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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1933.

CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES" Whiteaways

"CELLULOID'S" SPECIAL REVIEW

OF "CAVALCADE"

WARNING! DON'T LOOK FOR A SAGA OF BRITISH HISTORY

CHARACTER STUDY

PICTURE

FILM OF GREAT BEAUTY

THE POWER OF SUGGESTION

shots of a single family looking down on the royal cortege from the balcony of their house.

VIVID TREATMENT.

Even more vivid in the treat- ment given that terrible period be- tween 1914 and 1910. The pain and anguish and the awful hope-j lessness of those four years are suggested, not by 扎 battle-front acene, but by the succession of a series of superimposed photo- Have you ever been to graves, a Crucifix and extraordin

graphs of marching troops, war see a terrifically boosted ary close-up shots of dying soldiers. picture and come away

The psychological effect of these Requences is remarkable. able to say "That realis- ed all expectations?" This was my very pleasant experience at the King's Theatre last Wednesday night, when Fox's Cavalcade had its first showing in Hongkong.

And I think all of you who have delayed seeing this film un- til it starts ita run to-morrow

this tremendous

YOU CAN SEE THESE TO-DAY.

"Soldiers of the King". King's "King of the Jungle" "Dangerously Yours" "Friends and Lovers" "Whoopee"

"Prosperity"

"Cavalcade"

TO-MORROW.

Queen's Majestic

Central

Oriental

.Star

.King's

"A Fool's Bridal Night" Oriental THURSDAY.

"Story of Temple Drake" Queen's "Monte Carlo Madness" Central "Vavalcade"

King's "A Fool's Bridal Night" Oriental "Forbidden Adventure" Majestic

THE REST

"KING OF THE JUNGLE" Frances Dee and Buster Crabbe (The Lion Man) they appear together in the film by this title at the Queen's Theatre.; It has its concluding showings to.day

to-morrow.

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side into horrific dulness when farelcal interest, but at the actors do not exert themselves, this just misses

present fire. Edward and when the actors do put forth Everett Horton, freah from herole efforts prove entertaining. triumphs, in Hollywood, provides but not commensurately 10. If Invaluable support for Miss Court- only the genius of English players neidge in his inimitable way: and could be backed by solider, more Anthony Bushell, also frequently these players can only be properly British films would reach brilliant films, makes an attractive juvenile The real value of the work of closely-knit thematic material, visible until lately In American appreciated by seeing the film. heights of artistry. Perhaps the lead. Soldiers of the King, re-

And to the producers one There is an. Intensity of only offer a big hand.

can present migration of American tensed by the Fox Film Corpora- drama. poignancy and senti- Lloyd who directed the picture goes London, counterbalancing

To Frank etors and technical experts to tlon, has ita final showings at the ment about these scenes which the distinction of having turned migration of English netors

King's Theatre to-day. list one entirely out of one's out one of the best films in the follywood, will have an influence in Immedinte surroundings and history of the cinema. The same this direction. It would be ex-man, who has grown from child-

Have you ever heard of forces one to live the events acknowledgment Is due to the tremely pleasant to be able to re- hood amongst lions and tigers? over again.

technicians who played their partcord the arrival from England of Kaspa in King of the Jungle, at Allied with

in the production. Ernest Palmer with his camern gets the utmost film equalling Lubitsch's memor the Queen's Theatre, is a verita appeal is the comparative accuracy out of what, although converted to ale American production. "Trouble king of Hollywood's tame lions. In detall, True there is a slip here and there; for instance the the screen. still remains essentially ble in Paradise."

With a short, sharp bark he ordern wireless masts and aerial on a staje plny. When one realises

them about-twenty or tirty of the the limited scope afforded an ex- MPA troopship carrying the soldiers to

DANWHILE, one ean accept in them-and plays with them as or- will enjoy the same experience. clar type of ship shown in the film acteristles, one can more readily comic

South Africa; the use

pressionistic camera by the reten- a cheerfil spirit this, new dinary men play with dogs. He is the partition on the screen of stage char-vehicle for Miss Courtneidge's caught with some of his lions and I confess that it is a rather as troop carriera in 1900. But appreciate the skill of Palmer.

gifts. The actress has exhibited in an American circua. rare occurrence. Most heavily against the general faithfulness of

spent some time on the variety of course, there is a fire, and publicised pictures "fall down" the film, these fade into insigni-

stage. So much becomes at once Kaspa saves them. By that time because of the hnd type of ad-ficance. Englishmen will appreci

apparent when she begins to move he is civilised and plays the piano, vertising connected with them. ate the accuracy in the reproduc-

on the screen. Her performance (thanks to a schoolmistress, char The publicity sheets give wrong tion of seaside scenes and the

is one long romp, in which shemingly played by Frances Dee, angles and false Impressions by dresses of the early 20th century.

