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THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER 16, 1937.

B.B.C.

SCORNS

GRUNDY!

Sunday Radio To Be Brighter

2

those

Gasps Of Anger In Audience At Shanghai Bomb Film

Re-

FLYING CLUB SUBSIDIES

New Air Ministry System Confirmed

The new basis for Air Ministry

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*Whether cinema news reels (cluding Gaumont-British News and subsidies to fiving clubs, is the sub- Take the smelling salts, Mrs should show the whole truth about British Movietone News, decided not ject of agreements which have now Grundy!

war, or merely the glamour and to show the complete pictures sent been signed. There's going to be Sunday trappings, excising details of the by their cameramen in China. broadcast of a thriller-comedy all gruesome and unglamorous reality, marks of Mr. Jeffrey Bernerd, of Provision is made for an increase about mysterious cosmopolitan pas-has led to violent controversy be-Gaumont-British, were published in from £1,500 to £2,000 of the maximum payable to any one club in the "Daily Film Renter." sengers in an air-liner; a drastic re-tween news reel firms. duction of. Sunday Shakespeare

Mr. Bernerd thinks that "women a year, and in future the reduction Paramount and Universal, in Lon- plays; a dramatised history of thedon, both released news pictures of and children" do not go to cinemas in the rate of payment after the Russian Revolution, and a pro-the fighting in Shanghai. Their cam-to see "this kind of entertainment" first £1,200 has been earned will not gramme solely about the romance eramen had been at the scenes of He contends that if a news reel be imposed. and joys of wine drinking.

the slaughter of innocent civilians editor includes shots showing the de- To encourage a civilian pilot to are some of the things the B. B. Csoon after the bombs were dropped, struction caused by aeroplanes and keep up flying practice after obtain- is going to put on the air within the writes a correspondent.

other death-dealing machines, with ing an "A" certificate, which does next few weeks.

Their pictures were vivid, and, it their consequent scenes of desola not entitle him to take passengers

and

for hire or reward," or his You may well protest, Mrs must be said, horrible. Paramount,tion, that's doing everything, Grundy, for surely it was only the which I saw at the Carlton, Haymar sufficiently depicts the horrors of licence, which permits this, 10s will other week that

"without the grim horror of be paid for each hour of dying up to your objections ket, showed the scenes of carnage war — made them withdraw a proposal to after Japanese bombs were dropped dead bodies lying in all manner of a maximum of 20 hours a year. broadcast "The Speaker" on a Sun-) 1on the "Selfridges of Shanghai," grotesque positions and being heap-

jed into carts.”

The present system by which a day. Now they put in this thriller. killing 500 people.

payment of £25 is made by the Air "To Catch a Thief.”

Mangled bodies of women shop-

"TOO WELL KNOWN"

Ministry in respect of each new cer- Then there is the unearthing of pers were being dragged from

This was followed by a statement tificate "A" or "B" issued, and £10 the Russian Revolution.

Official debris. One shot showed corpses to me from Mr. Francis L. Harley, on each annual renewal, will be con- documents are even being considered being loaded in a cart, to be taken on behalf of the directors of British tinned For the annual renewal to get the programme quite right.

to the incinerator, the terrible dread

Movietone News. He said, The of an "A" certificate a minimum of "Wickedness"

of the Shanghai Municipality being editorial policy of British Movietone three hours' flying is stipulated. Yes, Mrs. Grundy is really being an outbreak of plague.

News eschews the exhibition of hor Paramount's British editor, Mr. flaunted. Only a short while ago the

rific films or horrific incidents in ai Under this year's Air Estimates, caused a stir about the wickedness G. T. Cummins, decided that the pic-sim. It is no part of a news reel's provision of a maximum of £35,000 of song and talk about alcohol in B.ture should be shown without cuts.

is made on this account. or horrify function to shock B. C. broadcasts; and now comes a (The British Board of Film Cen-section of its audiences.

There's sors do not interfere with the news programme full of wine. no attempt to conceal it --- it will be reels). called "Wine.”

→

the

it

IN PUBLIC INTEREST Yes, the smelling salts are right An introductory statement ex- here...

plained that the company felt What's that you say? You can their duty, in the interests of world to show the British and see your own name on the producer's peace, schedule?

American public that modern war, ***Mrs. Grundy Comes to Tea,'

,"2 wherever it

the is waged, means smarting blow at the patrons of all massacre of women and children, on D. O. R. A.'s in the form of a new ja scale undreamt of in the Great

War. play by L. du Garde Peach ?”

Oh! My dear Mrs. Grundy, what The picture justifies their atti- is the matter? The salts have run tude. When I saw it the audience Send for some was gripped. There were gasps of langer, but no demonstration against

the showing of the reel

out? Gracious! Oxygen!

A B.B.C. official, who turned up with the oxygen, hastened to assure Mrs. Grundy that the programmes she had picked out were out "broad-

Other news reel companies, in-

minded exceptions," well spaced be- HONG KONG SHOULD

tween "normal" programmes, and

→ no indication of a change of moral

code at the B. B. C.

BRITISH YACHT

FIRED AT

CATER FOR

CHINESE TOURISTS

A suggestion that Hong Kong should eater more for the Chinese

The story how shots were fired tourist than the foreigner, was in the direction of the Hon. Mrs, made by Mr. Lawrence Kadcorie at Reginald Fellowes yacht Sister the second Annual General Meet- Anne, of the Greek Island of Aegina, ing of the Hong Kong Travel As- was told by the captain of the sociation yesterday. vacht in Venice.

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Mr. Kadoorie referred to-the

“I was not told that the Monil Jubilee in 1935 and the Coronation Strait was a military zone," he this year, remarking that there was said," and therefore I did not a very large influx of Chinese visi- itors from Canton and further in- hesitate to enter.

"We were about 100 yards from land on both occasions, whom he the coast of Aegina when we heard thought must have had a consider- three rifle shots in our direction.able influence on the Colony's re- The shots appeared to have been venue and on the takings of local fired from behind our stern. Itraders.

non.

therefore did not take this for a Mr. Kadoorie spoke of Hong Kong's traditional Chinese customs signal to stop and continued.

“Then a shot was fired by a can- and festivals, as well as historical I stopped the yacht, but no places, such as the walled City of one appeared, so we went on to the Kowloon, the Emperor Sung Rock, port of Piraeus. At Piraeus the Amah Rock, the Ching San sentry was placed on board the Monastery at Castle Peak and other yacht for the night, and next morn.places. ing I was summoned to the office of Mr. the captain of the port.

Kadoorie: suggested that Chinese festivals should be adver-1

"I explained to him that we en-tised and that excursions be run by and train, boat and bus for native tour-

tered the zone in ignorance, there the matter ended."

ists who wish to see them.

any

The effect of the new basis will be "The horrors of war are too re-a fairly general reduction of club cent a memory for the unexpurgat-charges to members for flying. ed details of the Shanghai bombing

There are about 70 clubs, and to add anything to the public detes-more than 40 are on the subsidy list. The number of flying members is more than 6,000, and certificates gained in the clubs varies from about 10 in small clubs to 100 in the larger clubs.

tation of war.

"In generall, our company consi ders itself governed by those prin- ciples which have proved efficacious in the case of feature films under a film censorship.”

After that I had a written state- Terms for tuition vary widely." ment from Mr. Cummins, of Para-With the aid of the subsidy, some mount, declaring that Mr. Bernerd's local clubs, or such special organisa- amazing outburst" seems to eman- tions as the London Passenger Tran- ate "from a severe attack of sour sport Flying Club, enable members grapes.**

to obtain their “A” certificate for £10 or less.

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