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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

JULY 18, 1934.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934.

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NOTES OF THE DAY THE THEATRE AND THE The Very

'FRISCO"

An American ronder takes ex- ception, In the interests of journal- Istio

accuracy, to the employment of Frisco" as an abbreviated form of San Francisco. He points out that by its use we are, in record- Ing the incidents of the general strike, doing an Injustice, perhaps unwittingly, to a little viilago named Frisco situato at a point

DIFFERING DOMAINS OF THE

DRAMATIC:

By "SENTINEL"

in the United States remote from WHEN the Cinema first became culminates in

The Very Idea!

HITHER AND DITHER

A$

By George (Contributod)",

S there still seems to be doubt as to whether walkers should be.

some

a full-length kiss fined for not observing

the scene of the Pacific const sprang up on overy aide, many pro- feet, I wonder?) there is a general

popular, and "picture palaces" (What is the record length in lineal traffic regulations under the

trouble, and asks, somewhat jaunti-phetic playgoors declared it would tendency to closing-up in the dimly-new Road Traffic Bill, we ly, whether we happen to have ever be the death of the theatre. Nothing lighted auditorium. The way of wonder if the Home Govern- heard of San Francisco. Yes, wo of the sort happened, and these man with a mali and, what is oven

would mind very:

have some haty idea of having on pensimists censed from prophesying more wonderful, the way of that ment

but

countered that name-place recently. With one or two exceptions, however maid with that mats, are prettily much if we butted in with a

we are sorry that we cannot for 1 well remember the warning presented in abundant variety. track down that little village to you can hear as well as see the hero

of a veteran Arst-nighter: "When

useful suggestion? which he refers. For his informa-ines and heroes of the screen, all the play should not always be a mild and There is no reason why the Alm tion, however, we might add that old habitations the true drama mellifluous pulso-quickener. The pic-|

The war between walkers and there is yet another place in the will have to close down." And when ture-paince (certainly it is palatial in motorists is almost as bitter and States named Frisco. It is situat-the "talkies" arrives, the Jereminds comparison with the British ed in Utah. We are ong with our were revived with redoubled force, which could so easily be made into men and women.

pub, primitive as the war between. American friend in realising that flicted on English cars by the parrot-poor young lovers of huge modern in spite of the anguish at first in-n comfortable club) is a boon to tho Frisco is not the correct name of voices of American players,

elties. But too

Thore are two schools of thought the Pacific port. But unhappily

often the laudable there are occasions when, by renton

jovo-interest of the Sim degenerates the question. One belloves. of space considerations, notably in alarming Innovation, even when some- which is to me (a faithful theatro-all walkers are angola. The other this into the eradest form of "sex interest" that all motorists are devils and headings and placards, lopy namon thing approaching that excellent goer, but also n film-lover in a quiet bolleves that all motorists are have to give way to abbreviations. thing in women" was introduced and way) ropulsive and, what is even angels and all walkers dovila. It San Francisco happens to be one

we could listen to a Hollywood pro- more painful, boresome in the ex- depends on whether you are driv- of them. Even our kindly critic duction without feeling like the Eton treme, I join with Mr. Gilbert Ing a car or dodging one. would not seriously suggest that bey, who had to wear cotton gloves or Frankau disliking the mora 'fleshly any Intelligent render is likely to window-pane. What

the listener to malls crawling up cluctiveness of the film heraine be misled by the employment of the term "Frisco."

SLAVERY ABOLITION

OTHER STEPS

Was

the

Yet the theatre survived

•

stili, far-sighted theatre managers

WAR stranger which is now coming into fashion. We are inclined to the theory,

་་

on the

a way

*

BLAME THE B.D.C.

Where O where will the crocus go Should the weather turn to snow? If it comes down hard and setties, Sho'll get chilblaine on her petals. Where will little crocus go Should the weather turn to snow?

Oh, oh, ohl

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WILD LIFE NOTE

began to suspect that in the end the The theatre and the cinema each

that most of them are neither cinema would be beneficial to their has its special role, its specifle limita-gela nor devils, but just plain business. They saw that it had tions. It would be interesting to:

Idiote. created huge new public, to be traco the influence of each numbered by millions, for It is of historical Interest, ut form of dramatle entertainment, a body, despite the intensive study of regulations, the obvious thing is

crude manners and habits of the day. No-

Therefore, when framing new moment when the centenary of the proportion of whom would eventually fin: heroines made by Innumerable to invite the aid of a mental abolition of slavery is being cele require a more complete kind of young girls, is so foolish as to imitate specialist who will certify the lot, brated in London, to recall that the characterisation. For the actors in their methods of vamping. In such walkers and motorista, and leave first organized opposition in Great film are nt best but may crea-matters single popular personage of the country safe for sane loafers Britain to the slave trade was be-tures, combinations of n shadowy the theatre may be more influential who hate walking and driving and gun by the Quakora early in the shape and the ghost of a voice.

