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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1932.

CINEMA

CHARLES Ruggles, one of the

real humourists of the Holly. wood studios in a typical pose as he appears in Husband's Holiday. the King's mid-wook offering next week.

"SHOTS"

Evolution of Cinema

from Mere Money-making

Industry to Standard

of Art Now Inevitable

CORRESPONDENT'S INTERESTING

ANALYSIS

NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID”

BREVI

TH

cut.

1-

AND

"SEQUENCES"

VIVACIOUS Jeanette Macdonald and the irrepressible Maurice Chevaller in their latest suesen One

Hour With You, which will be shown at the King's Theatre on Sunday wook.

MERELY STAGES SCENES.

felt

110

dio-

13

aro work

A director who indukces in wordy and so extreme in its efficienev, that the positively sorry

OUR BRITISH

REVITY is the soul of the THE audience of to-dúy doer Hot

have to see well-produced film of to-day, |

n Nick-bel rounded by wailing relatives and sobstuff and tears, no or a matilated corpse to know that matter how much it may permeate int has taken place. A quick shot of a mourning card, the reading the story, is not on the scenario, of a will or a church service in all And the brevity of the modern film that is needed. Similarly a close-up af whirling train wheels or a liner jand the various dodges that films at sen, indicates a journey, while the makers employ to obtain il, is, fluttering of the leaves off a calendar only one of the many tricks for THAT THAT "the old order changeth," more than anything else, where indicating the passage of time. In and changeth very rapidly, the present. productions differ the old days, the corpse had to be is not more true than when mostly from those of the pre-war tha: a death had taken place, while the extenuating fact that the indus

shown, to place beyond any doubt English films have been credited with applied to the talking picture period. That development alone world. Those silents of a decale would be a strong point for the the flight of time was generally in-try, not being so highly organised or technically equipped as the American or more ago that thrilled with movers of a debate that the public

studion, their productions must of their grossly exaggerated his- of to-day is more intelligent when FUTURE INDICATIONS.

necessity suffer in comparison. But trionies, their heroines registering viewing a film,

TT is curious that gangland films, the argument scarcely holds good emotion and glycerine tears with the sol stop pulled right out, and

The craze for speed has undoubted much as they have been with At the Villa Rose, in so far that criticised for their potential it is a comparatively recent picture, their slapstick comedy producedly influenced oltr tantes in the immoral influence on inipressionable and at least, produced at a time when on the "When in doubt, throw aleinrma,

and

the efficient mind, minds, have done much more for the the English studios were reported to pie" system, moved their audiences brought up in an atmosphere of high advance of the artistry of the cinema, be making big advances in technical not one whit less than the present speed business and efficiency experts, than any other theme. Two of such, efficiency."

is not impressed with the flim_ that |"Quick- Millions" and "The Secret day highly efficient films; yet to wastes hundreds of feet of fim in Six" stand out prominently as 10 day those old-timers bring only superflution. An audiones to-day per cent., efficient films. Their story,

Yet what is the result? Merely an-, jeers and ironic cheers. "Screen

appreciates a director who leaves of the rise from obscurity to gang other stage play transferrel in its Souvenirs," which Paramount are little to their imagination: amon land czardom, spread over a period entirely and without embellishment now resurrecting from the scrap like von Sternberg who employs of years and the elimination of the to the screen. The enormous heaps of past celluloid triumplis, jumbled superimposition of scenes superfluous, while leaving only an advantages acruing from this

Convey the

Camera are proof enough.

passage of time, or a unconnected series of flashes, was zasily distinguished. Mamoulian lavishing symbola to cinema

artistry at its height. "Quick is stultified and heighten the effect of

of his best shots, Millions"

its Time,

cameraman, who was was years before

to overcome dialogue to convey an unimportant it needed an alert mind to fallow its the manifold

Inconveniences of stage: is an evolution that was point or wastes hundreds of feet i in

con-settings. [ne, nau to resort to shots denn the plots of present-day talkies, through lattice work to introduce bound to come, especially in portraying an every day net. insulin ayanbtleties. Critics nas an industry only just out of the public's intelligence and the declare they are timeworn and hack colour to his photographs and found neyed and deery their entertainment opportunity for but one angle shot its swaddling cothes, and it is publie knows it.

value, but this highly efficient state and a really first rate close-up hardy worth noting that the film

of modern fitua is without doubt Austin Trevor to-day is a vastly different work AN ILLUSTRATION.

tending towards the higher educa- to those old barnstormers when

and inculeating A William S. Hart

the TN thrills and Francis X. Bushman was the matinee idol. The in- terest lies in what the years have slice of modern la fare that istion of the superfluous: recent s taught the film makers, what they thick with sugary sentiment and just predict that the next chinage will be dearth of real actresses. For the have eschewed and added, and the type of lot that pre-war directhe judicious employment of the ex-mast part they are insipid, lack per-

camera and and or would have grasped. Yet how pressionalistic

more sopality and are ill-chosen for their various tricks of camera

differenL was Clarence Brown's treat-inginative directing lending towards roles. Norah Buring was absolutely direction that make the film tomon. There have been few recent a higher standard of cinema art.

painful, her

her nonotoned volee being demonstrato day 90 interesting for the cinema films that

anly

a little worse than her futile enthusiast who subordinates story | stridey Hollywood has made. In NOW THEN ENGLAND!

efforts to art a dramatic part. The and acting to photography and are three deaths and it is chockful of HE foregoing is the able, con ilirector wasted hundreds of feet of valuable celluloid in registering in- treatment when visiting a cinema nectarine scenes that in the good

tribution of a correspondent, consequential scenes and dialogue such theatre. It seems reasonable old days would have disposed of half

the fim. But audiences to-day will whose interest in films has ob-ns the arrival at the Villa of the assumption that the supply is con- not allow close-ups of heroines viously led him to study them more woman with the ing and I sighed for trolled by the demand, in quality as well as quantity, and if that ring emotion like they did le deeply and analytically than the ma-the hand of a John Cromwell, Ernst 10 The very thing to hang a hat on.

