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...Chin Chow (Gaumont-British). In the last two years the cinema industry in Britain has expanded almost as rapidly as it did in the U. S. before Depression. Douglas Fairbanks (whose Private Life of Don Juan had its London première last month), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gregory Ratoff, are a few of the Hollywood celebrities who are making pictures in England. Last week John Barrymore signed a contract with London Film Productions, Ltd. to act in an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, directed by Alexander Korda (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Most potent of British producing companies. which...
Unlike most importations, Gaumont-British's version of the comic operetta which ran at His Majesty's Theatre in London from 1915 to 1920, in Manhattan from 1917 to 1919, is at least intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head...
...last week planned 58 features. Like other companies, Fox will depend more on adaptations than original stories: Sinclair Lewis' Work of Art, Robert Nathan's One More Spring, Stallings' The First World War, Pitkin's Life Begins at Forty. Owning 45% pf British Gaumont, Fox last year distributed four British Gaumont pictures in the U. S. Because they were poorly received there will be no British pictures on the Fox schedule this year...
...conduct the opera company that the Duke supports. Slight, implausible, edged with a thin glitter of cruelty and sentiment, Heart Song illustrates an important point in cinema technique. In Hollywood, the accepted procedure for musical films is to elaborate and enlarge. Heart Song, which was financed by Fox and Gaumont British for UFA production, strives, like most of Director Erich Pommer's productions, to be as small and delicate as possible. Its sly and trivial grace is becoming to the miniature charms of Lilian Harvey, who was too often lost in the exaggerations of Hollywood productions. Good shot...
...instead of assigning a director to supervise the whole production, had bits made under different directors and assembled the parts when completed. Best line: Butterworth's comment on Durante's party: "This place is littered with movie celebrities - and that makes some litter." Channel Crossing (Gaumont British). A financier (Matheson Lang) with a Christ-like beard is threatened with ruin when a clerk (Anthony Bushell), in love with his secretary (Constance Cummings), overhears that some of his securities are forged. The financier takes steps to kill the clerk. When he learns that his secretary loves Bushell, he spares...