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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES”

ALDWYCH CAST AGAIN

RALPH LYNN HEADS LIST IN BRITISH COMEDIES

Ehis

UCIEN Maratore; tenor of the Paris opera, is the star of “The Un- Eknown Singer,” a French Glm due for release icon. Jim Gorkid (with thả cigar).provides the`comidy of an entertaining film.

THE NEW WINIFRED SHOTTER TAVER since Ralph Lynn made a deft touch, and it is a pleasing bow to Hongkong in alignt to sea 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 ences and subtle points such as on the London stage, and while these spell aurcass just as much as their popularity is at its zenith, the local jesta of the variety stage. two more British Dominion filma Mischief in plot is just as absurd have come. Mischief, now at the as any other of Lynn's many, and King's is to be followed on Sunneeds no more than his personality, day by the Central exhibition of Wilfred Shatter's sweet smile and A Night Like This, in both of Kenneth Kove'a super-super stupid which, Lynn and his sweet aid to Englishman, to carry it off. Dio- mirth and romance, Shatter, gain further plaudits. A the situations more than compen- Night Like This has not yet been sate. previewed, but an early glimpse of |

London seems to have taken a Mischief reveals it as 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 Swedish of hor resemblance to the Swede Tough priest of us ariel

Winifred logue has but few high spots. but FARRELL-GAYNOR “LETTY LYNTON”

THE monocled Ralph Lynn, heads

the casts of "Mischief" and "A Night Like This,” due at the King's and Central.

turned out.

scrcon,

There was a time a while back when, as is the fate of most players, Lynn's fooleries and inauities were begining to poll. Halily-aas monocled Englishman is perham the most over-worked humourist to be worked on the stage with the consequent contempt bred of familiarity, but, even although Mischief is nothing but the same tale of complications, hilarious sit- untions and old bealness, it strikes a new and refreshing note. Maybe this is breause 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 ntage play.

Jack Raymond, who held the megahone for Life Gers On, is coming out as England's best pro- ducer of this kind of stuff, Light comedy cannot be too swift In its tempo or the situations are spolled, nor to slow or the tradinere la magnified, and Raymond has com- promised to make entertainment and maintain interest. Not that there is one new piece of technique in the whole film: Hollywood was doing the same dissolvine shots in the cllent days: but for the merry plot that it corrion, Mischief bas all that is necessary..

Catch phrases were the life of early talking nltures, and nl. though it la rossibly not by design, the vaguely artienisted exclamation of the vabal boy (it sounds like "Gortchya") promises to

even more nular than the "Oh Yeah" and "Cianrett" me. Biz boy* of the Hollywood. The rustic in the somnolent Kontich village, with their bucholic cireumlocution, make

CONDUCTED. By "CELLULOID"

OO LA LA!

|CLEVER FRENCH

FILM

FOR RELEASE SOON

ULMS in Spanish and German

*have come to add varlety to Hongkong's cinematic fare re- cently, and another foreign pro- duction, equally as entertaining is due for release soon.

"The Unknown Singer," by name, it was produced by the

with Usso Studios,

French dialogue and features the opera tenor Murators.

Even without its superimposed sub- tilles of the main points of the dialogue, "The Unknown Singer" can be followed with facility, but the ad-

so that even those with no highor knowledge of French than the "plume

Popular Pair Starred Robert Montgomery &dition of the English words makes it

in Neat Tale of

Newly-Weds

THE high saccharino

is the first woman to be really

and Junet Gaynor are with singled out from the ruck of play-jns again, and ardent admirera will era. And as a creen queen she la' pay dus homage to "The First having the homage due ber; her Year," to be released at the King's dresses are being specially chosen on Sunday.

