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THE CINEMA IN THE

EAST.

FACTOR IN SPREAD OF COMMUNISM.

No one travelling in Malays and the Dutch East Indies could fail to be im pressed by the frequent references, in the Press and in conversation, to the rapid growth of Communist propaganda among the antives of those regions, writes a correspondent in The Times.

"CHU CHIN CHOW FORTUNE.

#HOW, ITS AUTHOR LOST OVER

£100,000,

· KISMET 'IN REAL LIFE.

Some interesting Bgures relating to Chu Chin Chow and similar produc tions were given at the London Bank- ruptcy Court, says the Morning Post to hand, when, under the receiving order made against him on May 28th last, the public examination of John Stanger Uscar Asche, the well-known theatrical producer, was held before Mir. Registrar

In the Straits Settlements and the Dutch East Indies most of this work, among the labourers and peasants, is be-Stiebel. ing done by British Indians and by Chinese agents from Canton.

Asiatic agitators mostly concentrate on organized centres of employment, such as railway workshops, docks, factories, and other places where large numbers of aatives are working for regular wages, and in such centres the usual arguments are used to create discontent and to pro- duce strikes.

The general' opicion among the upper classes in Malaya and the Dutch Indies appears to be that, while Com munist propaganda may gradually lead to troublous times in the future, the natural characteristics of. the natives of these countries are fundamentally foreign to the theories of Bolshevism and that the ferment will, sooner or later, die out. Whatever may be the effect of Com- munist agents in the Far East there can be no doubt that the relations between Europeans and natives, especially in the large towns, are very diferent from what they used to be. People who revisit the Indies after a few years' absence are painfully struck by the change in the at- titude of servants and labourers. With out showing overt insolence there is, ia their behaviour towards the whites, an undercurrent of impudence that borders on contempt. There is little now of the genuine respect towards Europeans that was formerly the rule in the East, and one cannot help feeling that the Euro pean no longer holda the same place in the mind of the native and that hashas, in some way, suffered degradation..

Influence of the "Pictures," ". It is possible that this regrettable change of spirit may, in a large measure, be due to the persistent propaganda of those organizations which are bent on up- setting our present social, fabric. At the same time there can be no doubt that the way for Communistic influence has been greatly, facilitated by a powerful and novel element which, in recent years, has entered into the liver of semi-civilized people in all parts of the tropical world. That element is the cinéma,

The writer during his travels in Asia found no one who did not agres with him as to the deplorable effects of the "pic tures on the prestige of Europeang in the Far East. Until the cinemas laid bare the worst sides of the life of the white "man most of the natives were ignorant of the depths of vice which afflict certain sections of white society It is true that no man is a hero to hii valet, and it is probable that the Sahib's "boy" hat few illusiona za to the vaunted moral superiority of the Euto pean. But to the vast mass of black, brown, and yellow people the inner life of the European, and especially that side of it which flourishes in centres of crime and 'infamy, was unknown until the American films showed them a travesty of it. The spread of picturs houses in remote tropical countries has been re- markable in recent years, and it is now rare to find a town of a few thousand inhabitants which cannot boast of its "picture palace." The film shown in these places are of the most sensational description, and, although a certain amount of police censorship is exercised, the great majority of the pictures teem with episodes of crime and violence of

all kinds.

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Efect on the Nailves.

The simple native has a positive genius for picking up false impressions and is very deficient in the sense of proportion. By the unsophisticated Malay, Javanese, or even the Indian and the Chinese, the scenes of crime and depravity which are thrown on the screen are accepted as

faithful representations of the ordinary life of the white man in his own country. The pictures of amorous pasanges, many of which, according to his ideas, are very indecent, give him a deplorable im- pression of the morality of the white man

The statement of affairs filed in the proceedings showed total litabilities of 44,311, of which £27,018 is unsecured, and assets of £13,915, which sum is ab sorbed by preferential claims for income tax and super tax

Examined by Mr. Ferrars Vyryan, the Official Receiver, Mr. Asche asid, that in 1911 he produced Kismet " at the Garrick Theatre, where it ran until January, 1912, when he went to Australia and there produced various Shakes- peacian plays until March, 1914. After- wards be again produced other plays at London theatres, from which bo received a salary and share of the profits, amounting in all to about £30,000

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In August, 1916, he produced, at His Majesty's Theatre," Chu Chin Chow," which was written by himself and was financed by a private company, received a salary of £80 a week and a share of royalties which, daring the fire years' run of the play, provided him with over £100,000. In addition he received about £20,000 in salary,

In October, 1991, be produced at the same theatre"Cairo," of which also he was the author. This play wa financed by private companies, into ong of which he put £9,500. He received a salary of about £150 a week and a share of royalties, which produced from £150 to £200 a week. ...

