1930-03-22 — Page 10

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MARCH 22rd; 1930.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

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LESS ACTING IN TALKIES.

BILLIE DOVE'S VIEWS ON FILM TENDENCIES.

Less acting, not more, is requir- |

ed in talking films than in the old silent pictures.

This statemèrit sounds strange when one recalls the predictions that certain film stars would be forced out of the business by the talkies because they couldn't act. And it still is a direct contradic- tion to the prevailing belief.

Nevertheless, it is the opinion of

asi Billie Dove, often described the most beautiful woman in pin-i tures. Billie is beautiful. There's no doubt of that. But she isn't dumb as most beautiful women are said to be. Her opinions on the: talkies certainly prove her ability to think for herself in view of the fact that she stands almost alune in them.

"I don't understand how people can think that talking films re- quire more acting than silent pie- tures did," declares Billie.

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will admit that they are harder work but that is because we must continually guard against acting,

Pantomime Taboo, Now,

"In the old days everything had to be exercised in pantomime. We used our faces and bodies a great deal to do this and often had to cxaggerate a great deal in order" to make our thoughts register. To-day those thoughts can be ex pressed with a few words. sequently we can't act. to be natural.

Con- clares is the best one she has yet I'm gut in the habit of letting the We have done. That wouldn't necessarily be subject of pictures get the better In fact, I rarely ever al- saying a great deal as the stories of me. which have been handed to her of low myself to think of them when "For example, I used to do a great deal of crying in all of my late have been pretty torrible. I'm not on the set or studying my silent films. It was the only way However, this film, based on the lines,"

For a film star, Billie talks sur- prisingly Ettle about pictures. She leads a very normal home life, life and neither does anyone else. Shies at Talks on Beauty..

has just as many friends outside And I don't do it in pictures any "You'll pardon me for talking of the industry as she has in and more, either. That same feeling about my picture so much, won't when she is through in pictures- can be expressed merely by the in- you?" she asked. "It's just that which she knows she will be one flection of my voice."

these days she expects heri I am so exicted about having a of Billie is just starting a new ple- really gond story that I can't help private life to continue just as if

You know that nothing had happened. ture, "Faithful," which she de- talking about it.

That was old English stage play, "Fame," of expressing sorrow. unnatural, I don't do it in real should be really good.

A NOVEL SETTING.

Olive Bordon, First National cinema star, is seen above in à

rather novel setting.

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A sunshine study of a fisherman mending his nets under the harbour wall at Cannes. Across the bay can be seen some of the palatial buildings on the front, with the hills in the background. Cannes, in common with other towns on

the Riviera, is at this period of the year in the height of its season, with its influx of visitors from all parts of the world (Times copyright).

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