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N British studio floors to-day are 13 pictures in production. "This time last year there were 19; this time in 1930 there were 28. Doesn't look as if that big revival haa come about yet, does it?

By the end of the year, many of the £3,000,000 worth of new nub- jects will probably have been made; and jobs will be found for a fair proportion of the 6,000 studio employees now without them.

Will the same conditions exist that lost these people their jobs last year?

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Waste and muddle were too often these conditions. I ask because only the other day I watched a £750-a-week director fritter away hours at a cost of hundreds of pounda, ail for nothing. The star, one of the most highly-paid in the business, was kept wailing the entire morning while carpenters rushed a "set" into existence, Din- logie was then hurriedly written and argued about by half-a-dozen people.

Five of the principals were then ro-- hearsed, first in one part of the seeno, then in another. Furniture www.d shifted again and again; tea and ice- cream were consumed; and after fresh Ulalogue had been tried, camera and dightä adjusted, what do you think

happened?

The director stopped everything, announcing that he was scrapping the scene entirely.

Such extravagant stupidity occura quite often, Studio stadía are seldom surprised, being used to it

The odd thing is that the film some times turns out well. But having cost such a lot of money, it has no hope of a profit; the unit Inils and the staffs are sacked,

Star of the Week

NEW YORK Barn, 35, Raft, George

furtive Valen tino eith "pute

leather hair, teta newsboy, Ay weighi burer, dancing instructor. Taught the Duke of Wind-

Bor, to en Prince of Wales, the

Charleston, in London.

Screen debut in "Quick Mil- Hons" scored in "Night After Night" "Scarface." "The Bow- ery," "Every Night at Eight," "Souls at Sea," currently du You and Me," now busy in Spawn of the North." Barried » Grace Mutrooncy, 1923, now sepa. rated; one son, Rtal name Rangt.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

Cinemadness

but we don't mean the welcome sort, as provided by the Grazy Gang in their neto film," Alf's Button Afloat."

WHAT'S NEW

Alf's Button Afloat

STARS: The Crazy Gang comedians.

Blapstick comedy.

OR good, honest, kick-in-the-punta larity, this is as uproarious-a picture as has ever been made in this

I surrendered to country.

up roarious horseplay, feeling slightly ashamed that I was being paid, instead of paying to see it.

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Flanagan and Allen. Nervo and Knox, and Naughton and Gold join the Royal Marines by mistake, and have extravagant magical adventures on battleship. A button on Bud - Flanagan's tunic is found to summon. Aladdin's Reale, who grants their every wish, from beer to operalle volces.

I defy anyone to remain serioz during their sextet at the ship's con ceri, when Bud and Jammy Nervo, in female garb, become Impossibly granci Fopranos. Or at their Oriental orgies, followed by their exploits in the hunt- Al- ing-field with a pack of hounds. athir Sim and Wally Patch are first rate folls, and the fun is as swift as it in hearty.

The Crazy Gang are now well put over on the screen. Their next one will be a gold-rush story.

Three Comrades

.STARS: Robert Taylor, Margaret Suflavan, Franchot Tone. Röbert Young. Post-war drains. STARTING in 2018 with three young Gennan soldiers full of hope for the future, Erich Remarque's story

becomes Aweet, and and tragie, with an air of ineritability.

Robert Taylor weds a consumptive, who is very careless of herself and finally dies on a balcony in the front, and Robert Young is shot by a young roller in a street riot. That is really all that happens. Treatment developa alowly, but is heavily charged with brotherly love and short-lived wedded bliss in conditions of poverty and des- perate uptimist.

Natural likeability of the four prin cipals alone averta what would other- wise be one long wallow of gloom. Miss Ballavan espectally delivers a de- П Atudy free lightful performance;

and charged with from self-pity Jumour and courage.

This is an ideal picture for those who like to spend their time in the rineina gently robbing.

You and Me

STARS; Sylvia Sidney, George Raft.

Melodrama,

INTEREST In ex-jallbirds seems a

Hollywood obsession: but pardon- able in the cases of Miss Sidney and Mr. Ruft. whose pertonalities are so murh pre interesting than their peccadillots.

They marry, against parole laws; he relapses into crime, but the gang are captured in a big store. and she delivers a blackboard lecture on the folly of crime, and they repent.

