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ROUND THE CINEMAS
What Mail Reviewers
Say.
*"TABU."
Unique in that the cast is com- posed entirely of people with no previous film acting experience, "Tabu," which is now showing at the Central Theatre, le well worth
seeing.
Rich in natural scenic beauty, the story of the picture is that of life and love amongst the unspoiled children of nature, the Polynesiana of the island gems dotting the South Pacific Ocean. ·
With the exception of Kong (Ak, the Chinese trader, Jean, the Police man, and Jules, the ship captain, both half-breeds, all who appear in the film are full blooded natives, pleasant of feature, healthy, and care-free, living a life of a continu ous round of play, food being pro- vided in abundance on land and in the sea by Nature. and easily procured. Excepting for the short time spent each day in getting food, the 24 hours are given up to frolick- ing in the surf or waterfalls, dancing very similar to the hula- hula-and romancing.
THE CHINA MAIL..
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME,
but wiren sober looks upon him as In total stranger. This Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the tippling bowl demanded an actor of parts who not only could play the role but would act as a foil for Chaplin,
The following programme will Early in the production when his be broadcast to-day from the selection had been made, Chaplin was dissatisfied with the way things Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 Much footage had were going. been Almed, but he had 'it all thrown
6-8 p.m.-European Programme out and started casting again. This time he chose Harry Myers, the of Victor & H.M.V. Records kind. player who gave so splendid an ac ly supplied by Messrs. S. Moutrle count of himself in the silent films as "The Connecticut, Yankee."
Myers clicked perfectly.
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"GENERAL CRACK," "
The perfect screen voice, like the perfect screen face, is probably the one that gives the last trouble to its owner under any conditions. That voice has been discovered.
John Barrymore, great lover of stage and screen, who makes his talking picture debut as the star of "General Crack," Warner Bros. all- talking Vitaphoné special at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, is the possessor of a perfect screen voice, according to Alan Crosland who directed the pieture.
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The voice, registers with smooth- nesa and resonance, and that technical finess which so many talk- ing film players lack.
Barrymore enacts vividly colourful role in this romantic tale of adventure in eighteenth century Europe; while the cast includes Marion Nixon, Lowell Sherman, Hobart Bosworth, Arinida, Philippe de Lacy, Jacqueline Logan, Otto Matieson and Andres de Segurola. Walter Anthony did the adaptation of the George Preedy novel.
"THE DANCERS."
What a difference these scenes of the play children of Nature in their natural settings make when com- pared with those of a neighbouring pearling island, where with the ad- vent of the white man these Poly. nesians learn the value of money and become spoiled, learning to drink, wear the white man's clothes, and forsake their graceful hula for fox trot in the stifling atmosphere of the trader's "establishment."
The romance between the two principal players In the film, Mathai, the Boy, and Reri, the Girl, a pretty one in which what Lols Moran, beautiful and talent- we call fate and the natives called young, screen actress, was a tabu intervenes to spoil the hap-featured dancer in the ballet piness of the two young lovers. It L'Opera in Paris when the was in- would spoil the enjoyment of the duced to leave the stage and play picture to give the story here. the leading roles in two motion pic Suffice it to say that the acting of tures.. She fell in love with the these two Polynesians is natural work and decided to continue in it. and effortless and the parts could not have been better played if they had been put in the hands of the brightest Hollywood "stars."
From Other Sources.
* "A DEVIL WITH WOMEN."
Just as it takes "aine tallora to make a man," it takes nine coun- tries to make a Victor McLaglen pictare, according to a survey of birthplaces of the people who made his latest Fox Movietone vehicle, "A Devil with Women," now attract- ing capacity crowds to the King's Theatre.
The first role this Intriguing little blonde girl from Pittsburgh enacted in the United States was the leading character in "Stella Dallas" and she was such a sensation that the most prominent roles in many pictures quickly followed.
'After her widely acclaimed success in "The Music Master," she was signed to a long term contract by Fox Films and has appeared in the leading feminine roles of such outstanding all talking screen pays as "Behind That Curtain," "Song of Kentucky," "Not Damaged"
words and Music."
and
Miss Moran portrays the landing role in the Fox Movie- tone drama of modern youth,
Dancers," which
metres.
& Co.
6-6.39 pm.-A Concert. Orchestral
Three Shades of Blue
(Ferdie Grofe),
Song-
Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orchestra (35952).
Lo. Here the Gentle Lark
(Shakespeare-Sir H. Bishop),
Marion Talley (Soprano) with Orchestra; Flute Obligate by Clement Barone (6593), Piano Solo
Variations on Themes from Carmen
(Bizet-Horowitz),
Vladimir Horowitz (1327)
Organ Solo-
Organ Paraphrase on "Love's Old
Sweet Song" (Molloy arr. Meale), (a) Morning Dew (Power), (b) The Old Oak Tree (Power),
Arthur Meale (C1426). Song-
A Vacchella (A Little Pony)
(d'Annunzia-Tosti), Nina (Pergolesi),
Tito Schipa, Tenor (1317). Violin Solo-
Scotch Pastorale (Saenger),
Yehudi Menuhin (6951). 6.39-7.15 p.m.-Variety. Orchestra-
The Wedding of the Painted Doll, Pagan Love Song,
Victor Snion Orchestra (22043).
