1932-11-25 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

ROMANTIC VIENNA

AS BACKGROUND FOR COMING FILMS

NOTES AND COMMENTS BY "CELLULOID"

A ROUND

pre-war Vienna jean populace showed peculiar dif-i there is a romantic atmosference of opinion. phere of beer gardens and dreamy waltzes of which nove-

WHAT TO SEE

TO-DAY.

Central: "Good Night Vienna." Queen's: "Young Donovan's

Kid."

King's: "Life Goes On," Star: "Brown Sugar." Majestic: "Laughter."

Taiping: "Delicious."

Oriental: "One Hour With You"

TO-MORROW.

Taiping: Over the HII."

SUNDAY..

King's: "Lady and Gent." Queen's: "Viennese Nights." Star: "Susan Lenox.“ Oriental: "Trader Horn."

TTS INGREDIENTS are filling lunes, glorious voices, mas- lists and film writers have never sed bands, love lyrics,,

little falted to take advantage, and humour and gay scenes done in an iwo theatres are this week offer improved technicolour. Although

built ing Us entertainment

written direct for the screen, it is against a background of military purely stage extravaganza of the regalia, vivacious girls and the Student Prince type, except that; carefree life that appeared to an unlimited screen gives a mob

the Alage: subordinate everything else in of a thousand where the days when Vienna was a given a hundred, and there are no ESTUDENT TRATATIRLARITZAREN JAARS

Vivienne Selgal. Bert Roach and monarchy. At the Central to-irritating waits while a couple of lay begins the British Inter-comedians gag in front of a cur-

humour there is. set. national production, Good Night tain to enable the scene shifters to use Fazenda provide what little

prepare the next elaborate

.

LTHOUGH equally as fascin- ating, the tunes of Goml different Night Vienna are of a

Two favourites in Richard Dlx and Jackle Cooper provide the interest in "Young Donovan's Kid," now at the Queen's

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Vienna, with Jack Buchanan. But in plot, it has the usual de- and the Queen's will run Vien- feets: hacknyed theme to give some nese Nights, a Warner Brothers" reason for the vocal outbursts. Cinemetagraphically, it is simply extravaganza, on Sunday.

a stage production photographed. mould. The song of the same name

A written to a tango tempo and feminine. Elsie Randolph in the THE TITLE attraction at the of King's on Sunday, Lady and OTII productions convey the B

with merit in her work but other shots Gent, is to be taken ironically, for idea that Vienna was a city TX7HERE the plot dues leave sung in typical Jack Buchanan weak link: there are flashes

Puff Rogers when we first meet inhabited entirely by a a towereel style affording a contrast

her singing at one of New York's iers and flower girls with grond is that the hero does not marry the the robust outbursts of Viennese are not even in amateur class. opera voices raised in harmony herojne: that is left to their rests. Here again we have beer

Ja lady and the abbreviated form of FILM producers must constant." without provocation: where the pective grand-children for the gardens uplenty, military uniforms said inhabitants lived solely on story covers 50 years and wanders and gay nights. Buchanan's ro-ILM producers must satisfy all shadier night clubs is anything but

and mance with the flower girl is shat-i schnitzel and foaming tankards. from Vienna to New York and their existence nothing but a back again. Alexander Gray, altered by the war: he returns to why Jackie Cooper is allowed to gentleman is more suitable than the combination of the two. Be that newcomer with pleasing appear find himself minus his wealth and talking picture theatrea with his full for Slagg Railey, a boxer, who as it may; the impression is jance and robust singing voice, a the girl at the top of the concert shrill cries of boyish exuberance seen better days; but, as time and anguish. In Young Donovan's passes, so do the lights of Broad- Kid now at the Queen's, he displays way fade and the end of the film pleasing one, and although the two humble drummer in the Emperor's singer tree. productions differ in treatment, army, and Walter Pidgeon, Eng-

in which they live. that of Viennese Nights and The Champ and the others, but married and a credit to the village Who has wrought this astonish- character and theme, there is en-lish artiste, a mighty "lootenant"DLOT is even more flimsy than the same trembling upper lip as in Puff and Slagg respectably tertainment enough for those who are rivals for the hand of Vivicane

[L cubbler, relies entirely on two catchy tunes Fred Nibio has given him more require only a catchy tune or twa Seigal, daughter of

couple of jesta. Jack length of celluloid. A trifle incoming change? No other than the the opening little orphaned child of Slagg's and colourful scenes.

Jean Hersholt with social aspira-and

self, sistent too, for in Is his usual tions. He wrecks love's young Buchanan

brief vignettes and rapid black-outs while burgling a safe. Oh, the aus- 66IENNESE NIGHTS" has in dream and the girl married the although garbed with military shots, Niblo launches on to those friend, who was shot by the police ad-this, then, is another of those filma its favour that it comes from patrician. The drummer migrates epaulettes most of the time, the peus of Sigismund Romberg to America where he bus a nag-bas few opportunities to display that were the feature of Quick picious reader rany, say to himself, London light comedy mirably suited to gangster films. in which the hands of little children and Oscar Hammerstein, the Ame-ging wife and a job in a pickle the Buchanan wit that has made Millions. It is a technique rican musician and librettist who factory. The same eternal trian-him the

between the grand- favourite. Anna Neagle lifts up Fluppers who have a secret passion are busy performing sentimental jumped into the picture with gle arises Desert Sony, Student Prince, New children, but this time there is no tuneful, if low, soprano opposite for Richard Dix will revel in this miracles; but the answer is that,

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Moon and a host of other stage mistake. musical romances. Written direct-

ly for talking screen it has had

a chequered career: in Australia it "flopped" in some cities.

