re- Monte
Four more "Ever Green," "Won- der Bar," "To See Ourselves," and "Chelsen Follies"-arrived in De- cember The rest are all products
list of wholly undistinguished
failures.
Difficult as it is to estimate the
of 1931, and these represent only combined losses of all the West End failures this year. It is probably
much less than £100,000. safe to say that they amount to not
one-third of the attempls at success, and not all of them, by any means, are making money.
Already 1931 has seen 50 new pruductions, of which more than 30 have. either disappeared already or are on the point of doing so.
Poor Takings.
FILMS AND RELIGION,
Reasons For Censors' Rejections.
Not one type of show has been exempt from failuru. On the other hand, not one of the failures has been on a really vast scale, such us (the colossal revue "White Birds,” atį Board of Film Censors for the last
The failure of Mr. Cochran's revue will probably result in a big- ger loss, indirectly, than any of the others.
An idea of a variety of causes which may bring the film under ban is given in the report of the British
to
| His Majesty's Theatre two or three year. Actually only twelve films over which something were totally rejected, but exception fyears ago,
like £25,000 way loył.
was taken to passages in 191 others, among the reasons being travestice of religious rites, references Royal personages, British officers and forces shown in a disgraceful it was, Mr. Cochran said, his light. severed human heads, com- cheapest recent production, and it panionate marriage, immodest or made a good profit during its four immoral scenes. One of the major weeks' preliminary run in Manches-problems confronting the censor is ter. But on a recent Monday night, the classification of Altas suitable it Look only £200, and Mr. for children. Cochran was expected lose as muchį as £1,000 on the week's run alone.
There is nothing to follow the revue at the London Pavilion, which will have to stand idle for a while, "eating its head off.”
There are no signs of a film im- portant enough for it. "Hell's Angels made money there, but "Abraham Lincoln," which followed it, was a disappointment.
Kong's Failure.
The most spectacular failure was "Kong," which can less than three weeks at the Cambridge Theatre. But "Kong" was not as expensive as It looked. When the curtain rose on it the first night less than £5,000 bad been spert on it.
The most surprising failure was "My Sister and I," which has been a big success in almost every capital in the world, but ran for one week only at the Shaftesbury Thea- tre, and took only £34 at its first matinee. The salary list was the most expensive item here, for there were only two fairly simple scenes, no chorus, and no elaborate cos- tumes.
"It has been found," says the re- port, "that stories by such popular writers as Fennimore Cooper, Man- vill Fenn, and others and such well- known pantomime atories as Red Riding Hood have had a terrifying effect upon some few neurotic children. A few mothers also com- plained that their children wakened
up with fright during the night
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Carlo in the filming of necticut Yankee. Mitzi Green and enlls. There was one day when the Maurice Chevalier's new picture, Jackie Searl, who romped through thermometer went to 155 degrees. The Smiling Lieutenant. Paul Finn and Hattle with Leon Erroi That was the day Schoedenck and Lukas, who scored a hit in the last and Zaau Pitts, now join the cast Gallagher and to Love, is with her in her new one Lombard, Skeets his cameraman just sat around and Ruth Chatterton picture, The Right of Skippy. Norman Foster, Carola thought of ice cream.
Underground rumblings portend titled Unfaithful. Will Rogers has Eugene Pallette will do the honours that Rango will be the motion pic- completed his part of The Con- in It Pays to Advertise.
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at the unorthodox of Mata Hari, the famous dancer Lyric Theatre hour, of six o'clock, and disappeared who was shot as a spy during the a week after it had put back its War, which will be the background of her first spoken film, to listen to starting time by an hour.
"The Rocklitz" was an expensive-the marriage proposal said to have made to her by a "certain ly mounted costume drama which been failed badly at the Duke of York'e American millionaire." Theatre.
New York, April.
an even bigger failure than its in America, has been so occupied predecessor there, "The Toymaker with work that she has had no time of Nuremberg."
Of the non-musical failures, hope- less little comedies have been the most numerous; but more or less serious plays have been the most conspicuous.
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