years ago, and the death-lent scenes, jority of cinema-guers. The evolu- Lubitschy or even Victor Saville in the 11 Wine has, but isn't. be so, it follows that the changes which once would have been the fention of the cinema, though perhaps many situations which implored de- 12 See her deep in penance. in film direction have come site-ures, are dismissed with a few feet: disappointingly slow to numbers of tente but strong treatment. My dia 13 Whiten. by-side with the changes in film just a few words or a simple shot to its enthusiastic followers (the chief appointment was not so much that 14 Many a this is found in Rome, sense of the great body for whom suggest them, yet there was never reason for which can be found in the films failed to entertain me, but 17 Payment for carriage.

that retarding influence "bex-office that it indicated how little has been 19 The road surface

comes to a receipts"), cannot

bo denied or the progress of Elstree in her com-

sudden atop. ignored. As to whom are contribut-polition with the imaginative and 23 If I take a penny from a relative ing to that progressive evolution efficient Hollywood studios.

and give her many in return, she will naturally show joy.

AN EVOLUTION.

films are made.

SCENE

provided

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doubt.

searching for

illustrations,

Sense of the

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tion of the public and an apprecia- PERSONALITIES WANTED. “Eminin" springs most rendily tion of the symbol, The Heat big ONCE again the the fonclick

to mind. It is a magnificent step in the evolution was the elimian-

more the

CENE from The Sin Of Mudelo a Cluudet, featuring felon Hayes And Nell Hamilton which will be unfolded to Queen's Theatro

Audiences on Sunday.

OVER EIGHTY Leading local firms conduct advertising campaigns through the columns of the "South China Morning Post" and "The Hongkong Tele- graph."

A joint advertising contract with these two newspapers covers the widest field., The two largest circulations which are certified by Chartered Accountants- Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WAIT A MINUTE, OSSIE... STANO REAL STILL AN' LISTEN !! HEAR THAT? WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE TO You?

SOUNDS LIKE

SOMEBODY Movist...

GEE...I WONDER IF

IT COULD BE THAT

PELLA WHO WE SAW OUTSIDE OF MRS. REDFIELD'S WINDOW.... THERE

THE NOISE IS

AGAIN

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from a money-making industry to an

art is, perhaps, beside the point. Nevertheless, in

their Lusiness-liku

and dollars-complex why American has done something.

France ton, through its Rene Clair, han given a taste of

of better things to canu within the cinema, and Russin, to be accepted, has reporta are renthed the very basis of the new and erentive cinema. England's oppor tunity to do her share has not been Inst: in fact she has a greater chance now and in the immediate future than ever before. But her studios and the ever industry as a wholę

must be organised and to a large extend con- Talised. Here is where a national instituto can prove of the finest boon.

ANOTHER FAILURE,

B

re-

RITISH films have.received such

a cold reception from the cri- tien in Hongkong that one feels an- noyed to have to once again affix the label "failure" to a Twickenham pro- duction. Yet personally, 1 And it quite impossible to view At the Villa Rone in any other light. Heretofore,

LOOK! THERES THE NOISE!! IT'S POODLE

SMELLIN AN' SNIFFIN'

AROUND THE FLOOR.

GEE! THATS A GOOD ONE ON US... Boy!! A LITTLE MORE AN' WE'D BOTH

BEEN SCARED....

NCE again the fact was forcibly

screen is suffering from

Beaten to It!

YEAH... I GUESS HE MUST BE LOOKIN' FOR RATS.... Hay,' POODLE !! CUT THAT OUT, NOW... COMÉ ON. BE A GOOD

DOG!!

SHIFF

В

SHIFF

Acrosa

3 A retreat for women.

Brew that starts in to melt. Such declaration doesn't sound consonant,

27 A useful man when compiling the "A stands for Apple" sort of alphabet.

20 An insect that is found in the

bark of the oak,,

A couple of dozen sheets with red edges are needed.

31 Expressions

language.

peculiar to д

82 The beloved of Tristram.

43 May be drunk or theso so honour-

ed.

34 Fish that make a good deal of

smell,

SHIFF

·SHIFF

1 Necessitate.

Down

:

2 Tako

another's place-but of course it's a bit of a do.

3 Good advice to the learned pig that went in for batting. Any- way, it has its good points.

4 This torn-out is, in a measure,

reminiscent of a sack-race.

& Spoll a foreign word and see a

little rodent of the Alps.

6 Is Tom back? Not quite, but he

FOR A MINUTE. THERE, I THOUGHT" SOMEBODY HAD BEATEN US TO IT, GETTIN' THAT BOX OF MONEY.. GEE-THAT WOULDA

BEEN TERRIBLE !!'

helps to make imitation Jewellery

and a good fight.

7 Go blindly at this.

13 "A two-legged bird," as the Cook

said to the small boy who was explaining that a bird must have eaten the tarts.

15 This one is not so waggish -as

Peter's (hidden).

10 Reduces.

18 Ashamed at the very start.

20 The last minute.

21 A vixenish old woman who is tho equal of a couple of men any day.

22 Ils bat seems to the bowler to

be about a yard wide.

24 Having a repugnance to a little

.poetry..

25 In a gloomy fashion.

20 It holds the bull. 28 Crossword insects.

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AH! THAT'S HER, ALL RIGHT...I CAN

FEEL THAT BOX OF DOUGH WITH MY FOOT... EASY

PICKIN'S, WHAT

Z CALL

THIS !!