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A British working man would be bitterly disappointed if he was of fered his customary beer in one of the rare eighteenth-century ale glasses which fetched over two guineas each at Christie's recently. None of them holds more than a modern champagne glans. Some are not much larger than a liqueur! glasata pe

The majority are tall and very thin, resembling a chemiat's mea

HOLLYWOOD UNDER REVIEW

PRECONCEIVED IDEAS MUST BE DISCARDED

LAUGHTER HAS KILLED

THE SEX FILM

(By Sir Cedric Hardwicke)

WENT to Hollywood full of pre- powers it would startle the artistic judices.

world. As it is, Hollywood is us

My ready-made opinions, like ing about 25 per cent of its brain Bura, They are engraved with a those of many people, were estab-power and suggesting that it is design of hope and barley lished before I got there. Mostly afraid of its own potentialities.

The glasses were used to drink,

they were the outcome of reactions But Hollywood is quick to learn. audif ale, which may be as strong against the early days, of the silent. The pictures that are being made as a liqueur.

film and Hollywood's worst efforts and those which have just been re- in "talkies." But for a few bell-leased are a fair Indication of the Hant exceptions, I had a poor opin-new tendency. "Bengal Lancer,” Audit, ale is beer brewed with on of American Alms, and mainly "Clive of India," "David Copper beer several times over. It derives regarded them as appropriate enter- field, and "Edwin rood" "have its name from the custom of serv-tainment for people with mentali, proved big box-office successos in ing it to tenants after they had ties fed on penny novelettes.

Praise of Hollywood paid their rent.

CHEERING THE TENANTS

America, and the two films on which

I was engaged during my stay were "Vanity Fair and "Les Miser ables." It is curious, perhaps in

Most great country houses brew- I was completely wrong. I dia- ed-audit ale a century ago. covered, on arrival, a community dieative, that all these films, with The ales keep as long as vintage largely composed of the most in the exception of the last named.. port. They were often known by telligent, and enterprising film

ly a very great compliment!

Sex Film is Dead

the name of the holder of the title brains in the world. They hade their genesis to England-ure in the year they were brawed. naturally gravitated to Hollywood Audit ale is still made at Queen's as it offered them the best opportu- College, Oxford.

nity to express themselves and find recognition.

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I have thought bitter things in

Hollywood was full of English the past of Hollywood Alms. But actors and dramatists. The num-my present opinion is that they Mr. Granville Bromley-Martin, ber of the latter now working on

were not representative of Holly whose appointmentTM deputy stories there is remarkable, perhaps wood's best. They were pictures chairman of Martins Bank is an significant. I met Hugh Walpole, deliberately distorted to fulfil nounced, succeeds his brother-in-Monckton Hoffe, Reginald Berkeley,misguided notion of what the public law, Mr., Robert Holland-Martin. Bordaunt Shairp, H. M. Harwood, Wanted. Theatre and film people were no other cruisers" in the

He is an uncle of Mr. "Baby" W. P. Lipscombe, Tennyson Jesse, seem afraid to back their own taste. world," said the First Lord, "we Holland-Martin, of the Bank of and Clemence Dane. There must Hollywood is astonished when must have a certain number, England.

picture which it has made for its Hong Kong, Thursday, April 11, 1935, not working with the main

be many others. He was captain of the Eton eric. In fact, I found most of my Eng-own pleasure turns out to be a big fleets, but scattered all over the ket eleven in 1894, and played lish friends in Hollywood, in the maker world, to protect our food sup-twice for Oxford against Cam-same way as I invariably meet all

Many of the greatest successes of plies and commerce." He in bridge. stanced the case of the Moewe, a Martins Bank, which now ranke studios.

my American friends in English the London stage have been plays

which, before production, were saidi: converted merchantman, which as one of the "big six," is an amal. The personnel of Hollywood has to have no box-office appeal. One If the First Lord of the in two cruises put down 41 Bri-gamation of Martin's, an old city almost completely changed during of the must successful of recent Admiralty spoke in one place tish merchant ships. But if one family business, the Bank of Liver the last two or three years.. with unusual, warmth in pre figure above all others should pool, and others.

films, "One Night of Love," was not: senting the Naval Estimates he stick in the public mind it is that it became the "Bank of Liver

expected to make a penny, had the best warrant for his in of 8,660,054 tons of British pool and Martins just after the chose to exert its full intellectus. dignation. The publication of

Naval Security

submarines in 1917. No other member of the London Clearing

Your Daily Smile!

Intellectual Powers on

At one time Hollywood's liveli

I am convinced that if Hollywoodhood depended upon the sex Alm

FACTS ABOUT THE

CHINESE PIRATE

SOME THINK THEY

ARE DEAD

“CHINA” NYBERG'S REVELATIONS

The sex film is dead. I suggest

that it was killed, not so much by America's Parity Campaign as by the common sense of the public and a long-delayed assertion of the real taste of the community.de

Mae West was as responsible ar anybody for the passing of the sex-

film, She made people laugh at sex and rendered it difficult for produc ers and public to take it seriously,

the White Paper has called forth shipping sunk by a handful of War, mainly because Martin was' a a storm of misrepresentation, Power is so dependent as Great House, while the larger Bank of partly deliberate and partly Britain on sea-borne supplies, Liverpool was not. hysterical, the purpose being to and the development of air "label the Government as a war forces has enormously intensified down provincial opposition to the Further amalgamations broke mongering Government. When the difficulties of safeguarding return to Martins," a much more we find a prominent Canon of their passage In the narrow seas: Manchester Cathedral describing So far from the Government convenient name. the White Paper as the reply to having a "war-mongering" in- the Peace Ballot by "the armaterest, it is the highest British ment-makers, concession-hunters interest that the naval Powers and other moneyed interests, should agree to quantitative and

Part. Owner who pull the wires of our na-qualitative limitations in every

Jones: "Where's the station tional life, and at whose com-category of ship. Nor can any Clerk (haughtily): "Are

please?” AN mand our puppet rulera dance," one pretend that the general guest of this hotel?"

