Cinema Quarterly (1933 - 1934)

PRENEZ GARDE A LA PEINTURE (French. Beacon). The French version of the original play on which " The Late Christopher Bean " is based, directed by Henri Chomette, who is more successful than was Hollywood in retaining the wit and subtlety of Rene Fauchois's conception. The mentality of the French bourgeois family is effectively represented and Charlotte Clasis's interpretation of the dead painter's mistress is a moving performance. TWENTIETH CENTURY (American. Columbia). A super-charged performance by John Barrymore in an ingeniously satirical adaptation of "Napoleon of Broadway," depicting the clash of wills between a grotesquely temperamental stage producer and the star he creates but cannot control. Written with a malicious sense of humour by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht and resourcefully directed by Howard Hawks. UNFINISHED SYMPHONY (Austrian). Sweet nonsense along familiar lines of Schubert's romance treated with sentimental direction and sincere playing. Nothing is achieved, nothing is lost, but it is a picture which disarms attack and thwarts defence by its sheer softness. SEND YOUR QUERIES TO CQ. # TECHNICAL INFORMATION on ail points regarding apparatus, projection, cameras, exhibition, etc., will be answered free by acknowledged experts on receipt of stamped addressed envelope for reply. ANOTHER CQ. SERVICE FOR READERS FILM SOCIETIES Before next season commences it is expected that several new societies will have commenced operations. Aberdeen will have a Film Guild, of which the Hon. Secretary is J. M. Mitchell, 70, High Street, Old Aberdeen. In Ipswich a Film Society is being organized by Gordon C. Hales, 36 Constable Road, Ipswich. An Inverness Film Society is also proposed and communications should be sent to John Mitchell, Royal Bank Buildings, Inverness. Before long similar societies are hoped to be functioning in Bristol, Bo'ness, and Dunfermline. As always, the help and advice of Cinema Quarterly are at the service of the movement, and anyone wishing to form a local film society is welcome to apply for any information that may be required. Cinema Quarterly Film Service, of which particulars will be found on another page, has been founded as the result of numerous requests received at this office from film societies, educational bodies, clubs and institutes, and is an attempt to simplify the somewhat harassing problem of film supply with which all organisers of special performances are faced. Member societies of the Federation of British Film Societies, of course, will continue to book through the Federation those films for which it makes special arrangements. The Cinema Quarterly Service, so far as it concerns the film societies, is intended to supplement" the Federation's arrangements and will no doubt be found of great convenience in the booking of films which, though rented through the usual trade channels, often entail prolonged negotiations. THE FILM SOCIETY, 56 Manchester Street, London, W.i. April 15th. La Vie D'Un Fleuve. Two French publicity films. Pirates du Rhone. Mail. Crainquebille . May 6th. Film Favourites No. 1. Das Testament von Dr. Mabuse. CHILDREN'S FILM SOCIETY has been formed to provide carefully selected programmes of films for children. The first group is operating in connection with the Everyman, Hampstead, and is under the direction of J. S. FairfaxJones, G. F. Noxon, and C. Lawson-Reece. It arranges matinees on lines similar Q54