The Bioscope (Feb-May 1931)
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LEO COMES ^ DIAMONDS! GRETA GARBO in INSPIRATION The best she’s ever done ! Oh baby, wait till they see her in silks and satins again in this up-to-the-minute man- and -woman story! With popular Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau. Directed by Clarence Brown. Another of tlx gems METRO - COLDWYN - MAYER are adding to MIN AND BILL (Dressier-Beery) NEW MOON (Tibbett-Moore) PAID (Joan Crawford) JENNY LIND (Grace Moore) REDUCING (Dr.ssic-Mo.an) MADAM SATAN <c«n b. j« mui.) BACHELOR FATHER d.„„, PASSION FLOWER (Kay Johnson-Charles Bickford) and still more to come TRADER DANCE, FOOLS, PARLOUR, BED- HORN DANCE ROOM AN a BATH Picture Daily: “Pre- “ Says Motion Picture Daily: “JOAN Says Motion Says Motion Picture Herald : A work of view audience near hysterical epic proportions. Many people will want CRAWFORD cones through with howls. Laugh panic.' Says to view the film a second or third time. another talker that has box-office Hollywood Reporter: “Box-office This film unquest onably excels anything written all over it. Its great from lirstto last. Ariot! BUSTER we have yet seen on the s cree A cture p KEATONS gold mine!'’ one sees once in a lifetime.” audience stuff. THE BIOSCOPE February 18, 1931 ' I v He has even eclipsed his OWN record for * speed in News Service. Mike is now a world champion. HAVE YOU SHOWN THIS WONDERFUL NEWS REEL? CAPTAIN CAMPBELL SMASHES ALL RECORDS FOR SPEED THE PRINCE AT JAMAICA THE ENGLAND v. IRELAND RUGBY MATCH o BOOK ’BUSMEN TAKE TO THE AIR Alu*. ys There British Movietone News The Established N a me for Sound News with the Public Distributed by FOX FILM Co., Ltd. 13, BERNERS STREET, W.1 February jo. iJ3i THE BIOSCOPE Chas Austin, in Vot f/eif; 0* one of the de/icious/g 4* funng Gainsborough TrtdHi Extravogargas. " Rip roarinq bur/esaue" 'film Renter frevastutinq... Chariie Austin oui/i /save t/?en? he/p/ess" Cinema. "AROMA OF THF SOUTH SEAS* BULL RUSHES' WHO KILLED DOC ROBIN?" "MY OLD CHINA" HOT HEIR' & another to be announced later. Each over and count for British feature Quota IDEAL FILMS Ltd., 76/78, Wardour Street, W.l. THE BIOSCOPE February 18, 1931 your Winning 7ip for LESLIE HENSON HUGH Q Mot- by I DEAL- GAINSBOROUGH out of i AN TO BE Over a Course on MONDAY, at the PALACE TH ALL SEATS NUMBER APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED NOT FOLLOW FORM!! LESLIE HENSON • HUGH WA and the appropriate garment on Dorothy Boyd - Owners: IDEAL — February 18, 1931 THE BIOSCOPE 9 7ke Bop-Office Stakes WAKEFIELD GORDON HARKER ‘tyOMyukfcf HAY drainer: VICTOR S AVI LLE RUN of 8,885 feet, FEBRUARY 23rd, EATRE, at 8.30 p.m. ED AND RESERVED. LATER THAN THIS FRIDAY, FEB. 20th. PUT YOUR SHIRT ON KGFIELD • GORDON HARKER. Mary Jerrold - Barbara Gott and the other Cady Riders GAINSBOROUGH THE BIOSCOPE February 18, 1931 , (Of “Journey’s RENEE CLAMA AL GORDON A SUPERLATIVE TRADE THURSDAY, FEB At the PALA At 8.30 AN IDEAL- GAINSBOROUGH ALL SEATS NUMBER PICTURE APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED NOT FEBRUARY 23rd. THE BIOSCOPE 11 Terrific Clash of Passion ** End* Fame) SO ELSA LANCHESTER HARKER BRITISH- THRILLER/ SHOW RUARY 26th, CE THEATRE, p.m. ED AND RESERVED. Written and Directed by V. Gareth Gundrey. LATER THAN FIRST POST NEXT MONDAY, Recorded by R.C.A. Photophone System. THE BIOSCOPE February 18, 1931 The Greatest All-Dialogue Drama of the Great Outdoors yet presented. All the Thrills of a Lifetime Crowded into Eighty Minutes of Grand and Glorious Entertainment. LONDON TRADE SHOW The PALACE Theatre, Cambridge Circus, W. FRIDAY, FEB. 20th, at 3 p.m. February IS, 1931 THE BIOSCOPE 13 HERE IS A BILL BOYD EPIC —ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR P.D.C. P.D.C. presents Bill BOYD /\ 1 14 THE BIOSCOPE February 18, 193 presents — LONDON TRADE SHQW- THE PALACE THEATRE CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS, W- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24th at 3 p.m. February IS, 1931 THE BIOSCOPE 15 Who Killed Bernard Barrington With HORACE HODGES STEWART ROME and ANNE GREY Directed by SINCLAIR HILL lt s a From the story by LESLIE HOWARD GORDON , . ^ Produced by Associated Picture Productions Ltd. >. M at the CRICKLEWOOD SOUND STUDIOS, LONDON, W picture 16 THE BIOSCOPE February 18, 1931 Boats Hunt GEORGE O’BRIEN Skipper of the Mystery Ship rman JOHN LODER German Submarine Officer MONA MARIS The Dancer Spy TRADE SHOW NEW GALLERY, Regent St., W.l. TEES., FEB. 24th at 11 a.m. EAST LYNNE THE YANKEE AT ^ _ MORE KING ARTHUR’S COURT MOKE FOX GIRLS DEMAND EXCITEMENT FOX HITS NOT EXACTLY GENTLEMEN BODY AND SOUL HITS MR. LEMON OF ORANGE DOCTORS’ WIVES 18 THE BIOSCOPE February 1 8, 1931 eSS ^ sgOC- "fauiw* in 9Y\c^%?o^ 9 " °\kf v°° ° er c 0^ Y rt s^^ d r NWCh e OL^' ' wef b* g^TlCL -S&* 1 - "Going to be Immensely Popular all over the world." News-Chronicle definitely very f//m Ct ^eV$S°f F ' ^q^IC FILMS (Recording by R.C.A. Phot< "Welsh- Pearson- Gainsborough Productions, Directed By Geo. Pearson : — ! 