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COLOUR AND THE CINEMA

Intriguing New Method

(Special Aly Mail Service)

black and white is the artistic me- dium for the cinema."

London, April 3. One of the more familiar sights of dramatic London at the moment "That's because the highbrows is Sir Cedric Hardwicke holding a are afraid of their emotions. They little black box up to the light and don't want to be persuaded by squinting into it with one apprat-colour. They want to think aca- sive eye, while an interested filmdemically in black and white. director, or agent, or critic, hovers

near.

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lour is disturbing. It creates a mood; just as the coloured line creates a mood in the theatre. You can sense the mood of a thea- tre scene before à word 19" spoken. But you've never been able to da that in the cinema before."

EVERYDAY LIFE

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The little black box has been Hardwicke's constant companion. since his return from Hollywood, a couple of weeks ago. He bought it In a ten-cent store in California. It is not unlike a pocket camera in shape; it holds a strip of film

"All the same," said Gilbert M about two feet long, and by turnter, who had joined us In "our Ing a knob at the side you bring investigation of the little black each picture into the framework box, "colour, if it's properly used. of the Ettle window.

is bound to be limited to costume pictures and children's fairy stories

The peculiar interest of Hard- wicke's black box for show people 15 sts, at the moment is that it contains "frames" from the new colour Alm. "Becky Sharp," which promises to be something of a test case for the whole question of colour in the cinema. The dim, as you know, has just been finished in Hollywood by Pioneer Pictures, the company that made "La Cacuracha," and it

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is likely to be shown about the end

of May in a London theatre.

Hardwicke's enthusiasm over "Becky Sharp" is unconditional and infectious.

"I never believed," he says, turn- ing up one picture, after another and offering it for inspection, "that colour in the cinema" could be so exciting and lovely until I saw what an artist like Bobby Jones (not the golfer, but Robert Edmond Jones, the stage designer) could do with it. (Look at this close-up of Miriam Hopkins see the flesh tints see the colour of the hair- and the red glass on the table, standing out like a ruby.) I be- Leve colour is going to take the films into an entirely different plane-something like the differ- ence between a newspaper story and a great novel."

WARM CANDLE LIGHT One by one the little pictures came up into the peep-hole win- dow-Miriam Hopkins and Frances, Dee, Becky and Amelia, side by side in warm candle light at the plano Nigel Bruce as Joseph Sed- ley, pompous in gleaming satin- |Hardwicke himself, as the Marquis of Steyne, a little sinister in the moonlight.

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subjects with what Goethe calls the pathos of distance. It would

be very dull to have colour, in a modern everyday story. with your and me in clothes like we're wear- Ing now."

"That's where you're wrong, GI- bert," såld Hardwicke swiftly.

HEAVY RAINS

Ruin Kiangsi Crops

Nanchang, April 12. Kiangsi provinca has been de- luged, with rain for the past few days. Conilderable damage bas been done to crops.

The Provincial Relle? Committee has despatched special agents to the rural districts to distribute seeds and ploughing oxen to the farmers in order that the Spring sowing may not be inter- rupted.

„Up to date, a total of $200,000" has been remitted by the Shang- hai Drought Rellef Association' to nnance relief work in Klangsi pro- vince. Out of this sum, '$50,000 was allotted to the Provincial Re- lief Committee for disbursement to the sufferers while the balance was used for the purchase of rice for refugees. The reilet work is expected to be concluded. by the end of this month.......

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IN GOOD COMPANY

(Special Air Mail Service)

Loudon, April 3 Mr. Joli Drinkwater represent- ed English letters at the Fridausi celebrations in Persia Now I see that Vienna has chosen him as the representative English playwright.

is to

That's just where colour gets in-

His "Abraham Lincoln' for our British contribution to teresting. Drab clothes, black and the list of plays of different grey costumes in a commonplace uations, which is being given short- world are the perfect basis for co-ly at the Viennese Burgtheater... lour. The carnation that you're wearing in your buttonhole be comes important at once. The red hat over there becomes dramatic. You shift your its true, but you heighten them.

dramatic values,

enormously."

"Then you think." I asked, "that the cinema is going to be a hun- dred per cent. colour in a few years' time?"

A MILESTONE

"I'm certain it is. Mind you, I don't think there will be a revolu- tion, like the talkie revolution of 1929. I fancy colour will come gradually, probably by way of the short pim." But I shall be surprised" if in three years' time the menG==" chrome picture isn't an exception. And I think people will look BACK. to 'Becky Sharp' as the turning point in the colour business, just as we look back to "The Singing Fool" as the beginning of sound.”

