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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1935.

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Paris, Dec. 7.

Having Invented the moving ple-i tures doesn't necessarily make! one a movie fan!

Secret Societies Alarm S. Africa

Capetown, Dec. 1-

General Hertzog, Prime Minis- ter of South Africa, to-day accused Dr. Malan, Leader of the Opposition, of having formed This truth is borne out by 71-n secret society to dominate yenr-old Louis Lumiere, European South Africa.

on the

Inventor of moving pictures, who only goes to the cinema rarest of occasions.

The society, General Hertzog said, aimed at the overthrow of the English section of the As a matter of fact this pioneer populace, and their domination thinks that the infant to which he by the African-speaking peoples. gave birth is headed for wrong direction. urges that more attention should of be paid to the technical end the movies as well as the scenario and much less to the stars.

the

Ho strongly

The society membership numbered 2,000. Dr.. Malan had been an active member ever since the coalition of the two main South African parties. General Hertzog also claimed that during the parliamentary

"I think entirely too much im- portance is paid to the actors," he states. "I repronch, above all, the directors for constructing films session the society had appointed around some nobody who happens a political commissioner to at-. to possess a photogenio smile or tend the sittings, with power to around some questionable celebrity issue voting instructions to the who happens to sing well." "brothers" who had scats in

Although Lumiere seldom Parliament,

The "brothers" mutinied, and goes to the cinema, the inventor

has his likes and dislikes just like the society was compelled to tell jany ordinary movie fan. While he the commissioner to go.

rebels at the idea of expressing

any preference for some stars he decan't hesitate at

preferred film.

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the invention of the moving "There are twe very good flims pictures, ut the present time, of French pro- The first Lumiere films, dating duction," he said. "They are

back to 1891, a series of comical Maternelle and Poil d Carotte shorts, averaging three yards in (Red Head), and they enchanted length were shown. These shorts, TO-DAY – ALHAMBRA

Most films are deplorable, which aimused the gathering which is the fault of directars who stupefied audiences of French don't know their businesz,"

scientists in the basement of a Incidentally, La Materactle is now Paris Boulevard hotel when the having a successful run in cinemas were shown for the first time in

1895. in the United States.

me.

The man who never thought that He is now one of the most loved

French inventors.

He the moving pictures would have of

is

A future still spends many hours wealthy from his inventions of daily in his laboratory in a Paris still cameras and plates. For his suburb, tinkering about, and it contributions to the photographic was there, last February, that he world, the French government showed his latest invention, the recently bestowed upon him the first moving pictures in relief. greatest of honours: the rank of Despite his 71 years, Lumiere is Grand Officer of the Legion of

Honour. still alert and physically active.

On November 7. the French After seeing what others have government and practically all done to perfect his invention, he foreign governments, including the has the greatest confidence that Vatican, paid tribute to Lumiere others will carry on the work of in Paris, when the first moving

pictures ever filmed in Europe movies in relief where he leaves were thrown on the screen to off. The great hope of the cinema, feature the 40th, anniversary of he predicted, is rellef and colour.

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