You what can be expected of mere principles laid down by the First Jones (testily): "Certainly not! Fm knows more than anybody else ultra respectable suburb, so strag political propagandists who make Lord to govern Britian endeavour paying $10 a day.” no profession of more than or in naval conferences have any dinary regard for truth? other object than the prevention Hysteria is no excuse for false of war. They are Equality of watch lik dress airing in front of skipper along the coast south of I sometimes think that Holly suggestion. The very small in Security and Equalisation of the Bre while her mother went up- crease in this year's Naval Es Defence.

Shanghai: the pirates play-wood's many marriages and remar-- timates is designed among other

ground. Presently she called out: “Mon- Now, at forty-three, this tall worthy desire to regularise even the riages are inspired by a praise things to protect the food sup plies of distinguished ecclesias-

mie, shall I turn it? It's lovely and fair-haired adventurer is going brown on one side.”'

to East African A

British Popular dem Nyberg, a Swede, rap away to A youngster asked his father how sea at the age of 16,

Perhaps one of the reasons why The Chinese pirates, he said Hollywood makes the most enter never taining films (if not the most artis

ties as well as of their dupes, who may take their false political

witness for gospel

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Object Lesson

Hollywood shattered another one of my illusions. I was prepared for a frivolous pleasure-loving and immoral Alm colony. Instead I "China" Nyberg the man who found a serious, hard-working, and" about Chinese pirates, is in gling that I heard Hollywood des London

cribed as six suburbs in search of A city!

He has spent 15 years as a

mildest flirtation!

Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell was hours ending at 10 am, to-day was "Well said his father, "suppose on his arrival will moved to say that it was "wick- 0.48 inch. The total since January America quarrelled with England, divulge the name of the man tic) in the world is that it is thou led to misrepresent Britain in 1 has been 7.48 inches, as against and the matter of Defence. It is an average of 7.44 inches specially preposterous in respect

"But"

Interrupted the mother. "America must not quarrel with Eng- land.

"I knowake anawared, "but I

of the Navy. Whatever statis- The R. M. S. Empresa of Japan tics are chosen for com-arrive at Vancouver on Tuesday at taking a hypothetical instance, parison the same result is 8 pm, and will leave for Hong shown. As Britain, has moved Kong on April 20, arriving here on down the scale the other Naval May 10:0 Powers have steadily shot up.

You are misleading the child," sald the

mother, b "No. I to not!" he answered

All right, and kisalda te boy? think I know, how-wark begin.

who controls them. They are sands of miles away from all the mostly beggars and down-and-real problems of life, and cut off outs who have turned pirate to from them by a chain of mountains. make a living. Ki

Hollywood lives apart in a self- "Every Chinese who turns created atmosphere. It is thus able pirate first of all addresses his to view the world's, problems with own god, and says, I shall do detachment which enables it to use wrong That is my intention. them for the purpose of entertain- My soul is dead.ment.

"From that moment onwards If friendliness and hospitality he is firmly convinced that he is are any indication, English actora really, dead.

are extremely popular. Also I was "NOT VERY GOOD", impressed with a sincere belief, "Few Europeans ever under held by executive and actors, that stand the fatalism of the Chin British films were going to capture lese and his strange soft-

the world

e Mr. F. H. Loseby, the principal heartedness

SOLICITOR FINED

Dog Uninuzzled In:

Street

Her vanished sea supremacy may A successful year was experien- inspire sentimental regret; what ced by Messrs. › Bernards of Har- causes actual alarm is the men-wich, declared Mr. Firth Bernard ase of lost equality. If the Main at a meeting of the company held Fleet is the basis on which her yesterday afternoon, when it was naval strategy rests, and if the decided to pay a dividend of eight capital ship is the essential ele per cent, on all gift shares insued ment of the Main Fleet, with during 1934. what equanimity can she look

of Messrs. Rusa and Company and I have seen Chinese, convicts forward to the expiration of the Three months hard labour was the well-known focal solleitor, was smilingly smoking a cigarette a Treaty of Washington, when imposed on Wong Kam, unemploy. this morning, summoned before Mr. second before execution ver Britain shall have one fully ed, by Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen-E. I Wynne Jones at the Kowloon I knew a man whose ship modernised capital ship out of trai Police Court this morning for Magistracy this morning for allow was raided by pira 16, while the US has 10 out of the theft of a pencil from Cheung ing his dog to wander abroad

March 19,

the same number and Japan has Yung in Spring Garden Lane: yes Chatham Road without a mus nine out of nine? Of the three iterday. millions, increase this year £1,290,000 will be spent on For assa

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In Sam Goldwyn's house I was [among a small audience which had assembled to see a private showing of a recent English film? Alfting. near me were Fred Astaire Irvings Berlin and Gilbert Miller Mywife Jand I were, the only English. present; the genuine euth which the film evoked made us both proud of our nationality

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