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SPARKLING FRENCH FARCE!

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JEEN SAMY

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VIRGINIA VALLI "mith NOAH BEERY LOUISE BROOKS

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1928.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

RISING TIDE OF BRITISH FILMS.

Parties of British film actors and actresses, directors, camera- men, production managers, and assistants are coming and going to and from London almost daily Though they catch trains for the Isle of Man, Devonshire, Italy, or Germany it is not to enjoy holi- days, but because the rising tide of British Alm' greduction is at

the full.

CINEMA NEWS.

CABARET.

EMPIRE SURVEY OFFICERS.

LONDON CONFERENCE.

MR. AMERY PRAISES WORK.

IN INDIA

At the Colonial Office last month

Gilda Gray, the famous Broadway stage dancer, will be seen here in her second picture play, "Cabaret" which comes to the Quera's to-day and tomorrow."Cabaret" is a drama of New York night life, the the first Empire Conference of central figure is a beautiful young dancer who becomes involved in a Survey Officers was opened by Mr. murder. Miss Gray is surrounded Amery, the Secretary of State for by an excellent cast which includes Dominion Affairs and for the Tom Moore, as the romantic hero, Commonwealth of Australia, the Colònies. Representatives of the Chester Conklin as a comic taxicab Irish Free State and the Govern- Twenty fims are beng made at driver, and Mona Palma as the the moment, seven at the Elstree jealous lover. A feature of the pro 18 Colonies, Protectorates and ment of India, as well as of some studios alone. So great is the deduction is the appearance of Gilda Mandated Territories,-were-pre- mand-for-the-established players| Gray's-famous-troupe of dancers that some of them, like. Mr. Henry who appear in a cabaret scene where sení. Victor and Miss. Annette Benson, the star dances her latest jazz" sen-

Mr. Amery said the membership are actually working on two films sation. An additional attraction at wider Empire than that which wa of the conference represented & the 9.20 p.m., performances will be the appearance of Miss Cherie Valentine and Miss Tomasita Bird. well, the popular juvenile eccentric dancers, who present an change of programme consisting of

at once.

covered by his own functions, either as Secretary of State for Colonies, or for Dominion Affairs.

Miss Madeleine Carroll arrived back from Italy with the company making The Firstborn" under Mr. Miles Hauder's direction late d one night. She spent all the next day on exterior scenes needed items. that are all new to BOPB sometimes omitted when they talk-

to finish the film and caught a train late that night for Germany, where she immediately began work on a Continental picture.

Miss Eve Gray finished work one night on the motoring fili "Peace," but in response to an urgent telephone call turned up on Barnes Common at 1 o'clock

Kong audiences.

entire

It included representatives of In- amall dia, the Sudan, and of a 'corner of the Empire which was

ed of the Empire-he meant Great The Circus."" Charlie Chaplin's famous comedy,

Britsin He should like in par "The Circus," comes to the World ticular perhaps to welcome the re- to-day until Saturday. The story Indio had given, he thought, an presentatives of India, because tells of a down and out tramp who, after successfully evading the atten

object-lesson to the whole Empire in the forethought with which. It tions of the police, seeks refuge in next morning, did some more a circus where he is taken on as the detailed care with which it had planned out its survey work and scenes, and jumped into a cor | handy man. The circus owner soon which whisked her to Victoria Station just in time, to catch the finds out that Charlie is a comedian. been carried through, whether it boat-train to keep her next ap-The climax, after a series of ex- had been the work of measuring pointment in Rome..

tremely funny incidents is reached village plots, of irrigation sub- when Chaplin substitutes for a tight division, the work of municipal "Widdicombe Fair.".

rope walker. "The Circus At the present moment Miss picture that could have been made survey, or the laying out of the Lilian Hall-Davies, Miss Betty by only one comedian alive and peaks and main lines of great i Balfour, and Miss Elisse Landi it is thoroughly worth seeing a Himalayan railways. .` are all working on the Continent, second or even a third time. and Mr. Ivor Novello goes in & few days.

"

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"Rocking Moon."? "Bocking Moon," a fine picture of Alaska, will be shown at the Star to-day and to-morrow.