"You can't get something for noth ing." is the commentator's text of this strange but somehow impressive pic.

ture, thus confuting the theory that the Beat Things In Life Are Free.

It

is brilliantly directed. and Harry Carey is Ane as a big-hearted cm- ployer of ticket-of-jenve tolk.

Tropic Holiday

STARS: Bob furns, Martha Raye. Dorothy Lamour. Mexican romance.

O Bob Burns, with his Southern drawl as an Oklahoma politician. I am grateful. He intrudes on this very sugary, synthetic setting of guitars. romance warblingo and moonlight

with a sense of comedy character.

Miss Lamour, squired again by Ray Milland; Binnie Dames and

the Krimacing Martha Raye; and Mexican decorations fill up the running time.

First Aid for Fans

BANK HOLIDAY.—Senside smiles ond sentiment, admirably done, and making Margaret Lockwood a fled star. TRUE CONFESSION-Carole Lom- bard, Fred Macalurray and an over- clever tale of suspicion and tarks. A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER- Corpses it the cupboard and grund hin by Edward G. Robinson and, others.

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT.--- Storm over the orchestra, with James Cagney as lightning conductor. PENITENTIARY.-Walter Connolly proving that many warders cannot quench loyalty.

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS-Ninety minutes of slicer delight from Disney,

German High Command

Goering Holds Highest Rank But Lacks Experience

As Staff Officer; Von Brauchitsch Next

Berlin.

1935, he was promoted to the rank Year Plan commissar for the fron The highest commander of the German armed forces is Adolf of general and was given first the and steel production. Born 48 years. command of 7th Army corps at ago, von Hannecken was graduatel Hitler himself. Nevertheless, it is reasonable to assume that he, Munich and subsequently that of the from the cadet corps, was officer in. the Prussian Guards and later in a who in his military career attained to the rank of lance-corporal 4th Army group at Leipzig.

Next in line is Gen. Wilhelm List, likewise exclusive regiment in Old- only, will never wield any command in the military sense notwith-. standing the recent statement of his Reich press chief, Dr. Otto commander of the 2d Army group, enburg. Dietrich, that the fuehrer possessed knowledge of things military He "which astonishes even the expert."

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Who, then, would lead Germany's General Staff in which he was a full- armed forces if it came to a clash fledged major. to-day.

Under the present organisation, the fatherland's armed forces are divided into army, navy, and air force, each with commander-in- chief at its head.

now.

13 the senior of the high- DISTINGUISHED IN ACTION

to

GENERAL RELEASES

10,

EORGE MURPHY poses as a rich man buying up theatre seats to bocat n, show in You're a Sweetheart, The stunt develops smoothly, Ken Murray and Andy Devine are anising and stage acts are well presented. The very magnetic Alice Faye in star, rendering several goodishi songa in her attractive contralto,

Comparisons with the British musi cal offering, Melody and Romance, need no stressing; but this in a fine exploitation for the undoubted abilities of Hughie Green, the juvenile radio star. The Crystal Palace fire is logic- ally introduced, and Margaret Lock- wood and Jane Carr head a competent company.

Interest in Dangerous' Fingers la largely due to James Stephenson, ex cellent as a vengeful erhok. There is A lively plot ending in a graphlenliy handled man-hunt, and Lealle Perrins, Betty Lynno and D. A. Clarke-Smith do very good work

Mistaken identity of a rich man in a Swiss resort lendo to farcical adven- tures in Romance for Three, Robert

Young, Edna May Oliver, Hernan, Ding and Reginald Owen aro antcllites round the amiable. Incoherent Franic Morgan.

Rival aptes i Mademoiselle Docteur, n rather ponderous but well-produced melodrama, are Dits Parlo and John Loder, This niso restores Erich von Strohelm. whose Bynthetic villainy finals good scope as a German Scoret Service man.

• STORIES IN STAMPS

AUSTRALIA

HOSTAGE!

Saving Australia's Living "Teddy Bears"

TINY, lazy koala, the living ted- dy bear of Austraila, faces ex- tinction, and selence has decided to do something about it.

One time there shy little ani- mats, which have a thick grayish- colored fur, prominent black nose and stand about two feet high, romped the Australian bush by the milions.

Then

en disease and civilization struck. Ten thousand trappers decimated the ranks of those surviving the bush plague. Today koolas are found only in small numbers in eastern and southeastern Australia,

Most inoffensive of animals is the koala, doing no harm to any- one.

