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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936.

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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936.

THE STRAIN OF DIPLOMACY

men,

They will tell you that "The Singing Fool" carned as much money as "The Kid" and "The Gold Rush" together.

films.

Still KING-

Happy Ending.

4

NOTES OF THE DAY comparable to that of Charlie was equally popular in Britain

BAD MONEY

of

the

Screen?

Filmgoers are as sensitive to the expertness of film producers F15 football spectators are to the cleverness of Alex James.

What has been the cumulative effect on filmgoera of films such as "Mutiny on the Bounty."

of "The House "Dinner at Women," "The

Rothschild," Eight," Little

Kid

from

Spain," "The Private Life of Henry VIII.," "The Scarlet Pimpernel,' "The Ghost Goes

West," "David

Copperfield."

"The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," and many others of the same superb technical standards?

The Real Pictures

This high place he had won by his short films long before Hard-headed men of business he began to make full-length who live by ledgers will tell you feature films. Many people, that 12 films in the past 21 indeed, think his short films years have each earned more contained his finest work.

to Charlie money than any film produced

Success came Stubbs Rd. by Charlie Chaplin.

Chaplin at once.

peted. They were Chaplin, FOLLOWING the private view last of "Modern Times" Within a year of his going to Lloyd, and Buster Keaton,

week, I overheard a young Hollywond he had become a

More recently two of the most woman say, "I think he is ter- vital factor in the history of well liked stars have been the ribly funny, but let's go to a

late Marie Dressler and the late real picture this afternoon."

Marie Dressler The only personal success Will Rogers.

I wonder if that is typical of Won by and the United States. The the modern filmgoer? Chaplin has been Harokl Lloyd, who began his humour of Will Rogers was not

Certainly Charlie Chaplin is film career in 1913, just a few properly appreciated in Britain, months before Charlie Chaplin. but in the United States he was a great actor. There are mo "Modern Times," but, not once We are going to join the chorus His Winkie and Lonesome Luke more greatly beloved than any monts of ecstatic comedy in does Charlie attempt to be an of complaint against the passing comedics were, splendidly auc- other star.

The quality of pathos is to be artist in filmcraft as it is prac- of bad money. The situation in cessful, and he gained both Arm-chair critics, who never

this Colony, particularly with res-popularity and prestige with

too such films as "College Days," found in the work of all these tised to-day in talking pictures. tire of criticising statesmen and

pect to ton-cent pieces, is politicians, seldom give serious grave to be ignored. When one is "Girl Shy," "Safety Last," "Hot stars.

"The Cat's Paw." thought to the great strain given four spurious ten-cent pieces Water," "Grandma's Boy," and

Competitors which has to be endured by a out of a total of five, in change, one begins to feel that the "ramp" nation's leaders in times of

is being overdone and that it is!

We IN contrast to Charlie Chaplin, crisis such as we are now wit-time for individual action,

Harold Lloyd has elected to nessing. The

sudden have heard more than one. Indig- recent

that if produce talking pictures, and nant gentleman threaten death in London of the German taxi drivers or thentre box once his latest film, "The Milky analysis of the films of 1935 Ambassador, who had been over-keepers, public conveynnen ticket Way," of which I have glowing shows 27 clearly defined and or an abdication,?

advance reports, is shortly due different types of drama: hence

There will be many different the controversy which arises the takers, or anyone else, ever tried at the Carlton Theatre, in the taxing his strength in

wherever Almgoers meet to dis. answers. Personally, I am filled with regret for the passing of a strenuous work he had been to puss on a bad ton-cent piece to Haymarket.

him he would do something reck-1

cuss their entertainment,

romantic chapter in film his- called upon to discharge in con-

less. Que commences to sympathise

Added to this diversity of ap- tory, because "Modern Times" ones who have

of is the last glimpse of an nection with the European situ with these irate

peal we have qualities ation, is 11 timely reminder been "stung"

production which are gradually Atlantis no film star can ever

find again. of the heavy calls on mental comes a victim.

