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(By Seton Margrave.)

ILM producers are at this ma-duction.

In an agricultural case recently concerning ownership of a hedge in a remote part of Essex, some

ment engaged in selecting The departure of mechanical no- before left their native village dramatic material for the films velty, taken together with the ri came to London to give evidence. which they hope will entertain you ing standard of popular taste, must

The wigs and flowing robes of in 1935. judge and

mean that audiences as a whole counsel bewildered The selection of this material is will be more and more interested them.

one of the most difficult tasks in lin film treatment. the film world, and it is perhaps selected may be less important The material more difficult now than it has been than the manner in which it is at any other time in the effective presented. history of the film business.

The first of the film fashions of OUR BEST GENERAL WAS A JEW The element of mechanical no-1935 will be film style. Filmgoers

Ivelty has disappeared. Mr. Lloyd George refers in his that a film moves and talks fa no verbal and

The fact will take increasing delight in memoirs to his fruitless search longer exciting in itself. The re- They will appreciate and they will pictorial epigram, for a suitable British Commander-servoir of dramatic material is ba- expect vitality of dialogue, situation, In-chief.

ing emptied at greater speed than and action.

The honestly thought they were women, and addrenged them a cordingly.

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Colbert,

of Miss Mr.

Clark

He say: "Since the war I have it is being filled, since the number Recently "It Happened One been told by men whose judgment of stories being filmed is greater Night" "Manhattan Melodrama," I value that the only soldier than the number of suitable stor-"Murder at the Vanities." and thrown up by the war on the Bri-iea that are being written. Itish side who possessed the neces

"The Thin Man" have brilliantly, The standard of public taste has illustrated this tendency. sary qualities for the position was risen within a Dominion general,"

recent years with Superficially these films repre- such remarkable rapidity that al-sent The general was the Australian, ready there is a serious shortage Claudette

the triumph Louis Monash. He fought at of writers" of first-class ability in Gable, Miss Myrna Loy, Mr. Will- Gallipoli, and ended his war the film world. In addition to lam Powell, and Mr. Jack Oakie; career as Commander of the Aus these difficulties, film producers but fundamentally they represent tralian Corps.

feel that this is the first year in the coming of the new He was a Jew both by race and their experience in which they film writer.

race of by religion,

can anticipate no outstanding 'po-] Hollywood Acquisitions pular interest or excitement.

Hollywood has recently been Filmgoers should remember that very fortunate in securing the ser- film producers were firat fully or vices of some of the finest writers

MONASH AND ISAACS

Monash, who was 50 when" he

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Theatrical Note

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jin each case I was able to pwent to France, took the highest ganised during the middle years of human and humorous fiction in my report, so that the man was degrees at Melbourne University years of extraordinary emational Mr. Damon Runyon, whe wrate. of the Great War, which were America. These writers include {reprieved." Mitigating circum-in arts, engineerings, and law.

stress. The years that have fol-The stances would reduce the verdict His military genius came

Thin a8lowed the Great War have been Hellman, who wrote the dialogue Man;" Mr. Sam to "murder in the second degree" naturally to him as to Napoleon's vividly characterised by other for "Murder if the English law were made generals. Success. never turned

at the Vanities;" uniform with the law of the Code his head. He remained to the end deplorable, but all of them drama author of "Judge Priest," in which emotional stresses: some of them Mr. Irving S. Cobb, who is the Napoleon countries, and of some modest, studious man. The China Mail parts of our own Empire. The

He died two-a-half years ago,

we shall shortly see Mr. Will same judge instanced the cases leaving only a daughter to carry have been like fevers, the onset of ton Kelland, who wrote the de Hitherto these emotional stressed Rogers, and Mr. Clarence Buding- of mothers who killed their on his name. Hong Kong, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1934. newly-born children; a man who

which could be observed and the licious novel "The Cat's Paw," in Another Melbourne Jew, Sir crisis of which could be anticipat which we are to see Mr. Harold killed a child in the bona fide be- Issac Isaacs, is to-day Governored; but now the average film pro Lloyd. lief that devil had found regeneral of Australia. Capital Punishment. fuge in him; and a doctor who Bory-of Russian-Jewish stock, he of his patient-the average film nes tired in vain to attract fine. ducer feels that the temperature For many years the film bust- had complied with a request for has risen to his present position goers-has returned to normal, and writers. The works of first-class Bishop Hall's recent advocacy was suffering from an incurable He speaks seven languages, in- is the one condition for which he adaptation in great numbers; but

some poison from a patient who by his merita.

