FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931.
"Flight"
TALKIE TALKS
by
Dianc
(scene of the recent disaster).
"The Spoilers." Twice I have seen this in the Movies, Am I right
THE CHINA MAIL.
him in a different type of play all ROUND THE CINEMAS
the time, and he atifi wins through. Now in "Morocco" he is not over- shadowed by a great artiste like Marlene Dietrich, and 1 am still at a loss to know what has caus ed this transformation of making a cow-boy into a great actor. Sce "The Spollers" and certainly see "Morocco." Gary Cooper is worth watching. (King's).
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WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHIC
ACHIEVEMENTS.
"THE SEA BAT."
in
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
G
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NOTICE.
thing that when I say Milton Silla and Noah Ronald Colman has done in the Beery in one version, and Thomas Talkies, that is, with the exception Goldwyn-Mayer's talking picture Building, a part of the Motor Car
in
T IS NOTIFIED for Information that while Wonderful photographic achieve- of the Public A Columbia pleture
Metro-Drainage Work is in progresa in are noticed ments. with a man whom we all liked in
Pedder Street opposite Gloucester the old days-Jack Holt and his Buddy in pictures, Ralph Graves.
Eat" which opened a Park in Podder Street will be of his latest, "The Devil to Pay." "The Sca It was the first Flying talkie., and Santschi and Willie Parnum
If the finest fight be. Do not mies seeing how delightful three-day run in the Queen's Thea- CLOSED to the public. This is still, to my mind, one of the another?
tween two men ever filmed is an he is in "Raffles." If you have
Charles tre yesterday. best of them all. It la, a tale of
Bickford, notice will take effect on the 10th in force two hard-boiled Marine Corps Fly-attraction to you (at a distance !
until further notice. erd in Florida and Nicaragua is to me) do not miss this. Be-read the story of the handsome
All traffle must proceed with sites there is the "Montana Kid" young cricketer who lived quite the star of "Dynamite" and "The April and will remain
Nils caution. this version. Kay Francis is not role with Raquel Torres. The air shots are magnificent, and himself, Gary Cooper and William another life by night, you will like South Son Rose,is in the leading (stage) Boyd. Rex Beach's story the only one who would have fol- Asther is heard for the first time
E. D. C. WOLFE, the Director, Frank Capri, is to
Inspector General of Police. be commended. Sweet Lila Lee is of the Alaskan gold rush: direc-lowed him to Paris, adventurer as
Another tion by Edwin Carewe; Betty he is. David Torrence, brother of locally, and the cast includes John
Hong Kong, 9th April, 1931. good acting part is done by young Compson and Kay Johnson with the most famous Ernest is good Miljan and George F. Marion, who
If you ask my long list of names all up to stand-
as the Scottish detective. Harold Goodwin,
I like did good work in "Ann Christle." this ard.
Alison Skipworth as Lady Melrose The story is related on an island opinion you will not miss
and Frederick Kerr, as good as he in the South Seus, where the un- was in "The Lady of Scandal." tives dive for sponges during the Yes, Ronnie 18 delightful. (Star).day, and indulge in Voodoo dances at night. Bickford's role is that of an escaped convict who, in the dis- guise of a parson, lands in the Island and is attructed to Miss Torres.
Many spectacular scenes of div-
the romance involved.
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A South Seas "The Sea Bat." picture. taken
in the real eur- roundings in Mexico.
What an-
"Don't worry about my financial affairs."--Nehelspalter, Zurich.
The name that counts with me
is Gary Cooper, repated to be the
and the Garbo's favourite actor. boy with an enormous following to-day. See him in this play, then
Quite a step from "The Tres- You will go and see "Morocce,"
passer." and yet I like Gloria realise the boy is clover. What
romping round as a comedienne. has made him a great actor? Versatility is her middle name, 1 That Is a secret. It may be his
am glad she had the courage to rast love for Clara Bow. or his
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Gary Cooper, who got his like Owen Moore and Lew Cody. I like the setting-and I adore first part in "The Winning of
Gloria, who still photographs like Barbara Worth" because he could
are
a
ride, has gone on and on and will a million dollars. Admitted I want "George Lyons" and a hilarious Our 17th Instant will be subject to cont never stop till he steps into the /her the next time in drama, but Gang Comedy, entitled "Bear Shoot-1 be presented to the Undersigned on or i shoea of the never-to-be-forgotten give me Gloria Swanson anyhow Wallic Reid. We who know pic and any time. (World).
