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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

SOUTH SEAS ROMANCE

FAMOUS STAGE SUCCESS COMES

TO CENTRAL AS

SPECTACULAR TALKING FILM

girl who fell in love with tho

TO-DAY'S SHOWS

Central: "The Old Dark House.” King's "Love Me 'T'o-night." Queen's "Unnshamed."" Majestic: "The First Year." Stor: "The Beggar Student.” Oriental: "White Hell of Pitz Palu."

Talping: "The Big Gamble."

ON SUNDAY.

King's: The Phantom Presi dent.'

Queen's "The Guardsman." Central: "Bird of Paradise." Star: Polly of the Circus."

"DON QUIXOTE”. AS TALKIE

CHALIAPIN IN LEAD

GEORGE ROBEY AS SANCHO PANZA

“

in

Dolores Del Rio and Joel McCrea as Laana the heroine end Johnny Baker, he hirs, respectively in "DIRD OF PARADISE", RKO-Radio Picture.

FILM INSTITUTE

larger scale. It will also determine the scope of the Instituto during the first year's work, and go a long way. towards directing its ultimate policy. It will be seen, therefore, that the

visional board is a matter of first- rate importance. They must be re- presentative, not only of the best, but of the widest Interest, of

English Organisation to choice of the right men for this pro-

be Formed

DOLORES DEL RIO AND JOEL MCRAE,

IN "BIRD OF PARADISE" THILE there are beautiful nex.apponi, plays the wealthy lores del Rio in Hollywood there He becomes infatuated with Do- will always be films like The lores a fascinating little lady, Bird of Paradise, & Radio ver anatches her from the very arms of her tribal lover, and then alon of the stage success due at goes native for a month or so. the Central on Sunday. It mat-The climax is reached when the ters not if the girl be a typical tribo drag the pair off to appease Latin type: a string of beads and the wrath of the active volcano, a minimum of clothing to drape Naturally they are anved on the round her supple form is suffi- very brink of the orator, but the cient to transform her into a stril returns to make the sacrifice. Polynesian-and there is the necessary sex appeal for the of the film is occupied by the tell- A comparatively small portion story.

ing of the tale. For the most part The Bird of Paradine was not it is exhibition of photography, the first story of the beautiful rivalling those excellent ahots that

featured Tabu. Submarine cameras HOLLYWOOD is not alone young savage South Sea Islandavo turned out several feet of making films from literary Fich American; nor will it be the the film, and an artistic hand has classics. Now Europe is trying (who works hand in glove with the unde and the nation, and thos last; but of all of them, it seems through dense follage and tropical than Cervantes' Don Quixote, who bas seen the 'rushes (the uncut their parties. The gravity of

been responsible for the Ahots its hand, and on nothing lees Pabat) was marvellous. Someone must carry the fullest confidence of the least ephemeral. It must be nearly 20 years since the story palms.

The film is yet uncompleted, veralon) in Paris, tells me that the initial representation, particularly in hit the New York stage and A big cast does little but add but a busy time is forecast for photography is the finest that any the case of the cinematograph trade, can hardly be over-estimated. For broke long-distance records: it the background: Joel McCrea and the press agents and writers of film has ever had.

these men are going to carry had additional pubileity in the Dolores del Rio are in practically puff-paragraphs, for the greatest At that, after much parley and practical burden of a scheme which prolonged litigation over the copy every scene and do their best to men from the four corners of Nationni Film Institute is about to in the working out will need endless

speculation,

long-talked of may look excellent on paper, but which right and was revived again and make the story seem convincing, the earth appear to have been become a fact writes C.A. Lejaune in adjustment, extension and organisa again. Now it has come again, but it is a big task. It is not gathered together for the pro- the Londen Observer. Within the tion if it is to perform any useful sound-film, a little different from claimed that the film was taken

next month a provisional scheme of function to the nation at large. the original plot, but with magni- in the South Seas, and although

duction.

The Knight of the Doleful and a skeleton organisation will have sections of the fin trade that the

its activitien is likely to be published, ficent photographic shots of South the scenes are realistic, na

There is still an idea in certain Sea taland scenery to add to its congruous note is the incidental Chaliapin, Russian opera singer and direct the policy of the inaugural which need not concern them. There Countenance is played by Foedor teen formed to make appointments Institute in a purely academife affair appeal.

