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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
enough to pass the critics (who allows the films fit for the public) .
Plays are not too bad in theatres, but are also apt to be boring.
Last year my sister took my mother and I to see Arsenic and Old Lace. Mummy hated it, but would not tell my sister so because it may have hurt her feelings.
Mummy hated it because (a) She could not hear properly and only caught snatches of the conversation; (b) She was bored stiff, because all they seemed to do was open and shut a box by the window.
I like plays, and during the examinations I went to see The Lisbon Story it was a very spectacular show, and we had a very good seat, which makes all the difference.
In the cinemas it is warm and not so draughty as theatres.
In the theatre one is seeing the thing actually being done, and every thing is more or less real, where as in the cinema, one is seeing something that has been practised to perfection, and if one is seeing what I term a THRILLER! one knows that if somebody in the picture has been killed he or she is not really dead.
So ... on the whole I think pictures are better, most of them come from Hollywood and America has all the best stars and I do not think the english film star has a chance.
In the pictures the story has been picked out and the unnecessary parts cut and the best parts brought out, and in my opinion the films are .infinately better than the theatre and if not in your opinion, better, they are very good entertainment, and I don't know what a lot of us would do without them.
4. H.K. Films I Have Seen
I think that some films are really very good and worth their money, while some are just trash, like those with Abbot and Costello and Laurel and Hardy. There is nothing to these films because they hardly ever come from books.
I do not really enjoy films which have too much singing and dancing but there are some exceptions for instance, Spring Parade, that was really loveley and we all enjoyed it.
My special reason was because Deanna Durbin played in it, and she is my favourite singer, she really sings very well.
I especially liked Dragon Seed which was based on the novel The Good Earth with Chatherine Hepburn and Turhan Bey. It was about the Chinese and it showed their everyday day life and when the Japs came. When I saw the Seventh Cross with Spencer Tracy, I
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