WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929.
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If one can conceive of masie, care-aro being landed and placed at their DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, famous in every corner free and wild, entering the flesh and risk into the hazardous snd/or extra-of the Sale by Public Auction of the globe as the heroine and hero of film plays, are to visit Hong the muscles and stimulating a reaction hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong to be held on MONDAY, the They will arrive on the of twitching, writhing limbs. On the where delivery can be stained as soon 5 p.m., at the Offices of the & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.fitd. 9th day of December, 1929, at Kong on Thursday, December 5. "Rajputana" from Europe, which they have been touring extensive a very excellent impression of the
Works No claims will be admitted after the Public ly, and hope to stay in the Colony for a few days, prior to sailing to Samoan dancers. These simple people as the goods are landed. Shanghai by the "Asama Maru." They will probably stay at the are made of music, and to produce a gonda have left the Godowns, and all Peninsula Hotel during their visit, and, by a coincidence, Mary fascinating wriggle, all that is neces- goods remaining undelivered after the 'Pickford's sister, Lottie (Mrs. Chillord), also famous on the screen,ry to be done is to wave guitar. 16th December, 1020, at 4 pm, will
The body does the rest. They never be subject to rout. has been staying at the Peninsula Hotel, and leaves the Colony wait for the "lead" with their cars All broken, chafed and damaged to-night.
strained, like Favlova to her orchestra goods are to be left in the Godown, During the period of Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks' stay, all the of strings and-dulcimers; their limbs where they will be examined by
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on the cinemas owned by the Hong Kong Amusements, Limited, will are in subtle motion from the beginning, 9th December, 1929, at 10 a.m.
to tho end of the performanco. feature films in which the two "stars" have appeared.
All claims against the vessel must manœuvring like excited pythons.
be presented to the Underaigned before the 13th December, 1929, or they will not be recognised.""
"COQUETTE" AT THE QUEEN'S
The Atmosphere One was sorry to see in such a chill, late-Victorian atmosphere as the Thea- tre Royal seems to yield, this charming children of nature, with very little en A MAFUNG or a rush skirt, beyond flaunting their aged-old ritual dances before the drab landscape of a suburban park. A fow palm trees and
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Miss Pickford's first appearance on the legitimate stage was a mute one, She was too young when she made her debut to manage any lines. But in a later stage produc-"paraphernalia" of the "mystic, shim- tion she was given linos to speak mering, blue-and-gold South Sena" divided into three parts, the first and and became a full-fledged actress would have enhanced our enjoyment on lust
of the time. Her first appearance theirs.
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Mary Pickford has renounced her curls and little girl pout and appears 419 a roguish, captivating, young modern In "Coquette," her senзa- tional 100 per cent. talking picture which comes to the Queen's Theatre to-day.
being purely Samoan and The foremost little lady of the
Hawaiian, the middle being purely Bereen has outgrown the film child- in m was also, necessarily, a
Western. This arrangement brings out hood during which she delighted silent one. She could talk, but the Criticism of local apathy apart, the clally of the two younger girls, and it the versatility of the Samoans, espe.. millions in "Little Annie Rooney," | screen could not. It was the screen's Samoan dancers are quite delightful "Tess of the Storm Country" and own infancy that prescribed action people, whose art, in its unrestrained, serves also as a most effective contrast to the Folynesian numbers. The second countless other unforgettable mas- without words. But now, thanks yet beautiful savagery, is extremely, night's entertainment, as in the Thea- terpieces.
to the mechanical progress of fuscinating to watch and hear.
'tre Royal, wil! have entirely different Realising that in this inventive modern pictures, she can express the mise-en-scene, warbled like an Eng Samoans are so refreshing that people · Princess Roselani, who dominated mugje. The performances of the age, with its new conventions and herself in the double dimensions of is thrush songs of passion and desiro return to them again and again; but! high-paced activities, there was no sight and sound. for she will talk to the plaintive sights of the steel
their many guitars. place for the make-believe child she on the screen in "Coquette."
,in bidding good-bye to Lei lima and Pula Mae as friends in Hong Kong: the Samoans cuntuated their had create, Mary Pickford has de-
dazzling personal want expecially to show, as they could with charms
sinuous cided to begin a new career as the
movements not in a single programme, just what and coquettish rotations of the eyes. woman she really is.
they can do. Demon Dances
The hearty welcome that Hong Kong p.m., at the Offices of the The male dancers appeared to pos-gave the Samoans on their first arrival Public
Works Department, by sess amazing vitality and joi de viere, here many months ago will doubtless and danced with the spirits of demons, be matered by an equally hearty god
One frankly enjoyed this fascinat- speed to them on their journey south. ing show, and wish it had been better! supported.
Mary Pickford
The
"The Mark of Zorro" Douglas Fairbanks, whose great
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Social Functions To-day Tea Dances nt Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and. Peninsula Hotel,
The Samoan Dancers, who have just given two of their delightful entertain- ments in the Theatre Royal, will give two more in the Star Theatre to-night and to-morrow night. These will be absolutely the last opportunities for the publie of Hong Kong and Kowloon to see this unique troupe. On Friday 8.30 p.m. and Saturday nights they are giving two special performances in the Royal Navy Canteen Theatre, but for Ser vite men only; and next week they leave for Haiphong and Hanoi, where. they arrive just in time for the Hanoi Fair.
The programmes to-night and to morrow night will be similar to those
Entertainments
To-day Queen's Theatre; "Coquette."
To-day Star Theatre; "Woman" Disputed."
