1940-10-26 — Page 8

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 26, 1940.

GONE with the WIND

GONE WITH THE WIND: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland; Queen's and Alhambra, Critical tem- perature, 90 deg. THERE will be a battle

over this film. One side (the louder side, though the smaller) will shout that it is three hours forty minutes of concentrated blah and hokum. They will shout Mrs. Henry Wood and Quida and East Lynne and Charles Garvice and Victoria Cross,

But the other side will be content to say that this is the greatest motion picture ever made. They probably won't tell you why; it will be sufficient that it satisfied them.

I'll tell you why it satisfied thom. "Gone With the Wind"

Tale Of Bad Woman

This is the lordly dish.

Vivian Loigh is the whole show in "Gone With the Wind"—and a very good show too.

Hollywood

Summing up: Just a little too

Film: "Lillian' Russell." Star: Alice Faye. Verdict: Another one of those films about actresses.

——King's.

is the perfect emotional drama. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give that overy. other actress in

Norma Shearer, much of a very good thing. It is the story the writers have a damn.'

At that point every man in Katie Hepburn, Bette Davis, everybody been searching for since Salome danced before Horod for a head the audience will reach for his Miriam Hopkins.

hat, agreeing. But women will in fact bar Garbo and Shirley on a lordly dish.

stay on to see Scarlett, in a sen Temple-turned it down.

Vivien Leigh is superb. Her of tears, lift her head and blaze her eyes as she realises that she eyes and chin are cat's. She

smirks and says. "Fiddle-de- This is yet another of the It is the tale of a bad woman: still has her home.

The home endures. As for dee!" and an half hour from many films which seek to derive She steals other women's men,

says Scarlett, smiling the start she slaps Leslie Ho- entertainment from dead enter- cheats, lles, drinks secretly, is men, greedy, mean and treacherous, through the tempest of her ward's face. It is a fine slap. tainers,

The history of Lillian Russell there's always She opens her shoulders like Scarlett O'Hara is everything tears"

Bradman attacking a ball on might have been made more that every woman knows she to-morrow."

You will set that this is the off, and when her little pink interesting than that of many could be if she had the courage.

film. Every palm connects there is a noise actors and singers because her Deep down in her, as in every Vivien Leigh's woman, is the home ache. Men close-up goes to her. Every- like the crack of a stockwhip. mother was a suffragette and From that point on, the film the first woman to seck election and babies, colours, clothes and body else in the picture-Olivia

de Havilland, Gable, Leslie Ho is hers. She slaps everybody as Mayor of New York; there flattery take second place.

At the end of the third hour ward and some thousands of with gusto, swirls her skirts, might well have been an instruc. -and-the-thirty-fifth minute of others, are no more than com- flares her nostrils. Her eyes tive contrast between the two ure-as-restless-as-a-deep sea_ways in which_women can play this sumptuous photoplay the plimentary to her whims.

with cloud shadows chasing a part in the world, the old way Man, Rhott Butler (Clark

of Lillian Russell and the new Gable), puts on his bat and

This is the biggest part that Through the American Civil way of her mother. walks out the front door, and

But though there are vague 2 when Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) was ever tackled by any actress War, through the burning of

the fantastic history of Atlanta, the wrecking of the hints of such a contrast the cries weepily. "But what's go in

of theme comes to nothing, and, ing to happen to me?" he says, motion pictures. Rumour says great plantation homes

Georgia, the grim poverty of instead, there is the usual de after-war this vivid little person scription of fantastic success, flares.

honourable poverty, and long drawn, excessively high-minded

Face-Slapper

Clark Gablo.

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Never Subdued love affairs.

Everything happens to her. The lofty moral sensibility She is never subdued. Towards attributed to Lillian Russell the end of this flamboyant seems hardly compatible with narrative it dawns on the viewer the overwhelming desire for that he has forgotten what popular success and the naive which is algo started it all. Whole companies exhibitionism

of characters are submerged in ascribed to her in the film. the flood of incident.

Miss Alice Faye takes the These survive: Hattle Mc- chief part and sings, in a rather Daniels's fat negro mammy, husky and throbbing voice, a Thomas Mitchell's Irish squire, number of the songs which Olivia de Havilland's gentle Lillian Russell used to sing. Melanie,

(al- Gablo's Rhett

There is also a curious inter- though this is by no means his lude with Gilbert and Sullivan, best), and Ona Munson's lady where Sullivan is discovered of the town.

playing an andante by Mozart, Misses de Havilland and Mun- apparently under the impression son get second prizes.

that he has written it himself.

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