THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932.
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
ALDWYCH CAST AGAIN
RALPH LYNN HEADS LIST IN BRITISH COMEDIES
THE NEW WINIFRED SHOTTER EVER since Ralph Lynn made a deft touch, and it is a pleasing
how to Hongkong in sight to
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Ree English scenario Rookery Nook, he and his merry writers bringing in these typical Aldwych cast have raised as many English high spots. Topical refer- laughs on the screen as they have chees and subtle points such on the London stnge, and while these speil success just as much as their popularity is at its
the loenl jests of the variety stage. zenith,
Mischief in plot is just as absurd two more British Dominion films have come. Mischief, now at the any other of Lynn's many, and King's is to be followed on Sun-needs no more than his personality, day by the Central exhibition of Wilfred Shotter's sweet smile and of Kenneth Kove's super-super stupid | A Night Like This, in both which, Lynn and his sweet ald to Englishman, to carry it off. Dlo-1
UCIEN Maratore, tenor of the Paris opera, is the star. of "The Un- known Singer," a Franch film due for release soon. Jim Gerald
(with the cigar) provides the comedy of an entertaining film.
mirth and romance, Winifred logus han but few high spots, but FARRELL-GAYNOR “LETTY
Shotter, gain further plaudits. A the situations more than compen- Night Like This has not yet been ante.
AB
Popular Pair Starred
in Neat Tale of Newly-Weds
previewed, but an early glimpse of London seems to have taken a Mischief reveals it a light leaf out of Hollywood's book in! frothy thing, as entertaining as making Winifred Shotter a star any of the many the studio has pre-eminent. She might be called.
the Garbo of Britain, not because! of her resemblance to the Swedish THE high priests of saccharine star for she has none, but that sho
Sentiment, Charles Farrell In the first woman to be really
and Janet Gaynor are with singled out from the ruck of play-jua again, and ardent admirers will ста. And as a screen queen she is pay due homage to "The First having the homage due her; her Year," to be released at the King's dresses are being specially chosen on Sunday.
THE monocled Ralph Lynn, heada the casts of "Mischiof" and “A Night Like This," due at the King's and Central.
turned out.
There was a time a while back when, as is the fate of most players, Lynn's fooleries and Inanities were begining to pall. His milly-ass monocled Englishman is perhapa the most ever-worked humourist to be worked on the stage or screen, with the consequent contempt bred of familiarity, but, even although Minchief is nothing but the same tale of complications, hilarious sit- uations and old business, it strikes | A new and refreshing note. Marbe this is because a quantity of dif ferent material has flowed through our cinema house since Lynn's last, but I am more inclined to at- tribute it to the speedier direction that has made the film more like cinema than a photographed stage play.
Jack Raymond, who held the megaphone for Life Gora On, is coming out as England's best pro- ducer of this kind of staff. Light comedy cannot be too swift in its temps or the situations are spoiled, nor tan slow or the tradiness is magnified, and Raymond has com- promised to make entertainment ant maintain interest. Not that there is one now pleee of technique in the whole film: Hollywood was doing the same dissalvine shot in the allent days: but for the merry plot that it carries, Mischief hus all that is necessary.
Catch phrases were the life of early talking, piztures, and al though it is possibly not by design, the vaguely articulated exclamation of the volal hay (it sounds like "Gertchya") promises to become even more popular than the "Oh Yeah" and "Cigarette me, Big boy* of the Hollywood. The rustics in the semnalert Kentish village, with their bucholle circumlocution, make
the theme
LYNTON"
CONDUCTED.
By "CELLULOID":
OO LA LA!
CLEVER FRENCH
FILM
FOR RELEASE SOON
ILMS in Spanish and German
FILMS in to add variety to Hongkong's cinematle fare re- cently, and another foreign pro- duction, equally na entertaining is due for release soon.
"The Unknown Singer," by name, it was produced by tho Osso Studios. with French dialogue and features the opera tenor Muratore.
Even without its superimposed sub- tics of the main points of the dialogue, "The Unknown Singer" can be followed with facility, but the ad-
RO that oven those with no higher knowledge of French than the "plume
TO-DAY'S SHOWS
Robert Montgomery &dition of the English words makes it
Joan Crawford in Queen's Film LARENCE Brown, eminently successful director of Gretn Garbo appears to have placed a restraining hand on Joan Crawford as Letty Lynton, star of the film of the same name duc at the Queen's on Sunday. Her regular paroxysm of hysteria is
King': "Mischief." Queen's: "Bachelor Apartment." Central:
"Cehons and Kellys in Hollywood."
Majestier "Woman of Experience." Orientals "The Grant Advanture." Start "The Lady Rafusos." Taiplog: "Radio Patrol."