The re-action of the time-worn One also wonders where the army whose bagno has boorned out on work. It is expected that the scheme is also an iden in the more conserva thousands of gramphore records will have direct Government annction, live circles of education that the good- plot on 1933 audiences should be of

ng well the cooperation of the will of the Alm trade is a small Interesting. It is romance of the Kanaka maidens don't generally and who has inflicted his dyname three offlelal representative bodies of inconsiderable factor in the men and highest degree, and in these days have daintily manicured finger personality in practically every the film trade, the

Cinematography educational scheine. Both these of blase cinema audiences, it is nails, even if they are princesses, country of the world. Don Quixote Exhibitors Association, the King-date

profoundly wrong. Tho that and the coconut palm down which is his favourite opera, and if the matograph Renters' Sockety, and the practical co-operation of the film trade, doubtful if it is romance

that Joel McCrea, slides as if it were flm follows the story, he should Film Producers Section of the Federa-in its three aspects of producer, ten- convincca ог appeals.

tinn of British Industries. Master, and exhiblior, is the ono essential McGren, who appears to be the a greasy pole, must have been know the part at least.

And who is Sancho Panza, the already secured the goodwill of var-end, every surgeation put forward by

meetings throughout the country have fact of the whole scheme. In present requirement in masculine unique arboreul speelmen.

gallant Knight'a faithful follower? ious public bodies, and educationists the Institute will come dayn to a mat Why, none other than England's generally have welcomed the idea of ter of raw stock, of sound equipment, favourite, Goorge Rober. Strange auch a practical liaison between the of apparatus, and of studio floorspace, as it may accm, George Robey has cinema and the school,

The men who control these will in fact shed the bowler hat and female

determine the success of the Institute,

In-

music of orchestral Instruments.

technical advisers

were:

CLAUDETTE Colbert provides the feminine interest in "The Phen- tom President," due at the King's on Sunday. Goorge M. Cohan, famous Americas humourist, makes his first talking film appearance in the leading dual role.

attire that has made him so popu- lar in London, and straddles

un

the

Those who have opposed the Film

Institute, or ignored it, or shelved its consideration in the past, may just as well accept the fact of its existence note. There will be a Film Institute,

this

tho

the

however the authority may be al- located on paper.

The whole affair in the end resolves itself into this very simple sequence

At the head of affairs as direc- and just haw valuablo that Institute of facts. There will very shortly be tor of production ia G. W. Pabst, will be to the nation generally, and Film Instituta, which will have some German artist of artists, whose the film trade in particular, depends kind of trade representation." Unless on the coume which is adopted by all that representation is sound, and name is gehorally spoken in whis-parties in the initul stages of the hacked by the full confidence of its pers the world's greatest mas scheme.

members, the Institute will be a paper ter of cinema. He was responsible | The Institute is to be inaugurated organisation only, with limited acade for Four Infantryman, the German under the control of a provisional mic functions and a very problematic film screened here last year. constitution, with a Board of Gover-term of existence. But if the trade

Robey has just returned from nors of a nominated rather than as a whole will co-operate, and ap the south of France, where the partly from the trade, partly from to the board, the institute may very formally representative nature, drawn point fully nuthorised representatives film was made because of the the educational bodies, and partly, well become the nucleus of n-inrge suitability of the climate for film-it is hoped, from the Governinent. national organisation, operating ing. He returned with a full tide) This Board of Governors will be ultimately under Royal Charter, and of invective against the climate smull, probably nine in number, but involving multiple interests of com and a full tide of enthusiasm for will have the power to co-opt, and to merce, education, Industry, and public

erente representative machinery on life. the work he was engaged on.

The film Is being made in French and English, Challapin playing in both.

"I had to grow a beard and whiskers" said Roboy in an in- terview on his return. "I started them a week before I left London. When they were half-grown-when I was merely seven days unshaved - looked awful. When I arrived at the Nice hotel, and the recep tion-clerk asked me whore I came from, for purposes of registration, I said "Devil's Island? Later, when they were nienly grown, and I was walking about the ten In Aannel leuk om m

a yachtsman. the population caller nie 'Edouard Sept.'

"Pabst is wonderful as a director. With him, the artist is nothing!

It in all the alm.' Chaliapin, I, any one else were nothing. Be hia camera-man and the picture as whole' are the chief consideration I am a photographer myself, and n jolly good one; but I can tell you- that the work of that camera-minn

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