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Cinema "Shots" and "Sequences"

IS BRITISH

WIT

SO SUBTLE?

Let Us be Honest About It

NEWS AND VIEWS

THE

defence of British humour. made villeially by the local office of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was 8 gesture which all Englishmen in Hongkong must have appreciated. There is a sort of popular belief That British wit is too subtle for the Americans, who, in the hey- days of the silent film, displayed such a flair for slap-stick humour,

But as to almost lift it to an art. the advent of the Talkies has amply demonstrated that America can be

as witty in dialogue as the English

Will Rogera as he appears in "Ambassador Bill" at the King's Theatre on Sunday.

ONE MORE

GEM FROM

HOLLYWOOD

"Arrowsmith" is A Masterpiece

BY "CELLULOID”

THEN I saw Arrowsmith

W

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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the Central Theatre on Wed- nesday, I discovered two thinga: that the picture proved Hollywood's unparalleled flair for handling drama, and secondly that it went a long way to disproving the reputa tion attached to the Los Angeles studios for their unhappy knack of ruining the themes of "best sel- lers". All Quiet on the Western Front was another remarkablɑ ex- ample of the ability of Hollywood faithfully to reproduce a story com-

fus-makers. True it offers takes NEW ERA IS plete with its original characters

a somewhat different form of ex- pression, such as the quick-fire re- Marx patter of the parte and Brothers and Wheeler and Woolsey, deny, and nist hat one cannot admire, the glorious subtlety of their "wisecracks."

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ARE WE SO QUICK WITTED?

DAWNING

CINEMA EVOLVING INTO CREATIVE

ART

and thematic details.

Yetmith, Guls

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28

Actoss

1 Torf instead of weeds in her

ense (two words),

Notion shorl of the best by fifty.

10 The word "G" at the flying race? 11 Cun Rome to make another town: JOHN FORD'S TRIUMPH.

12 Be seen again with a pear,

Yes 57OU will thoroughis, enjoy A Can one du this with 97

the most

and na 15 He may be after a commission: 11- the most anti-Hollywood or

but not in the Army. cinematic minded person could do

Far from simple. 17 Par otherwise. Sinclair Lewis won the happy car (anag). Nobel prize with bia book, and 120 if four is rising, it may be due don't think he could be one bit na- to

this. During the comparatively short hamed or disappointed in its film 22 Even more immediate than this

The dramatic month, apparently. Hongkong.

the average thent re-time the talking picture has been interpretation.

with us, it has taught us many situations and the wonderfully ex-24 An underhand art of ball? It

certainly fun't cricket. her is not tou quick on the "up! fake" so far as American humour things, chiefly its lack of univer-pressed self-sacrifice of the leading

secondly its poten-characters, grip one from the very 26 These vermin sound na though they have a way into the house. and best disguised "Kags" of theialities as an intellectually educa- opening scene. John Ford, whose An old English king was. is concerned. Some of the smartestsal appeal: Marxians, Skeets Challagher. Nedtive and propagandist medium: impressionalistic direction in Ups Ben Jonson requested lip-service

Sa matter of fact, experience!

Ash don nstrated that

Sparks, Jack Onkie and the other and thirdly its vast ponsibilities the River, created much favourable comment. goes a step further in US. mirth-provokers have been as it creative art,

the path of interpretative art. Fur- allowed to slip by without a sound.

thermore, with the ald of Roy BESTEZIDENTSK_J FARONE:916 20:2892916291923023/19/613 152235319TALTE

SUNDAY'S SHOWINGS.

Three Outstanding Attractions.

King's-“Ambassador Bill"

(Will Rogers of course). Queen's "Beggar Student"

(Very good indeed). Central Arrowsmith"

(Great story- greater

film).

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Even now the first factor ap pears to be bat dimly realised by the American, French and Bri tish producing companies, or eise deliberately shutting They are their eyes to the obvious. Russia, however, with her insatiable hun-i ser after propaganda, has faced) up to the realities and has turn- ed to study the basic principles; of cinematography, seeking for! her themes nature in her beauty! and stark' reality. She has fearuti to make sound effect and photo- graphy so expressive as to leave dialogue almost unnecessare and superfluous.

nematic technique, have only one

temporary-Germany,

where

SHOWING TO-DAY,

What There Is To See At The Theatres,

King's "Good Sport"

(Not at all bad). Queen'She's My Wenk-

ness" (Silly, but Nice)., Central Arrowsmith"

(Don't Miss It). Star-"Behind Ollice Doers"

(Ao engaging story). World Gentleman's Fate"

(Some great neling). Majestic Graft”

(Typically U.S.).

from them.

