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Wednesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 22, 1939.

KEEN INTEREST IN

FILM CENSORSHIP

FILM topics are perhaps of oven more interest at the present time than the films themselves. Thus there is a reaction against the American film censorship as a potent cause of the standardisation and puerility of the great majority of Hollywood pictures. The immediate abolition of the Will Hays office, the motion picture production "code" the Legion of Decency and all other forms of censorship is urged by Professor Sawyet Falk, director of the Civil University Theatre, at Syracuse, New York. As an experiment he wants to see "facts of life" films produced, with good taste as the only restriction. Professor Falk resents the fact that the screen is unable to touch on vital subjects not forbidden to the novelist and dramatist. I do not think his view will gain ground since without restriction of some sort good cur- rency would be driven out by the bad. Everything depends on the manner in which the censorship is exercised. It conses to be intolerable when, as in England, it is sensitive to public opinion.

Then there la the present position 15 hours flying service against of film produciton in England which Germun nee. Scotty (David Niven) io causing controversy and difference is cheerful and the veteran (Donald of views everywhere. Some people maintain that the new Films Act which provides for a 20 per cent. quote for the renters and 15% for the exhibitors, has achieved its pur pose. It has resulted in an improve- ment in quality and has achieved the

Crisp). stands by with gentle philo- sophy, John Monk Saunders, an American, has written nothing o effective since "Wings" and Edmund Goulding, an Englishman, has direct-- ed a British cost faultlessly.

splendid result of washing out the son with

the

In

Other Blms look pale in compari- "Dawn Patrol."

"Ken- degrading "Quota Quickies" Oppon-tucky" at the New Gallery is life ents of the Act maintain that it is seen through the rosy lens of techni- a flop because there is so much un-colour. It is the old story of two employment rife. Another reetoon families having feud and the of the trade la unhappy because beautiful daugher falls in love with fewer pictures are being produced, the handsome son, and there is but what are being produced are horse in the Kentucky Derby better. Perhaps it is as well for spite of its unoriginal plot it is good everybody to be patient for 12

entertainment, with Richard Greens months to see how the Act actually and Loretta Young as the lovers. I works.

has quaint humour and charm and Scotsmen are up in arms because no doubt will be more popular with nima made by an offelul Scottish the public than "Dawn Patrol." commitee have been rejected by the

"The Outsider" successful as committee responsible for choosing play and as a silent film, has been lims for the British Favilion at the remade by Associated British with: New York Fair. The reasons for the Mary Maguire as the crippled girl, rejection were seemingly that the and George Sanders, the tall English- Aims did not show a suffetently

man who made his mark as the of Bri-

in monocled, inonace

Lloyds pretty or decorative picture of tain. The body which

refused London" us

as the quack who cures her presentation is a committee of the when Harley Street has falled. British Council for Cultural Rela-aw the play some years ago and llons Overseas, which he described nullved that the film kept well within 35 20 English organisation. No the stage portrayal excepting for a doubt we shall hear more of this. few alterations.

had

A GREAT FILM

A great lm has come to us recent-

The

of

ly. It is a superb warm and setting was regarded with Kruve

Is called "The Dawn Patrol."

NEW YORK

WORLD'S FAIR

Any misdirected stones might damage the $1,000,000 glass house at the New York World's Fair, where wonders of the world of glass will be housed. Above, the huge liminated tower of glass blocks, is shown, with its blue glass fins and spiral helix. The building is logoted not far from the thematic trylon and perisphere of the fair.

Rich Widow To Marry

Holiday-Hotel Waiter

BUDAPEST.

A wealthy Australian widow, aged twenty-nine, is to marry

a Hungarian waiter with whom she fell in love when he waited at her inable two years ago at Lake Balaton, Hungary'a fashionable summer resort,

Hardy Embraced By An Elephant

BONE SETTING chlef point being that bone One suspicion

and hostility and, that eritic suggests that if Chekhov had nowadays one loses a little of this served as an airman in the Wur it is the sort of story he might have point as it is a part of one's life. Mary Maguire is a newcomer to the written. It is a stirring, magnificent film world with a sweet and appeal- study in futility. There is really no ing face and lovely eyes that hold plot. None of the characters is un- one's attention throughout. The film

GEORGE EMERSON, of Holly- The end has sympathetic.

come

moving and wood, who trains animals for Impresses one as 1

the before you realise

have not seen you

athletle story which will appeal how alms, has just finished his toughest woman. The dramu rises from the ever more to the feminine public.

assignment, reactions of each man to his job. The commanding officer Basil Rath- bune) has been brought to a nervous breakdown by duties he hates; his fight leader (Errol Flynn), thinks htin a butcher for sending boys on

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Joe E. Brown continues 10 be His is a strenous job at the best popular and his picture The Gladia of times, but when he was training for conforming strictly to formuin, two elephits, Queenie and Sully, can be safely recommended to all for their parts in Oliver Hardy's who like it. Some of the gags are latest Am, "It's Spring Again," it

(Continued on Next Column) attained new heights of difficulty.

