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Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, 1981,

Local Film Critics.

In many ways the people of

THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931.

could educate it; to bring before CORRESPONDENCE.

KOWLOON BUS “SERVICE."

SIR W. PEEL AND LADY PEEL.

Reception for King's Birthday.

"OVER 1,500 GUESTS.

it at a price all could afford to pay the best plays, the beat music, and the greatest actors. (To the Editor of "China Mail.") It has done none of these things. Sir, Further to the question of A good play or a first-class novel discourtesy and unsatisfactory acr- are ruined when they are pro-vice on the Kowloon buses, allow me duced on the screen; except in quote a few instances of un-

pardonable Incivility, which I have¦ film-plays in which Norma personally experienced. Shearer has appeared the aim of Three weeks ago, whilst I was put to the producer has obviously been travelling in a bus I was

due to the Over 1,500 guests attended the to emphasise the "sensational "much Inconvenience

driver incessantly expectorating out reception given by Sir William What might have been a notable of his window, The wind, rushing Peel and Lady Peel at Government film, because the acting in it was past, brought fine sprays of saliva House last night on the occasion face. of the King's Birthday. The with one or two exceptions ex-into the bus and across my

Repeated attempts on my part to grounds were prettily decorated, rellent "Morocco"--was utterly discourage such a noxious practice and guests were received in

the

in

spoiled by "picturesque" improb-by warning the driver produced no Ballroom.

Refreshments were served abilities, and the same may be result. At last I was told by the

offender that he could not help marquees in the garden, where the said of "Trader Horn," What

spitting and that if I was annoyed hand of the South Wales Bor- the film industry needs, whe- could pull up the window,

derer, with the pipes and drums ther British or American, is less Now, Mr. Editor, can you im- of the Argyll and Sutherland High- Industry and more imagination;agine such insolence coming from anders, gave musical selections.

the "trained" employees of a public His Excellency the Governor and more art and less fake; more

utility company? I was so enraged Lady Peel greeted members of the realism and less vulgar sentimen-that I refrained from reporting the legislative and Executive Councils tality. For, at present, however driver to the company, because of in the Ballroom, after which guests introduced to them in- captious the Hong Kong critics the fact that on a former occasion, were are, even if they do not know when I made a complaint against dividually.

another employee for refusing to what they like or what they stop a half-empty bus when hailed, want, they cannot be too captious. the Manager stupidly informed ROUND THE CINEMAS They have the right to complain me that he had no control over his against the onslaught of

de- men and actually asked me to over- look the matter, as though it were moralising drivel.

trivial and of no consequence,

There is another thing that is ex-) ceptionally annoying to passengers. Apparently one, Bus Company docs not object to its employees smoking en their cars. I have myself' scen

News in Brief.

The Empress of Asia sails for the North and Canada to-morrow

noon

at

The lowest open air temperature was 75 degrees. The yesterday films were written for the great humidity was 71 at 6 a.m. and 86 American public, which is easy at 2 p..

"Let

JENNY LIND REVIVED ON SCREEN.

"A LADY'S MORALS."

and I have witnesses to corroborate

Gilbert Emery, my assertion) drivers nonchalantly

31 American, smoking cigarettes, pipes and offen-plays a Briton, & Reginald Denny, sive native tobacco whilst driving. an Englishman, plays a Swede Nor is this all: the sparks and in HA Lady's Morals," Grace ashes. flying backwards, almost Moore's first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made holes in my suit on a few starring vehicle, based on the life occasions. Once, I observed with of Jenny Lind, which will como indignation a spark getting into the to-day to the Queen's Theatre. to please and difficult to shock,

eye of a Chinese lady sitting beside Emery, noted for his work in British films have been given a

Mo Kwan (3) a coolie living at me.

Us Be Gay," plays Miss Ou East Street, was admitted to the Instances of the culpable dis- Moore's 'British suitor. He Was chance at the local cinemas, but Gavernment Civil Hospital suffering regard for the comfort of fares are born in New York. Denny, hero of they have failed to justify the from Injuries to his face, which he too numerous to mention at length, Madam Satan," plays her Swedish patriotic feeling that "we ought received when he fell a height of and in order not to make this letter composer-lover. He was born in

too long and tedious I will leave Richmond, England. to have British films," and in 25 feet from a scaffolding.

your other readers to come forward; The new play is a vivid romance most cases proved a loss to the

with other complaints which, I am of the life and love of the opera A box offices, There is

downpour of

sure, are legion. to

star, directed by Sidney Franklin, quality about Hollywood-made eliminate outdoor sport, but

yesterday afternoon threatened

Thanking you for the insertion of with Wallace Beery. Jobyna How- pictures, in spite of their vulger-tunately it did not last long, with this letter and trusting that you land, Gua Shy, George Marion, Paul

will continue in this campaign | Parcasi, Giovanni ity, their inanities, and their the result that lawn tennis very bad art, which leaves Elstree lawn bowls were indulged in at against the flagrant misinterpreta-Bodil Rosing in the cast. a long way behind. It is not that nearly all the Clubs. Britain has no actors with good

some

heavy

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tion of the idea of service; and I,} for one, will take off my hat to you,j

Yours, etc.,

DISGUSTED.

