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NE of Britam's most sa- clous cinema aliowmen, Sidney, Bernstein, is back this week from a Bolly-

wood runaround.

Bernstein, casily the mont charming man in British filmland, talks with that air of complete, friendly candour which always makes you feel he is concealing something.

Ostensibly his trip was to reg how the best studios make nima, but when taxed with having pro- ductton plans of his own, he denied the rumour with suspicious streng- own (89.

This energetic young man, whose Oranadas have set a new standard in many a spot, thinks nothing of fying to Russia to see lins he could not possibly show. Ho to one of the founders of the Film Society, and the screen is his hobby as well as his business.

SUCH an

absorption in films is certainly more than Hollywood pronounced in anywhere else. Bernstein told me of a vast Marlon Davies party, of its spending most of an evening with Ginger Rogers before realis- ing who she wna; of the burning demand for fresh youth and beauty, and of the great" uplift“ Interest in biographical pletures.

"The shrewdest person I mét? James Captury, who in bursting withɛ kiran audi has an uncauny judgment of publie nerda

The big stars of the immediate Luise Rainer, Robert Taykır fulturo? ad, above all, Charles Boyer, who i to be Girela Garbo's next leading man

General concentration on a flin. once it has started, is astonishing. Everybody works from 7 a.m. to any old hour at night. The assembling and culling keeps pace with the production so much that a flim is often ready within two days of the last camera shot.

A chief like Darryl Zanuck reads all the morning papers for story ideas, Topical subjects can be written, made and shown before they get stale

To-

day's nowa is often to-morrow's pleture.

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WHEN A subject in

cherished,

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unlimited money will be spent on It. An example is The Good Earth, with Paul Muni and Lutse Rainer, which has cost two and a half million dollars up to now.

"Americans see new pletures earlier than we do. The reason? There in no slackening of relenses in the `summer as there is here.

"I can tell you this vital fact. Holly- 'wood's profits depend on the British market, more than ever." A momi here, somewhere,

SOME new ngures of star salaries, in case you care to know how your favourites are jogging along:-

Mae West. £60,000 a im plus a share of profits; Marlene Dietrich, £40,000; Claudette Colbert. £25,000; Junct Gaynor, Irene Dunne and Jeanette

MacDonald,

£29,000;

Bylvia Sidney. Margaret Sullavan, Ann Hard- Ing. Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon, £15,000;

Carole Jean Arthur. Lombard, Myrna Loy, £10,000 each,

The men? Bing Crosby, Ronald Colman, Fredric March. £30,000; Clary Cooper, Robert Donnt, £23,000; William Powell, Charica Boyer, £20,000; Leafle Howard, Paul Munt, Robert Mont- Homery, Edward G. Robinson, Wallace Berry, £15,000; Victor McLaglen, John Boles, dock Önkie, John Barrymore, $10,000,

Mystery still surrounds a few of them, although Garbo's £60,000 n film and Clark (inble's £30,000 are <imputed.

·PUZZLE, FIND THE STARS! They're here if you can spot them--

Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney in "Fury."

and the dialogue is splendidly wellten. A disturbing picture of Texan civils- ntion in action.

"The Lady Consents"

This is familiar marital drama, based on the well-known Hollywood "change partners" thome, in which marriage vows are rented as pawns Director don't do so badly. Pive at in the social pastime of matrimony.

them get £20,000 per job.

not

Amusing to note another advertised extract from my criticism-this time of

Broken Blo:sánu,"

"It in grand picture "-"Daily 1erald." What I actually wrote wan "A graud picture for all who love the elisimal things of life.”

NEW FILMS "Fury"

Ita story is one of those American sidelights on lynch-law; which always leave us with the mental comment.

Michael Talbot, a New York society doctor, in love with his wife, Agne, athletic so falls in love with na girl, Jerry Mannerly, who is deter- mined to get him. He asks Anno for

A # divorce) that he can marry Jerry, and Anne, who loves him and wantn fo make things easier for him, con- sonis, and even comes to the wedding, in the disgust of Michael's father, 3m Talbot, a staunch supporter of Anne.

Here and There

Kitve Brook and Victoria Homer hasen completed “Lonrly Hoad " at the, lalig studios.

Tay Carnett, Hollywood director, 2104 arrived in his ynchi arter· a 7,000-talle cruise round the world, and plans a British les

Marlee Costello, former estled favourtle of alient pictures, has slgard for a part in "Holywood Haulerard "— bis Arst for nine years,

Hentrice e in to reappear on the screen for Radio Pictures,

Lawrence Tibbett has begun “Love bette In Hollywoont,

Henry Fourth b at work with Ana. Wella in “ Wings of the Morning." the tiesi imtish picture me Technicolour,

Fran Harlow mant Robert Montgoinery will be together in “Love on the Run.”

First Aid For Fans.

"Fury" (King's) :

the One of finest pictures screened in Hongkong for some time. Spencer Tracy vinco to new heights as inch mob's intended victim. Croust scenen are ruperb.

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LLOW an exg for each person -and-bolt them lightly. without breaking. Make a good onion sauce with_half-pint of white sauce and half-pound cook- ed onions. Drop the egg caTC- fully Inta it and serve inside R rampart of mashed potato.

Pineapple Meringue is made with a small chopped pineapple or a small tin of shredded pine- Apple. Put the pineapple in a double boller with three table. spoonfuls of sugar, a table- apponful of lenton juice, and three egg yolks. Stir until thick, pour ton fireproof dish, top with a meringue made with err whites, and brown in the oven.

