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The

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1932.

SOME DISARMAMENT DIFFICULTIES.

fact, however, must be faced that "disarmament" needs to be dis- armed of its false hopes. To-day I usually meana limitation of arms and except for the three navien bound by the London Naval Treaty. It does not even mean that. But recognition of the dia tance still to go on the road to disarmament should help to speed our footsteps. What is needed is better understanding of the pro- blem by citizens of all countries, and intelligent insistence by them that their Governments push on toward the goal.

THE JESUITS IN SPAIN.

NEW LIGHT ON THEIR EXPULSION.

By ARTHUR F. LOVEDAY. However justifiable or unjusti- hable the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain and the confiscution For their properties may be from a pofition! point of view, there can

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THAT IS THE COMFORT WHICH EVEN IN HLACKERT DARKNE MUST AFFORD LIGHT.—Rosebery.

An amended notification sisies that the Ben Line A. . Bendoran, from Home via Straits and Manila, is due here on Thursday morning.

Mrs. Maurice St. J. Walsh sailed by the 8.8. Naldera for Home on Satur-

day.

BRITISH FILMS.

THROWING

AWAY THE

PLUMS.

BY A LOCAL FILM CRITIC..

Coming at a time when every,, an Oxford accent, and a cockney form of propaganda la being em- dialect, the British industry ent ployed to exploit British films in complacently back and waited for felds hitherto held almost ex- the world at large to write puff clusively by the American produc-pars in the nowapapers, and glow- pronouncement by Mr and for theatre managers to vlo ing eulogies in the trade magazines, tions, the Tom Walls, the famous English one with the other in their des actor-director that he does not res

Following a meeting of the Over- gard any attempt to improve on! Pernte haste to cancel contracts of

American productions. sens League la Singapore, it has been successful stage plays in the way

A Bubble Which Burnt. decided to hold British Shopping of photography and other forms of Week in Malays. At the end of the technique, as necessary to the talk- week, May 24, which is Empire Day, ing screen, will be received with When none of these anticipations It is proposed to hold a ball in ean mixed feelings by those who are were realised, it was with feelings junction with the Overseas League sympathetically interested in the almost akin

dinner.

of

four

recommended

an endeavour tonn

done.

outburst

that

supremo

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complacency that their

The film breaks suniew hating invention, and beg- seriously and fake, a technique which scem- new ground in that it is nat concern to exploit its adaptability and ed to infuse the silver screen with ed with the elucidation of a murder potentialities as a new medium for a personality. It was the astonish- for entertainment. Once again Eng-ingly successful exploitation by mystery, but the preparation anil performance of the "perfect land found herself left behind in a French, German and American pro- murder," ultimately demonstrating new field of artistic achievement, ducers of this new technique in that the best-laid plans may go and it was not until quite recently Hollywood studios, which revealed- away, particularly if a clever woman that the British film industry has to what extent the British produc-

awakened to the insistent demand tlons, were lacking. is concerned.

to amazement struggle of the British film indus- British producers discovered some. try to compete with its American thing more was needed than at- Five

armed men, one

with contemporaries.

tractive enunciation If their films revolver and another with a dagger,

We are told that this attitude of were to find their way out of Home forced an entry into 128, Wockung,

ports. director of ine famous Street, Yaumati, during the early the

The world at large was then in- hours of yesterday morning, and, Aldwych Players' comelles has after binding and gagging the in- caused something like a riot in the formed that the British m in- mater, stole property to the value of film industry, but it is hardly to dustry was going to usert itself $125, before decamping.

be expected that all the renetion will and produce pictures which for be confined to the specialists. What technique, artistry, photography

were to be There were crowded houses at the is going to be the attitude of fim- and acting,

univcrac. Even particularly In Hongkong throughout the King's Theatre yesterday when the goers

Sometimes where the clamour for British films American producers believed it and British film, "Canaries Sinc." was screened for the Art is increasing to this attempted were astute enough to greet the time. One of Frederick Lonsdale's strangulation of a growing indus-ext batch of English films with

noteworthy try? For it is

of honeyed phrases sparkling comedies, It for its elever dialogue. The east strangle and to retard the progress which again was sufficient to de-

charneters, only

Ide the British Industry into be no doubt that the manner in consists

with immense success by of British Alms. Government taken which the present

Yvonne Arnaud, Cathuren. Nesbit. For several years, America led sense of has acted in issuing suddenly a Tom Walls and Athole Stewart. A the way in the film industry to such work was finished and was well decree, almost brutal in

