Origin Of “Hue And Cry”

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 May 1948, Page 8

Origin Of “Hue And Cry”

The most exciting daily newspaper in the world is never seen by tiie general public, but it circulates throughout the whole of Great Britain and carries Stop-Press news on a ninety minute deadline. The paper is the “Police Gazette," edited and printed at Scotland Yard and circulated to all the police forces throughout the country. It contains all the latest crime news—descriptions of wanted persons often with photographs), arrests, convictions, convicts due for release, stolen property, stolen cars etc. The “Police Gazette" is the successor to a journal which bore a name that has since become synonymous with police chases. “Hue and Cry" was the title of that first police paper. It came into being soon after the formation of the Metropolitan Police Force. “Hue and Cry" has continued as a police expression, and Producer Michael Balcon has used this expression for the title of his boys-get-crooks picture, the story of which lives up to all the excitement its title implies.

Lilli’s Long Trip. Lilli Palmer, whose next film will be “A Long Way Home,” began th long way home from St. Moritz, Switzerland, by flying to Paris on the first leg of her return trip to Hollywood. The star of “My Girl Tisa” has been on a vacation In Europe with her husband, Rex Harrison.

Somerset Maughan On The Screen. More than 20 leading film actors and actresses have been signed by Sydney Box, Chief of Gainsborough to appear in “Quartet” Gahisborough’s new film of four Somerset Maughan stories linked with a commentary by the author himself. Dropping of one of the’ stories, “The Sanatorium,” has reduced the original title of "Quintet" to “Quartet.” It was considered that a three-hour film would be too long. First of the “Quartet” stories goes into production immediately.

Kenneth Annakin (“Holiday Camp") is directing, and the east includes Cecil Parker, Nora Swinburne, Linden Travers, Bill Owen, Patrick Holt, Ernest Thesiger, J. H. Roberts, Felix Aylmer and Clive Moreton.

Film Backgrounds. To speed production as far as possible British studios have relied largely on the back-projection process for "dubbing in” backgrounds to their films. The vagaries of British weather have also played a large part in the decision to adopt this form of production, but it has meant that British films on the whole have been less useful advertisements for their country’s tourist trade than, say, those of America. The "great outdoors” in the west of America have probably had' more screen publicity than any other part of the world. One exception to the British rule is to be found in "My Ain Folk,” in which many of the scenes were shot on loratibn in Scotland—sufficient in itself to attract many homesick Scots abroad to see the film.

PERMANENT RESERVES AT MAJESTIC CANCELLED ALL permanent reserves at the Majestic Theatre are cancelled. The I management made this announcement tonight. Owing to the change- '. over policy between the two Ker-ridge-Odeon Theatres in Wanganui it has been decided to start an entirely . new book of permanent reserves at the Majestic Theatre and anyone desirous of retaining their present seats or making bookings for the future are requested to call on the manager or to telephone the theatre. The new reserve book will come into force on May 22, and patrons are requested to make their own arrangements by bdoking at the D.I.C. until that date.