It weighs about 30 pounds, ferds mainly upon the branches of certain eucalyptus trees. The animal is rather inactive, cape- cially in the summer, and often sits in the fork of a tree sleeping the daylight hours away. The koolas never drink water; they carry their young in a a pouch, are full grown at 3, live be 15 to 20 years old if not cup. red. They are often called the living teddy bear because of their striking re- semblance to this artificial crea- ture. Actually the American ted- dy bear was copied from the small brown bear of America. A koala is shown above on a current Aur- trallan stamp.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. HOLLAND-005T AZIE LJJN. N.V.

(HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE)

ranking German generals, being 50 the from this he is

He won a distinguished war re- onlyn among a galaxy cord as front-line officer until in all graduated from the artillery, 1017 when he was attached to the though List's initial army training. General Staff. The final war per- too, was in a technical troop, is

in lod saw Hannecken as Gencral Staff Bavarlan sappers' outfit. A Heu- officer of a division at the Western IN POST-WAR ARMY

tenant in 1900, and first Heutenant front, barely 20 years old and a full- remained in Ic

the army also in 1900, List was attached to the ledged captain. He continued

first General Staff in which he served in serve in the Reichswehr and chiefly atter the war. During the

he held

the various positions until the end of the held positions as General Staff officer years

a position in Reichswehr Ministry in the depart- World War.

or in the Reichswehr and later in Ilighest in military ranking is ment for training and education. the commander-in-chief of the

After the war he joined the Reich- the War Ministry. air men

Another one of the younger gen- Subsequently he was commander of swehr, was first commander of an force, Field Farshal Hermann Wil- liam Goering. But it is doubtful

tful one of the few artillery units which Infantry regiment and Inter chiefly eration is Fritz Loeb, major-general From: ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM,

Germany was permitted by the Ver- whether he would be more than a sailles Treaty.

Then, as colonel, he held stuff positions. Subsequently he at 44. He, too, is a Four Year Plan AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, GENOA,

and other PORTS. for man and holds oflée as a commissar figurehead

the department in event of war. De- become

oth Was head of chief-of-staff of the

Loeb was gradu The Steamship spite his high_ranit, Goering har

army division and later departmen- training and education in the Reich- for raw material.

swehr Ministry and commander of ated from a sappers' unit with which

"ZUIDERKERK” never been a staff officer. Ils ne tal head in the Reichswehr Ministry, the Infantry academy at Dresden un- he fought throughout the World War, having arrived from the above ports,

military career was that of a In October, 1931, von Brauchitsch

the postwar Reichswehr, Loeb consignees of cargo by her are noti- til In 1033 he was appointed com- In nghting capacity that he won glory and was promoted to the rank of major, mander of the 4th-division, then of belonged alternately to sappers' units fled that all goods are being landed

and in 1932 was appointed the 4th Army carps. general

and cavalry regiments. In May, at their risk into the hazardous and/ nown. But he did not pass through inspector of all artillery, In 1933

1933, he became General Staff officer or extra-hazardous godowns of the that school-War Academy.

and took over command of the troops

KEITEL HOLDS HIGH POST and was promoted to the rank of Holt's Wharf whence and/or from General Staff-which is the acid in East Prusnia nu successor to Wer-

the wharves delivery may be obtain- test of military talent slated to lead ner von Blomberg. His last position

Another general of reputed mili- major.

ed. armies.

was that of commander of

of the 4th tary talent is Gen. Wilhelm Keitel,

Goods not cleared by the 13th Army moup with headquarters it at present "chief of the high com-

August, 1938, 4 pun. will be subject Goering retired AS CAPTAIN Leipzig which he held until he re- mand of the armed forces," an office

Géoring retired from in 1918-as

man and it was in

gusted--with and

ping

this

he himself said, dis-

ALL ON ACTIVE SERVICE

All the foregoing named men

this

appears more that

does not

necessarily

military talent is Von Brauch miary career

alate him for a high active command in German history many a

von

mcan

the ranks of major. lleutenant- from the cadet school, was an "olunteer at the age of 13, and at the Hindenburg when war broke out; or days after arrival at steamer, oller-

colonel, that is, the in an artillery regiment in the

the staff officer is

the Guards the positions

colonel, and ranks in which ranks of major-general und

the

acid

Promotions

sian

in

throughout

and served

the World War.

un-

the army as rommander-in-chief of the army, of War Minister Werner von Biom- games are known to the public. DH packages are to be left in the go-

placed Col. Gen. Werner von Fritsch created after the recent retirement are on active service now, and their to rent.