Vocal Duct— Marigold, Thinking of You,
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
· IN CHINA MAIL.
Entertainments.
To-day King's Theatre:
3.
HIGHWAY TO SPAN
FORTH.
دیم
Longest Road Bridge in Britain.
TO COST £2,750,000.
The construction of the longest
Devil with Women and road bridge in Britain, spannin "Peggle and Guy" (British Danc-two miles of water over the River ers).
Forth, will probably be begun next To-day Queen's Theatre; year. "City Lights."
Thesis.
Plans have already been com
Today Central Theatre; pleted for the building of a bridge "Tabo."
which will cost £2,750,000.
It is to be built over the River Forth about two and a half milea Theatre; up the river from the famous railway bridge, and will be known Theatre as the Rosyth Bridge. The north
To-day Majperte "See America Thirst." To-day World "Last of the Duanes." To-day- Star "Double Gross Roada."
Home Mails. To-day Inward from Europe via Siberia (Adrastus). via Suez (Khyber); from Europe
To-morrow-Outward for Europe via Siberia (Empress of Russia), 10 am.
a.i.
approach passes the north side of Rosyth Dockyard, and the south in to connect with a new road half mile west of Hopetoun House.
When ready the bridge will speed up traffic on the Great North Road from Edinburgh to the High- lands through Perth, saving a de- Saturday-Outward for Europe tour of twenty miles by Stirling. via Marseilles (Kashgar), 10.80 It will carry a highway, forty feet wide, and will have footpaths on each side.
Time Saved. Lord Elgin, the chairman of the largely responsible for sponsoring Fife County Council, who has been
the project, said:
Miscellaneous. Saturday Reception at Ameri- can Club, 11.30 a.m.
of Saturday Opening Science Building and unveiling of new memorial at St. Stephen's College, Stanley, 8 p.m.
Sports.
See Sports Diary on Page 5.
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NEARLY A WAR, Winnie Melville and Derek Warriors Disarmed by a
Male Quartet
Oldham (B3029).
(This Record is by Special Request). Organ Solo-
What is This Thing Called Love?
Jesse Crawford (22320).
Beautiful
National Cavaliers. Was it a Dream?
The Revellers (21516) Orchestraj-
The Sidewalks of New York, In the Good' Old Summer Time,
Nat Shikret & the Victor Orchestra (21493). 7.15-7.33 p.m.-~~ Variations Symphoniques
(Cesar Franck),
Alfred Cortot and London Symphony Orchestra
• Conducted by Sir Landon Ronald (8734-5). 7.33-8 p.m. Vecal Gems from Light Opera. The Arcadiana (Monckten), Veronique (Mensager);
Station-master.
"THUNDERS OF WORDS.”
"There is no doubt that a road bridge over the Forth. is that area Is very greatly needed. There is an obsolescent ferry at Burnt- Island, and the only other way across is via Stirling, which means a considerable loss of time.”-
"We originally planned a suspen- síon bridge to the east of the Forth Bridge where, owing to the depth of the water, it would have been impossible to construct A врад bridge.
Two native tribes, heavily armed with apeare and arrayed in the trap. "That would have cost about pinga of the corroboree, clashed at £6,000,000, but we found a span Humpty Doo near Port Darwin, bridge could be erected on the recently. Threats of war were in present site in shallower water.. the air but after thantlers of words and long-drawn grimacing a solitary station-master disarmed the lot.
"It will provide work for five or six years for about 5,000 men directly, and another 5,000 in- directly."
The trouble atarted over a boy who was being tested by one tribe Lord Elgin explained that a prior to his facing the manhood Provisional Order by Parliament ceremony-the most sacred ritual in will be necessary before construc- the religion of the native. While he tion can be started. The order can- was in the care of a few ancienta a not be obtained before December rival tribe, claiming that he was of next, and work will probably be their blood, kidnapped him.
started in the Summer.
Chocolate Soldier (Btraus).
Light Opera Co. (C1684).
For weeks one tribe hunted the Lilac Domino (Cuvillier),
other, and they finally spread out Les Cloches De Corneville,
Light Opera Co. (C1705). for war on either side of a fence (Planquette),
at Humpty Doo. Throughout the Light Opara Co. (C2039), day and night there. was much B. p.m.-Local Time & Weather "talkce-talkee" between the leaders, Report.
while the rest of the warrioré plastered themselves with weird I'markings and decorations.
V
5.03-10.30 p.m.---Chinese: Studio Concert. ·
10.30 p.m.-Close Down. was
With McLaglen himself born near "The London and his leading lady, Mona adapted for the screen by
ISTO E UM AUTOMOVEL !”
This Really Is A Motor Car.
Maris, a native of Buenos Aires, Edwin Burke from the sensational LION CAUSES A STIR inely-pointed weapons used at short about his new British car.
