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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THURSDAY, JULY

28,

1938.

S

Million-dollar Madness

At the Cinema with P. L. Mannock

UPPOSING your local cinoma manager stepped on the stage to announce thint the feature alm had cost £250,000, would you riac and cheer?

I doubt it. Who on earth has ever recommended a pleture to his Irlanda on the ground that it had cost a million dollars? Films please the public for one reason only because they entertain.

t la time the hot-air departments of i studios realised this. Do they think the showman books Atma "be- cause they have cost albt?

Yet they still do it. Before me are bulletins about Lesile Howard spending

On £200,000

"Nelson." Douglas Fairbanke unfolding a milar sum on "Lola Montez," and "The Mikado" custing the same figure. though "Yeomen of the Guard." to follow, will only cost £100,000.

Geoffrey Toye, supervising tho

First Aid for Fans

WELLS FARGO.—Joel McCrea as prairie podfather in a fine, sweeping picture of the old days.

THE PERFECT SPECIMEN.—ETTOL Fly, nerous wooer, pingered by Shan Bloudell

FOO TIDE. - Coloured tropical frama, well played by Oxeur Homolka and others.

"DOCTOR RHYTHM.---Ong Crosby, Déatrice Lillie and some clever non- SenSC.

CONVICT 99-Win Hay in jail, elmost as funny as last time.

D'Oyly Carte nims, agrees with me very strongly on this matter.

* cannot belleve," he writes in the current Kinematograph Weekly." the lending trade organ, " that readers wil take such statements perlously. These Ogures are quite' unauthorised, and I hope and pray The Mikado' will not cont £200,000, or anywhere near it Furthermore, no choice has been made ns to its suceessor.”

SEVERAL readers have endorsed my

assertion that "smart" American wisecracks, are disliked by millions of British Alm-goers.

"Quick-fire dialogue in disliked, principally because it not under- stood," writes M. G. Winter, either in the rovinces or the big cities. Studio bosses have a great deal to learn of the average Driton's mentality, and there is only one place to acquire this education-in the sixpenny and shil- ing sents.

I am certain there is a half-way mark between the intolerable built-up- area pace of the British producer and the to-morrow-we-dlo scramble of his American rival."

of Another

ollies In this matter is Stanicy Lupino. who in not only a comedian, but also a big shareholder In cinemas and a student of audience reaction.

my

"This lightning Bowery lang in almply detested in hundreds of halls,"

he nesuris

me.

PUBLICITY from Hollywood Inno- cently tells how Nigel Bruce Scot tish actor in Kidnapped, had a stun- post to Edinburgh altered, "beca LSE

the city was spelt Edinboro' in 1851." Joke of the story is, of course, that 1761. the perle of Kidnapped is Further Joke: that the story has been two London soleninly reprinted in dalies. Docs accuracy matter?

NEW FILMS

Blockade

Madeleine Carroll, Henry STAILS:

Fonda. Spanish war drama.

SPLENDIDLY produced war sceneS and que acting are not, prózum- ably, the ingredients of the picture to

Teboi Spain which

1s apparently objecting.

Written with a careful bye to the non-committal, you may nasume that Madeleine Carroll and her boy-Irlent, peasant lieutenant Henry Fonca, are an either alde.

Madeleine's role that of a girl visitor who does not know her father in a spy. He is shot dend by Mr. Fonda, and their perilous adventuren end at a port where a ship has run the

Shirley Temple in Mary Pickford's role as old

of Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm

sense to the The world can stop it- where's the conscience of the world?"

enemy plockade and brings temporary Slight Case of Murder

rellet.

All the same, this climax is the chief Indiention that the herole side is that of the Madrid Government; and, after all, why shouldn't a fictional romance of the constitutional Spanish army be Abned? The vital moral 19 ham- mered home in the boy's final outburst.

Peace! Where can you and it? Our country has been turned into a battle- field. There's no safely for the old It's murder- people and children. murder of innocent people. There's no

Gang-

STAR: Edward G. Robinson.

ater comedy-druzun. (CORPSES and comedy, as we know,

ara no longer an incompatible mix- ture. This is a hilarious yarn of a beer baron ruined by the repeal of Prohibi- tion. He hates the police, and is furious when his daughter falla in love with a Federal officer.

Main situation, richly funny, is the awkward presence of four dead men in hia house, shot by a fifth, with bank loot under the bed,

The young cep

becomes a hero by firing at the dead men through a cupboard door, and Mr. Robinson decides to Improve the A great lark. quality of his brow. with the Rebinton personality ably backed by Allen Jenkins, Ruth Don- nelly, Allen Jenkins and some superb tough.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Juvente

STAR: Shirley Temple.

comedy drania, TWISTED around into a new tale of a child making good na a rodio star, with the brilliant Temple poppet

By Paul F

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

This Curious World

STEAMER TRUNKS

STEAMER TRUNKS ARE NOT THE UL- TRA-MODERN INVENTION ONE MIGHT SUPPOSE. EGYPTIAN KINGS, WHEN, TRAVELING ON THE NILE ABOUT 2000 B.C., USED TO CARRY THEIR JEWELS AND CLOTHES IN SPECIAL TRUNKS WHICH WERE PLACED UN- DER. THE MONARCH'S BED.