Hong Kong, June 4.

ISLAND.

Martina and

"SHOW OF SHOWS."

Four of the world's famous laugh- makers combine. their respective comedy talenta to make a unique quartette in "Show of Shows," Warner Brothers' Vitaphone super-. revue in which scores upon scores of qutstanding stage and screen etars will appear in the Queen's

Suffering from Internal Injuries film personalities; she has. The caused by a fall whilst carrying trouble is that she can't keep sacks of grain at a godown at them. They go to

Town the United Kennedy

yesterday. Tam TRAGEDY OF LONE States, where they are paid big Chung (58) stated to be a coolie, was removed to the Government salaries, given suitable roles in Civil Hospital for treatmeat. pictures which are destined to be great financial successes, and,

A married woman, Li Yung (22), Four Out of 7 People Theatre on Sunday. what is more highly-prized by the of 95 Argyle Street, Mongkok, was actor, given as much publicity as 10.60 o'clock last night suffering taken to the Kowloon Hospital at they can stand without getting from the effects of lysol poisoning, tired of seeing their own faces which she is alleged to have taken in every newspaper and on every in an attempt to put an end to her placard.

Hollywood scores because it

life.

The theft of 121 chickens,

Die of Starvation.

WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE.

This comedy quartetto is com- posed of Beatrice Lille. Louise Fazenda, Frank Fay and Lloyd Hamilton, Miss Lillie is interna- tionally known and Miss Fazenda and Hamilton are celebrated for their screen comics. while Fay and the South Indian Ocean-on which,

Miss Lillie are both widely known four of the seven inhabitanta died

Fay recently played atage stare. one of starvation last year, wae furnish-the featured role in "Under a Texas

Á graphic account of the tragedy of St. Paul Island-a lonely rock in

Hong Kong are like the Irishman has directors and producers who week old, and valued at $28 in all, fed on his arrival at Marseilles by Moon," the Vitaphone all-colour all-

of the story — who didn't know what he wanted and wasn't happy until he got it. Especially is

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was one

Stores Burned.

of the

Ten Years Ago,

are

has been reported to the Police by the 19-year-old Louis Herleden, a talking epic of the borderland. Miss RTC are geniuses; men who

coolie of Broton lad who Lee Chun-kwal, hoube artists to the finger tips, men Inland Lot 3278 Pokfulam

Lillie

appeared in "Charlot's Road, three survivors. who are in sensitive touch with who states that the theft occurred

Revue" with overhelming success. For nine months the life of the

Among the many celebrated per the great American public and between 7.30 p.m. on June 2 and little colony was a long agonising sonalities who contribute indi- this so with the section of the

7.30 yesterday morning.

battle with death in the solitude of videally to "Show of Shows" What the know what it likes. public

of rock midway John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, which patronises the

22 square miles cinema. It is for ever bewailing

film industry lacks there is Sau Chui-chung, a temporary re- between the Cape and the south-Monte Blue, Winnie Lightner, Ted writers. The majority of scen- sident at a room in the Kum Toi west corner of Australia.

Lewis, Alice White, Irene Bordoni, the fact that good films are never shown in the local cinemas, yet ario writers in America produce Hotel, Yaumati, was removed to the

The party consisted of Louis Richard Barthelmess, Myrna Loy, Georges Carpentier, Nick Lucas, "copy" which it should be Kowloon Hospital last evening auf-

a when occasionally it is given a

couple nained fering from the effects of oplum Herledan, a married

and Betty Compson. good picture it is slow to appre- criminal offence to publish their poisoning. The drug is alleged to Brunon, and three labourera-the

of the The remnants

Breton colony ciate it. There is no sense of influence, through the medium have been self-administered.

planted on the island in 1928 to run proportion, too. People behave of the films, has had more to do victim's condition is not serlous.

a tinned lobster factory--and a with the re-vulgarising of the

All the rest were taken back] here as though they had never

Pleading "guilty" to breaking negro. heard of drama, of imagination, American people than that thin- and entering No. 118 Canton Road to France, leaving Herledan and his or the licence allowed to fiction. y-velled form of disrespect, de-on June 2, and stealing a jacket, a companions to guard the establish-

mocracy. If, for example, an animal film is

The puerile rubbish singlet, and a pair of trousers, the ment.