CHILDREN'S CORNER

CRICKET HINTS

IN taking up his stance at the

wicket a batsman should be care ful to have one foot inside the popping crease. If his foot in merely

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By arrangement with the Management of the Star Theatre, ten

on the line, he is out of his ground and double Dress Circle Tickets will be given to the first ten correct liable be stumped. Similarly, solutions received for the Crossword Puzzle given below. Solutions when turning for a second run, he must rench the "Telegraph" office before 5 p.m. to-morrow. Clues huid see that his hat is grounded relate to the film "Captain Blood", coming to the Star on Sunday. Inside the erense. Otherwise the um

pire will call "short run" and brond- Mark envelopes "CROSSWORD" and address to "Hongkong Tele- cast the batsman's carelessness, {graph", Wyndham Street. Tickets are to see "Captain Blood".

BACKING UP When at the bowler's end, the bata- man should back up by advancing n few yards down the pitel after the bail is bowled, but not so far that le cannot ground his bat inside the crease again with a single lunge. To prevent collisions when running be- tween wickets and to avoid damage to the pitch, ench batsmann should keep to one side of the wicket-the striker to the bowler's side, his part- ner to the other.

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for this jolly game. Draw two lines on

ground about three yards apart-this in the "Thirteen Hours by Air" forbidden country-and pick Lo (Queen'n); W. 71. chounen another tennis, of players. Calf $em the topical mubject for theme, Fruna-] Bats and the Bees,

Hotele continental airway "Granit

Jerry, soon makes Michael's life n burden to him, etii Jim, having Don't ask

1210 why this, at the been practically driven away by Jerry, King's. Is so much more he is accidentally shot ut a hunting- directed by Fritz Lang thap anything lodge, where Michael and Anne are he has made in London.

reunited at his deathbed. By claim- ing arrears of alimony, Anse forces

divorce- the Michael, and Anne and Michael start

mercenary Jerry to What a country)" Spencer Trace again, poor bat happy. 13 tremendous na a suspect kidnapper

In her moments of emotion, Ann held on the flmalest evidence, faced with a lawless mob who burn down the Harding nets in line with all her past

superb jell, and escaping, vows vengeance.

Margaret plat. performances; Ils sweetheart (Bylvia Sidney) heima Lindens is suitably east and appro to convict the ringlenders, thinking he priately unsympathetic as Jerry; and is dend, but at the end of the triat Herbert Marshall is plaintive as the where the Judge actually takes the high-minded, but poor fish who doesn't oath as a witness) he reappears.

want use woman unless he has an- other,

Insensate moù hate is terrifyingly exploited, but the hero'a rovengo iš a dangerous theine. The real moral is the feebleness of Blate administration against ignorant popular clamour.

A very Îne cast turn in capital work.

Acting honours go to Edward Ellis the tough, kindly Jim, with Waiter All attractive as Anne's "second string," and Jika Chase effective as a possip.

TEACH CHILDREN THAT

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Good habits

fun can be

VERY good habit economises energy, by the automatic per- formance of the right action, at the right time, in the right The more good habits a child acquires, the more spare energy he will have throughout his life..

way.

Habits are formed through the tendency, which we all have, to repeat those actions which have resulted in plenaure. We must see then that the right activities result in pleasure.

We must, for instance, guard against fussing unduly over a her child. Otherwise he will form a habit of crying loud and long over every small hurt,

Similarly, we must carefully avoid reproving a delinquent in the hearing of the tale-bearer. Or in the habit is

to encourage

the

the feeling of superiority the heurer child to tell pleasant tales about his will experience will caure him to re- friendly, pent the netion of tule-benring.

|Curing a Cry-baby

Remember these Facts

TAKE the case of the cry-baby: TERE are a great many habits

which it should be a mother's John hurts himself, and, as is aim to fix. There are, for instance,

STAR'S BIG LINE-UP perfly natural in a baby, he wants the personal habits of breathing Several "Old Favourites" come to getting it in the way he has found properly, keeping the spine erect, | his mother's attention, and sets about through the nose, blowing the nose Star Theatre during balance of cur rent week. "Trouble in Paradises effective, which is by wailing, and washing the hands before meals. comes back for its third

As John gets older this habit must The three outstanding facts to re-

under 1936-37 "Old Favouring be allered.

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1. That the earlier a good habit

grammes, due, to popular demand. It

offer a substitute for member are:- will be followed to-morrow by. "Din- the crying, such as smiling.

"When you hurt yourself, John, ner at Eight" in which Inte Marie Dressler and a dozen other famous you must try to smile. And if you stars ennet principal roles "Viva can't, then grin like this. Big men.

Vila"

is scheduled for Friday and do!" "Captain Blood? · will commence

three day run on Saturday,

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In the ease of the tale-bearer,

s fixed the better.

3. A habit is formed by pleasure succeeding action.

3 A wrong labit eaunot be broken.

the. mest constructive way of alter- but can be altered into a good one.

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If a team fails to return the hall} ing barrd on "confrasions" of a prison points are scored by their opponents anyder's daughter. Powerful in apota,one point if the ball drops inside the forbidden area, two points If it bounces in the Bats or Bees' own "Trouble in Paradise" (Stur): Mix- territory, irem Hopkins, Frederic March and Claudette Cothert

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