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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 31,

1936.

CINEMA NOTES

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High adventure of the ori sets your pulses pounding; glamor. ous nights of romance in the tropics; tolstering, boisterous comedy--thone are the elements from which the suspense-Blled action of "A Message to Garcia" 20th Century's fascinat ing adventure romance; now at the King's Theatre, were woven. Bring-i ing together Wallace Beery, John Roles And Barbara Stanwyck in their first roles, together, the picture is an engrossing story the adventure that changed the des. tinies of three nations. Boles is the Garcin." hero of "A Message to Entrusted with a dispatch to Garcin, .somewhere in the tropical interlor of Cuba, he sets with Beery, a crafty, humorous renegade. In the course of their wanderings, they meet Bar- bara Stanwyck, whose father has been executed, and who is willing to lead them to Gartin. Their venture almost falls because of treacherous guides: Miss Stanwyck is wounded in on encrunter with the enemy, and left behind by Boles and Beery they forge ahead to their gont. The climax of the picture is approached fets Boles when Beery mistakenly fall into a trap laid by Alan liale, and then leads Garcia's forces in a charge to the reseur that sets things right, reunites the lovers and brings .A the story to a happy close.

story by W. P. rollicking screen Lipscomb and Gene Fowler, and deft direction by George Marshali, are two inore reasons why "A. Message

Jamboree of un Gnreln" to

in the adulterated entertainment. supporting end, you will see Herbert irresistibly consie Mundin. in an

Cockney characterisation; Enrique Acosta, who gives dignity to the role of Garcia, and lovely Mona Barri as an enemy spy.

"Tetticoat Fever"

Against A background of ice- bound Labrador, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy are enacting one of the funniest comedies over screened, In the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. "Petticoat Fever," now the Majestic Theatre, Adapted from the stage h of the same une, the operator story concerns a wireless

as the

Al

who is so lonely that he holds pri- soner two Hers, a beautiful young girl and her male companion, whom night. he rescues from the Arctic Reginald Owen heads the featured cast,

blustery Englishman whose bride-to-be is snatched away from under his very unse. Others east are Otto Yamacka, as the Eski mu man servant; Farrester Harvey. Bo Ching and Iris Yamnon. The brilliant direction of George Fitz- maurice is to a large extent respon sible for the unabating merriment of this exceedingly funny picture. Pre- ducer Frank Davis has dressed it with lavish production mountings.

new

"Roman Scandals"

Eddle Cantor sing three lively

song bits in his inimitable : Fashion in "Roman Scandal," the comedian's fourth

screen EXTRA musical extravaganza for Samuel: Goldwyn, showing to-day at the Stari Theatre-The-numbers are Keep Young

and Beautiful," Build Little Home" and "Tax On Love," The first two were written by

Al Dubin and Harry Warren, while on the Inst Warren collaborated with L. Wolfe Gilbert. "No More Love," the plaintive ballad crouned by Ruth Etting of radio and Ziegfeld Follies Came in the spectacular Stave Mar- ket sequence of this United Artists release

was also written by the Warren team, Glerin Dubin and Stuart, David Manners, Edward Ar nokl and Veree Teasdale are featured with Ruth in Eddie's support in this adaptation of George S Kaufman rollicking aul Robert Sherwood's story, under the direction of Frank Tuttle. Busby Berkeley created and directed the dance and production numbers.

Men and Things

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Abroad

R. PIROW's "Indiscre- tion" about German colonies has caused a lot of official concern as well as a lot of public hullabaloo. And Intimation has been sent to Pretoria that his Majesty's Ministers in the United Kingdom would be glad I his Majesty's Ministers in the Union of South Africa could manage not to be so embarrassing in future.,

of which intimations Mr. Oswald Pirow is kely to take small notice, because he is like that.

Anyway, there is really nothing new In his advocacy of colonies for Ger- unny. 1e raid it very plainly last October.

"I express the hope that Germany will soon become a colonial power- above all, in Afrien."

Ironic

An Ironio situation, Because in Paris in 1010 it was South Africa-in the person of General Smuts-which was the most insistent that Germany'a colonies must be taken from her.

But that was because Smuts and South Africa were determined not to give up their conquests of 8.W. Africa and "German East"--how Tanganyika,

And today Mr. Pirow is quite deter mined that though Germany must have an African colony, it must on no Rccount be either "South West" or Tanganyika.

"South Weat" is the Union's own mandated territory. Tanganyika-now under UK. mandate-is, in the Prow view of things-carmarked for ulti mate absorption by the Union.

So neither must, on ally account, go back to Germany.

What then?

His Plan

At the back of Mr. Pirow's bund when he says that a solution will be round by cannonsense," is the old Chamberlain plan of 1898 for making Germany the heir of the Portuguese Empire.

Not all of it. Southern Mozambique and Delagon Bay, which is the Trans- vaal's nearest port, are "needed" by South Africa.

But Northern Mozambique and Angola. Suppose that in due course Germany were nule and willing to buy, and Portugal willing to sell. Then, why not?

There are precedents: Russia'a sale at Alto the United States, fora example.

The Reason

But why? Why is Mr. Pirow Go anxious to have Germany back in Alrica?