He does
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TO LET
"Suppose you lost your mastery fures from their infancy pay him over the car?"
compliment when we say this. Three things are always with Gary, a portrait of his mother, an lively, and the star is grandly sup Black-haired, black-eyed, hand- other of Lupe, and-Rudyard ported. In real life this outlaw some Charles Rogers and red-hair-ed other? You will say! Yea; but Kipling's "If." He says "It comes was a cold-blooded killer, but he is ed, blue-eyed Nancy Carroll, the this has Charles Pickford, and nearest to what I am trying to cleaned up for the Talkies, and a lovers of "Abie's Irish Rose, of
better follow." that makes it something
the not find
hero and a gentleman. Wallace "Close Harmony," make a "peach of than ordinary, Then, too, there satisfying things of life in a social Beery on his tracks all the time, pair in Paramout's all-Techni- is the assortment of dialects. life in Hollywood, He adores
and Kay Johnson the blond motif. colour moving picture production of Nils Asther with Swedish-English, Montana. See the fire in his eyes All quite exciting and I like him the famous Schwab and Mandel Raquel Torres with her Spanish. 1 when he talks of hornes, cattle,
better in this than in previous per-stage hit "Follow Through." English and George Marion (of sunsets, the prairie. This scem-
formances. (Queen's).
"Follow Through" which "Anus Christie") talking like an ingly-shy Ind has poetry in his
open to-day in the King's Theatre.To LET.-Ground Floor, No. 8a, Des Italian fruit seller. Story? Oh, words and emotion in his voice.
"Follow Through" is from an is a love story with a Golf Club set- Voeux Road Central, recently in the an escaped conviet Tands on a re His parents (beth British) sent
other highly successful musical
ting and a world of comedy. occupation of the Netherlands India Can be divided to mote South Sea Island and stenla him to Bedford College, took him the clothes of a missionary. Ima away from Montana, but he fret-comedy. Again a golf story with ting and a world of comedy. Laurence Commercial Bank,
auft tenants' requirements, Apply to to Holly- David Sassoon & Co. Ltd. gine the complications. Wearing ted so much they brought him back Nancy Carroll as the pretty golfer Schwab, himself, went
who is beaten in the championship wood to direct it in conjunction with the cloth he has to convert the to it. He is on outdoor man by Thelma Todd, till she is coach Lloyd Corrigan, taking with him through and through. No man-led by the professional, Buddy everything he needed from the ori- nerisms, not strictly good looking Rogers. Then the glorious finale. ginal two-year Broadway hit, in- tall, gaunt, shy: but he has that Zelma O'Neil and Jack Haley from cluding Zelma O'Neal and Jack something that keeps you guess the original stage production add ing which so few possess. episode with Clara Bow when he ncted with her in "Children of Divorce" nearly did him in-in the plctures, but Paramount put
soul, and bury the natives, and, of course, has his strongest spiri. tual battle with the flaming torrid Raquel. I found that more inter esting than his fight with the large animal known in its local waters as "The Sea Bat." Not too great. but a Bickford picture is never waste of time.~(Queen's).
CENTRAL THEATRE
COMMENCING SUNDAY, April 12th.
His
A 1931 PARAMOUNT SUPER-PRODUCTION
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At last! The Talking screen has found
a second GRETA GARBO in
MARLENE
The new German
DIETRICH
screen beauty who is
the rage of two continents in
"MOROCCO"
brings
The Magnificent Enchantress of the Talking Screen!
BEAUTIFULI Rav-
Marlene Dietrich, the rage of two continents! A woman whose life is love. See her bring the Legion of the Dead the Foreign Legion, to lifet Is the most masterful drama of the year! "A new electric light name is born," exull the critics. Sre for yourself!
