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

HOW WE MADE " CAVALCADE” FOR

HOLLYWOOD

"We, predict for the million-7 Frank Lloyd (Director): I have j dollar film of 'Cavalcade, which is already referred to his origin and coming to us from America, a suc school career in Shepherd's Bush. cess aven greater than the play As a reminder of the old days ho achieved. So much for the enter received just before starting work prise of Hollywood, which takes ajon "Cavalcade" a letter from an old, sweethsart he had known in pageant of our own history as writ ten by an Englishman, interpreta London when a youth of nineteen. it with an all-British cast, and She wrote wishing him success with sonds it back to us."-Extract from "Cavalcade," but was careful to a recent leading article in the "Daily Express,”

Yet there must be fow people who realise with what properly

ensured thoroughness Hollywood that the screen version of "Caval cade" should be all-British.

* Production

More DRESSLER Polly MORAN

with ANITA PAGE NORMAN FOSTER

Champions of British pictures who consistently defend the home product with. vague allusions to America's "far greater resources": and "more experienced personnel" would surely change their opinions after examining a "Who's who" of the men and women responsible for bringing "Cavalcade" to the screen.

From director and stars to "bit" players and the "technical adviser in charge of research" every human cog in the "Cavalcade" production machine is either British or a co- Ionial.

It certainly is a matter. for TC- verent hat touching the way that far-off Hollywood recruited an all- British production unit which has contrived what is apparently one of the greatest pictures known to celluloid history.

Prosperity

COMING SHORTY

Smashing world's records

for SPEED

LAUGHS

THRILLS!

Those Adjectives

In prejudging "Cavalcade" in this fashion I have for justification the opinions recently advanced by those leather-souled mahatmas, the New York älm critics, who have never had occasion to dig deeper into their adjective bins.

Diana Wynyard.

explain that she was now happily married, with a family. Lloyd, too, is similarly married, and boasts a daughter of eighteen.

Reginald Berkeley (Scenarist). The well-known 'British playwright Was Liberal M.P, for Nottingham Central 1922-34..···

William Cameron Menzies (Direc tor of Special Symbolical Effects): Born in Scotland and for a time worked at Islington Studios, then run by Paramount.

(Director of George Hadden Dialogue): Came from Edinburgh at the age of twelve and blossomed as a New York actor.

ance Manager) Lancashire gave

TRUTH AS OPTIMISM?

DEMAND FOR BRITISH

FILMS

CONSTANCE CUMMINGS

NEW. IN LONDON

Constance Cumming, the 20-your old Hollywool star for whose se

A LAUGHTON MATTER

1 wonder how long it will take. the majority of Americans to: cease to talk of Mr. Charlee Laughton, whose performance as Nero in the filmed Sign of the Crosa" is bound to cause discus-

Laffton."

At supper the other night writes vices two nations have been engagion, as Chames a correspondent to a London paper,ed in a fierco legal battle, arrived. my neighbour was telling me about in Southampton on February 28 on the running of a string of picture board the Furopa, carrying two theatres which he owns in the Mid- hats and six tins of clams for an

invalid. friend in England. landa.

+

His greatest problem is to obtain. She travelled alone. enough British films. "American pic Miss Cummings, who has leapt to tures, he told me, have definitely fame in little more than a year, is lost their ascendany since the comchiefly known for her work with ing of talking films and, as far as Walter Huston in "The Criminal England outside London is concern- Code," and with Harold Lloyd in ed, are now only tolerated when the supply of the homoproduced article runs short.

One wonders how for this is true, it does not hold good in this Calony at all events.

"Cavalcade " in New York. Even more encouraging is news from New York of the amazing suc cose being scored by the film version

of Cavalcade."

Movio Crnay,"

Recently she won her suit against Columbia Pictures, who sought to restrain her from making filme with other companies.

No Make-up.

A colleague, who has just re- turned from New York tells nie that that is the accepted pronun ciation on Broadway, where the film is also being shown, The in- come this clever actor is now mat- ing should help him to Laff that off without difficulty.

Charles Laughton is playing the Commander in Devil and the Deep" which finishes its run at Rings today. If this is a trus sample of what he can do we can look forward to some magnificent nating when we see him here in

Sign of the Cross."

I like German beer."

She expects to start work with. British International Pictures in a film called." Heads We Go," to be directed by Monty Banks. Miss Binnie Barnes, the British film star alone. I like to boatramp-a who is appearing in the same film, hobo, as we call it and I like to travelled dy especially from Lam-travel light and look around, and This essentially British storydon to greet Miss Cummings Helooted episodes from British his- tory during the present century- is being shown to packed houses. The American audiences are being moved to tears-even to hysteria and fainting-as though the hours of agony had been their ownI.

