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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20th,

SUNRISE."

DRAMA OF PEASANT LIFE.

GERMAN PRODUCER'S

TRIUMPH%

ABSORBING STORY OF PRIMITIVE NATURES.

[BY OUR FILM CRITIC.]

DR. DOROTHY LOGAN CENSURED.

NAME NOT ERASED FROM MEDICAL REGISTER.

""

THE CHANNEL SWIM HOAX,

Sir Donald Macalister, the Pre- sident, at a meeting of the General Medical Council on May 23rd, an- nounced the decision of that body concerning the case of Dr. Dorothy Logan, who appeared before them in connection with the Channel

The Council decided not to erase Dr. Logan's name from the Medical Register.

The charge against her was fram. ed on the police conviction and fine of £100, following her claim that she had swum the English Channel, without having done so, with the declared object of exposing the pos- sibility of establishing unreliable athletic records."

The film Sunrise," now being shown at the Queen's Theatre, has provoked favourable criticism wher-swim hoax. ever it has been screened and bas been, generally acclaimed as the most technically perfect film yet made. The critic's opinion doos not, however, always coincide with that of the general public to whom details of technique are com paratively unimportant. But in the case of "Sunrise" opinions will be generally unanimous as to its sup reme merit. Sudermann has set out to tell a story which is true in every detail. The fact that he has chosen a tragic role for his characters does not make it the less true-such things do happen to a lesser or greater degree overy day. The director, F. . Murnau, has taken the story and visualised it so perfectly that there is no false note anywhere,

The man, his wife and the woman of the city are people such as Hardy drew. The minds and emo tions of the peasant ecuple are up- troubled by complexes, and the picture of the domination of the man's mind. by that of the more sophisticated city bred woman is handled in a masterly manner.

He is of the type that belongs to no country ia particular, and the fact that the scenes in which his life is passed are German, has no special significance. The man is a peasant farmer on a small scale, young and untroubled in his animal like happiness until the second woman comes into his life. He not more stupid than most of us, only infinitely more simply. He loves and accepts his wife and child as he does all the other essentials of his existence.

The circumstances of the convic tion were laid before the Council by Mr. Charles Harper, solicitor to the Council.

Dr. Logan defended herself, and the Council, after a two hours' session, through the President, gave

their decision.

Words Of Warning. The Council, he remarked, had very carefully and seriously con sidered the conviction which had been recorded against Dr. Logan and it had been proved to their satisfaction-a conviction for an offence against the Perjury Act, which was of a very serious charac

ter.

They had also taken into account the explanations that Dr. Logan had offered by way of mitigation of that offence, and they desired him to say that they had formed the opinion that Dr. Logan at the time, and perhaps even subsequent ly, had been imperfectly realising the responsibility which rested upon every citizen, and in a special It member of an degree upon honourable profession like that of the medical practitioner, to refrain from appending their signature to any statement for which they could not vouch for the contents being true.

The Council bad, however, come to the conclusion that perhaps the punishment to which Dr. Logan had already been subjected, and the proceedings of, that day, might have enabled her to realise afresh and more fully the responsibilities which rested upon her. And, he lieving that in time to come she would never purport to attest any- thing which she knew to be untrue, and that her conduct henceforth would be worthy of the profession they had decided not to erase her name from the Medical Register.

It is easy to see why the town bred woman loved him and sought to take him back to the city with her, and as easy to understand the fascination that she exerted over him. She is to him like a fair or bewildering visit to the town, having a glamour that is not quite real, and when she makes her angges- tion that he should come with hor, his natural commonsense exerts itself "What about my wile 1" Her well prepared scheme to get rid of the woman who was in no sense her rival leaves him thunder- struck and then angry, until she bewilders him with her caresses and impresses her mind and will on bim. You see him go home as in a drunken stupor, the thing which he is to do looming terrible in his mind which can see no escape from it. When the moment of action comes he is away from the stronger mind and be realizes that he does not in the least want to drown Hi! British families are to be settled on wife.

The Acting,

SETTLER FAMILIES.

MANITOBA TO PROVIDE 200

FARMS.

WINNIPEG,

The Canadian Government De partment of Immigration and the Manitoba Government have nego tiated an agreement whereby 200

1928.

DARTMOOR FOLK ALARMED.

CONVICTS FREED AT GAOL

GATES.

WOMAN NOVELIST'S

REVOLVER.

-WIDEGOMES-IN-THE-MOOR, Devonshire."

The attention of the authorities has been called to the risks run by people living on Dartmoor from the practice of releasing at the prison gates of Princetown "Gaol those convicts who have served their full sentences.