20 These present, collectively speak- ing, within two hours of mid- night at a ball.

Down.

1 A famous street, not apparently in its final stage of development, 2 Storr.

3 Pertunetory knave.

You must have sat up after ten for detters.

Harmonious gathering.

7 Adum or I could make this

picture.

8 Beaten mats (ausg.).

A pledge to keep.

414 A rat returns to cheat? It's a

le!

10 The kind of tortoise to alp back

lo earth.

17 Not the kind of person to tnke

up solo card playing.

10 Irregular verbs in old English. 21 It's a bad mark to a seaman to

be temperate.

23 The alternative is black If you

1 on this.

24 Say to an extremist what one

would say to a goose.

25 A champion dog Inst summer.

Yesterday's Solution.

STHEBLUEDANUBE

INTENT TROUBLE

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STHEGOLDENHIND..

clair Lewis created with such, years in Australian States, and dynamic power of pen. Just a when a second company toured the word for Helen Hayes, and another provinces he went into "The New for A. E. Anson. They aro vory, Mcon" as romantle lead. One very satisfying, and the more I see night his voice failed and that was of them the belter.

CAREFUL LADIES!

TP Lance Fairfax causes feminina hearts to flutter in his first talk- ng ilm, the British production

G. W. Pabat and Wagner are striv ing, one through his directing genius, and the other through his June, his photographer, he

craftsmanship. to save captured beauty in numbers of his camera the cinema from the sex-ridden, shots. I was particularly impre-"The Beggar Student," dus at the

At the present time. the So- from the audience. I am not sets, in their search after a new efined to place Englishmen that includes myself) on a pedestal reanling their marked subtlety of rumour. It has certainly been greatly evidenced in British film farces and comedies which have to date been displayed in Hongkony. I think there quite sullleient evidence to prove that America, and particularly her film studios, can fully appreciate English wit, and furthermore enjoy

it.

THANK YOU MANAGERS!

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time, the magnificently appointed highly romantic "Red Shadow" in

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the Inst Australin knew of him, for talkies began invading the theatres, and, as elsewhere, the legitimate threw in the towel.

Last year Lance Fairfax sailed for England and was to have played

industrysed with the photographic effects Queen's on Sunday, he will be only Box-olitee governed that it is to-day, and give to it the obtained during the sequence when repenting what he did in Australia

Ronald Colman enters for the first three years ago, when as dignity and beauty of the Arts,

That the day Is dawning when

Institute. The "The Desert Song," he made that this shall be realised I am certain.

camera set-ups and the lighting operatta much more spectacular by Vufku-King with Wis direc-

of effects produced some amazingly his magnificent handling tion of the Russian gem Earth fine shots. The entertainment to enracoling Arab steed, leading the which as far back as 1930 proved be gained from studying the mag-Riffs into battle. KTE have been blessed with the artistic possibilities of the early.technique of Ford and June is Understudies left the horse part W

some exceedingly fine pro-generated cinema, Pudovkin, with as great as that offered by the out, but Fairfax made the most of: grammes in the cinemas this week. his remarkable theory in photot- splendid cast.

it, for service in Palestine with the The King's first offering of The graphy and cutting, by which he

Australian Light Horse during the | Miracle Man (over which 1 am has demonstrated how rain dropa!

falling A BOUQUET FOR BENNET. war, from which he emerged still enthusing, and which to me, can actually be shown

Captain and an M.C., enabled him rain-drenched blades uf stands out as the best Amerienn] from

OST of the London. America to control the high spirited animai picture so far produced in this grass as they hend before

re: despite the theatre orchestra and; and Wagner's year of grace. 1932), has been scythe, Pabst's

Ronald footlights. Arrowsmith Kard succeeded by that pleasant, though co-operative work in the production Colman's finest picture, and such But of course, it wasn't his quite unpretentious im