Hollywood's "foreign legion" seems atage play of the same name by Sir well represented. Michael Vavitch, Gerald Du Maurier and Viola Tree, the bandit leader in the film, comer in which Richard Bennett toured from Russia Luana Alaniz and the country with his daughter, Mrs. Jiminez both hail from Spain; Barbara. Miss Moran's character Mona Rico comes from Mexico is Diana, a young girl first made City, and Joe Rodriguez from lovely by faith and tender romance Guatemala.
and then tempted with horrible
Of the technical staff, William doubts and disillusionmenté brought Darling, the art director, is a na-about by a life of galety and jazz.
tive of. Hungary and the assistant
a Londoner by birth.
*
The chief engineer of one of the biggest industrial undertakings in On the second day the long- Brazil, Mr. P. G. Archbold, writes handled speare were discarded for enthusiastically from Pernambuco
range. The lines were moving
"My 'Snipe is 'It't Is the I've closer and the roaring, was becoming cynosure of all eyes out here. ominous, when Mr. George Good nearly worn out the bonnet hinges man, of Humpty Doo, crossed their showing off the engine. Its lines, path.
its upholstery, its solid and finish- Armed with two revolvers, heed construction-its knick-knacks, rode between the lines, and pointing Its dippiness, ite aero engine at the head of each tribal leader in 'zoom' as it gets into its stride When a railway official inspected turn, he ordered all apears and all these items have combined to van standing at No. 1 Platform boomerangs to be piled in front of make it the talk of the town. at Victoria Station, London he saw him. Then he gave the disputed
"As many Brazilians hove said:
Nero" Gets Out of
His Crate.
OFFICIAL SURPRISED,
The official promptly gave the alarm, and a message was sent im- mediately to a London animal dealer who had loaded the lion in
territories.
director, Charles Woolstenhulme, is Walter Byron, who played to his great surprise a lion seated boy to his mother, and finally packed lato e um automovel (This really.
posite Miss Moran In *Not | Damaged," and Phillips Holmes on a crate and peering through the off the fighters to their own is a motor car)." "A Devil With Women," appro- share the male feature honours bars of the window. priately enough, has a foreign with Mae Clarke and Mrs. Patrick. background to match, being laid in Campbell in the other featured a mythical Central American coun- feminine roles. "The Dancers try with a bandit uprising serving which is the next change at the tu motivate the exelting' acting of King's Theatre, was directed by the story. McLaglen plays a "Chandler Sprague. tural" role, that of an adventurous soidler of fortune in the country's army, with a newcomer from the stage, Humphrey Bogart, as his rival in love and companion in war. | Irving Cummings directed the pic
ture, with George Middleton
起
associate producer. It is the talk- ing screen's version of Clements Ripley's novel, "Dust and Sun.”
“CITY_LIGHTS.”
As in everything he does, Chapila selects the players who appear In
·TWO
BRITISH DANCERS.
Performing In King's Theatre To-day.
MORE "SNIPES" FOR INDIA. Canada's census this year will reveal a population of more than
In addition to the Humber Pull- man cars which were shipped to 10,000,000 for the first time in the the order of the part of a crate in the van.
history of the Dominion, E A. Until the arrival of trainers who MacPhail, chief, of the Division of
Willingdon, the new Viceroy, Lieut- could deal with the situation, plat- Census and Vital Statistics, fore-Col. Ismay, D.SO.. his Military form seats were used as a barrl- cast while in Winnipeg recently..
Secretary, has also acquired a cade around the van, and officials
Humber "Snipe" Saloon, Col. were posted at all points in case
Iamay's second car of this make. the lion should smash down the the crate would be a ticklish one. C.M.G.; the Viceroy's Private Secre
Furthermore, Mr. E. C. Mieville, sides of the van.
Fortunately, Nero had grown tary, has a Humber "Snipe" finish When the trainers arrived they very hungry, and after pacing Dped in belge and black. This car is
use,
The King's Theatre have made a found that the lion was Nero and down the railway van he decid-fitted with a drop screen behind the special engagement with two Bri- wild young animal bound for tish artistes, "Peggy and Guy" to "Dreamland" at Margate and that appear with the picture showing when the crate had been placed in to-day, "A Devil with Women" the van. he had spent the time They will perform at the 5.10, 7.15, gnawing through the woodwork of and 9.30 p.m. shows,
the crate to the wider liberty of the van itself.
The Halt:
They are acrobatic and eccentric
..
ed to eat a piece of meat which had. driver, rendering it easily conver been skilfully thrown through atible for either official or personal window of the van into the crate.
He walked back into the crato through the hola he had gnawed and settled down to enjoy the meat.
Then, acting with lightning.
his pictures with great care and de...) dancers and have had a successful liberation. In “City Lights," his tour to the Far East via Africa, Half a dozen men had gone to speed, the doors of the van were new comedy which is showing at India, Straits, Java, ManUa, and Victoria Station with special tackle opened, and men dashed in with a the Queen's Theatre, one of the Shanghai. Now they are on their of all descriptions (writes an stout piece of timber, which“ was principal characters is an eccentric was Home again.
Evening News correspondent), and quickly placed over the hole in the millionaire who while drunk treats. This is their first appearance in It was obvious that the problem of crate and securely hammered Charlie like his long lost brother, Hong Kong
getting Naro back from the van to down.
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