1931-12-17 — Page 6

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931.

CARLYLE wrote of his

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for this world but just the truth."

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FILMS OF THE FUTURE

Binted from

YOU MUST HAVE A STORY.

ENTIRE FAMILY WIPED OUT.

THREE CHINESE HACKED TO DEATH BY ROBBERS.

We know that the quantity of sud- light available has very little bear ing on the oxcellence of a picture. Therefore, it comics down to that ruprame and basic quentity-thed raw material. The raw material of films le torture. In the olden days it was the construction of the

MIDNIGHT, CRIME IN "CARPENTER'S SHOP"

Steeling into the house signalis

out for thefr erime, a gang, of Chinese having cracked a safe and apparently attracted the attention of the tenants, wiped out a 'family' of three with a heavy chopper in Shanghai.

But a new factor has arrived: the talkie-that is to say, the sound pic-

The orime, one of the most dar- tore, which calls for dialogue an well as construction. Therefore ing and brutal during the last se

voral months, was perpetrated in w overy picture must be a plny...

We know that both in Enghtward Read. The victims are Wang

carpenter's shop at 1873 East. Se and in America it is humanly in Yuan-shing, the proprietor of the possible that there could be more shop bearing his name, his wife than six good plays a year. The and a 20 year-old-son. world" demand for motion pictures is nearer six thousand. A clever director muy make a porfost picture from the technical point of viewed that considerable evidence ga It may have magnificent direction thered on the scono of murder bad and marvellous photography, but is placed them hot on the trail of he has not got the story he is the killers. Arrests are expected "sunk." It is oven possible to get within a short period, over what is technically a bad pic- tare with a good story.

So that the country which will win out eventually in the country which can produce the best raw material.

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ARMY OF GOOD WRITERS:

'Detectives of the Wayside Police Station working on the enee declar

The fo is placed in a room upstairs in which slept the victims. There are six employees who oc cupy a big room immediately behind the carpenter's works in the shop.

Found by Employees.

The horrible, disse very was made!

I think that in England we have, at 7.45 ... when the suspicions

a great army of potential film of the employees were aroused, at writers. J Amerion there is a most the non-appearance of the proprie impressive force of authors, some tor. One of them ascended the of whom, in my judgment, have no staircase and found pools of blood parallel in this "country" in their in, the room. particular branch" of story-telling. No sooner was the discovery re There are more super-excellent ported to the Wayside Police Sta writers in Aneries than there aretion, the detectives, honded 59: in England. There are more good. Divisional Officer R. Conduit and writers in England than there are Divisional Detective Officer J. a. in Americs.

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Quayle,, where on the scene, This is the situation at the mo The shop is situated a few yards ment, and it is because we have this away from the intersection" .ut large army of good writers whose Kungping Road, not far from the work can be adapted to the screen electric supply store on the same that there is, in ioy opinion, no street, East Seward Road, in which

question as to the future of British Arbs.

と

I have been asked whether the Alm censorship is a help or a hin- drance to British filma. Now, the film censorship is in a peculiar position. Legally it has no sane- tion, and whatever arrangements it inakes or may make with the licens- ing authority is for that reason 'ultra vires.

two women were stabbed to death by rcbbere about three months ago. The room above the shop presented

scene of robbery and violence. Pools of blood covered a wide area of the room and also one of the twe beds.

signs

of Fierce Straggle.

The safe had been opened and ransacked, immediately in front of The circumstances of its appoint- which lay the body of the youth, munt do not beur examination. It brutally hacked. From the evidence is staffed by a number of ladies and gathered, the detectives were pon. gentlemen who have no credentials vinced that a desperate struggle" had

to sit in judgment on literary taken place between the youth and works, and to some extent those the robbers before the youth met appointments are made in the most bis fate. The other two bodies were haphatard manner, without any re-backed about the head and body. gard to the appointee's gifts for literary discrimination,

Nevertheless, it has in the past muddled through and has establish-

Enquiries conducted among tho employees elicited the information that faint cries of agony and noiso of violence, had been heard in the

ed itself as a perfectly fair, sane, night. They made no effort to in- well-balanced body of judges. That vestigate the affair, being satisfied it should make mistakes is in with the presumption of another evitable. A committee of literary quarrel and fight between the couple men acting in the same capacity as had commonly been the ease, they would have made greater and more. said.

It is inevitable that sooner or The instrument of death, is in later the consorship should come un: the possession of the police, Rob der Government review, but to my bery is said to have been motive mind it is much better both for the of the erime. trade and for the art that the film.

censorship, as it is at present con-

stituted, should be the basis on found and sanely developed. Some of the greatest artists on the Ameri- which any reconstruction is made.

I am going to Hollywood to work can screen are English, and would and to learn. America has a tro-have been here if we had had the mendous amount to show us. We brains to realise them

hope and believe that in a few years

Now that the British Alm is estab-

we shall have quite a lot to show lished and the growing importance,

of the industry is being recognised,

thero in ao doubt that we shall make pictures which by their very quality

Americn, because the British alms have arrived. Hardly a week passes that we do not see some new crea tion, which entitles us to hopes so will demand admission into fields. vast that they are almost extra-whore at present the door is closed vagant.

upon us.

We shall need money

One thing is important; we have

large

to and artists, not because we have amount of money-but when the had artists, but beenuse we need a boom time comes and the storm has constant supply of young people, passed us by, it will be wise of fine and old people, and middle-aged anciers to consider an industry people who are new to the screen. which has been so patently proved, There are Greta Garbos to be found and which by the dogged hard work in England, but they must be sanely and genius of the British people. (Continued as foot of next polyong has come at fast to its own.

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