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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, JULY 5TH,

F.M.S. EDUCATION.

$82,431 SPENT ON MALAY COLLEGE.

1926

"AN INCIDENT OF THIRTY YEARS AGO

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The association passed a resolution.

WHY BRITISH" FILMS FAIL.

THE LESSON OF GERMANY.

With referenca to the death of Sir James Candle, the well-known. London EBY SIX ROREET DONALD, QBE, KLD] At the beginning of the year the num

surgeon, which, na already announced in ber of European appointments in the our columns, took place in London last conference at Southport recently accept F.M.S. Education Department, includ-month, the Morning Port published an experimental scheme of unemploy In a disqussion in the House of Lords ing administrative and teaching stai facsimile reproductions of the actual ment insurance. A mum of £1,000 is to over a year ago on the British film in was 30 for men and 5 for women. The cards muggled out of the Chinese be appropriated from the funds of the dustry or rather the absence of Lord taking over by Government of the Legation in Londen in fee-by-Sun-Fat association, and bencht of £1 a work is Feal, on behalf of the Government, de Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, 14-Sen-begging-Sir James Cantlie to secure to be paid to any unemployed member for plored the humiliating fact that not creased those numbers during the year to his release. The full episode, told many 10 weeks. per cent of the films exhibited in Eng 37 and 8 respecively.

times, has been, as stated, recalled by Mr. Braham, of Birmingham, denoune- and and the Empire wede British, and At the end of the year, says the 1925 the death of Sir James Caatlie. Suning the scheme, na undignified, said that said that the Government is a party annual report of the Chief Beerstary Yat Sen, having been implicated in he could understand it being put before- to swift and immediate action after in there were two vacancies for men and stirring up a revolt in China, had escap-tà sociaty of mouldy mendicants or cross- formation has been obtained," writes one for women, but owing to fire Euro-ed from Canton and come to London ing-sweepers, but to offor £1 a week to Sir Robert Donald from Berlin.

pean Masters being seconded to the with the double purpose of saving his an educated, i intelligent traveller was an Since this definite announcement was Enfederated Malay States the actual head and pursuing his medical studies insult. made there have been numerous enquiries number of vacancies for men was seven. Still filled with revolutionary zeal, he by the trade, conferences, reports, discus The expenditure upon Education (in-incautiously allowed one of his most pro regretting the decision of, the railway sions; deputations to Ministers, and eluding 8391,898 spent by the Public mising disciples, who was in reality a companies not to resume commercial negotiations; and the British Federation Works Department on the building and Chinese Government spy, to lure him travellers week-end tickets after the of Industries has been almost in son upkeep of schools) was 82,654, 693 OF into the Chinese Legation in Portlandtrike. tinuous session exploring the problem. this sum, 8510,681 was paid in grants to place, where he was closely confined in A gift of £1,000, was announced from Thus a vast volume of information has English aided schools and $39,117 in an attic. The intention, of course, was the directors of W. P. Hartley, Ltd.,to been obtained, yet no swift and sim grants to Chinese vernacular schools, ̈`* to send him back to China fox trial, and the charities of the association. mediate action has followed.

execution. In this desperate plight hel Lord Feel expressed the hope that the The total revenue, derived mainly from professional mentor, Dr. James Castle, bethought himself of his close friend and. British Federation of Industries. would

to whom he wrote a message on two themselves impotent to do anything in by rousing public opinion" make school-fees, was 88.481. An education

rate of 1 per cent. in Sanitary Board visiting cards couched in the following face of the diplomatie immunity enjoyed the public and the trade insist upon areas produced only 897,327

terms: British films being exhibited, both here

" by the Legation. Dr. Cantlis then re- The expenditure on the Malay College To Dr. James Cantlie, 46, Devonatred the matter to the Foreign Offer, and throughout the Empire.