the case of

creating a film style. of

He is content to be an artist in Pathos was the most constant himself regardless of the art of

Often the camera, and he is still bril-. aim of the silent film. the aim was poor and the reliantly comical. sult was bathos,

Does this make him king of Since the coming of dialogue the film world as it is to-day, or of a film world which has am drama has become

vanished? appeal. diversified

In

more An

Is "Modern Times" a triumph

FORTUNES THAT PASSED ME BY

I Might Have Made Millions

Says

Sir HENRY LYTTON

my surprise, the wall was soft and yielding, and out of curiosity 1 stopped to examine it.

It will be like old times with Chaplin and Lloyd competing for popular favour: when one also be-

Eight to twelve years ago We are informed

one man whose three film comedians thus com energy, which modern diplomacy experience in the game of "pass demands from those in high the dud" probably constitutes n the record; but a record which lands office. And yet, so far as outside observer-is-able to small chance of survival. He paid for a theatre ticket-with-two-dollar. judge, the role which an Am-bills and received in change a bassador has to play is not by half dozen ten-cent pieces, at least any means the hardest. When two of which were bad. Ia did) even statesmen in the prime of not stop in the queue to examine his change, as he might have done, life break down under the and in future probably will do.

COME people are born with Midas strain, as Mr. Anthony Eden because he did not want to block theatre's passage of the

fingers. They cannot help making! did not long ago, it is clear that the

If everyone examined. money, any more than I can help patrons.

njolly song or frittering]

I hell the candle to it, and the faint the demands made by the com-

rang and otherwise, tested his singing

light caught a patch which had been productive things as painting a pic-

nubbed by my shoulder: Instead of plicated and continuously run-change, it would take a long time away my time on such idle and un-

the dirty drabness I expected to see, When we were quite young my was almost dazzled with the beauty ning machinery of international to a theatre. The same manture or catching a fish.

Like most people, I dream of sudden

purple so vivid that it seemed to relations upon the human organ-was travelling by taxi during the

forty-cent wealth." conscientiously buy what wife and I were very friendly with ar He paid a evening. ism are more, at times, than it fare with a dollar bill-for he had shares I can afford in those concerns certain Mr. Joseph Lyons. He was have just been painted by the hand

that are shortly to experience a sud-running one or two little ten shops,

sage 1 erept Lill I discovered that a is able to bear. It may be re-thrown the bad ter-cent pleces den burst of alluence-acording to and he begged me to put £100 in his of a master. Up and down the pas called, also, that Sir Samuel into the harbour-and he got four my "expert" friends! But that fortune company. Ifix shares could have been vast piece of canvas, ten or twelve

in a will-o'the-wisp-it is always just bought then for an exceptionally rea-

mon iron clothes pegs over a portion purchased, for I and faith in Mr of the wall that had fallen. Hoare, when Foreign Secretary, more worthless colns in his change. out of my grasp, but tantalisingly Bonable price, and I would gladly have feet long, had been mailed with com-

It would be interesting to calculate near.

Lyons and felt certain he would suc-

I rubbed another portion with my found his health at breaking-on this basis the number of coun-| I think it was a mistake to mention cred.

bare hand, and as the dirt flaked ៥០ "shares." It revives

obstacle Lo for There was just one

saw the snowy beauty of a wway point; indeed, it was suggested terfeit coins in circulation in this the ward

many sad memories. There is,

woman's breast, the delicate veins of example, the case of those brewery making investment, and that

in exactly £100! In those days it was a at the time that had he not been Colony.

shares which were to keep me

life itself. "It's a masterpiece!" an over-tired man, the fiasto of

comfort for the rest of my days. I sheer possibility to spare a hundred which seemed to carry the blood of available transport, the bought, and I held on. Up and up pence from our family budget with whispered. "In the morning we must the Hoare-Laval peace plan est

went the shares, Ten, twenty, thirty out incurring the risk of starvation make inquiries."