All broken, chated and damaged Von Brauchitsch is considered in

berg. Although the rank of captain, military quarters as a man of singu- of an administrative position, Keltel's that they would be the leading brains downs, where they will be examined

at Holt's 'Wharf, one of comparatively

recent lor military talent. Also reputed to m

undoubtedly would if wut were to break out. Especially Consignees are requested to opply vintage atot

Ilis subsequent bo at that.

for a Revenue OMeer in attendance rather were

of soldierly horse" has come to the tore in the when damaged dutieble cargo is military promotions

itsch's successor in the command of in

Tall, or event of Waither

artillery

nation's

hour. political. Ife Jumped from the rank the Army group, Gen.

What Ger- being examined. of need. Bom of captain to that of general-skip- Relehenau.

He, too, was graduated eating, Keitel is

50 man outside a very select circic, for man who has inade

Claims against the steamer must about Paul be presented in writing within tert. years ago, he joined the army as a instance, hnd heard

Erich Ludendorff, staff beginning of the World War, when about

for that wise they will not be recognized. malter. And also the present gen- being tested. He also puten- Always wearing a monocle the he was barely 32,- Keitel was pro eration would be put hard to it if by the undersigned in any case what-i

No Fire Insurance will be effected for official insignin of Guard officers noted to the rank of captain and crat

such a na higher troop leu

a possible ever. battery commander. The greatest required to nume ELS Von Reichenaus despite his 54 years part of the war, Keitel served, how "dark horse" except perhaps one, Bills of Lading will be counter- colonel has retnings! youthful, though ever, in General Staff positions. Af- This one man is Col.-Gen. Wer-signed by general and Field Marshal-the high- somewhat husky, sprightliness; the

von Fritsch (retired) who is JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. N.V. ter the war he continued in the ner est rank the German army can be result of an early love for athletics Relchswehr, first as instructor at the reputed to be the most outstanding

Agents. stow-alag were considered, in n never diminished.

famous cavalry academy at Hanno military strategist since Ludendorit Hongkong. 6th August, 1938. appreciation of his work in organis-

CENERAL STAFF OFFICER ver, and later as commander of vari- and Hanns von Seeckt. Von Fritsch, artillery units. From 1020 to (retired) who is reputed to be the After the old imperial army broke 1031 he was chief of the organisation most

fon most outstanding military strategist

Hanns the down, Von Reichenau Joined the department in the Reichswehr Minis- since Ludendorff and Entirely different has been

alternated Sceckt. Von Fritsch,

of ex- first as captain of Relchswehr

a try. Subsequently

dopper, of Col-Gen. Walther von

machine-gun outfit. Subsequently, Benuchitsch, the

positions. administrational

While wearing a

fell victim to a monocle, chief of the army.

tall, stender officer who is 50 years old now seems rank of major, served as General the great majority of high German Hitler's army purge of Feb. 4, 1938, At the age of 08 he retired, 1 was the 3d Reichswehr army officers

clean-shaven, are to be cut out for military leader. Staff officer of

oMelally stated-much Keitel has a small mustache.

to the sur- the division. After having been educated in the

Until the Nazi's ascent to

nasocintes-owing to power, cadet corps, von Brauchitsch Jolned

Inter he was made commander of the 12th

after being ex-

ing and building the German alt force rather than for purely military talent.

carcer

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commander-in atter having been promoted to tween high army commands and tremely soldierly bearing, always

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he continued chiefly in staff positions lion of

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among the somewhat younger "poor hos os

first gu Infantry, and later an arm and was then made head of one of generailon is Ma).-Cen, Hermann van honorary tillery regiment of the Prussian Guards. He became soon regimen- the most Important departments of Hannecken. This burly officer, be artillery regiment. tal adjutant. After a few years in the Relchswehr Ministry which the sides holding a high position in the onerated by an honour court." this position he was attached to the fer became the War Ministry. In Gederal Staff, is also Goering's Four (TO-MORROW~Soviet Rumia,)

COUNT

1938.

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