"I hope," I said, "that unlike "The Singing Fool, it will be a film as well as a novelty."

"I think you'll like it," he said. "Though, mind you, you mustn't expect to see a transcription of

Thackeray's Vanity Fair. It has been taken. from well-knowin American play, not directly from the novel I feel myself that Thackeray might almost have been introduced as a dramatic figure in the film-a kind of compere or commentator. He was always step- ping between the story' and the reader in Vanity Fair, translating the Waterloo period, very finely, in the light of his own times. But in & film you can never reproduce the character of great writing, and I think the producers were quite right to go beyond the middleman material, Something,

"Look at that scene." he exclaim- ed, pausing with his fingers on the knob. "See the green, lime effect on the villain, just like a spot in the theatre? And now see this balcony effect, when the mood is blue. Yes, I'm sure we're on the verge of something tremendously exciting, Colour will. heighten everything-intensify all the emo- tional values. And it will give the film a new kind of permanency. It has always been terrible to me, the way last week's film is as dead as yesterday's newspaper. All the work and enthusiasm that goes in- to it, and in a week it's forgotten to the That's because a monochrome ple- } though, has got to be supplied in ture is necessary journalistic: it place of the writing, and in this has topical values. When people case what has been supplied is a see a black-and-white picture they kind of modern sharpening of the say, 'How realistic! How like lifey | argument. 'Becky Sharp' is at the When they see a colour picture same time closer to its period and they lose that sense of immediacy." | nearer to our own times than any "The highbrows wouldn't agree transcription of Thackeray would with you," I said. They think have been."

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Five Hundred At Auction

(Special Air Mail Service).

London, Apr. 3. Police controlled a crowd of over 5000 people struggling to get into Kingston House, Kingston Bag- Duze. Berkshire, yesterday. The contents of Kingston House, home for 35 years of Mr. E. A. Strauss, MP for North Southwark, were up for sale,

Mr. Strauss Was the leading partner and principal sharehold

ed "every building except vicarage Practically every man in the village was employed on his estate of nearly 2000 acres

Long before the sale was timed. filled to start hundreds of

CarS the long drive to the house. People crowded into the entrance hall, where the sale was conduct- ed. “Late comers stood on the steps and the lawns.”

Many who wanted to buy could not get in. Those who bad bought could not get out, so great was the crush. Women in fur costs stood next to farm labourers and their wives.

er in the arm of Strauss and Co, The villagers feel the loss of

Ltd, the grain and seed firm, hose failure was announced at the end of January

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their squire. They wanted to shake him by the hand and ex- press their sympathy, but they have not seen him since" Christ-

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Under the comprehensive category of Voices of the peoples in the drama," Mr. Drinkwater's play keeps company with others by such celebrities of yesterday and three centuries ago as Gerhart Haupt- mann and Calderon.

Doge's “Julius Caesar” The most eminent personage to find a place in this roll of fame is Signor Mussolini.

The Duce's Julius Caesar" "has Deen chosen as representative of contemporary Italian drama.

As in his Napoleon play." The Hundred Days," Signor Mussolini has collaborated with Signor Forzano.

He treats his collaborator with the deference of a colleague rather than with the high-handedness of a" dictator.

and

The Julius Caesar in the Mus solini play will be Herr Werner Krauss, the leading German motor He has already been Julius Caesar (Shakespearean version) Caesar (Shavian version).".

Herr Krauss is a fine actor, with a fine presence. His tendency to plumpness, however, is scarcely Caesarean. Nor has he the tradi- tional baldness.

He is the Duce's favourite actor.

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ANTI-CHOLERA CAMPAIGN

[Special to the “Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]

́Shanghai, Apr. 12. Preventive measures for this year's cholera season were decid-

ed upon at a conference convened on April a at the Klangwan Civic Centre which

was attended by many public health service direc- tors and experta and presided aver by Dr. J. Heng Liu, director of the National Health Adminis- tration. Reports for 1834 were read which showed that the three municipal areas were practically free of cholera at the end of the year.

Tel. 26631

MAYOR LA GUARDIA'S REVOLVER

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, April 3. It would be difficult to find a graphic illustration of differences between the daily life

more

Lord Mayor of London and of a Mayor of New York than the precaution which Mayor La Guardia has just taken.

A revolver pocket has been fitted to the door of the car in which he drives from his home to City

all every day. It is so placed that he can "draw" at a second's. notice.

