1932-04-25 — Page 11

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1932.

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FUTURE OF THE CINEMA

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Stroheim Not Finished.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SWAMI'S FATAL LAPSE.

Man Who Swallowed Poisons.

DEADLY DOSE.

Hathayogi Narasingha

Swami,

be shot in two hours, with no re-who several times publicy, demon- takes, on account of salaries and strated the swallowing of deadly overhead expenses. The weather poisons, broken glass and nails in for the exteriors was terrible, and Calcutta and Madras in the pre- of eminent scientists and the little studios at Epinay are not sence

AO in Rangoon really suitable for spectacle work. physiciana did

for the second time successfully, So much for your liberty!"*

"You always work out at Epinay, but a few hours inter fell ill and was immediately taken to hospital, don't you?" I asked.

where he died.

It is just under a year since it was more difficult to handle than Rene Clair made his first visit to either of my earlier pictures. The England, for the London premiere big scene with the banknotes had to of "Le Million." His name was scarcely known in London then; he had leisure to meet his few per- soual friends; when I had tea with him at his hotel the telephone never once interrupted our taik. To-day his rooms at the Dorchester suggest a comedy scene that might| have come wholesale out of one of his own scripts; telephones "Yes; but the studio now is very buzzing, page-boys performing se- different from in the old days when cret and mysterious tattoos upon we turned "The Italian Straw Hat.' by the door, Pressmen shooting in-The lighting then was so bad-swallowed quiries in every language, and in we were largely dependent on direct the demonstration, besides swal- dram of pure the middle of them all Clair him-sunlight--that the picture came out lowing hälf

nitric acid, LAU PAK-WAI, DENTIST, has re-self, in an Immaculate dressing-a uniform flat tone, with -no moved his Hong Kong Office to

pure sulphuric acid of spotted blue

That worried silk, stereoscopy. GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st floor, Ped-own

one grain of postassium der St. (New Building next to Hong courteously broadcasting replice in until I learnt from the avant-garde and Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488. French, English, German, even a critics that my bad photography cyanide, also broken glass.

little Russian, with an occasional) was a subtle attempt to get daguer- puzzled "Please?" as the barrage rotype effects, to match the period falls too heavily upon his head, of my pictures!" writes C. A. Lejeune in the London Observer.

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Impressive Films.

The symptoms, wore of polsoning atrychnine of which he one grain, during

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me,

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one

in

His previous performance Rangoon was on March 3, and was quite successful without subsequent }baneful effecta.

It is said that the Swami always:

went This young director, ex-actor, ex- that he had recently seen had im-after such demonstration

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DISASTER COMING FOR JAPAN,

Trotsky's Prediction.

Constantinople.

for everybody; he never forgets ful picture," he said, "and the act- a face. He is difficult to inter-ing, as well as the direction, moved view because all his "copy" is some almost more than any other Kood; without the least intention film I can remember,

I saw It

"The grandiose adventure In of prevaricating, his quick answers twice, and each time I was sitting and side-commentaries are apt to there weeping.

that, which Japan is engaged will be fatal, Beyond turn the course of a main idea. I have been too busy this Winter for the regime of the. Mikado, just

On this particular visit Rene for much film-going."

as the Manchurian adventure of Clair is primed to talk about "A We talked of the general 'condi- 1904-5 was fatal for the empire of Nous la Liberte," of which he gave, tion of film-making at the present the Tsars."

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a charity performance on Thurs-time, and the difficulties of im- These striking words, spoken with day night for the Princess Chris-aginative and intelligent young a ring of deep conviction, were the tian Home. But his brain is work- directors who are handicapped by reply given by Trotsky, when he ing all the while on the story of his the exactions of their companies. was interviewed by Reuter's cor- house on new Alm, which he is to begin in "It is hard to know in these days respondent in his new June or July. "This

week," he which of the directors are to be!Prinkipo Island, in the Marmora. said, "I have had a new idea, and followed, and which of them will As he spoke, Trotsky drew himself to-morrow my director, Mr. Henkel, be free to do really good work injup to his full height, still conscious comes from Paris, and we will talk the now technique of sound. of the commanding presence which it over. I do not yet know how Pabst, certainly, and Pudowkin; had once awed the Russian armies. it will work out, whether senti- perhaps Mamoulian in America, and and won him the cheers of vast mental-lyrical comedy, like "Sous Stroheim.".

