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FROM SUNDAY-

MASKED

BY HER

SIREN CHARMS

J

45

lurked those who were trying to rob him of honour and power ...

He bartered his public life for her caresses... too late, he discovered her treach ry... a great drama in the shadow of the nation's capitol!

From the play, "The Claw" by Henry Bernstein

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933.

CAVALCADE THE PICTURE OF THE GENERATION

SOME AMERICAN REVIEWS

A WEDDING

COCHET, FILM STAR

SUDIO JOKE THAT FRICH! HOW TO PLAY TENNIS TO

TENED THE BRIDE

BE SHOWN ON SCREEN

+

Getting a Job on the Films in England

Weary Rounds of the Agents

AWAITING THE CALL FOR THEIR

..

A

TYPE"

Sally Bilers and Ralph Bellamy France's famous lawn tennia 'star. lind just completed a wedding Henri Cochet, has just returned to scene on the Movietone lot when an Paris from the Riveira after mak- New York Herald Tribune. An- cxtra who had been the minister ing a film.

In fact, he is the only actor in nale of a foreign nation result in marrying the two, soberly confided one of the greatest and most thril- that he was an ordained preacher the film, for his partner, who re-

"Of Course," he murmured, right "typo," and that they may ling of the screen dramas. At the and that the ceremony with wit turns him the balls, never comes on

legal to the screeh.

"I'm a Mexican. That's why I secure a day's work or more at one moment it seems to me that "Caval- ring and all, was

The film shows all Cochet's most can't be a Frenchman or a police-guines a day. And then, after cade" is the finest photoplay that is. Ellers thought of friend hus- telling strokes.

Ralph sputtered in confusion and

man. I could be a revolutionary a stretch of work, they will wait, has yet been made in the English band Hoot Gibson. The "clargy.

and usually am. You get into these and walk and climb, for, perhaps

months to come. man" insisted that he was telling the truth and offered to prove his claim. The pair lenrand later that they were victims of one of director Hamilton Macfadden's jokes. "

language,

New York World Telegram. A beautiful stirring dignified memor. able film has been made by Fox Films from Noel Coward's tremen dous patriotic spectacle.

New York Daily New. "Caval cade" is a magnificient achieve- ment; adapted for the screen with drama, pathos, tenderness

and thrill in the script, by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien; direct- fd understandingly by Frank Lloyd,

New York Times. It is unfurled with such marked good taste and restraint that many an bye will be misty after witnessing this pro

duction

New York Daily Mirror, Pro foundly moving and violently ex citing this great film spectacle of the 20th century departs radically from all routine formulae of movie production. Fascinating in the novelty of its technique.

Neur Fork American. "Caval cade" thunders across the screen of the Gaiety a stupendous undertak ing magnificiently achieved. Ad hering closely to the play, the pic ture transcends its original.

New York Evening Journal. "Cavalcade Noel Coward play that enthralled London theatre- goere for months, has been brought to the screen by the Fox Film Com pany. And Fox has mide of it a magnificent picture. A picture that is emotionally exciting, im- pressively dramatic.

We have even tried to give some idea of the psychology of lawn tennis," Cochet said. He himself the explains and comments in course of the film, which is to be shown probably in April,

BERNARD SHAW

1.

G.B.5. chatting with the director, Cecil Lewis, while "How he lied to her Husband" was being made:

WHATS IN A NAME?

ruts you have to."

Deliberately he set down the glass.

was to

I shared their dismal lot for a day, and when drizzling rain set He was a Al artist: And so, 2n, symbolic of my acquaintances' for a day was I, writes a corres fight against hopeless odds, 1 ds- pondent to a London paper. You misted. All I had done at un office

or two, get into these ruts-you have to, register and I did. But when celluloid conscious that it would end sedition is ufoot, my friend will be nowhere, while elsewhere they would knifing 'en with any, for a guinen tot so much as enter my dossier. a day. Whereas when the phone I had res out early, armed with wires buzz for a dozen Huntin' the experience of amateur theatri- Type, quick, I trust I shall be at cals at Balearres (8ask.), and with least as near to bound and horn a bundle of portrait photographs. us to the "Net."

I climbed the never ending fight E stairs to my first port of call in the hopeless half-mile. A mata "of men and women seethed in a tiny, about a half-closed ill-lit room

Ars artis causa is not the motto ot the two or three thousand "ex tras who swarm in Shaftsbury Avenue, in the agents' offices, and

their clubs and associations door, for the word had gone about every day, hoping, hoping. . . that there was a call." Thore There are hunger-drawn, one- was no time ta "register," and I time stage aetor; there are ex-left with the unsavoury impression officers and ex-rankers, "small pen-; of an old and weary woman in the sioners and ex-amateurs; there are corner conversing evanescently with

and ex-gangsters

De-er-do-wells, a Chinem and a well-dressed youth, whose ambition vis-a-vis the screen deceiving themselves that there was. 18 merely to set "artist" on the something doing." baleful charge-sheet in place ofj "no fixed occupation."

The next office was empty. A. cheery young man came in, took charge of one of my photographs, and was polite enough to stimulate interest in my experience at Bal. carres (Bask.), Ee, scribbled a note or two on the back of the photograph.

Fate of the Many. These last are the few. For the many, there is a dreary twelve -hour day of waiting, of wearily! climbing mountainous stairs and descending empty-handed, of walk- ing and retracing fruitless foot- steps along the length of Shaltee bury Avenue.

They are touring the offices of Up a few more flights of stairs those agents with whom they are a girl, perhaps in her teens, frown- registered," hoping to hear thated me mechanically sway, "We there has been a "call" from some only register between 10.0 and distant studio, that they are the 16.30. I'm sorry."