he is rather bewildered, since this authors have been bought for film of the practical abolition of and painful disease. Capital Punishment in Hong

eluding, Chinese. He has two has had no experience in prescrib that is not enough. Kong by means of a self-denying His Lordship went on to com-

brilliant daughters, both of whom ing.

It is es- ordinance on the part of the res-plain of the frequency with which are Judges-associate in Australia.

sential to persuade these writers Producers Puzzled ponsible administrators of our doctors disagreed; but the main

to learn the film medium, and to Because of these four circum- take it seriously.. law not to exercise the discre- trouble is the unreliability of

étances the disappearance of no By the end of 1995 that will tion vested in them appears to the verdicts of juries. He says have encountered that wall of "The jury system is obsolete. It The mint is reported ready to of dramatic material; the rising and Hollywood."

velty; the drain on the reservoir have been done in both London indifference in which the sub- grew from the days when a speed up production of silver dol-standard of public taste; and the Authors will become stars quite ject has been enveloped in re judge was a creature of the lars. Let's hope that the tailors absence of any clearly defined po au cent years. The general attitude King, and, in practice, it enables are ready to reinforce trouser pular excitation-some film pro actresses. Filmgoers will auti definitely as Actors and seems to be that there is no clever barristers to play upon pockets writes an American news-ducers tell me that they are comcipate the next work of a distin doubt that the State has the the feelings of the jurymen and paper. right to use the extreme penalty sometimes get a guilty man off.

pletely at a loss to know what guished writer just as eagerly as sort of films will be wanted by they have anticipated the next in defence of public order so long You have people who have no as proper safeguards are main- experience in the weighing of of beauty is a double curve, like the tell me that they are quite unable This is as it should be. There

Scalptors will tell you the line filmgoers In. 1985. These producers film starring Miss Greta Garbo. tained; that open trial, the jury evidence, who are called upon to letter "s Financiers think it is to forecast the coming film is no system, and the exercise of the find whether a man is guilty or through it, thus: 1.

reason in the world why fashion. prerogative of reprieve are quite not. They have no training or

authors should not be stars In I know that the selection of tims just as they have been stars adequate safeguards;; and. that experience, and that is why they

dramatic material is a very ser- in literature. the existence of the penalty in are often wrong. There is this reserve is a real deterrent with to be said of the system, that it

"An actor? May son, an actor in

ious business: I know that the (Continued on Page 11) the large class of criminals who enables the layman to take part stage, peer into the wings filled with first rank la a particularly nerve- a man who can walk to the side of a selection of materiál fór stars of calculate chances. At the same in the administration of justice theatrical props, dirt and dust, other racking experience, and time the question is one on which Busy men do not like serving on actors, clap-trap, and say, "What that the producer who sanctions the modern world has a more or Burles; they do not actually re-lovely view there is from this with vast expenditure on film experi- |

I know

less open mind; and there is a sent serving, but they are usual- ¡dow!'"

Įments assumes a very great rea- tendency to favour the introduc-ly bored with the whole busi- tion of the distinction which ob-ness." This advantage of let to mail" letter to President Roosevelt things, I do not think that the pre- A man borrowed 3 cents yesterday ponsibility., But, knowing all these tains in many countries between ting the public learn how care telling him how to put the country on sent situation is quite so desper

M. G. DE LA PRADE murder in the first and the se- fully cases are tried and so re- und economic basis. cond degree. This would enable moving suspicion from Ignorant

ate as the more, barassed type of

The departure. to-day of M. G. producar believes. Judges to dispense with the pro- minds is probably underestimated A motorless plane has been kept