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him, and the rest strangers.

WELTER of catchy tunes|

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but

are

perfect underworld tale.

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although the existence of the small Ted is undoubtedly the pivot of the

gree. ballyhoo shovelled out of Holly-moving and sophisticated to a de- that promise to send DMITTEDLY Herbert Wilcox, I WR can believe all the plot, the film as a whole is quick who held the megaphone, wood, there is a huge army of film

bul innlmighty rush to Kramophone

a shops, is the redeeming feature. had a hard task in making Good sub-editors there, who concentrato AS Sydney, although intended

trille Worl and Night Vienna Interesting, for the their erudition and general know- stop-gap, eventually ran for more. The film is a

the thun aix months, shattering Al sounds auffera consequently, but action of the plot is never fast and edge on making films fool-proof, anachronisms and Jolson's Jazz Singer record. Lon-it cannot wholly conceal the first furlous, but the slow tempo that and to advise directors for

Gray and seems unable to be detached from avoidance of don received it well, but the Ameri-class renderings by

musical romance, is accentuated foolish mistakes. Either the blue- by trite platitudes and an exasperat-pencillers are falling down on their ing halt in the action while the jobs or the directors are placing obvious happens. Comparison small regard on the observation of with "Buchanan's Hollywood film, the keen-eyed public, for few filma Male Carlo cannot be overlooked, can pass the critical eye without and ane sighs for a Lubitsch touch some slight error being detected. of delicate satire. The latter half moves along breezler than the opening shots. How mortifying, as Jimmy Durante would say: first impressions are never more per manent than in cinema,

Walter Pidgeon and 'Vivianne Saigal featured in the gay musical romance, "Viennois Nights," due at the Queen's on Sunday.

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NOTHER regrettable aspect

The crop of films showing this week is particularly rich. In Young Donavan's Kid, a surpliced and cassucked Jackie Cooper is seen

and heard,) carolling gaily Sankey and Moody tune in a church choir of boy sopranos. Very nice too, only it happens to be a Catholic

of British films is that they Church. But Amerien may be the where scem to be following the apparent only place in the world Hollywood campaign for the Catholic services are different.

And then a shot of the crowd propagation of the idea that the Englishman is essentially a silly leaving the church portals shows ass. The remark comes after one girl without, a hat!

in Good Night! visit to Life Goes On, current fen- Jack Buchanan Lure at the King's. I was looking Vicuna sings in a style of jazz forward to seeing some more of that was unknown in pre-war days, Hugh Wakefield, after his breezy the accompaniment of

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CAN HE COME BACK-Rostos (Fatty") Arbuckle, Chaplin's only rival as a scroon comedian 15 years Scandal sounded the knell of his

11 ago, who is to make a film soon.

playing of Lord Grenham in orchestra including steel guitar

screen career.

Aren't We All? and was disap- und Spanish guitar with steel adjunct to an pointed at the role allotted him strings. As an

Wynne Gibson as Puff Rogers been The hook, "Sorry You've Troubl orchestra, the guitar has

sets the pace, and her achievement ed" from which the film was taken. added only in recent years.

in uttering a succession of "wise- Period pictures always contain cracks"there is no English word may have portrayed "Diny" Ems- worth as a Wodehousian English pitfalls and three films either show-which can quite catch the texture man, in which case I commend the ing or expected put the clock back of Puff's conversation-as though Glm makers for not changing the some years. A close scrutiny is not she were a woman with a mind and automaton character, but the painting of always possible but Jack Buchanan feelings, and not an wise man as a buffoon is regret takes a tailed coat out of nearly 20 well couched in America's latest table. Of course, had Emsworth years of mothballs and it is the dictionary of slang, is remarkable. not displayed arrested mentality elegant modern out of the typical George Bancroft admirably sug- but done the obvious things, there Buchanan, and while the gangsters' rests the peculiar blend of stupi- would have been no story, which is ladies of Young Donovan's Kid ap- dity, shrewdness, and good-nature n point for consideration. Jack pear in what we are led to believe which is Slagg, and the acting in ally in Raymond's treatment of the my-were a la mode in 1914, the males general Ands a valuable

themselves in up-to-the Stephen Robert's swift, imagina- the stery plot is un advance, and the sport

tive directing which catches Australian artiste, Betty Stack-minute kit mostly.

But masked that anyway. Who film's many moments of effective Bekl, seems one of the few English fim players who can compete in was it that said "The Play's the comedy and, as it were, holds them appearance with the Hollywood Thing?" He was right after all. up to the light.

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HARRY REDFIELD'S LETTER FROMA

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MIND!!

WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU

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FRECKLES

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