THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1933,
CINEMA "SHOTS" AND "SEQUENCES"
FASCINATING STORY OF "THE WHITE SISTER"
"THE KID FROM SPAIN” DUE ON FRIDAY
NOT QUITE UP TO STANDARD. OF EARLIER PICTURES
(By "CELLULOID")
LAIMED as the natural in allowing the self-sacri- successor to Smilin' ficing principles. of Helen Through, White Sister, pre-Hayes to triumph over the sent offering at the Queen's everyday logicality of Clark Theatre is in several res-Gable, the author has pects a greater picture than usurped the dictum that even the Norma Shearer-"Love triumphs over every- Frederic March box-office thing."
sensation. Certainly there
is more depth in the story, TN this picture we see Helen and one of the most absor- Hayes, afanced nilly-willy to bing appeals of the film is a wealthy Italian noble, meeting the struggle on the part the high-spirited Clark Gable, of the author to work out the Lieutenant in the Italian air force, with the usual results. theme to a logical conclu- They fall in love. Like her sion. Torn between ration-mother before her, who ran alism and high idealism, the away with another man and
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author endeavours to work the story out to a reasonable ending. Many will feel that GEM VAIN P. AMETEK!
Bylvia Sidney, winsome seroon actrons, has's real reason for her pen- Blyoness these days. Dolying studio executivos, she walked off tho tot in Hollywood in the middle of a plature, low to New York and prepared to embark for Europa while follow playors, thrown into idlencse by her absence, bogged her to return. Sylvia said she stopped work because of a neck aflment.
committed suicide upon being abandoned, Helen also forsakes her father's house, but, during the getaway, her car crashes in- to her father's automobile and he is killed. Overcome with grief, Helen refuses to see Clark j until he is called up to the war, and then once again they plight, their love. The months pass, with Clark performing doughty aerinl deads on the Austrian front. Then one day he is forced down in flames. He is reported killed, and Helen, giving up all hope, decides to take-her vows and be-
history come a nun. In the meantime, THUS is
repeated. Clark has escaped from his burn- Mother and daughter suffer the ing machine and is nursed lack same fate in their quest for true to life by an Austrian peasant love. Both suffer broken lives. family. He is captured in trying It is a cynical commentary on the to escape and interned in a camp popular novel idea of love and where cholera breaks out. He romance. Yet, it is one of the makes his Anal escape from here very few films without, a happy and arrives back to And Helen ending which must enjoy a ter- at the Convent. Despite all pro-| rific box-ofice success. There testation, and in the face of cold are some dynamic love scenes be- reason and real desire, she re-fore the tragic close, and some fuses to break her vows. Clark brilliant acling by Clark Gable Helen Hayes throughout, accepts and makes a final flight, and arriving back in the Convent a In every respect the film is given dying man.
amazingly delicate treatment, and
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the continuity is among the best I have seen for many a long day. The material is not fitted for an exposition of the more aesthetic qualities of the cinema, but the acting material is beautifully treated by the camera.
THE scenes in the convent are very impressive. They have been handled with reverent care. and the most discerning critic could not find fault with them. of its type this is truly a beauti ful picture; a credit to Metro Goldwyn-Mayer in every respect.
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YOU CAN SEE THESE TO DAY.
"'Queen's: "White Sister."
King's "Cavalcade." CentralThe Blarney Stoud": Majestie: "To-Night Is Ours." Oriental: "Caban Love Song," Star: "Looking On The Briglit Side.”.
WEDNESDAY.
King's: "Infernal Machine." Majestic: "Lonely Wives."
THURSDAY,
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Queen's: “Gabriel Over the White House."
King's: "Infernal Machine."
cording to label, except Morris, who solves the mystery at· 11.59.- Alternative. title "What a Man! or From Lifeboat to Bridal Suite." And thirdly comes the "Film Weekly," which влун!
"The Director has been unable to make up his mind whether it is coníedy or drama he wants, and the re- sult is that the somewhat novel
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THE comparison is interesting.
The "Film Weekly" is trying to convey something of the sume thing as the "Bulletin" and
Clark Cable and Helen Hayon as the appear in "The White Sister", now showing at the Quann's Theatre. "Smith's Weekly", without' giving the game away. Anyhow the WITHOUT the rest of criticisms are suflicient to arouse
Aldwych cast, Tom Walls seems to lose a great deal of his one's curiosity, and I think you will find both Genieveve Tobin and appeal. In fact a picture such as The Blarney Stone dans much to Chester Morris much more enter demonstrate that much of his taining than the foregoing sug- success is due to the contrust be-gests. The picture comes to the tween his characteristics and those King's this week, and although of Ralph Lynn. Without the Lynn1 agree that the scenario is not foil, he has a difficult task to live far short as that described by our up to his reputation. But, the rather vitriolic contemporaries, main trouble about The Blarney the acting does much to compen Stone, now showing at the Central sate for the deficiencies,
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LJAVING seen a preview of
The of vehicle for Tom Wall H The Kid From Spain, I can
do
The theme is not humorbus, In fact, but for the funny stories de-promiso cinema-goers an amusing liberately introduced by Walla, it two hours at the King's Theatre
Friday. Frankly I would make a very fine dramatic on film. The situations themselves not regard this as Eddie Cantor's are unusually serious and Tom best. The usual string of wise- Walls seems to have been forced cracks are missing; but there is to create amusing incidents in the plenty of fun, and the mountings course of directing the picture. and chorus work are typically
Samuel Goldwyn in their gor geousness. The glorifying of America's feminine, beauty is JIS own performance is quite effected with all the lavishness of good and his Irish brogus is its predecessors-Whoopee and especially elever. Anne Grey Palmy Days, and the opening offers useful support, and the scene is brilliant In ita concor rest of tho cast are okay without being exceptional. It is to be hoped that a more careful selec- tion of material will be made for Tom Walls further Individual screen appearances,
HIS
lan, staging and dancing,
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course Eddie is the pivotal point of the film. He rolls
his cyce, talks with his hands and aingo his way through the picture In typical manner. In addition he appears In a bull fight, which, T is sometimes not without by reason of the peculiar twist IT
value to. compare the reactions givent it by the director, romains to a film of the free-minded nows more dramatic than funny. This, paper writer and those of the film felt, was the most disappointing magazine who has .certain axe feature, of the film. The poa- to grind. The former is often sibilities of a wonderful burlosque accused of hot-headed criticism, were unlimited, yet thoso pos yet surely it is the "faint praise sibilities havo, for the most part, which dams" as in the following been ignored. case. Commenting on Infornal
fachine, "Smith's Weekly" anys NEVERTHELESS Eddie Cantor "From a brigk enough" opening has sufficient individualiam this picture degenerates rapidly and personality to make The Kid Into such far-fetched, blither that From Spain a definite success and one wonders whether the director a tremendous box-office attraction. was stunned by a brick or someThe theme songs are tuneful and thing at the end of the first catchy, the chiof number being reel... Goniovove Tobin struk "In the Moonlight." The other kles with a colourless role and two hits are "What'a Porfect Cheater Morris is so bright and Combination" and "Look What shining that he reminds us of You've Done." In the lattor Lyda Bottle of Listerine," The "Sydney Robarti, the former Shanghai Bulletin has the following: girl, who has been seen here bo- "The Joke about Infernial Machine fore, in hoard to great advantago, Is that there isn't any When and as lending support to Eddie the announcement is made, that Cantor, adde further.. Iaurels, there is a bomb aboard, timed to Lyda, in fact, seems destined for a explode at midnight, all net ne
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