1 Italm which can

an extent that competitive pro-

The New Technique, severity, at a moment of rational wholeheartesily,

duetions were nothing but second- Perisia when the forces of anarchy |

rals

comparison. It was

Then began the ern of freak and revolution are extraordinarily A brilliantly clever denouement,! America which after carrying the photography, superimposition in artive and evident, has moved pro-coupled with a wealth of dramatic silent film to a standard of artistry place of black-outs, cutting Instead. foundly the religious sense and station, lifts "Guilty Hands," the that defied any sort of serious com- of paddling. the accentuation of the sense of justice of the Spanish Lion Barrymore fils now showing at petition, took to its bosors the talk realism at the expense of illusion sation.

the Queen's Theatre, well above the It would appear that an extreme Average. and revolutionary Government of strong Socialistic or Marxian ten- dennies has found self faced with the necessity of taking far more repressive measures against the agents of anarchy and revolu- Whilst cynics may say there is tion, many of them their former no progress heing made with dis- friends, than were dreamed of in

It is astonishing to find the big. the wild days of the detatorship.

National Sentiment.

appeal this has made to Hongkong armament, the Conference sitting

So. in order to appear what is of Jesultry, one cannot but acknow- in Geneva is attempting to achieve | called "impartial,” and to sugar the ledge that it has been a great in-

film-goers. Where before many People became weary of the hard were content if a picture contained something by the appointment of pill of repression their fol-strument in the spread of Christ- sub-committees charged with in lowers of the extreme left, they tianity throughout the world and nasal voices of the American actors a certain amount of action, a pass- in Christian education and its con- and actresses and a little nauseated able plot and good neting, they now vestigation of land, sea and air have hastily hit the Jesuits, as re-

by Buck-stage-Al Jolson cum look for, and are disappointed if arbiaments, war budgets, and poli-¡ Presentatives of the extreme right, I timally renewed sprend and pose Sonny Boy theme, the feeling they do not find, the more subtle

i knock-out blew on the head.

after a period of persecution, are! tical questions. It is carrying on

"Contradictory Action." probably due more than anything among Hongkong "Tan" being so touches in technical production and its discussions within the frame.

It would seem, from a purely else to its educational nspect and intense as to promote newspaper direction. As one regular and en- Elstree, with her thusiastic "Ian" was heard to re- work of the draft Disarmament politici point of view, und setting its policy of sewing its tenets in controversy. Convention, full liberty being re-side entirely the religious aspect, the young by means of its schoola. sound equipment, came into being mark a short time ngo "Given Eng- At present there are Jesuit as a purveyor of English talkies. ish players and a Hollywood studio,

Elstree. served to all the delegations to de- that the Government have commit-

either and you have the perfect talking velop their own proposals. Those ed a most contradictory action, schools in almost every town of im- Unfortunately, who feel that differences over the for they have destroyed one of the portance in Spain, which have sup-through force of circumstances, or picture as far as the science has

at present advanced." most ani-revolutionary elements plied the greater part of education through lack of progressive and found it methods of Halting amamenta in in the country at a moment when to the cultured classes and much intelligent producers,

And to-day we have this techni dicate that Governments have on they

themselves C

necessary to start its industry at fighting of that to the lower

classes.

by America.que, (almost futuristic in its ex- It is therefore a great blow to a point left behind

pression Пе witn 38 "Quick real wish to disarm, may possibly revolution, and have definitely

those Spanish parents, who desire Tut thanks to the psychological Millions, which in direction and be overlooking vital facts. Sin-host list that very large body of

for their make-up of the Englishman, this the population of Spain who are a Christian education cere and intelligent atalesmen are

children and to the general cause was not discovered, er rather it photography cannot be seriously film made to professing Christians. Inbouring earnestly to achieve some

At another moment and in a of education, for all those schools was tactfully ignored, until some challenged by any

time later, it, when even British late), brought to n standard which is daily finding favour with the measure of disarmament. With tranquil Spain it would be a logical to be closed.

This, and the wounding of the era beran to respond to the quality millions who attend elnemas, con- them the whole question is not and an experted action for a Gov-

deepest religious feelings of al American productions, and "Shall we disarm7" but "lowernment holding the tenets and devout Spaniards, are the two must! adlawed their eyes ta he opened to demned, or at least ridiculed, by

ductrine of the present

one la shall we dizarm?" So far they we

the expel mere limitntion as the only prac-their goods; for, notwithstanding viable results of the decree expel the difference between the English | shoulders lica part of the respon

Jeanils and to confiscate far-reactio e

ticable step.

now

for

of

ין

mm:diately

for the Home talking picture.

and American film.