Next morning I tackled the land- would nover have occurred. longer periods they spend at the pounds-there seemed no limit to the yet when I think of what founders Still my shares in Lyons must be worth`now--

oh, why didn't we just starve for. a lady. There is also the case of Mr. conference table or in secret figure they would reach.

few months 7

"That cld pleture!" she laughed. Ramsay MacDonald, un

If had sold at the peak price 1

Another good friend of ours was "Oh, it's been knocking about in the man, admittedly, who has had, conclave, the more tantalisingly

achievement should have realised-oh, it hardly

bears thinking about. I should not Mr. Charles Watson, who had opened lumber-room for as long ne I by reasons of failing energy, to does success retire somewhat into the back-seem to elude thom. In the ond, have been ashamed to stand up to the two or three shops and was having remember. My father, used to own I thought it thousand pounds. But I held on too bad faith in his destiny, and advised so that picture must bave been here ground. Mr. Baldwin, a more they are all too often condemned man who bragged he was worth ten hard fight to hold his own. He also this house, and his father before him,

non-long, and I still have the shares, and us to buy his shares. Ah, well, his hundreds of years. robust type, has also latterly by unsympathetic and

if someone came and offered me seven little shops have grown into the might as well be put to some use fortune I did not make is still in its afford to have it repaired, so I stuck been feeling the strain of work understanding public opinion, shilings apiece for them I should Maypole, Dairy Company, but the when that wall fell in and couldn't

original embryonic state.. and is likely in the not far dis-which takes small account of the shake him by the hand.

Fortune's Hardest Slap tant future to take a less active difficulties which they encounter Why Didn't Wo Starve ?

But that is typical of me. Either part in the nation's politics. and the strain they are called

Perhaps the most resounding slap

So I went off to consult a builder, Assuredly, they are not to be upon to bear. There is the I hold on to the wrong shares or I am

tune was in connection with an in- who willingly gave me an estimate. envied who have, in these days, further point that most of these told about the right ones and do not planted on my cheek by Lady For

cident a! Bath many years ago. My He'd make a good job of the wall, a hand in directing the foreign men get relatively small reward buy them.

Shortly after the war my friends wife and I were very young, very and it would cost me ifty bob. Fifty very much inlove shillings. He might as well have said affairs of great nations. If for their work; many could do

opstart tabaccu company. But sufficiently in love to convert into a $50. My wife and I hadn't fifty their labours were rich in bene-infinitely better for themselves told me to buy shares in a certain poor, and

him for hla courtesy and put the pic- ture out of my mind. ficent results proportionate to in private life. These are shook my head. I knew better. The palace the tumbledown dinginess of shillings in the world, so I thanked great combines, and where, then,

One night we returned to our room

It was only two or the drain on their energies, thoughts which should be kept start would be smashed by the a lodging-house.

would be my hard-earned pennies? abilities and time, there would in mind when we feel disposed Strangely enough, the upstart sur-after the show. It was midnight be less reason for lamenting the to gird against the apparent vived, and I saw the money I ought and everyone in the house was in bed later that I read in the morning to our quarters was a covored in a Bath lodging-house. It value till once agala my modest to, tako us Atlas-load they have to bear, helplessness of our statesmen. to have invested doubling and trebling and asleep long since. The only light papers of a lost master-piece dis- "Lot and his Wives," and was paint- Unhappily, however, the harder Our debt to them, whether we speculation would have made me apmoky, guttering candle, as we tip was called, if my memory serves me,

I enught my toe on a loose board 'ed by Titian. It Bornothing oleo something which did they work, the more they rush acknowledge it or not, is a big rich man. But, alas, I had bought toed along the passage:

and stumbled against the wall. To Christie's for 10,000. not rise. hither and thither by the quick- one..

older

in

friends said "Hold on!"

1

can

the picture over the hole. Sell It] It's not worth anything, but if you repair the wall for me you can havo it and welcome."

three years

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