Australian Tour,

In July, 1922, he left England for a tour in Australia and New Zealand under an agreement with an Australian-com: pany of theatrical managers, whereby he was to receive a weekly minimum sum of £200 on account of 50 per cent. of the profits. No financial statements were readered to him. Proceedings taken in Melbourne were referred to the arbitrator in this country named in the agreement, but no further steps had been taken, as he had been unable to obtain possession of his documents in Australia. Ho ̈ Dow estimated his claim against the company. at £10,000. While in Australia he re- ceived in all about £16,000, and he spent something like £12,000.

The Official Receiver: That was a lot - of money to spend f-I always lived with- in my income.

He attributed his failure and insolvency to his inability to obtain his share of the profits to which he was entitled on his Australian tour and for which no accounts had been rendered; to failure to obtain royalties due to him from Anterica; to lack of engagements since September, 1995, and to the failure of the musical: comedy "The Good Old Days.”

A MARRIAGE SUPERSTITION.

Writing in his parish magazine, the Twickenham, Middlesex, says: "I find Rev. A. Martyn Baaders, vicar of East it necessary again to urge intending brides and bridegrooms to bear their banns called. Recently, through no fault of mine whatever, there was a painful illustration of the ill fuck which may accompany failure to do this. The sign- ed particulars given on the banas form were incorrect. No one who was per- sonally concerned attended church to hear them called, and when I lesued my certificate the vicar of the parish where the wedding was to take place very pro- Perly rejected it--I should have done the with the alternative of waiting another same myself-and the parties were faced

fifteen days or of obtaining a licence at an additional cost of £2 24

I find it

very difficult to speak patiently of the lucky to hear your own banns." superstitious folly which says,it is un-

Demand for Sensation.

and, worse still, of the white woman. brown huts among those who have scen The act of kissing, save among natives "picture" for the first time; the who have had the beasts of educa absurd impressions, the puzzling in- tion, is bever practised among the peoplesfluences, the demoralizing conclusions. of the Far East, and the prolonged and often erotic exhibitions of osculation. frequently shown on the screen cannot but arouse in the minds of unsophisticat ed natives feelings that can better be im- ngined than described. To hear, indeed, the remarks and catcalls which often proceed from the cheap seats occupied by young coolies during those love Passages" is sometimes enough to make one's blood boil

The writer was assured that, in Malays, considerable care is being taken in the censorship of films and that, wherever, possible, objectionable scenes are cut out. do dependent, however, are most of these !ms on a sequence of sensational episodes that it is quite impossible to eliminate even a tithe of the pictures which repre sent Europeans in criminal or undesir The police authorities in the East are able situations. If everything calculat unanimous in attributing many of the ed to bring the white man into contempt more important and complicated crimes were taken out very little would be left. to the suggestions of the cinema. It is,The native has already been taught to in fact, not necessary for the people to demand sensational scenes and is satisfied pay to see the most striking of the violent by nothing else. The proprietors of the episodes of a filip Posters outside a picture houses are already complaining of cinema display, with every possible undue discrimination and protest that exaggeration, scenes of battle, murder, further interference would rain their and sudden death The little black or business

yellow child can feast its astounded eyes. On the other hand, the Government on the sight of a Balib" strangling cannot shirk its responsibilities in the a semi-nude woman with blue eyes matter, and the fact that certain persons and golden hair. To his primitive mind can make money by the exhibition of such pictures must come as an amazing exciting films is not a suficient reason revelation." To the vast majority of those for allowing pernicious impressions to who pay to see the show the plot of the permeate primitive people for whose pro- film is often quita incomprehensible, gress we have made ourselves responsible. Most of the scenes depict things and It is generally felt, in the East that a situations that they have never even certain class of film has done more than. imagined and cannot › understand. But anything else, in recent years, to the vivid actions of the actors are clear diminish the prestige which the European enough to their minds, and they are quite used to enjoy. Those films have weaken- capable of grasping all the exciting led the whole platform of respect on which details of a burglary or the lurid phases the ascendancy of the white man in of a murder. One can imagine the con- the tropics has rested, and have pre- versations that take place in the shade pared the minds of the people for the of the big-mango trees or in the Little i disintegrating influences of Communistic

(Continued on nezt Column.) propaganda.

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