1936-01-11 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11.

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THE PRODUCT OF A BREWING

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"BEDFORD"

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--and a Service worthy of it! ➡VERY month big shipments of Bedford trucks leave Eng- land for every part of the world. And the rising export figures and many hundreds of enthusiastic letters from Bedford owners all over the world have shown that the Bedford is popular wherever It goes. Why this success ?

The BARD

of

HOLLYWOOD

--CAGNBY-A-ND-BROWN-

For James the head of an man. For Joa E. Brown a tail.

For, in designing the Bedford Entest thinguss gentlemen sumption of orange juice and THE filmdom is which have increased the con- range. Vauxhall experts studied chewing their pencils and cogita- have brought the lowly tomato overseas conditions at first hand. ting on how to make Shake to the banquet table. They leamt what was wanted in spcare popular with American Mr. Reinhardt has, however, trucks from the very man who audiences. This task, which-has-made a magnificent picture and--- were going to use them,

been largely left to teachers of Shakespearo scholars will And there in a world-wide English and a few actors, has be delighted and somewhat organisation to make Bedford become a major problem to the surprised to find that every line for use in 20,000 high schools, which is a thing of beauty, service and genuine spares avail-film industry, not solely because in the picture is authentic. Not coupled with text for teachers towering oaks and pines topping abla everywhere.

of appreciation for the Bard of one word has been written in. which the lays office is sending slender birch trees, with ponds. Tested at every stage In the Avon but, to speak in more ma- The characters on the screen go out.

and marshes, a cascade, and even a flowing river. famous Luton works in England, terial terms, because Warner, through the same situations that proved sound and reliable on the Brothers have invested $1,500,- their creator, 300 years ago, or

The results of all this exploita-

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Bedford is a first-class Invest-summer Night's Dream," which so many persons were working Warner Brothers for this pic-n tall for Puck, the head of

Metro-Goldwyn- ment whatever the nature of opened at the Queen's Theatre on a picture, it was perhaps ture, but to work !

last night.

natural that they should follow Mayer, which is reported to be ass for Bottom, fifty pairs of bats' wings for the dancers, an And while the boys in the cinema tradition and attempt to contemplating a screen version abalone shell crown for. Oberon. newspaper offices may call it alter the author's conception, but

Plaster casts were made of each "The Dream and the Hongkong if so every scrap of that kind of

actor, giving a working model reviewers persist in referring to footage has been discarded and

of the features, which were then Cagney when they mean "Bot- the completed film, the longest

accentuated, or entirely reshap tom," the custodians of the talking picture yet released, is-

eri. Masks were made for money bags realise perfectly as Shakespeare wrote it.

twelve dwarfs which reproduco. that the only way to get the

the famous goblin sketches of dollars back is to make the

Arthur Rackham. In all, 413 film-gocr "Shakespeare Con-

pounds of rubber wore used for scious.

the masks.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1936.

GERMAN SOCIAL

POLICY

So many other aspects of the German Government's activities command attention these days that the outside world is apt to overlook developments in con- nection with the social policy instituted by the Hitler regime. Of these, by no means the least

All of which is extremely satisfactory to the intelligentsia. But how about the masses, the office clerk, the soldier, the sailor, the "foreigner", those "fans" whose admissions enrich the Hongkong box-offices and whose approval is the voice for which the exhibitors listen?

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So important does the question secin to the American pro- ducers that they have de cided to "take it to the people" by means of one of those huge polls which test popular views on presidents and prohibition. The first step to attract their With the co-operation of a attention-and a typically Amer- national magazine they are pre- lean one-WALA the decision paring to ask the american pu- that the picture shall be shown blic the question, "Do you want in a limited number of cities the first year, not more than 700, Shakespeare in the movies?"

Meanwhile a tremendous and in carefully chosen theatres up in those cities. In fact, the tour campaign has been built

the has been laid out in much the throughout same methods of exploitation same way that Walter Hampden

or Katharine Cornell would map of Romeo and Juliet," and to out one for a stage version of the six other Shakespearean pro-

the world

SHAKESPEARE Hollywood discovered him.

interesting is that which relates NOTES OF THE DAY the play, to include those places ductions which are in the offing,

to plans for putting an end to the "class struggle" in Ger- many Under this scheme, an experiment which is worthy of notice is that by which women students are helping to enable working women to enjoy a paid vacation. Shortly before this year's summer vacation, notices were put up in the University of Berlin asking women students to do three weeks' factory work without pay, so as to enable a corresponding number of work

ing women to enjoy a paid holi-

CASE FOR ARMAMENTS

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It took 600,000 strands of cellophane to make the costumes, wigs, chariots and other articles, not counting Titania's train, which required 91,000 yards of gossamer.

There arc 2,100

props, of which 109 had to be specially built. Twelve stringed instruments and four wind In- struments had to bo designed and made for the fairy sym- phony, each musically true, but all bizarre and grotesque. Then there were the animals and birds, such as the unicorn, the owls, the night birds, of which more appear in the forest scenes than in any preceding Hollywood film.

where the greatest response may including a possible veralon of logically be expected.

"Twelfth Night" by Warners. That the Queen's Theatre In The exploiters reiterate that Puck's spiral flight is convin- Hongkong has been chosen as Shakespeare wrote for the com- cing. He can "put a girdle While the inquiry into private one of the 700 is somewhat of a mon people, that it was country round about the earth in forty tribute to the mentality of folk and drudges from the cities minutes." The audience is sure munitions manufacturing in Great Britain, the past profits and alleged Hongkong cinema-goers,

Oberon becomes a polities of these firms, has been con-

With the Shakespeare Asso- the gentry who crowded the ben- tree.

as well as Queen Elizabeth and that he can.