Paramount Picture with
GARY COOPER MARLENE DIETRICH ADOLPHE MENJOU
A JOSEF VON STERNBERG
PRODUCTION
Haley, its lively, youthful, convulsing the comedy. There are songs in comic leads. Also he brought with Plenty. "Love in the Rough" was him the catchy song hits, including a riot here, so there will be pack-Button Up Your Overcoat," and ed houses to see this too. I am Paramount song writers supplied not a golfer, nor a Buddy Rogers him with a few new ones. fan, and I favour Nancy in drama, so I do not rave over this. Let it go at that. (King's).
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SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
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Social Functions.
"Follow Through" is a pert and peppy outdoor story. Nancy Car- roll, with ambitions to win J To-day-Tea Dance at Hong championship crown on the links, Kong Hotel. diverts her attention from golf to
Dancés To-night-Dinner
at
the handsome Club professional, Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels Charles Rogers, and gives her rival, and Hotel Cecil.
To-morrow H.K. Thelma Todd, a chance to hole out
University
Shortly we are to be introduced to a very great actress, the newest star of Paramount-and they have made many-the beautiful Marlena Dietrich. I am sick and tired of first. Successful on the fairways, Law and Commerce Society annual the "fans" who compare Tier with Thelma tries her talent at love-misk dinner, Lane, Crawford's Restau- Jeanne Eagles and Garbo. There ing, but Nancy refuses to give her rant, 8.30 p.m. is NO comparison. This woman is any advantage there. Rogers has an ALONE. See "Morocco" and you will agree. It is not a play for the babes; it IS hot stuff. This woman of the Morocco cabaret is vivid, fascinating, and she will stir up comedy with some songs and Claud- storms of talk. There is masterly ette Colbert again opposite.
eye for golf champions, so that To-day King's Nancy, to win a husband, has first "Follow Through."
Today Queen's to win the golf crown.
"The Sea Bat."
To-day "Flight"
Janet Gaynor has been ill in a hospital in Honolulu.
Her latest with Charles Farrell is not too high- ly praised.
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are Ernest Lubitsch will again direct short and scattered. There are re- markable photographic effects of Emil Jannings in "The Man What a Widow."
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Silvia Sydney, who la to be with!
Home Mails. To-day-Inward from Europe
To-day-R.A.O.B. Dance, Lecture. sun and shadow In the bazaars of
There is no denying the fact that Hall, Wellington Barracks, 8.30 this centuries-old desert town. Those moonlight scenes in the narunother masterpiece.
Charles Chaplin's "City Lights" is p.m. row streets with dimly moving, figures, a married woman seeking her Legionaire lover,
a cabaret Gary Cooper, replacing Clara Bow, vin Siberia (Pres. Jefferson and singer fluttering moth-like after will be remembered in "Through Karmala); Outward for Europe via the same personable young man, Different Eyes with Warner Bax Siberia (Kalyan) 6 p.m.
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chance in the Talkies. Screen's Lover," and, what is more
It was said that singing films marvellous to relate, he hardly em- braces Marlene. It Ja just what were not popular, but with Law. this man LEADS one to imagine rence Tibbetts in "The New Moon" that makes him the great actor he and "The Southerner'' packing the
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Kay Francis drove up to her wed- and tramping off into the desert with the native women, the slim ding to Kenneth. McKenna In white figure willing to go where he an ambulance from shospital where! goes; his slave following her man she had been treated for a jaw all- Gave her name as Katherine to the desert is stamped on
my ment
Gibbs, aged 25, and his reai rame memory. This woman is an fress. Good woman, kad woman, came out as Leo Mielziner, aged 81. Pretty little Josephine Dunn, how can we tell? She is just a human being roughly handled by whom we loved in the Movies, has fate, a dery, lovable, alluring mis- married since her divorce, a wealthy taken-pitiful figure, yet every oll operator.
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Melba's will totals £200,000, her marriage. See "Morocco" It excellent actress,Big things, are
hoped for her in the Talkies. Ahould pack the Central,
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