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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

1931.

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Harmony. Heaven,"

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Women Love Once."

Paul Lukas and Eleanor

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“SO THIS 15

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Part 1

Another Chinese

all-talking, singing and

dancing picture..

Starring

BUTTERFLY WU

Chinese foremost screen.

favourite.

With

Shaw Pei Chen

Directed by

Chang Shih Chuen

Recorded by Pathe Orient Co.

Produced by

Taning of the Shrew."

Douglas Fairbanks

Mary Pickford,

Animal Crackers."

COMING.

Recaptured Love.”

and

Belle Bennett and John Halli-

day-Queen's.

Cu with the Show..

All colour, singing and dancing

-Queen's,

The Smiling Lieutenant."

Maurice Chevalier-King's. -

Daddy Long Legs."

Janet Gaynor and Warner Buxt

ter-King's

The Divorcee."

[

Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton-Majestie. '

Young Sinners."

Thomas Meighan and Hardie

Albright-Central,

Free and Easy."

All Star CastStar. "Lord Byron of Broadway."

"Women Love.. Once."

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MOVIE NEWS

ON THE SCREEN IN HONG KONG.

"Daddy

try.

"CLOSE-UP". OF POMMER.

GERMANY'S SCREEN

GENIUS.

mediacovered, who

"went

Hollywood, "but Pommer hack to go to Hollywood before Mis-Negri becume.

TO:

lly famous again. There was Emil Fannings, whose American-contract

ended in eiumstances which sug

QUEEN

gested that his film career was closFINAL SHOWINGS 3. But Ponimer annohed him all

avoy again in "The Blue Angel”

**

The Philosophy of Pemp. What are the consistent factors, that enable one-to identify a Pom morim, despite at range that ex- tends from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Congress Dan COS, and cover filing of such widely-varind aupral na Anne Baleyn Passion," "Peter, the Grent," The Last Laugh,'

**Hotel

"Vaudeville," "Faust," Imperial." "Barded

Wire, "Homecoming," The Wonderful Lie, Temptation," "Hungarian Rhapody," Le Chemin du Para dis,! And Bombs Over Monte" Carlo, to name only a few of those that readily spring to mindf

The chief identifying characteris- ties. I think, are three in number. First, there is the concentration of dramatic interest on not more than three principals.

Second, there is the inevitable note of fantasy that seek to inter- pret reality in terms of a fairy tale, albeit occasionally grotesque.

Third, there is the general in- sistence thta bladders of pomp must be pricked, and that the mighty must be id law.

Mr. Jannings, who began screen work under Mr. Pominer's tuition, has all but restricted himself to roles that explored and exploded the foolishness of human vanity

I accused Mr. Panmer of being an intellectual anerchist, or a pro- fessional iconcclast.

He demurred to these Inbels, but admitted that he had af democratic view of authority,

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He thinks that history is best ro garded, for dramatic purposes, in the light of fantasy. He believes that there is nothing so fantastio as official history, and that if any characters in It call for idealisa- tion they should be those drawn from democracy.

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He does not deny humanity to the great, but he thinks that great- ness should occasionally, recognise dramatic amenities by wearing the crown slightly over one eye, so that democracy may have a point cf contact.

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so many words, but I am certain Mr. Pommer did not say that in that he thinks that pomp is im a touch of ruffishness. proved for entertainment needs by

...

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The Congress Dances in the per- This Philosophy is illustrated in

My visit to Vienna to attend Erik Charell's début as a talkie The birds were brought to one of | offieer of Renegades," the giamor- ces," brought me, writes the film director with The Congress Dan As the loyal wife and mother in the stages and while cameras and our bandit of "In Old Arizona " Women Love Once," now showing microphones were being adjusted, polished physician of Doctors Pommer, impresario of the Charell

and "The Arizona Kid," and the

critic of the London Telegraph, into happy touch again with Erich at the King's, Eleanor Boardman made the day hideous with their Wives, all offer a startling con- Alm, and founder of the famous has a rôle lull of dramatic inter-uoise. But by the time everything trust in roles, yet it is difficult to