Mr. Wyndham Standing departs for Devonshire for outdoor scenes in, Widdicombe Fair," a film in which we shall also, see a promis-"Rocking Moon is an unusual ing newcomer. Miss Marguerite Allan, who, though English, has hitherto played only in Berlin

For every star now working overtime in British films there is a score of small-part people from whom fresh talent may be sought

** Warworks."

romance of a young girl, who owns a large fox farm, and wages a battle of wita with, poachers. It moves with a fast and even tempo and discloses some of the most beautiful scenes ever reflected on the screen,

"Among some of our greatest! explorers," he proceeded, "have! been the members of the Indian Survey, not only European büt also Indian members of the Sur vey itself. I suppose it would be true to say that the science of sur vey and cartography"goes back to the very earliest beginnings of human history. For war or peace the tribal topographer, whether he could only give a description, or whether he could supplement that by a map scratched on a piece of bone, or by shapes of twigs to show the relative positions of land, and Adolphe Menjou takes the lead water, must have beci a person of Evening Clothes" a sparkling considerable importance, and I French farce which will be screened hope he got his proper share of the at the Queen's on Sunday and loot; at any rate I have no doubt Monday next. Menjou is a wealthy that he did not neglect to press for French nobleman more interested it in the interests of the service. in farming than in gaiety, who

Early Methods.

"Waxworks," directed by Paul Leni consists of three parts, each. one telling the story of a famous waxworks figure-Haroun al-Ras- chid, Ivan the Terrible, and a criminal originally called Jack he Ripper, now,by the censor's orders, rechristened Springbeeln Jack.

Conrad" Veidt's Ivan.

Emil Jannings as Haroun is at his Falstaffan best, and the whole section has the true Arabian

ADOLPHE MENJOU ON SUNDAY,

In A French Farce At The Quson's.

first that his Parisian wife (Virginia Valli) has married him under pressure from her parents.

terror-stricken gathering dance to his beating time is a revelation of the subtleties and the force of good film acting. And Werner Krauss as (dare we say) Jack the Ripper, stalks through brilliantly con- trived series of nightmare scenes. This part of the picture was a tually made after all the money available for the production · had been spent. Herr Krauss and the camera man gave their services free to Herr Leni for one day. Herr Leni, who was an artist be fore he took up film-making, con- trived some backgrounds out of black velvet and black paint on white paper and so, for nothing Goddard,

eame across the fact that in the very early days, the Polynesians

"The other day in the Pacific 1

Beer Nights sphere. Conrad Veidt gives an arresting performance as the maniacal Car Ivan-to watch him clap his hands as he bids He makes over the greater part of used a form of sextant. They his fortune to his wife and goes drilled two holes in a coconut, cut to Paris determined to make of off at an equal height above both himself the sort of man his wife holes. Sighting on the sea horizon wants him to be. He throws cau through both holes, they could see tion to the winds, and spends money simultaneously through the eye- so furiously that soon his posses hole a certain atar upon the op sions are reduced to one suit of posite edge of the nut. With the evening clothes. Noah Beery and help of that primitive instrument Louise Brooks in the supporting they sailed due north, 1,800 miles cast add much to the fun of the from Tahiti, natil they got the picture. The screen story is found guidance of a certain star; then ed on the stage play by Andre they turned due west till they Picard and Yves Mirande, two of struck the Sandwich Islands a France's most popular playwrights. great feat of cance navigation

across 2,000 miles of open se What I wished to go on to say was that if cartogarphy belongs to man's earliest experience as hunts man or warrior, or voyager in canoek, the more accurate science of mensuration, of survey in the stricter sense, comes to man when he settles down to agriculture.

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Amsterdam Games Films "Waxworks," for. the intel-

Differences between the Nether- ligence and artistry with which it lands Olympic Committee and the was made, for the varying but co Netherlands Bioscope Union as to

have been given so freely both to Empire, I hope that every survey vincing moods which it evokes, the action of the former in greet

17th Century Developmenta the War Office and to the cause of in future whether a Boundary "However, I do not think I survey and delimitation through Commission any, or any special mirable pictures produced in Geri sole cinema rights for the need take too long with the early out the Empire. Besides that, trigonometrical or topographical many during the past five years.