ON SUNDAY.
Queen's: "Letty Lynton."
and designed; her hair is dressed In The First Year" there is in that "strund by strand" perfec- everything that has gone to send much shorter and more convincing tion and her good looks are never the way to the very height of than usual. marred by poor photography. popularity, hugs, kisses and honey-
Robert Montgomery does not The new Winifred Shotter makes words, but where her debut in A Night Like This, strays from their other films (shave a very flamboyant part, but and a striking debut it is. In this that they are married at the be- nevertheless lights up his scenes
exuberant radiance.. one. Lynn is rejoined by his co- ginning, not the end of the film. with partner in crime, Tom Walls, who Charles as the thoughtless hus- departs from precedent by playing band and Janet as the inexperi-vided with splendid background a policeman. Actually he is re-jenced wife enter into new realms and has moments of drama, quiet verting to type for he was a guar- of histrionics, and aided by neat humour and excitement that more dian of the law before he became dialogue and situations, make the than compensate for the weakness de in mero brand, can appreciate its
the of the hurriedly-contrived happy jan actor It is due at the Central, Alm something other than
ending. on Sunday,
usual sugary stuff.
As usual this M.G.M. film is pro-
CHARLES PE all tad donet Gounan, min - is the playing of sugary roles, comes to the King's on Sunday in "The First Year." Instead of finishing with a wedding, the film begins with one, and shows
the matrimonial trials of Charios, at sun careless bushand, and Janet n the now wifo.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Central: "A Night Like This." King's "The First Year." Star: "Leathernecking."
Taiping: "White Hill of Pits Palu."
camera
many quips, delivered by an entirely new kind of comedian. Jim Gerald.
Whether viewed from the lofty perch of the cinema student, looking for the new technique and angles for which foreign filma are so famed, or from the lowly seat of the "The Un- seeker after amusement. known Singer" holda interest and en- tertainment. It has been produced! to give Lucien Muratore, Paris opera tenor, a chance to raise his robust voice, but glorious as the music is, it is but one of the many pleasing fes- tures. There is romance, drama and comedy in adequate proportions, and a plot based on the always interesting theme
lost nf the man with tho memory.
in an Muratore is a fisherman isolated Russian village, with a blank! memory of what happened before he was washed up by the sea 10 years before. An enterprising commercial traveller discovers his marvellous tenor, and features him over the radio in Paris ns The Unknown Singer." Eventually ho is discovered to be celebrated. tenor, pushed overboard from an Atantle liner by his false friend, who later marries the singer'a wife. A simple little tale this, but interspersed with delightful touches, meritorious camera sets and a couple of plaintive melodies..
COMPARISON WITH GERMAN.
Overacas critics have so raved about the technique of French films, that cinema students in Hongkong should' not miss thin- opportunity of com- paring the work with Germany's out- put, "Four Infantrymen." "The Un- known Singer" more interesting!
In than the German film and comparison with "Hay Que Casar al Principo" is. Ignored, for although in Spanish, that was purely Hollywood in make-up.
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But whether "The Unknown conclusion to be reached without fur- a fine degree of showmanship. For Singer" can be taken as an example, ther ingenuity. But that is perhaps the benefit of Australians, it would be of real French film production is his art, for it never appears that he well to state he is not Australia's Jim with his baggy trousers, but equally doubtful, for it was made by Tou- is trying to be clever,
Janaky, a Russian emigre, and his Toujarsky, work is admirable and early training must certainly have in includes the excellent employment of
of fluenced his work, although most
it has been done in French
It is allent Alms were "One
close-ups,
and One Nights," "Michner Aymbols.
auperimpositions
and
NEW COMEDY NOTE. Many an opera star pitchforked into
has film
acted like talkic. Toujanskyn talking
and "Vaiga" while he also "Aigion" as a
made!
as enjoyable.
On the feminine side, Simone aristocrat with the Gerdan is the fine elether and pulchritude, and Simone Sit.on a pert little miss whe alds Gerald in the comedy.
"The Unknown Singer" may hav been produced with a lavish hand bu evidently believes that after a good Carovadosal facing the firing aquad in it does not reek of it like many Hally start, nothing much matters, for once B flat, but Muratore's playing is, in wood spectacles, and there is a he has sped the story on its way with keeping with the polished artistry of underlying strata of realism in n sequence of enrefully set-up shots, the email cast. Jim Gerald la a re-impressive opening among the Russia artistic photography and imaginative freshing type of comedian whose per- fiskerfolk, in striking contrast E artificial insertion p technique, he practically lays down xonality apenka all languages, and Hollywood's the megaphone and allows the obvious he has the French gesturo finished to "atmosphere."
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