He gave tho answer to that question imself last autumn.

"To-day, more than ever, in face of the rising tide of coloured races, we have need of the mighty nld of a strong Germany.

For us here in Bouth Africa the maintenance and extension of u white civilisation are a matter of life and death."

All Pirow's policy, external as well

Zulu' warriors-the time may comɑ.'.

WHITE

BAHARA

Booland

SW Africa.

This map by J. P. Horrabin shows the African possessions that

Germany lost.

for supremacy in Africa. And in that struggle he wants, not the dubious help of a feeble Portugal, but "the mighty nid of a strong Germany,"

Semi-Fasciste

He wants Germany in Africa for just the same reason that ho wants a strong South African white army and air force.

And it is to precisely the same end that he is organislag his Special Service Battalions, and that he is en- couraging the formation of Grey Bhirts semi-Fascist bodies of Boer farmers.

Bouth Africa's native policy, of re ducing the black population to a status of servitude very near, Indeed, to challel slavery, is bringing the in- ovitable conarquensc.

Breeding late

Tyranny breeds hatred among the oppressed, fear among the oppressors, And white South Afrlen begins to bo mortally afraid of the massca which it has robbed and 11-treated,

It begins to fear an African uprising. descent of the tribes from the North. a racial war throughout the continent. The time may come," says Pirow, "when white men, women and chil- dren will have to be protected against black Invaders."

When that time comes he wants the Germans there take a hand with British, French and Belgians in the decisive battle against the African "in- vaders" of Africn.

Uneasy Egypt

The Britian conversations have triumphed, in spite of the heat Awl Chiro during

the summer enn be pretty trying.

The worst trouble in the efforts to reach a

na internal, is dominated by that belterent way that some of the Egyptian

that in the not far future there will, be a great Black Rebellion-a life and death struggle betwen the two racca

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dat. And, anyway, Mahmud's following to the country in tonignideant.

Now that the rollitary questions have lacess setti, ubody anticipates much trouble weet the Sulan, which was such a troublesome point In 1930. And, na to the rest, the "Handerson Draft, with slight rovisiona, los poured ace replable to both sides.

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Conction the authors in this caso achieve with n remarkable efficiency, The amount which they have man. aged to pack into 60 pages is amazing.

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"Am I going to be President?"

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Odds Against

Governor Landon 1s Republican nominee (with small chance of success) for the U.8. Presidency. But the man

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behind Landon, the man who is run= ` ning his campaign, is J. D. M. Hamil ton, Chairman of the campaign com- mittee.

And J. D. M. Hamilton la the coming man of the Republican Party, Gossip already talks of him as a possibility for 1040. What Hamliton's own ideas for the future are, only Hamilton knows.

Young, laughing, curly-haired, look- ing like anything in the world but an American politician, he has in fact

aince he took 11 been in politics

kaw degree.

He has been Speaker of the Kansas Legislature. very nearly Governor of Kansas. He has been, as occasion de manded, a hard-shelled conservative and an ardent Liberal

Running the Show

"I'm running this show," was his curt announcement to all would-be advisers 03 soon A Landen was nominated.

And so far he is doing far more of the running than Landon himself. The candidate is to do little until the last weeks. Hamilton is overywhere, making speeches, talking to locni bosses, organising publicity, in fact. "running the show."

If, by a miracle, Landon were electrè in November, it would be Hamilton's victory, and Hamilton would be the

power behind the throne."

If, as is probable, Landon is defeated, Hamilton none the less will have made himself the dominant personality of the Republlean party,

The G.O.P." wants a personality, a man with

enormous energy, with charm, with the knack of catching the public imagination,

John Dantel Miller Hamilton is going to use the 1936 campaign to show the party that he is just what it wants.

Well, Well...

Communist parties are a queer study these days. They remind nie of Church's historic cable to Kolchak in 1019 urging him to pretend to be a democrat, so as to gel British fand, in particular, Lloyd Georgian gym- pathy.

Some of the Old Guard must have "hearing wondered if they were things" when Earl Browder. chosen Communilet candidate for the United States Presidency, announced to the party convention that "aurs in not n programme of revolutionary over- throw of capitalism." and that it could borealised within the present Ameri- can form of government."

Well, well; and when you think of the trades of contemptuous abuse that: not so long ago, would have been hurled at any Socialist guilty of such a despleably "reformist speech.

Indiscretions

Other notable features the Con gress were the careful avokaner of any attack on Roosevelt, the declaration that the chief aim of the Party is to defeat Landon," and the resounding cheers for John L. Lewis dlately de nounced as the worst type. of "Lakour Union boss").

It is all the result of the glaring in- discretions of American delegates al the Comintem Congress who talked! such reni Bolshevism that Roosevelt bent an angry protest to Moscow and threatened to break diplomatic rela- tlons.

Time was when they would inve been applauded for their revolutionary courage. But in these days, the conse- quence was a strict order to the Ameri can Party that on no account must it say or do anything to annoy the President.

"When faller says turn wa al turn." And so one-time red-blooded American Communists talk to-day like rather pallid Liberals. Until, to t some political purpose, father" says "turn again.".

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