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KING'S

THEATRE

Commencing

SUNDAY

21st MAY.

JACK

HULBERT

AND

CICELY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"

WHAT IS REALLY WRONG

I'

WITH THE CINEMA

SOME COMMENTS ON A LOCAL CRITIC'S OBSERVATIONS

WHERE CLARA BOW'S FILM FAILS

TUMULTUOUS RECEPTION FOR WHEELER AND WOOLSEY

By "Celluloid”

Fang credence is to be placed ideas; (3) exploitation of the on the programme version of "star" system is a fallacy; (4) the the story of Call Her Savage, it introduction of the talking machine would appear that this is another has restricted the appeal of the film where alternative endings pictures and they no longer enjoy were shot and that local patrons international appeal. Dealing saw the one other than that de- with the future aspects of the acribed in the

programme. The cinema "Observer" notices iden of alternative endings to a movement of the best aspects of the film is not new. They were made in cinema from Hollywood to England All Quiet on the Western Front, and points to the necessity of this, although in that case Cecil de and inally makes an assessment of Mille's version was finally selected. film stars

their individual Milestone, the director made one values,

presses

and

•

the

which showed etions with the P "Observer" in his first point historical features of the country, vision is in the mass production of

The

avorage

The new Clara Bow is hailed in her return to the screen as the leading player in "Call Her Savage," Fox Films production of Tiffany Thayer's sensational book of the same name. productions carry

2PA so much pro- need for attention to the latter part paganda of modern America, that of this slogan, and another feature they have little time for the more of the industry which calls for re- (rushing out special

Unfortunately the same stone can flms. This "Observer" appears to glaring headlines “All Quiet on the intends to, convey that the Western Front". The one actually cinema has reached perfection so be cast at the English, studios. have in mind when he refers to adapted was de Mille's super far as its mechanics and plant is Judged from the British output "mechanical films". imposition of the central figures of concerned, the majority will be seen in Hongkong to date, as well producer and director turn out

as reading about the rest, it is easy pictures according to the picture walking over the war willing to agree with him. But if

pattern, grave yards of Flanders and look- he is referring to the art of cinema, torical, economic and industrial is sufflefent to warrant their appear. to see that England's great ris claiming that the box office appeal ing luck wistfully Over their consequent upon which is its value

Is only the scarred countryside.

to find expression through the silver when the more independently mind- opposite is the case. And one of the chief reason for this is found reen. The educational aspect of ed directors of the Lubilach, Mu-

the cinema has JUDGED on what the programme in "Observer four not talking neglected in America, England and Elsenstein and Pudowsky type get

been shockingly moulin, Asquith, Forde,

Clair. told us feel sure that the retarding influence of the King's Theatre made a very wise machine. It is undeniable that the ance, and to a lesser extent, to work that the world is given a misuse of sound through the speak- Germany. Russia is the only coun- real insight to the wonderful pos- Jing voice has both reduced the as yet to exploit the educational abilities of the film as an enter

theme in any seriousness.

tainment, an education, and a work Juppeal of the film as well as pre-

of art. vented the development of the artistic side of the latiustry. As∙A", Paul Rotha rightly points out Chap-

COURTNEIDGE shouders as they trudged along as an entertainment, I think the events of past and present have still once on the market. It

IN

"JACK'S

THE

BOY"

THE PRIME

MINISTERS

OF MIRTH

IN BRILLIANT

COMEDY.

A Gainsborough Picture.

Released By The British Film Distribution Company, Ltd., Hongkong.

EMPIRE WEEK.

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ATTRACTION!

By Kind Permission of

LIEUT. COL. G.T. BAIKES, D.S.O.

The Band of the

1st Bn. South Wales Borderers

Will Render an Appropriate Programme of Music

On The Stage

at the 9.30 p.m. “. Show only

on Sunday, 21st Instant,

RADAR DERITAGE: AUTOAŞAN SENDUSTEET DANSAMENTARNJE

YOU CAN SEE THESE TO-DAY

"Call Her Savage"..King's. "The Night of June 13"

Queen's. "Hold 'Em Jail" .Central. "Sherlock Holmes"

Oriental, "The Wet Parade" Star. "Devil And The Deep"

Majestic.