Until then, the British talkie existed on national sentiment. "It 18 so lovely to hear real English voices" was the cry of the English

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whond

British director upon

sibility of the future success of British films.

An Emotional Camera. The British industry has still a

the hopes and illusion held in some ing the Jesuits from Spain and ultra-Protestant cl. cles aeonliseating their goods, and they A Flance at the problems

rond, the spirit of the present have called forth an almost unanim- being thrashed put zut

Government appears definitely as aus protest from the Press through

country. Geneva discloses the difficulties one of persecution, and not of free-out ill be the ultimate effect | film-goer, which eventually became long way to go before it can con- of attaining even that minimum dom of religion. roak For instance, in measuring land armaments, shall we enunt

The Jesuits, or calf them by their own name. the Company of Jesus have

passed through many men or machines, material or visissitudes varying from the money? Britain seems to favour height of political Influence and Budgetary limitation. That means power to persecution, since the time that each nation's forces would of their foundation by papal buli in 1540, when Ignatius de Loyola be judged by the amount it spent | fald down the rules and organisa- un them. Japan and the United tian of the order. States opposed this plan eighteen months ago. They favoured judg In the course of their history ing by the actual number of men they have at some period or other and guns. They pointed out that been expelled froni almost every country where they have been es- Countries have canseri tablished, when their power had armies which cost very little. And appeared to exercise too great an the Amerfenn delegate declared, influence on the temporal politics "It is far easier to cancel the of that country or their wealth ex- application of a dollar than it is cited the cupidity of their oppon Ou the tents,

MONIC

General Expulsion.

This was

the existence of a rifle."

Their history in Spain has shown other hand. representatives of the some features as in other coun- other nations have argued that tries, and in the year 1767, in the one man may be far better trained, reign of Carlos lif, the houses of one gun far more efficient, than the order were unexpectedly sur- another, so that a mere enumera-rounded by troops and their in- males deported, while a decree was tion of men and materiala without promulgated by the King suppres regard to what has been spent sing the order completely in Spain gives us true idea of strength. It and all her possessions.

in 1773 by the would be a mere measurement of quantity, entirely ignoring varin- dissolution of the Society by Pope Clement XIV. Throughout the tjons in quality. There, briefly, in perlad of the French Revolution one dilemma. As one way out of the society consed to exist as a it, the proposal has been made recognised religious order until a that the budgetary yardstick bull of Pops Plus VII. restored it

its functions. should be applied by each nation

Since then a history of growth as against its own previous expen-1 of power and subsequent expulsion ditures, not in comparison with has continued to repeat itself in the appropriations of any other many countries and ultimately in country. Even this plan would Spain by the recent Government depend somewhat for fairness decree of dissolution and confisca upon when it was applied, and

Influence of the Order. whether one nation had already

However one may differ froin bullt up its forces while another, some of the practices and benots

to

tion.

What

taxi..

its productions" of the deerce on the political aliua- the slogan of the British producer, fidently compare tion and the education of Span and lured him into a sense of false;

security. And on the strength of with those from Hollywood. The actors are there, as America has remains to be seen.

found to her lasting gain, but act ing alone cannot to-day, satisfy the advanced ideas of the film-fan He has got beyond the stage of re- quiring to see the players in a taxi bowling along the crowded thoroughfare in order to satisfy himself that they did take a He needs variety in photography, something more than the alternato close-up and long shot. He prefers suggestion to heavy emphaste, un- xual and unexpected manipulation of the camera to the stereotyped ground shots. The German photo- truphers, through the American

have given us producers. "emotional" camera, and anything which savours of old fashioned ideas in this direction const detract from the entertaining value of the film, when placed in a comparative sphere..

"Sho's still poorly-but I've ordered a batch of them

coloured cruise catalogues that will cheer her up.

Different Treatment Required.

an

It is possible that Mr. Tom Walls had only sensational publicity in mind when he made his illuminat- log, but rather distressing state- ment. For the sake of his films it is to be sincerely hoped so, for it 18 because the screen demands dif forent treatment than a' stage pro- duction, that the new technique has been introduced.

If the British film industry is to be strangled by refusal to accept the obvious, all the prepaganda and publicity in the world will not give it prestige. Film patrons are past the stage of belloving all they road and hear about the wonders and super-magnifcesco of pictures. Thoy aro to day in a position to form their own opinions.