To-day? World Theatre; "Shadows of the Night at 6.35 and 9.20 p.m., "The Flute of Tears"
Douglas Fairbanks "Coquette" is the first vehicle of picture, "the Mark of Zorro" will be screened at the World cinema this the new Mary Pickford.
week, was a stage actor until one famous actress who made her stage
day he happened to see "The Birth Just presented in the Theatre Royal (Chinese picture) at 230 and 7.15 bow with David Belasco, you will hear and see as a laughing, carefree southern belle who flirted, kissed and forgot, until there came a man she couldn't forget-HER man.
You'll be thrilled, amused, fas-propagation of entertainment and back of her neck without feeling an
of a Nation."
So enthralled did "Doug" become. over the enormous possibilities of the screen as a medium for the
through motion pictures-an impos-
They will be two hours in length, and (Continued on Next Column.)
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p.m.
Today Majestic Theatre; "Road House.".
To-day-Harmaton's Circus, 9.15 To-morrow-Helena May Insti- tute Concert, 5.80 p.m. Home Mafia To-day Outward for Europe via Siberia (Yuea Sang"), 6 p.m.
To-morrow-Inward from Europe via Suez ("Rajputana”),
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education, that he left the theatre attendant sinking of the heart.
Consider then, the case of a young cinated and charmed by this roman-
that night bent in serious thought. tie drama pivoting about the
Here was an opportunity of ranch-woman whose hair, perhaps more daughter of a proud, old Southerning the vast audiences of the world than any woman in all history, has family and her rugged mountaineer
been her crowning glory.
One morning about a year ago in sibility through the stage. Also one New York City, a shy winsome per- In "Coquette" the clash of the
could put his whole energy into the high-born versus the low, father creation of a motion picture with sonality with a small and wistful vergus lover, convention versus love,natural scenery that eventually smile, not unmindful of the fact that wealth versus worth, results in a would penetrate in every town, vil. the entire world was interested | dell Street, ellyer plated wares, etc.; SUITABLE FOR XMAS PRESENT
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tale of great conflicts and smashing drama. "Coquette" presents Mary Pickford in her first speaking part in the films' and the greatest role of
her career.
her slightest activity, walked out of lage and hamlet-something never her hotel alone, hailed a taxicab, and accomplished by a theatrical com- pany. That night Fairbanks talked proceeded to a well-known coiffeur's the matter over with a few of his establishment just off Fifth Avenue in the Fifties. People watched her Intimate friends and casually re-
a sho emerged from the hotel to the marked that if he could procure
cab. More people gathered and D. W. Griffith to supervise his efforts before the camera, he would whispered in the fleeting moment forsake the stage and enter motion when she left the cab to enter the
shop. pictures.
Subsequently it transpired that
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Less than an hour later she walk-Happy Valley. Griffith did personally control the ed down Fifth Avenue in the mid supervision of "Doug's" pictures for morning shopping crowds admired Golf Club Meeting, Jardine Mathe- his first two years upon the screen. but unrecognized. Back in the Thus it came about that Douglas coiffeurs shop lay the world's most son's Board Room, 5.80 p.m.
Her Early Days. Fate made Mary Pickford an actress. Chaics led her into motion pictures and from that upward to fame. Had it not been for this for- tuitous combination, the story of Mary Pickford might have been very different, for she had several idens for her future besides that of a screen carcer. If she had not visit- ed the old Biograph studio in New Fairbanks has successfully striven famous curls. York on one memorable afternoon, to become the most popular and by her life-work might have lain in any one of several channels, includ- Ing that of being a business execu- tive, instead of a cinema star.
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You may by now have guessed that i far the greatest of all male acreen the young woman in this story. ia stars.
none other than Mary Pickford,
It has often been prophesied that famed for her golden curls and poor- if the largest universal audience little girl roles. She was trimmed "With almost everyone, no matter could ever be assembled upon the now to appear on the screen a how successful and contented they vast plains of Texas and the like "Coquette," the sparkling, bobbed- may be with their chosen work," nesses of all the great men of his haired modern belle who wina men's writes an eminent psychologist, tory together with one of Fair-hearts with a smlis, who defies "there is a submerged second chalce, banks, be flashed separately upon a family and convention for love. although not always realised; an-screen large enough for all to see, other sphere of endeavour which that "Doug's" pleture would in- makes an appeal of greater or lesser atantaneously be the only sign of degree and in which the person unanimous recognition. sometimes dreams he might have achieved equal renown."!
The New Mary
The famous actress, whose film roles heretofore have generally been of the almost juvenile type, has, "Marry" and "Doug" Films with a sweep of, the scissors, plangs) | Other Alma featuring Mary ed herself abruptly into the If Destiny had not brought Miss Pickford and Douglas Fairbanka mood of an intensely dramatic con Pickford-to D. W Grifith's atten tion, he might have continued with to be shown this week are: "The temporary social crisis...
The new Mary Pickford is dis her stage career; or she might even Best Girl" at the Star; "Rosita," at hava followed her leaning toward the Grand: "The Gaucho," at the tinguished, first of all, by a short, Tai Yat, "Don Qat the Cheong wind-blown bob. Her slim figure is! portrait painting, or it is possible Lok, and "The Gaucho" at the Ming cloaked. In the latest Perlulan modes. that she would have taken up interior decorating, in which, In- Sing. This will be the first time Her eyes have an irresistible, ture cidentally, she is still greatly that two "Stars" have been featur for men. Her manner, takes on od exclusively in Hong Kong the electrifying technique of the Interested. But most likely she
cinemas. would have gone into the business world, beginning, as, a salesgirl in some department store, and un- doubtedly climbing to the top of the bladder zur ka
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The Mary Pickford of Polly Annas. A shyamiling and slightly coy girl The Mary Pick- ford of Coquette, the f Broadway drama, is a deftly allur | Ing young woman who attracts One of the outstanding experi- men loves but one, and who cences of a woman's life is the bob-hap-waty, into
Fall Fledged Actress Mary Fickford's all-talking screen Verslun of the Broadway
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