Gerinan tradition in screen art.

aon of the Tsar Alexander, who sity and one of the most important was ready for recording they had Baxter's best. Many critics wholy interested in film production of receiving the applause of the say which of these portrayals was

Mr Pommer, as people serious employs a double for the purpose in her career,

She has had the become used to their surroundings have followed his career closely and will agree, is the most significant multitude, presiding at court funo leading part in. "The Crowd," and retreated into an obdurate who have already seco

Three Wise Fools, The Great silence. The sound recording ma the wealthy and lonely benefactur

Long Legs, claim that his role of figure in the world's cinema indus-tions attending the opera, and other dull occasions, while the Tsar pur- Meadow" and a large number of chines were started while property of Judy," the orphaned waif, a middle-aged man, with charming truth in that, and Mr. Pommer ad-

He is a short, dark, slight, aues his interesting love affair, other films both silent and talkie.

There is no word ef historical men "tried every means of getting ceeds anything, he has done, and and unaffected manners. His ormits, it while insisting that if it is- Paul Lukas plays the part of her the geose to hiss or bonk.

these same critics say that naver. Not a before has Janet Gaynor been cast

gins, I should imagine, lay far-not true, it should be and that artist husband. They live happily cum was forthcoming and a thou- in such a suitable role. Daddy ther cast than Germany with their four year old daughtersand feet of film was wasted. In Long Legs was not unfamiliar to

He speaks English well, but with the Tsar would certainly have been some diffidence, except when he be grateful for the auggestion, could ((Marilyn Knowlden), until the ap-desperation studio employees chased either Baxter or Miss Gaynor, when pearance of Juliette Compton as a the birds about the stages, knocked nor saw the original stage play,

comes enthusiastic, and then he is he have known of it. they started to film it Miss Gay-

transformed,

In this matter Pommer stands wealthy patroness of art, who de- over chairs and boxes, stood on

when she was a child, and it was the able, because he makes self-efface-

He is practically non-interview for the democratisation of cides to make Paal her protege. their heads and yelled. The geese turned her eyes and mind toward cháricter of Judy" that first

ment a passion, and repudiates,

The New Weapon, She persuade him to go to Parisegarded them in distaste and stoic the stage and screen. As for Bax almost with annoyance, any sug The special Fommerian signifie to continue his studies. The wife silence as the costly film clicked ter, he played the title role in ponsible for the success of The however, is that it carries on the

gestion that his own genius is res-

ance of "The Congress Daners," willingly lets him go, confident that tradily through the recorders.

dramatic stock long before he ever At last a genius among property

"thought of entering the movies.

Congress Dances," or of any other idea expressed in that important Una Merkel and John Arledge of the many famous films with silent film, Le experience he will gain innen had an idea. He took an old head the supporting cast

Hungarian Rhap. which he has been associated. sody," which sought to convey,” în Europe and unsuspicious of the gander into a dark corner far away

"Daddy Long Legs, which in-with film production almost since ment, the souls of a people,

Mr. Pommer has been echnected terms of ocmbined music and move-¿ real motive of the other woman.

cludes as Claude Gilling-water that profession began, but he has from his wives and left him alone. Kathlyn Williams. Elizabeth Pat- When Paul returns he is a chang. For several minutes the bird re- terson, Louise Closser Hale, Effie rarely directed a scene himself, ed man. He has lost his zest for nained inute. Then loneliness over- Ellaler and othera Alfred Santell,

I asked him why? He answered that he had specialised in organis who recently directed Charles Faring teamwork. the joys of domestic life. He gets powered him and be let out a ques-rell and Elissa Landi in "Body into a

scrape with Miss Comp. tioning squawk. The others reaaur- and Soul," directed the photoplay ton's jealous, husband; and further ed him in a chorus and the micro- which was adapted in continuity trouble comes when little Marilyn is injured by an

and dialogue by Sonya Levien. phones, after an hour of waiting automobile. Meanwhile Geoffrey Kerr, an art finally caught the necessary 70 feet critic, has fallen in love with Miss of film. Boardman. The combination

Mass Co., Shanghai. their future will be improved by

NEXT

CHANGE

YOUNG SINNERS

A virile drama of youth and its yearnings 2017

with

THOMAS MEIGHAN # HARDIE ALBRIGHT

Directed by John šlystone-

of

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these forces seems to be drawing Daddy Long Lege.".. Paul and Eleanor apart, but the elimax brings them together in a happy embrace..