Amsterdam Games to the Italian foundations or dwell upon subse work, of which the Ordnance Bur-will have at least one geological company L.U.C.E. still continue, Mlle. Parlay Voo."

with the resultant boycott of films quent developments which led vey marks the beginning in this surveyor attached to its Itafi. The British picture Mademoi- of the games by the Dutch cinemas. gradually through Ptolemy and country, has, of course, been carri

-**** Subject Of First Magitude. selle Parley-Voo," is a peace-time No one disputes the right of the and discovery. We have, of course, and everywhere in the Dominions the Arabs to modern map-making ed out through the Dominions; sequel to that immensely success- Olympic Committee to grant the foundations laid

"We, in the Colonial Office, take ful and even

in the there is now established a skilled some pride in thinking that among auriferous picture monopoly of cinema or other pri- Mademoiselle from Armentières." vileges to such persons and on modern world by Mercator and body of licensed surveyors whose the causes which helped to bring This time Mademoiselle and her such terms as they think fit. After Sanson, the first modern cartogra diplomas have world-wide currency this Conference into being as the sweetheart are married, doing none the granting of photographic phers, and by their many contem and who have incidentally helped creation of the Colonial Surver too well as actor proprietors of a rights to German exploiters, how- poraries on the Continent, and in us very substantially in our sur-Committee 23 years ago.

It was ever, it was falt to be scarcely created in our minds views as to

this country. The great Mercator veya in the Colonies.

created at that time, in 1905, by They are thrown into all sorts of patriotic of the N.O.C. to grant the shape of the world which it consultation and discuss the pro- Bir Charles Close, and for many We are now met to further in Mr. Lyttleton, on the advice of excitements because Mademoiselle to still another foreign firm the will take a great many Polar greas of what is secretly acts for the police in spy- sole right to present Dutch scenes voyages to eradicate. Now in the science, & science which knows no help, while at the War Office and world-wide years Sir Charles gave extended ing on a suspicious character who in Holland. is a member of their theatrical Consequently there is an im. 17th century you get two great de boundaries except those which it at the Ordnance Survey to our company. Her husband misunder-passe which, if not removed will velopments, the foundation of assista in delimiting. The wonder work here, the work which helped stands her association with the prevent any filming whatever of Greenwich Observatory which, to ful progress of every other science as in co-ordinating and bringing aaid character, and it is only at the games at Amsterdam.

us at any rate, has laid the basis is helping you all tha, time. The together the various colonial sur- the last moment, that the crook is

for all survey and navigation very namo geodesy, I think, imveys and exchanging knowledge of apprehended and the husband and

work, and you have the great plies that the origin of all the progress of the work. It is a wife reconciled.

provincial revue.

Shadow-show Pursuit,

Ivor Novello And Talkies,

Mr. Ivor Novello when asked his work, largely of a military charac mathematics is to be found in ex- work of which the scope has been opinion of talking films said:-ter, under Louis XIV., the con- perience in cadastral survey, and steadily widening. We have add- Personally I go into the cinema struction of a network of French yet, on the other hand, every new ed a geological section We have Scenes of the pursuit and cap- for quiet. There is a good orches fortresses which, to some extent Iscience as it develops comes back included now a member represent- ture of the crook are staged behind | tra, good story, comfortable think, contributed to bring about and helps you in its turn. I ing. the Admiralty--the Hydrogr a screen on which a shadow-show seats, and no noise. But suppos that close association between the understand that among the subpher of the Navy-the appoint in being projected. The audience ing in a topical picture we are art of war and the art of survey jects for discussion-will-bo-the-help-ment of whom is made of increas in the theatre see the pursuit as to hear from the films the roar of which has survived in a good many which the wireless time signal en ing importance by the extension of a particularly exciting & paeamatic drill, well, half the countries and noticeably among afford to surveyor in distant the Empire in many regions an shadow play and indeed this part charm of the cinema has gone. We us, where the work of the parts of the world, as well as the the Antarctic and also by the in- of the film is definitely ingenious might as well he outside in the Ordnance Survey and the work of possibilities for development of creasing importance of the Empire and effective.

street.

the War Office have been so closely air survey by various methods, waterways. The committee, apart The rest is by no means as well- At the moment I am rather linked-linked, indeed, as they are Another form of survey which I from its own work, serves as a knit or as well carried off as was against talking films, but I am fol- at this moment by the President am glad to see receives due notice liason with the

Mademoiselie from Armen lowing them with great interest, of the Royal Geographical Sourety, in your agende gevogical archery hit her des pays tières, though Estelle Brody, Alf and have been approached to ap Sir Charles Close, whose services vey, and personally looking for work here and throughout the Ebt- are doing survey (Continued on next Columm). I pear in some.

(Continued on next Column). the development of the British pire."

part of