SUNDAY'S SHOWING

"Jack's The Boy" ..King's. "Red Dust" ..Queen's. They Just Had to Get

Married .......Central, "Good Night Vienna"

·

S to "Observer's" пsscнsment of

which

present day screen actors, he FOLLOWING upon Jack Buchan lin appeals to the American, Eng- will doubtless find many to dis- au's Yes, Mr. Broten, Bishman. Frenchman, Japanese

Chinese, Indian and Eskimo, and it is simply because he has not allow- ed a language to invade his pictures, Everybody can interpret Chaplin whereas na soon as dialogue is in- troduced the interest in the pleture is confined to the people who can understand the language.

# • •

BUT Chaplin, in his City Lights

proved very clearly that sound can be applied to the cinema to add effect and entertainment. Disney' hus demonstrated the same point. The talking machine may yet be come a thing of the past in the cinema warld, but sound apparatus will remain, and when once the industry is free from the shackles choice in the ca of Call Her of speech, it will turn its thoughts

CANONGKAR

Majestic.

blah blah melo-drama in the pic-

awers to

- •

DRAMATIC MOMENT-Clive makes a dramatic dramatic discovery in the film "Night Of June 13", which

Is now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

out of the

more seriously to sound images. Savage. There is quite suficient The synchronisation of sound effect agree with his selections. But pr realised everything it promised, we tore as presented without adding with action, together with proper ference for this or that "star" is have another brilliant British come to it. The picture is a typical Clara manipulation of the camera will go always a purely personal matter. dy presented us on Sunday, when Blow effort. It is also typical of a long way towards reaching, near What the industry has yet to learn the King's Theatre will start a run Hollywood in its most painfully

er the heart of true cinema. Be- is that the "star" system is per- of Jack Hulberta Jack's The Boy. sexual colours. The picture meets fore this can be accomplished, how nicions, based as it so often is on This has almost universally been the ease and supplies several un-ever, other aspects of film pro- sex appeal. rather than histrionic claimed as the funniest comedy.

ability or artistry of Interpretation. romance yet turned a correspondent's tren- duction will have to be revised. chant letter in a contemporary this

The exploitation of the "atar" at English studios, and although I am. week

in connexion

Alms, THE congmentator's observations the expense of the more attactive in a position neither to deny nor But of that. more anon. The regarding themes and the way in and "art" sides of the cinema will confirm this somewhat extravagant great failing of Call her Savage is which the films have run them to one day have to be stopped if the description, one feels there must its restricted appeal. Beyond Clara seed contain more than a grain of cinema is to progress in the right bo something in it when responsible Bow's personal film fans, it is truth. But this, in regard to Holly- direction. Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, in critics like Lejeune, A.E. Baughan, doubtful if many people could derive wood productions bears some rela- a recent contribution in the Daily and Cedric Belfrage refer to it in a great deal of pleasure or enter- tion to his further point concerning Mail referred to the post-war mo- such enthusiastic tones. Certainly Luinment from it. The picture is lack of historical background from vement of "bigger and batter pic the aituntions offer stupendous a concentrated effort on the part of which America suffers. Hollywood tures". There is still a crying (Continued on Page 7.) producer, director, photographer

with

and all the other technicians lo ex-

are

ploit Clara Bow to her fullest. The rest of the cast

mado merely incidental, with the result that all of the well known ability | of such players as William Robert- son, Estelle Taylor and Gilbert Roland is enveloped in a

rather futlle endeavour on the parl of Claro Bow and her directora - to picturise Dynamite.

THERE is a mother's-love-for-her-

baby scene and a death bed sequence which succeed in some measure in revealing the complex nature of the girl Clara Bow char- acterises, but they are painful and appealed to me ne being superfluous. Sex is predominant nan thome, which is another illustration of how Hollywood mialnterprets. The un- derlying motif behind the book was a paychological study of n girl who Inherits half cast blood through a love' aftale of her

mother, The picture merely sets out to portruy the girl's reactions to her associa- tions with men.

THE thoughtful analysis of the film industry to-day, Its short- comings, and trend in the future which, under the pauedonym of "Observer", was published in a contemporary this week encourages one to believe that Hongkong in not averse to taking some sort of In- telligent study of the cinema. One can sympathise with the writor's search for a solution to a vory ob- vious problem. "Observers" chief points are (1) the cinema In- dustry has reached perfection; (2) the films have exploited every available theme and are barren In

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