The only changes which have taken was 850,065. At the beginning of the shiro-street,I was kidnapped into the and Lord Salisbury, who was Foreign place during the last twelve months are school year, there were four probationers Chinese Legation on Sunday, and shall Minister as well as Prime Minister, took that American films are more predomin and 127-students, all-bearders educated he smuggled out from England to China it up personally. He placed the Chinese ant and American finance is getting aand maintained-entirely at Government for death. Pray rescue me quick. A Legation under close observation so as stronger grip on the trade, while German expense. During the year three of the ship is chartered by the CL for the to prevent any chance of the prisoner. appointed Malay | service to take me to China, and I shall being smuggled out, and informed the films are capturing a share of the small probationers were part of the business which remains Officers in the Government servies, two be locked up all the way without com- Chinese Minister of his action by letter. boys became teachers in the Education|munication to anybody. Of Wee to me! He also threatened, it Sun Yot den British

The Daily Mail, in recent vigorous Department and one a Probationer in the

suffered any harm in the Legation or were not released within a given time, articles, is doing its best to rouse public Forest Department, and two entered the

to hand the Chinese Minister his pass- opinion concerning a problem which is Medical College, Singapore.

ports, which would, of course, deprive of vital, national, industrial, and "Im- perial import, and has, at the same time,

the Legation of its diplomatic immunity. pointed out that the picture-going public

in this way the rolesse of Sun Yat Sen will not give up bad American Elms for

was secured without any breach of diplomatic usage.

worse British ones

PLANNED ON A GREAT SCALE. That is the crux of the problem: how to make a start with good films. With- out a constructive policy we shall drift into an irretrievable situation, while foreign producers will consolidate their monopoly. If the public and the trade, with the sympathetic support of the Government, follow the lines of The Daily Mail, the vicious circle round which we are now revolving can be broken and a breach made in the foreign monopoly.

I have studied all the numerous so- called solutions of the problem--which have been prepounded; for the most part they neutralise each other. In any cases no scheme can be applied until we can make pictures better than or as good as foreign productions, and that we cannot do until we possess facilities and tech nical skill at least equal to those possess ed by our competitors.

BCHOOL FEES.

The standard of work throughout the school showed improvement, and there was a decrease in the average age. The Cadet Corps, which was inspected by the

Staff Officer to the Local Forces, was re- ported to be a well-trained and efficient corps, which reflected credit on

all concerned.

THE TIPPING PROBLEM.”

[BY AN OLD TRAVELLER, ] British hotel proprietors are being urged to adopt the system of tips on the compulsory percentage now so much in vogue abroad.

Before they do this, they should send an except committee to investigate

The entire question must be viewed from three aspects-that of the proprie tor, that of the staff, that of the guest. The proprietor likes the system because his unseen staff share in the tip pool, and therefore he can engage them for less

Looney.”

He dislikes it because he is no longer really master-in his own house. If he wants cxtra assistants in the busy season the staff may object that every new per

As the German film industry has risen to a position second only in importance to that of America, in spite of unpret dented handicaps, I came here to study employed means a lower percentage how this feat has been accomplished and to see if we could proft by Germany's example. I have interviewed every firm of ang importance in the industry. I have visited the chief, film-producing. centres round Berlin, seen many theatres,

for those already on the staff. I have known cases where the proprietor and the manager have had to act as waiters for

this season.

The staff in big hotels are not altoge

Please take care of the messenger for me at present; he is very poor, and will lase his work by doing for me."

The message was promptly delivered to Dr. Cantlie, who immediately consult ed Gret the Commissioner for Police and then the Home Office. Both declared

(Continued on next column.)

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English and

From the point of view of the guest it Dutch in turn Struggled for Mastery,

keenly interested in the problem and simply comes to this personal study off have followed developments in Germany your requirements, your little fancies, closely.

What impresses me most of all is the your little fada perhaps, has vanity has been since the 16th century, a Magnet attracting stupendous scale upon which the industry except in a few rare cases. You are only has been planned and the high degree of a-10 per center or & 15 per center se the from Europe all who sought Trede, Adventure or Gain. technical efficiency which has been reach-

case may be. The waiters, the concierge,

ed, Outside Hollywood there is no such the chambermaids and the charabermen. Preducing centre as Berlin. The chief the porters, knew exactly what each will studio, and film city of the Ufa Company receive. Why should they bother about at Neubakelsberg, which I visited, anything else?

permanent staff of between 800 and 500 continuously at work, and the number

ideas.