Joan Crawford in

Queen's Film CBCsful director of Grey LARENCE Brown, eminently

Garbo

appears to have placed a restraining hand on Joan Crawford as Letty Lynton, atar of the film of the same name due at the Queen's on Sunday. Her regular paroxysm of hysteria is much shorter and more convincing

and designed, her hair is dressed In "The First Year" there is In that "strnad by strand" perfec-[everything that has gone to send tion and her good looks are never the kete ka Hun very height of than usual. marred by poor photography. popularity, hugs, kisues and honey-

The new Winifred Shotter makes her debut in A Night Like This, and a striking debut it is. In this one. Lynn is rejoined by his co- partner in crime, Tom Wals, who departs from precedent by playing

TO-DAY'S SHOWS ·

King's "Mischief.” Queen's "Bachelor Apartment." Central "Coben and Kellys In Hollywood,"

Majestic "Woman of Experience," Oriental "The Gimat Adventura." Stari "The Lady Refuame.””. Taiping: "Radio Patrol."

ON SUNDAY.

Queen's: "Letty Lynion." Central "A Night Like This." King's "The First Your." Ster: "Leathernecking."

Robert Montgomory does not www out where the themo stroys from their other Alms Is have a very flamboyant part, but that they are married at the bo- nevertheless lights up his scenes ginning, not the end of the film, with exuberant radiance. Charles as the thoughtless hus- As usual this M.G.M. Alm is'pro- and, and Janet no te experi-vided with splendid background a policeman. Artually he is renced wife enter into new realms and has moments of drama, quiet verting to tyne for he was a gun fhistrionics, and aided by neat humour and excitement that more GENE PARKING PATTERS dian of the law before he became tinlogue and situations, make the than compensate for the weakness an actor It is due at the Central Slm something other than

the of the hurriedly-contrived happy on-Sunday.

ending. al sugary stuff.

CHA

ut k

ell •nd J+no“ Gimna“, me smutnant i Sunday in "The First Your.". Instead of finishing the mats imonialinis or w

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secker after amusement, known Singer" holds interest and on- tertainment. It has been produced to give Lucien Muratore, Parla opera Lenor, a chance to raise his robust voice, but glorious the music in, it la but one of the many pleasing fes- turca. There is romance, drama and comady in adequate proportions, and a plot based on the always interesting theme of the

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Moratore in a flaborman In an molated Rumian village, with a blank memory of what happened before he was washed up by the Ben 10 years before. An enterprising commercial traveller discovers his marvellous | tenor, and features him over the radio in Paris as "The Unknown Singer," Eventually ho is discovered to be a celebrated tenor, pushed overboard from an Alantic liner by his falso friend, who later marries the singer's wife, A simple little tale this, but interspersed with delightful touches, meritorious camera sisīta and a couple of plaintive melodies.

COMPARISON WITH GERMAN.

verseas crities havo ao raved about! the technique of French films, that cinema students in Hongkong should not miss this opportunity of com-1 paring the work with Germany's out- put, "Four Infantrymen." "The Un- known Singer" a more Interesting than the German film and comparison with "Bay que Casar al Principo" in Ignored, for although in Spanish, that was purely Hollywood in make-up.

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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 ho ja not Australia's Jim doubtful, for it was made by Tou- is trying to be clever.

with his baggy trousers, but equally as enjoyable.

On the feminine side, Simono Gerdan is the aristocrat with the Aino clothes and pulchritude,

and Simone Simon's pert little miss who alds Gerald the_comedy,'

"The Unknown Singer" may havo been produced with a lavish hard but

jansky, a Russian amigre, and his Toujansky,s work is admirable and carly training must certainly have in includes the excellent employment of fluenced his work, although most of

close-ups, superimpositions and it. has been done in French studios, symbols. His silent films were "One Thousand

NEW COMEDY NOTE. and One Nights," "Michael Strogolf" and "Volga” white; bo: also made Many an opera star pitchforked into "Aigion" as a talkie. Toufansky a talking, film has acted liko evidently believes that after a good Carovadossi facing the firing squad la it does not reek of it like many Holly. start, nothing much matters, for onco B flat, but Muratore's playing is in wood spectacles, and there is a in he has aped the story on its way with keeping with the polished artistry of underlying strato of reallem in the a sorbance of carefully set-up shots, the small cast. Jim Gerald is a re-impressive opening among thò Rusilah artistic photography and imaginativa freshing type of comedian whose per: Asborfolk, In striking contrast, to technique, he practically lays down sonnilty speaks all languages, and Hollywood's artificial insertion of the megaphone and allows the obvious he has the French gesture finished to "atmosphere."

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