WHEN KISSES ARE

CENSORED

New Fork Sun. "Cavalcade" is superbly acted by a large cast. It is beautifully produced, well nigh perfect. The film is moving, in spiring. In short, no fault can be found with "Cavalcade" hero. It scens an auspicious beginning for 1833, in the motion picture world. "Cavalcado" approached greatness in the cinema. It must be seen.

New York Evening Post. Re-

Man who have made good in garded from almost any perspec

their own names are John and

Did you ever hear of the famous tive, this extraordinarily exciting

"It" girls making a smacking pageant thrusts back story chal

Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beary, lenge. It is an amusing and thri

Jackie Cooper, Clark Gable, Wil-sound with their lips when kissing in an impassioned love sceno on ling achievement, and for sherr emotional sweep and showmanship names from Douras, Gustafson and liam Haines, Buster Keaton and the sercen? If you did, it was a

Robert Montgomery. Both John

mistake, for the sound has been Brown, respectively. Jean Craw Gilbert and Ramon Novarro chong taken out of all studio kisses. ford and Marie Dressler started¦od their surnames, ons from Pring- out in life with the respective le, the other from Samaniego.

the screes has produced nothing quite like it.

MR. SHERRIFF ON TALKIES

MICKEY MOUSE OR GRETA GARBO

AS

HIN

THE

SQUEBEN

with the Screen's Idol in His Most Thrilling Role Since "A Free Soul" LIONEL

BARRYMORE

KAREN MORLEY, NILS ASTHER Directed by CHARLES BRABIN.

Metro Goldwyn-Mayer

WATCH FOR

Get-Rich - Quick Wallingford was a pieker and

Raffles a

more

storybook man compared with him ! Women

can't resist him!

Warner Bros.

& Vitaphone

Hit

PICTURE

Ho's New II aring! Different! Irresposible but you'll love him f

POWELL

HIGH PRESSURE

Mr.. R. C. Sherriff gave a lecture recently on the effect of talkies qu the legitimate stage.

The author of "Journey's End". put forward his theories modestly. They were, however, startling enough to please his audience, composed mainly of members of the Stage Society.

His three main points were:

That the Hollywood actor was completely out of touch with life. Hollywood might have to be inov ed nearer to the great cities.

That the screen was destroying itself because it was destroying its nursery-the provincial touring system. He foresaw the day when the screen in its own interest would have to subsidise the provincial theatre:

That the whole art of the cinems was becoming graphic

Mickey Mouse' was to-day the supreme artist of the screen. In a hundred years' time our descendants would think we were mad ever to have used live people as screen actors.

An Answer to this Argument,

It is, in my view, writes a cor- respondent to a Loaden paper, un. fair to suggest that the film actor is more out of touch with life than the stage actor. Nearly all actors are unworldly. But the presenta tion of life on the screen is, on average infinitely more realistic. than in stage productions.

Ethel Barrymore and Norma names of Billie Cassin and Leila Shearer Are the only feminine Koerber. etars at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sno have kept their Christian names. Marion Davies, Greta Garbo and Helen Hayes changed their last

In Chandu

Edmund Love, armed with the power of Oriental magic, plays the title role in "Chanda The Magicles," the Fox Filmi adaptation of the sensational radio "mystery, ****

GITTA ALPAR

·IPA

A CONTINENTAL GARBO

COMING TO THE KING'S

ON MARCH 1

Bala Lugosi brings his dynamic capabil ities to the role of Roxar in "Chandu The Magician," the new Fox thriller band on the nation wide radio play. ** 1PB

vical powers were ever heard, to There is no reason to. Jament the

advantage. Londoners were to have decline of the provincial theatre

seen her in the stage version of as a nursery for screen actors. The

The Dubarry," but a change in sooner. film producers realise that

Brrangements brought the vivid the screen and the stage demand

Anny Ablers to the West-End in- entirely different techniques of act It is said that "Ball in Savoy," stend. According to Miss Ahlers, ing, the better it will be.

a new German talking picture, will

her colleague has a voice lika an Mickey Mouse is undoubtedly a be shown in London shortly. If this great artist. But as for the con- aleen operetta "is exhibited here angel," and those who own fairly tention that he is the supreme picturegoers will be able to make powerful wireless sets may have artist of the screen-I should like a better acquaintance with one of heard Alpar's strangely individu- know what would happen if the Continent's foremost players note being burlesqued from for cinem exhibitors rearranged their Gitts Alpar. The fair Gitta is eign stations. Her appearance is to give fra min not unknown in Britain, as one or striking, the eyebrowi being paint. And an hour two of her films have crossed the ed exceptionally high on the face.

Channel yet I doubt whether her I head:

ZALJELYN SKENT KORDE SIDNEY EVALON KAPP ST

"I nover allow the sound of a kiss in any of my pictures," aid director, Lloyd Bacon of First National. "We guard against it carefully, Frequently I have to make retakes to avoid the sound and even then a slight noise some- times creepa in. If we hear it at all we paint it out on the sourid track so that it is perfectly silent.”

"I have seen some of the finest dramatic scenes and tenderest mo- ments in a picture ruined because you could hear the kiss. Someone in the audience repeats it. Others. take it up, or there is outburst of giggling, and the scene is dood. Even without sound spectators do this. You have no idea how careful- Ir a love scene must be built up. If it does not seem natural, or is the slightest bit exaggerated, it is almost sure to bring a laugh:

Love Acenes may seem simple, but represent one of the hardest directorial tasks to make them effec tive. In Slapstick comedy sound! kisses will go because you ažo striv ing for a laugh, but even then the wrong kind of laugh may remdt.

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