And at every performance the whole audience rises to its feet for the singing of the British National

Anthem

WOMAN TO HELP CENSORS

Miss Cummings told me that the Miss Barnes and Miss Cummings is making far more money in Eng both play the part of a mannequin land than she did in Hollywood. British International in the film. I did not find Miss She is receiving 1,000 for her pic

Films. Cummings like a mannequin at all ture with wates the film oritie of a London

paper. But she had no make-up. which seems to worry her a good Except for her American accent, deal, she is the most English Ame-

ricaù film star I have ever met.

With taway gold curis, a jolly English. laugh, grey-blue oyee and freckles, she looks a typical English girl

She wore a bunch of lilies of the valley on her reefer count, and clutched a bunch of half-crowns in her hand to get the feeling of Ame- Tho appointment.. Missrican depression out of her mind. Rosamond Smith, a former chair-T want to know what sin Eng- man of the L. C. C. Entertainments lish home is like," she told me. Committee, to assist in advising the I shan's stay in an hotel, but in a house in Chelsea, which Mr. Benn rocommended to the Council by the Levy lived in when he was here.

"I shall make heads we go for far behind the times after all, British International, and then I have had women censor here for don't know what I shall do, many monthst

And, remember, these paeans of praise are from one hundred per cont. "oh yeah" boys to thoroughly British "bygad fellahs and gals." Charles Woolstenhulme (Fin- British Board of Film Censors 15

But what is perhaps the most illuminating sidelight on "Cayal-him to the world and German Committee. Hong Kong in mot so ende lies in the fact that Winfield Sheehan, production chief of the Fox Film Company and the man who insisted on the production be ing ali-British, is American born alth ugh his father cams out of Eantry, Co. Cork.

snipers on the Somme almost gave him to Heaven.

Lance Baxter (Technical Adviser in Charge of Research): After years

According to a report of the

Help From Ronald Gelman. "I am quite free. I shall buy

in the British Army and the Committee the Home Office p-clothes and run about, I expect. lonial Civil Service, went to Cali pronched the 1.0.0. negarding I am going to buy all my clothes fornia on holiday in 1922. Has the formation of a consultative since advised" on more than forty committee to discuss the censor sareen-productions.

ship questions with the British Board of Film Censors.

over here."

Miss Cummings, who has made fourteen pictures in two years, told Ernest Palmer (Chief Camera

ne how Ronald Calman persuaded man). Employed for a long period

This committee, it was suggest her to stay in Hollywood." ** by the old London Film Company

"Had it not been for him," she Went Hollywood-wards after demo-ed, should consist of ter members.

fear nominated by the County said, “ I should have become a dan bilisation.

Councils Association four by theder. You should see those high Municipal Corporations Associa licks of mine. But while I was tion, and two by the L, C. C."

Even when Frank Lloyd, the Glasgow-born director of the pic ture-incidentally he was educated at a London County Council school in Shepherd's Bush-favoured cer tain American players being in cluded in the cast, Sheehan prompt ly vetoed the idea, and imported a contingent of six artists from the Thus London stage.

The Cast

*

has England brought "Cavalcade" to the screen.

Meanwhile several of the talkie magnates in this country continue But of course you know all about to be hypnotised by the talents pos- the cast Thors's Diana Wynyard, sessed by German and American Clive Brook, Herbert Mundin, Una technicians and the box-office pro- O'Connor, Ureula Jeans,. Irenemise held out by Viennese musical Brown, Frank Lawton, John War-comedies...

burton, and, in the juvenile depart Heigh ho, it's a large world. ment, Dick Henderson jun., son of

the Dick Henderson, the music hall

comedian, and Sheila MacGill,

daughter of Petrick MacGill, the to different people.. Irish author.

While I was chairman of the Yet the following "Who's who," Entertainments Committee I saw with identifying members of the execu-| health films. dealing tive and technical staff attached to lugubrious subjects. I know that "Cavalcade," "will probably sugen- they would strike women in a way der more surprise:

men would not realise."

.

On December 23 the Home Office Playing on Broadway my agent ask wrote aaying that representations ed me to send Mr. Colman a photor "But Colman sent for me," and had been made that a woman graph. I laughed. should be included among the members of the committee. The although I did not get a job then Home Sewretary suggested that I signed up with Columbia two the membership of the committee weeks later. That was in The should be temporarily increased Criminal Code,' shown in London

for this purpose.

Sir. Cecil Levita, one of the I. 0.0.'s representatives on the committee, and its chairman, then suggested that Miss Rosamond Smith should be nominated.

Mike Smith said to-day:

No one sces an incident in a Gilm in the same way: a-situation may convey a different meaning (Urntinued on previous columa, s

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