Fairies dance down # tinuing for some time, there has ciation of America, Inc., as ches for the original productions. shaft of moon-light, float up to been little interest in the news of sponsor, the Hays office will Shakespeare's kings and queens the stars, or gather cobwebs with developments. Two days age, how launch an essay contest with behave as the common people be a realism which would be im- ever, a story appeared in the British four trips to Stratford-on-Avon lieve that they might, His var. (Continued on Pago 4.) press which awakened the public to ns prizes. Essays on the picture lets are droll and whimsical, the dramatic features in these pro- are to be sent in by June 1 to His stories deal with elementary ceedings. It was reported that

Vickers-Armstrong had produced a and one trip will be given to the emotions and common problems. BULLS AND INNERS

remarkable, new anti-aircraft gun, and one trip

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From the Office Butts

now be

day. A similar scheme had

a great improvement over Britain's winning essay written by a high already been carried out, witheid "Archie," which was used to school student, one-to-a-college One thousand persons... are conspicuous success, by the some effect in the Great War but student, one to a clubwoman, and said to have worked on the film University of Konigsberg a year which has been little altered since, one to a member of the public before a camera WAS turned. The Now Deal has bean stripped ago. The number of those who in spite of the vastly increased not included in any of those First came the making of models of so much of its power by the volunteered to do that work was speed and general capabilities of groups. Plans are being sub- of every scene, detailed, pains-Courts that it must by so large that the organisorsacroplanes. The new gun had been mitted to Sir Archibald Flower taking models which took artists fealing something like a nude eel! the National Socialist Public sold in some quantities abroad, but to have the winners guests at weeks to build and over which Welfare Board and the "Strength the British Government had not the Shakespeare Memorial Then- Mr. Reinhardt pored for more

口口 ordered a single piece of this through Joy" organisation-had artillery, Vickers asserted. The tre next summer.

weeks, arranging entrances and effective means of

exits, ensembles, and the exact kong Urban Council is "Shi Ching report was an selection, because not every-ap-jogging the consciousness of the A committee of the depart- placing of cameras.

Wai Shang Kuk." Seems on awful plicant was considered suibable War. Office, perhaps, but it was ment of secondary education of Sixty-seven ten-ton trucks lot to live up to. for the work. Some did not equally good as an argument for the National Education Associa- were required to transport possess practical training. the continuation of private arms tion has prepared a study guide materials for the woodland, "Work students" are not exactly manufacture. The experience and

some difficulty in making a

were

# novelty in Germany; but the enterprise behind private firma, formerly the main object of the competition which koops them their work in the factories or incentives which might not bo "on their toes," the presence of elsewhere was to earn money readily retained by a Government- 'The social effects resulting from controlled organisation, are points such co-operation between to be remembered when we talk of manual and intellectual workers nationalising the arms industry. more or less accidental. One wonders what the condition of To-day, the position is different. British armaments would be with- Men students and working men out the research and experiment of get to know one another thanks answer is that, were the Govern- the private firms. The obvious to their common activities in ment to take over the industry, it the Labour Service, the S.A., would retain its personnel, and all the S.S., and the Winter Relief of its good features, only eliminat- organisation. Both are cham- Ing the bad... the "bad" being pions of the same national the danger which allegedly grow ideals. It is no longer necessary out of competition by private arms for them to meet in the factory firms which, it has been charged," workshops in order to get ac-have actually fostered wars of the quainted. Women students, on past. However, we are not discuss- the other hand, are in a different We are merely thinking of Britain's ing the intricacies of the problem. category. They are less. In and the Empire's defence. It can- timately associated with the not be denied that Vickers, and Labour Service, and the others like this firm, have played two semi-military organisations an immensely important part in named are out of the question the defence of the realm in the so far as they are concerned. past, and until we are assured that It has therefore been deemed Government control is as depend- particularly necessary to provide chance of being left behind · by ablo an privato, we cannot take the means through which they can be brought into contact with peoples. In this respect it is in- more alert or more progresSİYO the women employed in fac- teresting to note that British air- tories, etc., so that they may ob-craft constructors are facing In- tain a practical knowledge of creasingly difficult competition in their life and work, their joys the export market, particularly and sorrows, and their social from Germany, because German. life. The scheme has now been machines are more rapidly conver shown to yield admirable results tible to military use, The German and it should be a factor in Is an air liner of the monoplane Junkers JU 62 is an example. It helping to bring the various variety, but when it is delivered to classes of the nation together, a foreign country the parts for its each with a full understanding quick reassembly as a military of the others peculiar problems machine come along in a separate and responsibilities.

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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"Quit worrying. In six months I'll have this town at my foot

The Chinese title of the Hong-

Juckey trunks are the latest in mon's wear. Elephants have had 'em for years.

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Mao West's favourite dish Is

steak and onions. Come up and

500 me some thyme]

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We understand that the sugges- tion to utilise the

Hongkong Cricket Club ground as a car park,. has been turned down. The filling station will, however, remalu in the north-west corner.

A contemporary says "There are af precent too many steamers, although registered fi Hongkong for passenger traffic,

who trample under their foot the best traditions of tho Mercantile Marine." They must be tramps.

Hongkong now has a campano- logist. We thought that we wero Bumclently belle-minded already,

If you really want to hear the tiger, take a crowd of cheery friends out into the wilds of the New Territories and give three cheers!!

By the same tokon, anglers have forsaken the Kowloon recurvoir this year because they are afral of bitest

The best way to find parking space within the city limits is to charge twenty cents per hour.