Tools to her heart's content, and Finally, he buys back his lions and trying to put something into and will revel in the happy co-

continually sacrifices development takes them back to freedom and the picture which isn't there. ordination of author. producer,

of character to effects of bur-Kenyn with the scoolmistress. it director and architect In the And before going on to offer any domestic scenes which vividly and

ment. Not even her most rabid [have seen and has touches of hum- critique of Cavalende I will warn accurately portray the types of

admirers would claim that she is our Buster Crabbe, a champion my readers that there is an clement English home life,

beautiful, either in feature or in swimmer, is the Lion Man and he of this danger with the Fox! Masterpiece. So much emphasis

form. It is her very angularity really looks as if he might be. As has been placed on the title and the

and her frank, genial homeliness one of the circus dancers says, epic events of history around which

which cause patrons of theatres to "Gee! what. a body! Noel Coward has weaved his chur-

love her. acters, that not a few people have

she can make herself look tite bet-HE Story of Temple Drake, orl- gained preconceived ideas that the

ter pleased she seems to be, and it ginally boasting the title fim is a saga of English history, state quite conscientiously that no THE threat of the captain of a strokes

in good policy; for some of her The Shame of Templo Drake, is a and that it in Noel Coward's inten- superiors (at least on the screen)

of grotesquerie

Hollywood murder thriller, tion to present, na vividly as could be found to this hand-picked Monte Carlo casina, "unless you laugh its head off."

cruiser to the director of the calculated to make an audience the customary frills to provide possible, the tremendous part Eng- enst. Led by that beautiful and give me back my hundred thou-

thrills and meanderings to obtain mystery. The story is somewhat that has played in the history of accomplished actress, Diana Wyn-sand franca by nine to-morrow MISS Courtneidge (who in pri- tordid, but thence work on startan

thirty three years.

yard, who will probably never play morning I will blow your casinovate life is Mrs. Jack Hulbert) the par excellence of Miriam CENTRE IDEA.

a finer part in her career, the to bite," seems to indicate the pre- was born in Sydney, her father, theme is the revelation

Hopkins and Jack La Rue. The supporting players offer studies of sence either of the most solemn Robert Courtneidge, being then on hereditary. taint in the Drake of an This is far from the case. The outstanding skill. central purport of the film is to show the reactions of a number of tion of the important psycho- farce.

extravagant and light-hearted his wife, in the Gaiety Company sion in the various members. of. Monte Carlo Madness is She has already been seen on the this queen collection of people. I people to a series of national and logical studies to be

found in described world-shaking events such as the Coward's characters, and these are fantasy," but the truth is that Jack's the Boy. In Soldiers of the acting alone, will find a responsive as a joyous muelea! screen in The Ghost Train and am sure the film, if only for the South-African War, the death of given their utmost value. It is be- is neither joyous nor musical nor; King she represents a member of chord in the hearts of a large. Queen Victoria, the sinking of the cause of this that one instinctively fantastic enough. Titanic, the Great War, and the murmurs, "I remember meeting her!