"They sаy

crowds.

les Toits de Paris," or satirical

that Stroheim is Speaking rapidly in French, Trot- comedy, like "Le Million" and "A finished," I suggested.

sky continued: "I am sure that even Nous la Liberte.' The story must) "Finished!" cried Clair indign-If China remains for a long time to without effectual aid, the come of itself, and then I shall find antly, "if Stroheim is finished then come

the formula. I only know that it America is finished too! You can situation of the Japanese will be- must be a simple plot, like 'Sous les never fathom what a man of such come more and more difficult. no Toits de Paris'-for my last films genius as Stroheim's will do next, matter what the eventual fluctuation have been too dry, too cerebral in how he will rise to meet a new of events may be." conception-and that, although situation. A director like Stroheim musical. It will have no chorus."

Trotsky also said that he had

is always just beginning, whichever some time since predicted what the The Chorus "Finished." way the cinema goes."

developments in the Far Eastern events, "Don't you like the chorus?" I "And which way do you think it situation would be. "The usked, thinking of the extraordinary will go?" 1 asked him, but he as to their rhythm, have greatly success of this method in "Le MI- shook his head.

surpassed my predictions," he add-! lion," and the various British "I don't know. I don't looked, "but as to their direction they directors who have rushed into ahead. In the moviea we don't have not given me the lie." choral commentary entirely on the fellow new ideas-new ideas follow atrength of it.

the movies. Presently some direc-

CHEWS TWICE AT ONCE.

Freak Lamb With An Extra

►

Mouth.

"It was good for Its time," Clair tor of genius will strike out the answered, "but-it Ta finished. The new path, and the cinema will idea is no longer new, and so it travel along it. The only certain has no longer any force of em- thing is that the new cinema will phasis. Every director is using be a medium to itself, distinct as the chorus to-day. I must And an entertainment from the. theatre, something new to take its place." the opers, the music-hall or the I asked him if he had any special radio play, If we believe that players in view for his new pic strongly enough, the right ideas Bethulie, on whose farm a merino ¡ture, knowing his preference will come. There is nothing to for working, whenever Pos- be gained by planning for the

sible, with the Jame cast future." and the same technical

staff.

"I have made no definite, contracts

AN HEIRLOOM.

Bethulie, (South Africa).

A remarkable freak of nature, is reported by a farmer at Nimrod,

we gave birth to a lamb with two

mouths.

The freak lamb is about nine months old, and the farmer dis- covered the peculiarity only a few days ago while dosing his sheep.

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yet," he said, "but I hope very much to get back Annabella, my A policeman in Northern Trans Immediately behind the right ear little star of "Le Million." You vaal, while on his rounds, found an an opening in the head was noticed, would not think how difficult it old brass sword with the name of a and this, on closer examination,

in deep-sea investigations, and is creatures, answering all the descrip- is to find young French actresses French owner, and the date 1284

proved to be a diminutive mouth

well known to countless readers in tions of mediaeval dragons, which with charm and talent-In the Inscribed, lying on the veld. A

with tongue and teeth complete and Had anyone else but Dr. William this country by his fascinating shoot a luminous substance out of street, in the shop. in the trains "native" who was working nearby, connected with the throat and re- Beebe said he had seen dragons in books on the subject, such as "The their mouths, is sufficient to cause they seem delightful, but, in the claimed it as his property and add-spiratory organs by a narrow tube. the deep, he would have been laugh- Arcturus Adventure," "Galapagos" any scientist in two hemispheres to studio, there is just something led that it was a family heirloom. The freak mouth opens and closca ed at as a romancer and put in sand "Beneath Tropic Seas.” believe that, sooner or later, such He was not above letting it go, simultaneously with the proper class with those who declare they Most of his work is carried out monsters will be dragged from the which are Large, Soft and Natural, "Which of your films do you however, for a small consideration, mouth when the animal is chewing have seen sca-serpent. But for the New York Zoological So-deeper levels of the ocean--and Artistic Finger and Marcel Wave Ok yourself prefer?" I asked him pre- and the sword is now being examin- the cud, and the animal appears to Beebe is one of the greatest of elety, for whose tropical research most probably by Dr. William Treatment, Shampoolag, Back

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fer 'Chapeau de Paille d'Italle," he answered, "but of the sound Alms I like Sous les Tolts de Paris' best. That is only a personal sentiment,

of course. I was happy making It, perhaps bacsing the style was 94, different from all my earlier work. I had never the same sense

of satisfaction when I was shooting

A Nous la Liberte.""

"I'm afraid I was disappointed

In that I confessed.

He laughed and nodded.

"How well I know it

I read.

| your review--very nice, very gentil,

| but you didn't like it D. It was you. who called it Trop da Liberte," and you were so right, and yet ag wrong!" I made the film too fast, too soon after Le Million," with too little holiday between), 1 wrote the script, in one month, made the whole flm la four-it was too quick. And for economic reasons

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