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the script this sort of thing kept bobbing: up

"A look of pain sweeps across the elephant's heo,"

"Sally embraces Oliver

with deep affection."

Hardy

"A light of determination was in Queenie's eyes."

The waiter, thirty-four-year-old Joseph Nagy, is the son of a brick- layer.

The widow, Mrs. Molly Barton, came to Hungary after the death of her husband, surgeon in Mel- bourne. She now owns a flourishing beauty parlour in Melbourne,

Nagy said: "We became interested in each other begnuze I could talk to her in English. After I had cleared her table and was off duty at the hotel we used to go for walks together.

"Befere she returned to Australia after,

six weeks' holiday we were en-

gaged.

£15

"Since then she has written to me regularly, and sent me cables asking me to go to Australia, but I did not So want to live upon hier fortune. for two years I worked waiter, and organised connections In Hungary so that I could act as a For the sweeping look of pain, trading agent for importing Hun- George daubed glycerine on the ele-garian goods into Australia. phant's cheeks, then turned-a wind-"Now I have sent her a cable saying. machine on to her face and made her am ready to leave. I shail sail blink.

from Naples shortly and we shall be For the determination, George married immediately after I arrive in waved a stick with a chromium- Melbourne."

plated knob, and made Queenie stare.

To produce the embrace, Oliver

Hardy had to give Solly tiibits for ten

days. After that what could

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gratefull elephant do but wrap her trunk affectionately round him?

..

Canned For 114 Years, Is Fresh

What is the age of the oldest Un

really funny. Considering that Mr. of canned meat still in existence?

Brown is 40. he gets away wonder-

There is one of heavy black melai fully with adolescent parts,

in "Explorers Corner" at the Royal Finally. We have "Le Jouer United Services Institution which d'Echeca" at the Berkeley, based on was in Captain Parry's stores for two

Aretle expeditions in 1824-25,

He brought it back unused and it till last year. remained unopened

the life of Baron von Kempelen, the Austrian puppet maker who lost his Ife saving Polish rebel from the Now the roast veal it contained is vengeance of Catherine the Great in two test tubes, pink and fresh of The film, however, never quite gets the day it was canned at least 114 there. There are moments of beauty years ago.

and strange horror but the film as a Portions were fed to animals-and whole just misses and this despite they like it. Donkin and Heal, who some distinguished neling by Conrad } begim business in 1811, were the can- Veldt as the baron and Francoise | nets. They were the first firm to Resay as the Empress.

supply such products.

News from the Disney studios is There were no tin-openers in those that there will be no full-length days. The tin in "Explorers' Comer" Disney successor to Snow Whitebears the instruction: "Cut round until next, Christmas at the earliest with hammer and chisel." but after that the feature cartoons

FROM CRIMEAN WAR

should succeed one another at inter- Canning was originated by Appert, vals of six months or so, There are Paris chef, who battled foods and three full length Disney productions pleed them in belling water about in hand at the moment, apart from 1700.

the regular

supply. "Bonibl" Appentice."

Four tins for canned food supplied They are

War "The to the troops in the Crimean and

The

came into the possession of Profes- named is based on the Italian stort sor J. C. Drummond, of London University. two years ago. When

first

of a puppet made by the woodcarver the cans were opened the food was Gepetto, who was brought to light round to be in excellent condition. by the Blue Fairy, but couldn't be

Pasteur's experiments on fermen- come a really little boy until he tation proved that the secret of can- proved himself worthy. Bambi is ning was not the exclusion of air, as about the deer who grew up to be was formerly believed, but the kill- mortarchi of the Maine Woods, Ing of the bacteria in the foods by. Mickey Mouse

the heating. The exclusion of air pre- Sorcerer's apprentice.

vents the bacteria from re-entering.

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