Exhibitors Herald (1927)

April 2, 1927 EXHIBITORS HERALD 27 News Reels Show War Carnage in China and Marine Service InternationaFs Pictures Depict Wild Scenes in Shanghai and Natives Rushing to Protection Behind Barbed Wire — “Street of Death” in Native District Portrayed That news reels again are rising to the occasion and giving the theatre I)ublic the news of the world firsthand is evidenced this week in the complete cover on the warring in China. American marines and British troops protecting their nationals in the battling' between the Chinese government soldiers and the revolutionaries are shown on the screen in the current issues of the news reels, details of which appear in the Short Features Department. Shanghai Confusion Shown Shanghai’s confusion of soldiers, refugees and lost children is depicted by International Newsreel in Issue No. 26. The pictures reached New ’^ork last Thursday night by plane from Vancouver, having reached that city 36 hours earlier from Ariel L. 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[The above advertisements were received too late to be classified and distributed in the regular want ad department of the HERALD this week on page 54. There is no test of a paper's prestige and ability to ^‘deliver'* comparable to its want ad department. Read it this week and see for yourself why the HERALD carries more classified ads than all of the rest of the nationals combined.] F.B.O, Is Duplicating Its Success Overseas Declares Colvin Brown (Special to the Herald) NEW YORK, March 29. — ^Film Booking Offices is duplicating its American success throughout Europe and distribution arrangements have been concluded in practically every territory overseas, Colvin W. Brown, vice-president, declared last week. Brown recently returned from a trip which took him to London, Berlin, Paris and Rome. The strongly dramatic pictures have a strong hold on the European, particularly the productions of Fred Thomson and Tom Tyler, he declared. The pictures portray the terror that reigns in Shanghai, and the wild scenes as the beseiged city awaited its fate. It is difficult to describe the abject horror depicted upon the faces of the luckless Chinese, rushing for protection behind the barbed wire entanglements. Some idea of what brings this horror upon them is shown in brief glimpses of the “street of death,” in the heart of the native district. The toll that has been taken by the broadsword of the executioner is apparent from “bird cages” strung on telegraph poles, which contain grim and gruesome reminders of the vengeance of the mobs. Marines’ Arrival Pictured Pictured also is the arrival of the new additions of Uncle Sam’s marine forces, which reached Shanghai only a few days before the native section of the city fell before the attacking Nationalist army. The scenes show how badly the leathernecks were received by the Chinese. There are intimate views of Admiral Wfilliams, and of the French and British forces, including the picturesque Punjab Indian regiments, fighting side by side with the British Tommies. There are also views of Nanking, where scenes similar to those enacted in Shanghai have taken place within the past few days. International Newreel’s Chinese bureau is in Shanghai, and there Varges photographed every development of this greatest news story of the day. Meantime two native Chinese cameramen, Wong and Lui, were obtaining scenes of the horrors enacted in the native portions of the city, into which a white man would not have dared to venture. Other native cameramen, later assisted by Wong and Lui, covered the developments at Nanking and points to the North of Shanghai. U. S. Exchanges in China Threatened by Fighting (Washington Bureau of the Herald) WASHINGTON, Mar. 29. — Branches of American film concerns are among the business enterprises in Shanghai threatened by Chinese nationalist troops and soviet agitators, it is shown by unofficial reports which are beginning to filter into Washington. Shanghai is in the same province with Nanking, where a very serious situation exists. Among the concerns known to have branches in Shanghai are the Eastman Kodak Company, Fox and Universal. There are also the Odeon Theatre, Inc., and the Peacock Motion Picture Corporation. Medical Film Foundation Under Eastman Is Asked (Special to the Herald) NEW YORK, March 29. — Establishment by George Eastman of a “Medical Film Foundation, Inc.,” to produce medical films and prevent a monopoly by any group of medical men as well as to avoid “unscientific ‘scientific’ films,” is proposed by Dr. J. F. Montague of the Lffiiversity of Bellevue Medical College Clinic. MARINES IN CHINA are shown in pictures from International Newsreel, which are distributed by Universal. Left: The Marines land. Middle: Leatherneck takes ride with coolies holding railhead seat. Right: British troops on guard.