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KING'S

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They're back Again!

Gloriously together... in one of the greatest romances of all Umol Ever-timelyl Ever-now! VIVIEN

ROBERT

LEIGH TAYLOR

WALTER WANGER

PERSENTI

M-G-M's

WATERLOO Bridge

with.

LUCILE WATSON VIRGINIA FIELD

MARJA

OUSPENSKAYA C. AUBREY SMITH

A Mervyn LeRoy Production Screen Play by $. N. Behrman, HonsRomvandGeorgeFroeschel Based on the Play "Waterloa Bridge" by Robert E. Sherwood Directed by MERVYN 1.ROY Produced by SIDNEY FRANKLIN

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SALOME Where She Danced

YVONNE DECARLO

ROD CAMERON DAVID BRUCE WALTER SLEZAK

ALBERT DEKKER

MARJORIE RAMBEAU

1. EDWARD BROMBERS ABNER BIBERMAN -

in TECHNICOLOR

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Adventurel

BILL ELLIOTT Praine Schooners

A COLUMBIA

PICTURE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1946.

20th Anniversary Of Talking Pictures

Warner Bros Gamble On Public

Acceptance Of Talkies"

Two decades ago Warner Brothers brought the magic of sound to the screens of the world.

To-day this industry of thë Motion Picture commemorates the founding of the new era of entertainment.

August 6, 1920 the art was re-born, supreme in drama. λ little over 20 yea

years ago the entire nation was clamouring for a motion picture Industry reached what glimpse of what was called one of was then considered the zenith, the the marvels of the modern age. pinnacle of its development in

of 2.

For this 20th Anniversary rush of silent film epics calculated Talking Pictures" there is a Warner fa needle public interest and en- Brothers' Ficture shining СП thusinam, which was unaccountably record number of American screens. beginning to wane. All of the intent And on countless screens the worki techniques were used in Bhooling over. This is indeed an industry-i the pictures to inject mare reality, wide tribule. more movement, and more colour to аррево the caption-Jaded cyer of the movie-going public, but the technical skills of the film makers It were apparently not the answer. had become disturbingly evident that something new was needed. Re- vitalisation of the industry had be- come a necessity, and once this was realised it spelled the doom of the silent picture.

There could only be one answer. one final step forward, and this step wns taken in 1926 by the Warner Brothers who gambled their entire fortune on the public acceptance of avies which talked. All New Yark was electrified by the astonish ing August 6 opening of Warners "Don Juan" the first mollon picture in whleh sound was utilised.

"Don Juan" had a musical score, recorded York on Vitaphone by the New Philharmonie Symphony Orchestra. and synchronised with the netion of the picture by the forerunners the prevent day Found caglacers. ་ ་ The "Jazz Singer" "Don Juan" was followed by the "Jazz Singer" which featured

of

the

To commemorate this wonderful achievement here, Warner Brothers'

and Denala Barbara Stanwyck Morgan in Warner Bros "Indiere. tion.

Dennis Morgan and Irene Manning in Warner Bros technicolour verslan of "Desert Bong."

PROMISES NOT KEPT

U.S. SURPLUS GOODS

German Party Chief's Attack May be Sold to Germans

On Occupation Policies

RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH__

In American Zone

Frank Buck To Shoot Colour Film Of Jungle

Expedition in South Aris At Year's End

New York, Sept. 20 (UP).— Equipped with movie cameras and soven years of stored up enerky, Frank Buck will return to familiar hunting grounds in south Asia at the end of the year to replenish the sadly de-, pleted stock of wild animals in American zoos and direuses and to make the first jungle techni colour motion picture on record.

A trip to his Singapore headquar- ters was originally planned for the end of this month but because of technical difficulties in securing the technicolour film by the film com- pany for whom he is shooting, it was postponed until December, possibly January.

He plans to By to Amsterdam and thence by the Dutch KLM line to Rome, Cairo, Basra, Karachi, Calcutta and Singapore, the entire trip taking seven and a half days in comparison with 32 days in his previous fifty odd

trips which he had taken to south

Asin since 1912.

1

Despite warnings from friends, In- cluding the Sultan of Johore who is at present in London, that Malaya is in a state of extreme unrest with banditry, murders and black mat

Washington Sept. 29.-A proposal to sell millions of dollars worth of surplus United States equipment, to the Germans in the American zone of Hamburg, Sept. 29,--Dr Kurt Germany has been under considera- Schumacher, President of the German tion by the United States Govern- Social Democratic Party, sold in ment for some time, but no details Brunswick to-day that "there are have been settled, Reuter learned | keteering rampant, Buck said he was departments of the Military Govern-authoritatively here to-day, ment from whose conduct one would

in

Is understood goods with a lot monk uthers, Buck it hunting.for.

restless and could not wait any. not always gather that there is a potential war use would be excluded Labour Government in London", the but the surplus would include such the Ringling Brothers, the St Louis Germany items as road-building machinery, Zoo and the Bronx Zoo. The Ming-

vehicles and tools. No plan for paying Brothers want at least 10 ele ment has been deviser.

phants. The others are in dire need of leopards, tigers, pythons (nothing than 20 feet), rare antelopes of all kinds and mon

and monkeys.

| British news, service

reports.

promises.

