MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932.
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"ALMOST A HONEYMOON."
For
excellent
been
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“HINDLE WAKES.”
At the King's Theatre.
"FATHER" OF THE FAMILY
Divorced Woman Who Lived As Man.
A GOOD WORKMAN'
on the
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RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
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The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres (845 K.C.1):—
4.15-10.86 p.m.-European Pro-
pramme.
All doubts as to the popularity of British films were settled yesterday Jenny has, in the eyes of her when crowded house attended each elders, committed a social crime. performance of "Hindle Wakes,' at She has
athe King's Theatre. away for
the week-end with her employ. The perfect acting and
4.15-6.30 p.m.-Relay Trom the ¡A divorced woman, who is Peninsula Hotel of the Programme find natural surroundings contribute entertainment,er's Bon. Her parents without a single dull moment out her escapade, Enraged, largely to the success of the produc
4.15 p.m.-Opening Speech by the every minute is packed with laugh- they go to the boy's father who, tion, but it is the atory that sets said to have worked and lived as of the Empire Products Fair.
Hon. Mr. E P. Braga. ter-do not fail to see the British although it means the shattering "Hindle Wakes" in the leading a man, is before the courts at
Mainz, on the Rhine, taikio "Almost a Honeymoon" now of his dearest hopes for his son's group of British talkies.
4.20 p.m. His Excellency the showing
Outstanding in the cast is Nor at the Star Theatre, future, consents to his making her Kowloon. There were crowded an honest woman" in the eyes of man McKinnel who plays the part charge of forging documents in Officer Administering the Govern- of Nat Je cote, a millionaire mill which she is alleged to have re-ment replies and declares the Fair houses yesterday, and there is the world. every indication of the same to- Jenny resents the elders' attitude. owner, who still remembers that his presented herself as the father open. day and tomorrow.
She defines her position, "You were father was a cotton spinner, and of two illegitimate children.
on the
It wasn't until the woman ----- The leading roles are excellent-my little fancy, I was yours," she that he himself "worked
Maria Finsmann met with an ly portrayed by Dodo Watts, who tells the boy. "You wouldn't pre-looms at the age of eight.
The other are well played Belle accident, says "Thu Middle vent a
a Central News is appearing in
woman enjoying herself as
Chrystall, Sybil Thorndike, John Watch" and
Clifford. Mollisons well as a man?"
message from Berlin, that her sex was discovered. while Donald Calthrop, as the but- And so she is turned out of doors Stuart, Edmund Gwenn and Rath.
5.30-6.30 p.m.-Muste by the Peteren.' ler. Charles, renders splendid sup- by her much shocked parents.
A Happy Couple.*
·De-
Peninsula Hotel Band. The story deals with the folly of
Finding by chance the papers port.
fiant, she gives vent to the scnti-
(Gramophone music by Arnhold's her Jenny Hawthorne who meets of her former husband, she as- Mollison is seen in the role of ament at the head of this article. young free-and-easy going bache- Belle Chrystall
employers son at Blackpool during sumed male attire and got work Radio Services Limited will be Norman Mc- Kinnel, Edmund Gwenn, lor, constantly in path of
Sybil
For 12 years she lived with a These records will be kindly say creditors. He is offered a Govern- Thorndike and John Stuart, are the events bring to light the fact that as a man, doing her work well. broadcast during ment post in Penang, ou condition principal players in this "slice of she has spent some days with at woman named Muller, and the plied by Messrs.
Company), Llandudno, living there as man and that he is married. Within 24 Lancashire life" which comes hours he has to find a wife. Here this Theatre.
wife. Domestic situations follow neighbours regarded them which show the sincere Lancashire ideally happy. After the dis-will be broadcast from the Studio.
covery a number of prominent the fun starts, and it ends when
spirit, and although there are many citizens made an appeal on her peignant situation the plot not
ehalf without humour.
Mollison is left a legacy of £230,000|
by his uncle, with the title of Siri
Basil Dibbly, Bert.
OFFICIAL SOURCES.
A PLEASING SHOW.
