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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FILMLAND NEWS

BETTER PICTURE CRUSADE

The film stars themselves havo now joined a crusade for better screen entertainments.

THE HOME DRESSMAKER

TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1934,

AIR GUN TRAGEDY

Coroner's Criticism at Inquest

Cambric Petticoat For A'. Girl

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The Essex Coroner held an- In- quent recently at Billericay on Miss Lillan Dana (22), of Tynemarsh Road, Fulham, London, who died in "We must have better scenarios This little garment is very simple hospital after being accidentally and better pletures," declare many to make up. For a girl of four or shot with on air gun,

Miss five years of age, you will need

Florence Strange of the lending players,

about a yard of thirty-six inch evidence that she was staying with Outstanding among these would-cambric, and four and a half to Miss Dana at Pitsea. They went be reformers are Katharine Hep-five yards of narrow lace.. out to buy flowers, and while wait-

ing for them to be cut she saw burn and Margaret Sullavan,

Study the diagram which shows boy carrying a gun. Miss Dana Not oven the ecstatic pralas of each section of the petticoat, then said to the boy, Mind that gun." measure the child, and cut paper He replied "It's all right, it's not the critics could persuade Mise patterns by the diagram sketches.loaded." The next moment Miss Hepburn that her film, "Merning Tack the patterns, make any altera- Dana cried "He's shot me," and Glory," was a good picture, andtions necessary, then cut out the bent over. Miss Sullavas is said to have wept cambric. bitter tears after one,look at the film in. which she made her suc- cessful debut, "Only. Yesterday."

Ann Harding, Lilian Harvey, Barbara Stanwyck, Constance Bennett, Ruth Chatterton, and Miriam Hopkins are but a few of the famous screen players who have had disagreements with their directors over proposed "Starring vehicles."

RECORD BRITISH YEAR

Production activity in British film studios la' now at its height, and the studios are more busily engaged than they have ever been.

Most of the films announced in the early part of the year are be- ing completed, and many additions have been made to production an- nouncementa,

Nearly £1,000,000 will be in- vested in making British films this year, and it is already certain that the record of 188 feature films completed last year will be con- siderably exceeded (anya. the Daily Mail),

Of the £4,000,000 rather more than £3,000,000 will represent

Waffek.

Sew the shoulder and side seams

of the bodice, and nike hems about half an inch wide at the back where the fastenings will come.

Join the front and back of the skirt, and cut a tiny slit for the placket at the back. Edge the placket with Harrow crossica) strips of the material. Join-bodice and skirt together.

Percy Johnson, the boy, said he found the gun in a shod, His eldier

brother had bought it the provious day. Ho put in a cart- ridge and fired it at a tin. He thought the bullet was fired. In the garden he was facing Miss Dann with the gun under his arm when it went off. He had thought It was unloaded.

William Dana, father of the dead girl, said he saw her In hospital and sald to her, "Lily, there was no quarrel?" And she replied, "Of course there was not." Sho assured him it was an accident.

The Coroner, recording a verdlet of "Death by misadventure," said it was regrettable affair,

and added that there were far too many of these weapons in the streets.

"One sees children with pistols and they point them at you. "You don't know if they are loaded or not," he said.

PAINLESS DEATH FOR IDIOTS

DOCTOR'S STRIKING

STATEMENTS

Easy painless death for the worst cases of mental doflciency was ad- vocated by two doctors at the Royal Sew the lace to the neck edge, Sanitary Institute Health Congress Apart from those who are pe armholes, and scalloped hem, roll-at Bristol. gularly employed in the studios, ing back the raw edges of material One of the speakers, Professor film making gives increased em- and whipping on the face as you R. J. A. Berry, Director of Medical ployment to many allied trades. Finally, stitch on small but Services at Stoke Park Colony, and make · corresponding | Bristol, sald that the lowest grade varying from engineering to dress-ons

buttonholes for the huck fastenfup.the speechless, hopeless, helpless making.

idiots-were "living"

The number of people now permanently employed in British Bonn At last

teratological malformations,ples of It was difficult for anyone who saw.those human.mantal monstro-

Mudi is the result of the progress Protest en moral-genuine sing miy worry took butch batt of British flims.

