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DIARY OF LOCAL FILMS OF THE FUTURE

EVENTS.

TO.DAY.

(December 17.)..

Legislative Council Meeting, 2.30 Cricket Oxford . Cambridge, Club ground, 1.30 p.m.

Golf: Third Round Railway Cup and First Round Taggart Cup (Ladies):

Helena May Instituto Concert, Special Song Recital by Miss Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, 5.30 p.m.

Central British School Fancy Dress Party, Peninsula Hotel, -7.30

p.m.

Hong Kong Philharmonic Society presonts," Miss Hook of Eolland, Theatre Royal, 9 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Two Stars ' (Chinese film) at 2.30 and 7.15.

Tiger Roan" (3.10 and 9,20). World Thontre: Be Yourself." Star Theatre: On Your Back." Central Theatre : Afzion Speaks."

Daddy. Long

King's Theatre: Logs."

Toa Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel....

European Mail:-Outwa r,đ: Europe via Siberia (Empress of Russia) e p.m.

FRIDAY:

(December 18.)

Hong Kong Automobile Associa tion Annual Dinner Dance, Peniu sula Hotel.

WHERE GREAT BRITAIN LEADS THE

WORLD:

OUR CHANCES REVIEWED BY EDGAR WALLACE..

It seems only the other day, writes Edgar Wallace, when, if you spoke to an authority" on the subject of British Alme, he would shake his head and say :-

My boy. you haven't got the ↑ elimate in England," and thus dis

miss the possibility of making "good pictures in this country.

Sam Goldwyn once said to me:

beautiful climate in the world, and Hollywood has got the most

the moment we established ourselves there we built studios to shut out the light and introduced the finest range of lighting plant that has over been seen in the world"

In the old days we thought of motion pictures in terms of light, and, incidentally, in terms of cheap Des--and the cheapest kind of light was daylight, and even in the early

very important. American pictures have behind them a very important and powerful financial organisation, but even this disadvantage is being corrected.

WEATHERED THE STORM.

The investing public in very naturally fight, shy of Bilm promo- ters. In the great boom four years ago a tremendons amount of money was lost, and among the companica which would have been obliterated' but for excellent management and one important asset was one which I control, if a chairman controls anything.

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The reason we were not, entirely wiped out was due, as I say, to ex- cellent management and to the fact that we had a constant supply of stories. That would scom in im-

Annual Meeting of Members undtager of American motion picture-modest statement to make, since I Adherents, Union Church, Kowloon,

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Whist Drive at St. Patrick's Club, Garden Road, & p.m.

Hong Kong Philharmonic Society

presenta Miss Hook of Holland," Theatre Royal, 9, p.m.

Hockey Radio Sports Club Hong Kong Club "A" at King's Park, 5 p.

Queen's Theatre: "Oh Sailor Behave."

World Theatre; "Golden Calf."

making there wore quite a number

of stages that were in the open air modest for a bricklayer to say that was the atory-writer-if it was im and depending upon their lighting on the somewhat uncorrectable rays of the sun..

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WHERE AMERICA SCORES.

So that nowadays almost anybody

he managed to erect a building be cause he and a good supply of bricks."

The last four years have bean par- ticularly trying ones. We have been through periods of stress and shor Star Theatre:" On Your Back." with the knowledge of photography tage, bat in some way we have man- Central Theatre: "Africa roalises that the old argument aged to grope across the bleak desert Speaks."

against English motion pictures has of national crisis, though we are King's Theatre: Daddy Long vanished. We can get just as good not out of the wood yet. But in Ten Dances at King's Restaurant lights in our studios as they can in that period British films have and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner America, but the two big differences established themselves, Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel

Legs.

Eropean Mail: Inward: Europe +212 Suez (Karmala); Earope mo Siberi (Corfu).

SATURDAY, (December 19.)

Hong Kong Philharmonic Society preamta, ** Miss Hook of Holland," Theatre Royal, 9 p.m.

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between us are, first, that they have I am told that we have been an enormous area of free distribu-established by the quota-that is to tion, free in the sense that it is un- any, by the protective menstre restricted at the doors of their which the Government introduced to "factories" and that our distribu. restrict the imports of American tion is largely confined to Greet and other foreign films. I prefer Britain, and that in competition to believe that in the past four with the products of the United years British films have been proved States.

in quality and character, so that

Cricket First Division: Low Ioan C.C.. Royal Artillery (L.), Craigengower University (F.);

The second is that the American they are able to compete with the Second Division: University film industry has slightly better best from America, Craigengower (F), Police Indian technicians. For years camera mell R.C. (F.).

Football. First Division: St.

and directors have been trained, Jowph's Palics, Argylls & S. H. and, although they have slipped into Chub, Navy S.W. Borderers, the groove of formula, they are still Recreio . Kowicon; Second Divi sion: S.W, Borderers Club, har superiors, generally speaking, Argylls & S... Navy, University We have three directors in England

R.A.O.C. Kowloon Twelfth

Battery: Third Division: St. who are their equals, and, in some

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What is the future of British films! We have, first of al, to super pose that, so far as the technical perfection is concerned, we can make up whatever leeway there is.

we are prepared to pay for the skilled labour required, we are in a position to produce films which; from a technical standpoint and in Tre is yet another advantage point of direction, are as good as that America has-and that is in any in the world,

any and occasionally better than the question of finance,, which is (Continued on. Page 8.)

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