"THE BLACK CAMEL "
an
to
Getting a start in pictures be- cause another girl refused to wear trousers may seern
unusual method, but that was the way Sally Eilers, ingenue lead in "The Black the King's
I was fortunate enough to be pre-Camel," coming to sent at the private showing of "The Theatre. next Wednesday, began Middle Watch." a
Queen's Theatre. show, and 1
British
film her flm career.
the Wakes. A combination of
JUDGES STRUCK FOR HEART
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8.8
4.25 p.m.-Presentations to Mrs. Southorn.
4.20-5.30 p.m.-Music by the Band of H.M.S. "Cornwall" by kind permission of Capt. G. H. Knowles, D.S.C., R.N.
the intervals,
Anderson Music
records
6.30-9 p.m.-Columbia
(This programme will, as far as the wearing of male possible, be a duplication of that broadcast by Messrs. clothes by a female without being Court sanction being an offence Arahold's Radio Services Limited in in Germany and her employers the Peninsula Hotel), 8 p.m.-Local Time. promised to take her back after; her trial.
No Proper Father. Now, however, the Courts been forced to take as it is alleged father ΠΟ proper
is
9-10.30 p.m.-A Programme of) records from Z.B.W.'s Library.
Orchestral Concert.
Orchestral-
Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy),
Philadelphia Symphony Orche
stra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski.
Szegedin, Hungary, Judges in the county court here
and left their have declared a. strike which will shortly be shown at the The petite actress had long benches, refusing to hear the cases action,
desire for a screen docketed until the administration there It is an excellent cherished" a found additional career. In the hope of getting ahould heat the court house pro-registered for the two children pleasure in comparing it with the some "extra" work, she accompanied perly. Coal and fuel was exhausted of Flasmann's "wife," but the Lakal A.D.C. production of the stage her friend, Carole Lombard, to the during a recent cold snap and new police have failed to find the Song
It happened to supplies were
asked. When the slightest ground for complaint play by Ian Hay and Stephen King Sennett studios. Hal. When one realizes that the be the same day that Mack Sennett government replied that the judges against Finsmann beyond the picture is produced by a splendid was looking for a new ingenue, after should pay for the fuel themselves, technical one which is the sub-
ject of the charge. Nares in a featured player had walked out the judges walked out. London cast with Owen the part of Captain Maitland R.N. on him following an argument over i was interested to see that in the her wearing a pair of pants in a picture, as well as the play no at-particular scene.
Sennett saw girl who with another girl-friend, tempt is made to make anything of Miss Eilers, gave her a screen test Fay Easton, is forced to spend a Fay Eaton er her Bobo-(Captain and the next day proferred a con-night on board a British warship Randall R.M.). Henry Wenman and tract, giving her the part that the and captures the affections of Cap- actress had been tain Maitland, played by Owen Reginald Purdell are most amusing recalcitrant
As
Marine Ogg and Corporal scheduled to do.
The part was in "The Good-Bye Duckett, but I shall be surprised if local audiences will think they have Kiss" and it created something of a her im- much on Oscar Eager and Bob sensation, establishing
a highly promising Charles-while the latters' right mediately as about turn when they entered flat at, player.
an awkward moment was ahead of the professionals.
Nares.
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Her Fourth Attempt to Concerto No. 1 in B Flat minor for
Find Wedded Bliss.
piano and Orchestra
(Tschaikowsky, Op. 23),
Miss Pola Negri, the beautiful Few, if any, British producing concerne have ever entered the field, Polish film star, is to marry a More recently she went to the with more promising maiden Chicago millionaire in July or 1st Movement-
the Famous Players August.
streets
Fox studios to
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by Sir Hamilton Harty.
Allegro non troppo e molto According to an announcement in Pittsburgh, It is however in the part of the Spencer Tracey's "moll" in "Quick Guild whose first talkie production,
the 2nd Movement- a performance 77 Park Lane," is showing at the made
Andantino semplice. C. in C. that the biggest difference Millions," and gave
date of the wedding will be lies, and I found great difficulty in that won her a long-term contract Central Theatre to-day.
Her first
Three months were spent on the definitely fixed in a few weeks' 3rd Movement---
Allegro con fuoco. making up my mind which inter- with that organization.
was the picture, which is an adaptation of time. Until then the bride- pretation of the parts 1 preferred. part under this contract
Traviata-Wild My Dream of Rupert Foster played the part as a ingenue lead in "The Black Camel." Walter Hackett's celebrated stage groom's identity is to be kept a Song
Warner Oland, Bela Lugosi, success. No expense or trouble secret.
