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(August 19.)

Laminert's Auction, Sale Postage Stamps, Sales Rooms, 5.15 p.m.

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'King's Theatre: "The Calendar." Queen's Theatre: "The Life of The Party."

Central Theatre: "Another

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Star Theatre: "Sporting. Blood." . World Theatre: Strangers May Kiss."

man."

Garden Theatre:

BY ERNEST BETTS.

I have just been round German, hair, ash blonde hair, red hair, and film world in 24 hours. The Ger.look like very costly dolls. Sud man film world, roughly speaking, denly an enormous car rolls up and consists of the Ufa Company of Lilian Harvey jumps out with Wil- Berlin and its associated companies, ly Fritsch.

'with ramifications throughout! A quarter of a mile away they are shooting exteriors for "Happy Europe and the world.

It was a high speed trip carried Ever After." A real cottage called out with superb precision in The Hollywood Villa" is being tremendous heat, in magnificent filmed, with Lilian Harvey and Jack Hulbert taking part. They style and in surroundings so agree. able that you felt you were acting stand all day in the burning sun- is a talkie version of "Paradise light. Rogained."

I have seen Lilian Harvey filming "Happy Ever After" three times Oriental Theatro: "His Wo over with screen lovers of three dif- ferent nations (including Jack Hul "Charley'sbert). I have talked with. Erich Pommer, the production genius of Majestic Theatre: "What Men Ufa, about films of the future, Want".

I have visited the large, friendly Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Borlin cineman with the flaxen- Dinner Dances at King's Restaur-haired German girls and their boy

Aunt.

ed.

Lilian Harvey is wearing bright blue pyjamas. Jack Hulbert, as a window cleaner, is in a shirt like a chess-board that cannot be describ

Edward Chapman is almost hidden in a beard. The scene gues on for hours. It is the 53rd day of shooting and I saw some of the shots that had been taken.

On the Edge of a: Lake,

ant and Peninsula and Hong Kong friends sipping beer in the cafe and saw the miniature model of a

Hotels.

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SATURDAY,

(August 20.)

outside.

I have sat amidst the film stars

on the roof of the Eden Hotel in Berlin, where it is the custom to dins and dance and look down on the midnight follies of the city through a haze of gold and blue and crimson lights with a very snappy jazz band soothing the sonuca and stirring the feet.

Let me give you some idea about the operations and scope of the Ufa Company.

54 Films & Year.

Lawn Bowls.--Senior Division; Kowloon Docks v. Taikoo Docks, Cra:gengower v. Civil Service, Kow- loon B.C.C. v. Police R.C., Kew marks. Its 14 sound stages at Tem- It has a capital of 50 million

loon C.C. Y. Club de Recreio,

I went into the adjacent studion

the sky-scrapers of New York in a railway sparing through clouds to

dream sequence of the picture. I walked for miles throughout the workshops, laboratories, cutting rooms, and offices of the studio lót. In the evening I joined a party. given by Herr von Theobald, the director of Ufa's foreign depart-' ment. He

one of the ex-

Kaiser's personal staff.

Von Theobald took us to the Hausamsee at Wansee, a dreamlike place on the edge of a lake some miles from Berlin. Erich Pommer was there. Ronate Mullei Was Junior Division, Club de Recroio plehof and Noubabelsburg on the there, having just finished n film in, London," "Cicely Courtneidge Hong Kong Electric, Taikoo outskirts of the city, are capable of H.C.Kowloon C.C. Civil Ser-producing 4 ful-length films a year. there. Michael Balcon, who header was there. Lilian Harvey With vice v. Kowloon B.G.C., Yacht Club The studio site has 62 separate

Craigengower.

buildings and 250 dressing-rooms and make-up rooms comprising the entire film city.

China Light and Power Club Moonlight Bathing Picnia,

Queen's Theatre: "Life of The |Party."

|

the British expedition to the Berlin

studioa, was there.

I said to Lilian Harvey, "When At full pressure the studios em-

are you going to Hollywood" ploy 1,000 people, excluding those

Miss Harvey shook her head. "I taking part in pictures. To-day don't know, but I shall have to ge the Ufa Company and the Gau-I suppose about the end of the mont. British Picture Company are year."

Central

Theatre "Another You's Wife."

King's Theatre: "The Calendar," Star Theatre: "Sporting Blood." World Theatre: "Strangers Mayas fraterually linked in production"And when are you marrying Kiss."

as the Marx-Bros., and have decid- Willy Fritsch," I asked. ed to spend some £300,000 on six loughed, "It is impossible to say. How ¤A! I marry. I have no new pictures in a great interna-

time.!! tional talkie driye.Happy Ever After" is the first of these.

Oriental Theatro: "His Wa man."

Garden Theatre: "Charley's Aunt."

Majestic Theatre: "What Mon Want."

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant: Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's

Restaurant.

.

Tides High at 00.07 and 11:30; Low at 05.05 and 17.50.

Home Mails:-Inward America by Pres. Pierce.

German Film Taste.

She

Pommer i to make a gigantic

I turned to Erich Pommer. He film with the queer title of "S.P. One Does Not Reply "a sort of was talking about the film taste of

Metropolis" of 1032 English the German public..

"People cants are to collaborate with Ger-

want to laugh. We man onpa and Erik Charell, Lud don't want drama now, but fantasy. frem wig Berger and other famous pro- would like to be realistic in my

ducers are to direct.

films, but dare not be. Nobody Now let us take a glance at these wants it. They want music and studios. Imagine yourself in a vasi | Jaughter and something to make well laid out-garden with a big cob. then forget their troubles. bled count-yard, green lawas, flower beds, a smell of pine trees and rose gardens Coating towards you as you

SUNDAY.

(August 91.)

Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity. Central Theatre: "Dark Red Roses."

Queen's Theatre: "Arc Listening."

You

King's Theatre: "The Spy." Wold Theatre Trader Horn." Hidewalks of

Str Theatre: New York Oriental Rauch,"

"Gardon"

Theatre:

Theatre:

'Dude

Charley's Aunt."

Majestic Theatre: "What men Want."

Tex Dance at King's Restaurant and Repulse Bay Hotel Dinner Dance at King's Restaurants

Symphonic Concert at Repulse Bay Hotel.

Tiden: High at 0034 and 12,00; Low at 05.80, and 16,10,--

A

enter.

Under a group of chestnut trees

by the restaurant the cast of "Hap Py Ever After" are having lunch Jack Hulbert, Sofie Hale, Cice- Jy Caurinuidge, Edward Garat and RobortStevenson, the brilliant young man from the Gainsborough studios.

Lilian Harvoy's Pyjamas. A cosmopolitan crowd of German and French players are with them drinking beer, talking and eating and laughing They wear incred ble clothes full of colour.

The young German actresses, with their deep painted eyes, are unna turally brilliant even in the July boat, with their gold, hair, yellow.

** I still have at least 50 per cent. of dialogue in my talkies and 1 think we shall have to go on having dialogue,

"One difficulty in Gorman filme is that they have a political back. ground. I have to be careful not to-jar-on-political susceptibility

un-

I left him meditatioge fathomable problem of movie en tertainment. After making pictures for 20 years he still finds them dif heult to make............

Poople were.boginning.to go....The enormous cars were moving off. Tho display of style was concluding... It all seemed very luxurious, an endless round of hard work; miles of Glms a week and an incredible polish on everything.

What style, what energy every- where.

That's Uld, that was."

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