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THE

SALE

AT THE

O. K.

SILK

STORE

1, Peking Road

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1932

CINEMA "SHOTS"

CHARLES Ruggles, one of the

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

Evolution of Cinema

from Mere Money-making

Industry to Standard

of Art Now Inevitable

CORRESPONDENT'S INTERESTING

ANALYSIS

NOTES AND COMMENTS BY “CELLULOID"

BRE

REVITY is the soul of the well-produced film of to-day.

THE

audience of to-day does not

have to sce a sick-bed Aur- rounded by walling relatives and substaff and tears, no or a mutilated corpse to know that. matter how much it may permeate a death has taken place. A quick shot of a maurning card, the reading church service Is all the story, is not on the scenario, of n will er a And the brevity of the modern film and the various dodges that films makers employ to obtain it, is [IHAT "the old order changeth," more than anything else, where and changeth very rapidly, the present productions differ is not more true than when mostly from those of the pre-war applied to the talking picture period. That development alone world. Those silents of a decade would be a strong point for the or more ago that thrilled with movers of a debate that the public their grossly exaggerated his- of to-day is more intelligent when trionics, their heróines registering viewing a film, emotion and glycerine tears with

THAT

AND

VIVACIOUS

SEQUENCES"

VIVACIOUS Jeanette Macdonald and the irrepressible Maurice Chevalier in their latest succean One

Hour With You, which will be shown at the King's Thea tre on Sunday week.

of whirling train wheels or a liner that is needed. Similarly a close-up at sea, indicates a journey, while the fluttering of the leaves off a calendar is only one of the many tricks for indicating the passage of time. In the old days, the corpse had to be shown, to place beyond any doubt English Bins have been credited with that a death had taken place, while the extenuating fact that the indus the fight of time was generally in-try, not being so highly organised or dicated by a crude and abrupt cut,

equipped as the American technically

of studios, their productions must FUTURE INDICATIONS.

necessity suffer in comparison. But

holds Tis curious that gangland films, the argument scarcely

good as much as they have been with At the Villa Rose, in so far that the sob stop pulled right out, and The craze for speed has undoubted.

criticised for their potential it is a comparatively recent picture. our tastes in their slapstick comedy produced ly influenced

the immoral Influence on impressionable and at least, produced at a time when the on the "When in doubt, throw a cinema,

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 technica! not one whit less than the present speed business and efficiency experts, than any other theme. Two of such, efficiency. day highly efficient films; yet to- no humreds of the film that "Quick Millions" and "The Secret

feet of in

waster

ал

their

of

Masher Quick

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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ore

MERELY STAGES SCENES. 100 stand out prominently as audience to-day per cent, efl day those old-timers bring only superfluities. An

Yet what is the result? Merely on- eficient films. Their.story, jeers and ironic cheers. "Screen appreciates a director who leaves a of the rise from obscurity to gang-other stage play transferred in ita Souvenirs." which Paramount are tie to

a man land czardom, spread over a period entirely and without embellishment. Imagination:

elimination of the to the screen. The enormous, dis- now resurrecting from the scrap like von Sternberg who employs of years and hile leaving only

Jumbled

on advantages acruing from this nes superfluous, whi heaps of past celluloid triumphs,

superimposition of scenes

1118 easily distinguished Camera work are proof enough.

La convey the passage of time, or unconnected series symbols Mamoulian lavishing

to cinema artistry at its height Quick is stultifed and I felt positively sorry heighten the effect of his best shots. Millions" was years before its time, for Blythe, the cameraman, who was A director who indulges in wordy and so extreme in its efficiency, that manifold inconveniences of stage:

endeavouring to overcoms dialogue to convey an unimportant it needed an alert mind to follow its the mani

Bellinga. con-

He had to resort subtleties. Crities evolution that was point dr wastes hundreds of feet in

many demn the plots of

alkies, through lattice work bound to come, especially in portraying an every day net, insults an industry oftly just out of the public's intelligence and the declare they are timeworn and hack colnar, to his photographs and found neyed and decry their entertainment opportunity for but one angle shot its swaddling cothes, and it is public knows it.

value, but this highly efficient state and a really first rate close-up of modern films is without doubt Austin Trevor. tending towards the higher

rutien-

AN EVOLUTION.

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BENEFITS

EVERYBODY

SEE FOR

YOURSELVES!

.

MRS. MOTONO

Massage.'

Hand and Electric 318, Wyndham Street

hardy worth noting that the film

in-

Inay

ON

咋

shots

01

NCE again the fact was forcibly brought home that the English. sereen in suffering from

to-day in a vastly different work AN ILLUSTRATION. to those old barnstormers when

of the publle and inculcata PERSONALITIES WANTED. illustrations, tion

tion of for

sense of the subtle and an William S. Hart provided the TN searching thrilla and Francla X. Bushman "Emma" springs most readily tion of the symbol. The first big to mind. It is a magnificent atop in the evolution was the elimina- was the matinee idol. The

fare that is tion of the superfluous: recent films terest lies in what the years have slice of modern film taught the film makers, what they thick with sugary sentiment and just predict that the next change will be dearth of real. actressce. For the have eschewed and added, and the the type of plot that pre-war direc- the judicious employment of the ex-most part they are insipid, lack per- camera and more sonality and are ill-chosen for their tors would have grasped. Yet how pressionalistic various tricks of camera and different was Clarence Brown's treat-Imaginative directing leading towards roles. Norah Baring was absolutely direction that make the film toment. There have been few recent a higher standard of cinema urt, day so interesting for the cinemaims that demonstrate more the