In the early part of the year all which quite shown, they seem unable to judge

sensible looking property of Chan Sa, an accountant,

Lam Yuk-wing was at the Kowloon their stores were destroyed by an it on its merits; some cantanker-young men roar or whisper from Police Court this morning sent to outbreak of fire. Supplies were ex- hard pected in May or June, but they did ous and captious "critic" must the screen destroys what educa-intl for write letters to the Press about tion is attempting to build up; labour.

The vegetation of the island, "lust," "cruelty," and

it is a poisonous sea which, has "bar-

of volcanic origin, was barity." If the picture deal with flooded not only the whole of the 100, Tung Chol Street, Mongkok, scanty, and scurvy soon broke out. juries to four Chinese who had to

Baby's Death. a domestic tragedy, such as "Min American continent, but Britain has reported to the Police that be

At the end of March Mme. Civil Hospital for treatment. and Bill," this same critic must as well. That is not art, because tween 10 a.m. on Tuesday and 11.

person Brunon gave birth to a child, which fifth victim, a young woman, for- needs draw attention to its "sor-it is not life. It is the silly,o'clock last night, some

gained entrance to his flat by means died at the end of a few weeks. tunately escaped with only a few didness," or if it be a war pic ignorant, prevaricating piffle off using a duplicate key. Money One of the labourers next died, and bruises, and after treatment by the of then the negro collapsed, and was Police she was able to return home. ture such as "All Quiet" or fifth-rate minds who have foisted and clothing to the total value

devoured by birds as he expire-1. "Hell's Angels," he will find that this kind of illiterate "muck" on $314 comprised the haul.

Some weeks later 31. Brunan, who:

six months with

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not arrive,

Mr. A. M. Gomes, residing at which le

Woman Elects to Stay.

[From the "China Mall" of June 4, 1930)

To-day's dollar is worth 2/6%

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A motor cycle ridden by Police Sergeant Chester Wood, which sud- dealy got out of control and ran, "ok" in Eastern Street on Thurs- day morning, caused scorious in-

be removed to the Government

A

An eye-witness states that the machine was proceeding down East- ern Street, and on reaching Second Street, the Sergeant appeared to be in difficulty, The machine gather-

a tremendous pace with the driver Two WC- powerless to control it. men walking up the road werd knocked down and a boy had a very

narrow escape, being Just able to.

Con- At the end of December, when timming its mad career, the cyclo

dodge the machine in time. the steamer arrived, there were only dashed into two coolies engaged to

it offends the spirit of the League a public which was starved for The Treasurer of the Sailors' and was also suffering from scurvy, died of Nations. People of this type something worth while and de- Soldiers' Home gratefully acknow-in the arms of his wife, who was cannot understand that a picture, cently intelligent. It is the same ledges the receipt of the following nearly driven mad by the experience like a play, is a form of enter- with certain sections of the donations in response to, the recent of having to live beside the corpsesed speed and tore down the street at

Hon. Mr. W. T. of her child and husband, as no one tainment, and that the aim and American Press, the aim of appeal for funde

Southorn, .C.MG. and Mra. could bury them. purpose of dramatic as of literary whose newspaper proprietors Southorn, $100; Major H. B. L. Finally in October, another of the $15; Com-meu went away to fish, and did not be further to de- Dowbiggin, O.BE. art la to portray life as it is, and seems to not, as a false and sugary vision moralise the great American modore A. H. Walker, O.BE, $25; return.

and Mr. D. F. Warren, $25. where the wronged are always public with its filthy jargon, its righted, where there is no uglies, ita bullying tactics and its

Revenue Offcer Young pro three persons Herledan Mme. ness and no pain, and every end- lack of common decency,⠀⠀

secuted in the case againit Leung Brunon and one of the labourer carrying charcoal, who were resting ing is a happy one.

The talking picture had a won Hel-chuen, who was charged at the remaining. Hericdan returned to on the side of the road. The cycle ths been a number of derful opportunity when it re- with keeping an oplum divan at 19, and the labourer, who finally re-grief against the wall of a Kowloon Magistracy this morning France by liner, while Mine. Brunonthen mounted the gutter and came Incredibly bad films shown in placed the silent film to do for Pakhol Street, and also with having covered from their experience, building. It was fortunate that Hong Kong, it is true; some the drama what cheap editions of unlawful possession of 3.5 taels stayed behind in company with the the cycle had been brought to a which insulted the intelligence the classics have done for poor prepared oplum and 8 tsels of raw new contingent of about 56 French standstill, or there would have and offended the taste. But it people. It had the chance to edines amounting to 8570 people, who had come out in the undoubtedly been more casualties, were imposed, or, in default, three steamer to continue the operation and the machine and driver might must be remembered that these cate the public as no university months imprisonment.

of the factory.

have plunged into the harbour.