The Archive · 1933

CHINESE FILM A Word of Praise

To the Editor of the 'Nogrit-Cuina Datty News Sm—I shall appreciate ity will be good enough to publish the following lines in your' esteemed paper:

Out of sheer curiosity T went to the Nanking Theatre. Fast " night, Wishing to. see a Chinese. picture for the first time. T must confess that T'did not expect to see anything very entertaining from our European. point of view and. when the performance started, seeing that I'was almost the only foreigner in the otherwise well booked circle, Teould'not help feeling that Inthe wrong place, was agreeably surprised, however, the picture being' excellent with very" strong characterization, auxiliaries, ax compared with Hol wood productions, the" producers. Ihave. succeeded in creating strong stare, is, worth rom the foreign support woul ize the producers to give us further films of this kind, which wil certainly be appreciated by a large proportion of the westerners, once they are aware of their quality.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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