People living in isolated cottages on the moor have been alarmed by the disclosure that Frederick Guy Browne, one of the men under sene tence, of death for the murder of P.C. Gutteridge, spent two nights on the moor, armed with two re- volvers, while waiting for another convict who was being released from the gool.

The authorities point out that all men released on ticket-of-leave are given tickets to their homes or the town in which they were convicted and are seen into the train by warders. They must report within 24 hours to the palice in the die- trict to which they have elected to go.

forfeit remission of sentence the In the case of prisoners who authorities have no power to compel them to travel by train. But very prisoners serve their full sen

tance.

Kiss Parr's Revolver. Miss Olive Katherine Parr, the novelist who writes under the came of Beatrice Chase and has spent 25 years at Widecombe, in the heart of the moor, is leading an agita tion for stricter control over the movements of convicts leaving the gaol. She said:-

In view of the danger I have been given permission to have a revolver, but no woman, even if she were armed, would have the slightest chance if she came up against a man like Browne. The position of the simple Devonshire folks who live in these scattered cottages is even worse.

Captain Vyvyan, Chief Constable of Devon, anid he had no fear for the safety of his men. He had received a complaint from Miss Parr, which would probably be investigat- ed by the Home Office. He added:

Usually convicts are in a hurry to get away as soon as they are released, for if they remain in the district they at once come under suspicion and are liable to arrest...

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"It people were d's ready to l their minds as they are to fill their stomachs or to pollute the air with smoke there would not be any die cussion on the price of books Books realy are extraordinarily cheap," said Mr. Stanley Unwid. the publisher, opening a discussion on the price of books at a meet. ing of the Incorporated Society of Authors in London.

"The price of books," he con- tinued, "is a question which con- fronts publishers daily. It is so often assumed that the price is actualed by a whim or perversity of the publishers.

Manitoba farms under a scheme which calls for the combined assist ance of the British, Canadian, and George O'Brien's rendering of the Manitoba Governments. part is excellent. He makes it Similar schemes have been-nego- human, sympathetic, intensely intiated ciscxhere and already a terosting, and never for a moment acore or more families have been looses the essential peasant outlook brought out for settlement in the You are reminded of "Jude The Maritime Provinces, Obscure" and to a lesser extent The scheme provides that the of "The Mayor of Casterbridge," British Government shall contribute It is purely economic pro- but never of the farm boy of £300 a family to cover the initial blem. Cortain German publishers American films. The projected deed expenses of starting in farming. fix their prices from complicated put aside the man forgets it more The Canadian Government selects algebra. formula. French publishers readily than the wife because it the families, provides superinter- recommend all others to adopt a never acemed real to him. His, deace after eettlement, and also similar method. We English pub clumsy attempts to "make up acts as the financial agent of the lishers travel by simpler roads and when they reach the town are British Government in collecting arrive at the same conclusion SE pathetic, but not so infinitely pathe the £300 outlay over a long period our learned brethren on the Con tic as the moment when full reali of years,

tinent. sation comes to him as he hears another promise to love and protect his bride. He howla then like a child who realises that it has burt its mother, and the terrified little peasant wife sees that he is only a baby. Her hysteria vanishes as she comforts him, and they turn to their outing like a couple of child

ren.

In addition, the Canadian and "Many of the books that are British Governments give to the published would never be produced family the assisted passage rate if they were for sale to the public, from the British Isles to the point but they are chiefly for circulating

libraries, of destination in Canada.

The province buys the farms or supplies them from lands now in its possession and agrees to sell to the family at actual cost, the amount to be repaid over a period of years with interest at per cent.

story is at times intensely pathetic

"Production costs have more than doubled since the war, and show no sign of decreasing.

"The average sale of new books is miserably small. The proportion of books which sell more than 2,000 copies is fractiobal."

"

"Hew Reading Public." Mr. Boy, of Messrs. W. H. Smith but it is never horrible, and the and Son, declared that the New

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What follows their visits to the barber, the photographer, and the fun fair-is quite delightful but un- important to the story as is also the return journey across the lake, when a storm nearly causes the tragedy, which was planned for the beauty of some of the scenes is Reading Public of which he had.

beard so much did not exist. morning crossing. But it has been exquisite,

The scenes on the film havé, many Supposing that the author, the kept by the Director so essentially of thom, the qualities which make publisher, and the bookseller, ench were, even though the climax is

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Mr. Hugh Walpole, the novelist, peasant people. Perhaps the most expressed a more optimistic view. lovely are the pictures which show During his tours up and down Eng the mist rising off the lake, I can land, he said, he had, discovered remember no film which has any that the "New Reading Public thing to compare with them for did exiet: He condemned English really artistic photography.

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