Dufaure de la Prade Consul cedure of first of all sentencing by most judges; and in Hong left for six hours and 10% minatan Filmgoers have never beer, more General in Hong constr the accused to death and then re- Kong, with our mixed Po-motorlessness, the plan will hardly - They are not critical in say cap to Milan, terminates a long con- Despite the foel saving resulting from appreciative than they are to-day France, who has been transferred commending him for mercy. ¡pulation * full of racial and peal to automobilists. The glider tious sense. They are ready and

Most of the general arguments religious prejudices, the bene-mado only 155 miles in its quarter-day eager to applaud all honest effort. nection with the Colony Ex- have had reference either to the fit is probably much greater fight. point of view of the State, or to than in England or many

The difficulties of the producer of pt for a break when he went the accused; it may be interest/other homogeneous communityfresiz one, says a radio entertainer, welcomed. They are the incentive has been in Hong Kong since A good old Joke is better than a poor to-day are not to be lamented, but home on leave, M. de la Prade ing to consider that of another In fact it may actually be true That's oplatos by an expert. party,

1925, a term which has been the judge. It is cus-that, as jurfes are average spe

to do better and better work marked by the most cordial rela- tomary for the judge to retire cimens of their class, the benefit The man who recently invented saying to me, "When we and it is the community.

I recall again Mr. C. M. Woolf for a short interval to avoid any is proportional to the ignorance's lie detector tried it out on no longer necessary to fight, we appearance of haste; then the and inexperience of the average fisherman the other day. He shall know that the Alm business aboard the Messagerie Maritimes usher hands him the black cap, juror, however much those hasn't decided whether to try to re- is finished. which is solemnly assumed; and qualities may annoy the profes- pair the machine or build a new then the timeworn formula Issional lawyer, It is an old pronounced. It is a solemn mo- maxim that it is not enough-for ment even for anyone whose Courts to be just; they must business has taken him into the also have the repute of being Facts You Did Not Know few months looks vast only be Court; it must have often occur just.

cause the thing which is next to EUROPEAN LOSES red to such spectators that the The upshot of the matter device which is aid to record the voice the thing which has already been Of German invention is a dictating be done always looks bigger than judge's responsibility must be seems to be that without the re on a moving wire made of a secret oppressive, and so it appears consideration of each case in the alloy more distinctly than on a waX done from a statement recently made light of the judge's report, and cylinder, Avenge by a judge of about twenty-five the prerogative of clemency exer years standing who has the reclsed on the side of mercy and In Inscriptions written with a special mean that there is no indication months hard labour by Mr. E. I.

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"Dad, what is an actor?"

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VALEDICTORY.

French-Consul-General Leaves To-day.

tions, with the Government

Cand

M. Dufaure de la Prade leaves

liner D'Artagnan this after- Quality Important

noon, and will take with him the The adjustment which producers good wishes of a wide circle of- must accomplish within the next friends..

RADIATOR CAP,

The fact that there is no popu- Huen You, a 21-year-old un-

lar fover at the moment does not employed, was sentenced to three

contrary, I think the Some ces I have mentioned-

putation of being extremely tune with the kindiler sentiment light from neon tubes surrounding the

ffald on new glass aign, reflect the whatever to the film careful in dealing with his cases of our day the death penalty glass and appear as if illuminated by the Immediate future:

The strain on the judge," he would have probably been abol the gas. said, is most acute and unplea fshed; but that as things are Bant During my period on the there is only a case for avoiding Included among testing equipment Bench I have had to impose the the undesirable procedure of used by an English rallway is a device think death sentence four times, and it sentencing to death those w Jongy Locomotives can be rum et has caused me the greatest men will be afterwards reprieved,

Speeds: up to 85 miles. în bour without

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fashion-of Wynne Jones, at the Kowloon

On the Magistracy this m reumistat stealing a radiator cap

point No. 349 belonging to Kr. Ewin ally, I No.1 Cox's Road on

For receiving the

25-year-old

cap

be pro- named Chan Yuen, was senten

to three weeks”, ha