To-day it is rapidly becoming known as one of the Gems of the and attracts Tourists and Visitors

occupies a site of 70 acres. There is, à Yet the system was founded on sound Pacific-The Pearl of the Orient

The long queue of twitching, increases on occasions to 2,000. Accom- itching palma disappeared. You could from all parts of the world. modation is found, for sine producers leave the hotel in peace and with a con- There is an army of technicians. Each science absolutely untroubled. Now the It was there in carpenter, lamp man, modeller, and quene has returned. electrician is an expert in his way three ordinary hotels where I have stayed. Every, conceivable article required for recently, although I had paid-week-by the production of any kind of picture is week my regular tip tax, which se-up- stored or made on

the premises. At posed to cover everything and everybody. Neubabelaberg production has been in-

Human nature has invalidated the dustrialised on a large scale in every land feel sure the same evolution will scheme, and if it is introduced into Eng branch and to the minutest details.

follow. In the end the proprieton will ZEPPELIN SHED AS STUDIO put the tax on the bill tips will as panal

be handed out to the staff, and it will not be a case of tip or taz-but both.

GREAT-ARTISTS.

-Another studio at Tempelhof, belong- ing to the same company, occupies near ly 100,000 square yards and is equally well equipped on a smaller scale. The permanent staff here numbers about-400. "These two-studios, while kept up-to-date, were built originally over 12 years ago..

The Germans possess on a large scale The largest covered studio in the world the first requisites for success-the facili (and about nine-tenths of all film work, ties. They also have the technical including out-door acenes, is now done skill and scientific equipment, and have under cover with artificial light) is the attained a high degree of proficiency in the kinema art. Berlin draws talent and old Zeppelin shed at Stanken, near Berlin. It is a colosen Structure, suh experts from other countries, and in re stantially built of bricks and steel, 650ft. turn America attracts both producers long, 100ft. wide, and 150ft high Abut, pertence and acquired world reputations and actors who have gained their ex- ting on the main shed is another, for Berlin. Producers who have gone to merly an aeroplane hangar, which men-1 America include Pommer, Dupont, P. L sures 860ft. long by soft. wide and 35ft. Stein, Lothar Mendes, Lubitsch, and high

Stroheim, while the kinema artists who have succumbed to American dollars

The space available at this one centre exceeds the combined space of all British include Emil Jannings, Lys de Putti,

To those seeking relief from the oppressive and trying ices sum "mer, there is no place which holds forth such a pleasing prospect of complete change of surroundings, of secenery and of climate.

Big Game shooting

8 days to Batavia, a short journey then takes the traveller to the Highlands, where all the trials of heat and humidity are forgotten temperate climate unsurpas any tropical country.

Wonderful ancient Temples

Motor tours through magnificent scenery

Dolce far niente, for those who prefer it,

Hilf resorts like. Sindanglaja or. - Tosari, Fires in the evening will be appreciated.

where

The magnificent vesseis of the Java-China-Japan Line sail studios. On the occasion of my visit on Vilma Banky, André Mattoni, K. Hus direct to Batavia, or to Sourabaya via Macassar, and give the Saturday afternoon, ife fima, one, off sar, Bad Pola Negra. them for a French company, were inAll these artists are not of German traveller the added charm of a sea voyage through Calm and process of production at the same time origin, but they have worked at German Tropic Seas under Ideal Conditions.

The Zeppelin sheds were doomed to destruction by the Disarmament Com mission, but the cost of removal would have been excessive, and the buildings were sold to Her Skiart, a German Russian, who lets the fadice to producers and provides the technicians and equip ment. The working staf. exceeds 100.

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sindios and earned their reputations in Berlin. The industry does not seem to have suffered from this emigration, as there is a large reservoir of producing and acting talent upon which to drow That is because film production has be come a national industry organised, on national dides Experts are 2lWBYS COM- These big studios interchange facilities ing on, and the skilled craftsmen and Some of the best British pictures, by Artechnicians, who gre as indispensable for East Indies from: Graham Cutts and Mr Herbert Wilcox good production as talented directors, re have been produced in Berlin studion." I bave only mentioned the big three, butain at home in ever-increasing numbers. there are more than 20 other efficient duction and an abundance of talent and

But even splendid facilities for pro stuhon round Berlin belonging to 17 owners. Although the existing capacity exceeds the present requirements of the industry, new ones are being built. (Continued on nezt column.).

technical experts would not have enabled Germany to build up the industry with out the adoption of constructive and de- fensive measures the effect of which I will desoribó in another article.".

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