In large theatrical group, which number of cinéma goers when it aftermath of that holocaust. The type", or "how much like ro-and-so

gives high-class variety perform-etarts its showings at the Queen's figures are typical and can be he is." taken as representative of a nation,

THE PLAYERS,

When one approaches the tusk of analysing the performances of the players, it is with a feeling akin to that of profound admiration for their brilliant work. Oné

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THE SHOWS esque, obtainable moment by me- is one of the best animal glas I

JUNGLE AGAIN

SCREENED

SOME COMING ATTRACTIONS

The more undignised

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One and all reveal a deep diving and heavy melodrama or the most a tour of Australia, together with familly and of how it finds expres-

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HE name of Erich Pommer isances; calls itself a "family," and Theatre on Thursday.

connected with it, and the is bound together by a most earn-

To me these studies were pro- It is well to bear this in mind.foundly moving. Diana Wynyard's opening sequence, which shows est corporate feeling. Rules of Don't approach Cavalcade expect only "awkward" scene is when she life on the one cruiser the State conduct have developed within ing to see the glorification of Eng- makes one outburst of natural of Pontenero bousts, has that this little band, and, with the land through the incidents cited in resentment in the possibility of los-ngreeable co-ordination between passage of years, these rules- the previous paragraph.

ing her husband and a second son music and movement to be ex-founded

on the necessities of There are several marked fent- In the European War. There is pected from him, but as the film theatrical cooperation-have hurd- ures. about Cavalcade, quite apart just a touch of melo-drams about progresses and the Queen of ened into from the character atudies-these this: It Is just a trifle inconsistent Pontenero falls in love with the Told more deftly and succinctly, an implacable code. muat take first place which cau-with the dignity which she other eruiser's captain the co-ordination the story of the Marvellos might not fail to leave a lasting impres- wise invests in the study.

is broken and the musle is as lit-have had a serious as well as n sion. They are jointly due to the ingenuity of Noel Coward and the

the woven into the extravagant and producers. One is the remarkable

satirle impulses of the story as it power of suggestion invested in

But in proposing the final is in the normal musical comedy. } some of the

tomst, Diana Wynyard accom- Nor, it must be admitted, is satire scones, another the faithfulness in detail, and a third

plishes a brilliant performance, always allowed. Its full swing, and the sustained "English" atmos

The task of proposing such a there was one dreadful moment phero.

tonet and making it real is not when it seemed that, after all, the easy. Miss Wynyard surmounts threat to bombard the casino was the abstacles by converting It bound up with the captain's honour into something approaching, a and that the film might con- soliloquy.

ceivably end with a high dranintic Kerlure.

A SOLILOQUY.

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Clive Brook, a little too restrain- ed in parts, plays consistently well and enhances his reputation.

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LUCKILY nothing like that hap-

Thus the drama of the Titanic Is suggested by a single camera shot of a febuoy on which is inscribed the name of the ship.. The shot is taken as the honeymoon couple, full of plans for the future and supremely happy in their own com- pany, move away from the ship's Exceptionally clever portrays

pens, and for the failure of the side. The whole scene typifies the are given by Herbert Mundin. director to keep the music and the care-free spirit which pervaded the Ursula Jeans, Una O'Conner, Beryl story moving together there are atmosphere on board the vessel Mercer, Margaret Lindsay, Frank several compensations. The fight which couldn't sink" on that -Lawton and Irene Browno.

of the entire populace from fated night in 1912.

Each and everyone is human, Monte Carlo as the ship's guna Then the horror and sadness of a alive, real. There is not a sugges are brought 'nto position is con- nation at the death of ita Queen letion of "acting". Just normal cived with an admirable mixture superbly suggested, not by lives being lived in a normal way as of high spirits and imagination, photographs of huge crowds and Coward meant to reveal in his and the solitary Englishman sit demonstrations, but sustained original manuscript..

ting on a camp-stool with field- glasses and a tin helmet while the rowds surge by him strikes the precise note of ultimate absurdity. MISS Sari Marliza poses prettily

rook, and Diana Wynyard in closing scene,

as the reckless and romantic. Queen, but she is not given any rent chance to act. Hans Albers plays the captain with gusto and looks the kind of man who would indood spend the time waiting out- side an office by shooting at olec- tric lights with a revolver; and it would have been pleasant to have seen more of Mr. Thomas Wegud-

in as the ship's chief ofear. THE picture is the next change

nt the Central Theatre.

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Tia Cicely Courtnelago'a per

Bonality which carries Soldiers | of the. King to the moderate suc-

and again, sitice the coming of taking films, the English studios | have, put forth filmay stories of this character stories which sub

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Jean Harlow, who secording: to Rauter's report this morning,

is to be married a third time. It was Jean who set the fashion for, platinum blondes, ·

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