The Archive · 1933

A Straits View

To, the Editor of the "snowden-Onina Dairy News!"

'Sin-—Perhaps a few comments on Sims' may be. of interest, "Your correspondent "Londoner" gives the thames of four British Filme which were seen in England to great ad vantage, and which have not yet been shown in Shanghai, 'He may be surprised to know all of these films are out East, but the theatre managements in Shanghai have not the good sense to show the 1 Thark' and "Jack's, the, Be saw in Singapore, where Britis films are shown extensively. "Jack the Boy" is undoubtedly' one of the finest comedies of its kind ever, produced, either in England or America, and was shown to Packed houses throughout Malaya, There is no question of the film paying the theatre to put it on, but Sinema managements imagine' the Dublic want to see sex films with females in scanty underwear or in their baths, and therefore Shanghai misses such fine films, Shangh:

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