N

tribution

*

The

Across

painful, her monotoned voice being only a little worse than her futile

a dramatic part efforts to act a enthusiast who subordinates atory strides Hollywood has made. In it NOW THEN ENGLAND!

director wasted hundreds of feet of and are three deaths and it in chockful of and acting to photography

valuable celluleid in registering in- 3 A retront for women. treatment when visiting a cinema saccharine scenes that in the goodHE. foregoing is the able con- old days would have disposed of half

of a correspondent, consequential scenes and dialogue such 8 Brew that starts in to mcit. theatre. It seems reasonable

will

whoso intercat in films, has ob-

Such declaration doesn't sound the the arrival at the Villa of 09 the film. But audiences to-day

consonant. sighed for assumption that the supply is con-not swallow close-ups of heroines viously led him to study them more woman with the bag and I trolled by the demand, in quality as well as quantity, and if that registering notion like they did 10 docply and analytically than the mathe hand of a John Cromwell, Ernst 10 The very thing to hang a hht on..

Years ago, and the death-bed scenes, jority of cinema-goers. The evolu- Lubitsch or even Victor Saville in the 11 Wine hus, but isn't. be so, it follows that the changes which ones would have been the fention of the cinema, though perhaps many altuations which implored de- 12 See her deep in penance. in film direction have come side-tures, are dismissed with a few fect: disappointingly slow to numbers of licate bat strong treatment. My dis- 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.

for which can be found in the fim failed to entertain me, but 12 Payment for carriage, receipta cannot be

B

holps 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.

16 This one is not a waggish as ..... Potor's (hidden).

10 Reduces.

18 Ashamed at the very start. 20 The last minute.

sense of the great body for whom I suggest them, yet there was never rectarding influence "box-office that it indicated how little has been 10 The road surface) comes to 21 A vixonish old woman who is tho

films are made.

doubt.,

SCENE from The Sin Of Madelon Claudel, featuring Helen Hayes and Neil Hamilton which will be unfolded to Queen's Theatre

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,

sudden stop. denied or the progress of Elstree in her cóm- ignored. As to whom are contribut-petition with the imaginative and 23 If I take a penny from a relative ing to that progressive evolution emelent Hollywood studios.

from

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WAIT A MINUTE, OSSIE... STAND

REAL STIL 'AN' LISTEN !! HEAR THAT? WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE TO You?

SOUNDS LIKE

SOMEBODY

MOVIN

GEE...I WOWDER. IP

IT COULD BE THAT FELLA WHO WE SAW OUTSIDE OF MRS. REDFIELD'S

·WINDOW!.... THERE THE NOISE IS AGAIN

a money-making industry to an

art is, perhaps, beside

Nevertheless,

the point.

business-like

their and dollara-complex way American

has done something,

France too, through its Rene Clair, has given a taste of better things to within the cinema, and Russia,

come

reporta are to be accepted, has reached the very basis of the new and creative cinema. England's oppor.. tunity to do her share has not been lont: In fact she has a greater chance the immediate future than and ever before. But her studios and the be rc- industry as a whole must organised and to a large extend cen- tralised. Here is where a national institute can prove of the finest boon.

**

ANOTHER FAILURE.

▶RITISH films have received such

BR

a cold reception from the eri- ties in Hongkong that one feels an- noyed to have to once again affix the isbel "failure" to a Twickenham pro- duction. Yet personally, I find it quite impossible to view At the Villa Rose in any other light. Heretofore,

LOOK! THERES THE NOIGE!! ITS POODLE

SMELLIN AN: SHIFFIN'

AROUND THE FLOOR

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

BEEN SCARED...

Beaten to It!

YEAH...I GUEss

KE MUST BE LOOKIN'

FOR RATS.... HEY, POODLE!! GUT THAT OUT, NOW!.... COME ON... BE A GOOD

Dos!!

SMIFF

SNIFF

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

equal of a couple of men' any day. 22 His bat seems to the bowler to

be about a yard wide.

24 Having a repugnance to a little of-poatry,

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

29 An insect that is found in the

bark of

the oak.

30 A couple of dozen sheets with red

edges are needed.

31 Expressions

languago.

peculiar

to

2

32 The beloved of Tristram.

83 May be drunk or these so honour-

ed.

34 Fish that make a good deal of

smell,

1 Necessitate.

Down

2 Take another's place-but of

course it's a bit of a do 3 Good advice to the learned pig that went in for bolting. Any- way, it has its good points. 4 This turn-out is, in a measure,

reminiscent of a sack-race 5 Spoil 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 » IT, GETTIN' THAT BOX OF MONEY... GEE THAT WOULDA

BEEN TERRIBLE //

25 In a gloomy fashion. 20 It holds the bull.

28 Crossword Insects,

Yesterday's Solution.

SHARPER QUARREL ENE A URMA] RAIMENTARO ANUM P ̃ ̄MFT FEE B EGAD SLATE WALK NL BEFU U E TASSELF BETAKEN

HORIZON ARGUING AE EVLEN Y LAVE AMT8U ATOM BYU BUTEN ENNOBLE" MADONNA RUE RTT BL TRELLTE DINSEGU

AW, NOBODY CAH OUTSMART THE OODLES; ONCE THEY MAKE UP

THEIR MINDS TO SOMETHIN.. NOSIREE

!!

By Blosser

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

FEEL THAT BOX OF DOUGH WITH, MY FOOT..... GASY

PICKIN'S, WHATS

I CALL: THIS !!

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