23rd YEAR. Telephone : Temple Bar 7921, 7922. SUBSCRIPTION Home “ Independence and Progress” 10 '6 per annum. Telegrams : (FOUNDED BY JOHN CABOURN) Abroad “Gainsaid,Westrand 30/- per annum. Faraday House, London.” 8-10, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C. 2. No. 1272. Vol. LXXXV1. FEBRUARY 18th, 1931 PRICE 6d In Brief This Censorship Business JVIO child “apparently ” under the age l " of seven is in future to be admitted Let us look at this Censorship business. to cinemas in the L.C.C. area. Page 21 The British Board of Film Censors refused to issue a certificate approving the film interpretation of Sutton Vane’s “ Outward Bound.” D RITISH producers have pledged their Warner Brothers were dumbfounded those who saw the picture ; support to a scheme of the E.F.A. were moved unanimously to protest. for the propagation of British films Arthur Clavering wisely decided to submit the film to the London throughout the Empire. Page 20 County Council, the Middlesex County Council, and the Surrey Council. These bodies have authorised the public exhibition of the film in RMANUEL Cohen, editor of Paramount theatres under their jurisdiction subject to a proviso that it must not Sound News, has sailed for England be seen by juveniles under 16 ! in connection with the launching of that Other bodies exercising powers of local autonomy will no doubt do newsreel in Great Britain. Page 21 ikewise —perhaps, we may hope, unconditionally. REPRESENTATIVES of about 40 com- For to our mind this insistence upon the exclusion of juveniles is * ^ panies attended a meeting of pros- merely a gesture of good grace from the responsible official bodies to pective stallholders at the Brighton Trade the Board of Film Censors. Exhibition. Page 21 The unvarnished truth is that however much the film industry owes to the existing system, there are flaws in the established code SPECIAL advance review of “Out- which lead to absurd anomalies and incongruities in the rulings of A ward Bound,” which the L.C.C. the Censor. together with Surrey and Middlesex The sole object of Censorship is, or should be, to keep the County Councils has passed for exhibi- screens clean. It is not the function of a Censor operating in a tion, appears on page 20. democratic state to pander to the idiosyncrasies of any sect or sects in religions, or political thought. While there are certain HAYES Hunter is to direct “ The standards of good taste, well-defined codes of decency common to the T • Not ” Man They Could Arrest for British public as a whole, there are certain policies upon which public Gainsborough. Page 26 opinion is, and always will be, divided. The granting of a Censorship certificate to a spiritualistic film does A/IURRAY Silverstone, of United Ar- offer anti-spiritualist. tists, confirms that his company not direct offence to the susceptibilities of the will distribute John Harvel’s “Cap- He may be intolerant of its exhibition, but he need not see it. The tivation.” Page 27 Censor betrays a misplaced solicitude, for he is really at pains to abolish from the screen anything which may annoy those least tolerant A N appeal for fair play in connection of a point of view opposing their own. with Sunday opening is issued by “ theatrical interests. Page 23 By banning a beautiful work such as Outward Bound,” and at the same time passing any number of films in which night clubs, A RESOLUTION to the effect that brothels and other cesspits of human oglery are publicised as high- ** 25 per cent, should be the maximum lights, the British Board of Film Censors is making itself look ridiculous percentage for a full feature programme in the eyes of all thinking people. was passed at last week’s meeting of If the present system is to be saved from suicide—and the industry the C.E.A. General Council. Page 40 may have something to lose by its supersession—-the Censor’s Rules must be drastically overhauled. RANDOLPH E. Richards automatically And they must be freed from the Romish taint which has so often * * becomes Vice-President of the C.E-A., led to farcical exposure of the non-statutory constitution of the Councillor J. Pollard, the only other Censorship. The British people can still read about mediaevalism. nominee, having withdrawn his name. But they can no longer tolerate it. Page 20 'I 1 HAT 20 per cent, of the cinemas in the county are dangerous is the — Let the Public Decide !—— amazing report of the county architect of " The Bioscope ” suggests that Warner Brothers, in collaboration with Warwickshire.