CINEMA WORLD
Film Features Music Of Schumann, Brahms
The practice of using the lives of the great as the basis, usually it is no more than a basis, of o film is quite common. Now Hollywood has had a lavish fit and given us a story.about not just one great person but three, all in the one wrap- per "Song of Love.”
Robert
The great ones Schumann (Paul Henreid), his wife Clara (Katherine Hep- bura) and Johannes Brahma Robert Walker). Franz Liszt is present too, but put to any grent extent, They ne ## good in their parts though, not unnaturally, Katherine Hep- burn outshines her partners without much trouble
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Brahms taken over much of the responsibility of the house. hold. helping the servant. venerating Schumann and fall- Ing hopelessly in love with Clara. She is much too worried to notice this.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1948.
Hanreid and
"Song of Love," has Katharine Hepburn, Paul Robert Walker as ita trio of atars, with Clarence Brown of "The Yearling" fame, as its producer-director. The picture unfolds the love story of Robert and Clara Schumann, with Walker erst as Johannes Brahms.
LINDA DARNELL IS TAKING NO CHANCES
He!!
By LEROY MARCH
ber of fancy things she likes 10
with her tresses.
THE JAPANESE FILM INDUSÍ RY
Japan, until her collapse, was one of the greatest film-producing countrias in the world. As many as 2,400 films of all kinds wero at the disposal of har 2,000 cinomas in 1944.
A considerable part of the normal annual produc- tion of 650 features consisted of so-called "Classics"-films based on ancient legends and traditions and made in order to imbue the.. masses with that disastrous spirit of national- ism and self-glorification.
The influence of such Alms in Japan may make is the sowing has been enormous. But since of the seed of a social conscience the end of the war things have in the Japanese. The ground is changed radically. For the barren. but so would the soil of Japan be were it not for the vast 1.000 odd cinemas now operat quantities of fertiliser tised. ing, a supply of roughly 200-Possibly the films 300 films is available. Besides. that as well.
a list of 500 carefully selected from the production of the war years has been compiled for re-issue.
Foreign films,
may supply
in any event, the sociological drama ia becoming more and more common on the Japanese screen. One of the most recent ) and most revolutionary of these is a flim called "Purifica. tion By Faith" produced by the Ohlzum! Studios, an. off. shoot of Toho.
muinly Amer- ient "musicnis", are now playing considerable part in their pro- grammes. Both" listribution "and production have been pincert under strict Alllect supervision,
Main producing companies aro "Purification" tells the Blory the Shochiku, with sturios at of a street girl who, through thir Ofuna, the Toho with studios at Intervention of a converted boy Klumaturk, and the Nikkatsu friend, minds her ways studios at Tamagawn.
bndly-bumberi
the Instigation of the Roman Cathalle Current production Is
very Church. This is probably small-30 flims last year and first me that Christianity has few more this year. But played a major part in a Japanese even more noteworthy than the commercial film. change in number of the films For the most part, the action being produced is the change of "Purification" takes place in In the type of story being used. | the cellar of This, of course, has been in- building near Terakuého, one of fluenced to a very large extent Tokyo's busiest railway stations, by The Occupation. It has cut out and
small church nearby nil the propaganda-style
pro- which does not, th
fact, exist in ductions and has caused con- that Incalls. The me is in- centration by most studios on mediately after the war's entl. Europeun-style cinema in Euro- The
Ohizumi Studios
Studios came pran dress.
Ang last
December and Into being are among several small enter- prises which have sprung un
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