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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

FILMLAND NEWS

Anglo-Italian Plan of Co-operation

MULTI-LINGUAL FILMS

The presence in London recent- ly of Commodore Luigi Freddi, the Italian Director-General of Cino- matography, foreshadowed big developments within the Italian film producing Industry. A scheme for n close Anglo-Italian co-operation | Is being discussed.

Commodore Freddi, in an inter- view with the Kine weekly, sald the main reason for his visit to London is to gain an intimate con- tact with the British film Industry.

"It is the firm intention of the Italian Government" he said, "to render the Italian flm n factor of world-wide importance.

"First, Italian pictures had to be given a strong basis in the home market by improving their quality. This, we decided, could not be brought about by suppressing pri- vate initiative, by chaining pro ducers with all kinds of regulations and restrictions, but Was to be efferted by affording them every assistance possible.

COTTON CREPE

Used For Costume With Organdie Blouse

POINTED BELT

"Dressmaker suits are also made of cotton trepe". Here is an effective little costume, worn with a house of finely pleated white

organdie. Note smart pointed helt,

"Hence, the studios and plants already existing were modernised and enlarged and a new studio was erected at Tirrenia, a vast territory in the vicinity of Rome that hud formerly consisted of marshes ORANGE SYRUP which have now been drained.

"In addition to technical equip ments, there was the question of artists. Italy has excellent stage actors and actresses. To educate them for the screen and also to detect and develop new screen Lalents, is the purpose of the Institute for Film Art now being. developed by our Government..

"On the other hand, the Italian public at large had to become ac- quainted with the domestic plc- tures. Accordingly, the exhibi- tion quota of one to three in favour of foreign films has been extended of late to all cinema theatres.

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JUNE 26, 1935.

WHO IS TO-DAY'S MELBA?

CONCHITA SUPERVIA OR MARIA JERITZA?

By GLYN ROBERTS Melba and Patt! are dead, and to-day It la the Garbos, the Hep- burns, and the Gracie, Flelda who occupy the limelight which once was the unquestioned property of the spectacular and brilliant opera stars.

Yet very cosmopolitan and very varied in temperament, in ap. pearance, and in gifts are the great prime donne of to-day.

Poland supplies the regal and beautiful Marin Olsczewska, a consummate Wagnerian singer; Hungary, the dazzling beauty, Maria Jeritza. whose excellent voice and overwhelming persona- lity are backed up by first-rate acting ability,

The Scandinavian countries, not content with Jenny, Lind, and the gift to the talkies of the incom- parable Garbo, are well to the fore with Gota Ljungberg, who has to her name a list of sensational first appearances-she is a woman of exceptional beauty-in different opera houses which none of her contemporaries can surpass; Dide Norena, whose pure soprano voice oranges very

thinly has made her

the idol of Paris; and put the rinds into a sautee-

and Kiraten Flagstad, whose re- pan with a pound of enstor sugar cent work in New York has excited and the julee of three oranges.critics enormously. Both the two Allow it to simmer gently for atter are Norwegians. about half an hour, then remove the scum and strain it. When cold it should be bottled closely.

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Two Spanish singers stand glar- ingly to the fore, one on each side of the Atlantic. In America there In the beautiful and popular Lucrezin Bori, who lately surprised New York, which knew her only. as a delightful delineator of light lorid roles, by taking a leading part in saving the Metropolitan Opera House of New York from financial collapse.

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In Europe there is the ebullient 17 Come out of it! however, still impeded by the

Ernest Alfred Yeates, a 65-year- Conchita Supervia, 16 beautiful limited domain of our language. old cabinet-maker, who, it

woman, an excellent actress, and This difficulty we want to overstated, advertised in the

singer without an equal in her come by making

matri-own particular province. She has Italian and foreign language-ver- moniat columas of newspapers for made London her home, Alona, and we expect to gain the women with considerable savings, foreign co-operation

for and who had bigamously married this because of the extensive women and deserted them in Eng-1

Great German singers are Frida murai

land, Scotland, Canada and Amer-Leider, Gertrude Kappel, ment, advantages which producers penal servitude at Wiltshire Assizes hardt, Frieda Hempel. Grace Moore -Emmy Bettendorf, Elena Ger- of films are not afforded any for bigamy. where else in the world,

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HENRY HALL AT ELSTREE

Henry Hall, the B.B.C. dance bandleader, and his orchestra have started work at the B.I.I'. studios, Elstree, on "Music Hath Charms."

robbed a woman of £1,000.

In one case, it was stated, he

is America's newest and best.

The most famous Italian prima donna of the day in Rosa Ponselle, who was born of Italian parents in America,

To France goes the distinction comes of providing the newest, sensation startling-Lily Pons, frail and diminutive,

by cannibals when the famous Henry Hall announcement aver the radio-with effect.

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BRITISH ACTOR INJURED Lumsden Hare, the British film actor, was injured at Hollywood by fall from a horse during the "shooting" of a film in which he was playing with Anita Louise, the American film actress.

Their horses collided while at

It will be directed by Alexander Esway and Walter Summers, under the supervision of Thomas Bentley. It is an original musical fantasy. The writer of the script, L. du Garde Peach, together with A. Esway and Walter Mycroft, have used as a basis for the Idea the the gallop, and Lumsden Hare was effect that Henry Hall's music thrown heavily, He sust fred would have upon various people In bruises and scalp wounds.. Anita amusing situations all over- the Louise was also slighty hurt. world.

One section of the film deals with for the films siner 1916. His more Lumsden Hare has been acting a hilarious breach of promise action

suburban London, while another recent appearances were in "Inter- takes us into the jungle where two national House," "College Hu- white men are about to be attacked mour," and "His Double Life."

SALESMAN SAM

still only in her twenties, yet the possessor, say the doctors, of the most powerful throat since Caruso,

Where stands England? Not European reputation, and there badly. Eva Turner is a star of

Old Vic and elsewhere, who may are sonte young performers, at the shortly attain international cele- brity-Ruth Naylor, Then Philips,| Joan Cross, Elena Danieli, for example.

un-

One great singer remains last because it aeems fair to name mentioned. I have left her to the

her as, all in all, the finest musieni artist, the greatest woman singer, of the day. I

mean Lotte Leh- mann, for many years now an idol on the Continent, in Chicago and New York and at Covent Garden, where she is singing new.

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Put on the stage in Mussolini's favour.

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