Apparently this has been done ecause the Mayor, like many Those present included Dr. Wuother public men in the United Lien-Teh, director of the Nation-States, constantly receives threaten

ing latters, al Quarantine Service; Dr, Li Ting

Although no doubt most of thểm An, commissioner of public health,

are the work of idle ranks, he feels Greater Shanghal; Dr. J. H. Jor-safer with firearms to band,

AIR SERVICES TO SCOTLAND

dan, commissioner of Health, 8.

In an emergency the Mayor could M. C.; Dr. J. Rabaute, director, probably give a good account of (Special Air Mall Service)

London, Apr. 3.

Services d'Hygiene et d'Assistance, hiraself. He served as a major on Ambitious plans for the expan-French Concession and Dr. J. B.the Italian front, and is said to

International be a crack shot,

director. sion and speeding-up of air mail Grant; and air passerger services between Health Board of the Rockefeller

Foundation:ë pr London and Glasgow this sum-

and Rabsute Dra. 14, Jordan mer are, saya ย correspondent,

immunization under the considèration of the reported that separate concerns operating these. against cholera by inoculation "I am told that the route may be with cholera vaccine was carried. extended north of Glasgow, prop out on an extensive scale last

three ably as far as Perth, with a stop year. In the

Breas last

NO STRANGER

(Special Air Mail Service):

Jan London, April 3.

Of the Foreign Office officials who have accompanied Mr. Eden to cases fewer Moscow, only Mr. William Strang.

at Gleneagles. This development, year, 502,413 persons were given which may be inaugurated later inoculations, 90.000 in the year, is the result of a re-than in 1933, due to the absence has first-hand experience of Russia. cent visit to these two centres of any epidemic and partly due He was appointed to the Embassy by Bir Harold Hartley, chairmantc indifference shown by the peo- there in 1930, an acted as Charge of Railway Air Services."

ple toward preventive activities. d'Affaires ou many occasions In the meantime speed tests in the three municipal areas, 56, notably during the trial of the are being conducted with the new 900 handbills and 10,000 posters British engineers in 1933

Mr. Strang'a Tise in types of De Havilland machines were distributed aside from edu Diplomatic Service has been rapid. employed on the London-Glasgow cational propaganda pushed

He was when he entered the route by this company with a through newspapers, pamphleta Foreign Office by the unconven- articles, radio tional route of London University

and the Sorbonne, ku

view to shortening the journey. The mail and passenger services maintained by Hillman's Airways are also to be expanded, and de- talis will be available shortly.

UNEASINESS AT THE BAR

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, April 3

A Binister rumour is at the moment disturbing the members of the Bar, writes a correspondent,

This is that they are to be ojcated from the common-room they have occupied for several years at the Carey-street entrance of the Law Courts.

The reason is that with the in- Fcreased number of judges the

question of their accommodation has now to be faced.

advertisements, talks and lectures.

The poorer

inhabitants

were

the

Less than two years later he was provided with free waterworks acting Ba Charge d'Affaires at water and 15 additional hydrants Belgrade, There followed eight were installed in the Chinese years at the Foreign Office before areas, while the purity of the he was appointed Counsellor at Chapel and Nantao water supply Moscow. was being maintained under ex- In 1933, after only 14 years in pert supervision. Dr. L reported the Service, he was chosen to Dr. Li, the chairman, praised succeed Mr. Alexander Cadoga the work done by the Central An- a head of the League of Nations ti-Cholera Bureau.

Department. Chine United Press (by mail),

TAKEN AS READ

In that capacity is accompanied Mr. Eden on his round of Con- tinental visits in February last year,

and Sir William Bay-will seen and not heard.

(Special Air Mail Service)

Londoa, April 3, Arrangements are completed for. Their papers will be circulated what I am told will be the largest in advance, and the time that Barristers, knowing the law's convention organised in this cour- would be taken if they were de- delays, are less willing to believe try by a single industry, saya alivered orally will be allotted to that their comforts will be intercorrespondent in a London daily discussion,

fered with. I hear, however, that This is the National Electrical Sir Andrew Duncan

a member

they may be dispossessed at any Convention at Bournemouth in of the central council, and wiL time

by June, which 2,000 delegates are ex- take - a leading – Should the need become urgent,pected to attend ference The the material is in readiness for An unusual featur will be now making a court of this room-if that the principal speaker such and Steel only as a temporary, messure.

authorities as Bir Archibald Page to ma ently