Youth (Verdi), dapper and thoroughly fit
Varconi, was spared in any direction, Famous Of her new "mystery fiance," peppery, elderly and much married Dorothy Revier, Victor
Fathers (Donizett!), but obviously in training and with- Robert Young, Murray Kinnell and Players Guild arranged to produce Miss Negri says: "He is a man Lucia-Tomb of my Sainted
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor). out an ounce of superfluous flesh. William Post head the cast of "The the film in French, and Spanish, as Frederick Volpe plays as a stout old Black Camel" which, like its pre-well as English.
Violin Solo-
Indian Lament (Dvorak-Kreisler) gentleman-In fact he burlesques decessor, "Charlie Chan Carries:
Slavonic Dance No. 8
man,
The English east was headed by it more. The result is he gets much On," was directed by Hamilton Mac- Dennis Neilson-Terry, one of Lon-
more on Fadden. broader fan but relies
"THE MIDDLE WATCH"
whom everyone looks up to and admires." She refuses, to dis- close his name because he has forbidden her to do so.
He will be Miss Negri's fourth don's most popular young actor
athers were manager and Betty Stockfeld, the husband. The situations than on the humour of
rising young Australian star, who Baron Popper, a Polish Army the dialogue to which Rupert Foster'
came to the de Courville unit fresh officer, Count Eugene Domaki, was only indebted for his "laughs.
"The Middle Watch" which is from her triumph in "City of Song." and Prince Serge Midivani, all Prince Hong Kong will be able to spend a
evening deciding coming to the Queen's Theatre on The supporting cast was led by ex- of whom she divorced. very pleasant
a splendid comedy perienced and popular players like Serge is now the husband of Thursday, is
the which they like best in this line.
all so excellently adapted from the play by Ian Hay Malcolm Keen, Ben Welden, Molly Miss Mary McCormick, The parts are
This play Johnson, Cecil Humphreys and opera singer. filled that it would perhaps be in-and Stephen King-Hall.
Miss Negri recently filed a suit vidious to particularize any fur-was very successful on the stage, Esmond Knight.
77 Park Lane" was chosen for against Prince Serge to recover the but Norman Walker, the director of ther. But I was amused at concession to the great uninstructed this British International picture, Famous Players Guild's first pro- £16,600, which she alleges she mass of film goers which trans-has avoided theatre effects and gave duction not only because it was advanced to him during their the camera plenty of scope. Special a very successfai play, but because married life. The Prince filed a forms the Cruiser Falcon to battleship in spite of the fact that facilities were accorded by the Bri in the making of a tri-lingual tale, counter ault claiming £24,200.
In 1927, Miss Negri was to tish Admiralty for making the war-In story was demanded that could be she is supposed to be at Shangbai.
ship scenes dealing with actual ser- readily adapted to appeal to foreign have married Rudolph Valentino, vice routine and this enhances con-audiences as much as Britishers but he died the previous Bum viction to the settings and and Walter Hackett's play met this mer. "He was the great love of demand admirably. Also it provid- my life," she has frequently
"HINDLE WAKES.”
"While there's weaving, sheds in atmosphere.
An excellent cast includes ed an obviously attractive vehicle said. "I shall never forget Lancashire. I shan't starve," says Jenny Hawthorn, in the Gaumont-Frederick Volpe as the Admiral, for Terry, whose recept success in him, s
Miss Negri is only just re- Gainsborough talking film version of Jack Raine, Margaret Haistan and The House of the Arrow," in which "Hindle Wakes" which is now show Dodo Watts, Jacqueline Logan, the he made his talkie début, proved covering from a serious illness, ing at the King's Theatre, based on American film star, gives a very that his drawing power le as great in which the doctors at one time
good performance as the American as a screen actor as on the stage. despaired of her life. Stanley Houghton's play.
Bringing Up Father.
(Dvorak-Kreisler),
Fritz Kreisler.
Orchestral
Rosamunde-Overture
(Schubert), Sir Hamilton Harty conducting
the Halle Orchestra.
10.35 p.m.-Close Down.
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