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WAS

Ha can play any sort of róla. from a border bandit to a suave Women Love Quee" written by turer in the Foreign Legion to a medical man, from a reckless adven- Zoe Ktkina from her stage success Basque sportsman or a cautious

Daddy's gone a Hunting' directed by Edward Goodman." German financier, and do them all equally well. In all Hollywood, there are but a handful of actors who can be cast in any kind of rele Rocaptured Love," Warner and of that handful, Warner Bax- Brothers Vitaphone adaptation ofter who playas the title role op- Basil Woon's popular novel, "Misposite Janet Gaynor, in the new depl, is announced as the forth Fox romance, Daddy Long Legs" coming attraction at the Queen's soon coming to the King's, is per- Theatre to-morrow.

haps the most outstanding

Recaptured Love,"

Versatility is Baxter's most notable characteristic Rarely doos he resort to the artifies "of trick make-up such as the late Don Chaney relied upon for his gro

An unusual story of a wealthy family, Recaptured Love" depicts the manner in which a clever chorus girl whisks a husband away from his wife, and the methods used by his wife and son in winning him tesoue effects. Only in the Fox pro hack against overwhelming oddsduction, Such Men Are Dangar

Bolle Bennett has the role of the ous, where the story demanded mother and John Halliday canets that he first appear as the puffy, thy husband, while Dorothy Burgess bearded German banker in order is seen as the clever wily chorns that a plastic surgeon might trans girl

farm him into a fashion piste did

Heads Up

he consent to disguise himself. The secret of his supocas is internal, rather than external. Suitable eps. tumes added to the psychological affect of correct backgrounda help to some extent, but a soili fot, dansin his mental out that of the

The Er

Squaw

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JEANETTE

of

MACDONALD.

"It pleases me,

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The innovation of synchronised sound interrupted that notable ex- pausion of the Pommer genius, but having experimented in various ways with this new and valuable. ally he has now wedded music to he explained,evement in order to express the "to find the right author, pick the soul of the Viennese right director, and choose the right fancy that the Viennese aro players and technicians. I act as not too plensed by the suggestion liaison officer between them all, and that they live by far, and in the make myself responsible for the waltz, but it is obvious that. Mr principle of intelligent and friend. Pommer's theory cannot be light

dismissed, and that the whole world "I value the team spirit above thinks that Viennese life and the everything else, and as far as the Strauss tradition are almost in- actual production is concerned 1terchangeable forme do no more than make myself resin that aspect of the fim, and There is a touch of genial sati ponsible for being that the scenari

ly co-operation.

fully expresses the idea that indur suspect that in his devastating ed me to select that particular sub. Mr. Pommer had more than hat!! tures of the post-Waterion congress ject. I take a broad view of thean eye on the Geneva divert the whole, and leave the details to my ments of the League of Nations team.

In these circumstances it is im, simply deadly, but one does not

Propaganda of this nature possible for me to think that I am know just where to oppose it ontitled to the lion's or any other The really significant thing is animal's share of the credit, which

I might, in opposite circumstances, have been blame.

that Mr. Pommer is thinking on n

large scale, and is clearly meditat

***** The World's Respect, as well as of individuals

ing attacks on the pomp of nations

One is bound to accept Mr. Pom

mer's explanation of his autocess at His new weapon is music, erpres.

its face value. He wishes to standed in terms of motica, which

or fall as an apostle of teamwork to his growing

It is however, a noteworthy bo-lingual tal

incidence that all Pommer films to con

addou

Stri

have the same definite and funda- I do not ow what Hollywood mental charectoi

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