ALLEY OOP

HAVIN' MOOTOO FOR JUST YOU'N ME WUZ PRETTY NICE, BUT HULLY GEE-IT MAKES ME HAPPIER WHEN I SEE WHAT A SWELL HOME FOR

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G-ZA

HIGH IN IMPORTANCE YOU AN'I WILL SET, CAUSE GUZ'LL BE GRATEFUL--

YEZZIR, YOU BET

BERVANIER

HE WHO FIGHTS AND

RUNS AWAY-

THE QUOTATION: ---

"FOR HE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS AWAY, MAY LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY:" IS NOT ORIGINAL WITH GOLDSMITH, WHO POPULARIZED IT IN THE 18TH CENTURY. IT COMES FROM THE EARLY GREEK PROVERB: "HE WHO FLEES WILL FIGHT, ANOTHER DAY."

YEP-WENEVER 'DREAMED WHEN WE LAID IT OUT

THAT OUR OLD

MOO HAD

BEEN DE-

STROYED!

C'MON NOW), BOYS-BRING

IT RIGHT OVER

THIS WAY-

By Vincent Hamlin

FOR OUR WORK HERE RECOG

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BIG-SHOTS NOW, SURE ENOUGH!

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BUSY!

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BIRDS

DO NOT ROW THROUGH THE AIR WITH THEIR WINGS/ THE DOWNWARD STROKE ACTUALLY IS DOWNWARD AND FORWARD... BEATING AGAINST THE DIRECTION OF FLIGHT.

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in the role Mary Pickford played, this is more than acceptable enterinltiment, with a few good character touches.

Sentimentally recolling from harsh grown-ups, Shirley helps the filee ones. Itandolph Boost and Gloria Stuart, by pretending to lobe her volco at the microphone, thereby smoothing out everything.

Happy Landing

STAR: Sonja Henle. Romance with

skating.

NE of these days Miss Hente, in a dumcult skating movement, will fall down, and thus end ber im carcer,

Meanwhile, her sunny smile and in- credible ke prowess has to have stories written round it. This one starts lu Norway, has a couple of fine skating balleta. Don Amecho rather wasted, and some very cocky, blatant cabaret stutt by Cesare Romera and Eluet Merman. A perfect hotchpotch of a plot, garnished with numbers and nots and Joan Hersholt beaming through a fringe of Nordic whisker.

Here and There

NORMA SHEARER has completed

Marie Antoinette," with Tyrone Power, Robert Murley, Anita Loulso, Melvyn Douglas and Gladys George in the cast.

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are again together in "Sweet- hearts.

Irene Rich returns to the acterns Deanna Durbin's mother in That Certain Aze."

Robert Taylor, now buy in "Olve and Take" with Maureen O'Sullivan and Frank Morgan. 'set' fórTM" Stand Up and Fight," with Walince Beery.

Bobby Howes, Diana Churchill, Billy Hiton and Vera Pearce hare begun "Yea, Madam," at Elitreo,

Dickens still populat in Hollywood: "Old Curiosity Shop" coming. also Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol.”

CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.

THE BURNS PHILP LINE

From MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, SALAMAUA, RABAUL and MANILA. The Motor Vessel

"NEFTUNA” Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazar~ dous and/or extra hazardous Go- downs of The Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained,

No

claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 30th July, 1930, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on before the 15th August, 1938, or or before

will not be recognized.

they

To comply with the General Bond- ed Warchouse Regulations consignees mast have a Revenue Omeer in attendance when damaged dullable goods are examined.

STORIES IN STAMPS

i

How 'Well Was George Washington Educated? TIXTENSIVE estates and a large

income provided handsomely for the youth George Washing- cduca- ton, except in the field of tion. So meagre were the facili ties of the Colonies during these early 1700's that even children of the richest were forced to depend

the

which offered common, schools,

tory branches.

only the rudimen

So It was that such education as Washington had was completed before he was 16. As a growing lad, he was not remarkable as a scholar: was reserved, sedate.

His chict inclination seemed toward mathematics. Henco his last two years of format study engineering. devoted wero

geometry, trigonometry and sur veying. It was probably because surveying promised advantages, in view of the wild state of the coun try and the increasing demand for Washing- accurate surveys, that

It

ton entered it professionally. was to lend him, indirectly, to- ward the Presidency, for tits suc- cess early established a solid repu- tation for him among the leading men of Virginia.

Washington is shown above on the 3-cent. green of the issue of thon two 1070, enlarged more times actual size.

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