The companies subscribing to ordinary pains to keep them alive. Within the next two years the this agreement include First "With complete absence of all British filmt producing industry National, Fox, Metro-Goldwyn human qualities or intelligence." he should give regular employment to Mayer, Paramount, R.K.O., United Bald, they have to be clothed, fed, 10,000 people,

Artists, Warner Brothers, and housed, and waited on hand and Univerzal.

foot at the nation's expense, and one wonders why,

The building of new studios is not yet at an end. Several The now step applies to pictures "Surely a kindly euthanasia is schemes are under way which will released before July 16, after the only really kindly treatment for make Elstree a gigantic film which the producers are under this pathetic side of mental de- colony. Simultaneously with the taking their own "cleansing" pro- ficlancy. advent of these studios Elstree is gramme.

Dr. Henry Herd, Manchester being developed as a high-class

School Medient Officer, agreed that residential area. It is estimated met Mr. Will Hays, the film euthanasia in the lowest grades of Hollywood producers yesterday it would be a "kindness" to apply that 5.000 new houses will be blult censor" to discuss "self-censor casua there within the next three years whip" measures. Mr. Joseph 1.1 He was of the opinion that London Films have completed Breen, Mr. Hay's assistant, has voluntary sterilisation would leave "The Private Life of Don Juan" been authorised to act as umpire. the problem of the defective an and will soon begin making "The. Every pleture must be given a large and as clamant as ever. Scarlet Pimpernel," with Mr. clean bill of health by him before Leslie Howard and blias Merle | ii is released, Oberon in the leading parts. This will be followed by "Kongo Raid" and "The Shape of Things to Come," which may be retitled "A Hundred Years From Now!

HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS.

All these films, on the reputation is proceeding at Los Angeles of "The Private Life of Honry (says Beuter.) VIII." and "Catherine the Great,"

difficult," he said. "to understand the satisfaction din- played by enthusiastic advocates of for the Departmental

Les decisions unless it be

Sensational revelations regard-that the policy recommended is ing conditions at Hollywood are merely regarded as the thin edge being made daily in a case which of the wedge.

"It is dificult for Medical Of- ficers of Health," he added, "to shake off the belief that general are being booked by exhibitors fa The care has been brought by measures of physical and of mental

MBY bo Marsh, against Mr. Daye Allen, of mentally,

of benefit a'casting bureau.

but also

the race. to "Sterilisation In itself makes no alleged that it was necessary to

Miss Marsh, in her evidence, contribution to solving the problem any yes" to intermediaries before living unit in the community, and of individual defectivo ns' n it was possible for a girl to get there is a dangor that if the polley a flming opportunity,

of sterilisation were ever adopted

the United States in advance of a girl fim "extra," Miss Gloria jbygdene only, to the individun! |

their completion. This is the first occasion on which British films have been booked unseen the United States, and it marke a vital advance in the prestige of London na a Alm-producing centre.

PURITY CAMPAIGN.

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Further sensations followed in a comprehensive fornt it might Bowing to the demands in the When Mrs. Pearl Owing denied made an excuse for neglect of United States for purer films, then statement by the defence that a aspect of the problem. To motion-pleture producers and dis- she entered the apartment of her many of us it is clear that the do- tributors there have agreed (says friend, Miss June de Long, some fective, and in particular the high- Reuter) to cancel contracts with months ago as part of a plan to grade defective, has possibilities exhibitors and waive the rental "frame up" by catching him with which have not yet been fully ex- of any picture" againat which, in Miss the Long and Miss Marsh.

ploited."

SALESMAN SAM

WELL, WHATE REEN)OK, I'VE BEEN DOIN' AROUND TH'

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the date. x Drone,

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made many romance.

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these conspirators,

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alarm.

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