How than all of them put together, be merely want to eat, sleep, drink. 18th century. In 1780, aix years spectator, they can never give him Yet the dress and colffure of the latter ever vivid the imagination of the cause she can be seen in the flesh. after the close of the American War the sense of flesh-and-blood reality aro

and lounge åbout, of Independence, the parliamentary that is imparted by the presence of "Greater

often dellberately imitated.

Garbo hath no the abolition of living actors on an actual stage. campaign for

man," to quote the saying of a famous Ameri- alavery

was opened by William

can critle with which I absolutely Wilberforce and Thomas Fowell Sald on observant child who had agree, but the Garbo bob sometimes into poetry, which proves it. For Yes, and the amah has also burst Buxton. It needed a hard-fought been thinking over her first impres- adopted by business girls is almost right in the middle of this thrice struggle of 44 years,

siono of however,

the theatre and of the alwaya n blunder. Even the reigning before abolition

cinema: "I

cry when something man-milliners take hints from the blessed hot spell she heard some- eventually secured. The first European coun a real stage. But if something far if the already enlarged hats, which possibility of snow at Shanghai.

tragic happens to a real person on cinema, and I shouldn't be surprised thing on the wireless about a Cause for satisfaction is to be try to make a definite stand in worse happens in a picture, I can will make Lord's at Eton v. Harrow found in the fact that the con- favour of abolition was Denmark, only sniff a little." The chief limita- look like a field of popples, should ference called

in 1792. In 1807 Great Britain tion of the cinema was thus humor- strive to

Whereupon her young heart be to consider repassed a law forbidding the tradie ously indicated. It cannot give us Anna Neagle's cartwheel in "Nell tongue out and waggling the tip rench the diniensions of gan to throh, and, sticking her vision of the working agreement in slaves. The final stage in the character of such substance that we Gwynn," now in the making. in respect of the Kowloon-Canton parliamentary struggle to secure collisions.

are supremely concerned with their

of it, she produced the following, complete abolition of slavery in

Tho truly Railway has been able to reach British Empire was begun in 1921, express his intentions) enables the cinema and the theatre would be com- beef dripping.

wonderful

same being included hare in ex- In a completely organised State change for one blue jumper, slight- photography (in which an artist can (from which Heaven defend ual) the jy moth-nibbled, and a basin of accord so quickly. The main again under the leadership of Wil- scene to be changed in the twinkling plementary. Each would make the subject engaging the attention of berforce and Buxton. It failed of an eye, and. the speed and variety fullest use of its special advantages the delegates was the altering of better opposition of the planters in must not blind us to the fact that independent of space and time, and Boveral times in consequence of the and appropriateness of these changes in its proper sphere. The cinema iz the basis on which receipts for the Colonies.

they

are necessary. A scene that is also three-dimensional so that it through traffic are apportioned

lasted ten minutes in a picture is can show us cross-sections of man- unthinkable; the whole between the Chinese and British

audience kind in the mass. Its special task would yawn itself to sleep.

would be to give us dramatic stories sections of the line. Under the

of action, in which the characters Finally the issue was taken up Dialogue, again, can only old agreement, the respective by Earl Grey's Ministry in 1839, sparingly used in the

be would often include some huge and cinema. A implacablo power of Nature ( River shares were 65 per cent., and 35 and a law abolishing slavery in all cracker exploding in a few wise or a Mountain), and almost always per cent.; the revised figures, forced through Parliament in 1833. Such a dramatic discussion as Mr. whose paychology is now being ex forms throughout the Empire was cracks is the most that is possible. that prodigious creature, the crowd, agreed to by the both dele-A sum of £20,000,000 was voted as two voices in two scenes,

"Only last Sunday, walking over Bernard Shaw's "comedletina for plored. In "The Return of the the East Devon Hunt point-to-point gations, are 72 per cent. for the compensation to the former slave amused me very much and will draw us how a natural power, Egdon Heath, the creaking sound I had often which Native." Thomas Hardy has shown course, I was astonished to hear Chinese section and 28 for the trade was made illegal by Chile in would be anything but a diversion In comedy of human life. The same can summer, and which I was then In- owners. Subsequently the slave thousands to the Little Theatre, can be the protagonist in a tragical heard near Tunbridge Wells Inst British. The old proportions 1841 and by Brazil in 1848. any picture-palace; the audience be done even more effectively in a

Slavery was. Anally-aboilshed-In there would probably-ask-for-their picture play, which can also exhibit formed-was the call of the night- and in the United States in 1862. by the warm words from living tips which is impossible in the theatre. France's colonial possessions in 1848 money back. The gradual revelation the menacing moods

of the subtleties of human character imbecility of the Crowd In

and colorsalj jar.” At the Berlin conference of 1885, which is a frequent triumph of the