Die Drrigroschenoper, (The) Good of

an opinion will probably meet with Ability as an equestrian that was Sport. At the Queen's hundreds Threepenny Opera), and Rene the general approval of his par-responsible for Fairfax's meteoric

to natority. It was of visitors between Sunday and Clair's imaginative direction and tisans, He is Colman at his very rise yesterday, found plenty of eater ingenious use of settings in Lehest. exuding a magnetic per the clear robust baritone that ho and Million are all indications of the sonality, but withal natural and had lifted up a many a Gilbert and tainment in Joan Crawford

the cinema's onward march to a new without any suggestion of "acting" Sullivan role, which first brought Chirk Gable, who assumed

to him into the limelight. From leading roles in Passessed, and era of cultural and intellectual Neverthless my bouquet goes now we are given a foolishly funny films, shorn of the predominating: Richard Bennett, who, unless he is concert singer and revcue artisic, Gim entitled She's My Weakness.sex-interest and benutifted by the destroyed by Hollywood's insatiable Fairfax graduated to the chorus of the lead in "Sons of Drums" at

use of einematic love of "stardom", is going to ro-the Gilberts, und his fair for l'artisans of British films were expressive

Drury Lane, but the part was main one of the finest character ac comedy as Bob Bobstay in "Pina- taken by Derek Oldham at the last able to delight in the revisit to materials. the Star Theatre of the English Hollywood, with all her flair for tors on the screen. Bennett has fore," and his finished delineation moment. The Begger Student is of Escape, which accuracy of technical detail and not only histrionic ability, but be of Fish Tush in "Mikado' soon his first big film, although long- Gerald du Maurier alone definitely settings, cannot contribute to this can understand his character, gots brought him among the principals. kong has seen him in a couple of shorts. Based on Mollockner's lifts up to entertainment standard, new cinematography until she has right within him, and live the part.

well-known Vienna operettn, The whilst the Majestic has indeed fill-realised that the essentials of a In Arrowsmith be is never Richard AN EPHERMERAL PUBLIC. whilst this with The Man 1 Killed, good fim do not rest in mere love- Bennett. He is Sondelius, a fam-AIRFAX'S stage career affords Dengar Studen gives Fairfax every in the first part of the week, and interest.

He could The imaginative exous research scientist.

an example of how ephemeral is opportunity to exploit his voice, and of nature in all her be nobody clar. He does not in the theatre-going public in a return of the ever-popular picture uloitation

Its In addition has Shirley Dalo as a Just Ingine. If only such stinn-moods of drama and beauty offer troduce any habitual tricks to mark plaudits. He played the "Rod charming leading lady, and Jerry lating offerings could be made every far more seope; as well as a cul- him as Richard Bennett. He lives Shadow" with great success for two Verno to supply the laughs.

tural and educative value. and dies the Sondelius whom Siu-

talking version

week!

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

GEE, YOU OUGHTA

BE STRONG ENOUGH

" WALK IN YOUR

HOUSE, NOW.....

*ARE YA?

YEAH... SHUCks! I'M ALL RIGHT....... IT'S FUNNY YOU

DIDN'T GET AS MUCH GAS AN' SMOKE AS I

DID!!

I'LL MAKE IT LIKE NUTHIN' MOMLL NEVER SUSPECT ANYTHING..... I'LL JUST WALK IN AN' SAY,

I'M KINDA TIRED 'AN'I

GUESS I'LL TAKE

A NAP FOR

MYSELF team

A Big Front!

YEAH... AN' BY TH' 'TIME YOU GET UP YOU OUGHTA BE AS GOOD

AS NEW!!

BUT.... FROM A SIDE WINDOW MOTHER 15 WATCHING

THE PROCEEDINGS

WITH SUSPICION

MERCY!! I WONDER IF ANYTHING HAS

HAPPENED TO

FRECKLES ?

Ronald Colman, the hero of "Arrowsmith", which is a mai tarpiece of acting and direc tional technique. The picture continues its run at the Central

Theatro.

By Blosser

WELL... GOOD

LUCK, A DOODLE

SAY! MOM'LL NEVER, SUSPECT........

JUST LEAVE IT

TO ME, NOODLE!!!