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MANILA-CANTON HITCH

Dr Schumacher was referring to the right of free speech when Unconfirmed reports estimate there Is about £250,000,000 worth of addressing a mass demonstration,

"It should not be overlooked," he United States surplus equipment in said. "that real democracy does not Germany, but some of this, it was exist in any of the four occupation said, will be purchased by neighbour first spoken words recorded on dise. Branch Office in Hongkong will he zones because the authority lies in ing countries under credits extended to them by the United States. Rev. fact with the military governments. and synchrunised with the actual relensing an "Anniversary" hatch

"The time has come to keep ter. lip movements of Al Jolson, who ad- of filnus.

promise has been given libbed "Cone on Mn, listen to this." In addition to the latest features, to the German people that it shoul The "public was delighted with that "Okey For Sound" is a dramatic be enslaved. But the democratie fine, and with the musical sequences pictorial history of the talking ple-cells are of no avail unless In some recorded on Vitaphone by Jolson. ture from its crude beginning in small matters a purely German "The Lights of New York" the first Edison's Inburntory to the technical responsible authority can take effect. all-talking picture followed closely perfection of the present day. The time has come to give the Ger

Further negotiations between tho on the heels of the "Jazz Singer Released by Warner Brothers in people the opportunity to show Chinese and the United States au-

man and It was neclaimed by the crities

conjunction with the world-wide, what it can do. Only a Germany thorities was the reason given by and publle alike as the final step in celebration of the 20th Anniversary which knows neither Eastern nor CNAC at Canton for the cancellation the revolutionary development of the of Talking Pletures, the highly Western orientation, but only an all-of the Pan-American World Airways talking picture.

absorbing two-reeler effectively European orientation has any sense Soun't pioneered by Warner Bro-depicts the tremendous striden made and only such a Germany is worth there, caught on with such rapidity by the motion picture industry in the living for."—Reuter, that in 1928 over 200 theatres were 20 meinorable years since the advent wired for talking pictures, and the of sound.

|RENT CONTROL IN JAPAN|AMERICAN TASK FORCE 77

survey flight to Cunton on September

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The hunting will take Buck and his native helpers through north Malaya, Burma, India and Ceylon and, pon sibly, the Himalayas and the Dutch

Enst Indies. Buck said he expects to collect the animals, shoot the "pleture and be back in the United States by. nid-April, 1947.

AMERICAN MARINES

Presence Part of China's Foreign Policy

21. The Lightfoot Clipper, a luxurious Douglas airliner, was poised at Manila that Saturday morning to COMMENT BY DR WANG perform the trip which at the last minute was curicelled. The Clipper to San Francisco on a regular schedule.

CHINESE TEXTILE TRADE returned

Tientsin, Sept. 29,-On the occa- alon of the first anniversary of the United States Marines' arrival in 29 The China

China Shanghai, Sept.

US Marines Comman- Tokyo, Sept. 30 (UP). The der. Samuel L., Howard, Tokyo, Sept. 30-SCAP's Price Tokyo, Sept. 29. The United Textile Industry Administration Com-

Government Control, and Ration Division an States Task Force 77

to-day issued a statement addressed to the mittee yesterday discussed plans for Japanese under Rear-

strengthening China's textile industry formally abolished the war investi- Chineso people in North China, ex- nounced to-day that all rentals on

Admiral Frederick MacMohan, com- and to curb the rising costs of pro- gation committee against which the plaining the reason for the stationing Japanese houses and land will be frozen, at to-day's existing level, prising the aircraft-carriers Prince-duction. The meeting was called by Soviet delegate to the Allied Com of Marines in China,

Mr Wang Yun-Wu Minister according to a new control ordinance ton and Tarawa, two cruisers and Economic Affairs. The plans are to

for mission for Japan protested.

He declared that although a small The -committee was originally group of the Chinese nation thought -promulgated_by_the_Japanese. anine destroyers, has arrived at Yeko-be-submitted-to-the-leading-textile formed-by-the-Shideluura-Cabinet-otherwise, hu-personally-was-con- thorities. The new ordinance In suka for a eight-day visit,

factories for study and

comment and for the investigation of war causes fident that the existing close friend- intended to prevent abuses in sub Task Force plans to visit Shanghai counter-proposals after which the and the reusons for Japan's defeat ship between China and America lebling and renting of portions of and - Tsingtao und will retum Administration will formulate the for the purpose to "preclude another would continue since the greater nom buildings.--Central News.

final scheme.-Central News.

Guam on November 8-Reuter.

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Part of Policy Shanghai, Sept. 29. Speaking on the occasion of the first anniversary of the arrival in China of US you mention hearts, everything is Marines, Dr. C. T. Wang, former Am under control." North's raise in no basgador to Amorica, said that the presence of the Marines in China was trump also suggested that he did not fear the unbid spade suit. -

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Athinese Government would request

defeat, but, on the other hand, he their withdrawal. Central News. could not see nine tricks by putting

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the diamond suls could be brought DEPARTURES IN 1946 FROM home solidly, hence felt that would have to depend on club tricks. Thus, his decision let East's club lead ride.cannot be severely criticised, but it was fatal. West won with the club king and

Largely because of the sailing of prompy laid down the heart ten. Now declarer was helpless. It did brides of United States and British

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By Ernie Bushmiller

hered 7,612 and departures 10,785, This year the drift has continued, with 7.880 arriving, compared with 14.757 departing-Reuter.

* EDINBURGH AS · RIVAL

TO SALZBURG.

Edinburgh Hopes to rival pre war Salzburg with a three weeks' International festival of Music and Drama” next year!,

for,

Arrangements are being made

all inclusive, tours from Nor way Sweden, Denmark and other European countries, bookable through the mila travel agencler for the festival, which will be held between August 24

Fand September:

committee plans to accom modato: 30,Gangvisitors during this

three weekschrtistes are geXPOLI

Include many of the best Euro-

namér Heuter,

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