-Letter to daily paper. in view of the fact that the seventeen nations agreed to join in theatre, will always be impossible in "The theatre, some of whose special "churring" note, rising when angry It was more probably Mrs. Goucher, whose peculiar jarring or Chinese section is by so much tral Africa, and at Brussels in 1890 Intellectual curiosity of the man aut tioned, would prosent the subtleties made fools of nature-lovers.

suppressing the slave trade in Cen- the cinema-at any rate until the advantages have already been mento à rasping shriek, has often larger in point of mileage than there was signed an international of the street has been immeasurably of character, evolving through the British, but against that fact pact to outlaw trade in the Congo. increased.

the spoken word. Full use would had to be placed another-that tackled by the League of Nations

The

question of slavery was fret

be A poet friend, who is also a de- made of the strangely intimate tie voted naturalist, wrote this recent the capital outlay on the British in 1919. The most far-reaching a profit, it must appeal to the million. the players to vary their "timing" the Gift of a Portmanteau.

The cost of producing a film is between the human beings on eithery in her ladyship's albumi: colossal and, pay its way and show side of the footlights, which enables portion was rendered tremend-international convention ever for- That is why the love interest," to so as to fall in with the mood of an

To Mrs. Pamela Goucher, with ously heavy by reason of physical mulated to deal with the subject put it politely, is almost always the audience. A picture play, being n

"Heard melodies are sweet, het obstacles which had to be over- Nations in 1925 and subsequently you hear the applause that takes the same, a play in the theatre is never was proposed In the League of most emphatic feature. It is seldom mechanical production, is always the

those unheard come and which had no counter-signed and ratified by 47 Staten. too much occupied in holding one an- That is why the latter can be seen form of clapping: the spectators are the same for two successive evenings. part on the Chinese section, "the complete suppression of slavery other's hands. When a "close-up"! " The signatory Powers agreed to which mostly runs through flat in all its forms of the slave trade

(Continued on Page 7) country. However, now that by land and sea." The League of the railway is doing so well Nations now has a standing com- and is no longer a burden mittes to deal with the problems of

the Colony,

as it Was for so many years, the Hongkong Government has had no punction in offering to work on

Recent attacks on terms more favourable to the trolled traffic in munitions must the uncon- Chinese: Administration. The strike a responsive chord in the agreement now reached should breast of every man who hopes to yet further strengthen the cor- see the world continuo at ponce. dial relations between the two So long as private individunia sections. In this connection, the millions out of preparations for aland to make millions upon Canton authorities have had no reason to complain of Hong-be under tremendous pressure to war, governments everywhere will kong's co-operation in the past; continue with such prepartions- indeed, it is not too much to say and since human nature is what it that but for the British Railways, that means the creation of Administration the Chinese which make war more and more rivalries, fears, and suspicions section would on many occasions have found it quite impossible to committee is to investigate the

likely. In the United States operate. This fact, we feel sure, whole traffic in munitions, and it is well realised in Canton and is to be hoped that the investign- must have been present in the tion will be as thorough and as minds of the Conference dele-far-reaching as the members can gates. At the moment, no possibly make it. Before the pro- official statement has been issued blem can be dealt with properly, covering the various points denit all available information must be with by the Conference, but in-

obtained. asmuch as financial issues are

as not quite fair to its interests,

to

com-

elavery.

MUNITIONS RACKET

a

said to have been predominant. but no steps appear to have it would be-interesting to know been taken in payment of the whether any settlement was obligation. There can be little reached regarding the largo sum doubt of the validity of the debt, outstanding against the Chinese under the terms of the old agree- section in respect of suspension ment. That point notwithstand- of through and joint sectional ing, it would come as a surprise, traffic and demurrage. Year and a welcome one at that, to after year, the sum figures in the learn that the matter had at long accounts of the British acction, last been adjusted.

"You see, in my work it's personal appearance that counts.

Are mvector atill,” O, shall I call

thee bird?

Or

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spirit rarel Meanwhile, accept this bag, And firmly lodge your head in it,

: you hag,"

THE GLADSTONIAN TOUCH. We cull the following from contemporary:

"Miss Loveday Prior, the young authoress of 'A Law Unto Thom- selves, is on the touching staff of a girla' private school in Rugby.

The roviewor of a local weekly says:

"If Miss Prior can produce first novel of such an intellectual Iovel as "A Law Unto Themselves," what there to prevent her in the future from placing before us & book which will do more than prompt the question as to whether hore, in Rugby, there is a literary genlux?

TRAMMELS OF CLARKE.

I was the representative To interview Mr, Clarko.

I dangled out a tempting bait- He'd nolther bite nor bark!

I spoke to him of trams and

plans

Ho nothing would remark;

I said: "We'd like to run a bus To the bottom of the Park, Don't you think this is a swell.

Idea?"

Ho said: "We're in the dark As yet, and plans are in the air." I'm thinking now that he'll

embark

Upon a railway in the air (Unless he said it for a lark And meant an underground

tunnel

Which he is hoping to keep

dark)